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To: lurqer who wrote (27383)9/10/2003 10:33:32 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 89467
 
I cannot imagine why Tony Blair has not been recalled yet.
He must have some good photos.
TP



To: lurqer who wrote (27383)9/10/2003 10:41:56 PM
From: lurqer  Respond to of 89467
 
"A lot of people had sympathy for Americans around the time of 9/11, but that's changed," said Cathy Hearn, 31, a flight attendant from South Africa, expressing a view commonly heard in many countries. "They act like the big guy riding roughshod over everyone else."

and

To some degree, the resentment is centered on the person of President Bush, who is seen by many of those interviewed, at best, as an ineffective spokesman for American interests and, at worst, as a gunslinging cowboy knocking over international treaties and bent on controlling the world's oil, if not the entire world.

Foreign policy experts point to slowly developing fissures, born at the end of the cold war, that exploded into view in the debate leading up to the Iraq war. "I think the turnaround was last summer, when American policy moved ever more decisively toward war against Iraq," said Josef Joffe, co-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. "That's what triggered the counteralliance of France and Germany and the enormous wave of hatred against the United States."


from

Foreign Views of U.S. Darken Since Sept. 11

nytimes.com

Way to go George. Only you could do it.

JMO

lurqer