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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 11:24 PM
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King George Is Abroad. Bush Travels to His Favorite Colony
King George Is Abroad
Bush Travels to His Favorite Colony
November 19 - 25, 2003
Not since Ronald Reagan rode horseback alongside Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle in 1982 has a U.S. president's arrival in London aroused such expectations as this week's visit by George W. Bush.
With the media lined up, tens of thousands of protesters ready to march, and police on both sides of the Atlantic in furious discussions over such subjects as whether U.S. plainclothes security officers get to shoot on sight, King George, as he is now being called in some quarters, is hitting the beaches under the steadying fire of the cute girls adorning the front page of Rupert Murdoch's Sun, where millions of eager readers turn every day for the latest in tits and ass. Here Bush's "Forward Freedom" spin is polished for an eager audience. "Bush Message to Sun Readers," screamed the paper's Monday headline trumpeting its "exclusive interview" in the White House: "Your troops did not die in vain."
Fortunately for Bush, these heavy thoughts are set amid a galaxy of drop-dead babes. There's naughty Kylie: "Do you recall KYLIE MINOGUE promising to cover up her bum? She obviously doesn't." And there's "A Brooke at bedtime for Bruce" above a pic of a Hollywood star's new girl: "SEXBOMB Brooke Burns shows off the red-hot curves that have got Bruce Willis all fired up."
But while "sexy wrestler and Playboy cover star Torrie Wilson" told the Sun's readers about "snogging other girls on television and in real-life," there was some snogging going on behind the scenes. One British official told the press that preparations for the Bush visit had been "hijacked" by the U.S. Secret Service. "They wanted to make structural changes to the Queen's home, and this was never going to happen," said the aide. "Agents brought in structural engineers who said walls must be strengthened and the blast-proof glass replaced with something stronger. They were obsessed, and still are, by the threat of an attack from the air."
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 11:42 PM
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1. The odds of there being
any 'terraist' attack are very low.

It's a massive crowd getting out of hand that should be the major concern.

British security is excellent...but that's a lot of people, and it wouldn't take much.
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