International poll ranks Bush a threat to world peace

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TORONTO: A majority of people in three countries with close ties to the U.S. — Britain, Canada and Mexico — consider President George W. Bush a threat to world peace, ranking the U.S. president right up there with the leaders of two countries he has labeled part of the "axis of evil" — North Korea's Kim Jong Il and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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In Britain, 91 percent said they considered bin Laden a great or moderate danger to peace, while 78 percent said that about Bush, the poll found. Kim, whose country tested an atomic bomb last month, was considered a danger by 82 percent, Lebanese Hezbollah militia leader Hassan Nasrallah by 78 percent, and Ahmadinejad by 74 percent.
In Canada, bin Laden was seen by 88 percent of the people surveyed as a great or moderate threat, followed in order by Kim (86 percent), Ahmadinejad (77 percent), and Bush and Nasrallah tied at 74 percent. Eighty-three percent of Mexicans ranked Bush as a great or moderate threat, putting him behind only bin Laden at 88 percent.
Bush fared well only in Israel where just 23 percent of those polled saw the U.S. president as a great or moderate threat. Ahmadinejad was perceived as a great or moderate threat by 92 percent of Israelis surveyed, slightly ahead of bin Laden (89 percent).

Majorities in Britain, Canada and Mexico — 69 percent, 62 percent and 57 percent, respectively — said U.S. foreign policy has made the world more dangerous since 2001, according to the poll. In Israel, only 36 percent said Bush's actions had made the world more dangerous.

Most Mexicans (68 percent), Israelis (60 percent) and Canadians (57 percent) believe the United States will "intervene militarily" in Iran or North Korea in an effort to block the proliferation of nuclear weapons. British respondents were not asked the question.

"George Bush has developed a very bellicose image abroad," said EKOS President Frank Graves. "Immediately after September 11, attitudes were almost universally supportive. Today, Bush is seen as a sorcerer's apprentice on the world stage, bringing calamity wherever he goes."

In Britain, where Prime Minister Tony Blair's popularity has been hit hard by the Iraq war, 71 percent said the conflict was not justified. Eighty-nine percent of Mexicans, 73 percent of Canadians and 34 percent of Israelis agreed. Fifty-nine percent of Israelis said the 2003 invasion was justified.

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So who defines justified? and who decides our foreign ploicy based on those justifications?

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1. and he thinks he will go down in history as the great pres!

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2. history shall remember this time

as a dark stain on the fabric of all civilization.

"The path of the righteous man and defender is beset on all sides by the iniquity of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious anger, who poison and destroy my brothers; and they shall know that I am when I lay my love upon them!"