I am leaving in March, no matter who wins

• I am leaving in March, no matter who wins. — First Lieutenant Sara Hope, Fallujah, during the day• A Bush win would mean we...

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• I am leaving in March, no matter who wins.
— First Lieutenant Sara Hope, Fallujah, during the day

• A Bush win would mean we would stay the course in Iraq. A Kerry win means we would probably leave before the job is done.
— First Lieutenant Tony King, Fallujah, during the day

• ‘‘The next four years are going to be catastrophic if Bush does not change his policy of trying to govern the world as if the United States was the only country.’’
— JOSE SARAMAGO, Nobel Literature Laureate, Portugal

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• ‘‘…In many ways this is worse than a Kerry victory for transatlantic and US-British relations and it makes British Prime Minister Tony Blair more vulnerable…Blair will push to try to represent European views to President Bush and he will get nowhere, as he has got nowhere before’’.
— JOHN KENT, researcher in International Relations at LSE

• ‘‘This is not good news, although things would not have been any different had Kerry won. US administrations always have antagonistic policies toward Arabs and Muslims…We hope for a revision of policy and withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.’’
— ABDULAZIZ ABUL, political analyst, Bahrain

• ‘‘We’re going to get more of the same, but now Washington have the idea that they have a popular mandate for their policies…Where policy on Saudi Arabia is concerned, there has been a split within the Bush administration. Some members are really anti-Saudi, but Bush, Cheney and Colin Powell were not aggressively anti-Saudi…So the question is whether that policy will be maintained now they have a huge win.’’
— KHALID DAKHIL, Political Sociology professor at King Saud University, Riyadh

• ‘‘Bush managed to convey to the people that terrorism and not economics, not the mismanaged war in Iraq, was the most important factor in the election …For Europe, a Bush victory means the problematic relationship between US and Europe will continue.’’
— THANOS VEREMIS, Greek political analyst