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Old Oct 8, 2011 | 6:08 am
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Originally Posted by ambifly
WOW....no wonder you are good at calling yourself good at international affairs. Do you even know that the gentleman we are talking bout is the one who carved out India's space programs and a part of nuke projects single handedly with no help from USA or Russia or UK? DO you know that he is called Missile Man? Do you know that President Bush had referred to him as one of the greatest visionaries and that too even before he was selected as the President of India? Do you know that his speech in UN general assembly is still considered as one of the most articulate ever? I am sure these recognitions matter a lot more than those by airline employees. Plus, he ives with Gandhian Principles so he least cares about these minor squabbles. PERIOD.
Welcome to FT (I think). Before this descends into OMNI-PR, I wanted to clarify that the thread you dug up (how???) is three years old, and that graraps was referring to the then president of the US, George W Bush. This is regardless of the qualifications, valid or not, of the former Indian president.

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