Bush to Host Italian Leader at His Ranch

President Bush will host Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi at his Texas ranch this weekend, a reward for Berlusconi's strong support during the Iraq war.

Berlusconi, a conservative, has been a stalwart Bush backer. With the ranch visit Sunday and Monday, he earns the rare distinction of having visited Bush at both Camp David, Md. and the ranch. ---

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meets.

No, too many letters... Wait, assholes, that fits. But, surely you didn't mean..

Honsetly: there is at least one other fitting word used in this thread.

Besides:
It is entirely possible, that I meant to write "patriots"...

Chirac is crying into his pillow.

Bet he turns it into a 4-dayer or a 5-dayer.....

I predict a day when people have two destination possibilities:

the pig farm

OR

Gitmo

pleasing company.

the food the company the weather the conversation.

How to lose friends and influence enemies.

A Frikkin Fascist BBQ at the Pig Farm.

Sorry, I seem to have misplaced my invitation, and will not be able to attend.

Who is doing dinner?

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
-- Thomas Jefferson

...official events at the WH?

- More secrets?

This is significant...if anything, it shows that Bush is trying to find out how the Italian's came across the Niger/Yellow Cake document or, more likely, the Bush cabal and the Italians are coming together to get their story straight.

JB

No doubt they will sit around and watch spaghetti westerns, seeing themselves as the macho heroes in those movies.

Oh, wait, the heroes in those movies actually did their own fighting. Maybe they could play the damsels in distress.

will take this opportunty to ask Berulsconi for political asylum in Italy if he can manage a late night flight out of the White House on AF1 before the rabble break down the front gates. He already knows Spanish. Italian shouldn't be too hard for him to pick up.

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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
July 14, 2003

Statement by the Press Secretary

VISIT OF PRIME MINISTER SILVIO BERLUSCONI OF ITALY

President Bush will host Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on July 20-21, 2003. Italy is among the United States' closest allies in NATO, and has been a strong supporter in the global war on terrorism and in bringing peace and democracy to Iraq. The President values Prime Minister Berlusconi's leadership. They will discuss a range of issues, including stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, peace and security in the Middle East region, continuing the fight against terrorism, and strengthening transatlantic relations.

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http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2003&m=July&x=20030714131635samohtj0.3869898&t=usinfo/wf-latest.html

Is it any suprise?