"Official Calls Bush-Chimp Comparison Bad Taste"

[GreenPartyVoter]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian trainers helping police to understand body language have caused a controversy by likening George Bush's facial expressions to a chimpanzee's.

Interior Minister Patrick Dewael said he was unaware of the pictures when he signed a letter promoting the training package for police dealing with unruly soccer fans, and said the idea was "of bad taste," Het Laatste Nieuws daily reported.

The training presentation pictured the U.S. president's face in various expressions beside photographs of a chimpanzee, the paper showed on its front page, in what was meant to be a humorous introduction to the subject of reading expressions.

Dewael's office was not immediately available for comment.

http://reuters.iwon.com/article/20050331/2005-03-31T132242Z_01_L31271200_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ODD-BELGIUM-BUSH-DC.html

[Spinzonner]

1. I whole-heartedly agree

We should show more respect for chimps.

[lpbk2713]

2. Yeah. You gotta feel sorry for the poor chimps.

They can't help it.

[havocmom]

3. Everything about bsh* is in bad taste.

Bad taste is his trademark.

[Arkana]

4. I wonder if Mr. Dewael was doing his best

to suppress gales of laughter as he made this pronouncement...

[Snap]

6. The Belgians

Don't want to soil their own nest. I think they are safe, * probably doesn't know there is a Belgium.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

5. The whole world laughs at chimpanzee boy

and he is oblivious. But that's what happens to people who are 'handled'...the handlers make certain that he is only surrounded by smiling pod people who regurgitate his words. What a pitiful little man.