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"Harry Hope" |
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Bush bumbles through Europe |
http://en.rian.ru/world/20070609/66989590.html
6/9/07
Bush plagued by a string of mishaps on Europe tour
ROME, June 9 (RIA Novosti) -
After braving an upset stomach in Germany and being greeted by crowds
of protesters in Poland and Italy, the U.S. president probably thought
things could not get much worse - and then his car broke down
Saturday.
George W. Bush was forced to pull out of yesterday morning's talks on
the final day of the G8 summit, on Germany's Baltic coast, after
doctors diagnosed him with a stomach ailment, and only managed a
meeting in his private apartment with French President Nicolas
Sarkozy.
However, the U.S. leader, who turns 61 next month, stuck to his
schedule and traveled to neighboring Poland, where he met with his
counterpart and ally, Lech Kaczynski, to discuss the highly
controversial deployment of missile shield elements in the former
Eastern Bloc state.
The plans, though fully supported by the Polish leadership, are not
popular among the Poles, and a crowd of demonstrators gathered in
Jarata in opposition to his visit to the Baltic town, displaying
banners reading:
"No anti-missile base" and "Bush - terrorist number one."
On Saturday, Bush arrived in Italy, where he held talks with Pope
Benedict XVI, but later during his tour of the city his limousine
broke down and a reserve vehicle had to be rushed in.
Moreover, the new limo was too big to squeeze through the gates of the
U.S. Embassy, and the U.S. leader had to walk the remaining distance.
The specter of the Iraqi war followed him in Rome, as thousands of
people marched through the streets shouting "No Bush, no war."
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Tsk, tsk, poor Georgie, somebody up there doesn't like him.
Harry
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10 Jun 2007 10:56:32 PM |
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"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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http://en.rian.ru/world/20070609/66989590.html
6/9/07
Bush plagued by a string of mishaps on Europe tour
ROME, June 9 (RIA Novosti) -
After braving an upset stomach in Germany and being greeted by crowds
of protesters in Poland and Italy, the U.S. president probably thought
things could not get much worse - and then his car broke down
Saturday.
George W. Bush was forced to pull out of yesterday morning's talks on
the final day of the G8 summit, on Germany's Baltic coast, after
doctors diagnosed him with a stomach ailment, and only managed a
meeting in his private apartment with French President Nicolas
Sarkozy.
However, the U.S. leader, who turns 61 next month, stuck to his
schedule and traveled to neighboring Poland, where he met with his
counterpart and ally, Lech Kaczynski, to discuss the highly
controversial deployment of missile shield elements in the former
Eastern Bloc state.
The plans, though fully supported by the Polish leadership, are not
popular among the Poles, and a crowd of demonstrators gathered in
Jarata in opposition to his visit to the Baltic town, displaying
banners reading:
"No anti-missile base" and "Bush - terrorist number one."
On Saturday, Bush arrived in Italy, where he held talks with Pope
Benedict XVI, but later during his tour of the city his limousine
broke down and a reserve vehicle had to be rushed in.
Moreover, the new limo was too big to squeeze through the gates of the
U.S. Embassy, and the U.S. leader had to walk the remaining distance.
The specter of the Iraqi war followed him in Rome, as thousands of
people marched through the streets shouting "No Bush, no war."
_________________________________________________
Tsk, tsk, poor Georgie, somebody up there doesn't like him.
And the BIG CRAP* victory tour continues.
*Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Albania, Poland
Harry
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| User: "Bruce Olin" |
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09 Jun 2007 04:37:04 PM |
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"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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| http://en.rian.ru/world/20070609/66989590.html
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| 6/9/07
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| Bush plagued by a string of mishaps on Europe tour
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| ROME, June 9 (RIA Novosti) -
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| After braving an upset stomach in Germany and being greeted by crowds
| of protesters in Poland and Italy, the U.S. president probably thought
| things could not get much worse - and then his car broke down
| Saturday.
|
| George W. Bush was forced to pull out of yesterday morning's talks on
| the final day of the G8 summit, on Germany's Baltic coast, after
| doctors diagnosed him with a stomach ailment, and only managed a
| meeting in his private apartment with French President Nicolas
| Sarkozy.
|
| However, the U.S. leader, who turns 61 next month, stuck to his
| schedule and traveled to neighboring Poland, where he met with his
| counterpart and ally, Lech Kaczynski, to discuss the highly
| controversial deployment of missile shield elements in the former
| Eastern Bloc state.
|
| The plans, though fully supported by the Polish leadership, are not
| popular among the Poles, and a crowd of demonstrators gathered in
| Jarata in opposition to his visit to the Baltic town, displaying
| banners reading:
|
| "No anti-missile base" and "Bush - terrorist number one."
|
| On Saturday, Bush arrived in Italy, where he held talks with Pope
| Benedict XVI, but later during his tour of the city his limousine
| broke down and a reserve vehicle had to be rushed in.
|
| Moreover, the new limo was too big to squeeze through the gates of the
| U.S. Embassy, and the U.S. leader had to walk the remaining distance.
|
| The specter of the Iraqi war followed him in Rome, as thousands of
| people marched through the streets shouting "No Bush, no war."
|
| _________________________________________________
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| Tsk, tsk, poor Georgie, somebody up there doesn't like him.
|
| Harry
For One Visit, Bush Will Feel Pro-U.S. Glow
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: June 9, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/world/europe/09albania.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
TIRANA, Albania, June 8 - The highlight of President Bush's European tour
may well be his visit on Sunday to this tiny country, one of the few places
left where he can bask in unabashed pro-American sentiment without a
protester in sight.
The mayor of Tirana calls Albania "the most pro-American country."
Americans here are greeted with a refreshing adoration that feels as though
it comes from another time.
"Albania is for sure the most pro-American country in Europe, maybe even in
the world," said Edi Rama, Tirana's mayor and leader of the opposition
Socialists. "Nowhere else can you find such respect and hospitality for the
president of the United States. Even in Michigan, he wouldn't be as
welcome."
Thousands of young Albanians have been named Bill or Hillary thanks to the
Clinton administration's role in rescuing ethnic Albanians from the Kosovo
war. After the visit on Sunday, some people expect to see a rash of babies
named George.
So eager is the country to accommodate Mr. Bush that Parliament unanimously
approved a bill last month allowing "American forces to engage in any kind
of operation, including the use of force, in order to provide security for
the president." One newspaper, reporting on the effusive mood, published a
headline that read, "Please Occupy Us!"
There are, to be sure, signs that the rest of Europe is tilting a bit more
in America's direction, narrowing the gap between "old" and "new" Europe
that opened with disagreements over the Iraq war.
France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, wants to forget the acrimony that
marked his predecessor's relations with the United States, even appointing a
pro-American foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who supported the United
States' invasion of Iraq.
Shortly after taking office, Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Germany
did "not have as many values in common with Russia as it does with America."
She has since proposed a new trans-Atlantic economic partnership that would
get rid of many non-tariff barriers to trade.
And Gordon Brown, who will succeed Tony Blair as Britain's prime minister
this month, has vacationed several times on Cape Cod and befriended a
succession of Treasury officials. He is expected to maintain what Britons
call the country's "special relationship" with the United States, ahead of
other American allies.
So "old Europe" has warmed toward the United States, although there has been
no fundamental shift toward more American-friendly policies. But even in
"new Europe," as the post-Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe
have been called, Albania is special.
Much of Eastern Europe has grown more critical of Mr. Bush, worried that the
antimissile defense shield he is pushing will antagonize Russia and lead to
another cold war. Many Eastern Europeans, Czechs and Poles among them, are
also angry that the United States has maintained cumbersome visa
requirements even though their countries are now members of the European
Union.
But here in Albania, which has not wavered in its unblinking support for
American policies since the end of the cold war, Mr. Bush can do no wrong.
While much of the world berates Mr. Bush for warmongering, unilateralism,
trampling civil liberties and even turning a blind eye to torture, Albania
still loves him without restraint.
Mr. Bush will be the first sitting American president to visit the country,
and his arrival could not come on a more auspicious day: the eighth
anniversary of the start of Serbian troop withdrawals from Kosovo and
ratification by the United Nations Security Council of the American-brokered
peace accord that ended the fighting. Mr. Bush is pushing the Security
Council to approve a plan that would lead to qualified Kosovo independence.
Albanians are pouring into the capital from across the region. Hotel rooms
are as scarce as anti-American feelings.
Albanians' support for the war in Iraq is nearly unanimous, and any
perceived failings of American foreign policy are studiously ignored. A
two-day effort to find anyone of prominence who might offer some criticism
of the United States turned up just one name, and that person was out of the
country.
Every school child in Albania can tell you that President Woodrow Wilson
saved Albania from being split up among its neighbors after World War I, and
nearly every adult repeats the story when asked why Albanians are so
infatuated with the United States.
James A. Baker III was mobbed when he visited the country as secretary of
state in 1991. There was even a move to hold a referendum declaring the
country America's 51st state around that time.
"The excitement among Albanians over this visit is immeasurable, beyond
words," said Albania's new foreign minister, Lulzim Basha, during an
interview in his office, decorated with an elegant portrait of Faik Konica,
who became the first Albanian ambassador to the United States in 1926. "We
truly believe that this is a historic moment that people will look back on
decades later and talk about what it meant for the country."
Mr. Bush's visit is a reward for Albania's unflinching performance as an
unquestioning ally. The country was among the first American allies to
support Washington's refusal to submit to the jurisdiction of the
International Criminal Court. It was one of the first countries to send
troops to Afghanistan and one of the first to join the forces in Iraq. It
has soldiers in both places.
"They will continue to be deployed as long as the Americans are there,"
Albania's president, Alfred Moisiu, said proudly in an interview.
Most recently, the country has quietly taken several former detainees from
the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, off the Bush administration's hands when
sending them to their home countries was out of the question. There are
eight so far, and Mr. Moisiu said he is open to accepting more.
Mr. Rama, Tirana's mayor, says he is offended when Albania's pro-Americanism
is cast as an expression of "provincial submission."
"It's not about being blind," he said, wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned
with the Great Seal of the United States. "The U.S. is something that is
really crucial for the destiny of the world."
The pro-American feeling has strayed into government-commercial relations.
The Albanian government has hired former Homeland Security Secretary Tom
Ridge as a consultant on a range of issues, including the implementation of
a national identity card.
Many people questioned the procedures under which a joint venture led by
Bechtel won Albania's largest public spending project ever, a contract to
build a highway linking Albania and Kosovo. President Moisiu said state
prosecutors were now looking at the deal.
In preparation for Mr. Bush's six-hour visit, Tirana has been draped in
American flags and banners that proclaim, "Proud to be Partners." A portrait
of Mr. Bush hangs on the "Pyramid," a cultural center in the middle of town
that was built as a monument to Albania's Communist strongman, Enver Hoxha.
State television is repeatedly playing a slickly produced spot in which
Prime Minister Sali Berisha welcomes Mr. Bush in English.
What Mr. Bush will get in return from the visit is the sight of cheering
crowds in a predominantly Muslim nation. When asked by an Albanian reporter
before leaving Washington what came to mind when he thought of Albania, Mr.
Bush replied, "Muslim people who can live at peace."
Albania is about 70 percent Muslim, with large Orthodox and Catholic
populations. To underscore the country's history of tolerance, President
Moisiu will present Mr. Bush with the reproduction of an 18th-century
Orthodox icon depicting the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus flanked by two
mosques.
"President Bush is safer in Albania than in America," said Ermin Gjinishti,
a Muslim leader in Albania.
Tim Golden contributed reporting from Tirana, and Alan Cowell from London.
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10 Jun 2007 01:10:39 PM |
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| 6/9/07
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| Bush plagued by a string of mishaps on Europe tour
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| ROME, June 9 (RIA Novosti) -
|
| After braving an upset stomach in Germany and being greeted by crowds
| of protesters in Poland and Italy, the U.S. president probably thought
| things could not get much worse - and then his car broke down
| Saturday.
|
| George W. Bush was forced to pull out of yesterday morning's talks on
| the final day of the G8 summit, on Germany's Baltic coast, after
| doctors diagnosed him with a stomach ailment, and only managed a
| meeting in his private apartment with French President Nicolas
| Sarkozy.
|
| However, the U.S. leader, who turns 61 next month, stuck to his
| schedule and traveled to neighboring Poland, where he met with his
| counterpart and ally, Lech Kaczynski, to discuss the highly
| controversial deployment of missile shield elements in the former
| Eastern Bloc state.
|
| The plans, though fully supported by the Polish leadership, are not
| popular among the Poles, and a crowd of demonstrators gathered in
| Jarata in opposition to his visit to the Baltic town, displaying
| banners reading:
|
| "No anti-missile base" and "Bush - terrorist number one."
|
| On Saturday, Bush arrived in Italy, where he held talks with Pope
| Benedict XVI, but later during his tour of the city his limousine
| broke down and a reserve vehicle had to be rushed in.
|
| Moreover, the new limo was too big to squeeze through the gates of the
| U.S. Embassy, and the U.S. leader had to walk the remaining distance.
|
| The specter of the Iraqi war followed him in Rome, as thousands of
| people marched through the streets shouting "No Bush, no war."
|
| _________________________________________________
|
| Tsk, tsk, poor Georgie, somebody up there doesn't like him.
|
| Harry
For One Visit, Bush Will Feel Pro-U.S. Glow
By CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: June 9, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/world/europe/09albania.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
TIRANA, Albania, June 8 - The highlight of President Bush's European tour
may well be his visit on Sunday to this tiny country, one of the few
places
left where he can bask in unabashed pro-American sentiment without a
protester in sight.
The mayor of Tirana calls Albania "the most pro-American country."
Cool, so Bush should stay there, get a villa on the Adriatic and enjoy his
retirement. Get up late, start drinking about 14:00 then plop into bed at
23:30. We Americans would like it and it would provide the Albanians with
some funds, a win-win. Don't worry, Cheney's been running the country for
years, we wouldn't notice the difference.
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09 Jun 2007 08:07:18 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://en.rian.ru/world/20070609/66989590.html
George W. Bush was forced to pull out of yesterday morning's talks on
the final day of the G8 summit, on Germany's Baltic coast, after
doctors diagnosed him with a stomach ailment
I hope someone in Germany tried to poison that mass murdering terrorist.
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