US embassy cable - 05TEGUCIGALPA2059

UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 002059 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR WHA/PDA AND WHA/CEN 
FOR IIP/G/WHA AND IIP/T/ES 
EMBASSIES FOR PAOS, IOS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OIIP, PGOV, PREL, KPAO, HO 
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION ON BUSH ADMINISTRATION, OCTOBER 4, 
2005 
 
 
1. Editorial in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El 
Heraldo" on 10/3 titled "The Bush Government."  "Now that 
President Bush has successfully had his nominee for Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, approved by 
Congress, he stands before the growing ocean of difficulties 
he is going through in his second term." 
 
"The human, diplomatic, and financial costs of the illegal 
and immoral war in Iraq, the photographs of the atrocities 
committed by the U.S. military against Iraqi prisoners, the 
demonstrations in favor of U.S. withdrawal, the 
embarrassment at the management of the disaster caused by 
Hurricane Katrina and the allegations of corruption in 
handling the resources for Hurricane victims, the 
implication of their involvement in criminal acts, the fall 
of Bush's popularity and the loss of influence in Latin 
America are some of the problems that plague the White 
House" 
 
"The errors of the Bush administration are many more, but 
they are still kept secret thanks to the silence of the big 
media conglomerates and the level of influence that the U.S. 
has in international organizations, including the U.N., 
which is exemplified in the fact that it has agreed to carry 
out an investigation into the disappearances that happened 
during the Saddam Hussein regime, but no investigations will 
be made in regard to the murders committed by the forces 
occupying Iraq, nor for the hundreds of individuals who find 
themselves in a legal limbo and in subhuman conditions in 
Guantanamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq." 
 
"The double-talk of the U.S. government in regard to 
liberty, democracy, protection of human rights, and 
terrorism, continues: the only nations considered democratic 
are those ruled by governments obedient to their mandates, 
and which fear their military, economic and political 
power." 
 
"The Bush administration, with its popularity at an all-time 
low, must conduct a balancing act of epic proportions to 
come out on top again with its internal and external 
agenda." 
 
Williard