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Laura Bush Will Skip APEC Trip to Australia

First Lady's pinched nerve could indicate surprise stops for president

By Max Brallier,  Newser User

Posted Aug 27, 2007 5:13 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Laura Bush plans to sit out the president's trip to Australia early next month for the APEC summit, due to a pinched nerve. Washington Post blogger Mark Silva speculates that the First Lady's decision may presage other stops being added to the president's itinerary for the trip, which comes just before his upcoming report to Congress on progress in Iraq.

After Dick Cheney's wife bowed out of a similar Australia trip earlier this year the vice president made unexpected stops in Islamabad, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and Kabul, via Singapore and Oman.  The president may be doing the same. 

President Bush drives Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and first lady Laura Bush in a golf cart at Camp David, Md., Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Bush drives Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and first lady Laura Bush in a golf cart at Camp David, Md., Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)   (Associated Press)
President Bush waves after arriving at TSTC airfield Monday, Aug. 13, 2007, with his wife Laura and their dog Barney in Waco, Texas. Bush begins his summer vacation at his ranch near Crawford, Texas. (AP Photo/Rod Aydelotte)
President Bush waves after arriving at TSTC airfield Monday, Aug. 13, 2007, with his wife Laura and their dog Barney in Waco, Texas. Bush begins his summer vacation at his ranch near Crawford, Texas....   (Associated Press)
First lady Laura Bush waves to a friend at the Westbank Community Library Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007, in Austin, Texas. Mrs. Bush, a former librarian and school teacher, is a longtime book and reading advocate, and will have a library named in her honor. She visited the Westbank Library for...
First lady Laura Bush waves to a friend at the Westbank Community Library Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007, in Austin, Texas. Mrs. Bush, a former librarian and school teacher, is a longtime book and reading advocate,...   (Associated Press)
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Dick Cheney • Australia • Laura Bush • Kabul • Islamabad • APEC • pinched nerve

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