Bush and Merkel to focus on Iran and more back rubs

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CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday to his Texas ranch where they will seek a common approach to deal with Iran's nuclear program.

Bush extends invitations to Crawford to signal a special relationship and Merkel will spend two days at the 1,600-acre (647.5-hectare) ranch.

Bush, who is fond of showing guests around his property, will take the chancellor and her husband, Joachim Sauer, on a tour of the ranch.

"In Texas when you invite somebody into your home it's an expression of warmth and respect and that's how I feel about Chancellor Merkel," Bush said after greeting the German leader who arrived by helicopter.

He then drove off in his white pickup truck with Merkel in the passenger seat and their spouses in back. Dinner will be pecan-smoked beef tenderloin, green chili-cheese grits souffle, and pecan pie.

He-heh. That's a real barrel of laughs!

Merkel's actually doing a pretty decent job in Germany. Is Bush doing a decent job in the US?

I think not.

Can Merkel form a coherent sentence? Yes, in both German AND English.

Bush can't form a coherent sentence in his mother-tongue English, so we'll abandon all hope that he could Sprechen Sie Deutsch.