News Analysis: Bush sealed off from Germans in Mainz - IHT

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/23/news/scene.html

MAINZ, Germany The main event of President Bush's visit here was a speech to an enthusiastically applauding audience of about 3,500 German citizens, gathered in a flag-bedraped hall in this town on the Rhine, thrilling to his declaration that Germany and America are more than "firm allies and friends," they are "partners in leadership."
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And then, after the speech, Bush and the German chancellor took a boat trip on the river, just to enjoy each others' company.
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That was 16 years ago, when George Herbert Walker Bush was president, Helmut Kohl the German chancellor, and Germany and the United States were united in the great cause of winning, or at least surviving, the cold war.
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The current president, George W. Bush, who made a seven-hour stopover here Wednesday, had a very different sort of trip to Mainz. It was a very successful one, according to German and American officials; it helped a great deal to repair German-American relations damaged over the war in Iraq.

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1. A Boy In His Bubble

**pop**

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[paineinthearse]

2. See first hand account

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3164635&mesg_id=3164635&page=

[Gyre]

3. I wonder if Schroeder hasn't folded?

Sounds to me like the chimp is getting committments from foreign leaders on attacking Iran.

ps. Why isn't Israel's nuclear arsenal subject to international inspection? They haven't even been asked whether they wish to be subject to whatever agreement that Iran is supposed to be complying with. And if they were, they would deny having them (despite everybody knowing that's a bald lie).

Gyre

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Social Security isn't the 3d rail of Americxan politics. Israel is.