Bloody price of Iraq occupation taints Bush's Botswanan safari

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=2&u=/afp/20030710/ts_afp/us_africa_botswana_bush_030710175749

GABORONE (AFP) - New US bloodshed in Iraq dogged President George W. Bush as he travelled to Botswana, the third stop on his whirlwind African tour.

Bush flew into Gaborone from South Africa to highlight his emergency 15 billion dollar plan to combat AIDS and spotlight Botswana's diamond-fuelled economy, viewed by Washington as a rare African example of good governance.

Smiling broadly, Bush was serenaded at the airport by a school choir and bobbed in time to the beat of a traditional marimba percussion band.

But the mood soon turned somber as Bush, after two more US soldiers were killed in Iraq, admitted that his government had a security headache.

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[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. "There is no question we have got a security issue in Iraq"

said the election stealing AWOL fratboy.

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Guess Bring'em On didn't do the trick....

Our troops are still dying.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Somber Chimp on Sucky Safari

Do not ask for whom the marimba tolls.
It tolls for thee.

[arikara]

4. Safari? Is he out butchering endangered species now?

disgusting moran