St Pete for Peace

· Anti-American Protests Spread through Islamic World (New York Times, May '05)
· In 20 of 23 Countries Polled Citizens Want Europe to Be More Influential Than US (PIPA, Dec '04)
· 76% of Europeans disapprove of U.S. foreign policy (The Guardian, Oct '04)

Is Support for
the U.S. Crumbling?

GENERAL WORLD OPINION

TORTURE FALLOUT

	"Anti-Bush Feelings in Europe Becoming Anti-American" - June '04
	"Bush's Middle East policy is costing the U.S. credibility, prestige, and friends" - 50 Former U.S. Diplomats May '04
	82% of Iraqis oppose U.S. occupation. - Seattle Times May '04. Only one-third feel the U.S. is doing more good than harm - USA Today Apr '04
	The U.S. is a "rogue state" - Former Dutch Prime Minister van Agt Apr '04
	"Today there is a hatred of the Americans like never before in the [Arab] region" - Egyptian President Mubarak Apr '04
	"Palestinian rage at U.S. festers" CBS Apr '04
	"Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam and Muslims," - Hamas leader Rantissi (before being assassinated by Israel) Mar '04
	Favorable opinion of U.S: Turkey: 30% Morocco 27% Pakistan 21% Jordan 5% (Pew Research (page 7) Mar '04)
	U.S. image abroad will take "years to repair" - Christian Science Monitor Feb '04
	Bush is the "greatest threat to life on this planet" - London Mayor Ken Livingstone Nov '03
	"Latin America has a dismal view of Bush" - Zogby/Univ. of Miami poll Oct '03
	"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States...they don't care." - Nelson Mandela Jan '03
	Poll: Muslims call U.S. "ruthless, arrogant" - CNN Nov '02 (Pre-Iraq invasion)
	Former Australian PM says US criticism on Iraq "thuggish and dumb"" - ChannelNews Asia Jul '04

	"We're not the good guys anymore" - William Rogers, former Under Secretary of State May '04
	The Vatican: "The torture? A more serious blow to the United States than Sept. 11. Except that the blow was not inflicted by terrorists but by Americans against themselves" May '04
	Analysts said the torture photos showed .. the true image of the occupation: humiliation.., contempt for Islam, sadism and racism. Reuters May '04
	"The bottom has indeed fallen out of support for the U.S." - Former Ambassador Ed Djerejian May '04
	The backlash in Europe is even greater than in the 22-nation Arab world - Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage May '04
	"The images that shamed America" The Guardian of London May '04
	"Shame on them" Times of Oman May '04
	"Bush Klux Klan" LeMonde cartoonist May '04
	"Unfortunately, the Arab and brown-skinned world, and much of the world ... believe that the torture is a predictable expression of American culture" Jamaica Observer May '04
	"The Creaky Coalition" MSNBC Nov '04

5/20/05 - Muslim protesters called for the bombing of New York in a demonstration outside the US embassy in London. (read)

Hatred of America widespread in Egypt
"A new religious conservatism, thriving among young members of the middle- and upper-middle classes, is as much about forging an Egyptian identity through resistance to Western encroachments as it is about religion." Washington Post 7/18/04

· Saudis blame U.S. role in Iraq for rise in terror - New York Times 10/14/04

IRAQ PULLOUT

Italy plans pullout, Bulgaria and Ukraine as well - MSNBC Mar '05

Latest to announce plans to withraw: Poland, Netherlands, Portugal and Hungary - Financial Times Jan '05

New Zealand troops leaving Iraq - Herald Sun Sep '04

Costa Rica withdraws from "Coalition of the Willing" - Globe and Mail Aug '04

Jordanian firm pulls workers from Iraq following kidnapping - AP Jul '04

Philippines' decision to withdraw troops from Iraq brings cheers at home - AP Jul '04

Thailand begins withdrawal of troops from Iraq - Islam Online Jul '04

South Korea to evacuate workers in Iraq - Boston Herald June '04

Czech forces likely to pull out of Iraq at the beginning of next year - New Zealand Herald June '04

"First Spain announced it would withdraw its troops, then Honduras, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Kazakhstan. South Korean and Bulgarian troops were pulled back to their bases, while New Zealand is withdrawing its engineers. El Salvador, Norway, the Netherlands and Thailand will likely be next" - Naomi Klein Mutiny in Iraq May '04

"Contractors in Iraq scale back (GE, Bechtel) and pullout (Siemens)" - Washington Times Apr '04

"The best figure we've got is that about 25% of contractors had currently pulled out of [Iraq], albeit temporarily" - A coalition source via the Guardian/UK Apr 04

34 Halliburton employees killed so far in Iraq, though no pullout is planned - ABC News Apr 04

Former Reagan era NSA Chief William Odom says Iraq is a "mess" and U.S. should withdraw their troops - Council on Foreign Relations May '04

Yemeni president (and U.S. ally) calls for "immediate" U.S. pullout from Iraq - AFP Apr '04

The "Iraq occupation is a fiasco" - Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero (who subsequently withdrew all of Spain's 1,300 troops from Iraq) Mar '04

British "voters support the withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq by the end of [June] by a majority of two to one" - Independent UK May '04

NOTE: Please click on each of the statements above to get details and read more about world opinion of the U.S. Of particular interest may the Pew Research Nine-Country Survey results from March 16, 2004.

DISCLAIMER: The above information is NOT a random sample of all world opinion of the United States. This piece was put together to draw attention to large amount of negative opinion of the U.S. being expressed by the world community.

Pakistan President and key
U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf

U.S. NOT welcome in Iraq; everything should lead to an exit strategy. The Iraq war has increased the opposition to the U.S. in the Islamic world. Also, the Israeli/Palestine issue causes anti-American feeling in Muslim world and is the root cause of terrorism. (9/25/04)

world opinion of the u.s. is support for the u.s. falling