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"Lost in the noise and fury over the Greens' rude interruption of President George Bush's address to the Australian Parliament was a New York Times article which cast the incident in a starkly different light to the debate here about bad manners.
"David E.Sanger, the NYT correspondent who had travelled with Bush on his six-day journey through Asia, reported how the 'fearsome security bubble' that cocoons the President from reality wherever he travels was pierced just briefly during his trip.
"The first time, the article said, was when Bush met Islamic leaders in Bali and was totally surprised to be told that they believed the US was pursuing a deliberate anti-Muslim foreign policy. The second was when the Greens interrupted his speech in Parliament and confronted him with the 'uncomfortable reality' that Bush's approach to the world 'is deeply unpopular among Australians'.
"Sanger reported that even some of Bush's top aides conceded that the President had only begun to discover the gap between the picture of a benign superpower that he sees and the 'far more calculating, self-interested, anti-Muslim America the world perceives as he speeds by behind dark windows' ..."
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"Lost in the noise and fury over the Greens' rude interruption of President George Bush's address to the Australian Parliament was a New York Times article which cast the incident in a starkly different light to the debate here about bad manners.
"David E.Sanger, the NYT correspondent who had travelled with Bush on his six-day journey through Asia, reported how the 'fearsome security bubble' that cocoons the President from reality wherever he travels was pierced just briefly during his trip.
"The first time, the article said, was when Bush met Islamic leaders in Bali and was totally surprised to be told that they believed the US was pursuing a deliberate anti-Muslim foreign policy. The second was when the Greens interrupted his speech in Parliament and confronted him with the 'uncomfortable reality' that Bush's approach to the world 'is deeply unpopular among Australians'.
"Sanger reported that even some of Bush's top aides conceded that the President had only begun to discover the gap between the picture of a benign superpower that he sees and the 'far more calculating, self-interested, anti-Muslim America the world perceives as he speeds by behind dark windows' ..."
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