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George Bush instead of Texas flew to Baghdad
George Bush on Thursday evening, in a complete secrecy at an atmosphere of complete secrecy, arrived in Baghdad. This was reported by American television channels.
According to FoxNews , the presidential Boeing landed at the Baghdad airport in the evening on Thursday.
The White House announced his trip, which kept secret and surrounded by increased security measures only when the Air Force-1 aircraft landed under the cover of darkness at Baghdad airport.
Bush will meet with American military. “The only and main goal of his trip is to congratulate the military on thanksgiving,” the channel reports.
The president met with the head of the interim American administration in Iraq Paul Brerer. The meeting was attended by all 25 managers of the administration, the CNN correspondent from Baghdad reports, according to whom, the unexpected visit of the president to the capital of Iraq was accompanied by such a high degree of secrecy that now no one knows exactly where Bush, what his plans are.
According to journalists, the White House is only confirmed by the fact of Bush’s stay in Baghdad, but categorically refuses to report the whereabouts of the president.
According to the FoxNews television company, an accompanying Bush press gun to take the eyes was sent to Crawford, where the Texas Ranch Bush is located and where the president’s arrival was "expected". Journalists were informed that the president could make a trip on an airplane, but where and when they did not specify, saying only that this press would become known only after the start of the flight.
CNN reports that, according to her sources in the White House, Bush’s trip to Baghdad would be immediately canceled if any information about her leaked to the press.
A few minutes after the first reports of Bush’s visit to Baghdad, it became known that the US president had already left Iraq, RIA Novosti reports. The president met with 600 military personnel and took part with them in a traditional festive dinner.
Due to the dangerous situation in Iraq, where attacks on American soldiers do not stop, the president’s stay in Baghdad was limited by only two and a half hours.
The dinner was also attended by the head of the Iraq Provisional Administration Paul Bremer, commander of the American troops in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez and other military and civilians.
The American military, guarding the Baghdad airport, were very surprised to see the president who arrived, who said: “I wanted to eat something hot somewhere, thanks for the invitation,” Interfax reports.
According to eyewitnesses, soldiers and officers, who were also kept in ignorance until the very last minute, looked at their supreme commander in chief with undisguised surprise and joy. Bush was dressed in a military jacket with the emblem of the 1st armored division. His speech , which he tried to cheer up by American troops, was met by stormy applause.
Bush was the first American president in history to visit Iraq.
Bush was taken to Iraq in an atmosphere of complete secrecy. His wife learned about the purpose of the flight of one of the latter. Parents did not know at all
On which George Bush made a lightning -otic visit to Iraq, along with the head of the White House was a group of journalists from American news agencies and television companies. However, journalists were forbidden to transfer any information until the visit to Baghdad is completed and the presidential Boeing will not leave Iraq air space, CNN television company reports.
Its correspondents and TV presenters, like journalists of all other American television companies, are now not hiding their annoyance and discontent by the fact that the White House has managed to lull the vigilance of the media and actually completely introduce the American and world press to misleading.
“We are just in shock,” the CNN correspondent admitted, according to which, the secrecy of Bush’s visit was “unprecedented”.
No more than five closest assistants in Bush were known about the purpose of the flight of the presidential aircraft in the White House, and even his wife was informed about the upcoming flight only an hour before the aircraft departure. Bush’s parents, invited to a festive dinner at Ranch in Texas, generally decided not to say anything.
It is expected that the president will return back to the USA tonight local time. In this case, he will really be able to have time for a family festive dinner at his ranch.
Bush, who, from Monday, was on his ranch near Crawford in Texas, it turns out, left the ranch on Wednesday in the evening, at about 19:30 in the evening of Texas time.
Under the cover of darkness, the President of the United States was taken from the ranch to an ordinary, unremarkable car to the airfield, from where he proceeded by plane to Washington.
On the basis of the Air Force "Andrews" near Washington, Bush moved to another Boeing, where he arrived in Baghdad after 12.5 hours.
For safety reasons, the presidential aircraft went without identification lights, with curtained portholes and observing full silence on the air. The presidential Boeing landed on the remote and specially protected strip of the Baghdad international airport.
When the Bush plane had just risen from the airfield of the Andrews Air Force and lay down on Iraq, which was on board the journalists officially stated that in the event of any leakage to the media about a visit to Iraq, the presidential aircraft would immediately unfold in the air and the visit would be interrupted.
The journalists who were on board were allowed to transfer the first urgent messages only after the airliner headed back to Washington.
Bush stayed in Baghdad for 2 hours 32 minutes, and his stay was accompanied by such high security measures that until the very moment the president appeared before the American troops in Baghdad, they were sure that only the head of the US interim administration in Iraq Paul Bremer would meet them.
Assistant Bush on Public Relations Dan Bartlett said that his boss did not threaten his boss, and a little risk was justified. Observers believe that the president’s trip to Iraq unexpected for everyone to meet with American soldiers and officers on thanksgiving was a successful advertising course in the conditions of the election campaign that had begun. There are less than a year left to universal elections in the United States, ITAR-TASS reports.
US President George Bush said that in Iraq, "US Armed Forces are doing fantastic work."
Bush spoke at a meeting with American military personnel during his lightning visit on Thursday to Baghdad. Bush’s video is shown on the air of American television companies.
"You defeat Saddam's assistants so that Iraqis can live in peace and freedom. Helping the Iraqi people, you help to change this part of the world that is faced with difficulties and violence," the head of the White House said.
“We will stay in Iraq until the work is completed,” Bush assured.
“We will win because our goal is fair,” Bush said.
According to the head of the White House, the regime of Saddam Hussein left forever. Bush thanked the soldier, "daily risking their lives, for what they do in the name of restoring freedom and security in Iraq" and congratulated them on the national American holiday - thanks in the afternoon.
Bush suddenly arrived in Iraq on the eve of the visit here Hillary Clinton
The unexpected and lightning -otic visit of George Bush to Baghdad became the main sensation of the American media.
According to many American commentators, Bush masterfully “outplayed” the former first lady of the United States, Senator-Democrat Hillary Clinton, who also arrives in Baghdad on Friday.
Unlike Bush, Hillary Clinton in advance announced a trip to Afghanistan and Iraq in order to meet with American military and, in particular, with the paratroopers of the tenth US mountain rifle division.
On Thursday, Hillary Clinton arrived in Kabul, and her upcoming visit to Baghdad was to become a noticeable information event in the United States. But after the appearance of Bush in the Iraqi capital, the main news was the trip of the head of the White House and his meeting with the military personnel of the first armored division and the 82nd airborne division of the United States.
In the United States, a pre-election race is already in full swing, and Bush, being the leader of the Republicans, carefully monitors all the most important public gestures of their democrats.
Hillary Clinton officially did not nominate her candidate for the next year, but actively participates in the election race on the side of other democratic applicants for the White House, and her appearance in Baghdad was to be an important election course of the democrats, who now criticize Bush for difficulties in Iraq and for the ongoing death of American military personnel.
In the immediate environment of the head of the White House, they categorically deny the election nature of Bush Bush Bush in Baghdad, claiming that his planning began back in October of this year.