Posted on 11/09/2006 3:36:17 AM PST by Moose Dung
Politicians, analysts and ordinary citizens across much of the world welcomed the electoral rebuke given President Bush's Republican Party and the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Wednesday.
Against the broad mood of satisfaction, however, there were voices of concern that a power split between Democrats and Republicans in Washington might mean uncertainty in crucial areas like global trade talks.
On Iraq, some worried that Democrats could force a too-rapid retreat, leaving the country and the region in chaos. Others said they doubted the congressional turnover would have a dramatic impact on Iraq policy any time soon, largely because the Democrats have yet to define the course they want to take.
But from Paris to Pakistan, a repeated theme was hope that the Democratic takeover of the House and Senate would force Bush to adopt a more conciliatory approach to global crises, and teach a president many see as a "cowboy" a lesson in humility.
"Americans are realizing that you can't found the politics of a country on patriotic passion and reflexes," said French schoolteacher Jean-Pierre Charpemtrat.
"You can't fool everybody all the time — and I think that's what Bush and his administration are learning today."
Italian Premier Romano Prodi said Rumsfeld's surprise resignation underscored the depth of what has happened in America.
"Even though U.S. politics had already started changing, Rumsfeld's resignation means an accentuation of this change," Prodi said. "We'll see over the next few days what the new direction will be. But certainly we have a political structure ... deeply different from that of a few days ago."
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- - - - - In an extraordinary joint statement, more than 200 Socialist members of the European Parliament hailed the American election results as "the beginning of the end of a six-year nightmare for the world."
- - - - - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has consistently railed against the Bush administration, called the election "a reprisal vote."
- - - - - In Nicaragua, president-elect Daniel Ortega told thousands of cheering supporters during his victory speech that the GOP lost because "Republicans always want to be at war, and that has been rejected."
- - - - - Passions were even higher in Pakistan, where Bush is deeply unpopular despite billions in aid and support for President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. One opposition lawmaker, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, said he welcomed the election result, but was hoping for more. Bush "deserves to be removed, put on trial and given a Saddam-like death sentence," he said.
- - - - - "The problem for Arabs now is, an American withdrawal (from Iraq) could be a security disaster for the entire region," said Mustafa Alani, an Iraqi analyst for the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. He said the Middle East could be left to cope with a disintegrating Iraq mired in civil war, with refugees fleeing a failed state that could become an incubator for terrorism.
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As we've always known, the rats are loved by dictators and socialist elites.
dung.
Well, anti-American muzzies, be careful what you wish for -- you just got it!
Pure idiocy! Bush is a very straigt talker who never claimed Iraq would be easy.
The real irony of this story was that the only quotes the AP could come up with were from socialists, dictators, and terrorists...you know, the average man on the street!!
Thank the Lord the MSM is dying!
dung.
This AP writer, Paul Haven, is an America hater of the worst kind. His article, quoting some of the world's scummiest commies, is supposed to tell us that we are so hated throughout the world that now, we will be loved and embraced by Osama, the French, Hugo Chavez, Fidel and little Danny Ortega. Paul, you seem to think we give a rat's patootie what the world (your world, not mine) thinks of this election. I love the part where we are lectured by some obscure Frenchman. Way to go, I just want to know who is behind your campaign to destroy Iraqi freedoms? Soros or the ACLU or perhaps, the U.N.
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