Bush Mongolia Pictures

Iwan Baan was one of the photographers that had access to President Bush`s visit to Mongolia. Again he has made some striking images, available at iwan.com.



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On the Web: Bush in Mongolia

Registan mentions what is in the blogs about the visit and he also includes the "Wapo" article. But there is more.
The UB Post come up with quite some interesting content. There is the full transcript of the speech in parliament and videos (but dubbed in Mongolian): video 1 and video 2 (choose "download link as...")

UB Post also links to the Joint Statement of Bush and Mongolian President Nambar Enkhbayar

If you are interested in lot's and lot's of comments see the Huffington Post

Time Magazine quotes from Bush's speech:

"Like the ideology of communism, the ideology of Islamic radicalism is destined to fall because the will to power is no match for the universal desire to live in liberty,"

The Times of India, however, found out what is really important:
Bush finds Rummy's Montana in Mongolia


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Mr. Bush: What did you promise Mongolia?

USA Today tells us:

The Mongolians have been rewarded with $11 million in U.S. aid to improve military forces.

Gee - what would they need that for? Trying to invade China? Conquer Siberia? Or maybe help some criticized US president in a desert war?

In China they had the same message. Another article on China reads that:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that "one has to be concerned" about China's modernization of its 2.5 million-member army. "There's a question of intent," she said.

2.5 million that is the total population of Mongolia.

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Bush Mongolia Visit

The first video footage comes from a blog , but both Reuters and AP have pictures up already, one in the Laura Bush picture gallery and the other in a Iraq war gallery. That's all that seems to matter. But impressive how fast they get it out on the web (see also previous post).

The Headlines
The headlines in Google and Yahoo: are quite clear:
Bush thanks Mongolia for its help in Iraq, Bush thanks Mongolia for support in Iraq, Bush thanks Mongolia for Iraq presence, Bush to thank new ally Mongolia for Iraq help etc.

One headline stands out: "Mongolia: Moving Mountains" And it appears to be a Washington Post article written by the current prime minister of Mongolia Ts. Elbegdorj. The article is maybe not as outstanding as the title, though.

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Mongolia gets ready for Bush, CNN gets it wrong

While Mongolia prepares for The Big Day, CNN seems happy to portray Mongolia as weak and dependent on Big Brother US:

Remote country looks to U.S. to counter sway of giant neighbors

Meanwhile the rumours here get wilder and wilder. The latest one is that the complete mobile network will be shut down this afternoon. People around the main square yesterday got a visit from the police saying they shouldn't stand in front of the window, implying they might get shot if they would.
Already roads have been completely blocked and police is present every ten meters on the main route. In the end it seems not all that save however. If he does come through the main route people could have prepared for days to have something nasty in place - if he doesn't: there is no police present to actually check what is happening at the moment. It is amazing that they had to send hundreds of US staff taking over a complete hotel for six weeks to come up with such a simple plan. For a five hour visit.



A monk looks at all the police that have gathered on the sukhbaatar square
This picture was taken an hour before the arrival of Bush - and nobody seemes to get really excited.

UPDATE 1:
News is out that the visit is completed, while Bush only just entered the Parliamnet Building.

UPDATE 2:
But the News does travel fast these days, within half an hour the pictures are on the web:


U.S. President George W. Bush (R) reviews an honor guard with Mongolia's President Nambariin Enkhbayar at Government House in Ulan Bator November 21, 2005. Bush became the first U.S. president to visit Mongolia on Monday, coming to thank the country for helping in Iraq and to compare Islamic radicalism to the yoke of communism that Mongolians threw off. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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