So much for the listening tour:
Sent to improve America's image in the Muslim world, President Bush's public relations chief stressed the need for better dialogue in her brief address Wednesday to Turkish women activists. What Karen Hughes got back was a barrage of criticism about the U.S. war in Iraq.How intriguing to think that government officials will sit down with critics. I hear stuff like that happens in democracies like Turkey. Now, if we could only do that in America. Imagine an open forum with Bush or one of his lackies. You'll have to imagine it cause it will never happen.
There is "no chance for America to make its image better … while the war in Iraq is still going on (and) people are dying every day," Turkish activist Hidayet Sefkatli Tuksal told journalists after meeting with Hughes at a museum in a medieval citadel looming over the modern city of Ankara.
