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To: Skywatcher who wrote (80180)	10/14/2006 7:20:56 PM
From: tonto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Your information is false. CNN Student News: Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics cnnstudentnews.cnn.com "Critics often describe Bush as 'incurious' about the world, but that word hardly does justice to what feels almost like a principled provincialism. Here was someone who by age 13 was mingling in the country-club set of Houston, who then went on to Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School -- and did so in the age of cut-rate international air fares -- and yet he rarely traveled abroad. Bush was in his mid-20's when his father became ambassador to the United Nations, and still he stayed home. He must have had to resist actively his parents' blandishments. He visited China in 1975, when his father was U.S. liaison; Gambia, at President Bush's behest, in 1990; and the Middle East in 1998, when he had begun thinking about his own run for the presidency. (He also traveled to Europe several times in the 90's with the Young Presidents' Organization, a group for corporate executives.) People close to Bush dismiss his past as irrelevant; he has, they say, both the experience and the character to direct the affairs of the free world. Condoleezza Rice argues that as governor of Texas, Bush gained a familiarity with foreign affairs from his dealings with Mexico. 'He has on-the-ground experience there,' she says, 'which I would say is much more valuable than if he had been attending seminars at the Council on Foreign Relations for the last five years.' Rice also turns the insularity argument on its head, arguing that the president-elect 'comes at this as an American with very, very American values.' These arguments seem reassuring mostly to Bush's own allies. Many Europeans, for example, see the president-elect as an all-American boob." [from James Traub, "The Bush Years: W.'s World," New York Times Magazine, 14 January 2001] Mount Holyoke College mtholyoke.edu According to Bush staffers, George W. Bush had visited these countries before becoming President: Bermuda Canada China Egypt England France Gambia Israel Italy Mexico Scotland "George was not exactly what you would call well-traveled. Campaign staffers claimed that he had taken 'more than a dozen' trips outside the U.S... Bush made a month-long excursion to China while his father was stationed there, which the New York Times summed up as 'trying to date Chinese women (unsuccessfully) during a visit to Beijing in 1975.' He had visited Israel and Egypt with the National Governors Association, and also the African country of Gambia. Later on in the campaign, Bush staffers claimed that he has also visited England, Scotland, and Italy, as well as vacationed in France and Bermuda. This was not very impressive to the people of Europe, who have to cross international borders just to take their kids to Legoland." Rotten.com: George W. Bush rotten.com