Posted on 06/17/2006 7:59:56 AM PDT by aculeus
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian right-wing populist Joerg Haider called President Bush a war criminal on Saturday, days before Austria's government hosts Bush and European leaders in Vienna.
Haider, whose group is part of Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's government coalition, said Bush's meeting with his European peers on Wednesday was pointless as he did not expect the U.S. president to pay attention to what Europe had to tell him.
``He is a war criminal. He brought about the war against Iraq deliberately, with lies and falsehoods,'' Haider said in an interview with Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse.
``The Iraqi population is suffering terribly. Bush took the risk of an enormous number of victims,'' said Haider.
Maverick Haider is a personal friend of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and visited Iraq's former President Saddam Hussein shortly before the U.S.-led invasion started in 2003.
Austria's attitude toward the United States has worsened over the last three years, Die Presse reported separately, citing a Eurobarometer poll.
The poll showed 62 percent thought the United States played a negative role for world peace, up from 56 percent in the same poll in 2003, Die Presse said, and 49 percent found the U.S. role in fighting terrorism negative.
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YAAAAWN. I love the argument, "We look bad to the rest of the world." they cannot say what should we do to look good to the so called rest of the world. The only way we will look good to the Europeans is to not respond militarily to attacks
Does 'euroweenie' mean the same thing in German?
European fascists still haven't forgiven us for opposing Hitler. Saddam hated Joos, so he was a hero to them.
From the country that gave the world Schickelgruber.
I'm curious to know what constitutes "right wing" on the European political spectrum.
We must not have dropped enought bombs on Austria during WWII.
Austria as in "Old Europe".
This from the same folks who gave us Hitler.
What's next from the NYT, that Queen of the City of fruity bars(san francisco) nancy pelosi hates President Bush also.
Austrian "right-wing populist" Joerg Haider gets his talking points from DU.
It's been a few days, somebody needed to say it. (sarc)
Enough said. The only one left off this list that is the same as Dan RaTHer's is Castro. Other than that, this sounds like the DNC talking points for the past few weeks.
"right-wing populist" = Nazi.
I wish these people would just do a fact check for once in their simple lives.
That does it, mate. .. no more Outback Steakhouse or vegamite for me!!!. . .
Fascists really, really hate Bush. No contradictions at all here.
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