Laura Bush speaks on Burma sanctions

Source: USA Today

First lady Laura Bush said Tuesday that her husband's administration is prepared to slap additional sanctions on Burma's military government if it does not start moving toward democracy "within the next couple of days."
Bush said she also conferred with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on the Burmese junta's plans for talks with imprisoned democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The first lady's outspoken activism on Burma, including calls for the removal of Gen. Than Shwe and his regime, is a departure from her low-key work on other human rights issues around the world.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-09-laura-bush_N.htm

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Not much more at article :puke:

Who the fuck gave her the keys?

"The nexy couple of days"?

And where the hell are Condoleezaba and Bigfoot(Hughes) when we really need them?

Goodness gracious.

we haven't heard anything about it since she got all those gang members squared away back in '04.

they will dope her up again and prop her back up in the corner.

I'm glad she's speaking out.

that her Gangster husband started!

Maybe she has decided to take over our government and be the spokesperson.

Granted she is smarter than her idiot husband.

Go read a library book

She is not as dumb as her husband, but she runs a close second....

what she has to say. She married the most evil man on the planet. They are both worthless.

What on earth would she know about democracy?

she and the WH say she is a private citizen,,,,,,(like,) don't ask questions.


but when she spouts off on other countries problems.......we are now suppose to listen and heed what she says,,,,,,,,thats bull crap!!

Few people know this, but a few weeks before the 2004 presidential election, George and Laura Bush came to Jacksonville, Oregon (a tiny pioneer town seven miles from Medford) for a "private" campaign rally.

At the Bush rally in Medford, two local teachers, dressed in T-shirts with slogan "Preserve our civil rights" were dragged from the rally.

Back in Jacksonville crowds of mostly Democrats (and most of them from Ashland where our university is located)were gathered for a rally (approved by the City of Jacksonville). Bush and his wife were staying the night in Jacksonville as guests of the Jacksonville Inn. The Bush entourage came into and left Jacksonville many times during this two-day period, tying up traffic in all directions (we only have a four-block "downtown" in Jacksonville).

After the Bush rally the entourage drove back into Jacksonville and the Bushes decided to have dinner at the Jacksonville Inn restaurant. So the police had to clear the protesters (including many kids and dogs on leashes plus residents of Jacksonville) out of the entire town. This was done with a contingent (I think I saw between 20 and 25) of local, county, and state police including some from No. California and upstate as far as Salem. I saw them gathered next to the fire station in the dark of night next to some kind of flatbed-type wagon on wheels which they used as part of their crowd "control." Standing like manniquins in FULL RIOT GEAR! They started at one end of the main street and pushed hundreds of people toward the other end of the main street (by now Republicans had shown up from the Bush rally in Medford). Because we the people had no where to go as we backed up, we spilled over onto the sidewalks, which enraged the cops. It was like pushing all the sardines in a full can into one corner. The police screamed at us through horns and we couldn't understand what they were saying. So they pushed us and pushed us and people fell, others trying to help them. They got shot with pepperspray bullets which knocked others over. Next to me were two little girls with their mother (ages about six and eight). We had Secret Service helicopters above us shining searchlights on us. We got scrunched up into a parking lot with cars coming into town from four directions and getting involved in the mess.

Some people were able to scatter down alleys and between buildings and get away. My car was at the opposite end of town (and I live two miles outside of Jacksonville and have a J'ville address). I was affected somewhat by the pepperspray, but not as much as others.

The ACLU was going to file a lawsuit about this incident, but it has never happened. Some people in another part of the country won a lawsuit over what was written on their T-shirts, but not our teachers.

And the Bushes are soooooo concerned about treatment of people in Burma?

What about us? I hate that man to the core of my being. It was not only humiliating to be peppersprayed in my own town, but by a man who told a local who inquired about how he liked our Rogue River Valley that he never "sees" where he is when he is traveling. His visit to Jacksonville was a nightmare for law enforcement with tiny streets (the Bushes stayed not in the hotel but in a honeymoon cottage in the residential area) but for Jacksonville law enforcement--I think we had 3 or 4 officers in town at the time.