UK headline: "Bush is not welcome in Britain"

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

Smirk is not welcome in over 50% of USA too.
He'd get booed and heckled in EVERY major US city.



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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1071572,00.html


Bush is not welcome in Britain

The president's state visit serves no one's interests but his own

Roy Hattersley
Monday October 27, 2003
The Guardian

Has anyone yet explained why President George W Bush is about to make a state visit to the United Kingdom? In my time at the Foreign Office, the supreme accolade of an invitation from Her Majesty was only awarded after long deliberation had convinced the prime minister and foreign secretary that Britain's national interest would be served by arranging for the king, queen or president in question to perform a number of meaningless ceremonies and eat numerous mediocre meals in the company of the royal family. What do we have to gain by feting President Bush?
According to Downing Street, George Bush's presence in London will provide "an important opportunity to deepen our close relations with a close international partner". How much closer is it possible to get than the closeness that made us follow America into an unjustified war? President and prime minister meet each other almost every month. Clearly, this state visit had been arranged for reasons that do not meet the usual criteria.

I was minister in attendance when the king of Sweden made his state visit to Scotland. We had just confirmed our membership of the old common market and wanted to demonstrate that we still loved the countries of the European Free Trade Area which had chosen to remain outside. Whether or not that object was achieved by the court and cabinet singing Will Ye No' Come Back Again? in the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms is not the point. It was done for a purpose.

The same was true of the state visit of President Ceausescu of Romania. That was after my time. But I did accompany him from Heathrow to Chequers at the beginning of an earlier weekend break. He complained throughout the journey that he was being treated with little respect. The Queen was not there to meet him on the runway. No helicopter had been provided. On the way back (when I was also chaperone) he paid a visit to the duty free shop where he bought large quantities of rubbish which he charged to Her Britannic Majesty. He got his state visit in the end because he was thought to be an anti-Soviet communist who could be flattered into causing trouble for Moscow.

MORE..........

[pippin]

1. read on

The article states Bush probably invited himself.


"he (Bush) is regarded in Britain with something approaching contempt. He has achieved the unusual feat of being simultaneously sinister and ridiculous, and he is regarded as the rich kid who grew up arrogant and inarticulate. But it is his role in making the war in Iraq inevitable that makes him unwelcome here. There are no votes to be won by being buddy-buddy with a man who is despised by most of the British public."

the idiot doesn't realize that he has set himself up to be humiliated by a " state visit that has had to be truncated and emasculated."

what a total ass. : grr:

[Spazito]

4. I suspect the people of Britian will greet him like others in the ...

countries he just visited, with outrage and disgust. He really is the bully in the bubble if he doesn't realize the world dispises him.

[Melsky]

2. We need more of that attitude here

Bush visit = meaningless crap. I like the author's no nonsense writing style. Thanks for posting.

[qwertyMike]

5. Roy (Lord) Hattersly

was a Cabinet minister in the Labour Gov, then Deputy Leader of the (then Leftist) Party.
His politics are just left of centre.

Not a raving looney

[LibertyorDeath]

3. The Hate that this "man " & his policies generate is massive &

getting bigger everyday it's a World wide tidal wave of complete abhorrence of him and all he stands for.

The only places he speaks in America is at Military bases, Right-wing think tanks and schools where they can be sure people will clap and tell this pathetic excuses of a man what a great leader he is.

When in reality everyone knows he is the worst president in American History.

[ComerPerro]

6. LOL, good reading

Kick

[knight_of_the_star]

7. Beautiful

It makes a solid point. I'm waiting for Bush to be met by angry protesters when he goes back to Texas in '04...

[mermaid]

8. Well

I'll be one of them to greet him when he comes back to Texas. I'll be the transgender girl with the megaphone marching up Congress Avenue yelling all manner of belligerent crap to and about Whistle-Ass. Look for me. I'll be there!

[cliss]

9. How do he and his planners deal with this?

Does the Bush know all this, or is he clueless about how is regarded around the world? Envision this:

Rove: "Uh, George, we just found out that you can't ride in the limo after all in the parade. Secret Service didn't want to take the chance of you running into unexpected protesters. You know, they hate you over there.

George: "damn them. It's just those bloody British, that's all".

Rove: "George in case you haven't noticed, even the Aborigines and the Eskimos despise you. You're not safe at the North Pole."

He must know.

[Bozita]

12. This Emperor is a "decision-maker."

The question is for whom.

Decision-making tools are also available at novelty stores. Think of the 8-ball facsimile with the little window in which the answers to your questions appear.

Shake it; get an answer.

America's future would be bri... oh, well, never mind.

[xxqqqzme]

10. there are more than enough

toffee nose, privileged, gene pool depleted irresponsible, wealthy twits running around the UK as it is. One more isn't all that impressive.

The only time squatter is in the US anymore is 2 collect those $100,000 campaign checks from his pioneer & ranger buddies.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Did the Royal Family agree to give him a standing ovation?

If nothing else, I've learned a new moniker for Boosh today: the "insular cornball". This is your chance, Britain -- Bare Your Bums at Boosh! (Her Majesty is excepted from this, of course... but it would be a hoot!)

[snippy]

13. Link to "Bare Your Bum at Bush."

I hope this happens.

If you hear of a visit to your part of town or happen to see George W Bush, bare your arse in his general direction. Don't be afraid to wiggle it about a bit and maybe even spread your cheeks; this is a political statement you're making and you don't want to do things by halves, now do you?

Write to your chosen local, national or foreign newspaper and inform them that you, as a British citizen, fully intend to do your civic duty and bare your arse at George W Bush. In this same letter, you may also wish to call upon other readers to do the same.

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