Analysts: Bush's cowboy image waning; world still wary

[NeoConsSuck]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Bush addresses world leaders at the United Nations this week, he will have fewer options and lower expectations on almost every major foreign policy front than a year ago.

The United States is relying more readily on international institutions and alliances for help in Iran, Lebanon, North Korea, Sudan and elsewhere. Yet, according to analysts, the Bush administration has less room to maneuver.

Bush and his foreign policy advisers have tried with some success to dispel the caricature of Bush abroad as a Texas cowboy riding alone and herding the U.S. into an unpopular war in Iraq.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/16/bush.un.expectations.ap/index.html

[MissWaverly]

1. how does recess appointment Bolton help with that

[struggle4progress]

14. NSA wiretaps of UN diplomats to win Iraq vote by blackmail didn't help

Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war
Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members

Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Peter Beaumont
Sunday March 2, 2003
The Observer

The United States is conducting a secret 'dirty tricks' campaign against UN Security Council delegations in New York as part of its battle to win votes in favour of war against Iraq.

Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which involves interception of the home and office telephones and the emails of UN delegates in New York, are revealed in a document leaked to The Observer.

The disclosures were made in a memorandum written by a top official at the National Security Agency - the US body which intercepts communications around the world - and circulated to both senior agents in his organisation and to a friendly foreign intelligence agency asking for its input ...

The leaked memorandum makes clear that the target of the heightened surveillance efforts are the delegations from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea and Pakistan at the UN headquarters in New York - the so-called 'Middle Six' delegations whose votes are being fought over by the pro-war party, led by the US and Britain, and the party arguing for more time for UN inspections, led by France, China and Russia ....

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,905936,00.html

[leesa]

2. Rice University Analysts, now there's objectivity for you.

"Bush and his foreign policy advisers have tried with some success to dispel the caricature of Bush abroad as a Texas cowboy riding alone and herding the U.S. into an unpopular war in Iraq." Exactly when did they do this?

[ananda]

3. James Baker's Institute is at Rice!

nuff said

[VegasWolf]

4. Exactly, all we hear overseas now is that Bush is great. Right! nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Too late, isn't it? By now the world knows he shoots from the hip.

[Joe Bacon]

6. I hope they laugh out loud and ridicule him.

The whole world knows that Bush is simply a spoiled brat who never grew up.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

8. Well that is what they are doing when the cameras aren't on but

if they were to do it in front of Jr he would absolutely blow a gasket. Mental midgets can't stand to be laughed at.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

7. In recent days it is starting to look like the rest of the civilized

world may have had about enough of our shit, and is getting ready to do something about it. Perhaps that is why Jr. is so set on getting his torture bill passed so that he can claim he is not liable for war crimes.

[reprobate]

21. It wouldn't matter. Geneva was ratified by our congress so it is law.

It supersedes any later law written by congress. A treaty is law of the land over any national law.

Therefor it can't shield him from war crimes. Even the current biased Extreme court would have no trouble deducing this. The only real question would be of jurisdiction, ie would he be tried here or at the Hague?

[Earth_First]

9. Solution: 19-day brush clearing "working vacation" in mid-October...

While your at it, bring along the Press Corps...

[JohnyCanuck]

10. Cowboy image waning, ahole image holding firm n/t

[tinfoilinfor2005]

11. How would bush know what most Americans want?

He has no interaction whatsoever with most Americans. He avoids them like the plague. He has no right to speak for them.

[samsingh]

12. the bush knos that bush is an idiot, evil, and unstable

[AX10]

13. Bush's Cowboy image has endangered us greatly.

To the modern world, the cowboy looks like a jackass.

[saigon68]

16. He's still "The Singing Cowboy" along with his POODLE

[stepnw1f]

15. "Cowboy Image"... LOL... What's That?

As in Wild Wild West. There hasn't been a cowboy in over a hundred years.... what a bunch of dellusional dufouses. Cowboy...lolololol! They voted for a cowboy? They may as well have voted for Santa!

[Zorra]

17. I know a lot of real cowboys. Bu*h ain't a cowboy. He's a jackass, n/t

[CatWoman]

18. smoke em out!!

[CatWoman]

19. dead or alive!!!

[CatWoman]

20. head em off at the pass!!