I'm trying to determine the authenticity of this statement:  "Majority
of the people of Europe (71%) view Bush?s presidency as the biggest
threat to world peace and stability."  which came from here:
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/04/23_resume.html

I'm being hammered by emails to back it up. 
Percenteges or not, some sort of reliable measurement of general
Europen sentiment towards the US would help. Finding that exact
statistic (71%) , if it's not been made up, would be just ducky.

<European attitudes to the U.S.

The 71% figure is widely quoted in a spoof CV of GeorgeW. Bush that
has appeared on many websites including this one.
http://www.gavinsblog.com/mt/archives/000784.html

TIMEeurope magazine conducted a poll which asked "Who really poses the
greatest danger to world peace? Iraq, North Korea or The United
States." They received 700,000 responses. 86.9% voted for the United
States.
http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html
Survey results.
http://www.time.com/gdml.dyn

The 71% figure may have come from reports that were made before the
poll was finished, like this report from From The Wilderness
Publications.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011203_time_poll.html

A poll conducted by Harris Interactive between February 27 and March
4, 2004 found that 70% of respondents have negative opinions of
President Bush. In contrast only 13% of Europeans have negative
opinions of American people and 33% have negative opinions of the
United States.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040324/nyw081_1.html

A BBC poll found that almost two-thirds of respondents had an
unfavourable opinion of George W Bush.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2994924.stm

The Pew Research Center has the results of a survey conducted 8-16
Octobe2 2003 which found that 53 percent of Europeans thought America
was a threat to world peace.
http://people-press.org/commentary/display.php3?AnalysisID=77

A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in association with the
International Herald Tribune found mistrust of the United States was
expressed in Germany (82%), France (78%) and Britain (58%). They also
found European dislike of President George W. Bush with negative
opinion of Bush in France and Germany ? 85%.
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/euromedia/archives/002332.html>


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<Hope this helps.>

Excellent. I appreciate the multiple sources, each and every one of
them. It's making me think up more questions.