Report: Bush Understands Iraqi Opposition [View All]

Report: Bush Understands Iraqi Opposition

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PARIS - President Bush (news - web sites) said in a published interview that Iraqis fighting American troops weren't all terrorists and insisted he can understand their distaste for occupation.

In an interview with Paris Match magazine, that will go on sale Thursday, Bush said "no one would want to be in the place" of Iraqis under occupation.

"They are not all terrorists," Bush said in the interview, conducted last week in the Oval Office. "The suicide bombers are, but other fighters aren't. They can't stand being occupied."

"That's why we are giving them back their sovereignty," he added, a reference to U.S. plans to give control of the country to an interim Iraqi government on June 30. Bush said "complete sovereignty" would be given to the Iraqi leadership.

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I have to say that this headline really made me laugh.