Bush Thanks Denmark For Iraq Help
Also Mulls Potential Supreme Court Nominee En Route To G-8
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Play CBS Video Video G8 Violence Anticipated President Bush is heading to Europe, where an important G8 summit is overshadowed by threats of violence. CBS News' Allen Pizzey has a preview.
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President Bush and first lady Laura Bush are welcomed by Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, left, and Prince Henrik upon their arrival at Fredensborg Palace in Fredensborg, Denmark. (AP)
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This summit has been marked by an unusual amount of grassroots protest, spurred on by the organizers of the Live 8 concerts held to put political pressure on the G8 leaders. (AP)
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President Bush and first lady Laura Bush, joined by their daughter Jenna at left, walk to board their helicopter for the short flight to Andrews Air Force Base and on to Europe for the G8 summit. (AP)
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Environmentalists would like to see a strong statement on the issue coming out of the G-8 meeting, even without Mr. Bush's concurrence.
French President Jacques Chirac on Sunday called for a statement to include specific mention of Kyoto, which took effect in February and obliges participating industrialized nations to reduce their combined greenhouse gas emissions.
Mr. Bush, in an interview with Britain's ITV television Monday, renewed his insistence that Washington would not sign Kyoto or any similar deals limiting gas emissions. Still, he described climate change as "a significant, long-term issue that we've got to deal with" and acknowledged that human activity is "to some extent" to blame.
"My hope is — and I think the hope of Tony Blair is — to move beyond the Kyoto debate and to collaborate on new technologies that will enable the United States and other countries to diversify away from fossil fuels so that the air will be cleaner and that we have the economic and national security that comes from less dependence on foreign sources of oil," Mr. Bush said.
On Tuesday, Mr. Bush became only the second sitting U.S. president to visit Denmark, where he was expressing appreciation for the several hundred troops the Scandinavian nation has sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. Trans-Atlantic relations and advancing freedom around the world also will be on his agenda during talks Wednesday with Denmark's prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Many in Europe are angry with Mr. Bush about the war in Iraq. Public opinion about the war has been slipping recently in the United States, and there have been anti-war demonstrations in Europe.
Police braced for demonstrations away from the summit. On Monday in Edinburgh, groups of up to 200 demonstrators, some dressed as clowns, roamed the streets, banging drums, blowing whistles and taunting officers. Police said they had made nearly 30 arrests.
The demonstrators want rich nations to provide even more aid help to Africa than they've already pledged and be held accountable for whatever they promise.
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