Bush hails 'fantastic' trip to UK

[dArKeR]

President George Bush returned from a state visit to Britain insisting on the importance of the "special relationship" between the two countries despite public hostility to the United States-led occupation of Iraq.

Bush was the first US president to go on a "state visit" to Britain.

But the three days of pomp and splendour were also marked by a huge demonstration against the president in London and overshadowed by bomb attacks against British targets in Turkey claimed by al-Qaeda.

Speaking to reporters as he returned to the White House late on Friday, Bush said: "We have got a special relationship with Britain and that was reaffirmed in the last three days."

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23934

Gary Gilmore and Ted Bundy. Special relationships of MURDERERS!

Clueless!

Junior:
The Ted Bundy of American Politics!
or
The Pornography of American Politicians!

(you choose which one you'd put on a TV commercial if we had the money)

[Judi Lynn]

1. How profoundly embarrassing

He was a laughing stock!

[JCMach1]

2. Why haven't other leaders of the US gone for a state visit

THE ARROGANCE

Simply put, Americans formerly didn't enjoy having their leaders pictured on the same level as the Queen.

Imperial Presidency indeed!!! :grr:

[Catshrink]

17. Because they went for substance not the foofy stuff

[truthisfreedom]

3. the most hated president ever. 300,000 protesters.

the only thing that kept it off the news was bushco's arrangement to have michael jackson arrested the same day. michael's lawyer had been working on that case for months... they could have picked any day. but of course, it was handy to pick the protest day.

[DS1]

10. so who was bought off, MJ's lawyer of the prosecter's office?

:shrug:

[robbedvoter]

4. "Fantastic?" Whatever happened to "Fabulous"?

Betty Bowers will be disappointed! ;-)
What a public humiliation!

[deneb]

8. I wondered that too

Did he ever say 'Her Majesty's a fabulous girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say?'

Tony Blair.. *smirk* Tony Blair is a *smirk* fabulous leader..

[underpants]

13. I can hear Britt Hume now:~"By all acounts it was a FANTASTIC trip..."

What do you think of the FANTASTIC trip Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard?

Barnes: Oh it was surely very FANTASTIC (looking at the two waterbearers on the "round Table")

NPR girl (looking as always at Barnes to see if she is backing him up correctly)Everyone agrees it was FANTASTIC.....

[coloradodem2005]

20. Yes, it was fantastic

For the hundreds of thousands of protestors that got to yell "Go home rotton Bush".

[underpants]

21. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[truth2power]

25. Could someone please give that fool a thesaurus?

Needs some new adjectives. :eyes:

[Malva Zebrina]

5. didn't look to me like it went over too fantastically

He could not go anyplace but had to sneak into places through back doors and be virtually quarantined inside the castle walls out of fear for his life. He and Laura the frump looked obscene, --they had all of the fun, party and finery at an enormous cost to the tax payer,spending enormous amounts for photo ops with the Queen, while seniors were being screwed and watched their lifeline, Medicare go down the road toward dissolution--that horse is out of the gate and probably cannot be put back in in their lifetime--they will be vulnerable to the whims of the fickle markets and corruption in the board rooms of corporations, and the whimsical whims of the pharma companies who do not see them as people but as $$$$$$$$$$$--same way George and Laura see our troops as $$$$$$$$$$$, our boys and girls not real people to them--that is why George does not honor them when they return home dead.


Yes, they looked obscene--they looked -bloated, crass,sloppy and overdressed-and spoke like the trailer trash they are--they have made an obscenity out of my country also.

[rfranklin]

6. Please stop maligning trailer dwellers!

The Bush family are country club louts, and should not be elevated to the level of "trailer trash," thank you.

[Malva Zebrina]

9. sorry

:-(

[Ernesto]

16. But arn't

the "trailer trash" states the ones he carried in 2000?

[susu369]

24. Ancient palace gardens - BUSHWHACKED

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/news/page.cfm?objectid=13652625&method=full&siteid=106694

THE Queen is furious with President George W. Bush after his state visit caused thousands of pounds of damage to her gardens at Buckingham Palace.

Royal officials are now in touch with the Queen's insurers and Prime Minister Tony Blair to find out who will pick up the massive repair bill. Palace staff said they had never seen the Queen so angry as when she saw how her perfectly-mantained lawns had been churned up after being turned into helipads with three giant H landing markings for the Bush visit.

The rotors of the President's Marine Force One helicopter and two support Black Hawks damaged trees and shrubs that had survived since Queen Victoria's reign.
--SNIP--

The Palace's head gardener, Mark Lane, was reported to be in tears when he saw the scale of the damage.

"The Queen has every right to feel insulted at the way she has been treated by Bush," said a Palace insider.

--SNIP--

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There is such a parallel with this story: everything bu$h* touches is brought to disaster.

[JewelDigger]

26. I don't get it...

...the *'s were GUESTS in the Queen's home. Why couldn't she 'just say NO' to a lot of the things that they were doing?

"The lawns are used for royal garden parties and are beautifully kept. But 30,000 visitors did not do as much damage as the Americans did in three days.

[teryang]

27. I guess a motorcade to the palace

...was out of the question.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Of course W had a fantastic time

Everything went just according to the plan, included a very well timed terrorist attack against British interests. Things couldn't have been better, right W?

[calimary]

11. Is that like the "fabulous year" he and laura had in 2001?

[underpants]

12. I know Churchhill said it but doesn't "special relationship" sound creepy

I'm sorry I don't mean to make light of it but isn't Micheal Jackson accused of having a "special relationship". I'm just saying.

[Paschall]

14. Bush was not the first to go on a "state visit" of Britain

The reports I've been reading say Woodrow Wilson was the "last," so there must have been others before him, too.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. Jack Rabbit hails the fantastic reception Bush got in London

Photos from the Associated Press
Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix from the website of the Universtity of California at Los Angeles

[RealityDose]

18. Special relationship

Didn't Michael Jackson say he had a special relationship with the kids that spent the night at his ranch. How much money is it going to cost the US taxpayer to pay off Blair for Bush touching him inapproriately. Guess we'll have to have another tax cut to pay for it, however that works.

[peterh]

19. Fantastic,i.e., he has the dubious honor of being…

the most hated….

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20031122-9999_1n22bush.html


But he left England as the most unpopular U.S. president with the English people since the Vietnam War.
Nine prior presidents have made 21 trips to England, but none had to contend with a question like the one put to Bush by a British reporter, who asked, "Why do they hate you, Mr. President? Why do they hate you in such numbers?"
Bush seemed taken aback at the suggestion that he was despised in the land of America's greatest ally.
"I don't know that they do," he said.



Just another example of how out-of-touch and devoid of reality this critter is….

[Myra]

23. Ohmygod that's excellent!

"Why do they hate you, Mr. President? Why do they hate you in such numbers?"

And all the limp dick could sputter was "I don't know that they do."

Whattsa matter Mr. Pretender? No teleprompter?

Love the final paragraph:

"As in London, there were protesters. But befitting a small town proud that its native son is prime minister, even some of the protest signs were polite. One proclaimed in large red letters: "Bush is not very nice.""

[indepat]

29. How else could he think and proclaim "How great I art?" with a straight

face.

[Jacobin]

22. Gee. When's he gonna have a "fantastic trip" to IraqNam?????

Would love to see him travel there and give a triumphant speech to all the "freed" Iraqis. He's already got all his bullet and bomb proof crap to ride around in loaded on his fleet of planes.

I'm sure they would welcome their hero.

:eyes:

[Snellius]

28. The wing nuts keep boasting the protests weren't so huge

I'm listening to Peggy Noonan on Mathews show saying the crowds in London weren't as enormous as they predicted. But Peggy, these are our ALLIES.

[PaDUer]

30. The queen isn't happy

about him and his "goons" that damaged her garden and caused thousands of dollars of damage from the chopper that left an H mark indention and many other things...there's a thread on here somewhere about it. Of course he's probably laughing while jumping on his bed tonite..