Bush In Germany

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush stand on the gangway of Air Force One upon their arrival at the airport Rostock-Laage, northern Germany, Wednesday, July 12, 2006. Mr. Bush will meet German chancellor Angela Merkel in the port town Stralsund on Thursday.

President Bush kisses German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her cheek upon his arrival in Stralsund, Germany, on July 13, 2006. Bush stopped to talk with his newest European ally before heading to the Group of Eight summit to tackle a host of thorny problems including Iran, North Korea and the Middle East.

President Bush reaches out to greet citizens of Stralsund as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, looks on upon his arrival in Stralsund, Germany, on Thursday, July 13, 2006. Bush stopped to talk with his newest European ally before heading to the G8 summit in Russia to tackle a host of problems including Iran, North Korea and the Middle East.

President Bush receives a barrel of Bismarck-Herring from fish dealer Henry Rasmus, right, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on upon his arrival in Stralsund, Germany, on Thursday, July 13, 2006. The sweet and sour pickled Bismarck-Herring is a local fish specialty.

President Bush is watched by Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel as he jokes while demonstrating how to eat a Bismarck herring after he was presented a barrel of them following his arrival at Stralsund, Germany, on Thursday, July 13, 2006.

President Bush sits during the Guest Book Signing Ceremony in the Kollegien Room in Town Hall Stralsund Market Square, Thursday, July 13, 2006 in Stralsund, Germany. Standing behind Mr. Bush are, from left, Mecklen-West Pomerania Minister-President Harald Ringstorff, first lady Laura Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Stralsund Mayor Harald Lastovka.

Rita John from Germany's island of Ruegen shows her hand with the autograph President Bush signed following the welcome ceremony in front of the old city hall at Stralsund, Germany, on Thursday, July 13, 2006. Bush stopped to talk with his newest European ally, Angela Merkel, before heading to the G8 summit in Russia over the weekend.

President Bush, left, smiles as he takes his seat with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, in the Mayor's Office at Stralsund Market Square before the start of their meeting, Thursday, July 13, 2006, in Stralsund, Germany.

First lady Laura Bush toasts to the guests at the roundtable luncheon at the "Altes Backhaus" Restaurant in Stralsund, near Rostock, northern Germany, Thursday, July 13, 2006. The president and Mrs. Bush are in Stralsund to pay their first visit to Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel since her election last fall.

President Bush, center, blows out his candle at the conclusion of this visit to the 700-year-old St. Nikolai Church at Stralsund Market Square, with first lady Laura Bush, left, Thursday, July 13, 2006 in Stralsund, Germany. On the right is Pastor Hans-Peter Neumann.

First lady Laura Bush, left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, and President Bush leave the St. Nicholai church in Stralsund, Germany, Thursday, July 13, 2006. Mr. Bush is on an official visit to Germany prior the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, talks to President Bush and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a lunch in the town hall of Stralsund, Germany, on Thursday, July 13, 2006.

Susan Asarian Nickerson of New York, a member of the Granny peace brigade, holds a "Make love -- not war" poster showing Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Bush during an anti-Bush demonstration during the president's visit to the Baltic Sea port town of Stralsund, Germany, Thursday, July 13, 2006.

A member of the German Security force takes his position as President Bush walks the grounds of the Kempinski Grand Hotel Heiligendamm during his arrival Thursday, July 13, 2006, in Heiligendamm, Germany.

Protesters hold posters with peace doves during the anti-Bush demonstration in Stralsund, Germany, July 13, 2006. Hundreds of demonstrators converged to protest against President Bush. Mr. Bush made the visit at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has mended strained U.S.-German relations since she took office last year.

A grilled wild boar was served at a barbecue dinner for President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and 100 guests in the village of Trinwillershagen, Germany, on Thursday, July 13, 2006. The 65-pound wild boar was roasted according to local tradition.

U.S. President George W. Bush, center, holds up a piece of meat he carved from a roasted wild boar at a barbecue with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and residents of the village Trinwillershagen, Germany, Thursday, July 13, 2006.

U.S. President George W. Bush, right, conducts a youth orchestra during a barbecue with German Chancellor Angela and residents of the village Trinwillershagen near Stralsund, Germany, on Thursday, July 13, 2006.

In a photo released by the German Federal Office for Press and Information (BPI), Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel, 2nd from left, and U.S. President George W. Bush, right, talk together during a barbecue in Trinwillershagen near Stralsund, northern Germany, on Thursday, July 13, 2006. From left, Stralsund's mayor Harald Lastovka, Angela Merkel, her husband Joachim Sauer, brewer Juergen Nordmann, George W. Bush.

U.S. President George W. Bush waves as he boards a helicopter after a barbecue with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and residents of the village of Trinwillershagen near Stralsund, Germany, on Thursday, July 13, 2006. Mr. Bush will travel to St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday for the G8 summit.