Bush in Bronze

Posted By Robert Zeliger Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 12:03 PM Share

Not to be outdone by all the Ronald Reagan-love in Europe these days, President George W. Bush is getting his own statue in a European square ... in Fushe Kruje, Albania. (I'll give you a moment to check your atlas... What's that, you can't find Fushe Kruje on any map? Here. And while I don't read Albanian, yes, that is a photo of Bush on the town's homepage.)

Bush visited the tiny Albanian village in 2007. He was the first U.S. president to visit the country post-communism.

"Albanians' pro-Americanism has its roots in our attempts... to build our deserved future as a free nation, as a free country," Prime Minister Sali Berisha told the crowd at the statue's unveiling yesterday, according to Reuters.

The United States is still remembered fondly in Albania for leading NATO's 1999 military campaign to halt Serbia's ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo. Albania joined NATO in 2009, with Washington's backing.

Bush's 9.3 foot statue, with the former president in shirt-sleeves raising his left hand, was unveiled yesterday in a square that is also named after him.

AFP/Getty Images

 

DVM

1:20 PM ET

July 7, 2011

No..

The world has officially gone mad.

 

JEMIN

1:50 PM ET

July 7, 2011

tiny Albanian village

Please get your story write, Fushe Kruje is not a tiny village but is a city with 30.000 inhabitants. This tells me how full of shit has media become for getting the news from one source and spreading around it without checking the facts

 

READER123

8:07 PM ET

July 7, 2011

JEMIN is right

in europe cities are small by some standards. Cities are small and so close to each other like Netherlands and Belgium where you do not notice that you are in a different city as you are walking.

 

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