Cooped-up locals angry about Bush visit

Reuters ^ | 07/08/03 | Clar Ni Chonghaile

[PhiKapMom]

You may have a point! LOL!!!

[PhiKapMom]

The only time I read anything positive about Iraq is from Air Force News Service! That is pretty bad when the lamestream media cannot find anything positive to say.

Reuters is a horrible wire service. Must be really bad because AOL Update News quit using them!

[God luvs America]

And as far as South Africa is concerned, Mandela is a coward (never mind a bigot and ignorant). He says all those nasty things about our President yet is convienently out of his country while GWB is in town. What a pu$$y!

[EdJay]

"The decendants [sic] of those slaves now in this country need to get down on their knees and thank God every day for taking them from their backward hellhole and bringing them to America!"

You serious? What did GOD have to do with the process that brought their ancestors to the plantations of the Caribbean and the American South? It's more than a little blasphemous to suggest that He was responsible for the horrors of the Middle Passage.

Sorry, but I think it's a bit late in the day to try to justify the slave trade.

[Hinoki Cypress]

Sounds like an "Onion" candidate, IYAM.

[isthisnickcool]

They must love Bush. They must love the most powerful man on Earth. They have to accept Bush because he is a beige guy. Don't they know what "diversity" is? They can't speak this way!

[FairOpinion]

This is why the residents were kept away:

Protesters demonstrate against Bush visit
July 9 2003
By Dakar

Protesters shouting "George Bush, assassin, George Bush, criminal" marched slowly through rush-hour traffic in Senegal's capital, Dakar, yesterday, protesting against the US President's visit to West Africa.

Their grievances ranged from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to US involvement in the Middle East to frustration at security measures taken in the mainly Muslim country before Mr Bush's arrival last night.

The protesters numbered only about 50, but they voiced some of the concerns in the poverty-stricken continent, where Mr Bush will spend five days.

"Bush is a man of war," said Seydina Sarr, who held a white sheet with "Bush butcher. Make tea not war" scribbled on it. He said: "We don't want to be Bush's trampoline even if he does give us millions of dollars."

Mr Bush will not even venture into Dakar. Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade and several other African heads of state will visit him near the airport.

The US President will go to Goree Island where 400 residents have been told to close their homes until Mr Bush has left.


http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/08/1057430201632.html

[squidly]

"Bush is a man of war," said Seydina Sarr, who held a white sheet with "Bush butcher. Make tea not war" scribbled on it. He said: "We don't want to be Bush's trampoline even if he does give us millions of dollars."


ROTFLMAO "make tea not war" aaaah LOL

[FairOpinion]

And they wonder why they were not allowed to get close to Bush...

[FairOpinion]

"It is like the press from around the world have decided to take down President Bush!"
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Did you just notice this? They have been working on this from the moment Bush got elected. They were sure Gore was going to get in and continue the subservient attitude of the US towards "the world" that Clinton promoted. Of course Bush very obviously changed that.

[Ditter]

These people are mad because they didn't get to sell their trinkets to the Americans.

[FairOpinion]

Reuters are still refusing to call terrorists "terrorists". They call them militants, insurgents, everything except what they are.

When a news organization refuses to call the attack on the WTC a terrorist attack, what can you expect of them?

[egomeimihi]

I've been reading several of the South African papers tonight, and if you based your opinion from them, you'd think Bush was a combination of Hitler, Amin, & Mugabe.

But I thought that they didn't like Bush. [ /sarcasm]

[Lion Den Dan]

Maybe then his popularity will rise within Europe and Africa.

The Euro pifs and the canibal savages don't vote in our elections, I hope.

[PhiKapMom]

I know the vast majority of the press and world leaders have been against Pres Bush from Day One -- even before he took office.

But recently, it has gotten a lot worse -- he is being blamed for some of the oddest things. The press made fun of him for being "stupid" but they learned it wasn't the case so now they (press) are doing the bidding of the Clintons to make him look bad. My guess is the clintons want a close election with Bush winning and then they can claim if Hillary was on the ticket, the RATs would have won.

The recent anti-Bush rhetoric has gone over the top though and it has gotten to the stage that the press is in a frenzy that he will be reelected and will do anything including "LYING" (hear that Doug Thompson) to make President Bush look bad.

The voices of the White House reporters when they get their few minutes of fame on the news are almost shrill at times with their obvious dislike for the President. It is becoming even more obvious than before. Media I would say is in an all out attack right now! We knew it was coming, but the intensity of it this far from the election is mind boggling!

BTW, I volunteered when he ran for Governor of Texas in 1994 so I know all about the press attacks. Ma Richards and the bottom of the bird cage paper, Austin American Statesman, set the tone for the campaign!

[FairOpinion]

The more real successes Bush has, the more they attack him, trying to take away from his successes, trying to find anything, ANYTHING to use against him. Just remember, here we liberated Iraq with minimum casualties in 3 weeks, gotten rid of Saddam, a major threat to us,the region and his own people, and the front pages of newspapers were talking about this "major disaster to civilization", the "looting of 170,000 antiquities" from the Baghdad museum, a story which ultimately proved to be totally false, yet they filled the headlines with that, instead of "Bush's major victory in Iraq" --it would have killed them, if they actually had such headlines.

[PhiKapMom]

Have you noticed too that the headlines a lot of times do not match what is in the article?

That Museum deal made me want to throw something at my TV -- and then it when it turned out to be false, very little was said.

Don't see how these media types can look themselves in the mirror for the obvious blantant attacks in regular news articles that read more like an editorial! Disgusting and know it is going to get worse as we get closer to the election.

[dirtbiker]

Sorry, but I think it's a bit late in the day to try to justify the slave trade.

I'm not justifying anything of the sort. The point is: if given the choice of living in this country, no matter how they got here, or living in Africa, which would they prefer? The decendents of slaves today are owed NOTHING, not even an apology! Not before they abolish slavery in Africa, where it is still practiced. By the same token, it's totally moronic to justify repairations to these decendents as well.