Whitehouse Letter: Bush finds more respect in India than at home

[IronLionZion]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan There were no questions about the Dubai ports deal. There was little talk of Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a fellow quail hunter. The words "Iraq" and "Katrina" hardly came up at all.

Through five days and three countries last week, President George W. Bush finally got what beleaguered American presidents always look for on foreign trips: respite from troubles at home. India, where Bush spent two packed days, embraced him in a way the president hasn't experienced - in South America, Europe and other parts of Asia - in a very long time.

"He felt very warmly received," said Andrew Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, who was on the lawn of Islamabad's presidential palace on Saturday morning. The night before, in an open-air speech in New Delhi at a 16th-century fort, Bush said he had been "dazzled" by the spectacle of "this vibrant and exciting land."

This is not to say that India adores Bush. New Delhi's intelligentsia views him with the disdain of New York liberals, Indians remain angry about the war in Iraq and anti-Bush riots exploded from Hyderabad north to Kashmir. But America is so popular in India and Bush bestowed on the nation such an astonishing gift - the nuclear deal announced last week - that Indians greeted him like an American maharajah.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/05/news/letter.php

[Punkingal]

1. Why not?

They have all our jobs.

[indie_voter]

2. WTF?!!

Did they forget this?

[IronLionZion]

10. It's all in your imagination.

What are you going to believe? Your own lying eyes or the trustworthy Bush Administration? :eyes:

It's propaganda. They said it so some poor fools might believe it.

[indie_voter]

12. I know, but it is so brazen, even for them. n/t

[zbdent]

3. It's amazing how people can be quiet and "well-behaved"

when threatened . . . and screened . . .

[Eric J in MN]

4. India gets US nuclear secrets, and what does the US get?

That Bush's rich buddies in the nuclear power industry can build there.

[madrchsod]

9. mangoes

cheap aids medical vactions
oil because we gave them nukes
goods we don`t make anymore
more "quest indian tech workers....

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. The anti-Bush protests are better televised over there, than they are

over here! Wow! Major spinning going on here.

[indie_voter]

6. I know. bizarre revisionist history. Insane. n/t

[rpannier]

7. India must have a huge number of intelligencia

because those protests I saw on Australian tv looked large.

[IronLionZion]

11. They say "intelligentsia" like it's bad

These people are against intelligent people.

Their intelligence tells them Iraqi is just peachy. My intelligence says otherwise.

The protests were very large. The one in Delhi was at least a half-million...at least.

[Mythsaje]

8. My dad remarked on this yesterday...

Predictable, since this administration's insane trade policies has been GOOD for India. Not so good for us.

My dad sure gets it.