Unlike Clinton, Bush Sees Hanoi in Bit of a Hurry

[NVMojo]

WHAT A JOKE!!! This is so PR-KKKarl Rove reeking ...Viet Nam in 20 sec sound bytes!


HANOI, Vietnam, Sunday, Nov. 19 — President Bush likes speed golf and speed tourism — this is the man who did the treasures of Red Square in less than 20 minutes — but here in the lake-studded capital of a nation desperately eager to connect with America, he set a record.

On Saturday, Mr. Bush emerged from his hotel for only one nonofficial event, a 15-minute visit to the Joint P.O.W./M.I.A. Accounting Command, which searches for the remains of the 1,800 Americans still listed as missing in the Vietnam War.

There were almost no Vietnamese present, just a series of tables displaying photographs of the group’s painstaking work, and helmets, shoes and replicas of bones recovered by the 425 members of the command. He asked a few questions and then sped off in his motorcade.

On Sunday morning, Mr. Bush attended an ecumenical church service in an old French-built Catholic basilica to underscore the need for greater religious freedom.

But the mood of this trip could not have been more different from the visit of another president, Bill Clinton, exactly six years ago this weekend, when he seemed to be everywhere.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/world/asia/19vietnam.html?ref=washington

[NVMojo]

1. Bush, the man the Swiftboat feckers call LEADER ...what a joke

[jasmeel]

2. I love these kinds of articles. It really highlights the contrast of these

two men.

[NVMojo]

3. yeah, it shows the elitism that runs through Bush and his Laura girl

[VegasWolf]

4. Bush has no intellectual curiousity as he has the intellect of a 3 year old.

[Benhurst]

13. And the attention-span of a two-year-old.

[The Count]

5. he waved at them! Isn't THAT enough? (Also said we sould have stayed and

beat the s* out of them instead of leaving when we did)

[NVMojo]

6. the man is a national disgrace ...

[Skittles]

10. an international disgrace too

:puke:

[LiberalFighter]

7. Possible reasons for hurry

Make sure assassins don't have chance to kill him.

He thinks he will become one of them if he touches the wrong one.

He thinks he will become infected with the bird flu.

It is taking time away from his real effort... find little girls and little boys for his brother. Unless he is looking for himself too.

He actually is spending his free time in his hotel room with harem serving his every need.

Forget it... he is getting falling down drunk and stoned on coke and can't take time out to honor the Vietnam veterans that served in Vietnam.

[Catchawave]

8. Yes indeed, the difference is HUGH !!!!!1!!

"...In 2000, tens of thousands of Hanoi’s residents poured into the streets to witness the visit of the first American head of state since the end of the Vietnam War. Mr. Clinton toured the thousand-year-old Temple of Literature, grabbed lunch at a noodle shop, argued with Communist Party leaders about American imperialism and sifted the earth for the remains of a missing airman.

On Saturday, Mr. Bush’s national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, conceded that the president had not come into direct contact with ordinary Vietnamese, but said that they connected anyway..."

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Once again, "I'm sorry World for forcing this idiot on you" :cry:

[TankLV]

9. "Huge" - not "hugh"...

Might as well shout "this is HENRY!"

[Dr Fate]

15. I'll bet you know how to spell "moran" right too!!!!!11

;)

[Lisa]

14. put on a robe, and wave vaguely at people across the plaza

Yup, "The Connector" sure knows how to schmooze.

[Ferret Annica]

11. I am not surprised. The U.S. left many ghosts of dead servicemen there

and everyone of them must at some level be hounding this piece of shit coward.

[doc03]

12. Bush finally made it to Vietnam and it

appears he was wearing a dress, it looked like the appropriate attire for him.