Paris put on high alert for Bush D-Day visit

[struggle4progress]

France has deployed a massive security force ahead of US President George W. Bush's visit to Paris on Saturday, with 5,000 police officers and 1,500 soldiers patrolling the capital.
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Thousands of anti-war protesters against the arrival in France of Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin were to be joined by trade union activists marching against social security reform, as well as supporters of gay marriage.

But protesters have been barred from entering the central Paris area where Bush is to spend most of his time - a sector that includes the embassy off the place de la Concorde and French President Jacques Chirac's Elysee palace.
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Four boats carrying French Foreign Legion bomb disposal experts began patrolling the Seine on Thursday, along with firefighters and police.Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin said earlier this week that France was looking to meet the "great challenge" of providing "exemplary security" for Bush's visit.
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http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=8218

Paris sounds like an armed camp.

[Mountainman]

1. Bush, "I'm a uniter not a divider." Looks about right

Bush has united so many of the world's people against him. I don't think any President in history could have done what Bush has done.


Damned Frenchmen, why aren't they great full for D-Day after 60 years? Maybe they got over it.

[Just Me]

6. He is "magical", having ushered in the largest global protests,...

,...in the history of human civilization.

Too bad he and his cabal don't bother to ask "why". Instead, they keep on their blinders and stay an obviously failed course.

They are hugely embarassing to the United States of America.

[kerrycrat2k4]

2. Paris is nothing like we will see in the coming months

If * cannot continue to fool the country into beieveing that jobs are being created and some iraqis are happy id place money on a manufactured crisis and with it suspended civil rights and a postponed election. I bet Ashcroft is sexually aroused jut thinking of this that disgusting criminal.

[cliss]

7. Hi, kerryC.

Welcome to DU!! That was a very good post, and I agree with you 100%.

Just wait till you get home, buddy.

:smoke:

[burrowowl]

3. Hope the Protest

are as good as the ones in Rome!

[Parche]

4. Bush

Wouldn't it be funny if the French refused to let Bush into their country

[kerrycrat2k4]

5. if there was any justice

they would arrest him and try him in a war crimes tribunal alongside milosovic

[KoKo]

8. I think he enjoys all the attention, in a peverse way like his dragon lady

mother who sniped at people all the time and wears and wore mismatched clothing to stick it to the fashion press, or Richard Nixon who said his wife wore a "cloth coat and not mink."

Bush seems to have Nixon's "I'm down-to-earth" Laura and I (Pat and I) are "just folks" but we expect to be RESPECTED wherever we go!

Some sort of paranoic thing where unless your enemies are huge, in large numbers and vocal, you aren't a "real man." :shrug: