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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ivan Inkling who wrote (58273)	4/13/2006 3:00:37 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 93284

Rice should be FIRED for complete imcompetence....LOOK Yesterday, Condi Rice stood next to Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo -- a man who has made Parade’s “Annual List of the World’s 10 Worst Dictators” four years running -- and called him “a good friend.” Then, with Obiang at her side, she proceed to threaten Iran, calling on the U.N. Security Council to take “strong steps” against it. This hypocrisy would be funny, if it weren’t so damaging to our national security... ...Apparently, the unelected leaders of Tehran must recognize that freedom is on the march, but the unelected leader of Equatorial Guinea can skip it. Rice’s “good friend” Mr. Obiang is primarily known for living the high life off his country’s relatively newfound oil revenues, while his people live on less than $1 a day without clean water. And Rice’s own State Department has complied quite a rap sheet on Obiang’s rule, including these gems: -- In September [2005] [Amnesty International] reported that torture was widespread in the country's places of detention and during the course of trials. -- In 2004 senior government officials told foreign diplomats that human rights did not apply to criminals and that torture of known criminals was not a human rights abuse. -- Unlike [2004], there were no reports that prisoners died from torture; however, there were reports that officials tortured political opposition activists and other persons during the year. -- An independent or privately owned press was nearly nonexistent ... Foreign celebrity and sports publications were available for sale at foreign-owned grocery stores, but no newspapers; there were no bookstores or newsstands in the country. -- The law authorizes government censorship of all publications. During the year the Ministry of Information sometimes required publishers to submit a copy for approval prior to publication. -- The president's son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, owned the only private radio station, Radio Asonga. Gee, why does Obiang get to be Condi’s “good friend” and the Iran mullahs get threatened with tactical nuclear weapons? Cause we already have our hands on Equatorial Guinea’s oil, silly. Rice threatening of Iran while coddling Obiang puts Bush’s democracy hypocrisy in sharp focus... liberaloasis.com