Not Your Sweetie

AMMAN (Reuters) - From street protests to newspaper columns, many Arabs in the
Middle East say the only
liberty they see so far in "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is that of the United States and
Britain to wage war at will.

"The Bush-Blair war can be called a lot of things, but it cannot be called a war to free
Iraqis," said columnist
Taher al-Adwan in the independent Jordanian newspaper al-Arab al-Youm.

"A better name is the "War of Lies," because it is through lies that they think they can
fool all the people all
the time," he wrote in a recent column entitled "Freedom to Kill Iraqis."

Nearly two weeks into the war, many Arabs bombarded with images of bombings in
Baghdad and handcuffed
Iraqi prisoners say they are not buying into the stated aim of what President Bush's
government calls
Operation Iraqi Freedom.