In Australia, our Prime Minister 'Howard' is 100% aligned with your President 'Bush' in regards to his views and support towards this war situation. The media here quoted today that our Prime Minister will not be swayed by any of our rallies or opinion polls to the contrary. The media also reported that the US will reduce its 70,000 strong military personnel in Germany, and will introduce additional levies and taxes on bottled water and wine from France. Both due to their aniti-war, or anti-US stances. >From what I understand about the US, I do not believe the issues with the non English speaking Europe will have any more impact on introducing metric in the US, than a fully metric country as Australia providing our recommendation to do so. We have been told we, are either with the US or against it, there is no other choice... I don't think metric is in the equation, even if our Prime Minister attempted to do so. John asked: I wonder if Americans will come to hate the metric system because of its French origins.? For those prepared to use the voting button at the top of this email for the John's interesting question, I will submit the result. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of kilopascal Sent: Friday, 14 February 2003 16:00 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:24849] Analysis: Schroeder challenges the US
2003-02-14 Very interesting article on a Germany that is saying NO to the US. This is part of the movement towards a strong Europe that will be able to say NO to the TABD when it demands another extension in 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2758211.stm Excerpts of Schroeder speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/not_in_website/syndication/monitoring/media_repor ts/2756893.stm Europe's new gang resists US 'bullying' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2752131.stm Here is a good one: I wonder if Americans will come to hate the metric system because of its French origins. Congress lashes out at 'old Europe' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2753669.stm It will be very interesting to see how the strain in relations between the US and Europe will affect the future of metric in the US. Any ideas? John
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