Global hatred of Bush "rather astonishing"

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 23 22:37:44 PST 2003


Bush Faces Increasingly Poor Image Overseas

By Glenn Kessler and Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, February 24, 2003

The messages from U.S. embassies around the globe have become urgent and disturbing: Many people in the world increasingly think President Bush is a greater threat to world peace than Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

U.S. embassies are the eyes and ears of the U.S. government overseas, and their reports from the field are closely read at the State Department. The antiwar protests by millions of people last week in the cities of major U.S. allies underscored a theme that the classified cables by U.S. embassies had been reporting for weeks.

"It is rather astonishing," said a senior U.S. official who has access to the reports. "There is an absence of any recognition that Hussein is the problem." One ambassador, who represents the United States in an allied nation, bluntly cabled that in that country, Bush has become the enemy. ...

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55326-2003Feb23?language=printer>

Carl

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