MSNBC ’expert’ and US puppet Iraqi Prime Minister are lying to US: The Iraqi People want US to leave

While Americans were President Bush’s primary target audience for his nationally televised address to the nation on Tuesday, Iraqis were also very interested in what he had to say.

Walid Phares, a terrorism expert for MSNBC and senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, joined MSNBC’s Amy Robach on Wednesday to discuss how Bush’s words may be playing in Baghdad, Basra and all around Iraq.

"Days ago I had met with the (Iraqi) prime minister at a meeting here in Washington and a number of senior officials, both religious and secular, and they told me the same story that we found this morning in the Iraqi/Baghdad press, which was that most Iraqis are concerned about an abrupt withdrawal from Iraq, because that would cause a collapse in their security system," Phares said.

Phares admitted that the country is "pretty much divided," but noted that no matter what Bush - or any other American president — said, "the fundamentalists, the al-Qaida followers, the followers of Saddam Hussein ... they’re going to be against them, they’re going to be strongly against them."

That said, Phares told Robach that "the majority of Iraqis would like those forces to stay enough time to have their own force."

He added that while most Iraqis now have access to satellite television many still do not. In addition, the language barrier can cloud the message of the American leader, that "basically, they’re at the mercy of their own media."

However, Phares said the Iraq media marketplace "is becoming very diverse, day-after-day."

Phares told Robach the key to winning support in Iraq for any leader is winning the support of the people that lead Iraqis.

"The leadership of the Iraqis basically shape of the opinion of most Iraqis," he said. "Most of the Kurds, most of the Shiites, a minority among the Sunnis, which is a majority of all Iraqis, wants us to stay. ... They believe that President Bush wants us to stay as long as is needed."

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Publisher’s note:

This article is an insult!- The US installed puppet government does not represent the Iraqi people.

The Iraqi people want us to leave immediately. The World Tribunal on Iraq has found the US guilty of war crimes.

"Witnesses of the ongoing atrocities in Iraq testified before the Jury of Conscience at the World Tribunal on Iraq on the second day of the Tribunal. Their exposure of the impact of this war on Iraqis revealed a country that is facing worse conditions than under Saddam Hussein. In the words of Amal Sawadi, an Iraqi lawyer working for the defenceless in Iraq, ’ Atrocities existed under Saddam Hussein but, unfortunately, things are now much worse.’"

Iraq is now worse than it was under Saddam

"We had sat yet again through nearly 12 hours of testimony. The question was no longer, "Are the US and UK guilty of an illegal, immoral, and unjust war." That case had been proven over and over. Nor was it the right of the Iraqi to resist, of course they had the right if the invasion was illegal. The question had already become, "Now what do we do about it?""

Shocking and Appalling Stories of US Illegalities at the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul

The Jury also provided a number of recommendations that include recognising the right of the Iraqi people to resist the illegal occupation of their country and to develop independent institutions, and affirming that the right to resist the occupation is the right to wage a struggle for self-determination, freedom, and independence as derived from the Charter of the United Nations, we the Jury of Conscience declare our solidarity with the people of Iraq and the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the coalition forces from Iraq.

World Tribunal on Iraq : PRESS RELEASE about JURY STATEMENT

”The assault on Iraq is an assault on all of us: on our dignity, our intelligence, and our future,” Roy said at the hearings.. ”We recognise that the judgment of the World Tribunal on Iraq is not binding in international law. However, our ambitions far surpass that. The World Tribunal on Iraq places its faith in the consciences of millions of people across the world who do not wish to stand by and watch while the people of Iraq are being slaughtered, subjugated, and humiliated.

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