BUSH REBUFFED BY MODEL U.N.
Pretend-Diplomats Call President's Request 'Bogus'
Just days after receiving a chilly reception from the United Nations, President Bush took his appeal for Iraq aid to the Model United Nations, a group of two thousand high school students meeting in San Diego.
The Model U.N., which convenes once a year to simulate the proceedings of the world body, is primarily an educational organization and is therefore unaccustomed to requests for troops, funds, and billions of dollars in loans - precisely what the President asked the teenage delegates for today.
"The United States liberated Iraq to preserve the credibility not only of the United Nations, but of the Model United Nations as well," Mr. Bush told the high school students, to muted applause.
While many in attendance seemed unmoved by the President's appeal, Mr. Bush received the frostiest reception by far from the high school students pretending to represent France and Germany.
"When he was, like, 'give us billions of dollars and whatnot,' I was, like, this is bogus," said Josh Greenstein, the ambassador from France.
The German ambassador, Lum Chao, echoed his French colleague's dismissive remarks about Mr. Bush's speech.
"Dude was trippin'," Mr. Chao said. "Yo, when do we go to Sea World?"
Speaking to CNN's Wolf Blitzer later in the day, Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the Model U.N., arguing, "If the Model U.N. does not act, then they are little more than a glorified debating society."
In other news, the White House acknowledged today that the President's approval numbers were slipping, but added that they are still higher than his grades at Yale.
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------------------------ Jim Devine jdevine at lmu.edu & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine