Agence France-Presse
PROTESTERS have demanded that US President George W Bush get out of Peru where he is attending an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, blaming him for the world economic crisis.
“Bush out,” about 1000 demonstrators chanted in the center of the capital Lima, watched by scores of police in riot gear who made sure they did not move towards the APEC summit venue several kilometers away.
“This crisis didn’t come from the Peruvian people. We shouldn’t have to pay for it,” a union leader told the crowd, which demonstrated peacefully.
Mr Bush, one of 21 leaders of Asia-Pacific economies converging on Lima for the weekend summit, arrived shortly after the protest. He was escorted under tight US Secret Service and Peruvian police security from Lima airport to the army headquarters building housing the APEC meetings.
Friday’s anti-Bush protest, organized by Peru’s biggest labor union, charged that Mr Bush’s decision to wage a costly war in Iraq contributed to the financial and economic crises.
“The International Criminal Court should try him for crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression,” a big banner next to the main stage for the rally proclaimed.
“Bush – genocide. The Peruvians repudiate your crimes,” said another.
“We believe that Bush is responsible for the fall of the financial system,” explained Aldo Gil Cristostomo, a 54-year-old mechanic standing near other protesters carrying portraits of Che Guevara.
“The war in Iraq is partly responsible for the fall,” he said.
Mr Cristostomo added that, while he had more sympathy for Mr Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, he believed the Democrat “is going to maintain the neo-liberal system” championed by the current US president.
Lima was filled with 39,000 police officers ensuring that none of the heads of state and government would be able to see any demonstrations. At least five people who were among 20 protesters holding a separate against corruption close to the summit venue were arrested late Thursday.
The participants had tried to release a number of live rats in a gesture decrying graft in Peruvian public life, the organizer, Fidel Supo, said in a video published on the website of El Comercio newspaper.
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[Ed. Note: Congratulations Mr. Huggs, you have proven yourself capable of an entry without a personal attack, except of course attacks against political figures, which is permitted. Your entry was posted without edit, as will any further entries that conform to the same standards.]
Truth.
Go ahead and delete it.
It obviously hurts.
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=156df7e6-d490-41c9-8b1f-106fef8763c6&k=0
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080213/NEWS08/802130360
http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/lisa3/beckmanj.html
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175
BTW, nice pick for Secretary of Defense.
It’s nice to know IFP will still be up and running for Obama’s illegal war come January 21st.
Change…LOL….Clinton cronies galore….Change…LOL…Rahm “Dead Fish” Emmanuel, Chicago Gangsta….Change….Drunken Joe Biden (Good life insurance policy)….Change.
Change?
You gotta be kiddin’ me.
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Mr. Huggs,
Simply by clinging desperately to the Limbaugh-fed delusion that global climate change affected by human activity isn’t real you reveal yourself to be devoid of basic scientific understanding and addicted to disinformation funded by Big Oil.
The vast majority of people know global warming is a reality and recognize your perspective to be a sad and very dangerous position to hold.
While we work to save the planet from imminent cataclysmic tragedy, you will attack and criticize us the entire way.
We may be able to save the planet from destruction but we cannot save you from yourself.
You don’t know DICK! I remember one time when I was watching the tube,this little real was unfolding telling the watchers. There’s’ chaos, Chaos in the neighbourhood. I’m watching students, Not one wepone in any students hand I was watching as Chaos did brake out. I watched as the natonal guard out right killed one of the students in the peace demonstration on KENT STATE campus let us not forget the one who gave everything so we could see the tare in the fabric. You don’t know lame. Lame was presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford. We have been stuck on lame for fifty years or so. The more goodys and bobbles they throw on the ground, is like shaking the mans scent from a hound.
doug812
[Personal insult removed].
You have no idea what it was like under Carter, and now you’re going to get a big heaping dose of idiotic socialism under the Obamessiah.
The CRA created this economic implosion.
Hey [Personal insult removed], do you know who Franklin Delano Raines is?
Why was a it a “good thing” to hold a gun to lenders heads and force them to make $250K loans to burger flippers and other “downtrodden” who had no means to pay it back?
Why is the UAW Jobs Bank (an oxymoron if there ever was one)a good economic policy for the auto manufacturers?
I’ll bet a $700B bailout [Personal insult removed] doesn’t have a clue in answering the last two questions.
Mikael, 1980 was my first election too…and I didn’t vote for Reagan. I voted for John Anderson. Hey, I was in college at the time and I thought the sun shone out the ass of every Phi Beta Kappa key holder. Silly me and thank God Reagan won.
At least I didn’t vote for the Sweater Wearing Wabbit Slayer.
(Andrew…try googling “Killer + Rabbit + Carter”….LOL)
Speaking of sweaters, stock up. Global Warming is dead. No sunspots in August. First time since 1913. Very few now. The solar winds have died down, exposing the astronauts to more radiation. Man-made Global Warming never existed in the first place.
Sweaters? Yes, just like bringing back Jimmah, welcome to the New and Improved New Ice Age.
The Obamessiah will have a hard time explaining the Maunder Minimum to all of Al Gore’s groupies.
[Personal insult removed].
Culled Worrier,
“Jimmah Cahtah…. the worst President this country has ever, EVER, had!!!! ”
Nice try. You are entitled to your opinion, but yours would be far in the minority among Presidential historians if you were qualified to be one. Bush is closing in on locking down his title as worst ever. Leaving office with the worst approval rating since Hoover, GWB has even woken up the American electorate up from one of it’s worst voting eras ever: 2000-2004.
And… The 1980 presidential election was the second one I voted in, so your guess of my youth is much appreciated, but also inaccurate. Thanks for the compliment, though!
B-USH
U-S
S-OB STORY
H-OST
And? So a Bad pair of shoes with holes in there soles!
C-ORRUPTION
H-OST
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N-EVER
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Dennis M MCCULLOUGH Washpa
Chubby Huggs wrote: It was Bush who held a gun to Jimmy Carter and then Bill Clinton making them sign and loosen the CRA!
Jimmah Cahtah…. the worst President this country has ever, EVER, had!!!! W doesn’t hold a candle to that G&! D@#! spineless, backstabbing P.O.S. president. Mikael and Andrew were probably young children back then so you 2 don’t know jack about what it is like to live under a president who is a spineless loser. 12% unemployment, 21% or more interest rate on all mortgages and loans, inflation running wild out of control, U.S. Embassy employees and Marines held hostage in Iran and that pussy doing nothing but bitching at the U.N. and seeking “multi-lateral support”. His only rescue attempt, which was too little and too late, ended in disaster. Then Ronald Reagan came along. During the 1980 campaign he told the Iranians that the first thing he was going to do was let the B-52s off their leash and reduce Teheran to rubble unless they let our people go. And they believed him, because 20 minutes after he was sworn in the plane carrying the hostages home was wheels up and on it way to Germany. Then Reagan cut taxes and the economy took off. Inflation came down, interest rates came down, unemployment went to about %5.
But don’t worry kids. You will find out what it is like to have a loser president since The Obamessiah’s economic plan is the same one that Jimmah Cahtah tried….. tried and failed.
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C.W.
Leave George Bush alone, building 7 gave it’s life for his sins.
Ahh….yeah, the Evil Bushitler!
It was Bushitler who instituted the World Crises!
It was Bush who held a gun to Jimmy Carter and then Bill Clinton making them sign and loosen the CRA!
It was Bushitler who created the UAW Jobs Bank!
Of course!….Mimi, look out! Is that Ben crawling up your leg?
Submitted by Chubby B. Huggs
BA, Magna Cum Laude
The International College of Voodoo Economics, 1983
MA, Summa Cum Laude
The University of Pantomime, 1985
PhD, Cum Laude (I’m getting lazy in my old age)
The Technical Institute of Altered Reality, 2008
Humbuggville, PA
Rats! Why didn’t we think of this before? Who here lives in his mother’s basement? Willard? Dennis? Let’s sick an army of rats on Bush!
HBO rules!