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Subject: BUSH VISIT TO UK
BUSH VISIT TO
UK
by
Gordon Thomas
President Bush’s visit to London – designed
to launch his election year-long campaign as the conqueror of Saddam – is
already an unprecedented public relations disaster, uniting all shades of
British public opinion against the visit.
* Royalists are upset that the
President’s neo-conservative religious advisers have cautioned Bush to minimise
any photo opportunities with the embattled Prince Charles after the huge
publicity about his private life in America.
“Bush and Charles looking
buddy-buddy in public won’t play well in the Baptist Southern States where Bush
needs crucial votes to get re-elected. It would also do him no favours with the
largely conservative Catholic and Jewish block votes in the United States,” said
an assistant to one of the President’s key aides, Condoleeza Rice.
Born in
once racially segregated Birmingham, Alabama, Rice is now Bush’s national
security adviser.
For her the “bible is my pillar of my Baptist faith. I pray
every day to follow the Word of the Lord. And adultery and homosexuality are not
approved of in the Good Book,” she once said.
She attends the President’s
regular prayer meetings in the White House. Bush has never shaken off his own
Bible Belt roots.
His other key aides, Vice President Dick Cheney and
Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld are also experts at quoting
Scripture.
Both have also advised him he should avoid any formal meeting with
Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
“Given the huge popularity that Princess
Diana still commands in this country, Camilla is seen as very much the marriage
breaker,” said the Rice aide.
While Buckingham Palace insisted “we never
comment on either matters of security or the requests of the Queen’s personal
guests,” informed Royal insiders say that the monarch is “understandably
furious” at the attitude of the President’s advisers.
In his wallet, the
President carries a biblical passage evangelist Billy Graham gave him after
9/11. It is the words of the prophet Ezekiel to the Philistines: “And ye shall
know that I am the Lord when I shall lay my vengeance upon you”.
He may well
feel that he needs the prophet’s protection as he faces the wrath of Britain’s
anti-war demonstrators.
* Taxpayers are outraged that the visit is costing $8
million – all to be paid out of public funding which is badly needed to
refurbish the country’s failing Health Service and public transport and road
system.
It is also the most expensive State visit in Britain’s
history.
Over 5,000 London police officers will guard the closed-off centre
of London that houses some of Britain’s biggest tourist attractions: Buckingham
Palace, Big Ben, the House of Parliament, Whitehall, Downing Street, the Mall
and the Cenotaph.
Tourist officials estimate that the loss of tourist revenue
could top several million dollars.
* London hospitals and their surgeons and
medical staff – whose skills are among the best in the world – are astonished
that Bush is bringing his own operating table and team (based on Air Force One).
One surgeon is a specialist in gunshot wounds. Another is equipped to deal with
a biological hazard.
* London’s five-star chefs are amazed that the President
is bringing his own five chefs to cook personally for him. They are bringing
with them his favourite Texas beef (for hamburgers) and Mexican chilli.
As
well as the massive police presence, there are:
* Over 300 MI5/MI6 agents –
some flown in from Middle East trouble spots specially for the occasion. Their
task is to try and spot any Al-Qaeda terrorist in the crowds.
The fear that
bin Laden’s group may try to launch an attack was reinforced earlier in the week
by the arrest of an Al-Qaeda operative in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Police
say papers in his possession suggest he was involved in a potential terrorist
attack in London next week.
* In another unprecedented move, Israel has
assigned eight top Mossad agents to reinforce security at specific Jewish
institutions in London during the Bush visit.
But it is the presence of 650
American secret agents that has infuriated Londoners. The agents have
demanded:
* The names and personal details, including political affiliations,
of all those who will attend Bush’s planned visit to Parliament.
Maverick MP
George Galloway, recently sacked from the Labour Party for his support for
Saddam Hussein, has called the demand “disgraceful and an insult to the home of
all democracy”.
* A similar vetting demand has been made to Buckingham Palace
for the names and background of all guests who will attend the State banquet the
Queen will host for Bush.
US agents have also asked for the names and
background of all food suppliers for the banquet.
The vegetables will come
from Prince Charles’ Highgrove Gardens. He is expected to attend the
banquet.
As the volume of protest grows – led by London’s mayor, Ken
Livingstone, the US agents are turning the centre of the capital into a
potential battle zone.
* Fifty sniper agents will be positioned overlooking
every place where Bush will be publicly visible when he steps, however briefly,
from his armoured limo.
* Sixty sniffer dogs will be withdrawn from normal
duty at Britain’s airports to hunt for drugs or explosives and roam ceaselessly
among the public onlookers.
* An outer security perimeter will extend to the
Channel Tunnel and to all access ports from Ireland for next week.
* An even
wider net will extend deep into Europe. French, German and Italian security
services will be constantly tracking the movements of anyone suspected of links
to Al-Qaeda.
* Air Force One will be escorted into London by US fighter jets
based in Britain. They will be fitted with missiles to shoot down any
threatening aircraft.
This decision follows the Pentagon’s warning last week
that Al-Qaeda are planning to use freight planes as a
weapon.
ends
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