Question for non American's what is your perception of Bush and the US?

Question

As I talk to people here in Canada it seems almost univeral Bush is threatening the world and is destroying things left and right - yes there are some hard core Bush people but very few

What about the UK and other nations ?

Answer 1

Dutch living in Belgium here. First a lil annecdote to set the mood in Europe. My eight year old niece was taught in school Bush is bad,. She actually came to me with that statement. When I asked her why (lol, just trying to find out what it was about) they apperantly learned about the enviorement and Bush came up not in a positive way of course.
Most Europeans don't like Bush, I think it's about the same situation as what you tell about Canada.

My personal opinion is not typical in that I believe I have mlore background and am more aware of the reasons to dislike Bush. The Bush presidency is a total failure.
In his acceptance speech at the Republican convention in 2000 Bush said:when America goes to war the goal must be clear, the cause must be just and victory must be overwhelming.0 out of three if you ask me.He deliberately mislead people to believe he was going to be more isolationist claiming Clinton had stretched the military too far.That 9/11 changed everything might work for some uninformed conservatives but is easily debunked by the number and importance of the position he gave to PNAC members in his administration.An organization that stands for Imperialism which is the complete opposite as what he promised
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slmr024JYaA
http://zfacts.com/p/775.html
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100102_bush_advisors.html
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
Quotes "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our Number one priority and we will not rest until we find him!"
- President Bush, September 13, 2001
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- President Bush, March 13, 2002

In the Bush administration "the negation of truth is so systematic. Dishonest accounting, willful scientific illiteracy, bowdlerized federal fact sheets, payola paid to putative journalists, 'news' networks run by right-wing apparatchiks, think tanks devoted to propaganda rather than thought, the purging of intelligence gatherers and experts throughout the bureaucracy whose findings might refute the party line -- this is the machinery of mendacity...The point here is not the hypocrisy involved, though that is egregious. The point is the downgrading of truth and honesty from principles with universal meaning to partisan weapons to be sheathed or drawn as necessary. No wonder the Bush administration feels no compunction to honor the truth or seek it; it conceives truth as a tactic, valuable only insofar as it is useful against one's enemies.

Although European countries declared their solidarity with the United States after September 11, they were increasingly uncomfortable with Washington’s emphasis on unilateralist approaches to global problems. After President Bush took office in 2001, his administration upset many European leaders by refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, opposing the International Criminal Court, and killing the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. In October 2001, Washington was reluctant at first to use the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the campaign to oust the Taliban in Afghanistan. While taken aback by U.S. reluctance, NATO leaders and Europeans generally approved of the U.S.-led operation.

The CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora—intelligence operatives had tracked him—and could have been caught...
In his book—titled "Jawbreaker"—the decorated career CIA officer criticizes Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Department for not providing enough support to the CIA and the Pentagon's own Special Forces teams in the final hours of Tora Bora, says Berntsen's lawyer, Roy Krieger. (Berntsen would not divulge the book's specifics, saying he's awaiting CIA clearance.) That backs up other recent accounts, including that of military author Sean Naylor, who calls Tora Bora a "strategic disaster" because the Pentagon refused to deploy a cordon of conventional forces to cut off escaping Qaeda and Taliban members. Maj. Todd Vician, a Defense Department spokesman, says the problem at Tora Bora "was not necessarily just the number of troops."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/38192
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000688.htm

Not only France and Germany opposed the Iraq War. Even in countries where leaders supported the U.S. policy, a majority of Europeans opposed an invasion absent the backing of allies and the UN. Certainly, Europeans had an aversion to war because they experienced violent conflicts on their own soil within recent memory. Moreover, European countries were already trying to assist the United States in Afghanistan, where there was at least a connection between the attacks on the United States in 2001 and the subsequent military operation.
In the months leading up to the war and in the years since, the Bush administration has shown occasional callousness toward long-time European allies. The failure of intelligence and the troubled occupation of Iraq have only made these diplomatic problems worse.

Answer 2

He is one of the greatest men to ever live. I love my country and i want to see it succeed.

Answer 3

I Laugh at Canadians...that is your answer.