“Look, people didn’t agree with my decision on Iraq. And I understand that. For Europe, September the 11th was a moment; for us it was a change of thinking. […]<\/p>\n
“I believe in the universality of freedom. Some don’t. I’m going to act on my beliefs so long as I’m the president of the United States. Some people say, ‘It’s OK to condemn people to tyranny.’ I don’t believe it’s OK to condemn people to tyranny, particularly those of us who live in the free societies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He’s quite a [tag]diplomat[\/tag], isn’t he?<\/p>\n
On the other hand, I suppose I should give the president credit for consistency. He uses the exact same baseless, straw-men demagoguery against his critics in Europe as he does against his critics in the U.S. If you disagree with [tag]Bush[\/tag], you don’t understand [tag]9\/11[\/tag] and you want to condemn people to [tag]tyranny[\/tag]. Where have I heard that before?<\/p>\n
As for Bush’s standing in [tag]Europe[\/tag], I had foolishly assumed that he couldn’t get any less popular. The president, once again, is able to go well beyond my expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At a [tag]press conference[\/tag] in [tag]Vienna[\/tag], [tag]Austria[\/tag], this morning, a [tag]reporter[\/tag], speaking to the [tag]president[\/tag], noted that only 14% of Austrians believe the United States is good for peace and more British citizens see Bush’s policies as a destabilizing force in the world than Iran’s. The reporter asked Bush to explain why, from his perspective, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}