There are a ton of great pictures here tonite. I love the ones with the castle in the background with the gray clouds rolling in.
Posted on 06/28/2004 11:44:32 AM PDT by TruthNtegrity
The President continued his visit in Ireland on Saturday with an EU summit. Saturday night, the First Couple flew to Ankara, Turkey, where they were received by the heads of state and Church.
Sunday, June 27th, the President reviewed the Turkey troops, laid a wreath at the mausoleum of Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk in Ankara. He attended a formal photo shoot of the NATO Summit attendees, and then a welcoming dinner at the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. The NATO meetings will be held on Monday and Tuesday.
In a surprise sequence of events, L. Paul Bremer signed over full sovereignty to Iraq's interim government two days ahead of schedule in surprise ceremony; Saddam to be indicted this week.
Congrats to the Iraqis! Way to go Dubya and everyone involved in the liberation of Iraq and the sovereignity of Iraq. May they soon come to know the great freedoms that we have enjoyed for over two centuries.
Thanks Truthy.
GREAT ARTICLE FROM A REPORTER IN IRELAND (puts virtually all American reporters to shame!):
Honey-talking Bill lacks George's guts and honour
Sunday Independent, Dublin (Ireland) ^ | June 27, 2004 | Mark Dooley
MOST of the crazies who called for George Bush's arrest this week believe we were safer when Bill Clinton was bedding interns in the Oval Office.
These political adolescents think the ex-president possessed qualities of leadership that are lost on his simple-minded successor. But those who seriously study the record will know it is actually George Bush who fits the description of a truly great leader.
Glancing through the ego-soaked pages of Clinton's new memoir - My Life, you would never guess that he abandoned reason and scruple by making statesmen out of people like Yasser Arafat and Gerry Adams, thereby destroying any hope for long-term peace in either Northern Ireland or the Middle East.
Bill Clinton, during his time in office, quite simply squandered America's moral authority that Ronald Reagan restored in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam.
He did so by vetoing intervention to stop the Rwandan genocide, refusing to stand up to Slobodan Milosevic until he had wasted most of Bosnia and Kosovo, and by abandoning countless innocent Somalis once the going got a little tough. Under his nose, Kim Jong Il restarted his nuclear programme, Saddam bored holes in the sanctions and expelled the arms inspectors from Iraq, while Al-Qaeda used the protection of the Taliban to take control of Afghanistan.
In response, Clinton bombed Iraq for the duration of his impeachment trial without United Nation approval. If it's war crimes the anti-war loons are concerned with they need first prosecute their darling Bill.
In contrast, George W Bush has rid the world of Saddam Hussein's regime and the vile Taliban - killers of 2.5 million innocent Muslims between them, thereby depriving Al-Qaeda of its sole state sponsor.
Thanks to the President's moral courage, Iraq has now the most ethnically diverse government and most liberal constitution in the Middle East.
The 400 towns that Saddam destroyed have now been rebuilt and all of the country's schools, hospitals, and universities have been refurbished and reopened.
Libya has been disarmed, North Korea and the Iranians are being forced to follow suit, and a worldwide underground nuclear network has been exposed and shut down.
Bill Clinton liked to honey up his speeches with talk of combating Aids, but as Bob Geldof rightly insists, it is actually George Bush who has done more to alleviate Africa's misery than any American president in history.
That combined with the fact that he has rejoined UNESCO and paid all of America's outstanding debts to the United Nations, makes George Bush's period in office one of the noblest on record.
Bill Clinton's eight years of dithering led to unmitigated disasters that could well have been avoided had he possessed even a smidgen of the current president's honour and grit.
It has taken George Bush less than four years to clean up his predecessor's mess and restore the moral balance.
And that is why calls for his arrest are as contemptible as they are stupid.
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My computer is malfunctioning tonight -- so must exit early!
[FYI: C-Span is supposed to re-broadcast the Bush-Blair news conference at midnightish EST!!!!]
Night all!
There are a ton of great pictures here tonite. I love the ones with the castle in the background with the gray clouds rolling in.
Where is Dubya going?
***The Iraqi's will love it and so will the rest of the world***
. . . and the Dems will be in even more of a tizzy than they are now! :-)
I have done a lot of reflection on those days and much like the disgrace LBJ, Nixon and Jimmy Carter brought upon this country, Bill Clinton managed to shame us more than all of them put together. Now, much like Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush has stepped up to the plate to restore the dignity of the office he holds, but the only difference is, George W. Bush has done so within his first term as POTUS.
IMHO, George W. Bush has modeled his Presidency after Ronald Reagan and has a very good chance to go down in history as one of the greatest, Just as RWR
LOL, I could have written that :-)
My high speed cvable is down,........ My goodness do I NOT miss my old dial-up connection :-)
How much youy wanna bet GWB visits Iraq?
Could it be that the brilliant reporters are not so brilliant???
It is the President's handwriting.
What?! Reporters aren't brilliant? You must be joking! I'm sure they all saw it coming and just didn't feel like telling us. *sarcasm off* Lol :)
This note should be in every history book from now on.
She may not be wearing a bow tonite, but Laura Bush has started a fashion trend. I saw a mini fashion show on one of the morning shows, and quite a few of the dresses had bows around the waist. The fashion commentator said that bows are going to be in this season.
So far the liberals I have heard on the TV aren't eating crow they are saying the turn over is fake.
Check out my website! (Pretty please?) Let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions. I'm going to bed so I'll see y'all tomorrow! Night night.
Chirac is trying to look important but standing up to the big bad United States. Instead everytime he opens his mouth he proves how unimportant and out of touch he is.
LOL, Reporters are so blinded by their own agenda, George W. Bush could cure AIDS, Remove every Dictator, end Poverty, bring about economic security for every Nation on Earth without demanding anytyhing in return and the Liberals would claim he made it far too easy for far too many, and condemn him for it
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