Some European critics soften views on Bush

Some European critics soften views on Bush
Allies sift issues, trying to come to terms with war
Elizabeth Bryant, Chronicle Foreign Service

Monday, March 21, 2005


Paris -- After Pascal Bruckner publicly backed the U.S.-led war in Iraq in 2003, anonymous callers threatened him by phone. Strangers insulted him on the street. Friends and colleagues told him that he had taken a gutsy but mistaken stance against the mighty antiwar tide in France.

Two years later, the prominent French novelist is hearing very different reactions.

"People are saying that even if Americans are making a lot of mistakes, they are changing things," said Bruckner, who supported ousting Saddam Hussein but is sharply critical of the Bush administration's handling of the conflict, "while Europe -- and especially France -- remains terribly conservative. We're the world champions of the status quo."

Since Iraq's Jan. 30 elections, and fledgling signs of democracy elsewhere in the Middle East, doubts are spreading among scattered European pundits, politicians and ordinary citizens who once staunchly opposed the war.

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:puke:

than the word of someone who openly admits to supporting this regime?

I could say that everyone in my neocon, suburban high school has turned against *, but it doesn't make it true.

Believe me, we have friends in London and Ireland right now. The first thing they ask an American is "Who did you vote for?"

:puke:

ONE PERSON out of six billion says that "Bush is not so bad" and that makes Bush a good person?!? :wtf: