Bush making farewell trip to UN

[DogPoundPup]

Source: A/P

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, often a main attraction at U.N. General Assembly meetings, is sharing the spotlight this week with candidates, the crisis on Wall Street and world standoffs with Russia, North Korea and Iran that will play out long after he's gone.

His farewell address to the world body on Tuesday will stress the need for multination diplomacy, but it comes at a time when many of these collective diplomatic ventures he's championed are stuck in reverse.

A prickly North Korea is backing away from pledges to abandon nuclear weapons. A Palestinian-Israeli peace pact before Bush leaves office is highly unlikely. Violence is flaring in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Iran is pursuing its nuclear work in defiance of U.S. and international demands. The West is trying to restrain an increasingly aggressive Russia that drew condemnation for its recent invasion of U.S.-backed Georgia.

U.S. officials have uttered sharply worded statements against Russia, but they still need Moscow's help on issues like passing a fourth round of U.N. sanctions against Tehran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who also will be in New York, stepped up his own anti-U.S. rhetoric, exclaiming on Sunday that his nation's military would "break the hand" of any aggressor that targets his country's nuclear facilities.

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[Liberal Veteran]

1. As he exits, a single thought permeates the UN General Assembly.

"Our long international nightmare is finally over"

[Demeter]

9. I Thought It Was "Air Freshener!"

[flamingdem]

2. I hope Hugo Chavez is there to throw some more snark at him

re: the bail-outs and how they are bigger than his nationalizations.

Then he can do a reprise of the Devil comment just for old times sake.

[fascisthunter]

3. Bush SHould Be ARrested for Intenational Crimes against Humanity

[DogPoundPup]

7. Q: What do Radovan Karadzi and George W. Bush have in common? A: Each lives under the slowly growing

of a body of international criminal law.


This law is evolving towards the ultimate goal of holding even the most powerful leaders personally accountable for crimes committed by the State.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/092108a.html

TOO SLOW! SPEED IT UP!!!!

[whistle]

4. Bush is going to the UN to smirk one more time, well don't let him

[BlueCollar]

5. I hope the entire assembly

stands up and and turns their collective backs on him.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. That...

Would be the single most powerful move that international body could make. It could well go a long way towards delivering us, as a nation, as well.

[BlueCollar]

19. Hopefully such a move would demonstrate total repudiation for the Bush doctrine

And that would be followed by an overwhelming rejection of his doctrine and his party by the voters in November.

[FlaDem83]

6. How did he end the G8 Summit??

Good bye from the world's biggest polluter?? Well, now he can say goodbye from the world's biggest fuck-up!

[MidwestTransplant]

8. "Don't let the door hit you on the way out" alert

[aquart]

10. I hope they spit on him. Literally, not figuratively.

[LiberalFighter]

12. Why not just lock him out of the UN?

If they can't lock him out either turn his mic off or give all the translators the text of his speech that has been greatly revised.

[pattmarty]

14. Why not just lock him out of the fucking Country????

[radfringe]

13. the devil says farewell? lol

wonder if they will sing "hey hey na na goodbye" as he exits?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

15. Wish he were making a farewell statement to the outside -

put him in the slammer! Strip him and his family of all personal wealth!

[Orsino]

16. It's part of the deal.

We have to smile and nod, and let him keep on being a big shot for these last few months.

[trusty elf]

17. If I were Dubya, I'd go incognito.

[MsLeopard]

18. I can see it now

He'll stagger to the podium - *smirk* "FU UN!" hic *smirk* Stagger off. You just know he'll do our country proud one last time.... :sarcasm: