Saudi students rebuff US communications guru

[deminks]

Karen Hughes = Crony

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ebe0f15c-2fa2-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html

By Guy Dinmore in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Published: September 27 2005 23:07 | Last updated: September 27 2005 23:07

Indignant Saudi women on Tuesday turned the tables on Karen Hughes, the US under secretary for public diplomacy, rejecting her analogy of them as the “broken wing” of a bird that the US will help fly.

The lesson in Arab pride came in the setting of a women’s university auditorium in Saudi Arabia’s coastal city of Jeddah, the second stop of Mrs Hughes’ listening tour of the Middle East that kicks off her campaign to mend America’s own broken image among Muslims.

“We don’t want the US to force us to bring change,” said one teacher. “They did not allow the blacks to vote before, and now they are forcing the world to accept their views.”

Speaking on her plane heading towards Turkey, her last stop, Mrs Hughes reflected on her Saudi experience and admitted to being surprised on several accounts.

She said she was a little surprised that Mr Bush “doesn’t get more credit” for his declaration of support for the establishment of a Palestinian state.

[Fenris]

1. Off to a great start, Karen!

[peacetalksforall]

2. Poor Karen... Hesitating is she? Questioning is she?

She didn't come home with pictures of Saudi women kneeling in adoration in front of a blow up image our little marionette on strings?

They weren't grateful enough? I am becoming more and more concerned that our death and destruction leaders are seriously suffering from delusion.

Didn't Ms. Liar Extraordinaire brief Karen that the world isn't buying their death and destruction policy and rhetoric?

[donco6]

3. Let's hear it for the Rainbow Tour!

It's been an incredible . . . success?

[MichiganVote]

4. Earth to Karen- No one person will ever be able to take full credit

for any part of the ME process- including your love idol, George Asshole Bush

[tom_paine]

5. "They did not allow blacks to vote before" and they don't let them now

As the Busheviks have been fond of saying when they think no one is listening, "The 14th Amendment gives Blacks the right to vote, it doesn't give them the right to have them counted."

And there, in a nutshell, is the Bushevik philosophy on voting in Imperial Amerika.