Bush drawing ire even before summit begins (Chicago Tribune)

[deadparrot]

The Americans have landed in Argentina. They brought warships and radar planes, spies and snipers, and armored cars. They laid in food, water and supplies by the ton--anything President Bush and his team might need over the next few days of the Summit of the Americas.

The Argentines are on the move, too. Federal police and military specialists have poured into the city of Mar del Plata. Residents frustrated by the intense security have poured out. And other Argentines are flocking to the beach city, eager to protest, agitate and otherwise make their views heard.

The summit, which opens Friday, brings together leaders of 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere. (Cuba and Fidel Castro are not invited.) But the central figure is Bush. The U.S. president, who is due to arrive Thursday, will have an elaborate security apparatus protecting him. And he will need a tough skin as well.

"We've had enough of Mr. Bush, who has committed crimes against humanity," complained Adolfo Perez Esquivel, an Argentine architect and human-rights activist who won the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for challenging his nation's military dictatorship.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/bushdrawingireevenbeforesummitbegins

[gordianot]

1. Wisdom from the last refuge of German Nazi's.

So they don't like Neo Con scum but prefer Nazi scum?

[400Years]

6. I guess you can't tell the difference b/t a people and it's government

[Dhalgren]

7. Pot meet kettle...

The US harbored more "Nazi scum" than any other country after WWII. Ever hear of "Paperclip"? I salute Argentina's people for having the guts to confront this murderous bastard.

[gordianot]

10. I don't blame the Argentine people for not wanting Bush.

I could write a book about ex Nazi's in the U.S. from personal experience.

Actually I find it comforting that Bush does not seem to be too welcome anywhere except sometimes in former Soviet block countries (and even there was a hand grenade incident). If I were Bush I would stay home if for no other reason pure embarrassment.

Scum is scum no matter the origin.

[Dhalgren]

12. Right-o!

"If I were Bush.." eeewwwwww, that is just a shutteringly icky thing to contemplate, isn't it? :scared:

[gordianot]

15. Being Bush would be for me like living "My name is Earl" show on TV.

Could you imagine being Bush having to make up to all the people you have damaged over the years? That may be the ultimate personal curse "I wish you were George W. Bush".

[Dhalgren]

26. Oh, man, I like that! With your permission, I will use this phrase

as the most vile curse I can imagine: "I wish you were George Bush!"

[gordianot]

32. LOL Permission granted.

[Benhurst]

13. Even scumbags have standards. Bush is the lowest of the low.

And the people out protesting will not be the fascists. There are good people in all countries.

[Bridget Burke]

16. Argentina also accepted refugees before WWII

Fleeing from the Nazis.

The Argentines have experienced military-backed (US supported) terror in their own country. They don't care for it.

[Benhurst]

18. ...

:thumbsup:

[leesa]

29. Ummm...many Nazis came here and were payed well for their services

You DO know Bush"s Grandpappy financed Hitler's war machine until the US government forced him to stop 10 months after war was declared. Lot's of Nazis harbored here.

[gordianot]

33. I know very well Bush's history.

I also know personally homegrown Nazi's from the 1930's who managed to bring Nazi relatives into the USA. They are vile, and today their descendants are Republicans.

The same religious connections available to Nazi's in Argentina were available in the United States.

[callady]

2. Right on Argentina

The ex-poster child for neo-liberal globalization, Argentina, has seen up close the brutality of an economic model that would be more aptly named "colossal banditry".

They and the rest of Central-South America have had enough of US intervention and militarization.

The colonization is now personified in the cretinous figure of George the chimpboy emperor and they will protest his every moment in their land.

Basta!

TATA to TINA

[Joe Chi Minh]

17. Well, why don't they invite Fidel and ban Bush?

[central scrutinizer]

3. Don't weep for me, Argentina

organize!!!

[Cha]

4. Glad some People somewhere

are paying attention to what the cheney gang behind the fascade of bush are doing to this Planet.

[triguy46]

5. Spreading goodwill wherever he goes ...

:sarcasm:

Perhaps the argentinians are better prepared to identify fascistas than the masses here.

[Sadie5]

8. Amigo Bush???

Wonder what this elaborate security consists of? Any ideas?

[Sugar Smack]

9. GOD, I wish I could be there with the protesters

tomorrow. I wish that lying, capering, cartwheeling purveyor of death could SEE the faces of the people in Argentina tomorrow. I really WISH he gets a glimpse/ taste of it. Miserable shitbag with his "food, water and supplies by the ton", "warships and radar planes, spies and snipers, and armored cars", and not fit to lick an average Argentinian citizen's shoe.

[leftchick]

11. and dana blinky bash on cnn said...

he is hoping for a respite from the heat in DC! :rofl:

[twaddler01]

14. Give him hell

:evilgrin:

[Mark E. Smith]

19. Argentine City Hunkers Down For Anti-Bush Violence

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (Reuters) - Shopkeepers raced to board up storefronts and residents fled this Argentine seaside resort on Thursday as thousands of protesters prepared marches against U.S. President George W. Bush during an Americas-wide presidential summit.

Bush was scheduled to arrive late Thursday for a two-day Summit of the Americas in a country where anti-Bush sentiment runs high due to the war in Iraq and U.S backed free-market policies that Argentines say pushed millions of their compatriots into poverty.

"People see all the iron barricades and police on every corner and they get scared," said construction worker Hernan Brito, who received five last minute requests to board up store windows from merchants who he said also fear looting.

U.S. interests like Blockbuster video stores and Citibank branches were covered by corrugated metal shields ahead of protest marches early Friday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051103/wl_nm/latam_summit_dc

Is there any truth to the rumor that the reason Bush wanted to travel to South America is because he heard Nixon got stoned there?

[chelsea0011]

20. Sounds like a hurricane is coming

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Unlike Iraq, where they greeted us with flowers and song.

Ingrates.

[phusion]

22. According to Rense

Cindy Sheehan is in Argentina now to protest.

:eyes:

[az chela]

23. hmmmmmmmm interesting.

I just talked to Cindy and she is in La today and doing a rally in san diego on monday.Unless she has been cloned than she sure isnt in Argentina

[phusion]

24. Yea, I didn't think so...

It's just more Rense bullshit.

[Say_What]

28. It's all over the M$M articles too...

on edit, here's a link:

http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nN03334113

[jimshoes]

25. There was a time when

our leaders were very well liked throughout much of the world. What a shame it has come to this sad state of affairs.

[Say_What]

27. The Dirty War in Argenitina

It is way past time for charging this POS with war crimes.

<clips>

KISSINGER TO ARGENTINES ON DIRTY WAR:
"THE QUICKER YOU SUCCEED THE BETTER"

Newly declassified documents show Secretary of State
gave green light to junta, Contradict official line that
Argentines "heard only what wanted to hear."

While military dictatorship committed massive
human rights abuses in 1976, Kissinger advised
"If you can finish before Congress gets back, the better."

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB104/

[goforit]

30. Way to go Argentinians!!!

[llmart]

31. Hey, Adolpho......

we've had enough of him too! We're just trying to spread the misery out to other countries 'cause we've had our share in the past 5 years.