IRAQ: London Mayor Ken Livingstone attacks US President George W Bush, calling him "corrupt".

BBC News ^ | Thursday, 8 May, 2003, 18:36 GMT 19:36 UK | BBC staff

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Telegraph probably has data on how this clymer was bought out by Soddomite!

Probably no records, it would have only taken pocket change!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right see this:

Asner Defends Castro: "We Didn't Have a Free Election in 2002"

[M Kehoe]

I would listen to my barber before I would listen to the mayor of London. Even if I was in London at the moment.

5.56mm

[El Conservador]

Eerie resemblance, ain't it???

[BARLF]

This Ken any kin to Craig?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes, Excellent!

Now we have Maddona chiming in with Asner and the London Mayor:

Madonna thanks France for opposition to Iraq war

[Sam Cree]

Interesting artlicle, thanks. I wonder if reunification with East Germany, already completely pure socialist, has made things even worse.

The Left has such a fate in mind for America, I guess.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They are hard at work here in California on their dream:

Senate panel OKs universal health care bill [California]

[kdmhcdcfld]

mayor@london.gov.uk

[Sam Cree]

That's scary.

My son lives in CA now. As someone who grew up in Miami, where the main "minority" (actually, the largest group now, I think), the Cubans, vote conservatively, he is kind of amazed at how far left so many are out there.

[schaketo]

Just in case you'd like to contact them and let them know your travel plans have changed for this summer.

http://www.travelbritain.org/newhome/contactus.htm

[schaketo]

In case you’d like to let them know how you feel about London. This is what I sent to:

travelinfo@bta.org.uk

London Mayor Ken Livingstone has launched an astonishing attack on US President George W Bush, calling him "corrupt".

Our family’s summer travel plans have now changed. We will not be visiting London and most likely will avoid Britain. Who needs more of this crap.

Spain or Italy is looking good.

Explain to Mr. Livingstone millions of Americans hear him loud and clear.

My Name
Pennsylvania, PA. USA

[Argus]

That is a good song title.

It is interesting to me that so many British and other European politicians have seen fit to attack President Bush, but to my knowledge no anti-war American politicians have said anything about Tony Blair. Is that because they otherwise identify with his left wing positions, or do they just regard him as irrelevant?

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/908113/posts

'They Always Blame America First'
Opinion Journal:Best of the Web Today ^ | Thursday, May 8, 2003 2:58 p.m. EDT | BY JAMES TARANTO

Another liberal having a sudden bout of good sense is Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who's revisited Jeane Kirkpatrick's 1984 Republican Convention speech, which he "hated" at the time, and concluded that "it has aged better than I have." This of course was the speech in which the then-U.N. ambassador lambasted the "San Francisco Democrats" with the refrain: "But then, they always blame America first." As Cohen notes, little has changed:

That same tendency to blame America for the moral shortcomings of others unfortunately permeates the left and the Democratic Party. I wish it were otherwise, but I got the first whiff of it after Sept. 11 when some people reacted to the terrorist attacks here by blaming U.S. policy--in the Middle East specifically but around the world in general.

Had we not supported Israel, had we not backed the corrupt Saudi monarchy, had we not been buddies with Egypt, had we not been somehow complicit in Third World poverty, had we not developed blue jeans and T-shirts and rock music and premarital sex, the World Trade Center might still be standing and the Pentagon untouched.

"The impulse to blame America first lingers," Cohen observes, "an atavistic reflex that jerks the knees of too many on the left and has cost the Democratic Party plenty over the years." Indeed. And from the Associated Press, here's a neat refutation of the notion that America was to blame for Sept. 11:

A wedding video shot in a Hamburg mosque has been broadcast for the first time and shows grainy scenes of Sept. 11 al-Qaida suicide pilots celebrating with other alleged plotters, possibly including suspects still not formally identified.

The video of the October 1999 wedding of Said Bahaji being celebrated in a large room at the al Quds mosque--suspected as a recruiting center for al-Qaida operatives--has been in the hands of investigators since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

The video depicts, among other things, "a fiery speech by Ramzi Binalshibh, the suspected logistician of the Sept. 11 attacks who is in U.S. custody after his September arrest in Pakistan." At the time of the wedding, Bill Clinton was president, Israel was negotiating peace with the Palestinians, and American-led forces had just liberated the Muslims of Kosovo.

"But then, they always blame America first," as Kirkpatrick said in 1984. "The American people know better."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/908113/posts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks!

I've not been to London and wil not be going there anytime soon!

Spain is warmer in several ways!

[anniegetyourgun]

Hey, Mayor....get over it....W won. And by the way, you don't get to vote in our election next time either.

[may18]

Just to let yo know red ken is an extremist, he was even expelled from the labour party for being to extreme,

[Pharmboy]

If they re-elect this smug commie scumbag they deserve 'im. And you can quote me.

[Aliska]

This guy is full of it. I'd like to see him overthrown. Into the Thames.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I would go for seeing how well he can swim!