Bush to Travel to Europe in June

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) will make two trips to Europe in June to mark the 60th anniversary of World War II, meet with European Union (news - web sites) leaders in Ireland and attend a NATO (news - web sites) summit in Turkey.

White House officials said Monday that Bush's travels will begin in Italy with ceremonies on June 4, the anniversary of the liberation of Rome by American and allied forces. The president also will meet at the Vatican (news - web sites) with Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II — their third visit. Bush also will meet with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

Bush will travel June 5 to Paris to meet with French President Jacques Chirac. The next day, Bush will join other world leaders at Normandy to observe the 60th anniversary of the allies' landing that led to the liberation of France and the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Bush will gather with some of the same leaders a few day later when he returns to the United States to host the annual summit of leading industrial nations, being held this year at Sea Island, Ga. In addition to the United States, the participants are Britain, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Japan and Canada.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=2&u=/ap/20040510/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_europe

[Emboldened Chimp]

1. Stay out of Ireland!

I hate when Smirk shows up in the land of my ancestors...bastard!

[Pale_Rider]

10. That fecking eejit will be 'warmly' welcomed ...

... I say let him come and feel the Irish 'warmth'.

[Pale_Rider]

11. That fecking eejit will be 'warmly' welcomed ...

... I say let him come and feel the Irish 'warmth'.

[fearnobush]

29. He will be angrily received by 400,000 Irish protesters.

The old country doesn't like the Chimp at all.

[Jim Sagle]

2. When he returns, do we have to let him in?

[Shadder]

3. Like France would keep him

Yeah, I can see that....sure

[aquart]

5. Guillotine.

Great country, France.

[BonjourUSA]

8. Would you like we get out the guillotine from its museum just for him ?

We could free you a second time

[nolabels]

31. I looked that up at one time, Here it is.

The Guillotine
French Revolution Posters

Picture of Louis XVI's Execution
Description of Louis XVI's beheading

Designed by Dr Joseph Guillotine, a man described as kindly and who wanted to make execution more humane, the guillotine quickly became a symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution.

Victims were placed on a bench, face down, and their necks positioned between the uprights.

The actual beheading was very quick - often to the gathered crowd's disgust - taking less than half a second from blade drop to the victim's head rolling into the waiting basket.

However, debate rages over whether the quickness of the execution was humane or not, as many doctors put forward the notion that it could take up to 30 seconds before the victim lost consciousness.

That piece of gruesome news would not have worried the crowd, which continually called for aristocratic and royalist blood to be spilt.
(snip)
http://www.napoleonguide.com/guillotine.htm

[TankLV]

32. Please, oh pretty please!

What a noble and generous offer.

If only it could be true.

I would be like that women out in front in the movie Tale of Two Cities.

[izzie]

4. That also jumped into my mind.

Now that the world hates us, lets let him live with it as living hell.

[BonjourUSA]

6. We'll return him to you, he is yours !!!

:P

[markses]

7. The 60th Anniversay of World War II?

What a strange construction. It will be the 60th Anniversary of the Normandy landings, but still. That's bizarre. I could see next year, maybe, but....

[Leilani]

9. This news will surely thrill the Europeans!

Bet his bubble will be so intense, he will not see 1 ordinary European; only government types.

[DoYouEverWonder]

These trips have been sceduled for awhile

The news will be whatever event they can cook up, so he can have an excuse not to go. By the end of May, he won't dare go out of the country.

[maddezmom]

15. yeah like the bomb plot foiled in Turkey

All bomb plot suspects caught, Turkey says

Istanbul — Turkey's interior minister said Tuesday that authorities have detained all of the suspects in an alleged plot to bomb a June NATO summit to be attended by leading Western leaders.

A Turkish court in the northwestern city of Bursa on Monday charged nine suspected members of Ansar al-Islam, a group linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, with membership in an illegal organization. The charges came after authorities said they had foiled a plot to attack the June 28-29 summit in Istanbul.

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more:http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040504.wturk0504/BNStory/International/

Bush will have to stay home due to personal safety concerns...he won't face the international press.

[KDLarsen]

12. Yeah...

.. and he's already leaving a mark. As far as I know, a DC3 painted in the French Air Force colours have been banned from flying over the beaches, due to the no-fly zone around Dubya - and a group of D-Day veterans have also been banned from jumping out over the countryside they landed in 60 years ago.

I wonder if the SS is also going to create Free-Speech zones overthere?

[Just Me]

13. Oh, I seriously doubt this trip will happen!!!!

This is just a plan that is already cancelled *LOL*!!!

Besides, it would cost way too much to meet this HATED leader's demands for security.

This is just a sweet thing being peddled.

It won't happen.

[BonjourUSA]

16. This trip must happen !

If Bush wouldn't come here, it would be a slight, an offense for your veterans and your soldiers fallen on the beaches

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. He already insulted our veterans the last time he went to Normandy

I know one of the vets that goes every year. Before the ceremony, the vets were told to stand in a particular spot and that when the pResident finished speaking he would walk past them and would stop to chat and shake hands. When Bu$h finished his speech, instead of stopping to talk to the vets, he forgot and just walked right past them. My friend said, "He wouldn't even look us in the eye". Needless to say that's one group of vets I know who won't be voting for him this year.

[Minstrel Boy]

14. You know something? Nixon went to China.

If Bush were a true statesman, he'd go to Cuba.

He is, however, a parochial thug, so it's big news when he visits traditional allies.

He hasn't even been to Canada yet. (He cancelled a trip last Spring because of our sitting out his war. We were sooo hurt.)

[Art_from_Ark]

25. He's actually soiled your soil twice

Once when he went to Montreal, and again when he went to Alberta for the economic summit

[cliss]

17. My advice: he'd better wear a Kevlar vest

and surround himself with bodyguards, and have a body double, just to be on the safe side.

[riverwalker]

19. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

I hope he does. The images alone will be priceless. He is just clueless how the world feels about him.

[mn9driver]

20. The demonstrations should be both huge and entertaining.

It'll be interesting to see how our captive media reports it.

[Darranar]

21. He'll recieve the welcome he deserves there. n/t

[dflprincess]

22. I would love to hear what the Pope says to him

n/t

[MasonJar]

23. Great! He never left the country on his own buck, but he is surely

making up for it on ours. Europe will be ecstatic, I'm certain.

[PartyPooper]

24. If he turns on the TV in his hotel room he will realize what Europe thinks

of him. There ain't no FAUX in France!

:evilgrin:

[BonjourUSA]

33. He doesn't know what we think about him

since he appeared to us for the first time and his smart face illuminated our dull existence !

[Walt Starr]

26. Wouldn't it be a hoot if he got off the plane, traveled to the photo op

and was immediately surrounded by the Italian military arresting him for crimes against humanity, after which his ass is hauled off to The Hague for a speedy war crimes trial?

A guy can dream, can;t he?

[PartyPooper]

27. Indeed. It couldn't get any better than that!

:thumbsup:

[calimary]

28. An EXCELLENT dream!

(sigh...)

[The_Casual_Observer]

30. A nothing trip by a nothing subhuman

Simply a waste of tax payer money on both sides of the Atlantic.

The bastard is an absolute embarrassment to all mankind.