Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Un'Europa libera esiste

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/US_Elections/0,,2-10-1665_1593592,00.html
European papers slam Bush
22/09/2004 16:31  - (SA)
London - European newspapers Wednesday accused US President George W. Bush
of refusing to face facts over Iraq after he called for greater
international involvement in reconstructing the country in an address to the
UN General Assembly.
The president's speech "systematically refused to engage with what actually
has happened in Iraq," the Financial Times commented.
"The extent of the president's disengagement from the reality of a sinking
Iraq is alarming," it said.
Bush "exhibited no sense whatsoever of grievous US policy mistakes, of the
serious failures of the occupation authorities, or the extent to which the
Iraqi misadventure had handed the initiative to jihadi terrorists," the
business daily added.
The FT accused Bush of "solipsistic" assumptions and hailed Democrat
presidential contender John Kerry's call Monday for a "great, honest
national debate on Iraq" as a "welcome injection of seriousness" into the
election campaign.
The centre-left Independent said Bush had missed an opportunity "to show
that he appreciated the gravity of what is happening in Iraq."
Both the Independent and the conservative Daily Telegraph ran op-ed cartoons
featuring the phrase "Four more years," a reference to Bush's efforts to
secure re-election in the November presidential poll.
In the Daily Telegraph it is the US president, standing atop the UN
headquarters in New York, who is hollering the words. But in the Independent
Osama bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaeda network, is portrayed sticking up an
election poster supporting Bush at the dead of night in a war-ravaged
Baghdad.
For France's centre-left Liberation, Bush's speech to the UN exemplified the
"slightly autistic self-satisfaction" which it said was the dominant
tendency in the US administration.
'Truth counts for nothing'
The conservative Le Figaro was little kinder, describing Bush as "impervious
to criticism. ... Every new crime (in Baghdad) strengthens his conviction of
having been right against those who accuse him of having invaded Iraq on
false pretences."
The German daily Tagesspiegel, in an editorial headed "US, UN, Iraq: the
truth counts for nothing," noted that Bush once again defended his invasion
of Iraq whereas the situation there was one of "chaos."
Italy's Corriere della Sera observed that Bush "has forgotten that his
go-it-alone approach has alienated many sympathisers with the US cause,"
warning it would take "more than an isolated appeal, during an election
campaign," to regain a consensus.
In Spain the centre-left El Pais noted that Bush displayed "no intention of
changing his ways after the chaos his invasion of Iraq has caused," while
the conservative ABC, which backed the invasion, observed that Bush had
"neither apologised nor admitted any mistakes."
The Polish nationalist daily Nasz Dzinnik said Bush was trying to get the
international community to pay for his "reckless policy" in the Middle East,
forgetting that "he attacked Iraq in defiance of the UN position."

 has happened in Iraq," the Financial Times commented.
Francamente, io trovo il FT sia il giornale piu' seriamente di sinistra d' 
Europa (a parte per i paginoni centrali che scarnificano Prodi, ma quelli 
adesso finiranno). Tra l' altro e' l' unico giornale europeo dove in una 
stessa settimana si possono leggere articoli di Nye, Sen e Stiglitz . Io che 
sono un DS e un dalemiano trovo espresse le mie posizioni meglio dal FT che 
dall' Unita (anche se non so se faccio bene a dirlo).
JP