Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, we in the Arab world have had the feeling that the U.S. is looking for an enemy. Sometimes they call it bin Laden, sometimes extremist Islam, sometimes Iraq.
On the other hand, when "the events of Falluja" took place the U.S. military treated me like a king. They were very polite. Very often we get a call from them in the Baghdad office inviting us to be embedded with them on an operation. Sometimes we go, sometimes we don’t – after all, it’s a military operation and therefore dangerous. Anyway, on the ground it’s different: the U.S. military shows us respect and is very cooperative, while it’s the Bush administration that says the negative things about us.
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