I wonder how it will go at the UN when bush gives his torture speech?

[Philosoraptor]

Or will he even mention the Geneva Convention? I can just see him addressing the United Nations this week and trying to sell the notion of torture without punishment or restrictions in his global war on the globe.

Will it go over like Rosanne Barr's rendition of our national anthem?

Will there be hecklers from the Arab nations? bush mainly wants to torture Muslim detainees, but he has to word it so it doesn't say that. Will he talk about how dusty and silly the old Geneva Convention rules are? Will he beg the nations of the world to please, please let him torture people, or will he just say fuck you all, I do what I want?

[magellan]

1. Is this the point of his UN visit?

To try and defend his torture program? I hope they nail his brass set to the ceiling and let him swing.

[annabanana]

3. that and a few jabs at Iran..

He WILL be rude enough.

[annabanana]

2. He will DEMAND, in his usual pissypants way

That the only way to defeat the terrists is HIS way. There will be no applause (except on tonight's evening news) and there will be NO shots of the hall.

[magellan]

5. LOL

Canned applause? I've long suspected. And the Repubs have been using camera tricks for several years now. Did it start with Saddam's statue?

I wish the hall would empty while he speaks. When is this shindig anyway?

[Hekate]

4. How 'bout he pounds the podium with his shoe?

...and tells the world "We will bury you?" :eyes:

Bush's place on the ash heap of history can't come soon enough.

Hekate

[SeattleGirl]

20. After his press conference the other day, and his exchange with

David Gregory, that was exactly what flashed through my mind, and I thought, hmmm, when's he going to take off his shoe and start pounding it on the podium?

[BLUSH]

22. Maybe they'll pound him ... (animated)

[saltpoint]

6. U.N. delegates may just bring an iPod and listen to Yo Yo Ma

or Nina Simone or The Allman Brothers Band instead.

Barring a surprise, I can't imagine anything Bush would say that would be of much interest to the delegates.

[Chipper Chat]

10. Crossword puzzles are another option.

Mahler symphonies are great too because they are long.
Anything to get through the blivet's vomitspew.

[saltpoint]

15. Yep. A Mahler symphony & a crossword puzzle book should do the trick.

And you're right -- with Mahler, they better make it two crossword puzzle books.

[Chipper Chat]

17. This just came to me:

All Asian and middle-eastern delegates could bring their hookahs and indulge during blivet's speech. Wouldn't that be a 'gas' (ahem).

[saltpoint]

18. That would be against the law but ENTIRELY understandable.

I'd be proud to serve on a jury to exonerate them!

[Chipper Chat]

19. They could just use legal herbs or licorice-lemon, etc:

A huge pall would at least block out the blivet's face.

[saltpoint]

21. ! LOL! Yes. It's striking how his face & voice are so incredibly

annoying.

Gore Vidal recently said of Bush: "He's charmingly simian."

[3waygeek]

23. Diplomatic immunity n/t

[saltpoint]

26. LOL!

[malaise]

7. When is it?

Date and time please. I don't want to miss the boos.

[Chipper Chat]

8. Scheduled for Tuesday.

The world is holding its breath.
Yeah, right!

[malaise]

9. Thanks n/t

[ClintonTyree]

11. Feigned interest.........

is the best way to describe their reaction. Perhaps they WILL listen? :shrug: If they do it will be to hear how he offends the rest of the world's nations, how condescending and utterly tactless he can be. The U.N. delegates won't give Bush a warm and respectful welcome, that much I can guarantee.

[liberal N proud]

12. Maybe they will all get up and walk out of the general assembly

[OneBlueSky]

13. better yet would be standing and turning their backs to him . . .

he's piss his pants, right there on the world stage . . .

[Javaman]

14. I imagine lots of spittle flying, emphatic spewing of idiot ideas,

clutching balls of air in frustrated impatience, wonderment why the world doesn't share his glorious profound concepts and finally, the pounding of the podium emphasizing each and every final point of his dimwitted ideas.

In other words, a hitler type speech.

[Blackhatjack]

16. Bush's Dilemma --He Needs a Stiff Drink & How Much Prozac to Take? n/t

[BLUSH]

24. drink up!

[Philosoraptor]

25. sitting on pins and needles in anticipation!