You know who HE is, readers!
And the fact that Bush is all of a sudden interested in Myanmar makes me think there is a CIA role in the protests somehow.
"Bush, at U.N., Announces Stricter Burmese Sanctions" by STEVEN LEE MYERS
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 — President Bush, calling on countries to live up to freedoms and rights promised by the United Nations almost six decades ago, on Tuesday announced tighter sanctions on Myanmar and denounced the governments of Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Zimbabwe as “brutal regimes” that should be confronted for their abuses.
[Arrogant asshole!]
In contrast to previous addresses here, he barely mentioned the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan except to say that the international community should do more to support those countries. Nor did he make a reference to one of his administration’s biggest foreign-policy concerns: Iran’s nuclear program.
Mr. Bush made his remarks at the opening of the 62nd session of the General Assembly, an annual gathering that was at points stormy and theatrical. Cuba’s foreign minister walked out of the president’s speech, protesters rallied outside with “Arrest Bush” signs and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president, rebutted most of what Mr. Bush said.
[Yeah, that was great!!!]
Mr. Bush used his most forceful language to denounce countries that the United States publicly ranks among the least democratic. He also called on members of the United Nations to do more to support foundling democracies, later meeting with the leaders of several of them, including Georgia, Botswana, Afghanistan and Honduras.
“Every civilized nation also has a responsibility to stand up for the people suffering under dictatorship,” Mr. Bush said.
[What bullshit coming from the rectal hole he calls a mouth!]
White House officials previewing the president’s remarks had suggested that he would provide a more nuanced, expansive view of freedom, saying that political freedoms were no less important that freedom from disease, illiteracy or poverty. Mr. Bush’s starkest remarks, however, focused on the seven governments he lumped together as a group of unfriendly states, similar to how he once famously linked Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an “axis of evil.”
[Speaking like a true dictatorial Globalist.
And what he's got, a ROSTER of countries to attack?]
In the case of Myanmar, formerly Burma, Mr. Bush excoriated the country’s military government, which in the past few weeks has faced the most extensive public protests in nearly two decades.
[So WTF? Why the attention all of a sudden, Georgie?]
He outlined a tightening of economic sanctions in place since 1997 to aim at specific individuals for the first time. He also announced a ban on visas of those “responsible for the most egregious violations of human rights” and their families. “Basic freedoms of speech, assembly and worship are severely restricted,” Mr. Bush said. “Ethnic minorities are persecuted. Forced child labor, human trafficking and rape are common.”
[Where aren't those problems? The U.N. runs sex rings, for God's sake!!]
The Treasury Department will soon compile a list of people who will be affected by the economic sanctions, while the State Department will draw up a list of those barred from traveling to the United States. Mr. Bush announced the sanctions as weeks of protests in Myanmar appeared to be building toward a confrontation with the authorities, who declared a curfew only hours after Mr. Bush spoke.
[So what Bush says to other nations? Don't mean shit to them!]
Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, said the intention was to get the government there to “understand that there is a time now for a political transition” and to send a warning not to suppress the protests harshly.
[Pfffftttt! Been to an antiwar rally lately, readers? Try to protest the president?
Didn't Code Pink get run out of the Gates hearing today?
"Byrd allowed members of the antiwar group Code Pink to cheer while he spoke at the beginning of the hearing, but later slammed down his gavel and warned them after they shouted while Gates and other administration officials were speaking. Byrd eventually ordered security staffers to escort the protesters from the hearing room."
Yup!]
Mr. Bush’s audience included representatives of some of the countries he singled out for criticism, including Mr. Ahmadinejad, who listened without outward reaction, though he checked his watch at least once.
[Yup, Ahmadinejad listened to Bush.
But Bush continued the insulting American tradition by missing Ahmadinejad's speech.
But Ahmadinejad is a humorous and playful man, isn't he?]
Cuba’s delegation walked out after Mr. Bush declared that in Cuba “the long rule of a cruel dictator is nearing its end.”
[Yeah, I saw that on the telecast!]
He criticized the government of Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe — the only world leader he mentioned by name — for “an assault on its people and an affront to the principles” of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Mr. Bush referred repeatedly to the declaration, citing its first article, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” as well as the 23rd, 25th and 26th articles, which call for access to employment, health care and education.
[How galling for this shitter to quote U.N. declarations!]
The declaration, a nonbinding resolution that was negotiated in 1948, calls on countries to protect a wide array of rights, including freedom of speech, assembly and religion, while prohibiting slavery, torture and arbitrary detention.
[Quoting something HE is VIOLATING!!!!
Asshole!!!!]
Mr. Bush also criticized the United Nations, singling out the Human Rights Council, a body created last year after the United States and others objected that the previous council, the Commission on Human Rights, often included countries criticized for their human rights records.
Mr. Bush complained that the new council, which the United States also voted against, had since its creation voted exclusively on resolutions criticizing Israel. Michael Kozak, an aide on the National Security Council, later said the Council had voted against Israel 13 times.
“This body has been silent on repression by regimes from Havana to Caracas to Pyongyang and Tehran, while focusing its criticism excessively on Israel,” Mr. Bush said.
[Israel REALLY DOES run it all! Somehow, someway (AIPAC)!!!!
Suck away, Georgie!]
He later attended a meeting of the Security Council convened to debate peacekeeping in Africa generally and the violence in Darfur specifically. He welcomed the African Union’s contribution to a peacekeeping mission in Sudan, but warned that “7,000 troops is not enough, if you believe what’s taking place on the ground is genocide.”
[Shit has been going on for five years, and yet HE sent troops to Iraq!!]
Bush, gesturing forcefully: “Maybe some don’t think it’s genocide, but if you’ve been raped, you think it’s — your human rights have been violated. If you’re mercilessly killed by roaming bands, you know it’s genocide. And the fundamental question is, are we, the free world, willing to do more?”
[George Bush's dream: The Devil's Troops everywhere!
Anti-Christ! After a while, it gets difficult to argue with!]
"Sharp words at UN assembly" by Farah Stockman/Boston Globe September 26, 2007
NEW YORK - President Bush yesterday called on the United Nations to join a "mission of liberation," using its power to free the world's people of tyranny and poverty. Bush was seizing on massive prodemocracy demonstrations in Burma to illustrate his global vision of freedom.
"Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma," Bush said at the UN General Assembly. "The ruling junta remains unyielding, yet the people's desire for freedom is unmistakable."
[Americans are outraged? Do they even know about it?
What they are outraged at, Georgie, is Brittany Spears wandering around without underpants and toe-tapping by Larry Craig.
That's what is drawing Amurka's attention right now!]
Bush focused on Burma, also known as Myanmar, where the largest street protests in 20 years pit nonviolent, prodemocracy activists against a brutal military regime.
The president announced the United States will further tighten economic sanctions against Burma's military rulers and financial backers, and expand a ban on visas to anyone found to have violated human rights.
Analysts said the protests gave Bush a chance to highlight a moral issue that few world leaders can dispute. The Burmese demonstrations, which began in August, pit a nonviolent movement of monks and a female activist who received a Nobel prize for her work against a brutal military dictatorship.
"Who can quibble with him on this one?" said Derek Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank. "Iraq, and Iran, and all those other issues are much more complex in how you handle them. This is an easy call, when there are not many easy calls around the world."
The US national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said Bush took the chance to put "some additional issues on the table that he feels strongly about." Laura Bush has also become active on the issue.
[Since when? Yesterday?]
The president made only a passing reference to Iraq, a topic which had dominated many of his earlier UN addresses. His 2002 speech, for example, outlined what he called the growing threat of Saddam Hussein's regime, and his 2004 speech declared that Iraq was on the "path of democracy and freedom."
Yesterday, Bush made few grand pronouncements about the war-torn country that will form his most important legacy. He said that "brave citizens in Lebanon and Afghanistan and Iraq have made the choice for democracy," and that "every civilized nation has a responsibility to stand with them."
Bush also called on the UN to help bring political change in Cuba, where he said "the long rule of a cruel dictator is nearing its end" - a reference to Cuban leader Fidel Castro's fading health. Bush also denounced the regimes in Zimbabwe and Sudan, making a forceful speech later in the afternoon at a Security Council meeting calling on the swift deployment of UN peacekeeping force to Darfur.
[Empty words! You have had years, fucker, and you haven't cared!]
As the UN assembly adjourned yesterday, Bush hosted a dinner for world leaders."
