I don’t agree with the 42% being illiterate though. How narrowly are they defining “literate”?

Did you know there are many foreigners who don’t know that Hawaii and Alaska are US states even after being there? And many also think of America as a big NYC and know nothing about states like Iowa, North Dakota or Oklahoma. So who are we to judge.

As for the 42% of illiteracy, this is sad if it’s true. Perhaps Americans from big cities like NYC, LA, etc should realize we have other citizens we don’t think about, the poor white population out in the midwest that we dismiss as just white trash or hicks.

Too often government issues address things that only affect the east and west coast, while all the middle gets ignored and probably doesn’t get a fair share of the tax contribution. In the end, the people living in the middle approve of Bush because they know that being Republican at least means keeping most of the money they earn rather than go Democrat where their tax money will be invested in the big cities and the east and west coast.

This country was also built on many wars, even little ones we don’t know about. But the media focuses heavily on Bush’s actions more than what has been going on behind the scenes with other presidents. Bush made a decision during a difficult time and the truth is no president can make everybody happy. Who’s to say another president would’ve made a different decision that would’ve made everyone happy. No president can accomplish that. I think too many people are quick to judge Bush just because he comes of childish in his manner. But I do believe he does love the country and despite whether or not we agree with his decisions, he is making them out of the love of this nation, not out of spite. We all know we Americans have a different perspective on every issue and what makes this country weak or strong and none of us are right or wrong.

SOME people in USA know the diffrence between iraqis and afganistanies they don’t look alike nor speak the same languge.

Iraw speaks arabic and afghanistan speaks: Farisi not arabic

they are althought togeher in one thing as being muslims only !