(BBC) Tour diary: Bush in Europe

Tour diary: Bush in Europe

US President George W Bush is in Europe attempting to rebuild relationships strained by the war in Iraq. BBC Washington correspondent Justin Webb is travelling with the president. Here is his diary from the fourth day of the visit.

24 February

Forgiving Putin

Gotta rush. They move fast at the White House when the fat lady has sung, and sung she has for this trip. Wheels will soon be up.

The Bush-Putin meeting has left everyone here scratching their heads.

Was Bush deceived? Was Putin pulled gently back into line?

Some journalists are asking whether some Russian questions at the news conference about American democracy were planted by the Kremlin to get the US president on the defensive

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4294359.stm

This is a great diary by Justin Webb. He has a diary for each day of $hrub's European trip.


The politically sexy Condi Rice (Day 3)

Some amazement at the warm-up act for the President at his US airbase visit before he left Germany.

Cheerleaders - scantily-dressed and provocatively choreographed - charged around the stage, shaking their assets at the assembled troops.

The trouble was, the troops had brought their wives. The audience wore the fixed expressions of people who were aware they were witnessing a bad idea in action.

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But these pictures were available to any TV station in the world - including the Muslim world.

more...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4290241.stm

From Day 2:
He is unsmooth. He stumbles over his sentences. He uses short, plain, sometimes almost babyish words, while the sophisticated multilingual Euro crowd prefer obfuscatory long ones.
more...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4288239.stm


This is news that will not be reported in America.
Each day of this diary illustrates what a blathering idiot * is.