Criticism of policies riles Bush at summit

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/14875509.htm

VIENNA, Austria - President Bush, visibly annoyed over complaints that his policies had added to global insecurity, fired back at his European critics Wednesday even as he and international leaders joined forces to work against nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran.

Bush and top officials from the European Union united in demanding that Iran suspend uranium-enrichment programs that could be used to develop nuclear weapons. They also agreed that Iran should respond quickly to Bush's call for international negotiations designed to limit Iran's nuclear activities. And they insisted that North Korea should not test a missile, as it is threatening to do.

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Although diplomatic relations between the United States and Europe have improved significantly since the rift over the Iraq war in 2003, Bush remains widely unpopular in Europe. A recent poll found that many Europeans consider the United States a threat to global stability.

``That's absurd,'' Bush snapped when asked, in general terms, about the poll results. His irritation grew when an Austrian reporter read him some specific poll numbers.

``Look, people didn't agree with my decision on Iraq, and I understand that. For Europe, Sept. 11 was a moment; for us, it was a change of thinking,'' he said. ``People can say what they want to say. But leadership requires making hard choices based upon principle.''



U.S. President George W. Bush listens during a final press conference after a meeting of high representatives of the European Union and the United States at Vienna's Hofburg palace, on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. (AP Photo/Rudi Blaha)

Again invoking Sept. 11....Dude, that B.S. doesn't play so well across the Atlantic, so STFU. Please.

He is incapable of any type of human compassion for the suffering

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case against the criminals in the first WTC1 bombing and the perpetrators are still in jail.

We are still waiting to hear the offifical excuse for not persuing a criminal case for WTC2 and the Pentagon.

number 2 man in Iraq? :shrug:

And the #1, no telling how many more times he will be killed.

facts - they just get in the way of what you feel in your gut. :eyes:

....was Rove all that time anyway?? He's supposed to be up there telling the village Idiot what to say.:banghead: Oh, poor thing :rofl: :rofl:

that probably would have pushed the Chimperor right over the edge.

of Chimpy's press conferences and ALL wear sunglasses. :rofl:

Everything seems to rile Stupidhead when it doesn't lead off with gushing about how he's the greatest leader the country and the world has ever seen.

based upon reality.

Of course, even the THREAT of criticism is enough to "rile" Georgie.

:headbang:
rocknation

After he says "that's absurd".

("how stupid you are to think that, you are nothing, Isn't it cute, it thinks it's talking")

seriously, he really is an example of arrested development. You can see that every time he opens his yap. That's in addition to other, more serious pathologies. Why is there no one in the entire world, in a position to do something about it, who will speak the truth on this?

Which raises another issue: Why do other countries go along with the ravings of this madman? "Bush and top officials from the European Union united in demanding that Iran suspend uranium-enrichment programs... "

I've asked this here before, and never get a response. This is not a rhetorical question. Even in terms of realpolitik there must be a reason why other countries are willing to go along with the pretense that he has anything of value to say to anyone. The PEOPLE of just about every country on the planet loathe him. Yet their leaders kiss his ass. Couldn't someone say, "Excuse me, Mr. shit-for-brains, but Iran is permitted to enrich uranium under the NPT"? :banghead:

:rant:

It's kind of like the biggest bully in school....everyone has no choice but to appease him if they want to survive. Kinda scary!

I don't understand it.

And why have things improved between the U.S. & Europe since the invasion of Iraq? What made things better? Re this:

...Although diplomatic relations between the United States and Europe have improved significantly since the rift over the Iraq war in 2003, Bush remains widely unpopular in Europe...

Or the EU subscribes to the theory "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" We are the enemy of the free world at this point.

Just for the sake of a more accurate picture.

Visit just about any barber shop, WalMart, Baptist Church - you name it, almost any gathering spot in huge swaths of this country - you'll experience dozens -- hundreds -- of people who regularly drink his KoolAid. It looks like his incompetence may finally be taking a toll on his poll numbers but look how long -- and how many lives -- it has taken.

It doesn't matter what they think of the idiot chimp personally, they are still after the same goals.

One very good example of this is when 9-11 happened, not only was the US ready and waiting with your patriot act, but MANY other countries had similar bills all prepared and ready to enact. Canada passed a huge one far too soon after 9-11 for it to have been written after that event, bills like that are months or even longer in the making. But was that fact ever brought up or questioned by any of the "opposing" politicians or any of the "fair and balanced" media? Not likely. The opposition would have passed the very same bill had they been in power, and the media is the propaganda arm of the government.

Somehow I rely on the belief that other world leaders probably have some sort of moral compass.

More likely they're just looking out for themselves and their own narrow interests.

Because we have enough nuclear weapons to annihilate this whole world three times over. We are currently too strong for them to take us down, which is too bad because it is high time we went back to being a European colony. We did okay in the autonomous vein for a couple of hundred years but we've lost our way, our moral compass is broken.

lots of trouble

also what about blackmail a la J Edgar Hoover???

and promises of very cushy jobs at Carlyle etc ???? (Blair, Majors, etc)

they should be made on FACTS.

what an asshole

it's obvious he had no desire to speak to them.

Don't they know he is above that? Have some respect you dolts! Bush is in town! Bow down and sing his praises. If you don't know how go to freeperville and learn how it's done.


"Peace for the world, pretzels for Bush!" My favorite banner from the anti war days in Europe

They know he's hell bent on world domination they should premptively act in their own self defense.

prevents them to bust a little criminal king and his syco-ele-phants during his reign (illegal or not)?
:puke:

Maybe they have to wait until hi$ little idiotic tyrant-a$$ gets overthrown by his own defrauded "subjects" and see if the idiot can manage to escape abroad, somehow...

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than when his cartel kept his from knowing that the world hates him.

he also looks like Gene Wilder in p(r)ic #3

What an idiot. Oh my god....

it is called projection.

Little Lord Pissypants!

And that picture - what a creep. Looks like a two-year old ready to throw a tantrum.

What a surprise!

... which is why his cabinet is a bunch of lickspittles.

... whenever anyone dared to disagree with him. Good to see the shrub carrying on the old tradition of dictators.

Now excuse me a minute while I falsely conflate 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq for the nine-millionth time, which is what I do whenever anybody questions my infallibility. Sorry, no followups. Next!

Those were 'moments' for you, yet analagous to 9/11 for them. Yet they kept their thinking on the right track.

Your thinking never changed, you lying motherfucker. You wanted to go to Iraq before you took office. 9/11 was your (planned?) Reichstag Fire.

Fuck YOU, asswipe.

Munich 1972, Northern Ireland, UK during the 70s and 80s, other European cities suffering bombings from various terrorist organizations, hijakings, and so on...Noooo, Europe hasn't experienced terrorism?! *rolling eyes*

the press doesn't act like lapdogs. Also, for Bush and his minions, 9/11 became an opportunity to use politically, take the oil, and take away civil rights at home. That was not what 9/11 meant. I wish someone would tell him this.

I want to throw a Newspeak dictionary at him and yell "Swine!"

I go to an International School (I won't be in a week *sigh*) and there are a total of two people in the entire school who support Bush. Although these two are reasonable and generally likaeable people, it really shows you how much he's really disliked. There are children from about 50 different countries here (a lot of US kids, there's a few bases around) and he's really not well recieved at ALL. You mention Bush in a classroom and the Brazillian joke is told. It makes me shmile. But the joke is old and dead.