Sarkozy: French press should taken a lesson from Judith Miller

Oh, the French are as crabby toward us as ever, and how Spain feels about us is as irrelevant as ever.

 

The shopkeepers? I'm sure. The government? Absolutely not.

 

Tell you what, get back to me as soon as any other country starts participating to the extent England did. Otherwise, mere incremental slop to make the superpower ally a little happier.

 

Just sayin

 

It's not sayin' much, though. These supposed Bush-leaning new governments haven't leaned far enough to actually do anything in terms of sending troops.

 

And I think you're way off base in estimating the United States importance in overseas elections. There is still very little goodwill towards the current presidency from foreign nations.

The main reason foreign leaders come to the U.S., like Sarkozy or Gordon Brown of Britain, is so the countries people can feel they are still important in the world, and have a strong relationship and the ear of the western superpower.

As Brown said after meeting all three presidential candidates last month: "I am confident that having talked to the three candidates the special relationship between our countries is strong and secure and valued by them."

It's all about maintaining the image of being important on the world stage to the people back home.

 

You're probably right about Brown. Merkel, Sarkozy & the spainish guy I think all legitimately like & respect him & the ideas behind (if not the execution of) the war.

 

You mean this Sarkozy?

 

That's just breathtaking in its stupidity. What possible evidence do you have to prove that France and Germany voted in these leaders as a referendum on Bush, as opposed to other issues that are more germane to those countries' domestic affairs? And while Sarkozy and Merkel are less hostile to Bush than Chirac and Schroeder were, Brown is far less cozy with Bush than Blair was. And Zapatero's the same Socialist whose election was cited by ass-clown conservatives as Exhibit A of Spanish cowardice (never mind that Bush's ally Aznar tried to blame the 3/11/04 attacks on ETA rather than al-Qaeda).

 

Merkel gets excited when Bush touches her.

 

Yup.

 

Take a deep breath Boomer. We had this conversation already, read it.