POLL REVEALS BRITS FURIOUS

[pinkpops]

From the Mirror -
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13622444&method=full&siteid=50143AT VISIT COST

Watching this should give us a few days of amusement.
Why doesn't he just go to Crawford and chop wood?

[tnlefty]

1. Wouldn't it be great to have a huge protest to greet him when he

gets back?

[enough]

3. Great idea!

Where do you suppose he touches down?

[Kahuna]

12. That would be nice!

Would be fantastic!

[Nlighten1]

2. It sounds like, to me, this will be kiboshed

Security can't be gauranteed and stuff.

[Malva Zebrina]

4. It is all one big photo op

and is the brain child of Karl Rove--a la Reagun--except Georgie Porgie puddin pie cannot ride a horse with her majesty--which we Muricans think is rather an amusing tradition--this kings and queens stuff, doncha know.

He is going there for photo ops--period. He is going there so that it will be recorded and those record will be in forever in his "library". Nevermind that he did not really win the election--all that is photo op all that is propaganda is what matters. The reall stuff of diplomacy and the realy running of the country--err, I mean the reall running of the wars, is up to person supposedly more intellegent than the little rich boy whose daddy was once , also, a failed president. LOL--and he will go on and on with these photo ops, no matter how much it costs anyone--all that matter is the IMAGE!!

Oh how really puny he looks.

[ldf]

42. his photo op can be used agains him

just have a split screen, with him, and shots of the massive protests that we here in american were never allowed to see.

[alfredo]

5. I think he should cancel the trip. I guess he can't because if he

did, it would be seen as weakness. They would say it was for security, that they had uncovered some plot. Which may be true, but the rest of the world will see it as a victory for the people.

Of course it could be good old home grown arrogance.

[cosmicdot]

6. 3 out of 4 feel war on terror is making planet safer

BUSH OFF - POLL REVEALS BRITS FURIOUS AT VISIT COST



Nov 14 2003

By David Seymour


- ALMOST half of Britons believe George Bush is threatening world peace rather than helping bring it about.

- And as the US President prepares for his trip to Britain next week, many insist they don't want him here.

- Three out of four feel Mr Bush's war on terror is making the planet less safe as renegade groups hit back in retaliation.

- A Mirror/GMTV poll also found 75 per cent of people were furious at the £4million cost of security for his state visit

- Only 27 per cent of those quizzed yesterday believe the partnership (with Blair) is good for Britain while 38 per cent say the opposite.

- 64 per cent say it is wrong for protesters to be kept away from the President and voicing their disapproval of the Iraq war.

~snip~

ICM interviewed 509 adults, the results were weighted to the profile of all adults.



http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13622444_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-BUSH%2DOFF%2D%2D%2DPOLL%2DREVEALS%2DBRITS%2DFURIOUS%2DAT%2DVISIT%2DCOST-name_page.html

[moondust]

10. You mean less safe. n/t

[Melsky]

7. I don't get it

snip
Thirty per cent say he is the worst president the US has ever had and nearly half believe he is a puppet of big business in America.
snip

Why do the British seem to understand this so much more than we do? Could it be that their press is more free than ours?

[Jester_11218]

8. It is the fault of the press

The US was ranked 32nd in the world for freedom of the press by Reporters without Borders this year. That's why.

[0rganism]

18. I think you'd get similar stats in fair American polls, honestly

> Thirty per cent say he is the worst president the US has ever had

Really, I'm pretty sure there's a solid core of American liberals (and even some conservatives) who believe this. I'd wager between 25% and 30%.

> nearly half believe he is a puppet of big business in America.

It's probably about the same here, certainly at least 40%.

What we unfortunately lack is the 90% who think bush shouldn't visit us.

[jobycom]

19. Our press is more free than theirs, and that's the problem

The are free to lie wth impunity, to be blatant advertisers for their corporate interests. Networks are more profitable as PR departments for the interests of their parent corporations. If you can push a president that will cut your taxes dramatically, even go to war to give you more profit, you can make a lot more money than simply reporting the truth-- which is generally antithetical to the interests of the Republicans and their owners, um, donors.

[bluestateguy]

9. In stark contrast to Bill Clinton

Clinton is loved in Europe, except maybe in Serbia. George W. Bush must be the most hated US president in world history.

[9215]

11. A toast to the Brits!!

Hip-hip, Hooray!

:toast:

Cheeri-O and all that rot.

Yaaahooooo!

[ThorsteinVeblen]

13. God Bless the British People and the British Media

How ironic that they are Freer than we are.

[hussar]

14. Check this out

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=220569

[JawJaw]

39. gulp..

You think THAT'S spooky?

Bush's visit almost coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination!

[NNN0LHI]

15. No good can come of this. I think he should cancel the damn thing

I am worried about security. I don't want this idiot turned into a martyr before next years election. Holy jebuz.

Don

[bemildred]

17. Yeah, shit, then we'd have to re-select Cheney.

:puke:

[monobrau]

33. I'll take martyr

Martyr is fine by me. Whatever it takes.

[belle]

43. Oh, I wouldn't worry about that...they'll never get near him.

Seriously, has any president--hell, any leader in recent memory--had this much security following his every move? I bet even Hitler didn't have this many people following him around. No, the only way Shrub is going out before his term is up will be if he swallows a pretzel the wrong way, trips over another Sedgway, or has a bizarre golfing-related accident (I like to picture hordes of furious gophers popping up and dragging him off into a hole, a la the Veruca Salt episode from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).

[MetaTrope]

44. Hitler's bodyguards

The Schutzstaffel was formed in 1923 to serve as Hitler's bodyguard, and was expanded by Himmler in the '30s to number nearly one million men. What qualifications are expected to serve in America's own SS under Bush? In Germany, they eventually manned the concentration camps.

[Supormom]

16. Rumors of the UK press coming to the US

A while back I remember hearing rumors that either the Mirror or the Guardian was considering publishing an American counterpart. Anyone here have info?

[hussar]

20. Wouldn't that be nice

you can always email them and ask....good luck, fingers crossed

and WELCOME to DU

[lowfive]

26. it was the guardian [EOM]

[liberalmuse]

21. Why doesn't the asswipe just stay home?

No one wants him in their country. Only the most hated despots need this much security. I weep for this country. Our Presidents used to be respected and were greeted with flowers and fanfare not too long ago. Gawd how I hate this effing prick.

[NNN0LHI]

23. It used to be school children waving little American flags

Now its people who hate our government burning the American flag and effigies of the chimp. And this is in countries that are our best allies! What a difference three short years can make.

Don

[saigon68]

24. Flowers and fanfare greeting in Iraq

The Chimpanzee should go there are pay homage to his friend Chalabi.

[JoFerret]

22. BushFacts from the Independent

Bush telegraph: selected presidential facts

In May 2001, Bush's government gave $43m to the Taliban.

Bush has never attended a funeral or memorial service for a soldier killed in Iraq.

In August this year, Bush took the second-longest holiday ever by a US president: 28 days.

Bush's 16-member cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with an average fortune of $10.9m each.

As governor of Texas, Bush executed 152 prisoners.

Sixty-one people who raised $100,000 for Bush's 2000 election campaign have since been given government posts.

Nine members of Bush's Defense Policy Board sit on the board of defence contractors or are advisers.

Bush owns more than 250 autographed baseballs.

Bush has been arrested three times: for stealing a Christmas wreath from a hotel; for ripping down the Princeton goal posts after a Princeton-Yale game; and for drunk driving.

Bush infuriated the Russian media by spitting a wad of chewing gum into his hand before signing 2002's historic Treaty of Moscow with Vladimir Putin.

While appearing on the David Letterman show in 2000, Bush was caught surreptitiously cleaning his glasses on the jacket of the programme's executive producer, Maria Pope.
14 November 2003 22:11


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=463147

[Occulus]

34. Oohhh, I found some interesting stuff

by digging a bit with Google.

I 'luckied' the entire phrase "In May 2001, Bush's government gave $43m to the Taliban" and found this:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mn-politics-national/message/403

wherein is an article Scheer wrote on Tue, 22 May 2001 detailing this Backroom Deal (sic, in this case). People, the Taliban was known as a haven for terrorism long before this, their human rights abuses were among the worst on the planet, and we gave them FORTY-THREE MILLION DOLLARS to "fight opium"???

This is the smoking gun. We all know what happened next.

The question is, were there warnings of a major attack such as 9/11 that far back in '01? Because if there were.... and * still handed the cash over....

doesn't that make him an accomplice?

[fishnfla]

25. Let him go face the fire

He's always at worst then. The harshest words any true man can hear: "I told ya so"

[salinen]

27. sometimes

i am contemplative about the mess this corrupt administration has taken the world. other times i want to roar "you fucking pieces of shit. shut the fuck up you lying filth. get the fuck away from this government. your a disease, you rotten fucks."

[demgrrrll]

29. I understand. I am p 'oed every day that smarmy bastid is in the U.S.

I have empathy but we are the ones who have to take the little
creep back. They only have to look at his smirky little mug a few days.

[Merlin]

28. Link doesn't work. n/t

.

[Occulus]

32. 1:55 AM- still dead

too much traffic?

[burythehatchet]

30. Maybe George should look in the mirror and ask himself...

is the world safer now since my war on terror began?

[salinen]

31. hey everybody

i know of this great party. this is the party to end all parties. it will be a world wide celebration with people dancing in the streets and kissing perfect strangers and paraDes with floats and funny costumes and laughter. that's what will happen when this "STINKING PIECE OF PUTRID FLESH IS THROWN OUT."

[Cronus Protagonist]

35. I think I saw a pic of the Queen welcoming George - oh here it is...

[dutchdemocrat]

36. 'Bare Your Bum at Bush' - UK'ers plan massive mooning at Bush

'Bare Your Bum at Bush'

The Poster - would be better if Bush were teasing Tony's Nipple.


****

http://www.bloggerheads.com/can_weblogs/bush_bum.asp

Objective

To collectively voice our displeasure at the impending arrival of George W Bush in the UK and in doing so either sour the experience or prevent his arrival.

Background
George W. Bush has already cancelled one visit to this country because he felt more than a little unwelcome. The man is terribly secretive about state visits, but Laura Bush recently let slip that a visit to the UK is being planned sometime in autumn. Our aim is to give the man the bum's rush before he even arrives and/or show him exactly what we think of him in the finest British tradition.

Method
George Bush is unlikely to walk around the streets kissing babies because of the large number of people that wish to blow him up. However, a 'Brits love Bush' photo-op of happy crowds greeting the man may be in the offing and it's vitally important that we rob him of such a lucrative propaganda device. By attending such gatherings (by accident or design) and ensuring that you bare your buttocks as he passes by, you either render any photos taken at that moment unusable or make a very clear indication of what Britain thinks of this bigoted warmonger.

Your Role
There are several levels of involvement to suit a number of personal situations and comfort levels. They are listed below.


Baring Your Bum

If you hear of a visit to your part of town or happen to see George W Bush, bare your arse in his general direction. Don't be afraid to wiggle it about a bit and maybe even spread your cheeks; this is a political statement you're making and you don't want to do things by halves, now do you?

Threatening To Bare Your Bum

Write to your chosen local, national or foreign newspaper and inform them that you, as a British citizen, fully intend to do your civic duty and bare your arse at George W Bush. In this same letter, you may also wish to call upon other readers to do the same.

Don't wait for the official visit; get typing and do this now. With any luck, Georgie will hear of the unwelcome reception that awaits him and decide to stay at home.

A series of links to the contact pages for major newspapers appears below to aid you in your quest. If you make it to print, please do send us a clipping for the scrapbook.

Using a More Modest Approach

If you're too shy to bare your arse or have any kind of difficulty in the trouser department, you may choose instead to use the following poster and wave this in his general direction instead. Clicking on the sample below will open a large version in a new window. (If this poster is not to your taste, there is a wide selection of alternatives available at waketheworld.org)

[screembloodymurder]

37. I don't understand

I thought the Brits liked royalty. Afterall, we're sending them a royal screw up. And this from the coalition's top ranking member state.

[Hubert Flottz]

38. Bush is going to court with the Queen!

I guess the regular Jester got sick or laid off, so Bush is going to 'SAVE THE QUEEN'!(hope he remembers his sock and his flight suit for the photo sessions) Tony Poodle is keeping a low profile these daze for some reason, kinda like Dick Cheney! If Big Tony gets fired he can always get a job at Halliburton/B&R, I'd say they owe him a favor or two!

Maybe Tony and Buckaroo Bush can ride off in the sunset together socks held high, singing 'Happy Trails' to each other all the way to the bank, while the Faux cameras keep rollin' rollin' rollin! The Moran in Cheap will do us all proud abroad I'm positive!

[GalleryGod]

40. "Armed Officers stood guard around the U.S. Embassy yesterday..."

In CENTRAL FRIGGIN' LON-DON:pals:

Way to go, President Pee-Pee Pants!

[dArKeR]

41. Security must be very difficult. I think the Brits may try to rush Bush

and then the S.S. will have to open fire on citizens. I would guess that's their SOP.