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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (153789)	6/16/2001 1:09:12 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"This week George Bush came to Europe, and before setting off was given a full and detailed briefing: "It's a kinda big peninsula, Mr President, with lots of different countries in it." "Sounds great - how come I never went before?" "Well sir, with respect, you never had a passport until now." There was a slight delay at the airport check-in desk when Bush said: "No, of course I didn't pack this bag myself. I'm president of the United States." Then airport security couldn't work out why the metal detectors kept bleeping every time his bodyguards walked through. So they put their keys in the little bowl, their loose change and eventually their semi-automatic machine-guns, and that finally seemed to do the trick. The reason the Global Village Idiot has flown across the Atlantic is to get to know his allies in Nato and the EU. The plan was that they would meet the new president face to face and then feel reassured. Some ideas are flawed from the very outset. Of course when any new world leader joins the club they are slightly vulnerable and because Bush's understanding of foreign affairs is rather limited, the various European leaders decided to have a bit of fun with him. Just when he thought he'd worked out who was leader of which country, the European heads of state secretly swopped nationalities just for a laugh. Tony Blair started speaking French, smoking Gitanes and claiming that the second world war was won by the French resistance. Jacques Chirac, now speaking German and drinking frothy lager from a two-litre stein, saved his place at the table by putting a towel over the best chair. Berlusconi looked on, sipping his Guinness and singing All Kinds of Everything by Dana. A confused Bush turned to Jose Maria Aznar to clarify things, but the Spanish prime minister just said something in Dutch and offered him a joint. This joke is set to back-fire when Bush goes to Jerusalem and meets Ariel Sharon and says: "Stop having me on - you're the Palestinian guy, right?" guardian.co.uk