Interestingly, I don't recall anyone saying 'Good job Mr Bush' anytime between 2006 and 2009...Not entirely true: the US has taken a lead in advocating free trade and elimination of subsidies, a position always supported by NZ. Now this. In fairness the EU did it first but as it says in the article, two wrongs don't make a right.
NZ rarely comments publicly in this fashion. Things must be fairly serious to cause such a response. It will be interesting to see whether an equally public apology follows.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
