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  • Bush team attacks critics as .... Swiss?

    01/27/2006 7:09:34 PM PST · by presidio9 · 15 replies · 1,102+ views
    AFP ^ | Fri Jan 27, 2006
    Years after they first fingered Iraq war foes as "French," US President George W. Bush's Republicans are now dismissing the "Davos Democrats" -- turning the Swiss resort town into an unlikely insult. One of the first targets was Senator John Kerry, Bush's rival for the White House in 2004, who was in Davos Thursday when he urged the Senate to use a delaying tactic called a filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito. "It was a pretty historic day. This was the first time ever that a Senator has called for a filibuster from the slopes of Davos, Switzerland," White...