(Delhi) Zoo closed during Bush's India visit

[Bhaisahab]

The Delhi zoo will remain closed on Thursday and Friday during US President George Bush's visit to the capital, an official order said today.
The zoo is next to Purana Qila (Old Fort), where the tightly guarded visiting dignitary is scheduled to address Indian parliamentarians and other select dignitaries.

The official order made it clear that no visitors will be allowed to the sprawling 200-acre home of over 2,000 animal and bird species for the two days.

Elaborate security arrangements are being made in Delhi in view of the high profile visit of the US President. Extra vigil is being maintained also because many organisations have planned anti-US protests during this period.

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http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=263986&n_date=20060228&cat=India

OK, let's have some bush-zoo jokes! :)

[JI7]

1. is he staying with the rest of the chimps or do they have a special

section for him ?

[saigon68]

15. JUDGE FOR YOURSELF EVERYONE

[soup]

22. YIKES! Well done. n/t

[mom cat]

34. That is the best!

[JI7]

35. HAHAHHAHHAHAH

[babylonsister]

2. As an aside, Who has read "Life of Pi"? Dimson was the jellyfish. nt

[Rocknrule]

9. That's a great book

By "jellyfish" do you mean the island that was a giant Venus flytrap? That sounds more like Dimson.

[babylonsister]

11. I honestly forgot about that island. That book was a bit trippy.

I almost left it, but didn't because of the buzz I heard. I really like the
comments about agnosticism and because I have the book, I will infuriate some
people on DU only to educate. Made me think!

[ClayZ]

3. Send in the bu$hit flags...

www.madeyouthink.org

[Webster Green]

4. It's to protect the chimps at the zoo...

Junior is looking to mate.

[LiberalFighter]

32. They don't want to mistake dimwit for the real chimps...

and capture him because he is loose.

[Botany]

5. E.Z.

[Greylyn58]

31. Yikes Botany

That's really freaky!!!

[Amonester]

33. And this is what chimpy was doing while Katrina was raging...

:puke: :hurts:

[corporatemedia]

6. The ZOO is traveling on AirForce One: See the talking chimp! eom

[0007]

26. .....he crawls on his belly, he talks like a human, step right up

and pay one thin dime to see this amazing cold blooded thing that real humans voted to be their President of the United States.

[antonialee839]

7. We should loan out our monkey the same way other countries

loan out pandas and white tigers.

[ignatius 2]

8. Thank God, the monkeys butts are red enough without George on the

prowl.

[montana_hazeleyes]

14. LOL!!!!!!

This whole thread is funny as hell but this one is hysterical! LOL :rofl:

[badgerpup]

10. Think we might need PETA in on this one...

...if the humans want to subject themselves to abuse by proximity to Bush that's their lookout and problem, but the poor critters are in cages and have no choice in the matter!
:hide: :yoiks:

[Judi Lynn]

12. Latest Steve Bell 'toon from the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,,337484,00.html

[saigon68]

37. gotta love Steve Bell

[bobbieinok]

13. Bill Clinton in India

http://www.dayafterindia.com/june205/international5.html

President Clinton went to India in March 2000.

....

In the year 2000, New Delhi was literally re-painted — fresh tar on roads, road-dividers painted bright yellow, zebra crossings turned ivory white, in honor of Clinton, the most powerful man on earth. Clinton arrived in India with 200 foreign journalists, a delegation of diplomats and businessmen, 200 secret service agents, 100 US Marines, 30 bullet proof cars, one dozen choppers, two US Army trucks and a Labrador to snuff out explosives.

Pakistani terrorists (Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and Al-Badr) in Jammu and Kashmir timed the massacre of 35 Sikhs in Anantnag, with his visit. The Americans were also very worried about terrorist attacks on Clinton. They resorted to some trouble to use elaborate decoys and ruses. They shipped Clinton not aboard Air Force One or a C-17 Galaxy but in an unmarked Gulfstream executive jet which itself was mirrored by another Gulfstream with American markings!

more....

[Stockholm]

16. Will he adress the Parliament in the worlds greatest democracy?

If this trip is such a big deal he should and it would give the poor journalists something to work with.

[Bhaisahab]

17. he won't be addressing parliament

turns out the considerable left contingent in parliament refused to accept the government's request that they not heckle the american chimpanzee. and since bush cannot handle heckling, the address to parliament is off the agenda.
as someone pointed out here, Clinton came here with not more than 500 agents. the roads of delhi were painted and everyone was excited about clinton's stay in delhi. Bush comes with 5000 troops, and with bush about to land this evening, delhi's as dirty as ever, and people are bitching about the hundreds of road blocks that will be organized during rush hour - when people head home from office - to make way for the monkey. i'm waiting with bated breath for the inevitable foolish statement from the monkey. i wish he makes a good one, indians need to understand the leader of the free world is nothing but a chimp in a 1000-buck suit.

[HeeBGBz]

18. The sheep are scared. Horses too.

The zoo creatures are being cautious.

[AzDar]

23. Animals can SENSE evil, ya know....... n/t

[HeeBGBz]

27. I was thinking of the * milking ability and Scooter's bear

However, you are quite right about animals sensing evil. I'm surprised the WH puppies haven't run away.
They must be hostages.

[Tripmann]

19. If he DOES visit the zoo..

..hopefully he won't try to milk the elephants.

[BiggJawn]

20. Hide the Goats!

The Llamas, too, if Rumsferatu's going along for the ride...

[hyphenate]

21. Well, frankly

I think it's a good idea. We wouldn't want the zoo monkeys to come in contact with the chimp who might or might not have some sort of communicable disease which makes people who listen to him totally stupid and moronic.

On the other hand, it's a damned good idea if they did this when Dickhead might be around. We don't know how many canned hunts he might want to organize.

[Javaman]

24. They didn't want the public to mistake him* for a loose monkey.nt

[MGKrebs]

25. It's a good time to close the zoo.

Nobody would go there anyway when the MISSING LINK is running around town.

[Judi Lynn]

28. He was the one at the helm when U.S. troops used the animals in the

Baghdad zoo for target practise immediately after the invasion.

He's no "Friend of the Zoo."

[saigon68]

29. They gunned down lots of animals in the zoo

and some of them took pride in gunning down a "few animals" in the streets (Their words)

[Judi Lynn]

30. I just remembered one of the first things they did, after killing zoo

animals was to catch some human "suspects" and force them to walk completely naked through the streets of Baghdad. It was never explained why they were treated that way, back before the bloodbath really got underway.

[saigon68]

36. THIS IS THE PHOTO

On 25 April 2003, the newspaper Dagbladet (Norway) published photos of armed US soldiers forcing Iraqi men to walk naked through a park.

On the chests of the men had been scrawled an Arabic phrase that translates as "Ali Baba - Thief."

A military officer states that the men are thieves, and that this technique will be used again.

No word yet from the newly liberated Iraqi people about some of them being summarily found guilty of theft, forced at gunpoint to strip, having a racist phrase written on their bodies, and then made to walk naked in public. No doubt the Arab/Muslim world is impressed by this display of "democracy," "freedom," "due process," and "no cruel or unusual punishment."



THIS WAS THE START OF THE CHIMPANZEE'S WAR CRIMINAL TROOPS TO DISCIPLINE THE (their words Ragheads)