President spares Blair by avoiding trip to Britain

[emad]

The Times
From Roland Watson in Washington and Philip Webster

PRESIDENT BUSH will avoid Britain on his post-inauguration trip to Europe amid concerns that his presence so close to the general election would make life uneasy for Tony Blair.

Mr Bush is to visit Brussels and at least two other countries in late February on a visit billed as a post-war “kiss and make up” tour, but he will steer clear of London, where the Prime Minister is likely to be in the final stages of a phoney election campaign that he is expected to make official at the end of March.

Mr Blair’s strategists were concerned that Mr Bush’s presence, which would showcase his close relationship with the Prime Minister as well as the Iraq war, would raise the hackles of Britons, including many Labour voters who fiercely opposed the conflict.

“Downing Street was not exactly queueing up for the President to visit,” an official in Washington said. Mr Blair and Mr Bush discussed the trip when the Prime Minister visited Washington last month.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1401860,00.html

WITH no ambassador since William "Goatsucker" Stamps Farish III was booted out last July, this is hardly surprising....

[Richardo]

1. So if you're a *good* ally, he *won't* show up in your country...

...Watch and learn, Canada.

[gratuitous]

2. Uh oh, does this mean Bush's man date is cancelled?

Got himself a new jacket for nothing!

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I don't think * will be traveling to many European places in the

next couple of years....he's afraid he will be arrested and charged with war crimes in the international court!

[neweurope]

5. Arrested? With those 5 000 bodyguards he keeps lugging around?

And please don't overestimate European politicians. Compared to the Bushistas they are nice guys but there's too much tied up in the relations to the US - it's going to have to get a lot, a hell of a lot worse before somebody tries to arrest any one of them.

[buff2]

4. To a normal,competent,intelligent human being.....

it would be a really embarrassing situation to know you are not welcome in other countries and have to avoid them......especially being the PRESIDENT of the United States.But not THIS moron asswipe. He's so stupid NOTHING embarrasses him.It's sickening this creep is going to have another 4 years.I can't stomach the thought. :puke:

[neweurope]

6. Forget those 4 years finally. The Bushistas are here to stay.

And no elections or "elections" are going to unseat them. It will take something more than elections.

[emad]

7. The magic word is ENRON. Remember Poodle telling Parliament

in 2002 "There is NO Enron scandal here in the UK"?????

Well....

HSBC CEO Sir John Bond......

[Demeter]

8. And The World Shrinks Even More for Bushco

Bush is a prisoner of his own making--an outlaw, wolfshead, a man without a planet, and with any luck, soon without a country.

[JohnyCanuck]

9. Well at least the Queen's rose bushes are safe. n/t

[tanyev]

10. The Hot Potato Tour

Countries throwing him to the next country as fast as they can. "We don't want him...you take him!"

[Ganja Ninja]

11. LOL!

Not even our closest allies want to deal with this lightining rod. He's an open invitation to a riot. The only places he can go are military bases and countries where dissent isn't allowed.

[Menshevik]

12. I wish he would come

I missed the protests last time!

COME ON GEORGE, YOU PANSY!