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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:26 PM
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Bush:"The people we're talking about are not refugees. They are Americans"

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06734436.htm

Bush expressed sympathy with the evacuees and essentially agreed with civil rights leader Jesse Jackson that the survivors should not be considered refugees.

Jackson has complained that some news organizations have referred to the storm survivors, many of them poor and black, as refugees.

"The people we're talking about are not refugees. They are Americans," Bush said while receiving an update on the contributions of volunteer and charity organizations.

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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:28 PM
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1. They're both
Wrap your mind around the idea shrub.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:28 PM
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2. This moran is always a day late and a dollar short!
According to his miserable mother, they are underprivileged and being in shelters works well for them.
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MsTryska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:29 PM
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3. has he been reading DU or soemthing?
we've been saying that for the last 5 days.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:31 PM
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4. So -- Rove reads DU.
Read this: you will live a long miserable life, and when you die you will be reincarnated in your true form.
Your chance at sentience has been revoked, perhaps permanently.
Good luck.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:34 PM
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5. Sorry Mr. Bush these are displaced persons....
displaced person
n.
One who has been driven from one's homeland by war or internal upheaval.

Meaning #1: a person forced to flee from home or country
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-06-05 12:48 PM
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6. You know, the definition of refugee and
displaced person are remarkably similar.

But we've had DP for a decade or two, since international lawyers redefined 'refugee' for their own purposes, and forgot to tell some 700 million people about it.
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