The Other Transatlantic Partnership

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Canada and the EU have a lot in common these days. In addition to being among the strongest proponents of multilateralism, they're both working to revive ties with a deeply unpopular US administration.

On his first official visit to Canada this week, US President George W. Bush may have tried his darndest to give cross-border relations a fresh start. But by most accounts, he got a pretty frosty reception -- and not just because of the winter weather.

"I'm the kind of fella who does what I think is right and will continue to do what I think is right," Bush said.

It wasn't the sort of message many in Canada -- or the EU, for that matter -- were expecting from a second-term president reputed to be eager to win back traditional allies.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1415363,00.html

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1. WTF has happened here?

How can we have another 4 years of this anti-world/reality, unilaterist, war mongering facsist???

:grr:

:argh:

[AndyTiedye]

3. Because No Matter How Many Vote Against *, He Still "Wins"

     We Make Democracy DIE

[Inland]

2. Notice how Bush used trip for his message to domestic groups

that he isn't going to let them furreners change a single thing he is doing.

How clearer can a president make his distaste for diplomacy? How disgusted the candadians must be, to have to watch Bush preen for his anti foreigner, know nothing dopes in the US.

[gula]

4. Where did this come from?

"were expecting from a second-term president reputed to be eager to win back traditional allies."

I don't think he gives a flying fig about anybody. All he wants his traditional allies to do is put Humpty Dumpty back together again so that he is free to move on to fresh killing fields. He is utterly despicable.

[CHIMO]

5. The Other Transatlantic Partnership

Shortly after his re-election victory, Bush also made overtures toward Europe aimed at smoothing tensions raised by such matters as his refusal to back the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court, and which came to a head over the Iraq war, which the majority of EU governments opposed.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1415363,00.html

When Bush acknowledged his election win he seemed to indicate that his second term would be more accommodating to other countries issues. I guess that they were hoping. However, it appears that his statements in Canada are indicating that it is the same old, same old.

Where does this come from? Well it comes from DW .
The bodies of DW are the Broadcasting Board, the Administrative Board and the Director-General – according to the 1997 "Deutsche Welle law"

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,1595,3326,00.html

[gula]

6. I was being sarcastic

Obviously not very successfully. It was the * being EAGER to rebuild alliances that got to me.

[CHIMO]

7. Au Contraire

I thought that you realized that they were playing on some peoples hopes, while they were creating reality.