He scratched at the door, but White House officials weren't
letting Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in Sunday.
The Prime Minister has requested a formal one-on-one meeting with U.S.
President George W. Bush during the two-day APEC summit in Bangkok this
week -- but the demand so far has met with nothing more than silence.
Mr. Chrétien and Mr. Bush were expected to bump into each other several
times during the summit of 21 world leaders, but U.S. officials shrugged
off a Canadian request for a formal bilateral meeting between the men,
who have never had a close personal relationship.
Let's put it this way: I've got a closer relationship with Bush than this contemptible jackass.
It's going to take a lot of time to repair the damage Chrétien's done to the Canada/U.S. relationship, and it wasn't just about Iraq. The Americans weren't begging for Canadian troops -- we don't have any to spare, anyway -- but some half-hearted display of political support would have gone a long way in Washington.
Believe me, I'm counting the days until this buffoon is gone. February at the latest and with luck much earlier.