Sell Out European Leaders Grovel for Bush

Euro leaders thumbs-up, Mandela not

Negroponte to brief Senate Foreign Relations Cmte.

Thursday, January 30, 2003 Posted: 10:58 AM EST (1558 GMT)

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In a statement published in newspapers across Europe, the leaders said the September 11 terror attacks on the United States "showed just how far terrorists -- the enemies of our common values -- are prepared to go."

"We know that success in the day-to-day battle against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction demands unwavering determination and firm international cohesion on the part of all countries for whom freedom is precious," the statement said. (Full story)

The statement was signed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose-Manuel Durao Barroso, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy, and Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller.

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