Bush's cat India gets Indians enraged

Yahoo! India News ^ | July 2, 2004 | Indo-Asian News Service

[k2blader]

Friday July 2, 4:15 PM

Bush's cat India gets Indians enraged

By Indo-Asian News Service

Thiruvananthapuram, July 2 (IANS) Angry youths in this Kerala capital Friday burnt an effigy of US President George W. Bush, not because they are anti-American but because he has named his cat India.

Members of the citizens group Prathikarana Vedi assembled before the Kerala assembly saying that Bush calling his cat India was an insult to the country.

"This is a disgrace to our great country and this has come from none other than US President George W. Bush. This is nothing but an insult to India because there are hundreds of thousands of Indians in US, and many who occupy key posts in the White House," said M.A. Latheef, president of the group.

"He should make amends," Latheef added.

The members of the group walked to the front gate of the assembly building but were stopped by police. After a brief speech and some slogans, the members burnt an effigy of the US president.

[Gunrunner2]

>>What's the big deal? Cats answer to the electic can opener only.<<

Ain't that the truth!

[dfwgator]

I think I can hear Don Henley singing, "Get ovet it

Knowing Henley's politics, I wouldn't bet on it.

[annyokie]

I love that book. I read it to my boys when they were small. We even had a cat named Jennyanydots.

[Springman]

I didn't know the President had a cat.

[Lady Jag]

Yeah, they have a cat. I saw this thread yesterday and avoided it because whiners make me puke.

The only publishable answer is to boycott all Indian products.

[Chieftain]

I can think of no better name for a pussy than Chiraq.

BINGO, we have a WINNER!

[Starboard]

Members of the citizens group Prathikarana Vedi assembled before the Kerala assembly saying that Bush calling his cat India was an insult to the country.

Yep, lots of people/cultures are easily insulted it seems. Does get to be tiresome after awhile.

[Eagle9]

Holy Cow !!!     Next thing ya know, somebody will get all worked up over Mahatma^® Rice !     Then there's UNCLE BEN'S^® Rice !

Everytime you turn around, you Gore somebody's ox !!

[mikrofon]

I think I'll make a few tech support calls and take an informal poll on the topic...

[Dog Gone]

They are really going to be mad when they find out I named an oil well we drilled in New Mexico the "Gandhi #1".

[Euro-American Scum]

Angry youths in this Kerala capital Friday burnt an effigy of US President George W. Bush, not because they are anti-American but because he has named his cat India.

This just in. . .

India threatens to withold all high tech and engineering infrastructure support from the U.S. unless and until George W. Bush changes the name of his cat.

[ditto h]

I hear that Hershey is coming out with a new candy called Mahatma

sorry

[Springman]

Avoid Indian products, kinda hard if you need tech support.

[boop]

Cute!

[Cronos]

Historically it includes Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka, Bengla Desh, Nepal, Kashmir,

errr.. Kashmir is part of the nation state of India.

[Cronos]

Are they gonna blow themselves up?

Nope, that's saudis, you know the folks we pay to get some oil from?

[dagnabbit]

Hope no one finds out about my pot-bellied pig, who's just a - MOHAMMAD ! ... GET OUT OF THERE! ... DON'T EAT THAT! ... MOHAMMAD!! ... DON'T MAKE ME GO OVER THERE!!! - just a real sweetie most of the time.

[muawiyah]

Not ALL of Kashmir is part of the nation calling itself "India". Some of it (78,000 sq.km. is part of the nation calling itself "Pakistan". Then there are the parts currently part of China (5,000 sq.km. contributed by Pakistan and 37,555 contributed by India itself) and Afghanistan (depending on who is drawing the lines).

The situation is actually far more complex than that, and if Tibet ever regains it's independence, Tibet and Kashmir will have overlapping claims to the same desolate mountains.

[Cronos]

Not ALL of Kashmir is part of the nation calling itself "India". Some of it (78,000 sq.km. is part of the nation calling itself "Pakistan". Then there are the parts currently part of China (5,000 sq.km. contributed by Pakistan and 37,555 contributed by India itself) and Afghanistan (depending on who is drawing the lines).

Actually you are mixing up Kashmir withthe Indian state of JAmmus, Kashmir and Ladakh. The portion known as Kashmir is Indian with parts that were annexed by Pakistan in 1947. Ladakh was conquered in part by China during the 1962 war. Afghanistan has no claim on any part of Kashmir and doesn't touch Kashmir geographically.

The lands from India were not contributed, but "robbed"

Tibet existed as a separate nation state until 1949, so there was never a dispute about Tibet and India having overlapping claims to any territory

[Cronos]

And here's a map to show that: