Bush's repeated mistake on Arab-Muslims: "Just give them opportunity and regime change and they'll be (somehow) like us",

The Second Bush Mistake in reading people's opinion.

Do you know what was the biggest mistake (be the nature of freedom from dictatorship as noble as it is) at Iraq-war?

The extravaganza "faith" in so called "moderate" Muslims, or the over-believing in Arab Muslims that they change that easy, so fast or any time soon or whether at all.

So Bush, with his extra effort to recruit Arab Muslims to the very important war on Islamic Terror, had to repeat 100 times "Islam a religion of peace", if he believes in it or not is not the issue. "Just give them opportunity and regime change and they'll be (somehow) like us", was the underline slogan.

Then the Iraq-reality blows up in Bush's face and somehow doesn't want to get it, doesn't want to get that Arab Muslim "culture" is very fascists against the "outsider", you can help them be saved from brutality, even feed them (see: most Islamic countries), an infidel is an infidel is an infidel, that Arab racism & Islamic jihad is not a fringe held radicalism, but entrenched deep & wide all across mainstream Islamo Arabs.

I have to say that Europe was quicker to "know them" than the Bush administration, in other words, typical Europeans might bolster with bias Arabists approach in appeasing Islamo Arabs, from biased towards Israeli victims to bashing Bush on Iraq, all in a twisted "realistic" and "economic" & even part of urges of calmness (facing Arab rampage recently for reasons/no-reasons all across Europe) motivated policies. But in no way did (most) Europeans deluded themselves in "believing too much in them", as Bush did, and we are all suffering the Iraq problem, evidence again and again that 'no matter what you do to them, they llok at you as the enemy'.

The Israelis saw it first hand in Lebanon when they were received at first with flowers at their operation to root out Arab Muslim "Palestinian" terrorists Fatah in 1982, but the more they stayed they were looked upon the "outsider", being non -Arab-Muslim, even though the "Palestinian" terrorists invaders were/are no less outsiders. Even many in the US have no learned from the Iranian backed Islamic Hezbollah attack on US forces when US was only trying to help Lebanon.

Nor did many in the US learn from the Reagan (though great president as he was) helping the Iraqis against the Iranians (helping the lesser evil) in the Iran-Iraq war, or helping the Mujahadin in Agfhanistan that has let the Taliban rise there, both anti-Americanism at it's classic forms.

This is exactly why Bush doesn't "get" it when most Americans are against the United ARAB Emirates-US Ports deal. "Security assurances" my ass, Bush! Listen to most Americans disbelieve & distrust in Arab Muslim way of preaching fascism -- no matter what we do or do not to them -- http://memri.org/ towards the "other".