KAMPALA, Oct. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has criticized the US operations in Iraq, saying that the unrest there was caused by the poor handling of military-civilian relations, state-owned newspaper The New Vision reported Wednesday.

    "Unless an army reinforces the strategic relationship with the people, that army cannot survive. An army should not bark at people," Museveni told 31 Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) senior officers attending a one-year course in Jinja district, 90 km east of Kampala.

    Uganda is one of the five African countries that supported the US military operations in Iraq.

    Museveni said he joined the US coalition to fight Saddam Hussein because the Americans said Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

    He said his cabinet advised him otherwise, but he went ahead. "But now, what is happening there confuses me," he said.

    He said the problems in Iraq were due to US "arrogance." "I supported them without knowing their other reason of going to war.Now because of that, I am in some problems," he added.

    He said the coalition was wrong to demobilize one million Iraq soldiers and appointing an American governor. Enditem