On 3 Jul 2006 01:42:02 -0700, "Atish" <atishparus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Britons see US as vulgar empire builder
>By Ben Fenton
>(Filed: 03/07/2006)
>
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=EMVIUOBNCQ12PQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2006/07/03/nyank03.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/07/03/ixuknews.html
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>
>Britons have never had such a low opinion of the leader****p of the
>United States, a YouGov poll shows.
If you want to change the US political personality, don't
bother telling people that they should alter it because other people
won't like them if they don't - especially if those other people are
Europeans.
>
>As Americans prepare to celebrate the 230th anniversary of their
>independence tomorrow, the poll found that only 12 per cent of Britons
>trust them to act wisely on the global stage. This is half the number
>who had faith in the Vietnam-scarred White House of 1975.
>
>Most Britons see America as a cruel, vulgar, arrogant society, riven by
>class and racism, crime-ridden, obsessed with money and led by an
>incompetent hypocrite.
>
>American troops are failing either to win "hearts and minds" in Iraq or
>bring democracy to that country.
>
>More than two-thirds who offered an opinion said America is essentially
>an imperial power seeking world domination. And 81 per cent of those
>who took a view said President George W Bush hypocritically championed
>democracy as a cover for the pursuit of American self-interests.
>
>A spokesman for the American embassy said that the poll's findings were
>contradicted by its own surveys.
>
>"We question the judgment of anyone who asserts the world would be a
>better place with Saddam still terrorizing his own nation and
>threatening people well beyond Iraq's borders.
>
>"With respect to the poll's assertions about American society, we bear
>some of the blame for not successfully communicating America's
>extraordinary dynamism.
>
>"But frankly, so do you [the British press]."
>
>30 June 2006: Bush's claim to unfettered power is curbed
>17 March 2006: Rice doctrine advocates 'soft power' to defend US
>23 August 2005: Venezuela vows to help Castro repel US 'lord of war'
>
>Leader: Hate America, hate mankind
>Britain falls out of love with America
>We don't care, say townsfolk
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