Simple Truths

"You can't fight an idea by invading countries," says Raja Khouri, president of the Canadian Arab Federation. "To fight an idea, you have to discredit the idea. Instead of doing that, the United States is doing the exact opposite. Instead of proving the West is not out to get the Muslim world, it went out and invaded a Muslim country."

"The `war on terror' has failed miserably. This will do more to help the radicals of the world to substantiate their claims that the West is out to get Arabs and Muslims and to control them. We've had a number of terrorist attacks, and the invasion of Iraq has not done anything to diminish them."

"There was no terrorism in Iraq before the war. Now there is. You have to be blind not to see that the occupation of Iraq is turning into a fiasco."