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Human Rights Proponents
After World War II, the victors, lead by the US, installed the Nurnberg Tribunals... The US has been pushing for international justice ever since and indeed Human Rights have been central to the American international policy... Bush revoked Clinton's signature from international court treaty, joining China, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Qatar and Israel
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/us.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
Jose Maria Aznar
Aznar was one Bush's best friends in continental Europe and went to war together with Bush, against the will of 90% of the spanish people... For this he paid the ultimate price in a democracy. His party was defeated in a general election, even though he had a good economic record... Being named a friend of Bush will nock a few percentage points from the approval rating of any foreign leader nowadays.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=3123 - 20k - Cached - Similar pages
Environmentalists
America has been the largest polluter of the world for a long time, but also a source of ideas about what to do about it... In 1992, the US ratified a legally binding agreement negotiated by George Bush senior to reduce CO2 emissions while allowing developing nations to increase emissions... The US signed the Kyoto Protocol, but George W. Bush withdrew in 2001, citing that it was unfair that developing nations were exempt to some degree
http://www.greenpeace.ca/e/campaign/climate_energy/backgrnd/history.php - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
Europeans
Traditional the staunch allies of the US, George Bush succeeded in alienating most Europeans by going it alone on many subjects... German Kanzler Schroeder got reelected basically on a platform of being against George Bush...
http://europa.eu.int/ - 11k - Cached - Similar pages
Dalai Lama
The US has a tradition of supporting suppressed minorities all over the world and among them the Tibetans and Ugyur in China... Bush has been friendly in public to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan cause and even met with him... However seeing how efficient the Chinese are with their Muslim rebels in their West, Bush decided to tone down the critic on China here, giving them more or less a free hand in how to handle their minorities, making the cause of a free Tibet a sacrifice to the war on terrorism.
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Nelson Mandela
George Bush became the first head of state ever not to ask for a meeting with Nelson Mandela during his visit to South-Africa... Though the American government increased help to Africa by 10 billion dollars, George Bush remains far more unpopular than Bill Clinton in that continent... The huge increase in farm subsidies, destroying African agriculture of course did not help
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0701-02.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages
Muslims
Muslims have had a kind of love/hate relationship with America for quite some time. The older Bush succeeded in getting the more moderate Muslim states on board for the First Gulf War.. Within America, trust in the government from Muslims took a big hit after immigrants from certain Muslim countries had to register... Outside the US, American popularity dropped considerably, in Turkey for example from 60% to 30% and in Pakistan to 10%
http://www.webhostforums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2483 - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
Latin America
Latin America was supposed to be one of the focus points of the Bush administration, seeing how important the Latino vote is in America... However, the Iraq invasion, the mingling of Americans in Bolivian elections and Bush's support for the anti-government coupe in Venezuela increased anit-Yankee feelings... American popularity in Argentina fell below 50% for the first time ever... Neither Chili nor Mexico liked the strong pressure to vote for an Iraq invasion in the security council...
http://www.americaspolicy.org/commentary/2002/0209sympathy_body.html - 24k - Cached - Similar pages
Turkey
Maybe it was never easy convince the Turks of the war in Iraq, but the older Bush did the same and Clinton succeeded in convincing the Greeks of the necessity of a war against Serbia... America traditionally is less popular in Greece than in Turkey and Turks never openly sympathized with the Iraqi, while the Greek did with the Serbs... Clinton was more popular in Greece after the Kosovo conflict than before. Bush popularity in Turkey was halved due to the Iraq war.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2080262/ - 23k - Cached - Similar pages
Average World Citizen
U.S. popularity has plunged across much of the world amid mounting perceptions that the United States is running roughshod over other nations and doing too little to help poor countrie... former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was chairwoman for the Pew survey, said part of the problem is a tendency by Bush to muscle other countries into going along with his views... The survey showed that, while much of the world empathized with the United States after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, overall favorability ratings for the country have slipped significantly over the past two years...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/98525_poll05.shtml - 30k - Cached - Similar pages
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