A Midas Touch

It seems that every foreign leader who supported Bush in the Iraq war has been thrown out of office. It looks like Bush has a reverse Midas Touch when it comes to dealing with his allies. So far voters have rejected Berlusconi in Italy, Anzar in Spain, Blair in Britain, and Kaczynski in Poland. Bush's most faithful boot-licker, John Howard of Australia, was sent packing last week. The most significant system of military alliances, in place since Truman, is now gone. Rubbing salt in the wounds Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury (head of the Anglican Church) and with sterling conservative social credentials, has said that Bush's attempts at overseas interventions are worse the Britain's at the height of its Empire days. At least England installed a working government in India.

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