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The Rest of the World Wants Kerry
Pentagram writes "A poll by GlobeScan Inc and the University of Maryland of 34,330 people from 35 countries found almost all of them gave a strong backing to Kerry; less than one in five backed Bush.
Only people from the Phillipines, Poland and Nigeria clearly backed Bush, whereas Norway gave Kerry the strongest backing with 74% to Bush's 7%. The UK, the US's most vocal ally during the Bush-led Iraq invasion, overwhelmingly preferred Kerry at 47% to 16%."
I'd prefer if France was run by a Gentoo-Running Sadist, but it doesn't mean I get a say in the matter.
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Makes as much sense as anything about the Bush White House.
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The shrub is the worst president we've had since Nixon. Actually, he's worse than Nixon.
Your local dog catcher would be a better President. In fact any of the Republicans running against the Shrub 4 1/2 years ago would have made a better President.
But no, gets the nod? The least-experienced, most incompetent one of the Bunch and we've paid dearly for it.
And you want more of this bullshit?
The U.S. was by no means "powerless" under Clinton and would not be "powerless" Kerry. Kinder and gentler (to quote the Shrub's daddy) but by no means powerless.
Right now we just come across as arrogant assholes. And that's not good.
Scott
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Then why not do something about it? If you're afraid of suffering Iraq's fate, build a military strong enough to deter the United States, or at least make it impractical to invade. Like say, Taiwan vs. China, or North Korea vs. Everybody.
Pretty much anyone could conqure North Korea, as long as they didn't mind letting millions of South Koreans die. China, for example, wouldn't have much of a problem.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
The fact that most Americans don't know anything about the outside world does not mean that the outside world does not know a thing or two about America.
"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." (John Maynard Keynes)
And Halliburton is under serious investigation right now for alleged abuses. Hardly sweeping their behavior under the rug, as would be expected if the fix was in. The fact is that there are not that many companies in this country that can do the sort of things we need done over there. So it's hardly surprising, and certainly not proof of corruption, that the military contracted with them. And sometimes you just don't have time to bid everything out. Like in the middle of combat operations!
And I can certainly accept that some countries can disagree with us. Why do you seem to be saying that we can never disagree with them? Why do you ignore the many countries in Europe who DID agree with us on Iraq?
How does having Germany and France mad at us make us less safe? Are they going to attack us? Of course not. Our danger comes from Islamic fundamentalists such as Osama Bin Laden and dictators bent on obtaining and using weapons of mass destruction such as Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, and whomever is the theocrat running Iran today.
All of these people already hated us long before Bush became president. It was during the Clinton administration that the first major foreign terrorist attack on U.S. soil occured, the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. It was during the Carter administration that Iran held our embassy staff hostage for 444 days.
I say this not to blame the Democrats for them, but to point out that our lack of safety comes from the hatred that Islamic fundamentalists and dictators of all stripes have for the United States and our culture and values (universal suffrage for all, equal rights for women, religious tolerance, etc.). It's got absolutely nothing to do with President Bush. They hated America under Clinton, they would hate America under Kerry.
And on the subject of Islamic fundamentalists... They hate America, and they hate members of all other religions. Why should we try to make them like us? Truly, suggesting that we need to make them like us is like saying that black people (and Catholics and Jews) in the American South in the late 1800s should have just tried to make the KKK like them. Or maybe the Jews in the 1930s should have just tried to make the Germans like them better.
After all, most of the rank-and-file of the KKK and the Nazis were normal folks who were very poor and who listened to charismatic leaders who convinced them that all their problems were the fault of the evil [blacks, jews, catholics, whoever], who were taking all the jobs or disrepecting the old time religion or whatever.
Some ideologies and world views are just evil, and must be fought.