Doug,
Your post was both timely and entertaining!
By the way, I'm sure that refurbished crony bitch would be delighted to add two more names to her cherished list:-
1. Dalai Lama who asked Bush to waffle a bit (see rense.com);
2. the Pope (see excerpt below and the link)
The Pope, in Central Asia, Urges Peace
By MELINDA HENNEBERGER
September 23, 2001
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Sept. 22 — Pope John Paul II, who has been urging restraint in response to last week's terrorist attacks on the United States, obliquely spoke against war in his first remarks here this evening.
"Controversies must be resolved not by recourse to arms but by peaceful means of negotiation and dialogue," the pope said during a welcoming ceremony, in remarks praising Kazakhstan for closing a nuclear site here and for banning all atomic testing after gaining independence from the former Soviet Union 10 years ago. "I can only encourage this type of commitment," he said in Russian.
With tensions running high in Central Asia as the United States prepares for a possible military strike against Afghanistan...................................................................................................
whole article at
nytimes.com ) |
