NYT/Reuters: Bush Works to Reassure Asian Leaders Despite Thumping

[DeepModem Mom]

Bush Works to Reassure Leaders Despite Thumping
By REUTERS
Published: November 18, 2006

HANOI (Reuters) - Chastened by U.S. voters, President George W. Bush is working hard to assure Asian allies that he remains a potent force with no major changes contemplated in U.S.-Pacific ties.

Bush's week-long trip to Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia is his first abroad since he and his Republicans underwent what he freely admitted was a ``thumping'' by voters who put Democrats in charge of the U.S. Congress.

With world leaders watching Bush's body language carefully to see if he has the same old intestinal fortitude, Bush is pounding away at his twin goals for Asia of keeping the peace and expanding trade....

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Leaders have found Bush his usual upbeat self.

"Whether the election had a thumping outcome or not, he is in a thumping mood,'' Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in describing his meeting with Bush on Thursday.

Asked about Bush's mood after the election, Lee described him as a "strong leader'' with a "certain verve.''...

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-apec-bush-mood.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. I think the question is, why is Reuters letting the U.S. State Dept. write its

copy?

What is the Bush Cartel really up to in Asia? We will never know from reading crap like this.

[whistle]

2. These Asian leaders all recognize that George W. Bush is a liar

...correct?

[Demeter]

3. Sounds More Like Threatening, To Me!

"Reassurance" my eye! Bush folks don't do "reassurance": torture, blackmail, extortion, but not "reassurance".

[kenny blankenship]

4. I suspect they are more reassured BY his thumping

than by anything Georgie the Liar has to say about it.