Belarussian leader labels Bush "terrorist no. 1"

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19319389.htm

Belarussian leader labels Bush "terrorist no. 1"


MINSK, March 19 (Reuters) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, derided in Washington for running "Europe's last dictatorship", hit back on Sunday by denouncing U.S. President George W. Bush as "terrorist No. 1 on the planet".

"Bush is terrorist no. 1 on the planet," Lukashenko told reporters after voting in Belarus's presidential election.

"To crush a state openly and then to go ahead and kill presidents. What is there to say?"

Lukashenko was responding to questions about a report submitted by Bush's administration to Congress accusing the Belarussian leader of accumulating large sums of money and selling arms to countries like Iran, Sudan and Syria.

[lakeguy]

1. hmmm, accumulating large sums of money and selling weapons

to rouge states, who else does this sound like?

[LynnTheDem]

5. We sell arms to nations who supported the 911 terrorists; Pakistan, Saudi

etc. so that makes it ok. :eyes:

Japan was evil for their preemptive strike on Pearl Harbor.

We're NOT evil for bush's preemptive strike with nothing to preempt on Iraq.

Hitler was evil for invading & occupying Poland, a nation that hadn't been doing anything to anyone.

We're NOT evil for invading & occupying Iraq, a nation that hadn't been doing anything to anyone.

Funny thing tho...the rest of the world doesn't see it as "good as long as we do it"; they see it as "same shit, different assholes".

And for the freepingly stupid MFing rightwingnuts; yeah we are #1 military might. Now. So was Hitler's Germany. Then.

He lost. We're losing.

[Cleita]

10. Well said and so true.

There is something wrong in our house of government when Americans agree with a person we shouldn't agree with.

[LynnTheDem]

2. He's correct.

Who's committed more "911" attacks? Ask the Iraqi people...especially the 285,000+ America under bush has genocided.

[OKNancy]

3. It takes one to know one

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Pot, meet kettle

Lukashenko is another election-rigging fascist. The difference between Lukashenko and bush is that Lukashenko hasn't invaded another country and doesn't have a huge nuclear arsenal.

[LynnTheDem]

6. And hasn't genocided some 285,000+ innocent people.

But hey, no diff, really.

[ButterflyBlood]

7. Ah, one totalitarian fascist denouncing another one

well, I guess it proves "It takes one to know one"

[IndianaGreen]

8. At least he doesn't boil his enemies in oil like our pal in Uzbekistan

Tony Blair's new friend

Britain and the US claim a moral mandate - and back a dictator who boils victims to death

George Monbiot
Tuesday October 28, 2003
The Guardian

There are over 6,000 political and religious prisoners in Uzbekistan. Every year, some of them are tortured to death. Sometimes the policemen or intelligence agents simply break their fingers, their ribs and then their skulls with hammers, or stab them with screwdrivers, or rip off bits of skin and flesh with pliers, or drive needles under their fingernails, or leave them standing for a fortnight, up to their knees in freezing water. Sometimes they are a little more inventive. The body of one prisoner was delivered to his relatives last year, with a curious red tidemark around the middle of his torso. He had been boiled to death.

His crime, like that of many of the country's prisoners, was practising his religion. Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan, learned his politics in the Soviet Union. He was appointed under the old system, and its collapse in 1991 did not interrupt his rule. An Islamist terrorist network has been operating there, but Karimov makes no distinction between peaceful Muslims and terrorists: anyone who worships privately, who does not praise the president during his prayers or who joins an organisation which has not been approved by the state can be imprisoned. Political dissidents, human rights activists and homosexuals receive the same treatment. Some of them, like in the old Soviet Union, are sent to psychiatric hospitals.

But Uzbekistan is seen by the US government as a key western asset, as Saddam Hussein's Iraq once was. Since 1999, US special forces have been training Karimov's soldiers. In October 2001, he gave the United States permission to use Uzbekistan as an airbase for its war against the Taliban. The Taliban have now been overthrown, but the US has no intention of moving out. Uzbekistan is in the middle of central Asia's massive gas and oil fields. It is a nation for whose favours both Russia and China have been vying. Like Saddam Hussein's Iraq, it is a secular state fending off the forces of Islam.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1072313,00.html

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=1237

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. Bushes have done worse - created centuries of genocide in the ME

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Read up on "Depleted Uranium"

It will poison the soil and water in the Middle East for Millenniums -

If my memory serves me right, the residue from DU bullets, bombs and armour will be toxic for sumthing like 4.5 MILLION years (that's what they call the "half-life")

Hitler was an angel compared to this Bush Mob.

Bush Family has guaranteed perpetual death and misery for the Middle East for centuries after Junior and Pappa are long gone.

At least when Hitler died, the deaths stopped.

The Bush Family will never be forgotten.

But not on the same page as the likes of MLK and Gandhi.

SAD,

so sad

The USA COULD have been a been a beacon of freedom and democracy,

but corporate greed prevailed

(sigh)

[MrPrax]

15. Yup...but unlike Americans...

the Uzbeks actually fight back...

Curious, you seem rather cocksure that the your Leader is not boiling people alive in it's various torture Freedom centers?

You come to this conclusion...how?

UZBEKISTAN’S TYRANT

VERDUN FRANCE – Revolt against Uzbekistan’s brutal communist regime erupted last week. Troops and secret police slaughtered hundreds of protestors, French sources say as many as 750 were gunned down in that important, but little-known nation.

On my first extensive trip across Central Asia in the 1980’s, I was struck by how closely its then Soviet Republics resembled the US-dominated states of the Mideast. I began calling the region, `Moscow’s Mideast,’ and its despotic communist rulers, `red sultans.’

This was a sound analogy. In both regions, corrupt, oligarchic elites, kept in power by their armies and ferocious secret police, exploited natural resources for their own benefit, and that of Moscow, crushed human rights, kept the Islamic faith under the control of their KGB’s, and denied all political activity to non-communists. The biggest difference: the Mideast states supplied the US with cheap oil; Central Asia supplied the USSR with cheap cotton.
http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2005/05/uzbekistanas_ty.php

[pretzel4gore]

9. gangster #1 too

bush is a crinminal, and belongs in prison, alone, to think of his crimes, so he can repent, confess and obey (be saved)...why can't christians see this?

[Up2Late]

12. Well it's only fair, Bush just called him...

the "Worlds Last Dictator" or something along those lines.

[ButterflyBlood]

13. Europe's Last Dictator actually

And that just proves the old saying about a broken clock correct. After all this is universally agreed upon by all EU nations, most of which aren't exactly on good terms with the Bush Regime.

[MrPrax]

14. Rather sophisticated dialogue exemplifying

the high art of statesmanship...

Bush: "I know you are, but what am I"

Lukashenko: "I'm rubber, your glue..."

[David__77]

16. A very endearing statement.

I appreciate the effort, but people should realize he's simply seeking benefit from the world public opinion's catastrophically low opinion of Bush. But who can blame him?

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. Bush Family running a dictatorship every since they put Junior in office!

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But lets see now

The USA can have tons of weapons of mass destruction and Nukes as well

The USA can invade and occupy a nation with no provocation

The USA can spread poisons (Depleted Uranium) around the globe at will

The USA can ignore decisions of the United Nations

BUT

If any other nation decides to behave like the USA

Then it is WRONG!

gee

Wonder why the World is upset with the USA