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THE BATTALIOI
World
poll
criticize
America
Volume
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By Audrey Woods
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON —
public opinion in 11 nati®
finds many see the United State
as an arrogant superpower ika
poses a greater danger to
peace than North Korea.
President George W.
failed to impress 58 percent';!
those questioned by
for a British Broadcastitj
Corp. broadcast Tuesday nigli
They said they had a
unfavorable or very ur
able view of the Americi
president. If the Americts
respondents were remove:
from the sample, the num
rose to 60 percent.
The poll questioned 11,(
people in May and June in
nations: Australia, Bra;
Britain, Canada, France,
Indonesia, Israel, J
Russia, South Korea ar
United States. The poll was
conducted by pollsters
ing ICM in Britain and
Reid in the United States.!
BBC did not estimate a
of error.
Even though 67 percentsaii
they wouldn’t want their
tries to copy U.S. economit
policies, 67 percent
aspire to U.S. gains in science
and technology, and 56 pe
to the opportunities
advancement available to
pie in the United States,
percent aspired to U.S. freedoi
of expression.
The way the United
wields its power worried
of those questioned for thepto-
gram, “What the World
of America.”
Only 25 percent said U.S.
military might was makingtl*
world a safer place.
Forty-one percent agre
with Prime Minister To
Blair’s opinion that the Unil
States is a force for good in I
world, and 55 disagreed.
Sixty-five percent over
said America is arrogant. For
seven percent said America
friendly and 33 percent find l
United States antagonistic.
Fifty-six percent said tin
United States was wrong
attack Iraq. That num
reached 81 percent in Rus
and 63 percent in France,!
nations that led world oppc
tion to the war. Overall, 37pet
cent said the war was right
54 percent in Britain, 74 per
cent in the United States anal
percent in Israel.
The al-Qaida terrorist organ!
zation was ranked more danger
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ous than the United States,
the Americans were judged tote
a greater threat than Russia-
China, Syria and two member
of Bush’s Axis of Evil — Iran
and North Korea.
Even in South Korea, where
tensions along the Demilitarized
Zone run high, 48 percent t>f
respondents judged the United
States to be a greater threat to
world peace than the communist
neighbors to the north.
In a studio panel of com
mentators, former Britislt
Cabinet member Clare Short,
who quit her post to protest#
invasion of Iraq, said
Sept. 11 America was “a
wounded giant, full of anger,-
that feels it’s got to exercised
power all over the world;
think that’s becoming a fright
ening America.”
Fifty percent of the pol
respondents said they had a fair
ly positive or very positive vie"
of the United States, com]
with 40 percent who had
vorable views. Those fij
excluded Americans.
Many said their own coun
tries were becoming more
America — 81 percent
Australians agreed with
statement, as did 64 percento{
Britons and 63 percent
Israelis.
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