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| Southeast Asia |
| Bush Ends Trip at Careful Stop in Indonesia |
| 2006-11-21 |
| To answer yesterday's speculation... President Bush made a six-hour, carefully orchestrated visit to Indonesia on Monday, praising the countryÂ’s first directly elected president and seeking to defuse the widespread anger here, in the most populous Islamic country, over the continued American presence in Iraq. We were hoping for a "hit", but no joy... Mr. Bush, whose visit to Indonesia three years ago was consumed with talk of counterterrorism, this time appeared focused on fighting bird flu, bolstering a small program to aid Indonesian schools and promoting growth. Oh, democracy stuff. Yawn. |
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