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Best buddies? Not so much.
Back when they were first elected president of their respective countries in 2000, George W. Bush and Vicente Fox of Mexico looked to be the best of friends, holding talks on their ranches like a couple of good ol’ boys.
The truth, it seems, was a little different.
In his autobiography out next month, Fox reportedly talks some smack about his fellow head of state, calling Bush “the cockiest guy I ever met in my life” and writing that his Spanish skills (which he used to great effect during his campaign) were “grade-school level.”
He also slams Bush’s Iraq policies and says he doubted W had what it took to become president. “I can’t honestly say that I had ever seen George W. Bush getting to the White House,” Fox writes, according to the Washington Whispers blog by U.S. News and World Report.
But perhaps it’s not so strange for Fox to take some shots at Bush. He was bitterly disappointed that Bush all but ignored Mexico and immigration reform after 9/11 and he opposed the war in Iraq. By the time Fox left office last year, relations between the two had gotten a little chilly.
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By warren blackman
September 17, 2007 5:40 PM | Link to this
i had thought bush was proud , arrogant and self righteous for some time. He has attemted to make the president s office more powerful than the other two branches of government. i’m w , i ‘m the decider he doesnt really know how to tell the truth!he lies like the devil!hugo chavez said he was the devil. well , he lies like him. he shows his ignorance in foreign affairs , especially with latin america!!
By Ginger
September 18, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this
If Boosh had the good sense God gave a goose we would have been bombing Mexico City instead of Iraq. Mexico and Mexican nationals within the US do more damage to America in a single day than Al Queda and Iraq combined could do in 100 years.