Gifts Bush received from other foreign Leaders

[Jeanette in FL]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1799812,00.html

2004 presents inventory leaves president prepared for worst-case scenario

Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday June 17, 2006
The Guardian

A braided leather whip, a sniper rifle, six jars of fertiliser and a copy of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook were among the presents foreign leaders have given George Bush. They are clearly trying to tell him something.

The inventory of official gifts from 2004, published this week by the state department, reads like the wish list of the sort of paranoid survivalist who holes up in his log cabin to await Armageddon, having long ago severed all ties with the rest of the world.

The president received a startling array of weapons, including assorted daggers and a machete from Gabon. He got the braided whip with a wooden handle from the Hungarian prime minister. The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, a gift from the Sultan of Brunei, has some tips on how to use some of these implements in a tight spot.

The paperback also explains how to wrestle with an alligator, escape from a mountain lion and take a punch. But the small arsenal of guns presented by Jordan's King Abdullah, including a $10,000 sniper rifle, would presumably render much of that advice unnecessary.
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My goodness, what an array of weapons. In the article, it tells of gifts to other Bush administers. Tony Blair did not give Bush anything for his birthday or for Christmas.

[Bad Penny]

1. Tony Blair did not give Bush anything for his birthday or for Christmas.

well not in public anyway

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. i don't think cheney drinks the ONLY beer in America linked with AFL CIO..

It's printed right on every bottle and can; read it.

[Bad Penny]

3. Hey you work with what you can find