What do international travelers see when they get off the plane at LAX?

[kurth]

Photographs of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Yep. Right next to the "Welcome to the United States" sign.

Does anyone know if this is a Homeland Security rule or what?

[rwheeler31]

1. A sad nation.

[Double T]

2. Intimidation tactic.

[baldguy]

3. Like pics of Lenin & Stalin in the USSR

Totalitarians all think alike.

[saigon68]

4. Is this the Photo they see?

[phaseolus]

5. The embarrassment will end in 14 months

With any luck, Junior won't be memorialized with a bronze statue like his father is in one of the terminals at Houston Intercontinental.

I swear, next time I fly there I'm putting a clown wig & nose on that statue...

[MADem]

6. Well, that's true in pretty much every government facility--and Customs and Immigration IS a

government facility.

I've been in and out of the country and looked at all sorts of mugs over the years.

Don't worry about it overmuch. The view will change in Jan 09.

[1620rock]

8. ...I wonder.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Taht has been around since I remember when I used to come as a tourist to the US

my first memories were of Reagan... and Poppy

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

9. Last time I was there all I saw was a big display about penalties for drug trafficking

although I guess the Bush/Cheney display is slightly less weird than the murals in Denver

[lpbk2713]

10. It's getting more like the Turd Reich with each passing day.

[Nihil]

13. Especially at LAX

That "entry hall" is so "Nuremburg Rally" ... high hall with flags
hanging down ... designed to impress (or intimidate) the visitors
to the US whilst they are waiting in l-o-n-g lines to be treated
like a criminal by fatherland security ...

[Virginian]

11. At Customs.

Saw that when I got off the cruise ship and had to go through customs.

[Basileus Basileon]

12. It was like that with Clinton/Gore IIRC.

Anyone can correct me if I'm wrong; I might be thinking of a different place.