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Bush: US Olympians will be ‘ambassadors of liberty’
AFP
Monday, July 21, 2008
US President George W. Bush on Monday told US athletes bound for the Beijing Olympics that they will be “ambassadors of liberty” representing US commitments to “human rights and human dignity.”
“In Beijing, you will convey our nation’s most cherished values. As ambassadors of liberty, you will represent America’s love for freedom and our regard for human rights and human dignity,” he told them at the White House.
“You’ll represent that to other athletes, and to the people of China,” said the US president, who had repeatedly declared that he viewed the Games as an athletic competition, not a venue for a political message to Beijing.
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Bush will attend the August 8 opening ceremonies of the games, having rejected human rights activists’ appeals for him to boycott the gala in protest over China’s overall rights record, including a crackdown in Tibet in March.
“I’m fired up to go. I can’t wait to salute our athletes, and I can’t wait to share in the joy of your triumphs,” the US president told more than 20 US Olympics and Paralympic athletes.
Outside the White House, US track and field Olympian LaShawn Merritt said he understood Bush’s message “but the main focus here is athletics, going over to do the job.”
Asked whether he was concerned about the rights situation in China, Merritt replied: “Not really, you know, the political side of it, we are going over there to do what wed love to do.
“At the end of the day, I’m just going over to compete,” he told AFP.
Bush has walked a diplomatic tightrope over the Olympics, repeatedly insisting the games are not a political venue while recently stepping up his public criticism of Beijing’s rights record.
Bush said last week that he told Chinese President Hu Jintao when they met last week in Japan: “So long as there are those who want to fight for their liberty, the United States stands with them.”
But during their joint public appearance in the resort town of Toyako, Bush was considerably meeker, telling Hu that he did not “need the Olympics to talk candidly” about his concerns.
Hu, in turn, said through an interpreter that he “highly appreciated that President Bush has on various occasions expressed his opposition to politicizing the Olympic Games.”
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July 21st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
That’s like Hitler saying that Nazi German olympians are the ambassadors of power and freedom.
July 21st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I would fall out of my chair in hysterical laughter if this weren’t so tragic. All one can say anymore is that it’s just “George being George.” This what you get with a guy with an alleged IQ of 92.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
this is utter nonsense, see : http://www.prisonplanet.com/ex.....egins.html
July 21st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Olympics are another ploy and distraction by the luciferian leaders. Don’t believe the lies. Don’t believe the facade.
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July 21st, 2008 at 6:49 pm
LmAo!!!!!!!
“Team America…Fuck Yeah”
“Hear to save the mother fuckin day yeah”
Pathetic………
July 21st, 2008 at 7:23 pm
all i want to know is … Did he say it with a straight face?
July 21st, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Double speak, coming from the Mass murderer-n-chief (of children) Kristian born-again who god tells to go kill…sick son of a bitch and here I mean that Barbara bitch, who makes her money from private prisons…evil gd family the whole lot of them…lock ‘em all up, before they escape to Paraguay. George BuLLshIT is a treasonous war criminal who tramples on human rights as does his party…the Republicans.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:08 am
Liberty my ass!!! He doesn’t know the meaning of the word.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:46 am
They better win lots of gold or Junior will Gitmo their asses.
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 am
this really makes me laugh. sportsmanship. sportsmanshit! if judges didn’t watch their asses 24/7 they’d be knifin’ one another to get to the head of crowd and fighting over who gets the most steroids. fuckin’ ambassadors of NWO distraction champs. fuck them all. “I’m just going to do what I love….pumpin’ up my enormous ego…with the help of the Chinee peeples.” Ha, ha. I’ll never watch these dick-heads again. They do it for the commercial spokesman bucks et al. Fuck ‘em. Fuck them all and the Olympic torch they shove up each others asses at BoHo Grove.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:15 am
How dare that bastard Bush. “ambassadors of liberty”?! He talks of liberty as if it is a brand-name. He speaks as if we are the holiest of holiest in the world. Some kind of shining beacon of freedom and hope to the civilized world (sounds like bush speak there).
Consider this analogy. It’s like some new CEO takes over a company, and runs it into the ground. Then, he speaks of all kinds of accomplishments of the past as if they are his own. As if, just because he is the figurehead, he can ride the wave of past success.
America can only be tarnished so much before nobody wants anything to do with it. Bush, this isn’t your brand to sell. You are the one defeating any meaning “ambassadors of liberty” might mean.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
This is the Kali yuga. The age of quarrel and hypocrisy. What a champion the US has in this nasty demon GW Bush. His karma is coming, BIG TIME!
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
George…will you just shut the hell up already?
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I thought the Army solders in Iraq were our “ambassadors of liberty”. Does this mean the gymnastics team will be doing their routines in camo? Or maybe the track team will be running their races with M16’s. If they did, it would pretty much sum up what the United States has become, and what we look like to the rest of the world.
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