Would it be unheard of for a foreign leader to say

[Bandit]

Our country will gladly work with A President Kerry but we have no intention of working with Bush* and his Cronies. Bush* has shown the world his total disregard for every other country and we will not oblige him but once new leadership is in place our doors are open. Would that be totally unheard of and never allowed to happen?

[Kierkegaard]

1. That's a good question.

I think there is some obvious hedging along those lines, it just isn't being expressed in so many words. I don't think there's any question that this sentiment is expressed loudly at street level all over the planet.

I figure Putin would be the likely one to throw it right in Scrub's face. He generally isn't shy about saying what he thinks, but has pulled up a bit short of actually saying it.

[kerryin2004]

2. It couldn't happen..

because you would piss off the USA, and if Bush gets elected, fucked up any ability to have relations, even commercial ones..I could see a mass boycott working, but lets face it, we buy alot of shit, and no country wants to lose the opportunity to get rich off us

[Bucky]

3. Unacceptable for one country to overturn another country's leadership

What do you think they are, Nazis? Stalinists? How in the hell can any civilized country just up and decide that they want to get rid of another country's president? They would have to have absolutely NO respect for international law or the sovereign rights of nations. Such a fanatical regime would represent the gravest threat to world peace.

And we would have to invade them after the elections.

[MazeRat7]

4. Bad political move on their part

Remember in the early stages of this campaign the flack about Kerry talking to some global leaders and how the right insisted he name names... but he would not.

He knew that if he had given names, there would have been some price or "pound of flesh" exacted by the current administration. That is even more true now, if other leaders were to public ally endorse Kerry and Bush ends up back in office, it would be a disaster for any relationship they have or wanted with the US.

These people are just plain mean, if you cross them they will fuck with you.

MZr7

[Nimrod]

5. They are justifiably wary of us

Our country has become the schoolyard bully while hiding behind a mask of righteousness.

Pretend America has limited weapons and limited millitary might. Now pretend another nation has gigantic stockpiles and had shown perfect willingness to invade, conquer, kill and occupy with no just cause and no thought to the welfare of its own citizenry. Even if this foreign nation didn't outright invade, it could send us straight into a depression with dirty economics and the amount of sway it holds over our neighboring nations who are scared of the same things we are. Think that it would basically take the combined might of the democratic world to throw these despots down, because they'd happily butcher billions of people (including - nay ESPECIALLY their own)rather than surrender to an invading power.

Would YOU make a lot of noise against these people?