"...teach a president many see as a “cowboy” a lesson in humility"

[Eric the Red]

World sees vote as start of new foreign policy

 

'The end of a six-year nightmare for the world,' EU parliamentarians say

 

'Beginning of the end'

Regardless of the effect on world events, global giddiness that Bush was finally handed a political black-eye was almost palpable.

 

“Americans are realizing that you can’t found the politics of a country on patriotic passion and reflexes,” he said. “You can’t fool everybody all the time — and I think that’s what Bush and his administration are learning today.”

 

Democrats swept to power in the House on Tuesday and were threatening to take control of the Senate amid exit polls that showed widespread American discontent over Iraq, nationwide disgust at corruption in politics, and low approval ratings for Bush.

 

Bush is deeply unpopular in many countries around the globe, with particularly intense opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, the U.S. terror detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and allegations of Washington sanctioned interrogation methods that some equate with torture.

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