Laura Bush to Make Solo Middle East Trip

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - First lady Laura Bush will make a solo visit to the Middle East later this week and make a speech before the World Economic Forum in Jordan, the White House announced Tuesday.

Mrs. Bush leaves Thursday night for a five-day, jam-packed trip to Jordan, Israel and Egypt. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the trip "is an opportunity for Mrs. Bush to reinforce our commitment to promoting freedom and supporting women and girls across the Middle East."

The centerpiece of her travels is a May 21 speech before the World Economic Forum in Amman, Jordan.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050517/ap_on_go_pr_wh/laura_bush_mideast

[Oreo]

1. Is she going to offer them driving tips?

What possibly could she have to say that anybody in the ME would give a crap about?

[bunny planet]

13. Isnt this the second time he's sent Pickles to the Middle East without him

Guess he's too chickenhawk to risk it.

Guess the Bloods and the Crips stateside didn't have anything they wanted to hear from her either.

WTF.

[krkaufman]

26. Yes, and he's going to KEEP sending her....

... until someone finally takes out her plane or helicopter. What better way to get the entire country behind a full ramp-up of the military and the new, improved Draft?!?

</tinfoil>

[katty]

38. WussyPrez sends the Wife to make Nice Nice

This is so typical of the neocons - now let's get everyone's attention off Iraq and onto Laura in Berkaland...
They are running out of distrations.

[dogday]

2. Don't forget to pack your Berka Laura!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. Well, better her than W, I guess.

But seriously, pickles should go there and just STFU and try to learn something, what with her being a libarican and all.

[dweller]

4. i wonder if anyone has told *moron yet?

since he's so outatheloop.

dp

[Ilsa]

24. They'll put one of those blowup dolls in his bed

and as long as it is lumpy enough, he won't notice.

[Lerkfish]

5. so...dubya gets to ride a tricycle, and the first lady is doing diplomacy?

ya know, you just can't make up this stuff.

[Ripley]

10. Did I read that right?

LAURA BUSH WILL GIVE A SOLO SPEECH TO AN ECONOMIC FORUM IN THE MIDDLE FUCKING EAST??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

BUT DAMN THAT BITCH HILLARY FOR STICKING HER UNEDUCATED NOSE INTO THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM. Since we all know she had no brains, no knowledge and no work history to stand upon, like Laura who is best known for:

WEARING DRAPES FOR STATE DINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND SAYING STUPID IGNORANT SHIT.

/end rant

[Julius Civitatus]

6. So her stand-up comedy career is taking off, huh...

I think choosing the Middle East to start her solo tour may be a bit too much (specially with a female not wearing a bee-keeper's suit). She should start touring with the "Blue Collar TV" crowd first, doing the "you may be a redneck" routine, and she should start in Branson, Missouri.

[Bigmack]

25. "You might be an Islamoterrorist if....

Your best jacket has Semtex in it....."

Anybody else? Jon could do wonders with this one.

[Botany]

7. WTF?

"...make a speech before the World Economic Forum in Jordan."

one more piece of proof that Commandeer Cuckoo Bananas is not really
President.

C.C.B. would go to Jordan and look for Michael Jordan.

[libertypirate]

8. Bet money she stops in Afganastan for like 10 min....

[lse7581011]

9. Yup!

to buy more of those special "cakes" she bought last time!

[Ripley]

12. And plant another tree with the one woman in Afghanistan who is

allowed to show her face. To replace the other one she planted that was ripped out of the ground to make room for poppies.

[libertypirate]

16. It is the perfect place to hide covert moving services.

[Spazito]

11. Is this part of her focus on 'gangs'? lol

One can see this in two ways, both bad for chicken Georgie: One, he has to send his wife in hopes she isn't as detested as he is or: two, he was told he wasn't welcome, under the table, due to the cost to protect him from the millions that detest him.

[Auntie Bush]

14. So this is how they get the TV mouthpieces off the Memo ,

Filibuster and sinking poll number coverage.

Everyone hates bush*...so heeeere's Laura.

Shame on bush* hiding behind a woman's skirt. (I can visualize a cartoon of that.)

[d.l.Green]

15. Good, she'll be out of the way so he can get back to his bald man... eom

[truthisfreedom]

18. i don't think bush is going to be able to relieve his urges with gannon

anymore. he'll have to figure out a new way to sneak in boy toys.

[Kurovski]

35. Hour and a half bike rides in the park?

"OOO! Jeff honey, m'ah bike seat fell off!

[watercolors]

17. the* desperate* house wife is on the move!

nt

[madrchsod]

19. can these guys get any lower?

sending the sofa to represent the USA in the middle east is an insult to them and to us. supporting woman and girls? what a sick joke.

[Straight Shooter]

20. This is simply to prop up bush's falling numbers.

I can hear those two now:

"But, George, I don't want to go to the Middle East."

"Pickles, you'll go and that's that. I don't want to hear another word outta your yap about it. Now, go get me a g'damn beer."

[Massachusetts]

21. "jam-packed trip to Jordan, Israel and Egypt"

[cmd]

22. She is getting ready to run for president!

Ya'll thought the plan was for Jebbie to run, didn't you?

Laura & Lynne in '08

[young_at_heart]

23. Remember, she's a "Stepford Wife"

I'll never forget the first time I saw her on TV....my first thought was, "Oh my God... a Stepford Wife". She has always come across as a human lacking in emotion.

[Dinger]

27. While The Cat's Away, bu$h And CONdi Will Play! (nt)

[ninkasi]

28. Oh, this is a laugh...

From the lying lips of Scott McClellan, her visit
"is an opportunity for Mrs. Bush to reinforce our commitment to promoting freedom and supporting women and girls across the Middle East."

I wonder how the women in Iraq, who used to be treated better than women in any other country in the Mideast, who used to be doctors and lawyers, and anything else they wanted, will feel about this? Thanks to Chimp, they no longer feel safe being on the streets of their own cities alone anymore.

Everything this administration says and does infuriates me. Maybe Laura will just recommend Xanax to the women, and tell them of the wonders it does for her.

[Lochloosa]

29. Actually, the reason the Shrub can't go to the Middle East is

no one is sure which country might arrest him for war crimes..

[Jacobin]

30. Shouldn't she spend some time in Iraq?

I mean, its all liberated and everything and gee whiz, they're throwing flowers, right?

Wouldn't it be nice if the Iraqis were allowed to demonstrate exactly how appreciative they are to her and to her husband in person?

[Kurovski]

31. Maybe it's to give Jeff and George

more time together taking bike rides in the park.

I imagine it must be difficult for Gannon to hook up with anyone at the White house these days.

Does anyone know if Gannon is signing into the White House anymore?

[Bluebear]

32. Xanax, check. Cartons of Marlboro light, check.

It's hard work making a packing list for a long trip.

[rooboy]

39. Apparently the whole trip's about picking up duty free cigarettes. n/t

[Demeter]

33. That's One Way To Avoid the Pain And Cost of Divorce

Send your spouse to a flaming war zone, where nobody is safe.

[genieroze]

34. Wat's da matta, hubby scared to go. eom

[ECH1969]

36. Poll numbers must be dropping again.

[hatrack]

37. Yes, after ending gang violence in America on Wednesday . . .

She'll fly to the ME and bring peace on Thursday.

:puke: