It will not be news to note that the Bush regime has tremendously damaged the image of the USA around the world. The remarkable
Pew Research Global polls have been showing this for years now.
But now, The Guardian, in company with news organizations and professional polling companies in Israel, Mexico, and Canada, has shown how the Bushies have really tumped us over the cliff.
America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq.
Get this: ICM shows Bush as more a threat than Kim Jong-Il. Actually, I agree. And Ahmadinejad? A rank amateur, a Johnnie-come-lately in global thuggery and chicanery.
Carried out as US voters prepare to go to the polls next week in an election dominated by the war, the research also shows that British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both countries were once cited by the US president as part of an "axis of evil" but it is Mr Bush who now alarms voters in countries with traditionally strong links to the US
Of course, we know that British public opinion never supported the war in Iraq. But now it's sunk to this:
In Britain, 69% of those questioned say they believe US policy has made the world less safe since 2001, with only 7% thinking action in Iraq and Afghanistan has increased global security.
That is, line up 100 Brits you know, and a mere 7 of them see our government's Warren Terror is a Good Thing for global safety.
And Israel?? No relief there:
Only one in four Israeli voters say that Bush has made the world safer, outweighed by the number who think he has added to the risk of international conflict, 36% to 25%. A further 30% say that at best he has made no difference.
The Shrubbery-in-Chief must be gnashing his BIG SHARP NASTY TEETH! Despite heroic efforts to close on his adversaries, the Desperado Gap remains dangerously out of whack, with jnr. unable to make significant ground on his arch-nemesis:
As a result Mr Bush is ranked with some of his bitterest enemies as a cause of global anxiety. He is outranked by Osama bin Laden in all four countries, but runs the close in the eyes of British voters: 87% think the al-Qaida is a great or moderate danger to peace, compared with 75% who think this of Mr Bush.
The US leader and close ally of Tony Blair is seen in Britain as a more dangerous man than the president ofIran (62% think he is a danger), the North Korean leader (69%) and the leader of Hizbullah, Hassan Nasrallah.