What Our Neighbors Think
The polls over the last six weeks make it clear the George W. Bush is not the most popular man in America. Only 34% approve of him and his policies. What I found interesting is that most of the world thinks even less of him. From the Toronto Star:
Canadians believe the world has become a more dangerous place since George W. Bush was elected U.S. president and a majority believe he will launch military strikes in Iran or North Korea before his term ends in 2008, according to a new Toronto Star poll.
Canadians also consider Bush more dangerous to world peace than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The EKOS poll was done in Canada for the Star and Montreal's La Presse ahead of Tuesday's U.S. mid-term elections, expected to be decided on the issue of the Iraq war. The same questions were posed to respondents by pollsters in Britain, Israel and Mexico.
...Canadians — like Americans — have soured on the U.S. invasion of Iraq with 73 per cent now telling EKOS that Washington had no justification for it. When the same question was asked of Canadians in April 2003, right after the Bush invasion, EKOS found 53 per cent thought it unjustified.
Canadians told EKOS they believed Osama bin Laden posed the greatest danger to the world, followed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, then Bush, Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah.
Mexicans ranked Bush the second-most dangerous of the five, behind Al Qaeda's bin Laden.
Analysts here say anti-Americanism has become more intense under Bush than any other U.S. president before him.
"The feeling goes well beyond just policy choices," says Charles Pena of the Independent Institute. "There is the perception the Bush administration went into Iraq unilaterally and has made other choices unilaterally. There is a belief we ran roughshod over allies and that their opinions didn't matter and we wouldn't listen anyway." [Emphasis added]
Obviously the rest of the world is as concerned about Tuesday's election as we are. I would imagine our neighbors to the north and to the south (and to the east, and to the west)hope enough people turn out for the Democrats to completely hamstring Mr. Bush's foreign forays as much as possible. May they get their wish.
Canadians believe the world has become a more dangerous place since George W. Bush was elected U.S. president and a majority believe he will launch military strikes in Iran or North Korea before his term ends in 2008, according to a new Toronto Star poll.
Canadians also consider Bush more dangerous to world peace than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The EKOS poll was done in Canada for the Star and Montreal's La Presse ahead of Tuesday's U.S. mid-term elections, expected to be decided on the issue of the Iraq war. The same questions were posed to respondents by pollsters in Britain, Israel and Mexico.
...Canadians — like Americans — have soured on the U.S. invasion of Iraq with 73 per cent now telling EKOS that Washington had no justification for it. When the same question was asked of Canadians in April 2003, right after the Bush invasion, EKOS found 53 per cent thought it unjustified.
Canadians told EKOS they believed Osama bin Laden posed the greatest danger to the world, followed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, then Bush, Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah.
Mexicans ranked Bush the second-most dangerous of the five, behind Al Qaeda's bin Laden.
Analysts here say anti-Americanism has become more intense under Bush than any other U.S. president before him.
"The feeling goes well beyond just policy choices," says Charles Pena of the Independent Institute. "There is the perception the Bush administration went into Iraq unilaterally and has made other choices unilaterally. There is a belief we ran roughshod over allies and that their opinions didn't matter and we wouldn't listen anyway." [Emphasis added]
Obviously the rest of the world is as concerned about Tuesday's election as we are. I would imagine our neighbors to the north and to the south (and to the east, and to the west)hope enough people turn out for the Democrats to completely hamstring Mr. Bush's foreign forays as much as possible. May they get their wish.
Labels: Election 2006
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