Poll reveals world anger at Bush

[JoFerret]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/viewsofamerica/story/0,15221,1327568,00.html

Eight out of 10 countries favour Kerry for president

Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday October 15, 2004

George Bush has squandered a wealth of sympathy around the world towards America since September 11 with public opinion in 10 leading countries - including some of its closest allies - growing more hostile to the United States while he has been in office.
According to a survey, voters in eight out of the 10 countries, including Britain, want to see the Democrat challenger, John Kerry, defeat President Bush in next month's US presidential election.

The poll, conducted by 10 of the world's leading newspapers, including France's Le Monde, Japan's Asahi Shimbun, Canada's La Presse, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Guardian, also shows that on balance world opinion does not believe that the war in Iraq has made a positive contribution to the fight against terror.

The results show that in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, Spain and South Korea a majority of voters share a rejection of the Iraq invasion, contempt for the Bush administration, a growing hostility to the US and a not-too-strong endorsement of Mr Kerry. But they all make a clear distinction between this kind of anti-Americanism and expressing a dislike of American people. On average 68% of those polled say they have a favourable opinion of Americans.

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[stevedeshazer]

1. Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, Spain and South Korea

Hell, they don't count.

You forgot Poland. :)

[Career Prole]

6. LOL! Typical librul trickery!

Undersampling countries!
The "Coalition of the Coerced" becomes the "Coalition of the Cranky".

[MaraJade]

2. Not surprised at all. . .

My fourteen year old daughter was privileged to be part of the
People-to-People student ambassador program this past summer. She
visited Australia and New Zealand, two nations that have been said to
be allies of the US in the war in Iraq. In fact, many Australian
soldiers have also given their lives there.

She told me, upon her return, that Dubya is almost universally HATED
in both of those nations. Without prompting at all, most of the people she met over there voiced their absolute loathing of the man
and asked her when the US public was going to get rid of him. Some
people even said that to them he seemed to be mentally unbalanced.

Go figure. . .

[Jacobin]

3. Why the hell didn't Australia get rid of their Prick?

I don't understand that at all

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

4. maybe they have Diebold voting machines...

[MGKrebs]

5. Does Bush* see stuff like this?

What does think about it? What does he say to Pickles?
Does stuff like this make Cheney and Rove want to accelerate 'the plan" ?

[ClintonTyree]

8. He doesn't "see" anything..................

this mental midget doesn't read at all (with the exception of his Bible and I have serious doubts about that), he has his aides and Cabinet Members read everything and then give him a synopsis.
He would never be told about anything like this. He is kept isolated from normal Americans, he's only pushed out in front of Republican crowds. A pitiful, stupid loser.

[devilgrrl]

7. The Italians think Bush is a major league Asshole...

and that's nothing compaired to loathing they have for Silvio Berlusconi.

[AlCzervik]

9. Israeil and Russia-figures

And you know that Putin thinks Bush is a fing idiot but he stays out of Putin's way.

[Moderator]

10. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x905599