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pidaua
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posted December 07, 2006 04:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hmmmm.... very interesting yet not surprising.

European Socialists eager to work with U.S. Democrats
Thu Dec 7, 2006 3:43 PM ET

OPORTO, Portugal (Reuters) - European Socialists promised on Thursday to work to rebuild Europe's strategic alliance with the United States now that the Democrats control Congress after last month's elections.

Socialist leaders attending a meeting of the European Socialist Party pledged that with the Democrats on the rise, strong ties could be renewed with the United States after years of cool relations with Republican President George W. Bush.

Howard Dean, chairman of the national committee of the U.S. Democratic Party, is attending the two-day conference together with the leaders of leftist governments of several countries and party leaders from across Europe.

"We are not anti-American, we want the real America, your America," former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, president of the European Socialist Party, said in remarks directed at Dean.

The Democrats gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1994 in the mid-term elections, reshaping the political landscape ahead of the 2008 presidential race.

"Europe needs an America that is back on track," said Portuguese Socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates, whose country is hosting the meeting.

"We need, today more than ever, to reinforce and renew the strategic alliance between the United States and Europe," Socrates said. "We know that a stronger Democratic Party is key for this to happen."

Socialists, or centre-left governments, currently hold or share power in just over half of Europe.

Many European governments, not just Socialist ones, have above all been angered by Bush's war in Iraq and what has been seen as the U.S. failure to work with allies in international affairs.

They expressed hopes after last month's election for a new era of open dialogue on a more equal footing with Washington and the Bush administration during the final two years of his presidency.

Socrates said Dean's Democrats "should know that they can count on European Socialists" for support.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-12-07T204342Z_01_L0796336_RTRUKOC_0_US-EUROPE-SOCIALISTS-US.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

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jwhop
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posted December 08, 2006 03:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hey Pid, I read that too.

Apparently European leftists believe the US is ready to or should be ready to copy European socialist policy.

Then we too could have unemployment running more than 10% of our workforce, a stratified workforce akin to a caste system, radical Islamics preaching on street corners for the overthrow of their governments, torching cars at will, agitating for Shiria law within their own nations, governments and committees telling everyone what they can and cannot say and a failing, corrupt healthcare system.

I know that sounds very attractive to democrats.

Another group cheering the democrat election victory are the terrorists but then, that's not surprising since the democrats are the best friends terrorists and terrorist supporting nations have on earth.

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neptune5
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posted December 08, 2006 07:00 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
in my mind I believe that the bush administration has tarnished the republican reputation, mostly aboad, so I can well believe that Euro-Socialists, would only prefer the democrats, and according to party, there only other option, is there another option?

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Petron
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posted December 08, 2006 07:22 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
hw bush had european nazis eagerly supporting his campaign.....
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/54/54_38-41.pdf

when it as publicized, they were fired......junior is probly more careful nowadays.....

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neptune5
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posted December 08, 2006 07:46 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Got that right Petron.

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