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

To: Neocon who wrote (257293)	5/21/2002 2:15:47 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

"Bush is in Europe to cement the relationship with the West. Wednesday Bush initiates a tour of Europe to reinforce the anti-terrorist coalition and establish a new era of cooperation with Russia that will be symbolized by a nuclear arms reduction treaty of both countries. Mr. Bush will go to Germany, Russia and France, and finish with a NATO summit in Rome." Blah blah blah... Bush Senior and Clinton blew it with Russia by not making a Marshall Plan agreement to support them in exchange for scooping up all the nukes. It would have saved us a few hundred billion, and tens of thousands of nukes from the planet. But, it wouldn't have saved the jobs of military-profiteering complex... Much more money in nuclear and non-nuclear terror, than in a world made safe for democracy, to which Americans need not apply, since Congress no longer represents them, even marginally. Junior is a joke, to most Europeans. Nuclear weapons and the mighty American military is not. Even just the military, without the nukes, is not a joke, except in the sense that the budget, procurement, and stranglehold on the American people is out of control. And in the sense that it is useless in the hands of current leadership, in protecting American citizens from anyone smaller than a major-sized industrialized nation. Where's Homeland Security? In the "undisclosed location". Another joke. We need actual leadership, rather than war profiteers and useless fear-mongers

To: Neocon who wrote (257293)	5/21/2002 2:28:06 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

Bush in Europe to consecrate the anchoring of Russia to the West President George W. Bush opens Wednesday a second tour of Europe, to reinforce the antiterrorist coalition, and to establish a new era of cooperation with Russia, which will be symbolized by a treaty on the drastic reduction of nuclear arsenals by the two countries. Mr. Bush will visit Germany, Russia, and France in the course of his trip, which will be topped by a summit between Russia and NATO in Rome, confirming the anchorage of Russia to the West. Arriving Thursday night in Moscow, Mr. Bush will meet for the fifth time less than a year with President Vladimir Putin, with whom he will sign the next day a series of accords for a treaty of three pages that will reduce by two tiers the offensive nuclear forces of the two countries in the course of the next dozen years. American officials have saluted the historic character of this treaty, and stressed that Mr. Bush's visit, which will include St. Petersburg in the company of Mr. Putin on Saturday and Sunday, will definitively permit forgetting the Cold War, and open up a new era of cooperation with Russia. The two president intend to sign several political documents to seal these new relations, which deal with the war on terrorism, according to the White House. Mr. Bush will press the matter of the risks run by the world because of the export of sensitive Russian technology to Iran, according to Condoleeza Rice, the national security counselor. "It is a difficult subject, and our positions are not identical", she said. Mr. Bush will discuss Iraq, as well..... (I have to run an errand. I will finish this later)

To: Neocon who wrote (257293)	5/21/2002 3:41:11 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

(continued) But Mrs. Rice noted that he had not yet made a decision on an eventual military offensive and wished to consult with Mr. Putin on the means of stopping Iraq from equipping itself with weapons of mass destruction. This trip permits Mr. Bush to forget, at least for a week, the battle brewing in Washington for the last several days on the breakdown in national security in the war on terrorism before the September 11th attacks. But when he arrives Wednesday evening in Berlin, the first stop where he will be received by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Mr. Bush will discover that he is still an American president under attack by the European Left. Several thousand people gathered Tuesday afternoon in the middle of Berlin to protest against his presence Wedsneday and Thursday, and the center of the historic German capital, where Mr. Bush is staying, has been transformed into a fortress by the authorities in order to prevent rioting and violence. Mrs. Rice minimized the expected demonstrations. “I have no worries about risks coming betweeen the United States and Europe”, she declared to the press, emphasizing that Americans and Europeans remain solidly allied, united by their common values”. She predicted that the meeting between Bush and Schroeder on Wednesday night and Thursday morning would center on cooperation in the war against terrorism, the relations between NATO and Russia, and various bilateral questions, the subject that will also figure prominently in meetings with French president Jacques Chirac, Sunday evening in Paris. Mrs. Rice minimised the importance of the trade issues between Washington and Europe, on steel and agriculture, which will arise during Mr. Bush’s stop in Paris, and said that they are a small part of the trade between the two great commercial blocs. Mr. Bush will use the visit to France to make a pilgrimage, on May 27th, to the Normandy beaches where the allies disembarked, before going to Rome that evening for the Russian, NATO summit. The American president will also, on that day, receive an audience with the Pope before returning to Washington.