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FROM: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3274331.stm
16 Nov
2003
Bush
shrugs off UK Iraq protests
US
President George W Bush has said protests planned
during his visit to the UK this week do not worry him.
He told
BBC One's Breakfast with Frost programme that protesters were "lucky"
to live in a country "where people are free to say anything".
He talked of his "partner"
Tony Blair, who like himself "would not be shaken" as they
battled to rebuild Iraq.
Mr Blair has defended
Mr Bush's controversial state visit to Britain as a chance to reaffirm
shared values.
Stance
He told the News of the
World the visit was an ideal time to celebrate freedom, security and
a "better, more prosperous and peaceful future" for Iraq.
Anti-war campaigners
have been fiercely critical of next week's visit by the US president,
as violence in Iraq continues.
In his interview with Sir
David recorded ahead of his visit, President Bush said he
had "learned the lessons of 11 September", but that
war was not his "first choice".
"Terrorists declared
war on the United States of America and war on people that love freedom,
and I intend to lead our nation, along with others, like our close friends
in Great Britain to win this war on terror."
When
asked by Sir David if he believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of
mass destruction that could be unleashed in 45 minutes, Mr Bush would
not answer but replied: "I believed he was a dangerous man."
"I believed a lot
of things, but I know he was a dangerous man, and I know that for the
sake of security he needed to be dealt with."
Speaking of Mr Blair,
he said he valued the UK prime minister's advice and believed that he
could trust him.
"The good news about
having a partner like Tony Blair is he won't be shaken, you see, and
neither will I. And neither will [Spanish Prime Minister] Jose Maria
Aznar."
He praised the "strong
statement" given by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi after
the death of 18 Italians died in a suicide bomb attack in Nasiriya,
Iraq, last week.
In an ICM poll commissioned
for BBC One's Politics Show, 57% of respondents felt the relationship
between Mr Blair and Mr Bush was too close, while 41% thought it was
"about right".
'Mystique'
Mr Bush told Sir David
he was looking forward to coming to London - which he had visited a
"couple of times" before.
He was "honoured"
to be staying in Buckingham Palace and described the Queen's official
residence as having "tremendous mystique".
And he appeared unperturbed
about the expected protests
due to accompany his visits by those against US involvement in Iraq.
"Aren't you lucky
to be in a country that encourages people to speak their mind?"
he said.
"I value going to
a country where people are free to say anything they want to say."
Glenda Jackson MP, who
opposed the war, told BBC One's Politics Show the visit was the "Dumb
and Dumber show" .
While she said Britain
was "America's closest ally for a variety of reasons," she
did not agree that the government "should demonstrate that closeness
by - as it seems to me - we are at the moment
being permanently on our knees."
FROM: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3274331.stm
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