Im sure that the majorty of the English peoples hate our leader.but to our friends across the pond " most here arent following the bastard"
Posted by PABLO at June 3, 2006 11:40 AMA nice picture of America being sold out by its politicans and Big Business. Throw in a dash of Special Interests. Bammm! Looks like the recipe for disaster has been made and Americans are going to get a surprise slice of bad 'ol times.
Thanks pessimist.
Posted by Jimi at June 3, 2006 12:51 PMAll these things could result in the "Perfect Storm" for the US economy. If the Euro were to replace the US Dollar as the world currency the results would be disastrous. The dollar would tank, interest rates would soar and inflation would be out of control. The stock market would get destroyed and the US economy would screech to a halt.
Even this Bush hater doesn’t like to think about that scenario
I heard Saddam was thinking of going to the Euro and that's the real reason we invaded. And now Iran.
Funny, how the 'puke philosophy is supposedly to be independent, and deny that the government or society helped the "self-made man." We don't appear all that independent after all.
When I began travelling the world in 1957 the US passport was the safest one to have, apart from in a couple or three banana-growing countries. The US was known to be generous and benign, and the Americans seen out touring the world to be ingenuous perhaps but overwhelmingly friendly and generous. A US passport is now the most dangerous one to have, by far. It is not even very popular in Europe and Australia! Work it out. The rot set in in 1967 and accelerated dramatically in 1973 when the US was seen to give one-eyed uneven-handed support to a country led by a succession of terorists and war criminals against the indigenous residents. There are large numbers of Americans who believe that country conned BushCo into invading Iraq. Look carefully who planned it and took the idea for the invasion to BushCo. Look carefully who are in a great number of positions surrounding Bush and Cheney, continuing to support that invasion and are now pressing for the same thing in Iran. the bottom line is that we live on trading and progressively alienating ever more potential trqading partners, especially oil suppliers just is not clever.
My nephew, who just graduated from college, is taking a bicycle tour of Europe, then ending up in Israel. I told him to use his spanish, or say he was from Canada. Actually, I am not very happy that he is going at this particular time. I wonder if crimes against American tourists have increased in the last six years in foreign countries.
Posted by Judith at June 3, 2006 09:04 PMIs it due to miscalculation or simply a blind denial of reality? The National Socialists swept into power by subverting the political processes of a representative republic, however feeble it may have been, and confidently pronounced the beginning of a "Thousand year Reich" which lasted for about 12 years.
The "radial liberals" of the 60s sat at the feet of their guru Strauss who seemed to believe he was a modern day reincarnation of Prince Machiavelli and became the radical "new conservatives".
Their Mein Kampf, Rebuilding America's Defenses proudly planned for the next century of American dominance of the world stage. Reality has begun to bite them hard in only five ugly years. Let's hope the end game will be a little kinder to the unfortunate host country.
Posted by DeminNewJ at June 4, 2006 03:22 AM