Posted on 12/28/2007, 1:04:55 AM by snugs
Today the President spoke from his raunch in Crawford Texas on the death of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. He also telephoned Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with Amin Fahim, who is Benazir Bhutto successor as the head of the Pakistani People's Party and also called Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, to express her condolences, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said.
During a Press gaggle with Scott Stanzel many comments and questions arose regarding her death etc - Click here for further details
Pray for President Bush -- Day 2660
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
QUOTE OF THE DAY
President and Mrs. Bush Extend Condolences Regarding Assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Condemn Violence
Prairie Chapel Ranch
Crawford, Texas
THE PRESIDENT: Laura and I extend our deepest condolences to the family of Benazir Bhutto, to her friends, to her supporters. We send our condolences to the families of the others who were killed in today's violence. And we send our condolences to all the people of Pakistan on this tragic occasion
The United States strongly condemns this cowardly act by murderous extremists who are trying to undermine Pakistan's democracy. Those who committed this crime must be brought to justice. Mrs. Bhutto served her nation twice as Prime Minister and she knew that her return to Pakistan earlier this year put her life at risk. Yet she refused to allow assassins to dictate the course of her country.
We stand with the people of Pakistan in their struggle against the forces of terror and extremism. We urge them to honor Benazir Bhutto's memory by continuing with the democratic process for which she so bravely gave her life.
PHOTOS OF THE DAY
President George W. Bush speaks to the nation from the Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007, in response to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (L) shakes hands with U.S. President George H. Bush during a welcome ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in this June 6, 1989 file photo. Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007 as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi, putting Jan. 8 polls in doubt and sparking anger in her native Sindh province.
Thanks for the ping
Ah.. here & in before everyone is gone! HI Eleanor & everyone!
Congratulations on your toaster win do you have a choice of photo etc.
Good evening, Snugs. How are things in Merry Old United Kingdom? There’s a thread on FR about Wodehouse’s Bertie and Jeeves which says that’s it’s a BIG HIT in Russia. Thought you’d be interested. I’ve always loved Wodehouse’s humor.
Thanks, snugs. I like the first photo in post# 7 for my toaster please
Hi Dolly good to see you live
Things are fine in my little corner of Britain cannot say for the rest of the country though I understand there is rain in certain areas.
I need that to keep away from me as we still have issues with the roof.
I was never that keen on Bertie and Jeeves but love some of the other Wodehouse plays. About 25 - 30 years ago BBC did a series of them starring John Alderton and Pauline Collins if you ever get the chance to see them they are great.
Good job as always snugs.
A sad day for Pakistan and for us too.
snugs: Thank you for posting the DOSE tonight . . . Watching the President respond to Bhutto’s assasination this morning made me realize once again how much I’m going to miss this RESOLUTE LEADER — I KNOW President Bush will keep my family safe; I have no such confidence in those leading the race to replace him!
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MUST READ . . .
MARK NOONAN’S nomination for man of the year (and mine too):
THE REAL MAN OF THE YEAR
Should be President George W. Bush, if the criteria is really that of person who has had the largest impact on world affairs . . .
. . . The war goes well, the economy is great, and President Bush is leading the GOP back to its core economic principles of low taxes, low regulation, and responsible spending. All of this done in the face of a relentlessly hostile Democratic Congress and an MSM which acts as if it were an adjunct of the Democratic National Committee. President Bush’s approval ratings may be in the tank, but he has shown himself to be the master of the political, economic and foreign policy arenas of the United States of America. But more than those things - important as they are - President Bush has been winning the moral battle.
In spite of the incredibly dishonest and hate-filled attacks on him, he has refused absolutely to respond in kind. In spite of Democrats treating him and his Administration as if they were convicted criminals, he has still maintained the new tone he said he’d bring to Washington all those years ago. Morally, President Bush towers above his really rather pathetic critics - and those critics are on the right and the left (though his lefty critics don’t even make an attempt at a rational critique favoring, instead, just lies and insults). A key example of this was in the matter of embryonic stem cell research - lambasted by Democrats and assorted lefties who just bald-faced lied about what embryonic stem cell research was doing, disapproved by a majority of Americans who were bamboozled by dishonest sob stories (Reeves and Fox, eg), frequently abandoned by his fellow GOPers who were simply afraid to stand athwart and MSM juggernaught on the issue, President Bush stood firm - basing himself on firm moral principles (human life shall not be made to be destroyed) and solid science (there has not been any indication that embryonic stem cells are usable in medical therapies), President Bush confounded his critics, and reaped the reward when the news recently came out that there is a way to make stem cells without killing human life.
We, the people of the United States, owe President Bush a hearty vote of thanks, and his critics owe him a sincere apology. And while some of us will thank him, the more telling thing about President Bush is that he doesn’t need our thanks or his critics’ apology. Right from the start, all he’s done is his duty as he understands it - and the peace which comes from doing what you have to do as best you can is all that a man really needs out of this life.
http://blogsforvictory.com/tag/man-of-the-year/
JOHN BOLTON is on H&C next! THIS OUTTA BE MUST SEE TV.
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