Bush is laying a wreath at GANDHI MEMORIAL!!!!!

[Terran1212]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0227-05.htm

Published on Monday, February 27, 2006 by Indo-Asian News Service
Bush Should Not Visit Gandhi Memorial, Say Peaceniks


A group of peaceniks here has demanded that President George W. Bush be kept out from the Mahatma Gandhi memorial at Rajghat during his India visit as "George Bush knows nothing about non-violence".

Peace Action, an organisation based in the Greater Washington Area, said it "denounced" the plan for President Bush to lay a memorial wreath in honour of the champion of non-violence at the Gandhi memorial in New Delhi during his three-day visit beginning Wednesday.

"Mahatma Gandhi was a man of non-violence and peace and is a hero to people all over the world. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about non-violence. Gandhi would in no way condone his actions. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism," said Kevin Martin, executive director of Peace Action, in a press release.

Furthermore, the group maintained, that Bush was seeking to sign a nuclear deal with India, which was even more contradictory of Gandhi's views.

[LisaLynne]

1. How much hypocrisy can reside within one mere mortal???

It's mind-blowing. You would almost think the universe itself could not contain it!

[Kierkegaard]

2. If the bitch had any decency, he would lay a wreath at the feet

of his own deceased presidency and move his sorry ass back to Crawfish where he belongs.

[Terran1212]

3. Amen

[Amonester]

4. Why on earth does that despicable war criminal have to

desecrate everything he wants? Blackmail? :grr:

[Webster Green]

5. Peaceniks?

Those whacky peaceniks are up to their hi-jinx again?:eyes:

[Terran1212]

7. Of course...

[alarcojon]

6. I've been to the memorial

and I am so sorry Bush has totally desecrated it. He doesn't have the humanity to be anywhere near that special place.

[Just Me]

8. (((eek!!!)))

x(

[LWolf]

9. "Corruption ought not to be an inevitable product of democracy."

The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

In reply to a reporter's question "What do you think of Western Civilization?"

I think it would be a good idea.

May the light that was, and is, Mohandas Gandhi shine into the darkness of his mind, heart, and spirit, and begin the process of enlightenment. For our world's sake.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. The man has no shame or sense or decency. His hypocrisy

is only overshadowed by his grossly inflated opinion of himself.

Please, tell me he didn't make any kind of remarks or, worse yet, a speech while he was there.

:eyes:

Edited for spelling.

[Terran1212]

12. No, he's going there Wednesday for 3 Days

They're flying in FIVE THOUSAND US personell to protect him!

[Arkansas Granny]

16. Oops, I didn't read closely enough. In that case, we can only

hope that he'll reconsider laying a wreath or at least keep his mouth shut.

And taking 5,000 personnel. Our tax dollars at work.

[Terran1212]

17. There will probably be riots.

[Arkansas Granny]

18. For a change, his audience won't be handpicked.

[Terran1212]

19. X D

[Wetzelbill]

11. wow, and Jenna Jameson is addressing an Abstinence Convention nt

[bumblebee1]

31. Jenna Jameson would have something more interesting

and intelligent to say at the Abstinence Convention.

[AlinPA]

13. The piece of garbage Bush** is desecrating the Gandhi memorial.

How can India let that slime near there?

[sakabatou]

14. Gandhi is rolling in his grave.

[burythehatchet]

25. well intentioned comment, though somewhat humorous

[sakabatou]

33. I know that he was cremated

but you all get the point.

[DenaliDemocrat]

15. If there is a God

Bush will be struck dead by a lighting bolt the second that wreath hits the memorial

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. That would make a believer out of me.

[Tsiyu]

20. Don't you ever wonder

when some big bolt of karma is gonna come out of the sky and zap the sot?

[MetaTrope]

32. Perhaps the Hindus are hoping for something of that sort

Physical proximity to enlightened souls can sometimes channel enlightenment...even to the most shrivelled souls.

[DemoTex]

22. Gandhi wins from the grave .. again!

First, they ignore. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. Mahatma Gandhi

[teryang]

23. So much for the "so called" great game - now desperation

This obsequious gesture is in anticipation of retrenchment in Asia. As the Central Asian strategy bolstered by 911 underpinning falls apart, kissing up to India is a desperate last gambit.

Pakistan is teetering. Afghanistan will need to be abandoned. Russia is asserting its hegemonic role in Persia at long last. China sets its own course. What's left to salvage?

[NoSheep]

24. what next. n/t

[Disturbed]

26. If there is a god then she or he has been on...

vacation for a few million years.

[alarcojon]

27. Arundhati Roy weighs in

Oh, and on March 2, Bush will be taken to visit Gandhi's memorial in Rajghat. He's by no means the only war criminal who has been invited by the Indian government to lay flowers at Rajghat. (Only recently we had the Burmese dictator General Than Shwe, no shrinking violet himself.) But when Bush places flowers on that famous slab of highly polished stone, millions of Indians will wince. It will be as though he has poured a pint of blood on the memory of Gandhi.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060313/roy

[elehhhhna]

28. Bush "Oh, he's dead? Durn. Ah was hopin' to rub his bald head. Heh heh."

[alarcojon]

30. Sad but true

Has he rubbed the Dalai Lama's head yet?

The man has no sense of propriety, decency, anything. A pure embarrassment to America.

[malaise]

29. I'm taking bets that the Indians

remove it and throw it in the garbage before he reaches his car.

[Solly Mack]

34. If Gandhi was alive today, Shrub would call him a terrorist

for fighting against an empire

But Gandhi is dead, so it's safe to honor him. Much the same with King. Alive, they were dangerous to everything Bush embraces - but dead? It's safe for the coward.

[bobbieinok]

35. President Clinton laid a wreath at the memorial during his visit in 3-2000

with Chelsea