The exasperation with Europe is that of the administration, which was then to a compliant - and hysterical, at that time - media.

Blame Europe all you want, but it says volumes that neither Mexico or Chile (nor Canada, beyond the SC), countries more usually associated with the US sphere of influence than the European one, would not support George's splendid adventure in Iraq. In fact, the only countries that, out of misplaced loyalty, supported the USA in that crazy war were Europeans (the UK, Spain Bulgaria - and I am talking aobut the governments, not the people, and only about the Security Council vote)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes