'You've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy'

[dArKeR]

Shortly before Germany's Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, flew to Washington for talks with United States President George Bush last month, a journalist asked if he was going to say goodbye to Bush ahead of the US elections in November. Schroeder's adviser grinned broadly before composing his face into a frown.

"I won't speculate on that," he said.

Although Schroeder deliberately avoided the Democratic candidate, John Kerry, during his two-day trip to the US, there is little doubt that a Kerry victory would provoke rejoicing inside Germany's government, as it would in many other parts of Europe, as well as Asia, Africa and Latin America.

This week Kerry claimed that foreign leaders had told him they could not publicly offer him their support but added: "You've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy."

Hostility towards a second Bush term is generally assumed to be widespread throughout the world because of the Iraq war, the concept of pre-emptive strikes and bullying of small countries. On issues from the Kyoto agreement and the international criminal court to antipathy towards the United Nations, Bush has alienated countries Washington would normally classify as allies.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=32436

[boobooday]

1. World Wide Party

At our house, when W GOES HOME!!!!!!

Dancing in the streets, all over the world! What a day!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[trotsky]

2. Bush's supporters will simply eat this up.

"If he's pissing them off, he must be doing something right." You know.

[northernsoul]

3. gotta love the bizarro-world logic of the B*sheviks

top o' the morning to ya, Trotsky!

:hi:

[trotsky]

4. No doubt.

And they'll love to spin this as "terrorists" who wish we would have a change in policy, too.

Oh well. Hey there, northernsoul! :hi: