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The Ranch

Yet more savvy diplomacy from our boy Bushie:

“I doubt he’ll be coming to the ranch any time soon,” was Mr Bush’s tart comment in an interview with NBC News, when asked about Jacques Chirac ñ a reference to the informal summits Mr Bush likes to hold with favoured foreign leaders at his cherished retreat in Crawford, Texas. Many in his administration ñ by implication, himself among them ñ had the impression “that the French position was anti-American”, the President said.