This year it takes in -- Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, the Vatican, Albania, and Bulgaria. The visit thus includes both countries that are planning on hosting Bush's Euro-Star Wars project, and the pop-in on Benedict promises to be a particular media circus, as the Pope has inexplicably not revised his just war doctrine to be in line with the Global War on Terror.*
Incidental comedy value, on a day when he yet again threatened the veto the will of popularly-elected legislature on the Iraq war, springs from Bush's statement on the Syrian elections --
Elections are not rituals conducted for their own sake. The goal of any free, transparent, and democratic election is to allow people to have a say in how their country is governed.
*For more on the Bush versus Pope notions of just war, NYT online paying customers can read this.
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