Enemy Combatant
Monday, November 20, 2006
The Wizard Of Ozymandias Abroad
Apparently the lying sneaking cowardly little shit who occupies the White House is finding that his Emperor's-New-Clothes schtick is selling overseas even worse than it is domestically:
Asian leaders fail to back Bush's strategy to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions
· President loses battle for united anti-nuclear stance
· Trip to Indonesia curtailed over security concerns
Suzanne Goldenberg in Hanoi
Monday November 20, 2006
The Guardian
President George Bush suffered his most visible diplomatic setback since his party's defeat in mid-term elections yesterday when Asian leaders failed to back Washington's call for robust action against North Korea.
Mr Bush, in Vietnam on his first foreign trip since the elections, had lobbied strenuously for a unified strategy aimed at getting Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions, meeting the Russian, Chinese, South Korean and Japanese leaders on the sidelines of the summit.
The rebuff - the second for Mr Bush this weekend on North Korea - underlined the president's diminished powers in the wake of his election defeat. So too did the muted response to Mr Bush's presence in Hanoi, a shadow of the tumultuous reception for President Clinton, when he visited Vietnam six years ago.
But that is far better than the hostile reception that awaits Mr Bush today when he flies in to Indonesia, where thousands of protesters were on the streets yesterday accusing the US of war crimes. Mr Bush is to spend just six hours in Indonesia after the secret service decided that it would be too dangerous for him to remain in the country overnight. Intelligence officials say there have been warnings of a militant attack during Mr Bush's visit.
We're fleeing them over there, so we don't have to flee them over here.
