From: Tony Williams 

George Sherwood wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:52:13 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
>
>
>>>>Eee's a bright lad that Bin Laden.
>>>
>>>How do you mean? Bombing people and forgetting to mention why doesn't
>>>seem too clever to me.
>>
>>You're kidding, right?
>>
>>For the price of nineteen Swiss Army knives he's almost destroyed all your
>>democratic rights, drawn you into destroying a dictator that the had no
>>chance of dealing with himself, almost impoverished your country, made you a
>>reviled laughing stock on the world stage - and you've still not caught him.
>
>
> This is like Phil's oath and he doesn't let any facts get in the way.  The
> US economy is outperforming those in Europe. European companies are
> investing more in the US then in their own countries.  Hard to explain the
> the laughing stock part since every leader the opposed Bush (think
> Schroder, Chirac, and probably Martin) has lost or would lose if he ran.
> Every leader that backs Bush or supports his position (think Blair,
> Howard, and now it looks like in Canada, Harper) has won.

Phil does tend to exaggerate, but it's true that the US's reputation with
its allies has been damaged by this administration's behaviour in the
middle east.

--
Tony

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