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President George W Bush told Europeans yesterday it was "absurd" to regard the United States as the greatest threat to world peace, as he concluded an EU-US summit overshadowed by disputes on Guantanamo Bay and trans-Atlantic trade barriers. A visibly annoyed Mr Bush was responding to a journalist's question about opinion polls, asking why most Europeans believe the United States is a greater menace than Iran or North Korea. President Bush at the summit: 'I'd like to end Guantanamo' "It's absurd, is my statement," Mr Bush snapped, taking the microphone ahead of the president of the European Commission in his...