Speaking to reporters later Friday,

[DUBYA]

 was asked whether such photos

 of Saddam -- as well as the now-retracted

 Newsweek story

 about military interrogators

 flushing a Quran down a toilet

 -- serve to inspire opposition

 in the Muslim world.

"I don't think a photo inspires murders,"

 [DUBYA] said.

 He said Iraq's insurgents

 are "inspired by an ideology

 that is so barbaric

 and backwards

 that it's hard for many

 in the Western world to comprehend

 how they think."

It is a

 "desire to stop the march

 of freedom"

that motivates the insurgents,

 [DUBYA] said.