Jerusalem Readies for Bush's Arrival

[unhappycamper]

Jerusalem Readies for Bush's Arrival
Associated Press | January 07, 2008

JERUSALEM - With hundreds of hotel rooms booked and municipal crews unfolding red, white and blue flags, Jerusalem is getting ready for its highest-profile visitor in years: President Bush.

Jerusalemites are accustomed to waiting in traffic jams as convoys of black sedans shuttle visiting dignitaries around the city, the seat of Israel's government. But Bush, who arrives for three days beginning Jan. 9, constitutes a VIP of a different order.

Israel is pulling out all the stops to impress a man who is perhaps its staunchest foreign ally in his first visit as U.S. president.

Jerusalem is spending nearly $400,000 to spruce itself up for the visit, said Jacob Avishar, the city official in charge of coordinating preparations. Garbage teams are in furious race to clean the city's often dusty streets and walls tagged with spray paint, he said.

More than 10,500 policemen and security personnel will be deployed to protect Bush and keep order during the visit - more than one-third of Israel's entire police force, according to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.


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uhc comment: I wonder how many aircraft carriers and battalions of Marines are also going on this trip. Fuckwad took a shitload with him to the G8 conference in Scotland.

[sam sarrha]

1. i hope he takes that dirt bag cheney with him... so to speak,

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. I can imagine his first words when he lands:

"Man, sure are a lot a jews here."

"You got AYrabs, too? I tell ya, I learn sumtin every day."