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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (60896)	5/5/2005 6:48:56 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

as. You said....."Pat Robertson calls US Judges worse than Al Qaida"...... NO HE DIDN'T You post an article then lie openly about that same article even when the proof of your lie is right in front of your face.....AMAZING...and points out clearly just why liberal fanatical thinking is so dangerous and why Pat Robertson is correct in pointing out the danger your type poses to the world. What Robertson said was...."Pat Robertson told TV viewers nation-wide that the threat posed by liberal judges is "probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.""....."the most serious threat America has faced in nearly 400 years of history, more serious than al Qaeda, more serious than Nazi Germany"..... He was referring to the threat you and people who think as you do including judges create for America ..... You lie again.

To: American Spirit who wrote (60896)	5/5/2005 7:49:02 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

as. Do you think jonny boy and hanoi janey will be on the welcoming committee? Do you think this would boost jonny's popularity for the next election. :-) Vietnam PM Announces Plans for First Visit to US townhall.com Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - Vietnam's prime minister next month will become the first leader of the communist Southeast Asian country to visit the United States since the Vietnam War ended 30 years ago. Prime Minister Phan Van Khai made the announcement Thursday in the Australian capital, Canberra, where he is on an official visit. "The purpose of my visit to the United States is to elevate our relationship to a higher plane in a new situation," he said in translated comments. "Thirty years have passed since the end of the war," Khai said. "This is the first ever visit by the leader of a unified Vietnam to the United States." Responding to reporters' questions, he denied the visit was aimed at containing China's rising power. "We need to strengthen the comprehensive relationship and cooperation with the United States and continue to develop our neighboring relations with China." (China supported Vietnamese communist forces before and during the war, but relations soured in the late 1970s, and in 1979 China invaded Vietnam in a brief but bloody war that cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides.) Senior Vietnamese politicians have visited the U.S. before, but never a head of government. Although Khai announced the U.S. visit for the first time Thursday, the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington recently reported that the deputy foreign minister, Le Van Bang, had returned from a two-week trip to the U.S. to prepare for a prime ministerial visit. Bang, who served as Hanoi's first ambassador to the U.S. after ties were established in 1995, said Vietnam was hoping for U.S. support for its bid to join the \expndtw-6 World Trade Organization\expndtw0 (WTO). Khai's planned visit is likely to spark protests. A range of Vietnamese-American groups exist, including some which focus on Hanoi's human rights record. The State Department last September added Vietnam to a list of "countries of particular concern" for religious freedom violations. Australia also has a large Vietnamese expatriate community, and members protested Thursday in Canberra, shouting slogans accusing Khai of abusing religious and other freedoms. \expndtw-6 Tien Nguyen, president of the Vietnamese Community in Australia (VCA), said the timing of the visit, coming just five days after the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, was "insensitive to the feelings of Vietnam veterans and their supporters." VCA general secretary Trung Doan said the Hanoi regime should hold free and fair elections. He also called on Australian Prime Minister John Howard to insist that before Vietnam joins the WTO, it should allow Australian companies to export books, magazines and newspapers to Vietnam. The organization also called for the release of hundreds of political prisoners. Last Saturday, Vietnam marked the 30th anniversary of \expndtw0 communist North Vietnamese forces' victory over the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese regime.