[i]By James Rosen -- Bee Washington Bureau
Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Tuesday, May 27, 2003
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[url]http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/6740612p-7691732c.html[/url]
[b]More than two months after U.S. and British troops invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein, Europeans still are struggling to understand the war and the American president who launched it. Nowhere is the soul-searching deeper than in France, whose futile bid to block the war sparked a diplomatic crisis that divided Europe and damaged the trans-Atlantic alliance.
[i]"What is a little disconcerting for the French is an American president who seems to be principled," said Jean Duchesne, an English literature professor at Condorcet College in Paris. "The idea that politics should be based on principles is unimaginable because principles lead to ideology, and ideology is dangerous."[/i]
Lacorne, the international relations analyst, said many French are acutely uncomfortable with Bush's frequent references to God, which they take to mean -- mistakenly, in his view -- that Christian fundamentalism dictates his polices
[i]"You have people who are very critical of Bush's foreign policy, but who love American jazz and American movies. So the notion of French anti-Americanism seems to me very shallow and wrong. This is a term that tries to shame the opposition by suggesting that it is xenophobic or nationalistic or racist -- when, in fact, there is just an honest divergence of opinion."
Many Frenchmen say that Bush has squandered a deep well of good will toward Americans spawned by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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I really hate these type of people. Country of pussies.
Sgtar15