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Bush was seen more dangerous to world peace than Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and North Korean President Kim Jong-il. (Reuters) |
CAIRO — US President George W. Bush is a great danger to world peace and the US policies have made the world less safe, according to an international poll in the United States' major allies.
Three-quarter of Britons said that Bush was more dangerous to world peace, running close to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, reported the Guardian on Friday, November 3.
By contract, 69% of voters said North Korea's Kim Jong-il, who recently tested a nuclear bomb, was a threat to peace, compared to 62% for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Only 10% of voters in Britain, the United States' main ally, think that Bush poses no danger at all.
A recent poll has showed that Bush was named the worst American president since the World War II basically due the his poor job performance and the polarizing war on Iraq.
The ICM poll comes days before the US midterm elections.
Polls before the November 7 elections show Democrats positioned to win a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994, and threatening Republican control of the Senate.
This came as Bush's ratings have hit their lowest-ever over the Iraq war.
A New York Times/CBS poll released Thursday, November 2, showed only 29 percent of US voters approved of the way Bush is managing the war.
Less Safe
The ICM polls showed that 69% of British voters believe the US policies have made the world less safe since 2001.
The finding was mirrored in Washington's main allies and neighbors.
Local polls also showed that 62% of voters in Canada and 57% of Mexicans said the world has become more dangerous because of the US policies.
In Israel, only 25% of those polled said Bush had made the world safer, while about 36% disagreed.
Former US President Bill Clinton has recently opened his salvoes at the "ideological and right-wing" policies of the Bush administration and the ruling Republican Party.
The majority of voters in three of the four countries also overwhelmingly rejected the US invasion of Iraq.
About 71% of Britons said the US-led invasion was unjustified.
Ninety-eight percent of Mexicans and 73% of Canadians also rejected the US decision to invade the oil-rich Arab country.
Only Israeli voters agreed with Bush's decision to invade Iraq.
Some 59% of Israelis said they were in favor with the US invasion against 34%.
The US invaded Iraq on claims of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, the claim rejected by a US presidential report.
The survey was conducted by the Guardian along with Israel's Haaretz, La Presse and Toronto Star in Canada and Mexico's Reforma.
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