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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (105378)7/14/2003 10:32:22 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
<I don't believe a majority of the world respects bin Ladin more than Bush.>

Then you are willfully ignoring a reality which is staring you in the face.

June 2003 Pew poll excerpts:
people-press.org

...in most countries, opinions of the U.S. are markedly lower than they were a year ago...

Support for the U.S.-led war on terrorism also has fallen in most Muslim publics. Equally significant, solid majorities in the Palestinian Authority, Indonesia and Jordan – and nearly half of those in Morocco and Pakistan – say they have at least some confidence in Osama bin Laden to "do the right thing regarding world affairs." Fully 71% of Palestinians say they have confidence in bin Laden in this regard.

More generally, the postwar update survey of 16,000 respondents finds, in most countries that are friendly to the United States, only modest percentages have confidence that President Bush will do the right thing in international affairs. People in most countries rate Vladimir Putin, Gerhard Schroeder, Jacques Chirac and Tony Blair more highly than they do Bush. The president also ranks slightly behind Blair in the United States...
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