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| Bush Visits Britain, realizes they have just as many morons as the states |
| 2003-11-19 |
| Amid royal pageantry and a smattering of anti-war protesters, President Bush opened a state visit Wednesday defending the invasion of Iraq as a necessary use of military power while likening reconstruction efforts to rebuilding a shattered Europe after two world wars. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip gave a royal salute to the American leader, greeting Bush at Buckingham Palace. Buckingham Palace, the queen’s London residence, also was a focal point for demonstrators bitterly opposed to the Iraq war. They shouted "Murderer!" and "You are not welcome!" as Bush’s helicopter ferried him to the palace Tuesday night. Wednesday morning, they gathered again behind metal barriers, watched by large numbers of yellow-jacketed police officers. The light crowd of And the palace was the setting of a major embarrassment for British security services. A journalist got hired as a royal servant despite presenting bogus credentials. The Daily Mirror newspaper said its reporter, who quit the job as a royal footman Tuesday night after Bush’s arrival at the palace, had full access to the queen’s residence and to the president’s guest room for his two-month tenure. That is disconcerting. Later, in a speech to academics at Whitehall Palace, Bush was seeking to puncture what he views as misconceptions on this side of the Atlantic about America’s use of force. He was subtly invoking Europe’s history of appeasement of dictators, and the price Europeans paid for their governments’ inaction. Bush was explicitly reminding Europeans about the critical work the Allies did to set postwar Germany on the path to democracy, a process the Bush administration and the British are trying to accelerate today in Iraq. On the first full day of a 3 1/2-day trip to England, Bush was trying to reframe Europeans’ perceptions of American military might. He wants to sway people here like Nina Baker, a Scottish Green Party Ah yes, the ole’ stole the presidency routine — very stale now. Bush argues that all free countries are at risk from terrorism, and that Iraq is a central front in the battle against terrorists. Wednesday, he was broadening his argument by offering what his senior aides called a "three-pillared" argument for war as a last resort. Bush was noting Europe’s long history of wars, which in the White House view has created the Europeans’ tendency to embrace international cooperative organizations like the United Nations. Bush’s speech was the centerpiece of a visit designed to win over Europeans. He was reaching out to a second audience as well, by granting an interview to the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, which has an Arab readership. Also Wednesday, he was meeting with relatives of Britons lost in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Thursday, Bush was to sit down with family members of British soldiers killed in Iraq. Britain has sent more troops to Iraq than any country aside from America, about 9,000, and the British have lost more than any other American ally — 52 deaths since the start of the war. |
| Posted by:Jarhead |
| #5 cybersarge, most protestors are students or unemployed. I'm sure TureGermanAlly can provide more detail but a bunch of Anarchist types lived illegally in and around Hamburg until the local authorities cleaned them out. Others just use their vacation time well (in Europe they get a lot). |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-11-19 1:57:38 PM |
| #4 CS...from the size of the current turnout...not many...haha! |
| Posted by: B 2003-11-19 11:47:14 AM |
| #3 I read something in the ?Times? about how these protestors have the MOST tolerant bosses in the world or the are well funded by an outside source. How many of you can take time off from work and spend money on Air fare/Hotel to go to London? Too bad England has to suffer from these idiots! P.S. God Bless the Queen. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-11-19 11:30:34 AM |
| #2 The Daily Mirror newspaper said its reporter, who quit the job as a royal footman Tuesday night after Bush’s arrival at the palace, had full access to the queen’s residence and to the president’s guest room for his two-month tenure. It's called, "Not Doing Your Research Thoroughly". Take note, and implement the necessary corrections. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-19 11:02:23 AM |
| #1 While informative of what the president is doing, the fact that there are far more LLLs on the other side of the pond didn't budge the digital surprise meter. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-11-19 9:26:44 AM |