>>>>John, AFAICS, it is the other way arround. The Bush government has insulted and irritated the rest of the world. I've given you enough links to get educated on why the image of the US in the world outside has shrunk inmensely during the last 8 years. You can choose to ignore that fact and choose it accuse me from insults, but the facts don't lie. Every study held spanning many countries and hundreds of thousands of people being interviewed show that the image of the US has gone down tremendously. In most of those investigation it is indicated that one of the major the reasons for this is the policy of the Bush administration and that they took every opportunity to hurt this image (Iraq, abu ghrail, cuba, extraordinary renditions (and at the same time complain about human rights in china), secret CIA camps in europe, katrina and economic mismanagement).
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>>>How educated are Europeans on the Clinton adminstration's role in extraordinary renditions?
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>>I guess not, since it only became public under the bush administration.
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/AR2007101900835_pf.html
>http://www.aclu.org/safefree/extraordinaryrendition/22203res20051206.html

Interesting.... However it does not really matter the public disapproves the extraordinary renditions durring the Bush administration and hold them responsible for it. Whether it was practised (on a more limited frequency) before bush entered office does not really matter. The public disapproves it.