France US's new best friend??: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4133574.ece Britain, which for so long has acted as a sometimes rickety bridge across the Atlantic, no longer has such strategic diplomatic importance. President Bush is spending two nights in Paris, but only one in London tomorrow — when he will have a private dinner with Gordon Brown after seeing the Queen. Much of his trip to Britain will be devoted to the relatively parochial issue of Northern Ireland before he heads home.
President Bush has very little influence at this moment in time due to the upcoming elections, none of the €uropean Governments will want to make any deals with someone who's time in office is counted in days rather than months & years, then there is the who will win the election question, John or Obama, what will their worldly political picture's be, why start the ball rolling on something that may be getting shelved before it gets started. I reckon the old man just wants to letch the French blokes wife. Tony
She a looker?? Or tell everyone to get their heads down the excrement is headed toward the Middle .East??