Eles mentem, eles perdem...

"...internal developments throughout Europe are also playing into the president's hands.

Tony Blair is winning his election in the U.K. - having trailed for most of last year - because of the increasing success in Iraq. What once doomed him to defeat - cooperation with Bush - now boosts him to re-election.

In France, Jacques Chirac faces the embarrassment of trying to rescind the 35-hour work week, the foremost achievement of his previous four years in office. It is not stimulating employment, as he had hoped, and its repeal is igniting an anti-Chirac sentiment all over France.

German Chancellor Schroeder just got trounced in the local elections...and his failure to push through many of his labor-law reforms is looming larger in domestic German politics.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was upended in Ukraine and has faced an increasingly restive and demonstrating Russian public...

...The statesmen of Old Europe seem to have lost their way in the thicket of self-interest, while Bush is holding out a clarifying lantern of idealism and commitment to democracy."

P.S. Curiosamente, o PS não terminará de imediato a ajuda militar portuguesa aos nossos aliados americanos no Iraque.