Bush to attend Olympics opening ceremonies
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Davinski
on July 5, 2008 at 02:44 pm
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President Bush has decided to attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics in August, despite the fact that human rights groups have asked him to boycott them because of China’s crackdown on Tibet and its support for the genocidal government in Sudan.
Should this surprise anyone? After all, this is the same man who, while Governor of Texas, mockingly mimicked a female death row inmate who was pleading for her life to be spared.
Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, who has urged a boycott of the games, made the following statement: “I think that a president who has said we are conducting warfare in different parts of the world in order to promote democracy and human rights loses credibility when he announces that he is going to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in a country that is the world’s worst human rights abuser.”
Other political leaders have had a difficult time deciding a course of action. Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain will not attend the opening ceremony, but will be at the the closing ceremony to pick up the torch for the symbolic hand off to London, the host of the 2012 games. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend the opening , but announced that her decision was not political.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/04/america/prexy.php
Bush to attend opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics - International Herald Tribune
http://www.ccadp.org/bushkills.htm
George W. Bush - Mocking the woman he had put to death !
President Bush has decided to attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics in August, despite the fact that human rights groups have asked him to boycott them because of China’s crackdown on Tibet and its support for the genocidal government in Sudan.
Should this surprise anyone? After all, this is the same man who, while Governor of Texas, mockingly mimicked a female death row inmate who was pleading for her life to be spared.
Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, who has urged a boycott of the games, made the following statement: “I think that a president who has said we are conducting warfare in different parts of the world in order to promote democracy and human rights loses credibility when he announces that he is going to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in a country that is the world’s worst human rights abuser.”
Other political leaders have had a difficult time deciding a course of action. Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain will not attend the opening ceremony, but will be at the the closing ceremony to pick up the torch for the symbolic hand off to London, the host of the 2012 games. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend the opening , but announced that her decision was not political.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/04/america/prexy.php
Bush to attend opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics - International Herald Tribune
http://www.ccadp.org/bushkills.htm
George W. Bush - Mocking the woman he had put to death !
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