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  • News Analysis: Bush's zippy India visit comes with Texas ties

    02/26/2006 8:39:11 PM PST · by indcons · 27 replies · 953+ views
    New York Times via International Herald Tribune ^ | February 26, 2006 | Elisabeth Bumiller
    President George W. Bush is planning a two-day wind sprint across India this week, when he will meet with political leaders, chat up high-technology millionaires and give a speech at a 16th-century fort. But to the consternation of many Indians, he will not see the country's most famous monument, the Taj Mahal, a decision Bush blamed last week on an omnipotent scheduler. "Look, if I were the scheduler, perhaps I'd be doing things differently," Bush said when he was asked in an interview with Indian reporters at the White House why he was skipping the Taj. "I'll be the president,...