In an interview with the Times on Air Force One, Bush, who is bowing
out as one of America's most unpopular presidents, said he regretted
the bitter divisions caused by the Iraq war and was troubled about how
his country had been misunderstood. "I think in retrospect I could
have used a different tone, a different rhetoric."
Bush's poor standing in Europe is summed up by a foreign policy expert
for Germany's centre-left Social Democrats. Hans-Ulrich Klose tells
Spiegel Online International: "One really can't say George W Bush made
the world a better place. On the contrary: his actions played a big
part in damaging America's image around the world."
The International Herald Tribune is troubled by talk of a strike
against Iran coming out of Israel, led by Ehud Olmert, the Israeli
prime minister bedeviled by corruption charges.
Dubbya is "sorry" he comes across like the moronic fuckwit he is???
Will someone please hand me a Kleenex, I think I'm going to cry.