"Bush campaign ads using team"

[eppie]

If I recall, you are from Germany. As to your last, you're kidding, right? Your tongue was in your cheek, right? Maybe you don't vote thuswiise, good for you niehter do I, but Helmut Kohl served as Chancellor for HOW LONG? Was it 17 years?

Holland, (or the Netherlands) thank you very much, that is about the same as calling an Irishman a Brit. ;)

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In the US 52 % of the people still believe Saddam was behind the 9/11 attacks
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Curious as to where you found that alleged fact. It is known that Osama Bin Laden was behind the attack, it has not been shown that Bin Laden had any support from Saddam (it also has not been shown that he did not, but proving a negative is even harder than otherwise and beside the point) and it is known that Saddam supported terror orgainzations who induced young folks to perform as suicide bombers in Israel. He paid money to the families of some of those folks.

I heard it on the radio. By the way, I'm sure those 52 % don't include most lurkers, it was just to indicate the power of the media, and the fact that they will not always show you the facts. Come to think of it, I don't see a lot of difference with North Korea in this one. :D (I know how bad a person Kim is but at least he doesn't bother the world with. (yes the sarcastic undertone was meant).

The same will be the fact in Italy, and Spain. Time ago a research in Germany (a country where I'm not from :D ) showed, that 25 % of the germans thought Bush had soemthing to do with the 9/11 attacks. And that was pre Michael Moore's fahrenheit911. I don't share that opinion, but it shows that the image of the US is not that great, and that's a shame because it is not caused becasue of "americans" it is caused by one man. (who of course couldn't care less because he doesn't even speak german, let alone know where it is :D ) (that was a joke).

I don't blame Bush for the troubles that are now in Iraq, although it was not very smart of his advisors to expect that something else might have happened. But it is a way it always goes if you try to install a new government.