American Views Abroad

 
Robert Scheer writes in The World Agrees: Stop Him:

President Bush has accomplished what Osama bin Laden only dreamed of by disgracing the model of American democracy in the eyes of the world. According to an exhaustive BBC poll, nearly three-quarters of those polled in 25 countries oppose the Bush policy on Iraq, and more than two-thirds believe the US presence in the Middle East destabilizes the region.

'The thing that comes up repeatedly is not just anger about Iraq,' according to Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland. 'The common theme is hypocrisy. The reaction tends to be: You were a champion of a certain set of rules. Now you are breaking your own rules, so you are being hypocritical.'

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