66% say Bush is India’s Friend (Survey in India)

[varun]

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20060306&fname=Cover+Story&sid=1

Is George Bush a friend of India?
Strongly agree 21
Somewhat agree 45
Neither agree nor disagree 15
Somewhat disagree 8
Strongly disagree 11

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Is America closer to Pakistan than India?
Closer to India 30
Closer to Pakistan 50
Equally close to both 16
Don’t know/Can’t say 4

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Has India compromised on its foreign policy by becoming closer to the US?
Yes 59
No 29
Don’t know/Can’t say 12

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What feelings come to mind when you think about the US?
Love the country 46
Hate the country 14
Neutral 39

[Kipling]

1. Yeah. On a good day, he can almost spell it.

[MadMaddie]

2. They won't be a friend of the * cabal when they choose to go..

to the euro......

[Canuckistanian]

3. Love the Americans, hate the foreign policy

That's what I'm seeing.

[tecelote]

4. Wish they had asked...

"What do you think about President Bush?"

[ThatsMyBarack]

5. * oughta move there!

If they like him that much, they can have him! :popcorn:

[Tempest]

6. Of course India sees Bush as a friend

Bush encourages U.S. companies to outsource jobs to India.

What's not to like about that?

[Yollam]

9. Yep. That's it in a nutshell.

And sadly, on this point, Clinton was almost as bad.

[Johonny]

7. Looks like

they have the same disconnect that many Americans have. The see George Bush as seperate than American policy. Look at their answers to the second and third question. That's more telling than their answers to question 1. They see Bush as a friendly man in charge of a country who's policies they don't like. Sounds like your typical Republican Voter circa 2004.

[OhioChick]

8. Maybe they feel if they vote "no".............

(Friend of India)He'll no longer ship jobs over there.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

10. Arundathi Roy say's otherwise ...

Bush in India: Just Not Welcome
By Arundathi Roy

On his triumphalist tour of India and Pakistan, where he hopes to wave imperiously at people he considers potential subjects, President Bush has an itinerary that's getting curiouser and curiouser.

For Bush's March 2 pit stop in New Delhi, the Indian government tried very hard to have him address our parliament. A not inconsequential number of MPs threatened to heckle him, so Plan One was hastily shelved. Plan Two was to have Bush address the masses from the ramparts of the magnificent Red Fort, where the Indian prime minister traditionally delivers his Independence Day address. But the Red Fort, surrounded as it is by the predominantly Muslim population of Old Delhi, was considered a security nightmare. So now we're into Plan Three: President George Bush speaks from Purana Qila, the Old Fort.

Ironic, isn't it, that the only safe public space for a man who has recently been so enthusiastic about India's modernity should be a crumbling medieval fort?