Soros Is King

[America-Hye]

Looks like George Soros is putting up his 7 billion dollar fortune to insure that GWB does not get re-elected. So this guy who lied to us about his Genocide stance and under whose administraton Armenians were rounded up like common criminals by the INS will see a major amount of financial firepower directed against him. How happy I would be to see him get his WELL DESERVED retirement in Crawford. May God protect him until Election Day 2004, so we can give him his farewell from the White House. We are going to send him back to his ranch in your home state Gams. Never count on a boy to do a man's job.

[gamavor]

Soros is very far from being a King! He is a very gooood businessman, that might serve as an example to many.

It requires a lot of stamina, connections and positive attitude to be able to invest and make money in Eastern Europe. It requires some other things too (besides being a Jew) but I would spare them, because as I said he is a VERY good businessman.

[vava]

I couldn't believe his quote:

 

"America, under Bush, is a danger to the world," he said. Then he smiled: "And I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is."   

 

Mr Soros says a "supremacist ideology" guides the White House. He hears echoes in its rhetoric of his childhood in occupied Hungary: "When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans."

 

It conjured up memories of the Nazi slogan, "Der Feind hoert mit" (The enemy is listening): "My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitised me," he said.

 

Source

[Sasun]

I like Soros' idea of open society. I am afraid he is wasting his money because Bush would loose anyway.

Here is a quote from the same source that I agree.

"Bush feels that on September 11, he was anointed by God," Mr Soros said. "Rather than defeating terrorism, he's leading the US and the world toward a vicious circle of escalating violence."

[ED]

Just a thought

 

Indeed is so nice to see US devoted so much for regime change and establishing "democracy" in Iraq by creating, jobs electricity, advocating so much for well being of Iraqis, in which substantial number of Americans are deprived and have a need for?

 

Now it will be a welcome change if "they" can apply the same principals and have a regime change in Washington?

Wouldn’t it be nice?

[joseph parikian]

BBC London

 

Security tension over Bush visit

 

 

Protesters want to march through central London

George Bush's three-day visit to London next week is prompting tension between US security agents and Ken Livingstone.

American officials are demanding an exclusion zone round the president, while the London mayor wants to keep the city as "open as possible".

 

Police are planning a £4m security operation to cope with an estimated 100,000 anti-war protesters.

 

Scotland Yard says it will facilitate lawful demonstrations, but campaigners suspect they will not be allowed to march through Whitehall, Parliament Square or the Mall.

 

Road closures will not be revealed until the last minute for security reasons, say police.

 

However Mr Livingstone dismissed any notion that wide swathes of central London would be closed.

 

 

 

("The ideas of some American security advisers that perhaps we should shut the whole of central London for three days, ignoring the economic consequences of that, I don't think that's got a chance at all," he said.)

 

Mr Livingstone said the fact no prime minister had been assassinated in nearly two centuries showed the British had always had good security.

 

It will be Mr Bush's first visit to London since July 2001, which was met with some protest but little disruption.

 

But in the wake of the 11 September terror attacks and large demonstrations in London against the war in Iraq, police are facing a huge security operation.

 

Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington North and a Stop the War activist, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We've had long discussions with the police and one gets the feeling that there is a bigger hand somewhere that is trying to prevent a march going along Whitehall and past Parliament Square.

 

Disruption 'kept to a minimum'

 

"The Americans are actually running the security operation in London as well... I'm getting a bit alarmed about the degree of invasion of our capital by the Americans.

 

"The idea of closing off large parts of London to ensure that President Bush is taken well away from any protests or demonstrators seems a little insensitive and an enormous inconvenience to an awful lot of people."

 

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens said: "Because of the security implications we won't be announcing the road closures until the last minute.

 

"We will keep those to a minimum, we must make sure London continues to operate as normally as possible."

[joseph parikian]

BBC London

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Italian base in Iraq devastated

 

 

The building was set on fire

At least 23 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya.

Fourteen of the dead were Italian military personnel, while one Italian civilian and eight Iraqis also died.

 

These are the first deaths to hostile action among the 2,400-strong Italian force in Iraq.

 

Witnesses spoke of seeing a petrol tanker ram the gates of the compound before exploding in a ball of fire.

 

The entire front of the three-storey building was ripped off, and there are fears that some of the victims might still be buried in the rubble.

 

MAJOR POST-WAR ATTACKS

2 November: 16 US soldiers die as Chinook helicopter downed

27 Oct: Red Cross and other buildings in Baghdad bombed, more than 30 killed

12 Oct: Baghdad Hotel bombed, six dead

9 Oct: Police station in Baghdad bombed, 10 killed

29 Aug: Mosque near Najaf bombed, dozens dead including Shia Islam's top cleric in Iraq

19 Aug: UN headquarters in Baghdad bombed, 23 killed including head of mission

7 Aug: Jordanian Embassy bombed, 14 killed

 

The force of the blast - which occurred at about 1030 local time (0730GMT) - blew out windows in another building across the Euphrates river.

 

The BBC's Paul Adams, at the scene, says this was one of the worst attacks of its kind on a non-American target since the war began.

 

He adds that although the Italians were popular in the area, the attackers seem to be warning that no coalition soldiers are safe anywhere in Iraq.

 

Italian officials say 11 of the dead were paramilitary police officers - known as carabinieri - and three were soldiers. Local hospital officials quoted by Reuters news agency say eight Iraqis were also killed.

 

A post-war deployment of about 2,400 Italian military personnel serves under British command in southern Iraq as part of the US-led coalition.

 

'Vile attack'

 

In Italy, President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has appeared on national television to express his condolences to the families of the dead.

 

Mr Ciampi called the bombing a "terrorist act" and said the officers were killed "in carrying out their duty to help the people of Iraq recover peace, order and security".

 

No intimidation will budge us from our willingness to help that country rise up again and rebuild itself with self-government, security and freedom

 

Silvio Berlusconi

Italian Prime Minister

 

"Our carabinieri, our armed forces are in Iraq by a mandate and the will of parliament," he said. "All of Italy is behind them and supports them in this bitter trial."

 

The Pope condemned the bombing, describing it as a "vile attack" against a mission of peace.

 

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said the attack would not derail Italy's commitment to helping Iraq, but the Italian opposition has demanded the withdrawal of the country's troops from Iraq.

 

"They were sent to an Iraq in flames because the government wanted to do a favour for the Bush administration without taking risks into consideration," said Pietro Folena of the main opposition party, the Democrats of the Left.

 

"Now the Italian soldiers must come home. It is the only right thing to do at this moment."

 

Members of other opposition parties made similar demands.

 

Italian Defence Minister Antonio Martino said fighters loyal to deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein were behind the attack.

 

"Evidence on the ground and intelligence reports lead us to believe that today's attack was planned and carried out by remnants loyal to Saddam... united with Arab extremists," he said in an address to the Italian Senate.

 

US soldiers killed

 

Vehicle bombs have been used in attacks on numerous organisations in Iraq since the war ended, including the United Nations and the International Red Cross.

 

Nasiriya, a Shia Muslim city that saw heavy fighting during the war, had been relatively quiet in recent months.

 

However, the BBC's Peter Biles says the bombing of a minibus in Basra on Tuesday and the killing of a Polish soldier near Karbala last week point to a possible upsurge of attacks in southern Iraq.

 

Elsewhere in Iraq, the US military says two of its soldiers have been killed in separate bomb attacks in and around Baghdad.

 

More than 150 US troops have been killed in attacks by unknown groups since major combat operations in Iraq ended.

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