Challenging Rest of the World With a New Order, THE BUSH RECORD NYT

[Rose Siding]

Jorge Castañeda, Mexico's former foreign minister, has two distinct images of George W. Bush: the charmer intent on reinventing Mexican-American ties and the chastiser impatient with Mexico as the promise of a new relationship soured.

The change came with the Sept. 11 attacks. "My sense is that Bush lost and never regained the gift he had shown for making you feel at ease," said Mr. Castañeda, who left office last year. "He became aloof, brusque, and on occasion abrasive."

The brusqueness had a clear message: the United States is at war, it needs everybody's support and that support is not negotiable. Mexico's hesitant stance at the United Nations on the war in Iraq became a source of tension. Yet Mr. Castañeda said, "I was never asked, 'What is it you need in order to be more cooperative with us? What can we do to help?' "

It is a characterization of Mr. Bush's foreign policy style often heard around the world: bullying, unreceptive, brazen........

http://nytimes.com/2004/10/12/politics/campaign/12policy.html?hp&ex=1097640000&en=7236a9d332d0a02f&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Old and In the Way]

1. Life caught up to George Bush on 9/11/01

What a failure.

[CHICKEN CAPITOL USA]

2. Any other job, he'd have been fired on the spot-but not woody prez pecker

911 happened on his watch-
He shoulda been OUTAHERE the next day.
Failure is too nice of a word--it implies he actually tried !!!
Greedy brat rich kid coke head Slacker awol SOB is what I'd call him