World Reacts
Published November 03, 2004
Now it appears as if he is winning very convincingly. To me, I think we are going to see more dictatorship on an international scale. We are going to see more extremism come out of there.
We are going to see even more isolationism where America will not bother about the United Nations. To me that is a very sad affair.
CNN:
- Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen appealed for "a fresh start for the trans-Atlantic partnership" but held firm with Bush on Iraq. Denmark has 501 troops in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra.
"We will stay there as long as needed so the Iraqis can be helped to become masters in their own homes," he said.
Sweden's Prime Minister Goeran Persson said the close vote "was not unexpected.... But it was a divided nation that went to the polls."
"It is an incumbent president in a situation where a great part of the nation experiences that it is in war with terrorism," Persson said. "The economy is moving in the right direction. These two issues together should have given Bush a clear victory. Despite this, it was very narrow. This shows that the U.S. is divided."
And this on Germany from CNN Berlin correspondent:
- No matter who wins the U.S. presidential election, Germany will pursue close relations with the United States despite strains over Iraq; though don't expect Berlin to send any troops to the conflict, German Interior Minister Otto Schily said Wednesday morning.
The presence of Schily and other German politicians in the audience at a panel discussion hosted by U.S. Ambassador Daniel Coats as election results rolled in was a strong indication the German political community sought to patch up ties with Washington, regardless of who takes the White House.
....Asked about Defense Minister Peter Struck's recent comment that Germany could eventually become "involved" in Iraq, Schily noted that Struck also said it depended on "what we can afford." Schily reiterated his government's position that Germany is training Iraqi forces and could help relieve U.S. troops in Afghanistan and the Balkans, where German troops are already stationed, to allow U.S. forces to better concentrate on stabilizing Iraq.
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None of these articles could be true, Eric, because it is well known that Americans don't know about countries outside their own borders, and only read in English. [/sarcasm]
lol, thanks SKI. I needed that laugh.
I'm going to go cry more now..
Though I do appreciate these exerts..they're more positive that I Fing feel.
From my perspective outside the USA, I don't feel comfortable crossing border because your government doesn't recognize my rights and international rule of law, and that erosion of rights and liberties is only going to increase.
At least I'm thankful I have a choice not to go there, but have the rest of the world.
Which of course, proves my point the USA has become a hostile, ugly neighborhood in decline without much to offer the rest of the world.
And RJ is the guy on the corner with a brown-bag yelling at people he doesn't recognize: "I'm the mayor of this here corner, gimme respect!"
JIm, you can visit anytime. The US is quite hospitable unless you look like a terrorist
::Which of course, proves my point the USA has become a hostile, ugly neighborhood in decline without much to offer the rest of the world.::
Whoo boy, and ppl say we're the rude & ugly ones.
I'd actually prefer he didn't come visit. We have enough ppl leeching off our government, when americans need help, as it is.
Pandora, what does a foreigner visiting our country have to do with people leeching off of our government?
The point I was trying to make was the USA has become a less attractive place to plan to travel to, ie, I don't want to go there, don't need to go there, and will probably have no reason to do business in the States anymore than I would in Argentina or Russia.
The USA has become a more risky place which doesn't respect or uphold the rights of citizens from other places.
Hell, it doesn't respect or uphold the rights of many of its own citizens!
Jim, trust me, you don't want to come here. Many of us don't want to *be* here.
Jc & Nat,
Feel free to act on your desires. If you do not want to visit this country or if you harbor a wish to leave, then act upon that wish. I know this may come as a shock to you both but noone else gives a rusty fuck what you choose to do. I have a feeling that you both would rather whine or play the part of a malcontent rather than do something that positive.
If it weren't for the pot, I doubt anyone would travel to Canada.
GW
"Jim, trust me, you don't want to come here. Many of us don't want to *be* here."
Then...GO!
i am really starting to think that this gee dubs could really be bush himself.
it seems he can spew venom but can not take a spewing.
i think he is kind of funny. an obvious closet case..but a funny one at that.
jack e. jett
RJ
Where's all that non-partisan healing huh?
Jim, you are indeed welcome to come and visit, just ignore the drooling hillbilly fundamentalists - like the rest of us do.
yup..you surely did ignore them...and they snuck in and stole a presidency right out from under your nose!
I don't think individuals given the right to vote under our constitution "stole" anything - they were just misinformed. It happens, I mean hell Nixon won - twice - so there you go.
We'll live - and further more, your pathetic goading is about as mature as taunting a mentally handicapped person.
Unless of course, you are handicapped? Are you handicapped? My apologies andy.
Since the US dollar is sinking, since the US administration endorses torture and does not recognize the rule of law, due process or international agreements, since most of your boroughs, counties and other municipalities are ridden with violence, overseen by corrupt and incompetent administration, since most of your populace are mere rude mobbs with no culture or attraction. since our populace is poor, ignorant, violent and disease ridden. Therefore, I choose to go to more attractive places.
I'd be better off traveling to some place which has at least a record of improving instead of corruption, destruction and decline.
I've seen the USA, it looks just like downtown Detroit.
Since the US dollar is sinking, since the US administration endorses torture and does not recognize the rule of law, due process or international agreements, since most of your boroughs, counties and other municipalities are ridden with violence, overseen by corrupt and incompetent administration, since most of your populace are mere rude mobbs with no culture or attraction. since your populace is poor, ignorant, violent and disease ridden. Therefore, I choose to go to more attractive places.
I'd be better off traveling to some place which has at least a record of improving instead of corruption, destruction and decline.
I've seen the USA, it looks just like downtown Detroit.
I am handicapped dawn...I'm one of those ugly 'murricans that Jim likes to talk about so much...and your pathetic whining isn't much more mature.
It is a shame that all anyone remembers about Nixon is watergate...I mean, he did get this country out of vietnam...but hey...that was nothing.
Wow.
All of those 'kind words' from world leaders...
Not surprising, since they fear the Crazed Cowboy might invade them next.
Wait... do any of those countries have oil?
Olay, they've got lots of oil. And they're getting more than market price for it. So, Shrub, you need to invade Olay, and their neighbour, Olive. It's all over there in Whateverstan, that part of the map which is, well, whatever. It's not far from Iraq, just take a left at Alberque.
"i think he is kind of funny. an obvious closet case..but a funny one at that." [empahsis mine]
LOL...
"your pathetic goading is about as mature as taunting a mentally handicapped person."
I agree that many Democrats are mentally-disabled.
Good analogy! :-D
"I've seen the USA, it looks just like downtown Detroit."
Why...that's almost a racist statement! ;-D
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