Poll: U.S. Faces Suspicion in Terror War

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By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A year after the invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), the United States faces suspicion abroad about its military efforts to combat terrorism and a growing desire among European nations to match U.S. influence and power in the world.

An international polling project found people in the Muslim-majority countries of Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan and Turkey are suspicious of the United States and think it is trying to dominate the world and control Mideast oil.

The governments in all four Muslim-majority countries have strong ties with the U.S. government.

A sizable number of people in France, Germany and Russia also have suspicions about the United States' international efforts to fight terrorism, according to the Pew Global Attitudes Project.

The polls were taken in February before the train bombings in Spain that claimed the lives of more than 200 people.

In a surprise defeat, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's conservatives on Sunday became the first government that backed the Bush administration on Iraq to be voted from office.

When people in the nine countries — including Britain and the United States — were asked whether the United States' actions were sincere to reduce international terrorism, majorities in France, Germany and the four Muslim-majority countries said they thought not. Almost half in Russia thought the United States was not sincere, while majorities in Britain and the United States said they thought the anti-terror campaign was a sincere effort.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=17&u=/ap/20040317/ap_on_re_us/international_poll_8

[DulceDecorum]

1. Chickenhawk

braggadocio coming home to roost.

[truthbetold]

2. I saw this the other day.

With a harsher title, something about countries suspecting the U.S. of world domination.
But of course, we must censor it. THEY'RE ONTO US!

[Moderator]

3. please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x425959