As you know, Iran just had an election and the White House is pissy about it.
"It's never free and fair when a group of people, unelected people, get to decide who's on the ballot", said our own elections expert, Dim Son Bush* on Monday about the people of Iran electing a leader who doesn't see the world the same way he does.
Source: U.S. likes elections, but not always the winnersIf he plans on "democratizing" the Middle East shrubbie had best get used to being disappointed with the results because in large part, due to him and his foreign "policy", folks over there sort of universally hate his (and by association, unfortunately, ours also) guts.
Given the solid majorities cited below of people who can't stand us, what kind of results does the Idiot Wonder in the White House expect in any election they're going to hold? I mean seriously?
Does he really think those voters are going to spend one day yelling "Death to America! Death to Bush!" and the very next day marking a ballot for the candidate with red, white, and blue underwear and the autographed picture of himself getting mouth-kissed by the Great Satan?
Or will they vote for the guy who burns shrub in effigy with them?
Looking over
Pew Global's poll results, if I were Bush I'd be holding off on encouraging any more free elections. He ain't gonna be happy with the results from
that majority.
Since 2000, favorability ratings for the U.S. have fallen in 19 of the 27 countries worldwide where trend benchmarks are available. While criticism of America is on the rise, however, a reserve of goodwill toward the United States still remains. The Pew Global Attitudes survey finds that the U.S. and its citizens continue to be rated positively by majorities in 35 of the 42 countries in which the question was asked.1
True dislike, if not hatred, of America is concentrated in the Muslim nations of the Middle East and in Central Asia, today's areas of greatest conflict.
The most serious problem facing the U.S. abroad is its very poor public image in the Muslim world, especially in the Middle East/Conflict Area.2 Favorable ratings are down sharply in two of America's most important allies in this region, Turkey and Pakistan. The number of people giving the United States a positive rating has dropped by 22 points in Turkey and 13 points in Pakistan in the last three years. And in Egypt, a country for which no comparative data is available, just 6% of the public holds a favorable view of the U.S.
Fully three-quarters of respondents in Jordan, the fourth largest recipient of U.S. assistance, have a poor image of the United States. In Pakistan and Egypt, an even-larger aid recipient, nearly as many (69%) have an unfavorable view and no more than one-in-ten in either country have positive feelings toward the U.S. In Jordan, Pakistan and Egypt, the intensity of this dislike is strong – more than 50% in each country have a very unfavorable view.
Public perceptions of the United States in Turkey have declined sharply in the last few years. In 1999, a slim majority of Turks felt favorably toward the U.S., but now just three-in-ten do. As is the case in Pakistan, Jordan and Egypt, the intensity of negative opinion is strong: 42% of Turks have a very unfavorable view of the U.S. The same pattern is evident in Lebanon, where 59% have a poor opinion of the U.S.
http://pewglobal.org/commentary/display.php?AnalysisID=63
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