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Boos And Catcalls Greet Bush At St. Peter’s

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Boos And Catcalls Greet Bush At St. Peter’s
Der Spiegel
April 08, 2005

Rome: It was a historic moment: George W. Bush was the first president of the U.S. to participate in burying a Pope - despite his controversy with the Pontiff over the Iraq War. When his image flashed on a huge outdooor TV screen, the multitude gathered for the funeral of Pope John Paul II had a pointedly unpleasant message to communicate to the U.S. president. Loud booing was heard, when on a large television monitor carried a close-up of the President and Mrs. Bush.

George W. Bush had also brought a high-ranking delegation to Rome, which included his father, George [H.W.] Bush, his predecessor, Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. At St. Peter’s Square, Bush sat in the second row of honored guests. The seats were arranged in alphabetical order, after the French names for each nation. Beside Bush sat French President Jacques Chirac. About 40 members of the U.S. Congress were also in attendance. The huge crowd gathered in the Square reacted with booing and catcalls when a large television monitor carried a close-up of the President and Mrs. Bush.

The U.S. president took the opportunity while in Rome to meet with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Bush again expressed his regret over the death of Nicola Calipari, the secret service officer. Calipari died one month ago, when U.S. Troops bombarded his car, as he accompanied released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena to the Baghdad Airport. The incident caused a substantial disruption in relations between Italy and the United States.

Bush also met in Rome with American cardinals, who will participate in the election of a new Pope, beginning on April 18. After the funeral, the U.S. president journeyed back to Texas.

Forum posts

  • We saw the disgusting staged morning pictures of Bush, Clinton and the mascerade of the two ladies Laura and Condoleeza. I feel very sorry for Clinton, who teams up with murder Bush.
    The Vatican should have known better after the desaster with Nazi Germany. European people are no longer feel much aquaintenance with this phony double standard priests.

  • The true majority of the American people despise Mr. Bush. He was not elected, nor is he truly in command. He is a puppet ruler and unfortunately, the few yet very loud extremists who do support him, are trying to hurt those who do not support him. America is still too young and immature to be a real democracy and we have much to learn. However, it will take the forthrightness and removal of greed by all nations’ leaders in order to stop the USA. The level of corporate corruption and government industry profiteering, is enhanced by international relations. Unfortunately, the USA is left with few options. I realize it falls on our shoulders, but the multinational corporation must be shut down frst.

    • Just a general comment; I am no Bush lover; but - for the moment - (and we may all be only a blink in the eye of history) we all participate and benefit from a society that is based on extensive use of oil. Until such time when we all have decided to use smaller cars, or look for alternative energy sources (hydrogen, wind power, etc), and begin to purchase cars that are hybrids - and they already exist, we can only call ourselves hypocrites. No amount of talk about America being immature, murderous etc. is going to do away with the huge amount of power the U.S. possesses and wields, but don’t forget, the entire ’West’ is in the same camp. However, nature is going to be all our undoing; Earth itself is going to fight back, if we do not heed the warning signals of the drastic climatic changes we have all witnessed within the last 5 years.
      I am a concerned grandmother who wants a future for her grandchildren; I live in a country that is relatively far away from the major problems of this world, but hail from Europe originally. To my consternation, my Government also supports Bush, but I realise as long as we all use and need oil like there is no tomorrow, the likes of Bush, Blair and Howard (Australia’s Prime Minister) will prevail, because they do what we all need and use, with all their vested interests at play, and puppets Bush and Condoleeca being well handled, they try and secure cheap oil. The question is, are they going to succeed? The answer to that one is ’no’ - Nature will hit back AND the downtrodden part of the subject nations of the Middle East are putting up passive and not so passive resistance (I am not talking of Saudi royalty here, who have a vested intererst in supplying the West with what it needs most); and of course, they are finding a higher cause to fight against the West; namely religion and the age-old trick of bedevilling the ’bad’ enemy, culturally and morally. We are ’bad’ therefore worthy of being killed - have you heard that one before?
      Everyone who lives in the West and uses Oil - speak Petrol - is in the same camp as Bush - please be clear about this or bicyle your way to world revolution.

      from a former socialist who has become aware of the realities of this world.

    • Right On!
      We didn’t vote for W., we don’t want him, and he has done nothing tomake our feelings changefor the positive but lots to the negative.

  • Booing at a funeral? I’ve never heard booing at a funeral before. Those people couldn’t have less class.

    It reminds me of when the Ayatollah Khomeini died, and the fanatics in Tehran lost control of themselves and rioted, spilling his body onto the square.