If one is trying to cover up war crimes on Sunday morning, one should get a spokesperson who...

[deminks]

knows the difference between Nepal and Tibet.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/13/hadley-tibet-nepal/

This morning on ABC’s This Week, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley repeatedly confused Tibet and Nepal while discussing President Bush’s decision to attend the Olympics. At least 8 different times, Hadley said “Nepal” when talking about the human rights abuses that have taken place in Tibet. A portion of the interview:

HADLEY: The president is going to the Olympics. The president is going to — thinks that the way to deal with the issue of Nepal is not by a statement that you’re not going to the opening ceremonies and say therefore, I’ve checked the Nepal box…

STEPHANOPOULOS: So he may not go to the opening ceremonies. You just don’t want to say it.

HADLEY: No, the president is going to the Olympics. What he’s doing on Nepal is what we think the international community ought to be doing, which is approaching the Chinese privately, through diplomatic channels, and sending a very firm message of concern for human rights, concern for what’s happening in Nepal, urging the Chinese government to understand that it is in their interest to reach out to representatives of the Dalai Lama, and to show, while the whole world is watching China, that they are determined to treat their citizens with dignity and respect. There is an opportunity here. And if countries are really concerned about Nepal, we shouldn’t have this sort of non-issue of opening ceremonies or not.

[Juche]

1. Maybe I'm missing something and it spilled over into Nepal

And he won't use the term Tibet to avoid angering the Chinese. That is possible.

But if the national security advisor doesn't know the diff. between Nepal & Tibet, then jesus. Heckofa job brownie redux.

[Submariner]

2. We've got 150 Pat Robertson University grads running the Justice Dept.

It's not a big stretch to see that all of Dumbya's appointments are incompetent crony's who couldn't get a legitimate job elsewhere outside of the Bush/Cheney junta. Hadley is no different. Dumbness is a prerequisite to work for Bush.

[TomInTib]

3. Details,... details....

The top-down, jaw-dropping idiocy of these people knows no bounds.