In view of what is going on in Iraq, I feel rather ashamed, two years further on, of having been in the Azores, arm in arm with George Bush’; if, at any time, you had told us that, in view of what is currently going on in your own country’s society following your reforms, you were questioning the way in which you had carried out those reforms; and if, at any time, we had been able to feel that you could see what our problems were, we would have been able to say: ‘He knows how to communicate and how to change; we have to give him a chance’.
Visto lo que sucede en Iraq me siento avergonzado, dos años después de haber estado en las Azores, codo con codo con George Bush.» Si, en un momento dado, hubiera dicho, a la vista de lo que pasa actualmente en la sociedad de su propio país, tras sus reformas, que pone en duda el modo en que ha llevado a cabo esas reformas; y si, en algún momento, hubiéramos podido sentir que usted es capaz de saber cuáles son nuestros problemas, habríamos podido decir: «Sabe cómo comunicar y cómo cambiar; hay que darle una oportunidad».