Posted on 06/18/2006 5:27:30 PM PDT by FairOpinion
President George W Bush is well aware that he will face more criticism than praise when he visits Europe next week.
US media, which are attaching little importance to the US-EU summit in Vienna and Bush's subsequent trip to Budapest, has noted the announcement of demonstrations planned in Vienna along with the attacks from controversial Austrian politician Joerg Haider.
Haider, governor of Carinthia Province, has termed Bush a 'war criminal.'
This is unlikely to bother the president. The three-day trip is intended as a warm-up for talks in July with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany, a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and the subsequent G8 summit in St Petersburg.
Bush intends to discuss a range of controversial themes in Vienna with Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, who currently holds the EU presidency, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and the EU's foreign policy head, Javier Solana.
These include Iran's nuclear programme, the Middle East, the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as world trade.
The White House is hoping for more to come out of the St Petersburg summit, although Hadley says Bush's presence at the summit with the EU in Vienna has 'symbolic significance.'
But the president's advisers see greater hopes for image-building in Budapest, where Bush will attend the 50th anniversary celebrations marking the 1956 anti-communist uprising in Hungary.
The celebrations will recall the years under communist rule, and for many in the former East Bloc, the US remains the main guarantor for the free world.
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I hope the media will cover the Budapest celebrations of freedom, with President Bush in attendance.
Dear President Bush,
Please bring me some Mautner-Markhof Estragon Senf (tarragon mustard) as I can't find it anywhere in the United States, and it tastes wonderful when used in a sour cream/bechamel sauce with stuffed pork chops.
Thanks, Sockmonkey in TX
PS If you can't bring any, then please at least get someone to start importing it to the United States.
I just put in a search term into Google, and got lots of hits of places selling to the US. Here is just one:
And it's only 2 EU, around $3
I hope so too. I was very glad to hear Bush was going to Budapest for the anniversary of the '56 Revolution. My parents are both Hungarian immigrants, and my father retired and moved back to Hungary in '97, so I know how important this celebration is to the Hungarians. Considering that Hungary has given it's support to the U.S. in the War on Terror, the least Bush could do is make an appearance in Budapest for the celebration.
I talked to some people who told me, that unfortunately the Hungarian people are also getting their distorted news from the MSM and President Bush is very unpopular there. I just hope there won't be any anti-US demonstrations in Budapest.
Stop by the Minute Men at our border and support them.
My MIL came to the US in the 50's and made a good life for herself and her family. She lived the American dream. Recently, she moved back to Budapest. She is the biggest Bush Hater I know. It is impossible to talk to her about politics or current events. She shows her socialist stripe without apologizing for it. Go figure - 50 years of freedom didn't make her love democracy. 50 years of economic success didn't make her love capitalism.
He is just a wannabe nazi. A ridicolous idiot that was a friend of Saddam Hussein.
The headline means: "Haider totally shaved!".
P.S. A few years agao Haider said to my knowlege that the jews should be forgiven...
He and Ernst Rohm would have made a wonderful couple, if you know what I mean.
Although he looks somehow girlish he is no "warm brother" to my knowlege. It is possible that the Saddam trial brings some new information since he is a close friend of our "master from Iraq". Maybe they shared some "arabian nights" togehter. Who knows?
His book:... Being Saddam's guest - in the "evil empire"...
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