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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-11-07 09:36 AM
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Bulgaria flies the US flag, too...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/ap_on_re_eu/bush_flag_flub_3

only upside down (universal distress symbol)





SOFIA, Bulgaria - The Bulgarian capital was aflutter with American flags to honor President Bush. There was just one glitch to the patriotic welcome: Every second flag was facing the wrong way.

"Sofia greets U.S. President George W. Bush with flags upside down," the Trud newspaper headlined Monday about the gaffe.

As it turns out, most flags weren't upside down. But every other flagpole along Bush's motorcade route, which followed Sofia's central Tsarigradsko Chausee boulevard, had the stars and stripes mounted in the wrong direction.

Traditionally, American flags are flown with the blue field of stars in the upper left corner. These flags were hung so the blue field was reversed to the right.

Officials in charge of the Bulgarian presidency's state protocol told local media they had received assurances by the company that Sofia City Hall authorized to put up the flags that everything had been coordinated with the U.S. Embassy.

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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-11-07 09:39 AM
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1. Idiots at Yahoo. 'Trud' is a Russian paper the Bulgarian one is 'Dneven Trud'
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