Bush Receives Hero's Welcome in Albania

[Novelisto]

<p>"“Can YOU people forget your vitriolic hate for Bush and realize that this is great for OUR country”</p>

<p>First of all, it’s not You People, it’s The People. 70 something percent thinks the country’s on the wrong track. Only about 30 something thing GWB’s doing much of a job and they’re probably going to adore him no matter what…right up until he signs the immigration legislation. </p>

<p>Secondly, it’s not a vitriolic hate, it’s a well-reasoned and considered dislike amounting to detestation everytime I hear him shredding the language and the Constitution in one go. Come on, 1/20/09!</p>

[Opie_ofMaybery2]

<p>"“Can YOU people forget your vitriolic hate for Bush and realize that this is great for OUR country”</p>

<p>I don’t really hate Bush anyway, I just think he would be happier as commissioner of Baseball. Then he could deal with the Barry Bonds crisis. </p>

<p>I think Gw is a true victim of the peter principle.</p>

[TheDad]

<p>Albania is largely Muslim. The Albanians love us for kicking the Serbs out of Kosovo (Thank you, Bill Clinton) and keeping them out. We would have had even better leverage in the Muslim world if we had intervened forcefully earlier in Bosnia but Clinton was reluctant to do so without bi-partisan support and the Republicans fulminated with a bunch of b.s. reasons not to. Sarajevo is a moral blot on the U.S. </p>

<p>If I were President, I’d have told the Republicans to stick it and acted anyway. Bill was too politically nice. For some reason, I don’t worry about that with Hillary.</p>

[BedHead]

<p>From the Christian Science Monitor about Bush’s reception in Albania:</p>

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Roots of pro-American sentiment</p>

<p>The roots of Albanian pro-American sentiment, people here say, date to Woodrow Wilson’s support of the country’s independence after World War I and were cemented during the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo, a majority ethnic Albanian province of Serbia. Albanians also see the US as the strongest advocate for the independence of Kosovo, whose status is due to be reviewed by the UN Security Council this month.

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<p>Kosovo intervention: as The Dad says, thank Bill Clinton for doing the things that led to Bush’s warm welcome.</p>

[razorsharp]

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if we had intervened forcefully earlier in Bosnia but Clinton was reluctant to do so without bi-partisan support

Clinton went into Albania on his own and without worrying about bipartisan support. There was no reason for him to start worrying about republicans when deciding about Bosnia. </p>

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and the Republicans fulminated with a bunch of b.s. reasons not to.

You mean reasons like it is a civil war and we need to stay out of civil wars. Sort of like the reasons you give for the US not staying in Iraq.</p>

<p>Clinton was as big a warmonger as was Bush except Bush had an excuse called 9/11. Clinton simply loved power and killing.</p>

[TheDad]

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