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Some of them, maybe. I'm sure that there's not a 100% correlation between being anti-Bush and having this atbreastude, however, and if your point is that it's a dangerous and wrong-headed atbreastude, why not just say that and not make a connection with opposition to Bush (i.e., why not just say "some people keep buttuming"). Then you don't push the buttons of people primed to (over)react to criticisms of their faction ....

Anyway, at least one of the anti-Bush people thinks as follows, and I doubt I'm alone:

No, the Iraqis are not stupid and incapable people (and in fact are better educated than some stereotypes might suggest), but they have no experience in governing themselves, and no tradition of doing so, and this probably means it will take time to set up a functioning self-government there, and en route to this goal there will likely be some mistakes and problems.

It's not unlike what you say later about Russians:

I think something analogous has to happen in Iraq, and it's not clear that we know how to teach that either. But I'm sure this has been said before, and better.

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