MSNBC (Shrub goes to Europe): "A chance for fence-mending"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

"Bush hopes to rekindle sense of common cause with European allies"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5121770/

"ROME - If there is one thing President Bush would like to rekindle when he stands beside his European allies for the 60th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, it is the palpable sense of common cause that united the allies during the Second World War."

Writer David Gregory suggests that "There is no doubt that the Bush speechwriters have looked again at President Reagan's short but powerful speech made at Pointe De Hoc, Normandy, twenty years ago"...

"To the "boys of Pointe du Hoc," he said, "You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for..."

"In President Bush's vision twenty years later, the boys of Iraq are fighting for democracy once again."

"But as the president is finding, analogies don't always hold up. Try as he might to link World War Two to the war in Iraq, few make the connection.

Bush may now describe the mission in Iraq as a war of liberation, but it was presented to the American people as a preemptive strike against an enemy bent on attacking the United States with weapons of mass destruction. To date, no WMD's have been found in Iraq."

[Malva Zebrina]

1. ain't that sumthin

just like he magically was cured of alcoholism by Jesus in one instant, and all of his past therefore is to be forgotten and erased from view, now he, in his spoiled little boy approach, thinks he can go to all of those in "Old Europe" and seek to "mend fences" the fences he alone broke.

These fences will be mended without a single thing being changed since the fences were broken--in other words, Bush will always be a fascist bully who will threaten and punish those countries who do not adore him and who would, horrors, criticize him.

He is insanely delusional, believing he is in the same catagory as Churchill or Roosevelt or any other of the great leaders during that war.

He is disgusting.

[Ripley]

2. But he has help with his delusions...

There's a thread in LBN where Condi says:

As President Bush begins a week of foreign diplomacy, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice insists that he will one day rank alongside such towering pillars of 20th century statecraft as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Yeah, he'll be in the little box in the corner of the page with War Presidents, with the * denoting:

The 43rd President of the USA was a mistake. All of it.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. When this book was released...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375505008.01._PE32_PIdp-schmoo2,TopRight,7,-26_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

...Fox News, among others, said that "George Bush and Tony Blair are the Franklin and Winston of our generation." The author made the rounds of all the cable news shows, and this "concept" came up more than once (although the author was never the first to bring it up).

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375505008/qid=1086281587/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-6804665-3531200

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. A more accurate historical context would be...

Bush as Adolf Hitler and Poodle as Neville Chamberlain who appeased him.

[demnan]

4. Europe to America

"I knew Franklin D. Roosevelt . . .and Shrubbie, you are no Franklin D. Roosevelt"

[Loonman]

5. Not gonna happen.....

"old Europe"

"chocolate making countries"


Now that the Asshole in Chief has his ass in a crack, he wants a bail-out.

[chookie]

6. The opposite will occur

Every place Bush has visited, there have been massive protests.

The popular protests and condemnation of Bush will be even more vigorous this time.

Whatever government seems to be siding with Bush will be faced with lack of confidence.

Mark my words: anything Bush says now will only make matters with our European allies worse.

[underpants]

8. Ounce of prevention.....pound of cure

[w4rma]

9. Another unsubstantial photo-op (nt)