Livingstone says Bush is 'greatest threat to life on planet'

The Independent (U.K.) ^ | 11/18/03 | Nigel Morris

[Hildy]

I just don't get all this...I don't. Every utterance like this is fuel for the terrorists. if this keeps up, we will lose.

[semaj]

Ken Livingstone = Mr. Nutso

[pau1f0rd]

Dare I suggest that Mr Livingstone would do well to mind the problems of London?

Yes, you dare, and you should. Most Britons support the US, but the loony left are SOOOO noisy...

[muleskinner]

He looks french.

[Southack]

"I actually think that Bush is the greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen. The policies he is initiating will doom us to extinction." Mr Livingstone, who is holding a "peace party" for anti-war groups in City Hall tomorrow, added..."

I don't care to even acknowlege, said Livingstone, that President Bush signed the largest reduction in nuclear stockpiles in world history last year with President Putin. Reducing nuclear stockpiles, Livingstone added, pales in comparison to kicking the greatest friend that peace ever had (in Saddam Hussein) out of Iraq.

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[Gritty]

This guy shouldn't be the mayor of London. He should be locked inside a padded cell in the Tower of London!

At what point does actual delusion trump political hyperbole?

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Does Mayor NutJob actually believe that President Bush piloted the jets into the WTC and Pentagon and the field in PA ? Or that he bombed the nightclub in Bali ? Blows up cafes and shopping centers in Israel ? Blew a hole in the USS Cole,killing our sailors ? Blew up the synagogues in Turkey ? Gassed the Kurds ? Dug the mass graves for the 300,000 men,women and children in Iraq ? Is planting IEDs and shooting RPGs at soldiers patrolling Iraq ? Blew up the Red Cross and UN headquarters in Baghdad ? Blew up the Italian soldiers in southern Iraq ? He sounds like a perfect running mate for any of the Democrat Clowns.

Here are some quotes from the Italians,viewing the flag draped coffins of the Italian soldiers:

"I'm here to pay homage to these boys who have fallen for a just cause," Pietro Bernardini, 76, said as he waited in line to see the coffins at Rome's Vittoriano monument. "They should not have ended up in this barbarian way."
"... stunned the nation and created a groundswell of pride in the work Italian troops are doing to help rebuild Iraq.."
What a contrast.

[Keyes2000mt]

Did his campaign literature list , "Gift for melodrama and overstaement" as a qualification for office

[Petronski]

I don't formally recognise George Bush because he was not officially elected.

Not exactly 'A Beautiful Mind,' but Livingstone is definitely stone-cold crazy.

[Finalapproach29er]

I think they call him "Red Ken" over there. He's a kook.

[colorado tanker]

Livingstone is a far left liberal who fancies himself a rival of Blair. He won the mayorality over Blair's hand picked candidate. This is intended to hit and embarass Blair. He is speaking to British lefties, so nothing he says actually has to make sense, it just has to sound anti-American.

[tet68]

So Mr, Livingstone is exiled from his own party?
How quaint.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

He said he supported stronger links between European Union countries only because he wanted to see a powerful bloc emerge to rival the United States. "The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism."

That about sums up most of the people who hate Bush and the Pantywaste Eurotrash America haters.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

As I have said before, 'twas a good thing we did in chasing the British out of the colonies at the point of a bayonet.

No matter what a Limey says, there is one truth that cannot be denied - the British cannot cook a decent meal to save their souls. The ignorant SOB's cannot, I suppose, even read a simple cookbook and make anything taste good.

(Holding up a couple of jars of spice) If you blokes don't know what to do with this, you ought to withhold judgment on a President of the United States.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, launched a stinging attack on President George Bush last night, denouncing him as the "greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen".

Ken Livingstone launched a stinging attack....oh, big woo.

[Let's Roll]

I'm reading the headline and going, "Who's Livingstone"?

Guess that about sums it up.

[M Kehoe]

Well, the Euroweanies said the same thing about President Reagan. And what happened? The Soviet Union fell.

I laugh at the naive mayor, and heap scorn upon his constituents.

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[txhurl]

Guess he's giving bread and circus.....

[sergeantdave]

In an interview with the New Musical Express, therefore, Livingstone chose to express support for the anti-World Trade Organisation protest in Seattle and tell the paper's young readership that global capitalism kills more people every day than Hitler.

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"Red" Ken is about to lead his Marxist London cult in an Orwellian three days of hate campaign. The man is a loon, and a dangerous one. We should have sent a division of Marines to protect the president.

[Axman4]

In Heaven:
The French are the chefs,
the Italians are the lovers,
the Swiss are the bankers,
the Germans are the mechanics,
and the British are the police.

In Hell:
The British are the chefs,
the Swiss are the lovers,
the Italians are the bankers,
the French are the mechanics,
and the Germans are the police.