US 81%
Britain 63%
France 50%
Germany 55%
Russia 73%
Turkey 37%
Pakistan 16%
Jordan 12%
Morocco 28%
Here's how four of the nine countries feel about us.
Suicide Bombings Justifiable?
Against Israel
Turkey 24%
Pakistan 47%
Morocco 74%
Jordan 86%
Against the US
Turkey 31%
Pakistan 46%
Morocco 66%
Jordan 70%
Nice poll.
-sm
--- "Larry C. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It isn't just Canada that dislikes Bush. To quote
> from last March's survey,
>
> In that regard, opinions of both President Bush and
> British Prime
> Minister Tony Blair are negative. Large majorities
> in every country,
> except for the U.S., hold an unfavorable opinion of
> Bush. Blair is
> rated favorably only by a narrow majority in Great
> Britain but fully
> three-quarters of Americans. In contrast, U.N.
> Secretary-General Kofi
> Annan is viewed positively in nearly all nine
> countries surveyed, with
> Jordan and Morocco as prominent exceptions.
> (pp 3-4)
>
> Confidence in U.S. Undermined
> At least half the people in countries other than the
> U.S. say as a
> result of the war in Iraq they have less confidence
> that the United
> States is trustworthy. Similarly, majorities in all
> eight of these
> countries say they have less confidence that the
> U.S. wants to promote
> democracy globally.
> The erosion of confidence in the U.S. � in its
> trustworthiness and its
> commitment to promote democracy � is particularly
> apparent in Germany
> and France. Compared with the other countries
> surveyed, more people in
> Germany and France say as a consequence of the war
> they have less
> confidence that the U.S. is trustworthy (82%
> Germany, 78% France).
>
> And nearly eight-in-ten French respondents (78%) �
> a higher percentage
> than any other country surveyed -- say that because
> of the war they
> have less confidence that the U.S. is intent on
> promoting democracy
> around the world. Seven-in-ten Germans agree.
>
> The British express more confidence in the United
> States on these
> issues than do people in other nations, with about
> four-in-ten (41%)
> saying that as a consequence of the war they have
> more confidence that
> the U.S. wants to promote democracy globally;
> slightly more British
> (45%) say they have less confidence that the U.S. is
> intent on
> promoting democracy. But the British take a far more
> negative view of
> U.S. trustworthiness. Just 24% say they have more
> confidence that the
> U.S. is trustworthy as a result of the war while 58%
> say they have
> less confidence.
> (pp 14-15)
>
> Majorities in every country surveyed except the U.S.
> have an
> unfavorable opinion of President Bush, with negative
> ratings ranging
> from 57% in Great Britain (with 39% favorable) to
> 85% negative in both
> France and Germany. Six-in-ten have an unfavorable
> view of Bush in
> Russia, and two-thirds (67%) feel this way in
> Turkey. Feelings about
> Bush are nearly unanimously negative in Jordan (96%
> unfavorable) and
> Morocco (90%), and are nearly as low in Pakistan
> (67% unfavorably, 7%
> favorable, 25% no opinion).
> (pg 21)
>
> larry
>
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:52:45 -0700 (PDT), Sam Morris
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > --- dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Boy :) Sam, the number of times I have looked at
> one
> > > of your links and
> > > come back and said yanno, this is not at all
> > > relevant to what you are
> > > saying, or refuted some poisonous right-wing
> > > argument
> > Poisonous right-wing argument? Don't you get it?
> > That's what I here from you all the time.
> Poisonous
> > left-wing arguments. By shining some facts on your
> > flawed theories you turn it around
> > and call my view poisonous.
> > And my links are always relevant so I don't know
> why
> > you'd say that.
> >
> > > (ie Canadians
> > > don't want "American-style" health care
> therefore
> > > 85% of them are
> > > anti-American)
> > Now where did you get that? Who ever said anything
> > about "American-style" health care? The link I
> gave
> > about the Canadians poll stated 85% wanted Bush to
> > lose.
> > I went on to say that the Canadian journalist on
> the
> > O'Reilly Factor said it's not Bush they don't like
> > it's Americans.
> >
> > > I find it really really hard to see
> > > you as the voice of
> > > reality here. Sorry.
> >
> > np. I would never expect you to take my view
> > seriously, you seem to have a hate towards anyone
> not
> > Liberal.
> >
> > -sm
> >
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