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seaeagle
Joined: Aug 31, 2004
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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 Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: Aussies lose confidence in the US and George W. Bush |
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Aussies lose confidence in the US and George W. Bush | NEWS.com.au
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* Survey finds Aussie confidence in US has plummeted
* Almost 75 per cent say war on terror makes us target
* Most say Bush is the factor they dislike the most
AUSTRALIANS have suffered a dramatic loss of confidence in the ability of the US to manage international affairs amid growing dissatisfaction with President George W. Bush and his conduct of the Iraq war.
The first survey of attitudes by a centre set up by the Howard Government to improve relations between Australia and the US has found a significant deterioration in the way Australians feel towards the US.
That level of confidence has almost halved in just six years - from 66 per cent in 2001 to 37 per cent today, coinciding with the Iraq war.
And almost three-quarters said Australia's involvement in the war on terror had made it a terrorist target, a view at odds with that asserted by John Howard. |
I'm sure that Australia isn't the only nation that has been turned off by the Bush administration's inept handling of international affairs & the resultant increased dangers to our safety and security. |
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mommabear
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| Most of the world is sitting back and just waiting for Jan 2009...as most of us here in the US. There will be a sigh of relief heard 'round the world.
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al bundy
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: Re: Aussies lose confidence in the US and George W. Bush [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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whoop tee do
only the left and the media who keep portraying us as the bad guys care. let's keep telling the world were torturers and racist and every other bad thing you can think of and then complain about it when you get the desired results you set out to get. the left keeps telling us they are going to get the rest of the world to love us again.well i don't believe they ever did. how much is this going to cost the united states and what promises will the left make to our so called allies and our known enemies to get this love back. |
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tony7914
Joined: Dec 24, 2004
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Location: Peru Indiana
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Aussies lose confidence in the US and George W. Bush [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| seaeagle wrote: |
Aussies lose confidence in the US and George W. Bush | NEWS.com.au
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* Survey finds Aussie confidence in US has plummeted
* Almost 75 per cent say war on terror makes us target
* Most say Bush is the factor they dislike the most
AUSTRALIANS have suffered a dramatic loss of confidence in the ability of the US to manage international affairs amid growing dissatisfaction with President George W. Bush and his conduct of the Iraq war.
The first survey of attitudes by a centre set up by the Howard Government to improve relations between Australia and the US has found a significant deterioration in the way Australians feel towards the US.
That level of confidence has almost halved in just six years - from 66 per cent in 2001 to 37 per cent today, coinciding with the Iraq war.
And almost three-quarters said Australia's involvement in the war on terror had made it a terrorist target, a view at odds with that asserted by John Howard. |
I'm sure that Australia isn't the only nation that has been turned off by the Bush administration's inept handling of international affairs & the resultant increased dangers to our safety and security. |
OMG!!!!!! It will never be the same in the USA without Australia's aproval!!! 
Bush may not have handled everything perfectly but at least he did something as opposed to your nation and Europe's decision to sit on their hands and take casualties while "ignoring" the problem.
Australia has always had the right to walk away from things any time it choose to as had any other country involved in things. To be honest we don't need your help any more than we need Europe's interference, you dropped the ball a long time ago so step aside and let us do what we have to do.
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| Bush administration's inept handling of international affairs & the resultant increased dangers to our safety and security.... |
Talk about self centered.......What about the thousands of AMERICANS who have been killed through out the world over the last 3 decades or so? Oh! that's right! It was our fault that things like that happened in the first place right? So we should just take it and not say a word as we deserve it right?
I have a two word response to that idea if you want to hear it.
No one is asking Australia or any other country to do anything nor do we require your aproval or permision to do as we see fit.
@MB
The left does not have an iron clad majority, in fact it is very slim and divided, you folks would do well to remember what it was that cost you power the first time because we have not forgoten as the right is learning now.
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seaeagle
Joined: Aug 31, 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: Aussies lose confidence in the US and George W. Bush [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| Bush may not have handled everything perfectly but at least he did something as opposed to your nation and Europe's decision to sit on their hands and take casualties while "ignoring" the problem. |
How have sat our hands? We were possibly the first nation into Iraq, with Special Forces destroying/sabotaging Iraqi installations on the ground well before the main invasion. And we still have forces in Iraq today.
My country is on the front-line of the "War Against Terror", providing vital intelligence on activities in South-East Asia through shared US-Australian defence facilities such as Pine Gap. |
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tony7914
Joined: Dec 24, 2004
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Location: Peru Indiana
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: Re: Aussies lose confidence in the US and George W. Bush [Login to view extended thread Info.] |
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| seaeagle wrote: |
| tony7914 wrote: |
| Bush may not have handled everything perfectly but at least he did something as opposed to your nation and Europe's decision to sit on their hands and take casualties while "ignoring" the problem. |
How have sat our hands? We were possibly the first nation into Iraq, with Special Forces destroying/sabotaging Iraqi installations on the ground well before the main invasion. And we still have forces in Iraq today.
My country is on the front-line of the "War Against Terror", providing vital intelligence on activities in South-East Asia through shared US-Australian defence facilities such as Pine Gap. |
Yea? Where were you folks when my buddies got blown to hell in Germany??? Where was that "Vital intelligence" that night? You think this started on 9/11?? It's been going on for decades. Spare me your indignation ok, no one is twisting your nations arm, you don't have to be there if you don't want to be. |
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