SO LONG, Y'ALL - Junior

[dArKeR]

GEORGE and Laura Bush board Air Force One to fly home from the North East yesterday - to the relief of a region smarting from the £1million cost of their visit.

They had spent the day at a string of cosy photo opportunities designed to make it seem the US President and his First Lady got a rosy welcome.

Protesters were kept at a distance following the suicide bombings in Istanbul.

But they turned out in their hundreds to ensure Dubya heard their anti-war message loud and clear before flying out of the UK from Teesside Airport.

The Bushes were joined by Tony and Cherie Blair on the trip to Trimdon and Sedgefield in the Prime Minister's County Durham constituency.

Police had 1,300 officers on duty at a cost of £1million amid heightened fears of a terrorist attack.

And crowds demonstrating on the green in front of Sedgefield's 14th century church were furious.

Anne Newton, from nearby Hunwick, held a banner that read: "A million to protect a murderer."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13649800_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-SO%2DLONG%2D%2DY%2DALL-name_page.html

I couldn't have said that better myself!

[izzie]

1. What a waste of tax payers money on both sides of the pond.

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