The reason Bush was so loved in Albania is because we freed them

[Poiuyt]

Snow also said there was no concern over the president’s safety as enthusiastic well wishers grabbed his hands and arms.

“What you had was an example of when captive nations come free,” he said.

Using the moment to allude to recent White House foreign policy decisions, he added, “They understand the role the United States has played through the decades, taking unpopular moves.”

Snow also said the crowd was “euphoric because we helped make them free….if there was a problem, the Secret Service would have dealt with it. Trust me.”

more -

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/06/12/mystery-surrounding-bushs-watch-solved/

Hey - we freed Iraq. Let Bush wander through the crowds in Baghdad.

[fooj]

1. Wonder how much of our taxpayer dollars they spent on their "hire a crowd" Rovian venture?

I call BULLSHIT on Snow's reasoning. But hey...what else is new?

[unpossibles]

2. maybe he has a point, and that is why Bush is afraid to walk around America like that

because he has done the opposite of freeing us here...

[LonelyLRLiberal]

3. I'm saying . . .

I love this line:

"Hey - we freed Iraq. Let Bush wander through the crowds in Baghdad."

I'll contribute to a one-way ticket for him to that paradise of democracy, peace, freedom and happiness.

[Toots]

4. Clinton actually did free Albanians from Serbian slaughter

Clinton did not occupy their country for their oil. Bush* on the other hand, yes let him greet the crowds of Baghdad the same way.

[LSparkle]

6. DING DING DING DING -- CLINTON did it!

I hope the Clenis speaks out on this and "clarifies the record" -- don't let this idiot take credit for what Big Dawg did!

[kenny blankenship]

12. Not only was Clinton the one who rescued ethnic Albanians in Kosovo

but during the 2000 Presidential campaign, the Governor of Texas and GOP candidate George aWol Bushler criticized President Clinton's intervention in Kosovo, harping on the lack of an "exit strategy" for US forces. (Little did we know then how Bushler and the rest of the PNAC cabal were already plotting to invade Iraq...with an exit strategy of "stay until the oil is gone")

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. And didn't the RW give him hell the whole duration of that war?

[DFW]

5. Probably the real reason they were cheering

Is that the amount the Secret Service spent on preparing the visit
probably doubled the Albanian foreign currency reserves.

[malaise]

7. So why, why, why

can't Cheney or McCain walk those Baghdad markets?

[Brigid]

8. * freed them?

How? :wtf:

[damntexdem]

9. We freed them ... from having to buy watches.

;-)

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

10. The real reason Albanians venerat U.S. Presidents.

"At the Paris Peace Conference after the war, the extinction of Albania was averted largely through the efforts of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson"

Paris Peace Conference of 1919


"The future of Albania becomes uncertain during the First World War, with the country being occupied by Greece, Italy, Serbia and Montenegro, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria. However, following the intervention of United States President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference held after the war, Albania again emerges as an independent state with the 1913 borders intact."

Albania