Re: Senior US State Dept Official: "US 'arrogant and stupid' in Iraq"

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>          Last Updated: Sunday, 22 October 2006, 11:26 GMT 12:26 UK
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>             US 'arrogant and stupid' in Iraq
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>                   Mr Fernandez said failure in Iraq would be a regional disaster
>             A senior US state department official has said that the US has shown "arrogance and stupidity" in Iraq.
>             Alberto Fernandez made the remarks during an interview with Arabic television station al-Jazeera.
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>             The state department says Mr Fernandez was quoted incorrectly - but BBC Arabic language experts say Mr Fernandez did
> indeed use the words.
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>             It comes after President George W Bush discussed changing tactics with top US commanders to try to combat the unrest.
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>             Mr Fernandez, an Arabic speaker who is director of public diplomacy in the state department's Bureau of Near Eastern
> Affairs, told Qatar-based al-Jazeera that the world was "witnessing failure in Iraq".
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>             "That's not the failure of the United States alone, but it is a disaster for the region," he said.
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>                   I think there is great room for strong criticism, because without doubt, there was arrogance and stupidity by the
> United States in Iraq
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>                   Alberto Fernandez
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>             "I think there is great room for strong criticism, because without doubt, there was arrogance and stupidity by the
> United States in Iraq."
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>             He also said that the US was now willing to speak to any insurgent group except al-Qaeda in an effort to reduce
> sectarian bloodshed in Iraq.
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>             "We are open to dialogue because we all know that, at the end of the day, the solution to the hell and the killings in
> Iraq is linked to an effective Iraqi national reconciliation."
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>             Winds of change?
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>             However, state department spokesman Sean McCormack said: "What he [Alberto Fernandez] says is that it is not an accurate
> quote."
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>             Mr McCormack also denied that the US had been guilty of arrogance or stupidity saying that history would be the judge of
> US actions in Iraq.
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>             The BBC Monitoring Service has confirmed that Mr Fernandez did use the words "arrogance and stupidity" in his interview.
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>             Mr Fernandez's comments came after Mr Bush said that US troops were changing tactics to deal with the insurgency in
> Iraq.
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>             Mr Bush held a video conference on the new measures with top US military commanders in Iraq on Saturday against the
> backdrop of more US losses in Iraq - 78 so far this month.
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>                   Mr Bush held talks on the violence with his military commanders
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>             A new poll suggests two-thirds of Americans believe the US is losing the war in Iraq, a proportion which analysts says
> could translate into a drubbing at the polls for Mr Bush's Republican Party in next month's mid-term elections.
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>             The BBC's James Westhead in Washington says that while there is no official change in US strategy, change is on
> everyone's lips.
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>             But a report in the New York Times that officials are drawing up a timetable for Iraq's government to improve security
> has been denied by both White House and state department officials.
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>             In an interview with the BBC, British Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells has suggested that the Iraqi security forces
> could take over much of the work of US-led forces within a year.
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>             On Sunday funerals were taking place for 17 people killed in a mortar attack on a market near the capital, Baghdad.
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