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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:04 AM
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100,000 protestors gretted Shrub in New Deli!
They were yelling and carrying signs that read "death to Bush", "Bush Go Home!", etc.

This is just now on CNN, some reporter speaking from New Deli!
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:06 AM
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1. He's clearly popular in the World.....
....:sarcasm:
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:08 AM
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4. I'm actually surprised that he goes abroad anymore!
I can't even imagine how I'd feel if 98% of the people in the World hated me! Damn, I'd stick with my staged and controlled appearances.
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:08 AM
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2. did he SEE any of them?
or were they safely kept out of sight?
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:10 AM
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5. He's wasn't there yet. He made that "surprise" stop in Afghanistan. n/t
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:22 AM
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12. ahh...of course...
and I doubt he WILL see any.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:34 AM
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13. How much of our foreign policy is conducted by "surprise" visits?
Bush to Afghanistan; Rice and Hughes to various locales; Rumsfeld and Cheney, well, pretty much any time they show up in public it's a surprise.

And yet, the popular media treat these unscheduled flybys as somehow akin to a serious conducting of foreign policy. How much substantive discussion happens during these layover diplomatic stops? Meet, greet, shake a few hands, pose for a few photos, and zip! gone again.

But the popular media treat these "meetings" as if foreign policy is actually being enacted, and it's not. Diplomacy requires a little more than a photo op. But do we get that discussion from the fawning media? We do not. They're happy to take pictures, run a few moments of video and pretend that Chimpy did something real with his dash through Afghanistan.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 04:19 PM
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16. Chimpy has to surprise them otherwise they wouldn't let him come. n/t
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:08 AM
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3. "Bush: The worlds biggest terrirest (sic)" sign pic: *'s head on a dog
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 11:09 AM by CottonBear
"Bush go home" was another sign. They had a lot of signs and a nifty burning effigy of Bush.

Get this Corporate Media crap:
The CNN reporter (Satinder Binder sp?) form India said that 100,000 was not a lot of people if you consider the population of India. He said that the protesters were mostly Indian Muslims and thus put all the blame on Muslims. Of course Soledad agreed with him, nodding and smiling.

What utter bullshit. Most all Indians seem to hate Bush along with most all of the rest of the freaking world.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:11 AM
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6. I bet the 100,000 est. was low too! Why else would they need
5,000 security people to protect his sorry a**?
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:20 AM
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11. Bush wasn't even anywhere near the protest.
There seemed to be security there but there was a huge crowd od protesters. I'm sure most of the security people travel in a bubble around Bush. :(
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:12 AM
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7. He's such a rock star.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:15 AM
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8. Do you remember when other Countries CHEERED when our
President visited???? It seems like SUCH A LONG time ago!
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:18 AM
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9. It was a long time ago. *sigh* n/t
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:19 AM
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10. Seems way back in the rear view mirror now.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:36 AM
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14. It always amazes me to see signs in English at these protests
Tells just exactly who the audience is they're trying to reach. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!
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schmuls Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:55 PM
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15. I don't think he'll be forced to see any of them..they're too afraid
he'll throw a tantrum later.
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