Ogami
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http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060621-124153-4231r.htmVIENNA, Austria (AP) -- President Bush today dismissed as "absurd" a recent poll in which European nations said U.S. involvement in Iraq was a worse problem than Iran and its nuclear program.
Though Mr. Bush scores low on popularity polls in Europe, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, the European summit host, rose to his defense, which seemed to catch the president by surprise.
"I think it's grotesque to say that America is a threat to the peace in the world compared with North Korea, Iran, a lot of countries," Mr. Schuessel said, adding that it was Mr. Bush who had raised Guantanamo Bay and other thorny issues.
Just a reminder to the anti-war Europeans out there who hate Bush over Iraq: You are the exact same people who begged America to save Europe from Slobodan Milosevic. Germany wouldn't help you, France wouldn't help you, NATO wouldn't help you, and the United Nations damn well wouldn't help you. You begged the United States to help, and we went in and put our lives on the line for your benefit.
And what's the gratitude of anti-war Europe when we need your support and your help over Iraq? Gone! Make no mistake, the conduct of anti-war Europe over Iraq is a disgrace, not ours. (My thanks to the European countries that did contribute troops and support in Iraq an Afghanistan, by the way.)
But I should not be surprised with the anti-war people in Europe. These are the same countries where hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in 2001, 2002, and 2003 to protest Bush whenever he visited. Yet not a single one of these peace protesters ever marched to protest the evils of Saddam Hussein. Not one! That is the moral hypocrisy of the European socialist left, they hate the United States, yet they would never have an unkind word to say about a blood-soaked dictator, apparently.
I am so grateful we have a president who is not governed by polls. European or otherwise.
-Ogami