Bush facing hard sell in Asia

[dArKeR]

Many in region view United States unfavorably

There’s really only one thing President Bush can expect as he travels through Asia seeking support for his policies: a hard sell in a region where growing numbers of people are deeply suspicious of the United States.

AN OVERWHELMING PERCENTAGE of people in largely Muslim Indonesia view the United States unfavorably. Even in South Korea, a key ally, more than half have a poor view of America.
“It’ll be pretty hard to win the hearts of local people,” said Yufan Hao, a political science professor at Colgate University. While moderate Muslim leaders will give Bush a certain amount of support, he said “that support probably will be limited” because the popular vote in the region is “actually not very friendly toward the United States.”
Bush’s messages on issues ranging from Iraq to the Middle East to trade with China might resonate with Australians and get a fair hearing from the Japanese. But they could very well be rebuffed by the masses in Malaysia, Singapore and especially Indonesia, where disdain for America has grown more palpable in the past year.

http://msnbc.com/news/982016.asp

This I can guarantee you, it's 99.9% with an unfavorable, close to hatred, view of Bush and our poor selves are included in with that sleaze. The 00.1% are the Asian Whores who are making some kind of direct money profit from The Bush Crime Family. Isn't the only leader who has said anything positive about Junior is the Filipino Shemale Whore Arroyo?

[Don_G]

1. Chimpy Couldn't Sell A Light Bulb To A Deaf Bat

And he's expecting to get troops to pull his ass out of Iraq before the elections when "God" appointed him and his Pentagon Commanders to be the chief thief?

[kalian]

2. Let's get something straight here people....

Asians, Euros, Africans, etc do NOT hate America or Americans...far from it. What they hate and/or are concerned/suspicious about is Bush, his cronies and their imperial/corporate ambitions.

They do not hate us because of our freedoms...they hate the idiots that are in power.

[realFedUp]

3. I didn't think the Bush bobble-heads would be hot sellers...

they should have gone with the Chinese astronaut doll.

[lcordero]

4. Middle Easterners and Chinese have a very long memory

Especially when it comes to the Crusades, the underminding of Iran(1920s to present), the installation of the Shah, and the opium wars. They have every right and justification to view outsiders unfavorably.