George Bu sh to visit UK

Source: YAHOO NEWS

US President George Bush is to visit Britain next month during a tour of European nations, the White House has announced.

The trip, from June 9 to 16, is intended to mark the 60th anniversary of the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after the Second World War and the Berlin Airlift.

Mr Bush will also visit Germany, Italy, the Vatican, and France, as well as attending the annual US-EU summit in Slovenia.

The trip follows Prime Minister Gordon Brown's visit to the United States last month.


Read more: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080521/tuk-george-bush-to-visit-uk-6323e80.html

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The phrase "as welcome as a turd in a swimming pool" comes to mind.

I can't come up with ONE COUNTRY whose citizens would be excited by a Bush visit. Compare to when Kennedy would make appearances.

He is hated by the world.

(which did receive Marshall Plan funds - under Franco) but is visiting UK (which did not).

Remember Pinochet.

I'm guessing not one person setting up this trip knows UK was not part of the Marshall Plan.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan







Spain was dealt with separately, because of Franco.

about the only positive in having that war criminal come across the pond

The stop the war coalition, who are the ones behind most of the anti-Bush protests.

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/

War criminal George Bush will visit Britain during his European tour in June from 9-16 June. His 2004 visit was met by the largest protest ever held on a weekday in Britain. This visit should be no different. Since his election over 1 millioon people have died in wars which now spread from Afghanistan to Somalia. Stop the War will organise a protest. More details soon.

Mind you, I don't reckon turnout will be anything like as good as last time. The main story at present is who'll be succeeding Bush and the political party that the Stop The War Coalition spawned (The RESPECT Coalition) has split in two with the Socialist Workers Faction and the George Galloway/Islamic faction going their seperate ways.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x22847

(floats)

I always enjoy them

The people who will be marching, how many of them are likely to turn out and whether the different factions will actually be speaking to each other anyway!

about the conflict between varying factions and the impact that will have on any protest....but I was just reducing his visit to a bottom-line positive (silver lining, so to speak)...and the only positive I could find really (creative floats). Because I can't think of anything positive to say about a Bush visit.

Sure works with Israelis :

The government is considering weakening laws designed to capture alleged war criminals and torturers who enter Britain, after pressure from the Israeli government, the Guardian has learned.
The changes would bar individuals from seeking international warrants for the arrest of people suspected of serious human rights abuses. The government has confirmed that Israeli officials have lobbied for changes in the law, which has kept some of their military officials away from Britain in case there should be an attempt to arrest them.

The proposals follow Israeli anger after an attempt was made to arrest one of their senior retired generals, Doron Almog, at Heathrow last September. He was tipped off that police were waiting to arrest him for alleged war crimes in Gaza. He stayed on the El Al plane and flew back to Israel. The warrant was issued by Bow Street magistrates, central London, after an application from lawyers representing Palestinians who say they suffered because of the Israeli general's alleged illegal orders.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/feb/03/humanrights.foreignpolicy

Law has yet to be changed to the best of my knowledge.

In a truly just world, there would be nothing unusual about arresting a sitting head of state suspected of war crimes with as much public evidence against him as there is against Mr. Bush.

The question arises, is the reason Bush is visiting the UK to keep them informed of his plans to attack Iran? First there was Israel and Saudi Arabia, now the UK. There is no other reason for him to make a personal call, other than to give them secret information to Gordon Brown one-on-one.

I can't imagine that the Marshall Plan or the Berlin Airlift is anything Bushco would celebrate. They both reek of diplomacy, I mean, appeasment.

The global elite are preparing for the next coup.
BHN

the travelling if he possibly could.

Is there some diplomatic rule saying you can't have all the visits going one way??

Just swanning around being a bigshot.

There was one occasion where the Queen was definitely Not Amused after his entourage managed to cause a lot of damage and disruption to the palace quarters where they stayed. Just like a bunch of teenage vandals, except that they wouldn't be put up in a palace in the first place!

Anyway, we could well do without the wonderful treat of having Bush around.

visit, has it? (Referring to the British visit fiasco)

:puke:

nickel fitted in before his time runs out.

when he travels. On the contrary, everywhere he goes,
there are protests. The world has his number, alright.
:grr:

Do NOT come to the UK, Bu$h! You are NOT welcomed here!

In all SINCERITY and TRUTH,

TrueBrits

...welcome!!! :hi:

You see what good it's done us to tell him so!

Welcome to DU!

BHN

I hope he gets the welcome he deserves, don't hold anything back you guys. give him hell.

remind all the other nations why they are hoping/praying & begging for the Dems to win!
:D

arrest him, and take him to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes!

Find a way to jail him until the Hague can come over and arrest him for war crimes (or crimes against humanity).

I recall reading that LeCarre was strongly opposed to the Iraq war and never missed a demonstration.

And unlike Bush, LeCarre actually has some grasp on how the world works.

Answer: "We'll have translators standing by."

under house arrest. We don't need to have him embarrass us again all over Europe.

n/t

that he has to come back here.
They could use him in Myanmar.

mark

Maybe he's just saying goodbye to his foreign cronies while still in office, what with the war-crimes-foreign-indictment problem he will face abroad once he leaves the White House.

- B