The Democrats were right - Bush is compromised in dealing with allies

[kentuck]

In the last debate, one of the candidates said that Bush could not work with our allies because he had compromised our good standing. The response was in what needs to be done to get our troops out of Iraq. If there any doubts, they were dispelled yesterday when Bush informed them that they would not be included in any of the reconstruction contracts. If we want our friends to assist us in getting out of this blunder of a quagmire, we will need someone other than George Bush to succeed.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=472441

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George Bush poured fuel on the flames of the Iraq contracts dispute yesterday with a sneering dismissal of a suggestion by the German Chancellor that the decision to bar Germany, France Russia and Canada from bidding might violate international law.

"International law? I'd better call my lawyer," the American President joked in response to a reporter's question at the White House.

Gerhard Schröder had spoken earlier after a meeting in Berlin with Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general. Mr Annan called the decision by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary, "unfortunate" and likely to damage attempts to rebuild transatlantic ties bruised by disagreement over the war....

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[RWPTRBL]

1. He won't quit

Until he has alienated every other country apparently. You can only be a bully for so long befor all the little kids in the neighborhood eventually gang up and kick your ass!!!

[kentuck]

2. I think this is important to the Amerian people..

He can act like a bully and tell everybody to go screw themselves, and some people love thta attitude, but I believe that voters are concerned about our troops getting killed in Iraq and that we need to get out of that country and we may need to allies assistance. I think the Democrats should press this issue.

[NewJeffCT]

3. I agree

That Americans love it when * acts like a bully and says nobody can play with our toys... look at the poll on CNN, this morning it was running 68% in favor of * saying screw those who didn't help us.

[Gin]

4. wait until they mess with his states he needs....he will cave...

but..by then the contracts will have been awarded...and why should they forgive billions in debt owed by Iraq ...to get maybe 1 billion in contracts?

[kentuck]

5. Think about it.

Iraq owed these countries all those billions of dollars. US invaded and now we say that Iraq government no longer exists so they can't pay you. Those countries are supposed to write off billions of dollars because Bush invaded Iraq. No matter how much oil money the "future" country of Iraq may make, they don't have to pay back what they owe. Isn't that a clever way to get rid of your national debt? All we have to do is invade all those countries that hold our Treasury notes and declare them null and void because we are going to set up a new government. Old debts are irrelevant.