Political comments

Bush Urges U.N. to Spread Freedom

By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer


UNITED NATIONS - President Bush announced new sanctions Tuesday against the military dictatorship in Myanmar, accusing it of imposing "a 19-year reign of fear" that denies basic freedoms of speech, assembly and worship.

(as opposed to his reign of fear that the republicans use every time they think they are going to lose an election?)

"Every civilized nation also has a responsibility to stand up for the people suffering under dictatorship," the president said. "In Belarus, North Korea, Syria and Iran, brutal regimes deny their people the fundamental rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration" of the United Nations.

(Except for the US of course, because we're better than every body else and that stuff doesn't apply to us right?)

While the war in Iraq continues, Bush made scant mention of it.

(Gosh...I wonder why, but it was a MISTAKE to begin with, and there is NO WAY TO WIN and now we have to finish what we've started because we've disrupted the lives of millions of Iraqi people?)

After his speech, however, he reassured Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that U.S. support is not wavering. "We're with ya, prime minister," Bush told him.

(He's so elequent isn't he?)