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A day in the life of President Bush (8/12/06): many pic tribute to Blair & Bush
WhiteHouse.gov & Google ^ | 8/12/06

Posted on 08/12/2006 12:59:12 PM PDT by Wolfstar

_ Tuesday, the President will participate in a National Security Council and Homeland Security Council briefing at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia. He will have a meeting with the counterterrorism team, attend lunch with the counterterrorism and homeland security teams, and also meet separately with the homeland security team. According to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, these are long-scheduled meetings, and are not a reaction to the recently discovered plot to blow up flights between Britain and the United States. However, the investigation will be part of their discussion.

_ Wednesday, the President will travel to York, Pennsylvania, where he will participate in a tour of Harley Davidson vehicle operations. He will also participate in a roundtable on the economy and attend a Lynn Swann for Governor reception.

_ Thursday, the President will sign HR4, the Pension Protection Act of 2006, at the White House. Later in the day he will travel to Camp David.

_ Friday, GWB will participate in a meeting with his economic advisers. He will spend Saturday at Camp David and return to the White House on Sunday, the 20th.

What other theme could there be this Saturday, just two days after the magnificent work the United Kingdom did in breaking up a monstrous terrorist plot to take down multiple airliners? Today's photo essay tells a story that will be more fully told in the years to come, but photos can be uniquely revealing at any time.

Rarely on the world stage are such close professional, personal, and consequential bonds formed between two national leaders such as the remarkable relationship between the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the Honorable Tony Blair, and the President of the United States, the Honorable George W. Bush. (This thread is a tribute to both of them. I place Mr. Blair's name first here only in the same sense as one puts a guest in one's home first.)

Certainly other comparable pairings occurred in the vast sweep of human history: At the birth of our country, the unlikely duo of Washington and Lafayette formed both a life-long friendship and political alliance that eventually brought France into the War for Independence on the American side. Closer to our own time, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, while perhaps never truly friends, nevertheless formed a very close alliance that towered over their era and won WWII. More recently, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher formed a life-long friendship and political alliance that defeated the Soviet Union.

Those relationships (and comparable parings going back as far as Antony and Cleopatra) certainly have make their mark on world history. But there is something quite unique about the bond between Tony Blair and George Bush. Something that is at once easy to see in these photos, and yet difficult to capture in words. The best way I can put it is that they truly appear to have become like brothers and yet more.

In their respective domestic politics, the two men could hardly be more different. We American conservatives surely would chafe under Mr. Blair's domestic policies, which would have a home in the American Democrat Party. Nor are the two men in total lock-step in international affairs. Yet, as the photos on this thread will clearly show, the two have formed a deep, comfortable friendship that is likely to last their entire lives. And, on the central issue of our times, international Islamofacist terrorism, these two men certainly have provided rock-solid world leadership on a par with that of Roosevelt and Churchill.

Unlike the definitive ending to WWII, we are not likely to know how the story of these times plays out for decades to come. Yet we do know now that these two great men -- I use great here in a sense far larger than mundane politics -- have given their all. They've tried their best and then some. They have done everything possible to protect the peoples of the United States and United Kingdom from the monsters that walk among us. Through it all, they seem to fit each other like a comfortable pair of gloves with the fingers intertwined, each giving support and strength to the other.

The "Brothers 'B' " have freed tens of millions, handing those people not a paternalistic neo-colonialism, but a chance to make or break their own futures. In other words, true freedom. Those critics who constantly wail about the Iraq "quagmire" either refuse to or genuinely can't get it: True freedom means the Iraqi people must make of their own country what they will. If they want it to be awash in blood, it will. If they want to restore it to "Garden of Eden" beauty, they can. They are free to choose. Free will. What God bequeathed to us all. This is what George W. Bush and Tony Blair have given to the peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq -- a chance to exercise their own free will.

Putting their careers and, in a real sense, their lives on the line, the team of Bush and Blair have made excruciatingly hard decisions in the face vicious opposition (a couple of small examples included here so the photo essay is complete in the story it tells). After Thursday's events, at long last opinion is being written that they have been vindicated. (See this editorial from Investors Business Daily: Vindicated.)

What those freed from the yoke of tyranny by these men (and the blood of the troops they lead) will make of their opportunities, only time will tell -- and it's up to them to write the final chapters in this story.


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: cherieblair; firstlady; friendship; georgewbush; laurabush; loyalty; president; primeminister; specialrelationship; tonyblair; unitedkingdom
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To: FreeReign


BUMP! President Bush, misunderestimated again!


241 posted on 08/12/2006 7:19:16 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: kitkat
Hi--how are Joe-Bob and Spot treating you :)

He won me over soon after Dubya was elected the first time, when he said that, unlike Clinton, when Bush speaks he MEANS what he says. And I think that was exactly how Bush won Blair over.

You're right. I forgot about that.

242 posted on 08/12/2006 7:20:56 PM PDT by silent_jonny
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To: Wolfstar

I shall definitely keep my fingers crossed for you. Look forward to seeing the pics and maybe some new pics of the kitties?


243 posted on 08/12/2006 7:20:56 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: onyx

Hey, They now have 73 National Guard troops at San Diego International AirPort.

Hows by you?


244 posted on 08/12/2006 7:21:13 PM PDT by SoCalPol (We Need A Border Fence Now)
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To: Wolfstar

Outstanding tribute, Wolfstar. It is a delight to see these two men who are so concerned about their own nations being so comfortable with each other.


245 posted on 08/12/2006 7:22:19 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: kitkat

Thanks :) I leave in about two and a half weeks. I can't believe it's almost time to go. It feels like I've been waiting forever.


246 posted on 08/12/2006 7:23:43 PM PDT by ilovew (I hope I get to meet Rummy this fall...)
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To: kitkat

Hiya kitkat. Are you enjoying the democrats being wrong again as much as I am?


247 posted on 08/12/2006 7:24:58 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: mystery-ak

Hello, mysterious buddy :)


248 posted on 08/12/2006 7:25:30 PM PDT by silent_jonny
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To: snugs
During our last election dad mentioned that Tony Blair had adopted George Bush's walk.

Thank God for you & your Dad Snugs, it seems most Europeans and far too many Brits would have called it a "swagger".

249 posted on 08/12/2006 7:25:59 PM PDT by Darth Republican
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To: DollyCali; SoCalPol
SoCalPol - just LOVE the chargers working out on the deck of the USS Reagan. why don't the sorry networks put a feature on something like that? sigh

First I've heard of it. WOO-HOO!

250 posted on 08/12/2006 7:26:39 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: SoCalPol

Only 73? We have none that I know of. Jackson is a smaller airport. No lines or crowds.


251 posted on 08/12/2006 7:27:30 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: silent_jonny
USS Bill Clinton, LOL!

A dinghy for the man who ... well, you know :)

I'd be hoping for a shipbuilder with a paintbrush...

wUSS Bill Clinton

252 posted on 08/12/2006 7:28:26 PM PDT by Darth Republican
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To: Purple Mountains Maj
Ya = yeah

You went Dutch there for a second ;)

I think I'll go back to "Purple", Purple. Purp makes me think you're being frog-marched into a police station :)

253 posted on 08/12/2006 7:28:30 PM PDT by silent_jonny
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To: silent_jonny

That's what I think too! (notice I don't list that one on my P P nicknames.)

LOL! But I am not mad at my Bro or others who use it.
They don't mean it how it sounds.
But do go back to purple...please S J
2 calling me Purp is enough.
;OD


254 posted on 08/12/2006 7:34:13 PM PDT by Majie Purple
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To: snugs; Wolfstar; All
In these times of monumental struggle,
of the civilized world against cunning, avowed, archaic bloodthirsty savage barbarians,
whose mission is to make the world their subjects,
dominated by their brand of twisted, fanatic religious cultism,
and to brutally destroy all Christians and Jews,
the awesome blessing of this united brotherhood and bond of courage between two fallible humans,
picked by history and the hand of God,
is of paramount consequence,
historic and profoundly vital to the survival of our lands.

~~ Nothing matters if we don't survive ~~

~~ partners, friends, brotherhood forged in fire, tested and true ~~
~~ We love them & implore God to bless and protect them and us ~~
Grant them continued wisdom and courage ~~


255 posted on 08/12/2006 7:36:43 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: Purple Mountains Maj
Purple it is :)
256 posted on 08/12/2006 7:36:48 PM PDT by silent_jonny
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To: silent_jonny; mystery-ak

***Hi--how are Joe-Bob and Spot treating you :)***

I'm no fool. I sent them over to Mystery's so you won't get lonesome for them. Hint, hint.


257 posted on 08/12/2006 7:36:51 PM PDT by kitkat (The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.!)
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To: ohioWfan

I keep looking in the background for a guy named 'Norm' sitting in the corner waiting for his beer.

258 posted on 08/12/2006 7:37:49 PM PDT by Darth Republican
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To: silent_jonny

"You went Dutch there for a second ;)"

Ya fer shore I did!
;OD


259 posted on 08/12/2006 7:38:06 PM PDT by Majie Purple
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To: silent_jonny

"Purple it is :)"

Thank ya kindly!(That ya fits!)


260 posted on 08/12/2006 7:40:21 PM PDT by Majie Purple
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