Bush will use his visit to Normandy and other European stops to try to mend fences and press his request for more international assistance on Iraq.
I hope he's planning on taking his knee pads.
Bush leaves on Thursday for Italy, where he will participate in June 4 ceremonies marking the liberation of Rome by American and allied forces. He is to meet at the Vatican with Pope Paul John Paul II.
After talks in Paris on Saturday with Chirac, Bush joins other world leaders on Sunday in the Normandy town of Caen.
He will also make separate remarks at the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach.
Bush will meet with some of the same leaders a few days later as he hosts the annual Group of Eight economic summit on Sea Island, Georgia.
Bush returns to Europe later in June for a European Union meeting in Ireland and a NATO summit in Turkey.
Something not Bush related:
Every 10 years, leaders of the countries that took part in D-Day gather on a Normandy beach for a memorial.
By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
Every 10 years, leaders of the countries that took part in D-Day gather on a Normandy beach for a memorial.
This year the Germans are coming
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Interesting sidenote: This year the German Chancellor was invited to join this.
Great Dolphin Conspiracy - Chatter box
"Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknown, everything is obvious." ZORAC GALE Force Euro Wimp Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.
Every 10 years, leaders of the countries that took part in D-Day gather on a Normandy beach for a memorial.
This year the Germans are coming
Well they did take part.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
Every 10 years, leaders of the countries that took part in D-Day gather on a Normandy beach for a memorial.
This year the Germans are coming
oh! oh! oh! Here's hoping that Georgie, Tont Blair and Paul Martin decide to re-enact the battle for Caen with Gerhard Schroeder!
[Paul Martin] Okay ya hoser, playing the role of the 3rd Canadian Infantry will be my foot, your skyward facing ass will be the 12th SS Panzer! Now Drop those drawers! [/Paul Martin]
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” -Tom Clancy
