It Is Not Just The Far Left Americans That Dislike Bush

Right below is very credible proof and documentation that Bush is extremely disliked by many civilized foreign countries from CNN. Bill Schneider is very detailed and thorough in his analysis by giving specific countries and polling numbers. This is an excellent and concise analysis that is a must read for everyone. Here is recent proof of where Bush is losing more support from Britain as an ally:http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1307980,00.html Britain to cut troop levels in Iraq; Sunday, September 19, 2004 Below the analysis is an article called "Pentagon blocks site for voters outside U.S." This article is very informative and should probably not be much of a surprise to us coming from a Bush controlled Pentagon, with how bad that the circumstances are in Iraq now, and with how Bush is so disliked in foreign countries!That article also contains information about this new website where military and civilian U.S. citizens overseas can register to vote up until October 2: www.overseasvote2004.com Please forward on the overseas voter registration information to people you know overseas and to your e mail lists as quickly as possible since the overseas voter registration deadline of October 2 is coming up very quickly!Please also forward on the information about how foreign countries view Bush so that people will see that John Kerry is absolutely right about his claim where he is quoted below as saying: "I have heard from people who are leaders elsewhere in the world who don't appreciate the Bush administration approach and would love to see a change in the leadership of the United States."People seeing this can help John Kerry to win over many more undecided swing voters, open minded Independents, and disillusioned Republicans because these statistics are very alarming and are clearly proven to be true!Mitch DworkinCampaign Manager, Gary R. Page for Congress, Texas Congressional District 24http://www.johnkerry.com/index.htmlhttp://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/ Official Kerry campaign press releases on the issues so that we can define what John Kerry is really for and to clear up the distortions of John Kerry from the Bush campaign, their surrogates, and the RNC! http://www.garyrpage.com/ Gary R. Page for Congress Website. Please check us out and consider helping us to be a voice for John Kerry's agenda in Congress against Bush's agenda!--------------------http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/19/ips.00.html Open up this link for the full transcriptINSIDE POLITICS SUNDAYAired September 19, 2004 - 10:00  ET WALLACE: Well, if people around the world could vote in our election this November, who would they put in the White House? President Bush? Senator Kerry? Our Bill Schneider has the answer in his "Story Behind the Story." (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST (voice-over): It's being called a world election in which the world has no vote. Do we know how the rest of the world would vote? Some Americans claim they do. SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have heard from people who are leaders elsewhere in the world who don't appreciate the Bush administration approach and would love to see a change in the leadership of the United States. SCHNEIDER: Maybe they're responding to opinion in their own countries. RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There are vast numbers of people, especially in Europe, that are looking at the United States population and cannot understand how they would want to reelect George W. Bush. It is a simple fact. SCHNEIDER: Is it? There is evidence it is. Over the summer, University of Maryland researchers asked citizens of 35 countries how they would vote between Bush and Kerry. The result? Thirty of the 35 voted for Kerry. Kerry won all but one European country polled. A Bush campaign official once said Kerry looks French. Apparently the French were impressed. They gave Kerry a 59-point lead. Only five percent of the French voted for Bush. What about the Bush administration's closest ally, Britain? Not even close. The British favored Kerry by over 30 points. The exception? Poland, which Bush carried by a narrow margin. How about America's neighbors? Canadians went for Kerry by 45 points. Mexicans by 20. In Asia, Kerry carried China, Japan and Indonesia. Only the Philippines, a former American colony fighting its own Muslim insurrection, went for Bush. In India and Thailand, the race was close. Swing countries. The overwhelming hostility to President Bush in the world does have consequences for those foreign leaders Kerry was talking about. QUEST: Look at the damage of those -- to those politicians who have been associated with Bush, from Aznar in Spain, to Berlusconi in Italy, to John Howard now running neck and neck in his own reelection in Australia. With an economy that's booming, he should be walking it. And now look at Tony Blair. Every leader that has stood side by side with George Bush is feeling the electorate's wrath. (END VIDEOTAPE)SCHNEIDER: Tony Blair's labor government faces reelection possibly as early as next spring. His people are reported to have informed the White House that Blair needs to keep his distance from Bush so as not to endanger his own survival -- Kelly. WALLACE: Well, Bill, could that have consequences here in the United States for President Bush in November? SCHNEIDER: Kelly, there about three million Americans, private citizens living overseas. Many of them older, mostly white, many of them men and business people particularly. In the past, those voters have voted heavily Republican. But I spent most of last week in Europe. I spoke to a lot of American expatriates. These people are very frustrated. They often see American politics from the point of view of the colleagues and friends they live with and work with. And many of them, frankly, told me they're tired of defending President Bush. They believe there is going to be a very heavy expatriate vote for John Kerry this year, and the absentee ballot applications from overseas Americans are coming in at a record rate. By the way, they don't vote in any one state. They vote all over the country in their home states. WALLACE: Bill, a story we'll be following. Bill Schneider, who must be overcoming a serious case of jet lag, coming to us from New York with the "Story Behind the Story."Thanks, Bill. SCHNEIDER: Sure.WALLACE: Good to see you.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=539597.html Pentagon blocks site for voters outside U.S.Jennifer Joan Lee/NYT NYT Monday, September 20, 2004PARIS In a decision that could affect Americans abroad who are not yet registered to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election, the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots.According to overseas-voter advocates who have been monitoring the situation, Internet service providers in at least 25 countries - including Yahoo Broadband in Japan, Wanadoo in France, BT Yahoo Broadband in Britain and Telefónica in Spain - have been denied access to the site of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, apparently to protect it from hackers.In an e-mail addressed to a person in France who had tried to access the Web site, the Federal Voting Assistance Program's Web manager, Susan Leader, wrote: “We are sorry you cannot access www.fvap.gov. Unfortunately, Wanadoo France has had its access blocked to U.S. government Web sites due to Wanadoo users constantly attempting to hack these sites. We do not expect the block to be lifted."In Washington, a Pentagon spokeswoman reached by telephone confirmed that a number of Internet service providers worldwide had been blacklisted to thwart hackers. The spokeswoman, Lieutenant Colonel Ellen Krenke, declined to comment further.The Federal Voting Assistance Program, which was designed to help both military and civilian voters abroad, is under the authority of the Defense Department.Asked whether any other government Web sites had been blocked, a Pentagon spokesman declined to comment.“The government is probably the most common victim on the Web because it's a political target," said Jimmy Kuo, a research fellow with McAfee, a U.S. company that specializes in computer security."There are certainly elements outside our country who would want to disrupt our voting procedure, and interfering with a voter registration site would certainly affect that," Kuo said."It would disenfranchise all those people who would want to vote using this process," he said.Although voter registration forms are available from other sources, being unable to download the forms from the site has frustrated expatriates in many countries. That frustration is growing with the approach of the Oct. 2 deadline for registration in most U.S. states.Brett Rierson, co-founder of OverseasVote.com, a Hong Kong-based, pro-Democratic Web site that provides voting instructions as well as a link to the Federal Voting Assistance Program, said he had been bombarded with complaints from users who cannot enter the government site.“We started receiving e-mails as we launched in February, but they were sporadic and there was no general pattern,” Rierson said.“As of Aug. 23, the numbers of e-mails per day have expanded drastically," he said. "Eighty percent of complaints have come from the past two weeks alone, and they come from countries that have the largest populations of overseas Americans.”Rierson's organization, which has been monitoring the Pentagon restrictions, found that at least 25 Internet service providers had been blocked.Annalee Newitz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit San Francisco group for protecting people's digital rights, said: “It's extremely ironic that the government is doing nothing to address the security of electronic voting machines" in the United States, "which have been proven to be vulnerable to hacking, yet they block Web sites for expatriate Americans.”Those who cannot access the voting assistance program site can go to a new site, www.overseasvote2004.com, which promises to help absentee voters complete registration "in five minutes." It features state-specific registration forms that voters can print out and fax and mail back to their states.Alternately, voters can go to their U.S. embassies or contact their local representatives of Democrats Abroad or Republicans Abroad for a registration form.Meanwhile, some critics question the effectiveness of the Pentagon's restrictions on the government site.“It's like putting a Band-Aid on a broken dam,” Newitz said. “Good hackers will always find a way into the system. The real concern should be protecting the Web site, not shutting down access to it.”International Herald Tribune

posted by Joshua P. Angell  @ 20.9.04

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