It seems pretty obvious to me that there was no shortage of help from Europe following 9/11 and quite a few countries went along with what the US said it needed to fight the war on terror. So despite all of the Euro-bashing from the administration, they were receiving what they wanted. The problem was (and is) that Bush doesn't know when to stop.
I will be curious to see when this stopped and can't help but believe that the Bush administration just didn't know when to stop pushing the limit of acceptability and legality. Just because the US Congress is a bunch of patsies doesn't mean the rest of the world is made up of lapdogs, besides Blair, of course. So now in the future when the US needs assistance from foreign countries, who's going to want to help after this debacle? Once again, Bush has done so much damage to US foreign policy, it will take years to recover from his incompetence.
The report, due out later Wednesday, is said to implicate 14 European governments in the practice, which involves the transfer of security suspects to a third country for questioning.
