Who actually invited Bush to Britain?

Guardian ^ | 11/12/03 | Jonathan Freedland

[Democratshavenobrains]

To All: Was Reagan really hated just as much by the peons of Europe as Bush seems to be?

[Burkeman1]

OH- I think I will be hear long after you. Have a nice night.

[nathanbedford]

Perhaps you should use a grammar checker.

From those of us who are spelling challenged and who are also off the grammar reservation, I say cut the Burkeman a little slack. He articulates a libertarian foreign policy point of view that needs to be heard on these threads. As events in the war against terrorism unfold, his ruthlessly pro American anti neo-con perspective has not lost credibility.

Living in Germany, I see the condesenscion against Bush almost daily. I believe he will ultimately be vindicated, but only by a minority of fair-minded people who care about such things and who think about them a generation later. Reagan remains a cowboy in the thinking of most Europeans - when they think about him.

[Burkeman1]

Reagan always had 40 to 50 percent approval ratings even when he was deploying the Minetaman medium range missles in Western Europe. There were massive protests against Reagan but the Cold War Coalition held togetherer!.

But in this BS Iraq war, Not one real ally would side with us other than our hip- Britain- and our recent biatches- called Poland.

[cookcounty]

At least the Prez has the good sense to not meet with Prince Fandango.

[Destro]

The only land worth fighting for is your own. Not because I say so but because it is human nature. All successful coalitions of nations from the Greek City states (the first of its kind) to NATO (pre Kosovo) were motivated by this human condition. All "liberation theologies" (except that of Islam) have failed to convert any nation into the mold of their liberators.

[FrogMom]

His guest is the most unpopular US president in living memory.

With whom? The socialists? GOOD!

[Burkeman1]

I had posted on this site months before the Iraq war that the Bush administration was going into Iraq to make the Islamic world "safe for Democracy" and I was assailed and confronted by those who believed it was about WMD's. Two days ago Bush makes a speech about how we are in Iraq to bring democracy to the region and the same posters who lambasted me and others are now claiming that was his intention all along!

[cyncooper]

Oh, for goodness sake. This guy is certainly beside himself.

Poor baby.

His "sources", hm? They all sound so credible! NOT

[rogue yam]

Dr. Rice Briefs on the President's Trip to the UK
Press Briefing by National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice on the President's Trip to the United Kingdom
The James S. Brady Briefing Room
November 13, 2003

1:08 P.M. EST

DR. RICE: Good afternoon. I've got a couple of comments, and then I'll be happy to take your questions. First, I'm going to give you a brief overview of the President's schedule for the state visit to the United Kingdom.

At the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen, the President will travel to the United Kingdom to affirm the broad and historic alliance shared by the United States and Great Britain. The depth of the special relationship between our two countries cannot be overstated. The United States has no greater friend. We share common interests, a common history and common values. Primarily, the United Kingdom and the United States share the desire to support all of those who seek freedom, democracy and peace. It is that tie that binds us inextricably.


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Condi said it. I believe it. That settles it.

[Burkeman1]

And will Bush II do a scenic tour of London Streets? Like other Presidents? Will he do a public speech? No? Why not? Because he he is hated. He is hated in Europe and this will be the most stage managed event that Freepers once took delight in picking apart!

[Burkeman1]

So many men who want to kill people they never saw before from thousands of feet up! I thank God I wasn't one of them.

[rogue yam]

Bush is hated by some in Europe and not hated by others. Just like here. Bush is not hated by the Queen nor by Tony Blair. The rest can sod off. I used to worry when it seemed that most everyone else didn't understand things as well as I did. Then by about the third week of first grade or so I got used to it. Ever since then I have had little use for people who seek affirmation in the howls of the great masses of the excited ignorant.

[Burkeman1]

What three things most matter to you?

[Burkeman1]

Searching the internet for those things? You can't answer like a man?

[rogue yam]

Dude! I don't know what you're talking about. Are you drunk again?

[Burkeman1]

Yes sir- but still make more sense than you.