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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (23697)	10/31/2004 3:35:58 PM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 27181

Bush's hidden Gallic roots RASHMEE Z AHMED LONDON: George W. Bush's chief European opponents, the French people, are being urged publicly to claim the controversial American president as their own because his family tree apparently betrays a French connection. Even as the Left-wing Libération newspaper denounced a Bush win on Tuesday as certain to maintain America as an arrogant, imperialistic super-power guided by "a handful of ideologues hungry for adventure but deaf to the planet", Le Figaro reported that the name Bush is a corruption of the French word Boucher (butcher). John Kerry's Gallic roots are well-known, but Bush has kept his French briefs well hidden, crowed the paper. The US president too may be descended from the very people his aides have flayed as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" for refusing to support the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Bush's family tree has never officially been traced beyond 1850 and "perhaps that is the moment when the Boucher of the old world became the Bush of the new?" Le Figaro said. Enjoying its moment, the paper said the startling discovery by French historians could tip the election in Kerry's favour because of America's rampant Francophobia . "With a name like Boucher, Mr Bush may even lose the vegetarian vote," it said. Bush's alleged French roots were uncovered by a reporter on Le Figaro in a book, Histoire de l'Amerique Française. It came as Paris officially, but somewhat noncommittally, maintained the two-year diplomatic chill in relations with Washington by saying it was unworried about whether Bush won or Kerry. Late on Friday, French foreign minister, Michel Barnier, said that President Chirac's administration would seek a "new alliance" with whoever won and the bond "must be based on mutual respect, which is not allegiance". In the final countdown to the US race, Europe showed no sign of surrendering its rampant Bushophobia. timesofindia.indiatimes.com

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (23697)	10/31/2004 3:47:58 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Voters claim abuse of electoral rolls Students say they were conned into registering twice guardian.co.uk