US is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country’s reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq. In Britain 71% of voters now say the Iraqi invasion was unjustified, a view shared by 89% of Mexicans and 73% of Canadians. The US leader and close ally of Tony Blair is seen in Britain as a more dangerous man than the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (62% think he is a danger), the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il (69%) and the leader of Hizbullah, Hassan Nasrallah (65%). Only 10% of British voters think that Mr Bush poses no danger at all… [more on the guardian]
3 November 2006
bloody hit parade: bush still 2nd, the show must go on…
albania, where anticorruption is freedom
«the concept of the freedom as a guaranteed justice by independent institutions is an evidence against the organic statement of the (albanian) government’s anti corruption strategy. the more this anti corruption strategy threatens the independence of the institutions the less it fights the corruption because it is common knowledge that the justice is achieved through system of the institutions and not by one party or one leader. the liberators become invaders of the freedom as long as the freedom is not controlled by the institutions but it is a prerogative of one party and one leader» [more...]
