President Bush to visit India in February 2006

Times of India (print)/India Defence ^

[Abbas Razza Khan]

NEW DELHI: US president George Bush is likely to visit India in the first week of February 2006. After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing on dates, both sides have finally found a week when Manmohan Singh and Bush can have a date in peace.

The world has changed since Bill Clinton came by in March 2000. And India is no longer obsessed with whether Bush visits Pakistan. That's the difference. Both sides are working out deliverables for the visit. But apart from agreements and high-profile engagements, what is still up in the air is how much of India/Bharat is Bush going to experience? He has a hard act to follow.

[Abbas Razza Khan]

The Clinton visit was a widely covered event, and their is no reason why Prez Bush won't receive the same kind of attention here, if not more. A texas cowboy at the Taj Mahal, that will be quite a picture moment. I hope to get a press pass by then! :-)

[Mike Bates]

Maybe one of the reasons for his visit is he needs computer tech support. I think all such CSRs are over there.

[since1868]

Welcome to Free Republic.

[Graybeard58]

Member number 220,178.

This place is getting huge!

[since1868]

How do you find out the member number?

[Abbas Razza Khan]

Thanks! This forum is very active :-)

[since1868]

24/7

[Graybeard58]

Click on a screen name, then click "in forum" and look at the address bar on your comp. The number at the end is the member number.

[since1868]

Thanks

[Vinnie]

US president George Bush is likely to visit India in the first week of February 2006.

He is having a problem with his Dell he just can't seem to get fixed over the phone.

[sit-rep]

LMAO... I was just coming into say..."give my regards to the tech support teams over there!"

Aside, I just gotta new HP. Boy am I sorry I did. I had a problem with IIS configuration and spent $120 on tech support...YES! I had to buy it! It took me 45 minutes out of the hour I purchased, to understand the SOB...man was I pissed! Got no response from the cordial email I sent HP afterwards...

(Sigh...)

[SupplySider]

Namaste, welcome to Free Republic, and thanks for posting this.

I remember being very excited when President Bush Sr. indicated a desire to pursue much closer US/India relations, but he never really followed through. I hope GW does more!

[Abbas Razza Khan]

Not all of us are computer related people =P Not me the least, took me quite a while to get familiar with using the internet back when I first started.

Anyway, the guys are Indian forums are speculating that US president visit may coincide with the announcement of this :

India may send troops to Afghanistan

29 August 2005: India will commit troops to Afghanistan to cover the two-thirds US withdrawal, but only if Afghan president Hamid Karzai sends a request letter, although he made clear in the recent meeting with prime minister Manmohan Singh that “Afghanistan’s security is India’s security”.

But still India wants a formal request, although the US first broached for Indian deployment when its defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, met the Indian defence minister, Pranab Mukherjee, earlier to the PM’s visit, seeking a form commitment, and Afghanistan separately spoke the same issue.

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Or it may just be a huge PR event with little or no significance, just like the Clinton visit back then.

[Mike Bates]

Got no response from the cordial email I sent HP afterwards...

May I suggest persistence? A while back I got HP to drop their charges. I knew I was in trouble when the tech support guy asked, "Sir, is there anything on your computer that you want to keep?" Kept complaining about this "support" and they finally gave up. Of course, I am more obnoxious than most. . . .

[Abbas Razza Khan]

Thanks!

Bush Sr. huh, It was just the end of the Cold War, both sides India and America would've still been suspecting each others motives. Taliban changed all that.

It's pretty f#ed up being ethnically Afghan after the Taliban era. I'm looked at as some tribal guy, especially by westerners I talk to. lol

/me living in a well furnished apartment right in the heart of New Delhi city

[Abbas Razza Khan]

And I don't have any goats or camels, just a cat that doesn't like me very much. :(

[sit-rep]

Of course, I am more obnoxious than most. . . .

I am quite sure there are a few here that would beg to differ with you today...but thats another story! I tried a few times on email but got zip... I wrote it off and added another notch on the downside of outsourcing.

[untenured]

I hope to get a press pass by then! :-)

If so, we'll expect you to write a full report exclusively for FR. :)

[USMMA_83]

Well, this is huge news....Pakistan will have a tissy-fit! Mushy might end up making Kashmir bleed even more to drive home his point. They might even strike up the dead Kahalistani movement. What's your take on Mushy??

[Abbas Razza Khan]

He's a b1tch. How the Pak army created the Taliban to gain control of Afghanistan, and now abandons them and pretends to take a moral high ground. And many here laughed our asses off as America bought "Pakistan is innocent" sotry back then.

When things start going wrong, Mushy will be the first to dump you guys. Good luck.