Vietnamese greet Bush with indifference - this made me laugh

[Sydnie]

HANOI, Vietnam - Tran Van Lac poured tea Friday for six men on low stools, including a police officer who was part of the large security presence waiting for President Bush outside Hanoi's Sheraton hotel. "I don't care about Bush's visit," Lac said in an alleyway parallel to the hotel, where the president's greeting party was limited to a lone flag-waving American who works for the American Chamber of Commerce. "It doesn't do me any good. It doesn't do me any harm."

He sure seems to be looking pretty hard at those empty glasses, doesn't he? Don't know if that is anticipation or regret on his face. :rofl:

edited to add the link to the article http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/bush_administration

[BootinUp]

1. He keeps hearing Baker

in his head..."The world HATES YOU!"

[Sydnie]

3. I think you just might be right

Sure looks like that face is speaking volumes.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. He's thinkin',

"Gonna get me down to the pig farm. Thanksgivin' out on the fence-line. Me 'n Barney, my trusty chainsaw, and a fifth of Old Crow. Praise the Lord."

:beer:

[BOSSHOG]

4. It would have been declared a national Holiday if Clinton had visited

[Sydnie]

5. From the full article - you are right

Flags had flapped furiously for Clinton, who drew crowds everywhere he went. Vietnamese responded to his charisma, and to the fact that he normalized relations between their nation and the United States.

Clinton's trip in many ways marked the end of an era. The Bush administration almost immediately drew a much more confrontational line in international affairs.

<snip>
Ton Nu Thi Ninh, deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Vietnam's National Assembly, said many Vietnamese, especially veterans who fought the Americans, find the Iraq war unforgivable.

<snip>
"I don't hate Bush personally, but I strongly opposed his invasion of Iraq," said Nguyen Thi Tu Oanh, a fourth-year university student from Hanoi. "Vietnamese people have been through so many years of war and they don't want to see the Iraqis, most of them civilians, to bear the losses and suffering of the war there."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_re_as/bush_cool_reception_2

[GainesT1958]

6. Well after all...

Folk in Hanoi never had the opportunity to fight against HIM!:eyes:

B-)

[bikebloke]

7. Don't they remember?

How he was over there fighting for their freedom. Do they think he was hanging around bars in Alabama during that period.

[phoebe]

8. he's hoping that his military record isn't going to be brought up again

n/t

[Old and In the Way]

9. Hey George, try the snake wine!

It's your kind of drink. He looks toasted in that pic....look at the flush he's got going.