[YaYa123]

Don't you assume these important ceremonial events are thoroughly scripted and choreographed? And there's no way President Bush would have been ambushed by anything unexpected the Pope might say....things just don't happen that way.

(Except in the movie LOVE ACTUALLY, which showed a very bad behaving American president get exactly what he deserves from a plucky British Prime Minister, played by Hugh Grant.)

[gilliam]

So you just 'assumed' all this?

I agree it is scripted, but I really don't think the President knew ahead of time what the Pope was going to say, nor visa versa.