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Bush cancels Geneva speech 'fearing' possible torture charges
france24.com ^
| 05/02/2011
| REUTERS
Posted on 02/05/2011 4:40:27 PM PST by crescen7
Former US President George W. Bush cancelled a trip to Geneva over the risk of legal action against him for the alleged torture of suspected militants at Guantanamo Bay, rights groups said Saturday. He was scheduled to address a Jewish charity gala.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; fascistleft; geneva; guantanamo; polcriminalization; radicalleft; torture
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So this is what it's come to. I wonder if we're sending any "foreign aid" to countries that seek to indict our former President?
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:40:34 PM PST
by
crescen7
To: crescen7
So this is what it's come to. I wonder if we're sending any "foreign aid" to countries that seek to indict our former President? Obama will probably double it.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:42:13 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(Is this a Tea Party, like the kind that happened in 1773, or the kind where they serve crumpets?)
To: crescen7
But of course the Swiss are “neutral” when it comes to Nazis.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:43:33 PM PST
by
Huskrrrr
To: crescen7
This is Switzerland, not your typical third world hellhole.
What's going on there is that the government ~ at every level ~ is losing moral authority.
You can take your aged aunt there and scrag her and as long as you're both foreigners they'll chalk that up to euthenasia ~ and they'll cash your check on the way out so that you can "pay her bills" (bwahahahaha).
Some of the cantons want to reverse the trend but it's obviously too late. They would no longer have anyone around who could clean the streets or do all those other jobs the Swiss won't do.
Pessimists look foward to the day the Islamofascists clamp down on these guys.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:45:41 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: crescen7
Ridiculous headline. He wasn’t afraid.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:45:45 PM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: crescen7
The Europeans have lost their minds. Some time back.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:45:51 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: crescen7
He should then go on principle.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:46:07 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
To: crescen7
Read the article. It says a former guantanamo detainee was going to speak. In other words, Bush found out that it was a set up.
To: crescen7
Yep. And when the Democrat Party gets their ducks in a row,i.e., more control of the judiciary, he will be indicted over here. The Left, the Democrat Party, the main stream media[the unholy trio] have not forgot, they are just laying low.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:49:36 PM PST
by
sport
To: Sacajaweau
In other words, Bush found out that it was a set up. I can think of some other circumstances in which I wish he had been so perceptive.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:49:54 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(Is this a Tea Party, like the kind that happened in 1773, or the kind where they serve crumpets?)
To: crescen7
It appears as though the Swiss have decided to side with the muzzies.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:58:18 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare funds 16,000 new tax collectors but no new doctors. Now that's what I call "green" jobs.)
To: Sacajaweau
I think you are confusing two separate events. Bush was to speak on Feb 12, which is a Saturday. The former detainee was to speak at an event on a Monday. Very poorly written article, full of conjecture and short on facts.
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posted on
02/05/2011 4:59:25 PM PST
by
OA5599
To: crescen7
Bush was to be the keynote speaker at Keren Hayesod's annual dinner on Feb. 12 in Geneva. But pressure has been building on the Swiss government to arrest him and open a criminal investigation if he enters the Alpine country. Would have been another prime opportunity for an Obama golf vacation. Is it on the Executive calendar?
To: crescen7
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Maybe Swiss disease walking down Main St. USA would like a smack in the chops.
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To: FlingWingFlyer
It appears as though the Swiss have decided to side with the muzzies. Not the Muzzies, but the anti-American socialists -- at home and abroad.
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:08:43 PM PST
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
To: taraytarah; All
"Would have been another prime opportunity for an Obama golf vacation. Is it on the Executive calendar?"
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:12:33 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: crescen7
To: crescen7
Yet they welcome Roman Polanski a guy who was convicted of sodomizing a 14 year old.
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:20:47 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(Going to Charlotte for the barbecue is like going to Minneapolis for the gumbo - John Reed)
To: crescen7
"rights groups"
yeah, I'm pretty sick of that euphemism for activist groups.
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:20:47 PM PST
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
To: muawiyah
The article is nonsense that is so heavily spun that it is barely coherent.
Your post isn’t an example of clarity either, but I believe I see your drift.
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posted on
02/05/2011 5:20:47 PM PST
by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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