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Obama slams Bush for comments made in Israel
Copenhagen News.Net Saturday 17th May, 2008
Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama has lashed out at President George Bush for suggesting the Illinois senator would appease terrorists.
"After eight years I did not think I could be surprised about anything George Bush says," Obama said at a campaign rally in Watertown, South Dakota.
"That's exactly the kind of appalling attack that divided our country and alienates us from the world," he added.
Bush, speaking before the Knesset in Israel Thursday to celebrate 60 years of the Jewish state, made remarks widely interpreted as criticising Obama for earlier comments showing a willingness to meet with the leadership of Iran and other rogue states if he took the White House.
"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said, then compared the approach to the appeasement of Nazi Germany.
The White House denied the statement was directed at Obama, but it generated swift criticism from the Democrats and Hillary Clinton, who is trailing Obama in the race for the party's nomination.
Clinton called Bush's comments "offensive and outrageous," and said they have no place in any presidential address.
Obama also criticised the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain, for his apparent agreement with Bush's criticism.
Obama said he would engage Iran with "tough diplomacy" to persuade the Islamic state to abandon support for terrorism and its alleged nuclear weapons ambitions.
McCain told supporters at a rally in Louisville, Kentucky, that Obama's willingness to sit down with the Iranians was reckless and raised questions about his ability to lead.
"Until Senator Obama understands that reality the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgement and determination to keep us safe," McCain said.
The US State Department lists Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism and the Bush administration has refused to hold high level talks with Tehran.
The US and Iranian ambassadors in Baghdad, however, have held discussion over US concerns that Iran is provoking violence in Iraq; charges Iran denies.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that she will meet with her Iranian counterpart once the country complies with UN Security Council demands to suspend uranium enrichment, a process that could be used to develop nuclear weapons.
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Anonymous 05-17-08, 06:21 AM |
poor American people :( they have such a coward president who can not make these allegations in American soil.he had to go to Israel to say all these bullshit.feel pity for the yankees
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Anonymous 05-17-08, 06:32 AM |
Bush do not sound American president, he sounds Israeli soldier.
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Anonymous 05-17-08, 06:38 AM |
it is the time for the Americans to bite their hands in regret, what a historical costly mistake they have done, and the consequences endlessssss
They live among us in our homes, under our protection, use land and highways, market and streets. Princes and government sit by, snore and have their maws open, let the Jews take from their purse and chest, steal and rob whatever they will. That is, they permit themselves and their subjects to be abused and sucked dry and reduced to beggars with their own money, through the usury of the Jews. For the Jews, as foreigners, certainly should have nothing from us; and what they have certainly must be ours. They do not work, do not earn anything from us, neither do we donate or give it to them. Yet they have our money and goods and are lords in our land where they are supposed to be in exile.-Martin Luther
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chris soldier in iraq 05-17-08, 07:02 AM |
anonymous you have guts!
Who is the coward you didn’t evev leave your name.Its obvious that nobody here has been in a fight or struggle.I know you want to remain the bigger more cival person but don’t let your pride get in the way.When you get into a fight you don’t let them know your coming because the person who is talking will get punched in the face when their not looking.The arabs are so political and it does not even efect them. They are all brainwashed at birth. A lot of modern inventions are the product of jewish engineering.America is blessed because it blesses the jews.With their religious freedom don’t let these islamic war mongers take away your freedom.I wish these extremists would let hard working tax paying law abiding individuals live their life.
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chris soldier in iraq 05-17-08, 08:02 AM |
anonymous you have guts!
Who is the coward you didn’t evev leave your name.Its obvious that nobody here has been in a fight or struggle.I know you want to remain the bigger more cival person but don’t let your pride get in the way.When you get into a fight you don’t let them know your coming because the person who is talking will get punched in the face when their not looking.The arabs are so political and it does not even efect them. They are all brainwashed at birth. A lot of modern inventions are the product of jewish engineering.America is blessed because it blesses the jews.With their religious freedom don’t let these islamic war mongers take away your freedom.I wish these extremists would let hard working tax paying law abiding individuals live their life.
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Anonymous 05-17-08, 08:14 AM |
By chris soldier in iraq, 05-17-08, 07:02 AM
look at this jews hyena who thinks America is blessed by jews and all the Americans just wait till a jews throw bones to them.jews are the shame of Americans.
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Anonymous 05-17-08, 08:40 AM |
America is Blessed because of Jesus..
Dear mr Chris Solder in Iraq.. American principles are based on the teachings of Jesus. Jesus is a Jewish prophet that has offered new teachings.. ie found in the New testament.. The world would all prosper and Israel would be saved if only they would learn to love one another as Jesus showed he loves us.
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Anonymous 05-17-08, 08:52 AM |
cattle Bush, cattle Americans.....hehehehheeheehhe hahahhahaha uhahhuhahhauhuuu
And jews are the masters of the world and we are their servants — yea, their cattle.-Martin Luther
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Jiang 05-17-08, 08:58 AM |
Bush Blunders
The BUSH presidency has done so many blunders in history one of them is the illegal invasion of Iraq and the Bushâs lead EU/NATO occupation of Kosovo province South Serbia. And his continuing interference to other countries internal matters.
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samurai 05-17-08, 04:45 AM |
Mr Bush does not speak for the American People
Bush does not speak for the American people anymore. That is why he said what he said in Israel. Ironic, isn’t it. He is not speaking to Americans but to the Israelis.
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Anonymous 05-17-08, 03:10 AM |
Obama slams Bush for comments made in Israel
Mr Bush .. war is not the answer to everything.. surely we can talk first?
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~galljdaj+ 05-17-08, 07:55 AM |
How proud the lil bush is of his Wars on Innocent Peoples!
While the lil pundit did not himself start the righteous scandal of attacking innocent peoples, he certainly has magnified the Crimes Against Humanity! And has multiplied the crimes against the Constitution, i.e., the US gOVERNMENT lYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
Using American’s Moneies Soil Technologies to LIE!
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Havana. May 16, 2008
Escalation of illegal anti-Cuba transmissions condemned
By Roberto Pérez BetancourtâGranma dailyâ
THE U.S. government has implemented an escalation of its radio/television aggression of Cuba by increasing the vast resources that it has pumped into this interventionist exercise since the early days of the Revolution.
Specialists from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) and Informatics and Communications (MIC) presented this condemnation on the Thursday edition of the Cuban radio and TV Informative Roundtable, during which they cited evidence of reiterated violations of international law and an open defiance of the islandâs sovereignty.
Declassified documents from the CIA detail U.S. government operations against Cuba via the illegal use of radio broadcasts, they noted.
Carlos MartÃnez, general director of the MIC, mentioned historical antecedents of these broadcasts and the illicit use of commercial radio stations located in Miami and protected by the U.S. government over the last 50 years, and others specifically created with subversive intentions.
The analysts confirmed that these broadcasting stations transmit a weekly average of 1,889 hours of radio and TV on 30 frequencies and that the United States has incorporated high-cost international and commercial satellite transmissions into its illegal systems.
MartÃnez noted that 131 counterrevolutionary organizations have broadcast anti-Cuba programs via slots hired from Florida radio stations, and quoted examples of the inaccuracy of their content and the complicity of the U.S. authorities.
The MIC expert spoke of reiterated defeats suffered by the U.S. administration at the hands of international agencies on account of its flagrant legal violations, which are systematically recorded by Cuba as a basis for its exposés of the effects that these have had on national broadcasting services.
The so-called Radio and TV Martà are part of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, founded in 1985 and owned by the U.S. government, the aim of which is to disseminate tendentious information and programs to the island to destabilize its government, confuse the population and incite subversion.
Both projects have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $600 million. In real terms, that money benefits elements of the anti-Cuban mafia who supported the election and subsequent reelection of George W. Bush, and includes congress members of Cuban origin like Lincoln DÃaz-Balart.
Although over its 17-plus years of intervention, TV Martà has tested out sophisticated technologies involving aircraft and distinct channels, its signal cannot be received by the islandâs televisions, thanks to the effective action of national specialists.
Journalist Reynaldo Taladrid affirmed that those signals form part of a historic project designed by the U.S. government and executed with the collaboration of counterrevolutionary organizations.
The directors and other beneficiaries of the TV Martà budget have unsuccessfully tried to refute the failure of their transmissions to Cuba, and ironically, have received $400,000 per year to pay TV Azteca to include its signal in that stationâs regular programs, which has likewise come to nothing.
Other current scandals involve journalists illegally paid by Radio and TV MartÃ.
In April 2007, José M. Miranda, alias Chema, former program director of TV MartÃ, was sentenced to 27 monthsâ imprisonment and fined $5,000 for having accepted bribes from the Perfect Image & Video company.
That company paid him $112,000 in 73 checks between November 26, 2001 and December 20, 2004, in return for benefits received.
On May 20, 2003, the Bush government began to use the Pentagon C 130 solo command military aircraft to beam the invasive signal.
In that context, Colonel Roque Garrigó of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, explained that this was when the U.S. president declared the beginning of a new escalation in its aggression against Cuba.
He gave details of the strength of the equipment used by that aircraft, with a potential of 10 Kilowatts and a 200-km reach, and added that each current anti-Cuba broadcast costs around $150,000.
Hugo Fernández, a MIC expert, explained that the 2007 World Conference of the UN Telecommunications specialized body stated that Washingtonâs anti-Cuba broadcasts were illegal.
The forum was attended by delegates from 164 countries, with the United States declining to attend.
Rodolfo Reyes, MINREX director of multilateral affairs, spoke of other condemnations by Cuba in the international sphere, including the UN General Assembly.
He emphasized the general support the island has been given in response to its claims and reaffirmed that, given Washingtonâs mockery of the condemnations it has received, Cuba will continue defending its sovereignty in all spheres. (AIN)
Translated by Granma International
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kawahchan 05-17-08, 11:11 AM |
bin Laden: "How much an liberal Barack Obama knows about Islamic national integrity ?
Sen. Barack Obama said he would engage Iran with “tough diplomacy” to persuade the Islamic state to abandon support for terrorism and its alleged nuclear weapons ambition ....
Osama bin Laden : “How much Barack Obama knows about Islamic national integrity ? Don’t make me laugh."
Obama’s Godfather Rev. Jeremiah Wright: “God D@#% America!"
Iran official: “Tough diplomacy ? Iran has crude oil fields, many sharp (nuclear) physicists and missile-engineers; who wants to play with you Barack Obama ? By the way, who is Barack Obama ? Where is the Barack Obama’s foothold in Middle East anyway ?"
Obama: “Hey, What’s happening babe ?"
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