Friday, October 15, 2004
Poll reveals eight out of ten countries favour Kerry for President.
The results show that in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, Spain and South Korea a majority of voters share a rejection of the Iraq invasion, contempt for the Bush administration, a growing hostility to the US and a not-too-strong endorsement of Mr Kerry. But they all make a clear distinction between this kind of anti-Americanism and expressing a dislike of American people. On average 68% of those polled say they have a favourable opinion of Americans.
Tony Blair suggests that we should all stop talking about Iraq (and the small matter of how he and his mate George have fucked it up mightily) and talk about things like African poverty, climate change and a more effective UN.
A new BBC three-part series starting next wednesday claims that the threat to us of global terrorism is vastly overrated and more a new outbreak of American 'reds under the bed' style paranoia or similar bursts of fear in this country directed towards a specific subsection of the community such as the Spanish, Irish or Jewish over our longer history. Even dirty bombs are a myth, such devices, even if they could be made, would be unlikely to deliver enough radiation to poison one person.
Of course, such terror-debunking is quite rich coming from the BBC, which has in the last year turned crisis management into a game show...
The results show that in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, Spain and South Korea a majority of voters share a rejection of the Iraq invasion, contempt for the Bush administration, a growing hostility to the US and a not-too-strong endorsement of Mr Kerry. But they all make a clear distinction between this kind of anti-Americanism and expressing a dislike of American people. On average 68% of those polled say they have a favourable opinion of Americans.
Tony Blair suggests that we should all stop talking about Iraq (and the small matter of how he and his mate George have fucked it up mightily) and talk about things like African poverty, climate change and a more effective UN.
A new BBC three-part series starting next wednesday claims that the threat to us of global terrorism is vastly overrated and more a new outbreak of American 'reds under the bed' style paranoia or similar bursts of fear in this country directed towards a specific subsection of the community such as the Spanish, Irish or Jewish over our longer history. Even dirty bombs are a myth, such devices, even if they could be made, would be unlikely to deliver enough radiation to poison one person.
Of course, such terror-debunking is quite rich coming from the BBC, which has in the last year turned crisis management into a game show...
