Bush Visit: They slaughter protesters, too

Guardian ^ | 11/23/03 | Andrew Rawnsley,

[McGavin999]

I predict Iran will be taken over by the students and the Clerics will suffer the same fate as the Sha of Iran in 1979. Syria's Assad will have to be taken out by force and once Iran is no longer a threat, Israel will handle Syria and allow the people of Syria to elect their own leaders.

Actually Mike, I think Turkey is going to be the one to "fix" Syria. I believe that Turkey controls the water to Syria.

[MJY1288]

Is that right?, I didn't know that Turkey held that key

[MJY1288]

Turkey elected a Muslim Cleric as their Prime Minister last year didn't they?

My brother has spent quite a bit of time in Turkey and he said the Military is who calls the shots in Turkey and if the political leaders get out of hand, the Military will step in. But that is just his observation, I would like to hear from a few of our Turkish FReepers in the know

[auboy]

BTTT

[kayak]

The Liberal Democrats' Menzies Campbell, one of the most trenchant opponents of the war against Saddam, no Bushie he, emerged from his private talks with the President to announce that he was 'most certainly surprised at the extent to which the caricature of him was inaccurate'.

Now if only our own liberal 'rats would make such an announcement! .... we know that they know it.

[Atchafalaya]

Black hole warning!

[Atchafalaya]

Take it where you can get it.

[FreedomPoster]

>>I think many unlikely Brits were charmed by our President. We are not surprised.

I posted the complete text of Bush's London speech on a politically neutral board I frequent, shortly after he made it. Even the Lefties there, normally a pack of howling monkeys on political threads there, were subdued.

It's amazing what happens when the real information gets through to folks, instead of having CNN and the WashPost telling people what to think.

[MJY1288]

That speech GWB gave on wednesday was a masterpiece in both content and delivery.

[FreedomPoster]

I wish more Americans had seen it / read it.

Here it is, for those who haven't seen it:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0311/S00182.htm

[Billthedrill]

There's no denying that a resolution of the Israeli-Palestine conflict would drain much poison from the Arab view of the West. But you can't leap from there to the conclusion that al-Qaeda terrorists would then become peace-lovers.

Bin Laden himself was massively disinterested in the Palestinian question. He was very specific in several speeches - his issues were U.S. presence on Saudi soil and U.S. cultural and military dominance in the Arab world.

The author clearly understands that al-Qaeda and their sympathizers mean what they have been saying for quite a long time now, that they really do intend to make war on all of the West, and that it isn't restricted to the verbal. It took 3000 dead in New York to make some of us take this seriously. For still others even that wasn't enough.

[lavrenti]

You never hear Ted Kennedy make fun of Bush's intellect.

Which is why he has become such an implacable foe. Dude's skeered of W.

[MJY1288]

C_Span has it posted on their site in either Real Player format or Windows Media player. Below is the link to the website, and the the video link is at the top of their most watched video's list

Pres. Bush Speech in London on Transatlantic Alliance

[MJY1288]

What amazes me about these Klymers on the left, is that they continue to underestimate George W. Bush, despite the fact that he has been beating them like a drum since the day he was sworn in. The only explaination for this, that I can come up with, is they must consider his refusal to counter their rhetoric or strike back at their baseless accusations and bald face lies as a sign of weakness and therefore they figure they can get away with more bogus claims and elevate their absurd assertions to the next level, thinking George W. Bush will not respond because of his commitment to ending the "Politics of Personal Destruction"

What these Klymers have failed to recognize is that George W. Bush has refused to respond to their baseless attacks on him not even once in his first three years in office. Meanwhile, he and his campaign have miles of video tape the Democrats non-stop practice of "Politics of Personal Destruction"

[dougherty]

most certainly surprised at the extent to which the caricature of him was inaccurate'.

Why did he believe the caricature of Bush in the first place? Most people are indeed sheep that cannot think for themselves and believe everything they hear from the media.

[mylife]

I had someone at dinner tonight who asked me what I thought of what America was doing to the world. He was of the mindset that America is making the world a scarier place.
I replied with most of the points stated in this article, primarily that our lying down on the issue will not prevent more killing by Alqueda and that he seemed to forget that Alqueda attacked us during a time of peace. I wish I had known this was posted at the time, It would have saved me a lot of wind!!

BTTT!!

[WaterDragon]

The atrocities suddenly and violently invested the Bush-Blair alliance with a renewed seriousness of resolve and purpose.

Like the Democrats, the terrorists never learn. They thouht that attack in Turkey would counter what Muslims around the world were hearing from Bush's own lips, about freedom, and his intention to bring freedom to their lands. But these attacks will keep backfiring on them, just as the Democrats' attacks on Bush will keep backfiring.

[Mo1]

Excellent article!!

[July 4th]

This is a great piece, in an unlikely paper. Bump!

[Kay]

Hope you are correct.