http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4761956.stm

Bush arrives to Indian protests
US President George W Bush has arrived in India after a surprise stop-over in Afghanistan on day one of his first visit to South Asia.
Ahead of his arrival, tens of thousands of people protested in India.

Huge protest rallies were held in Delhi and Calcutta. Speakers said he was not welcome and condemned the Iraq war.

Top officials from both countries have been working to finalise a landmark nuclear deal which could be the cornerstone of Mr Bush's visit.

The deal gives India access to US civilian nuclear energy.

Heavy security was in place as President Bush landed in Delhi. The streets surrounding his hotel were sealed off as hundreds of policemen and US secret service agents took up position.

In a rare gesture, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh personally received Mr Bush and his wife, Laura, at Delhi airport.

'Bush go home'

Earlier, about 100,000 protesters gathered in the heart of Delhi in the first of many planned demonstrations against the US president.

Most of them were Muslim. They held up black flags and placards reading: "Bush, go home."


"We are against Bush because he is the enemy of Islam," one protester, Shamsuddin Malik, told the BBC.

"He is a war criminal. America has invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Their policy towards humanity is deplorable," said Mohammad Anwar Hussain of the Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, a hardline Islamic group.

The BBC's Sanjeev Srivastava in Delhi says although many are protesting the against Bush visit, there are equally many Indians who will welcome him.

Other protests took place in the eastern city of Calcutta and Bangalore and Hyderabad in the south.

In Calcutta, tens of thousands of supporters of left-wing parties marched through the city centre.

Many told President Bush to go home and stop the killings in Iraq. Some called on India not to become what they called a US lackey.

Nuclear deal

Indian and US officials have been trying to finalise a landmark deal which will give India much-needed access to US civilian nuclear technology.

"Our people are talking to the Indians, today on the plane," President Bush said during his stop in Kabul.

"Hopefully we can reach an agreement, and if not we will continue to work on it until we do," he said.

The deal was agreed to in principle during a visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Washington last year.

But it has been held up by differences over plans to separate India's civilian and military nuclear programmes and open its civilian nuclear facilities to international inspectors.

During his trip, President Bush will visit the southern city of Hyderabad, one of India's high-technology hubs.

Mr Bush will head to Pakistan after India.

In a BBC interview broadcast on Wednesday, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he hoped the US leader would be able to play a role in resolving the long-running Kashmir dispute with India.

Seriously, we are supposed to be a world leader as a nation. I would like to think that our nation's leader would be admired by the people of other nations, so that they would want to be a part of what we stand for.
This is very humbling, and makes me wonder how we are ever to help people in poor nations to combat starvation and disease, if they despise us, viewing us as bullies and tyrants.
Our President represents us, who we are as a nation. Bush represents us, all of America.
When we sought our freedom from oppressors, it was something in our hearts that all of us wanted, though some did not see it as feasable.
It leaves me with the question, are we truly offering these people freedom? And, if not, just what is it we are offering them?

What a load of crock. How short sided so many of you seem to be. During the Reagan presidency hundreds of thousands in Europe would protest his visits fearing that his policies and ideals were bringing the world closer to the brink of destruction. Well guess what, the masses were ignorant and full of it!!! Reagan did not destroy the world as they proclaimed, instead he took the threat of global nuclear war off the table.

People throughout the world have always envied and protested Americans. We seem to be such cocky cowboys to them. Yet time and again they rely upon us to help solve their problems.

dmk

Here we go again with the Regan/Bush comparison. If you think comparing Regan's few problems with protestors over his stances,
to Bush's problem of every other country in the world knowing he is wrong, than you go right ahead. Did we miss the part where Bush is thought to be the enemy of Islam? Not only the countries that admit they hate us either. The other countries know the truth but don't want to speak up for fear the out of control cowboy will rustle their cattle too! Typical Bush supporter, skip over the evidence against Bush and distract the attentions by changing the subject. Man this is getting to be so much daja vue, I may open a fortune telling booth right here. Let see, now concentrate on my crystal ball, for my first feat of incredible ablility to see into the future: Srg will continue this line of distraction and cover up and never once admit Bush might be wrong about anything, ever........

Now that Reagan's dead, isn't Bush really the dangerous one?


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