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Global poll slams Bush leadership

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Global poll slams Bush leadership

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4185205.stm
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More than half of people surveyed in a BBC World Service poll say the re-election of US President George W Bush has made the world more dangerous.

Only three countries - India, Poland and the Philippines - out of 21 polled believed the world was now safer.

The survey found that 47% now viewed US influence in the world as largely negative and such unfavourable feelings extended towards Americans as a whole.

None of the countries polled supported contributing their troops to Iraq.

"Negative feelings about Bush are high and are generalising to the American people who re-elected him."

On average across all countries, 58% of people - and 16 out of 21 countries polled - said they believed Mr Bush's re-election to the White House made the world more dangerous.
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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Shame on you, webgizmos.

On the contrary, thethimble, be proud that you live in a great nation which will spare no expense to afford freedom to all.


Yeah...thats right! What was I thinking!? You listen to stephen there thethimble, he's got it all figured out, and you just spend spend spend your future away. Just live for the moment and forget the future!

Ok...I had it with this thread.
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah...thats right! What was I thinking!? You listen to stephen there thethimble, he's got it all figured out, and you just spend spend spend your future away. Just live for the moment and forget the future!


Your future is not spent away. We have been in debt before, and life still went on just fine.
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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jesser, I am far from ignorant, I do not get High, Drink or watch MTV. Anyone who thinks Bush caused 9/11 is the one who is ignorant. The planning for it started on Clintons watch. Could it be they started planning on Clintons watch with a psychic knowing that Bush would be elected 5 years later?
Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Jesser forgive me if you think I attacked you. I am not. You are right and I see we are on the same side. I was just up until 3am waiting for my son in law to get home from work. We had a surprise snowstorm here yesterday and millions of people were stuck in their cars trying to get home at the same time. My son in law was in his car for over 15 hours and he only started about 50 miles from his home. What a nightmare. Peace to all
Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"And no worries Stephen. My country and I aren't relying on the states for any form of protection. We don't have any enemies to need protection from."

.....precisely because Canada has shown that it is content to turn a blind eye to world problems and human rights abuses. When Canada was presented with clear evidence that Saddam Hussein was systematically torturing, dismembering, murduring and comitting ethnic cleansing on its own citizens, Canada did absolutely nothing. And you are proud of what?
Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Do not forget that Clinton Era also emaciated our Intelligence Networks, also Bombed an Aspirin Factory (for Gods Sake.)
Every generation does something that the previous generation has to pay for, it is a matter of fact, and something we have to just get over and be done with. The fact is Love Him, or not President Bush is the "duely" elected represenative to lead the Nation in the Office of the Presidency.
Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Actually, Canada has historically been commended for our human rights approach, and we're still in the top ten countries worldwide. We have the longest average life expectancy. Our quality of life, employment and education rate, and health care system are all worlds beyond the states. And when you take a look at murders and violent crimes, it's hard to believe we're on the same continent. But that's all concerning local issues. When it comes to the worldwide stage, we're known to send aid to help solve conflicts, not weapons. We don't ignore problems, but we certainly don't kill them into submission. And here's a kicker for the patriotic, we're so well liked worldwide, especially in europe, that american tourists often try to pass for canadians.
Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just a little link for all the gullible people of the world.

Don't pretend you know what is going on, you will never be alowed near the truth.
All you will be told is what will make you react exactly as "needed".

People in all countries will be told that "democracy" is good,
by the very people who can't tell the truth. Nothing is more
easy than to get rich while the "peasants" are kept busy
fighting among themselves.

Call some of them "left" and some of them "right" and see how
fervently they go about to apply the same "labels" among themselves.
Divide and conquer is all too easy.

http://www.politrix.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=434&mode=&order=0&thold=0

Did you ever bother to do a little reseacrch yourself?
Nah, I'm too lazy. I trust the corporate media to tell me the truth.
They are paid to do that, so they will, right. Right?....wtf...holy crap!!
Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Have a job... General contractor I probably work harder than all you... Well educated... collage grad... Get my news from all over the world... open-minded but actually quite moderate... I think M. Moore is a bit of an ass... I do believe in WORLD unity... I am not a pandering American... Try actually researching before you fire off... I did everywhere I could find data... everywhere... no one challaged the Prescott accusation to rough to look at for all you... sorry I to am done with this... the geeks that pander to the pres and post here are just simple Red Americans... It's funny that that color used to aply to our enemy... I feel sorry for you... good by....
Reply #62 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Don't go MorghainenCorae!

Your post made me realize that more people are
finding their way to parts of the truth.

I can't tell you how stubbornly I believed
that what Hollywood taught was the "truth".

I mean, Schwarzenegger IS fighting "crazy
islamic terrorists" in True Lies!

That meme was set after Russia fell together
and Hollywood could no longer use Russia as supplier of "bad guys"
for the people to be scared of.

New "enemies" were needed. Because without "enemies"
how can the corporate weapon industries make money if
no one is killing someone else?

And now China and Iran will be used as new useful "bad guys"
in order to scare people to keep silent and not
question what they are being "served".

After all, Cheney wouldn't want more people to learn
about the military "exercises" he oversaw on 9/11.
Especially now that he is being sworn in as VP
for four more years. I mean, we can't have the truth
come and destroy everything, right? VP is a pretty
well paid job.
Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Love the links. Politrix.org is one great place. And that kid on bushflash, well he's vindicative but he's got a good sense of humour and drama And yes, RTCP, I'd sooner rely on a governing organization that's accepted worldwide, like the UN.
Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And yes, RTCP, I'd sooner rely on a governing organization that's accepted worldwide, like the UN.


The left loves the U.N. For what reason we might never know.
Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It has something to do with the world leaders co-operating to make the world at whole a better place. It's analoguous to having friends.
Reply #68 from JoeUser Forums Top
Gee we are not POPULAR with the world... lemmee cry as I sit in my heated new home,lieing on my nice comfortable select comfort bed, after eating a great meal....safe in my home... BOO HOO I feel so bad the world does not like me.. We elected a LEADER not some jock or preppie concerned with "how popular am I?"

Altho I am sure if hanoijohn lost this "globel test"he would have scampered crying to theresa for comfort. Theresa would have comforted hanoijohn speaking FRENCH! WHO BY THE WAY WOULD HAVE BEEN SPEAKING german if not for the unpopular united states.
Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nice try but I think you mean if it hadn't been for the Russians.
But it's ok, I will not tell your history teacher

Also it is not the USA that was the target for the poll,
it was "W" Bush. I find that most people think that
americans in general seem to be nice people.
Maybe a little starry-eyed when it comes to buying
into the regular hollywood/tv propaganda but never "bad".

Don't confuse the ones governing a country with the people
of that country, they are not the same. That's the sad truth
of most western "democracies" today.
Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I agree wholeheartedly, starfish. There is a world of difference between the people running the states, and the general populace. It's when the former whips the latter into a frenzy that things get ugly. I've never been mistreated by individual Americans, and only mildly annoyed by those who identify themselves solely with the will of their government.

If we were to tell our population to up and leave if they didn't like our Prime Minister, they'd just laugh. The same should be true in the states, but that sort of rhetoric has actually become vile and serious. People who disagree with the government are wholly unwelcome. And that's scary
Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top
t has something to do with the world leaders co-operating to make the world at whole a better place. It's analoguous to having friends.


That doesn't describe the U.N. at all. The U.N. won't even fully cooperate in the oil-for-food investigation. They U.N. is a worthless organization that the world would be better without.
Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"The U.N. won't even fully cooperate in the oil-for-food investigation."

Hang on a little...

Are you saying that it was ok for the U.S. government to sell biological weapons to Saddam, but countries trading food for oil so the Iraqi people could survive were doing wrong?

When Madeleine Albright said that she thought that over 500.000(!) dead children "was worth it" to keep the trade sanktions against Iraq going, I knew that there were a lot of things going on that was not right, not one bit.

Please explain, since I have no idea of how you are reasoning.
Reply #73 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The UN seemed to have a good idea in not sending all their member countries to war over false pretenses. They knew WMDs didn't exist, which Georgy boy finally admitted to recently. Of course, the war continues. Exacting revenge for 9/11 and eliminating all forms of evil will take exactly as long as it'll take to completely control Iraq and turn it into a parking lot.

I'd say the UN did a great job, in its hard desicion, and saved a lot of lives. Lives lost were the responsibility of, surprise, a country acting out against the UN's wishes. That deficit the states is carrying could have been a worldwide economic collapse had we all jumped on the bandwagon.
Reply #74 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Action Jay. Can you please take your anti american statements to some blog site that would enjoy your comments? This site is about uploading and downloading good stuff.This place is about having FUN !!!THANKS.
Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Dear all, I am very proud of my Nation . The only thing is, currently the Nation is being run by somebody who is wasting $150 Billion in Iraq, while our debt is OVER 7 TRILLION DOLLARS. My only problem is that he not only carrying out his "plans", HE GOT REELECTED! My lack of (positive) excitement is toward Mr. Bush, not the USA. I'm proud to be an American!