World leaders hail Bush reelection

From yahoo singapore...

World leaders hail Bush's re-election, call for healing of global divisions over Iraq


World leaders rushed to congratulate US President George W. Bush on his re-election to a second four-year term and pledged cooperation with Washington to heal deep divisions over a host of international issues, notably Iraq and the Middle East.

In Brussels, the European Union's executive arm extended "warm congratulations" to Bush on his re-election and pledged Europe's renewed commitment to the transatlantic link.

EU nations were deeply split over Washington's unilateralist policies, notably on Iraq, in Bush's first term in office, but are now coming together to work for the shattered country's reconstruction.

"The United States and the European Union are linked by strong cultural, economic and political ties, and by our shared values. This makes us each other's natural and indispensable partners," said Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who holds the EU's rotating presidency.

"Together, Europe and the United States face many critical challenges in the years ahead. As in the past, our best hope for success lies in common action," EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana said in a statement.

Congratulatory messages also poured in from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and leaders from Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland and South Africa among others.

Annan said through his spokesman that he was "committed to continuing to work with President Bush and his administration on the whole range of issues facing the United Nations and the world."

Relations between Annan and Bush have been less than easy at times, particularly since the Iraq war, which Annan described as illegal, as it was waged without a UN green light.

French President Jacques Chirac, a strong opponent of the US-led war in Iraq, expressed hope that Bush's second term "will provide an opportunity to reinforce France-American friendship" and the transatlantic partnership.

"On behalf of France, and on my personal behalf, I would like to express to you my most sincere congratulations for your re-election to the presidency of the United States of America," Chirac wrote in a letter to Bush. "I hope that your second term will provide an opportunity to reinforce the Franco-American friendship."

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who also clashed with Bush over Iraq, voiced hope that his country would continue its "good cooperation" with the United States.

Many countries remain worried about Bush's foreign policy and its implications for the Middle East, if he is re-elected, especially given fears of international terrorism.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said from Bonn that he hoped the new US government "would help to bring peace to the Middle East".

Speaking before Bush's re-election was confirmed, Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said he hoped nothing would change in the role the US-led coalition plays in Iraq whoever won the election.

"Whoever is the winner will be our friend. The United States has liberated us from a dictator and a very long period of war and agony," Allawi told the Italian daily La Repubblica ahead of a visit to Italy Thursday.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country is a wary neighbor of Iraq, expressed hope that the Bush re-election would contribute to world peace.

In Madrid, Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said his government "wishes to contribute to effective and constructive cooperation with the Bush government."

Zapatero, who took office last April, reversed his conservative predecessor Jose Maria Aznar's policy of strong support for the US intervention in Iraq and withdrew the troops Aznar had sent to Iraq in August last year.

King Mohammed VI of Morocco, a strong US ally, hailed Bush's victory, pledging to work with him to enhance the "remarkable quality of the strategic partnership that unites our two countries" while also expressing hope for "a new international order that is safer, more balanced, more fair and more human", the Map news agency reported.

In Israel, a top foreign policy adviser said: "Israel and the free world has every reason to rejoice over this result."

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in hospital outside Paris, said he hoped Bush's re-election would help jumpstart the Middle East peace process, one of his aides told AFP.

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, who hosted an EU-US summit during Ireland's presidency of the EU earlier this year, said it was important to maintain a strong transatlantic relationship and to "work together across the range of issues that face the international community at this time".

"The Americans have made a clear choice," Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Monteiro told national news agency Lusa. "For Portugal there is no change. We would work with any US administration although with this one we have come to establish a very close working relationship."

In Italy, President Carlo Ciampi reaffirmed the need for renewing "the spirit of transatlantic solidarity " because "terrorism is far from weakened."

"Italy is at the side of the United States in ...the struggle against the common enemy, in the determination to work together for the security of our nations and the stability of world ordert," he said in his message to Bush.

Russian President Vladimir Putin described a Bush win as a victory over terror.

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said Wednesday he would be telephoning Bush to congratulate him but would also raise some bilateral problems.

Speaking to reporters after meeting with his Liberal Party members of parliament, Martin said he would specifically be raising US restrictions on the imports of Canadian softwood lumber and beef.

He added that he would also bring up multilateral issues, especially "the need for a new multilateralism" -- an apparent reference to Bush's tendency in his first term to act alone, without securing United Nations support.

South African President Thabo Mbeki said through a spokesman that he was "looking forward to continuing to work with President Bush to deal with the challenges of poverty and underdevelopment and to continue to co-operate on other bilateral issues."

Yeah...

They have a lil sth on their noses....

Ask the populations what they think :P

Ahhh! the sweet smell of politics. :)

Love to see what each leader really said when they heard the news.

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Originally Posted by Withcheese

Love to see what each leader really said when they heard the news.

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:lol: :lol: :lol:


I suspect Blair said 'thank fuck for that' Cos without Bush to suck up to, he would't have been even more Globally isolated. :dry:

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This is a default congrats just like the one's for reaching 4237 posts or welcome 'genericspeakingmember' as our new mod. :dry:

If France or Germany is really happy about The Idiot's reelection let them pour some of their troops into Iraq.

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

True, True

i wonder what these world leaders will be saying when Arafat dies

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ill believe thats what they said....... just not what they thought......


its politics people, having leaders all over the world congradulate the winner is the way it works...... doesnt matter if its bush, kerry, nader or even that murderer that was up for election........... they would all be congradulated (well maybe less so in the murderers case :P )



it would be eyecatching as soon as you hear the politicians NOT congradulating the new prez...... or hearing them say "holy shit, we're fucked more than poor people w/o healthcare in the us"

actually if you read the article nobody actually hailed him..just said congrats...bit of a misleading title...to quote bush

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that's what you call one of those "eggssagerashuns"

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Originally Posted by vidcc

actually if you read the article nobody actually hailed him..just said congrats...bit of a misleading title...to quote bush

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Aw naw, mainny's title aze pure day repub span. :wacko:

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Originally Posted by Rat Faced

They have a lil sth on their noses....

Ask the populations what they think :P

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in a stunning turn of events, it's rumored that Kim Jong Il of North Korea somehow managed not to trip over himself in a mad rush to express his congratulations to George W Bush.

as for the article: OMG S-P-I-N LOLz. just 'cause Yahoo Singapore claims in its intro that the leaders were positively tripping over themselves to profess their adoration for Bush, that does not make it true. the quotes don't even support that. they are half-hearted endorsements that they'd already planned to make, regardless of who the winner is: "Dear [name of winner], congratulations on winning the support of 31%-or-more of the eligible voters in the USA. Hopefully we can cooperate on stuff in the next 4 years. You rock, man. Sincerely, your faithful servant, [foreign leader]"

anyway. ho-hum. that article was pretty undeserving of its very own thread. IN OTHER NEWS, SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS CONTINUES IN CALIFORNIA DESPITE GOD TELLING GWB TO YANK STEM CELL FUNDING IN THE OTHER 49 STATES: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...459EST0073.DTL

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Originally Posted by Busyman

Aw naw, mainny's title aze pure day repub span. :wacko:

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The title was taken directly from the title of the article; if you have beef; take it up with the author. I doubt it though; because you guys will trip over yourselves to pin any sort of spin.

ewww what's that smell?? ewww, it's BULLSHIT. like RF said (in his first post in this thread) let the people talk, not the leaders, after all, the leaders are there because of the people. i for one, and including all those that i know, feel more insecure and pissed the fuck off that Bush won. 4 more years of perseverance, I'm starting to get agitated. :mad3:

I have said it before and I'll say it again, any repercussion for this in the future (wars or any other "preemptive" bullshit) I will put the blame on the American Public and People, not Bush.

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The title was taken directly from the title of the article; if you have beef; take it up with the author. I doubt it though; because you guys will trip over yourselves to pin any sort of spin.

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Uh...manny

The passwords are:

So what?

The title is still bullshit spin :wacko: whether you got it from the article or not. :blink:

You are in college right?

Some folks are dense.

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if you have beef; take it up with the author. I doubt it though

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non sequitir. you doubt what? that anyone here is going to hunt down the author and challenge him? why? the author didn't bring it to FST... you brought it to FST and presented it without comment following a slew of posts about how great bush is and how it's time for "libs" to cry. is this just your way of saying that you wish to copy & paste things into the forum, without allowing people to disagree in the same place where you've pasted forth? you seem to want to express an opinion (that the leaders of the world are happy about bush's re-election) yet take no responsibility for it. to deflect any criticism to someone else because you haven't added a single word of your own... to have your cake and eat it, too.

if the case is that the article does not relect your opinion, that you have no opinion on it, and nobody on FST is allowed to express an opinion on it... then why in the world did you paste it? for posterity? perhaps you shouldn't have, if you expect anyone to play by such impossible rules.

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non sequitir. you doubt what? that anyone here is going to hunt down the author and challenge him? why? the author didn't bring it to FST... you brought it to FST and presented it without comment following a slew of posts about how great bush is and how it's time for "libs" to cry. is this just your way of saying that you wish to copy & paste things into the forum, without allowing people to disagree in the same place where you've pasted forth? you seem to want to express an opinion (that the leaders of the world are happy about bush's re-election) yet take no responsibility for it. to deflect any criticism to someone else because you haven't added a single word of your own... to have your cake and eat it, too.

if the case is that the article does not relect your opinion, that you have no opinion on it, and nobody on FST is allowed to express an opinion on it... then why in the world did you paste it? for posterity? perhaps you shouldn't have, if you expect anyone to play by such impossible rules.

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The article was brought in for world leader quotes on the election. Out of such, some have accused me of spin. Actually I am not so peeved at such due to the shallowness of the arguement;
'they didn't actually hail , persay...'

be free to dissagree, but to accuse is another...

you really should add a comment of your own when C&P-ing to let people know what your point is, in doing so. the inconsistency between Yahoo's initial description (rush, hail, etc) and the actual contents of their quotations (basic diplomatic greetings) was pretty glaring.

In retrospect, I should have put the article in quotes; I will in the future. As for the 'glaring', it is supposition, it certainly seemed sincere wording to me, even if of dishonest intent.

Thats all for tonight, tis late... :)

Did Osama Bin Laden respond already??? Guess not, but the guy is more important on how the world future will look like then 98% of the other so called leaders of the world.
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Osama Bin Laden's response:

"Ok guys, lets go get 'em.... just help me get this rock outa my ass 1st"

It would be interesting as to what his views were. His tape that appeared the day before the election could be construed many ways.

He certainly does not want to see a broader UN coalition against him. Moreover, lots of Arab soldiers in Iraq would just muddy the waters. I suspect he is content with the outcome. His own life is no more endangered by Bush than Kerry. Kerry would have had to pursue him just as vigourously in order not to be seen as soft on terror.

However, it is unlikely he will send his congratulations (I assume).

On topic, I recall a similar flurry of congratulations to Putin when he won - including those from George Bush. It is a normal diplomatic nicety - no more no less. The Whitehouse would also call Chirac to congratulate him if he were standing again and won. :)

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So do I.

The News channels are already running retrospectives on him with interviews with friends and colleagues. It will all be a bit embarrassing if he recovers. However, I think they think he is only alive in a technical sense.

As is normal in these cases, he will receive plaudits. I will be intrigued by the words of Sharron and GW.

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So do I.

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They just lie... as usual :dry:

Sharon has said he won't let him be buried where he wanted to..some mosque in Jerusalem