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06KUWAIT4469
2006-11-18 06:12:00
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Embassy Kuwait
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KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - MIDTERM ELECTIONS AND IRAQ

Tags:  OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION 
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SUBJECT: KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - MIDTERM ELECTIONS AND IRAQ


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Saturday, November 18, 2006

-- Kuwait University Political Science Professor, Dr. Abdullah
Khalifa Al-Shaijy penned in conservative Arabic daily Al-Watan under
the title "The Failure of the Neo-Conservatives and the Winds of
Realistic Change" (11/18):

"As for American foreign policy, the great change will be the policy
adopted by the neo-conservatives who have kidnapped U.S. foreign
policy and taken control of it over the past six years."

-- Under the title "If America Had Not Appeared" satirical liberal
columnist Fuad Al-Hashem inquired in conservative Arabic daily
Al-Watan (11/18):

"What would have happened had God not created the United States of
America? Without the United States, the world will be in chaos and
we would not have 'fast food', Caprice cars and Carrier
air-conditioning units. Nor would we have Ben Laden or Hezbollah.
Thank God, we have the United States in our world. We can abuse it
whenever we want without expecting any court cases to be filed
against us by the United States. We can tickle the feelings of the
Arab mobs by attacking the United States day and night in order to
succeed in elections at the same time that we ride in luxurious
American cars."

-- Titled "W.T.C." Meshari Nashi Al-Adwani's piece in moderate
Arabic daily Al-Anbaa stated that (11/18):

"We have to raise our hats to the American citizens for electing the
first American Muslim to Congress. Regardless of mistakes committed
by some of its politicians, America remains the mother of democracy
in this world."

-- Liberal Salah Al-Sayir inquired in moderate Arabic daily Al-Anbaa
under the title "This Is America"(11/18):

"Is the great America we know the same America that has failed in
realizing its project in backward Iraq . . .? Has history ended, or
at has it not begun yet?"

-- In pro-government Arabic daily Al-Seyassah and under the title
"Al-Maliki Should Leave Iraq Before the Americans" Mohammed Zain
inquired (11/18):

"Al-Maliki is still claiming that he is head of an elected
government. When will he be ashamed of himself and leave Iraq
before the American troops depart?"


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