If one has a conversation with the average Dutchman about politics, in particular Iraq and the US president, one does not have to wait long before hearing a remark like “a stupid president for a stupid people.”
I have been living in the Netherlands for a few years now and have regularly talked about politics with a variety of people from typical Leidse to very cosmopolitan Amsterdamers and have yet to hear anything approaching your quote. There is considerable dissatisfaction with US foreign policy and with Bush and many have asked me how it was that Bush was reelected, but that is as close as they have come to the above commentary.
As a side note, how can you support a politician that refers to the holy book of one of the world’s great religions as a fascist book and advocates its being banned in the Netherlands?
