60% of Brits think Bush is Threat To World Peace

[emad]

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George Bush says he is ready for the hostility he will encounter this week from Britain’s anti-war protesters. He may not be quite so prepared for the animosity across the nation’s living rooms.
The president’s poll ratings have fallen at home and they are close to rock bottom in Britain, a Sunday Times-YouGov poll of nearly 2,000 people shows. Asked which characteristics they most associated with him, 60% said he was a danger to world peace, 37% said “stupid” and 33% said “incoherent”.

Only a minority saw positive characteristics in Bush, with just 7% regarding him as a good world leader, 6% as articulate and 10% as intelligent. The omens are not good for the first president to come to Britain on a state visit since Woodrow Wilson in 1918.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2766-895529,00.html

[onebigbadwulf]

1. I want to know...

what are the other 40% smoking? They have don't have the ignorance excuse like Americans because they have a BBC.

[Maudlin]

2. I am worried about the

rising tide of anti-caucasianism in Europe.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. I don't think there is a

rising tide of anti-caucasianism , I see more a tide of anti-Stupidoism . Which there was one in America . ( rise of anti-Stupidoism that is . )

Just curious to know why you think there is a rise tide of anti-caucasianism

Good morning everyone btw . :hi:

[hussar]

4. Britain does have its share of assholes

just read some of the comments concerning *'s visit to the UK on the BBC news website

Morning

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

5. Yeah I read the comments from the BBC News website too .

I wonder what they would say if he were their PM ? ( prime - mf ... okay you get the point .) I was listening to the British Arms Forces Radio ( sometimes I need to hear some English ) and a woman made a comment along the lines saying " I think its great that Mr.Bush is coming to meet with the families of British soldiers who have died during the war . Now we can see what compassion he has and his explanation of the war . " ( barf ) Frankly this woman is a part of the other 40% of the UK who think that Dubya's trip is cool . I wish I could be a fly on the wall during the meeting that Bush will have with the families . Knowing the administrations , it will only be families with pro-War stances .

[hussar]

6. He won't be meeting all the soldiers families

as there are some that are liable to punch him, I can't find the article on the Beeb but there was a father of one of the soldiers killed who really wanted to meet * and tell him to his face what he thought of him.

BFBS? how do you get that? I'm an ex Brit and ex soldier too.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. BFBS I meant .

I am near Hannover ( or Hanover ) Germany and one day while playing the radio attenna I picked up BFBS and it has stayed on the dial ever since . I think there are some British Military bases nearby .

As for the families - I know Bush will not be meeting them all - he would not make out of there alive . Of course they have been screened . I remember back in September or so when their was a memorial service in London attended by members of the Royal Family and Tony Blair - and some family members did not want Blair there . I wonder how he felt , being in a room with people who want to punch him .

[hussar]

9. I was stationed in Detmold 1976-1979

n/t

[emad]

8. Here's the link about what soldiers' families think:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3271003.stm

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.... the father of the youngest UK soldier killed in Iraq said Mr Bush and Mr Blair did not care about the deaths of British troops.

Andrew Kelly,18, from Tavistock, in Devon, died in a shooting accident near his barracks in the southern city of Basra on 6 May.

His father Robert, from Saltash, in Cornwall, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had not been invited to meet Mr Bush, and did not want to meet him.

"For these people to meet families, it is only for their own gain," he said.

"What does George Bush care about our families and my family? He doesn't care."

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[hussar]

10. That's the one, thanks

[Maudlin]

11. Bad joke, really

I don't think there's any such thing, but when a poll came out stating a chunk of Europeans thought the same thing about Israel's policies, it was blamed on anti-semitism.

Anyhoo, different issue, so ignore me :)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

12. I still can't believe that this will be

the first state visit by an American President since Woodrow Wilson ?!?!? Something is still fishy about this visit - all the crap Bush has done , they are rolling out the red carpet ( covered in blood of course ) for him . This is just going to make Tony Blair look even sicker / worse /f-d than he looks now .

[emad]

13. It's a sting!

He has some pertinent questions to answer in the UK. Like trying to suborn witnesses who are testifying before the UK High Court in January 2004 in the BCCI class action where some 2000 bankrupted creditors are suing the Bank of England.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

14. If this is really a sting

I think that there is something else is to this visit as well . Hmmm .

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Brother Bush is going over to have a big GOP revival meetin'!

Brother Shrub will try and save a few heathen librals in the UK I reckon! Sleep easy boys, Commander Bush is Preying as I type! Lizzzz might be paying $2,000 dollars a plate in her own house the way Bush begs and panhandles lately! If Bush isn't bumming cash he's somewhere on vacation bumming some more! Shrub is plundering and pillaging for the Lawd every day wherever he goes on vacation!

To be a conservative like Bush you'd need an endless supply of quick cash to spend on vacations and campaigning!(photo ops)

If I were the Queen I'd tighten security around the Crown Jewels and the silverware! Brother Bush will no doubt pass the collection plate several times before and after each photo op!

In honor of the 'Bummer in Chief', I hope the Good people of London will salute Bush everywhere he goes by presenting their Backside!

Let's make this the Year of the BUM! The last year of the BUM!

Englanders, I feel your pain!