Bush Attacks Kerry While Cozying Up To Dictators

[funwithtreason]

President Bush earlier this week attacked his opponent, saying "It's hard to imagine a candidate running for President prefers the stability of a dictatorship to the hope and security of democracy."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040920-17.html

Yet, it is President Bush who regularly declares his personal friendship and gratitude to some of the world's most oppressive dictators, often wining and dining them at his ranch in Texas.

In June of 2004, Bush referred to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as "my friend,"...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040610-36.html

...even though the Saudi Arabian government has been investigated for its financial ties to the 9/11 terrorists...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/080303A.shtml

...and is listed by the U.S. State Department as one of the world's most oppressive regimes on the planet.

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27937.htm

In April, he referred to the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as "my friend" and welcomed him to the Crawford ranch by saying "I always look forward to visiting with him."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040412-3.html

Bush gave this praise to a dictator, even though Human Rights Watch notes that government "torture in Egypt is widespread and systemic"...

http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/egypt-bck-1001.htm

...and the State Department says Mubarak has passed a Constitution in which the electorate is barred from being "presented with a choice among competing presidential candidates."

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27926.htm

In 2002, it was Bush who said "I want to welcome the President of China to our ranch, and to Texas."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021025.html

Bush was inviting into his home a dictator who, according to the U.S. State Department, presides over a government that regularly engages in the "arbitrary or unlawful" murder of its own citizens, kidnappings of political dissidents, and repression of religious minorities.

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27768.htm

Only one word describes him in this factual scenario....

HYPOCRITE!

[fresinha12]

Its called diplomacy...u dont antagonize key world leaders.........

President Bush earlier this week attacked his opponent, saying "It's hard to imagine a candidate running for President prefers the stability of a dictatorship to the hope and security of democracy."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040920-17.html

Yet, it is President Bush who regularly declares his personal friendship and gratitude to some of the world's most oppressive dictators, often wining and dining them at his ranch in Texas.

In June of 2004, Bush referred to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as "my friend,"...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040610-36.html

...even though the Saudi Arabian government has been investigated for its financial ties to the 9/11 terrorists...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/080303A.shtml

...and is listed by the U.S. State Department as one of the world's most oppressive regimes on the planet.

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27937.htm

In April, he referred to the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as "my friend" and welcomed him to the Crawford ranch by saying "I always look forward to visiting with him."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040412-3.html

Bush gave this praise to a dictator, even though Human Rights Watch notes that government "torture in Egypt is widespread and systemic"...

http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/egypt-bck-1001.htm

...and the State Department says Mubarak has passed a Constitution in which the electorate is barred from being "presented with a choice among competing presidential candidates."

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27926.htm

In 2002, it was Bush who said "I want to welcome the President of China to our ranch, and to Texas."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021025.html

Bush was inviting into his home a dictator who, according to the U.S. State Department, presides over a government that regularly engages in the "arbitrary or unlawful" murder of its own citizens, kidnappings of political dissidents, and repression of religious minorities.

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27768.htm

Only one word describes him in this factual scenario....

HYPOCRITE!

[ou812]

http://georgeisdumb.ytmnd.com

[funwithtreason]

Its called diplomacy...u dont antagonize key world leaders.........

So aiding terrorist nations as well as aiding countries who tortore their own people whilst religiously persecuting them is diplomacy? If that is deplomacy then what isn't?

[jtk4]

ahhhhh i would guess launching tomahawks into a city would be pretty undiplomatic.