Bush shows Old Europe a new face of caring and sharing

The Times June 22, 2006

From Charles Bremner in Vienna

PRESIDENT BUSH sought to repair his tattered reputation in Europe yesterday, talking of his “deep desire” to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and conceding that his response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks had not been understood by much of the continent.

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About 1,200 people demonstrated against Mr Bush’s visit, but the President adopted a conciliatory approach at odds with the more defiant tone of his first administration.

A poll published by he Pew Research Centre in the US last week suggested that a record majority of Europeans held a negative view of the US. A Harris poll this week suggested that most Europeans considered the US a bigger threat to world peace than Iran, North Korea or China.

“I think that it is absurd for people to think that we are more dangerous than Iran,” Mr Bush replied, when that figure was quoted to him at a news conference in the glittering ballroom of the former imperial Hofburg Palace. “We are a transparent democracy that debates things in the open,” he said.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2236941,00.html

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He seems to wear the stupid one most often.

Our government has come a long way from the days where we used to fight fascism and tyranny. Now our government embraces it.

Of course the the Bubble Boy Wonder is shocked. He hasn't a clue about much of anything.

Wrongo mutherfucker!

They, like we, have your fucking number and understand very well what you are doing.

Nice try asshole!

Doesn't he make you sick? The "continent doesn't understand him" and "9/11, 9/11, 9/11!" ad nauseum!

We are a "transparent Democracy?" hahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!! LIAR!:thumbsdown:

one judges character (intent, motives, etc) principally by the more-physical acts, not speech.

Judging by these acts, and comparing them to the proffered speech, w is an amoral, manipulative, hypocritical piece-of-shit.

Be-heading bad, phosphorus bombs good. Hows that for some good old Maine reasoning?