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Thread ID: 19330 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-07-29
2005-07-29 16:10 | User Profile
[url]http://homepage.mac.com/onegoodmove/movies/bushflips.mov[/url]
2005-07-29 17:05 | User Profile
I can hear the Droid Ditto Heads now:
Oh, that's just George W Bush reacting to the "evil liberal media"...."we're a country at war" and nobody has the right to question the president on thorny and irrelevant issues like quagmire in Iraq, outsourcing jobs, illegal and legal immigrants, globalization and other such trifling matters! Our president is protecting our fweedumb!!
BTW, nice post Bardamu, thanks!
2005-07-29 17:23 | User Profile
My pleasure, xmetalhead, glad you liked it.
I'm not sure what I think of a president doing this. On the one hand, it's amusing in a populist sort of way but then on the other it comes across as undignified and reenforces his reputation of having the character of a spoiled college fratboy. Too bad the sound wasn't available in the movie.
2005-07-29 17:27 | User Profile
This might not be to important to you but it is to me, it shows the way that the US keeps trying to make "friends" all around the world.
Rice is accusing Comandante Castro of everything that Bush is, even if most Americans don't know it yet. :argue:
One of this days I just might have to take a "vacation" to Mexico. =======================xxxxxxxxxxxxx======================
New post to help Castro 'demise'
Castro accuses the US of fomenting unrest in Cuba US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced the creation of a new post to help "accelerate the demise" of the Castro regime in Cuba. Caleb McCarry, a veteran Republican Party activist, was appointed as the Cuba transition co-ordinator.
Ms Rice said for 50 years Fidel Castro had condemned Cubans to a "tragic fate of repression and poverty".
Mr Castro accuses the US of funding unrest and vowed that dissidents would never bring down his government.
'Castro's tyranny'
The post was recommended in a 2004 report on Cuba by a commission headed by Ms Rice's predecessor Colin Powell.
The report outlines the steps the US is prepared to take to bring about regime change in Cuba, such as subverting Mr Castro's plans to hand over power to his younger brother.
Introducing Mr McCarry at the State Department in Washington, Ms Rice said the US was working with advocates of democratic change on the island.
"We are working to deny resources to the Castro regime to break its blockade on information and to broadcast the truth about its deplorable treatment of the Cuban people," she said.
She said the aim of the effort was to "accelerate the demise of Castro's tyranny" on the Caribbean island, which he has ruled since 1959.
Earlier this week, in a speech marking the anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Mr Castro accused the US of financing dissidents and false propaganda.
"No other revolutionary process has been able to count on as much consensus and overwhelming support as the Cuban revolution has," he told supporters in Havana.
2005-07-29 17:27 | User Profile
He's been flipping off America practically since the day he was elected.
2005-07-29 17:36 | User Profile
haaa haa, It's actually his thumb, it's a weird camera angle but you can tell when he pulls his hand back down it's his thumb.:lol: