World Sees Election Results As Rejection Of Iraq Policy...

The New York Times Alan Cowell November 8, 2006 07:05 PM

As word of the American midterm election results and, later, the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld spread across the globe, criticism of the United States turned less shrill, less gloating, more textured than in the past. But no one seemed to feel that the vote was about anything but Baghdad.

"This was the bill to the White House for their disaster in Iraq," said Jürgen Trittin, deputy leader of Germany's Green party.

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