A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

TnT says:
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I would still like specifics that affect the global position
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Look, your initial question was not about "global positions". You
simply asked how or where global public opinion differed from
Republican doctrine. I gave you examples. Now you tell me that's not
ood enough. Well, why don't you clarify what you want to discuss to
begin with.

As to your election and polls. Of course it was YOUR election to
decide. And, as you'll recall, that was my starting point in this
thread. I simply pointed out that the "rest of the western" world would
have elected Kerry and the Democrats. I don't need you to point out
that our opinion carries no weight in the USA. That's a fact but,
more's the pity IMHO. As to whether Kerry was a good candidate or not:
that's irrelevant. In the eyes of the "rest of the western world" (and
surely also in the eyes of Soros), Kerry, for all his deficiencies, was
preferable to Bush. We don't need to argue this as there are plenty of
polls which attest to this fact.

If you doubt the polls, try listening to media from around the world.
Try BBC. Try Deutsche Welle. Try Radio Nederland. Try CBC. Listen not
just to the commentators, but listen to the voices of the people (BBC
has call-in talk radio). The disdain for your president is palpable.

Who cares what a bunch of lefty liberal twits think? Not me.


OK. you want one specific. The mood in Canada wrt to drug
legalization/decriminalization is light years (editorial opinion on my
part) ahead of the USA and fairly close to attitudes in much of Europe.
Whenever Canadian politicians make noises about enacting more
progressive legislation, Canada needs to listen to "warnings" from the
US ambassador about how such policies might have dire consequences for
Canada-US trade. You ask me, " How are they your concern." I'll turn
that around on you: How or why is Canadian drug policy a concern to the
USA.?

Because it threatens to cross our border, that's how.

If Canada wants to legalize heroin poppy production, that heroin is likely
to find its way to the US. We have every right to use our economic and
political influence to prevent that.

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