Europe to Bush: Go away

[Kadie]

Europe to Bush: Go away
Even British prefer Kerry for president

Vivienne Walt, Chronicle Foreign Service
Monday, September 27, 2004



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Paris -- "Why Bush must be beaten," screamed the headline of Le Nouvel Observateur, a left-leaning French newsweekly. Smaller type above the U.S. president's half profile provided the answer: "His re-election will be a catastrophe for the world and for America."

That sentiment may have been expressed more bluntly than the opinions of many Europeans, yet it captured the passions on this continent over who will occupy the White House come January.

Poised halfway between the political wrangling in Washington over the war in Iraq and the suicide bombs and kidnappings in Baghdad, Europeans have rarely felt so involved in a U.S. presidential race.

Many Europeans, analysts and regular citizens alike, argue that their own security is increasingly at risk, while violence spirals in Iraq and anti- Western hostility hardens in Europe's backyard -- the Arab world.

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"Americans will choose their president, and the rest of the world will have to live with that decision," said Bernhard May, a senior analyst at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. "All we can do is talk to people."


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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/27/MNGSK8VLDC1.DTL

[demnan]

1. Too bad we haven't gotten a mass immigration

of people who come just to vote against Bush.

[LisaL]

2. Hmm.

You can't vote unless you are a citizen, and that takes about 5 years after immigration. That would mean all those Europeans would be psychic and started their immigration before Bush was even "selected".
LOL.

[npincus]

3. I wish foreign leaders had BALLS

to endorse a Kerry win publicly... and to hell with repercussions, we need them now more than they need us.