Germans plan to protest Bush visit

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Protests planned for Bush-Merkel talks

Luke Harding in Berlin
Tuesday July 11, 2006
The Guardian



Thousands of demonstrators are expected to protest on Thursday against the US president, George Bush, who arrives in eastern Germany tomorrow night for a three-day bonding session with Germany's leader, Angela Merkel.

The president is dropping into Mrs Merkel's picturesque Baltic coast constituency before flying on Friday to the G8 summit in St Petersburg. But the trip has already provoked opposition from residents. Officials in the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have invited 1,000 carefully selected guests to meet Mr Bush on tomorrow in the seaside town of Stralsund. The stage-managed reception for the US president is being wryly compared to the treatment once afforded East Germany's communist party.

The reception party will include 300 German soldiers dressed in civilian clothes. Ordinary Germans have been told to stay indoors. All shops in the town's historic market have been shut, and cars, rubbish bins and flowerpots have been removed.

story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1817926,00.html?gusrc=rss

[bdamomma]

1. oh oh bush is going to stop traffic again

he just loves making a fool out of himself and us. No foreign meetings anymore, he acts like such an a** hole.

[paparush]

2. Bush will never see, hear, notice them...

His bubble of security insulates him completely from the nastiness of reality. He is truly the boy in the bubble...

[shadowknows69]

3. When are euorpean citizens going to tell their leaders

en masse not to give King George an invite. Other people shouldn't have to suffer this fool.

[Minnesota Libra]

4. I plan to thank the Germans for doing what the idiots in...........

.....this country aren't doing.:applause:

[Hubert Flottz]

5. On Vacation AGAIN?

We're too good to him!

[magellan]

6. In the interests of the free market and our global economy

...I would like to export Bush** permanently.

Sadly, we couldn't pay another nation to take him...even if we had the treasury accounts to do it.

[Vidar]

7. Glad to hear it.