They're saying some pretty bad things about Dubya in Australia, it sounds like

Edward Gomez' World Blog usually makes for good reading. For example:

With still nearly three years to go on his watch, no amount of public-relations spin can camouflage the facts: Now, the whole world knows that George W. Bush's failed Iraq war and Middle East policy are dragging the United States down into a quagmire of debt and death; along with its aimless war-making, the Republican administration's swelling record of scandal and incompetence regarding such urgent issues to Americans as the economy, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and health-care costs have also dragged Bush's approval ratings down to record lows. Only recently, though, have mainstream media in the U.S. begun to do what foreign news organizations, especially in Europe, have been doing since the Bush era began - that is to accurately report the nature and the causes of the United States' problems in plain language that places responsibility for the current state of affairs unflinchingly where it belongs.

But Gomez' post is mostly taken up with quotes from this article from Australia, Tide turns on Dubya's wreck by Mike Carlton Sydney Morning Herald 04/22/06. which Gomez says "that even now might have a hard time finding its way into print in an American newspaper". Carlton harshes on Dubya pretty much:

Sydney, NSW [New South Wales], is a long way from Washington DC but, even at this distance, it is clear that the Bush Administration is falling to pieces.

In recent weeks, scanning the political coverage in the mainstream US media and sampling the blogs has been to watch a flood tide ebbing to reveal a rotting, skeletal hulk. It is the George W. Bush ship of fools, stuck in the mud for the world to see in all its mendacity, its incompetence, its faith-based stupidity.

It is possible, at this late stage, that even Bush himself has begun to realise something is wrong. That oddly simian face is ashen, the eyes leaden. The voice is shrill and its tone defensive.

"Oddly simian"? Ouch! But "the George W. Bush ship of fools, stuck in the mud for the world to see in all its mendacity, its incompetence, its faith-based stupidity" is quite an inspired image, I'd have to say.

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