Bush Trip Canceled for Security Concerns

[Political Junky]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/europe/06bush.html?_r=1


GENEVA (AP) — A visit by former President George W. Bush to Switzerland this week has been canceled because of security concerns, as the threat of mass protests loomed and the possibility emerged of a legal case against him for ordering torture.
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[uscitizen]

 

[rightwinger]

Bush didn't commit torture. His Justice Dept said so

What does he have to fear?

 

[Avatar4321]

hmm protests in Switzerland too?

Is there any nation not facing the thread of protests in the region?

 

[HUGGY]

hmm protests in Switzerland too?

Is there any nation not facing the thread of protests in the region?

AHhhhhhhh....Yessss...!!!....The dreaded thread of protest!

 

[Trajan]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/europe/06bush.html?_r=1


GENEVA (AP) — A visit by former President George W. Bush to Switzerland this week has been canceled because of security concerns, as the threat of mass protests loomed and the possibility emerged of a legal case against him for ordering torture.
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so obama won't be going either then I take it?

 

[Trajan]

Bush didn't commit torture. His Justice Dept said so

What does he have to fear?

hey don't worry, when they finish taking the Minarets down they'll let him on....

 

[uscitizen]

So even neutral nations do not want Bush dropping by?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Bush didn't commit torture. His Justice Dept said so

What does he have to fear?

hey don't worry, when they finish taking the Minarets down they'll let him on....

Watch out, Trajan, they're gonna bust out Hague trials on ya.

 

[Trajan]

So even neutral nations do not want Bush dropping by?

ahh yes 'neutral'.......

how about the usual hypocrisy?




Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool

The role of the CIA's controversial prisoner-transfer program may expand, intelligence experts say.
February 01, 2009|Greg Miller

snip-

But even while dismantling these programs, President Obama left intact an equally controversial counter-terrorism tool.

Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States.

Extraordinary Rendition Obama - Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool - Los Angeles Times


Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture

First Posted: 08-11-09 11:26 AM | Updated: 09-11-09 05:12 AM



snip-
Raymond Azar, a 45-year-old Lebanese construction manager with a grade school education, is employed by Sima International, a Lebanon-based contractor that does work for the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also has the unlikely distinction of being the first target of a rendition carried out on the Obama watch.

According to court papers, on April 7, 2009, Azar and a Lebanese-American colleague, Dinorah Cobos, were seized by "at least eight" heavily armed FBI agents in Kabul, Afghanistan, where they had traveled for a meeting to discuss the status of one of his company's U.S. government contracts. The trip ended with Azar alighting in manacles from a Gulfstream V executive jet in Manassas, Virginia, where he was formally arrested and charged in a federal antitrust probe.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/11/target-of-obama-era-rendi_n_256499.html

 

[Dr.House]

I don't blame him...

There are some batshit crazy wingnut liberals out there....

 

[L.K.Eder]

poor bush.

i suggest visiting scheveningen, it has good views.

 

[uscitizen]

So even neutral nations do not want Bush dropping by?

ahh yes 'neutral'.......

how about the usual hypocrisy?




Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool

The role of the CIA's controversial prisoner-transfer program may expand, intelligence experts say.
February 01, 2009|Greg Miller

snip-

But even while dismantling these programs, President Obama left intact an equally controversial counter-terrorism tool.

Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States.

Extraordinary Rendition Obama - Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool - Los Angeles Times


Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture

First Posted: 08-11-09 11:26 AM | Updated: 09-11-09 05:12 AM



snip-
Raymond Azar, a 45-year-old Lebanese construction manager with a grade school education, is employed by Sima International, a Lebanon-based contractor that does work for the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also has the unlikely distinction of being the first target of a rendition carried out on the Obama watch.

According to court papers, on April 7, 2009, Azar and a Lebanese-American colleague, Dinorah Cobos, were seized by "at least eight" heavily armed FBI agents in Kabul, Afghanistan, where they had traveled for a meeting to discuss the status of one of his company's U.S. government contracts. The trip ended with Azar alighting in manacles from a Gulfstream V executive jet in Manassas, Virginia, where he was formally arrested and charged in a federal antitrust probe.

Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture

HUH? I was referring to Switzerland. America is in NO way neutral.

 

[rightwinger]

Bush didn't commit torture. His Justice Dept said so

What does he have to fear?

hey don't worry, when they finish taking the Minarets down they'll let him on....

Watch out, Trajan, they're gonna bust out Hague trials on ya.

Bush has nothing to worry about

Once he explains that his Justice Dept said it was OK to torture they will just let him be

 

[bucs90]

As "torture" goes, Obama's admin is still allowing it.

But 100X worse is what Obama is allowing to happen globally. He sold out England. He sold out Isreal. He is being sympathetic, even to the point of aiding, a rising Islamic force trying to take over one government at a time in that region, setting up a catastrophic showdown between Israel and the Islamic world, in which the USA will not back Israel. The Islamic radical know that the time to attack Israel is within the next 2 years, and Allah willing, Obama will win a 2nd term and allow that ideology another 4 years to mass it's forces for an eventual showdown with Israel.

And Obama is doing nothing but standing aside, and selling out our allies.

History will judge Barack Obama as possibly the man who hit the self-destruct button on the United States.

 

[MarcATL]

No one misses Bush yet, nor will they ever. Not any one with an ounce of sense at least. Sure, the ape crap lunatics of the far right will...but that's to be expected. A minority of the minority will say that. And perhaps most of the non-black, non-hispanic, non-gay, etc. Texans.

He'd be lucky to get just another shoe thrown at him anywhere else he tries to set foot on.

If I were George I'd sit down and relax at home, where I know I'm welcomed.

 

[Trajan]

So even neutral nations do not want Bush dropping by?

ahh yes 'neutral'.......

how about the usual hypocrisy?




Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool

The role of the CIA's controversial prisoner-transfer program may expand, intelligence experts say.
February 01, 2009|Greg Miller

snip-

But even while dismantling these programs, President Obama left intact an equally controversial counter-terrorism tool.

Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States.

Extraordinary Rendition Obama - Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool - Los Angeles Times


Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture

First Posted: 08-11-09 11:26 AM | Updated: 09-11-09 05:12 AM



snip-
Raymond Azar, a 45-year-old Lebanese construction manager with a grade school education, is employed by Sima International, a Lebanon-based contractor that does work for the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also has the unlikely distinction of being the first target of a rendition carried out on the Obama watch.

According to court papers, on April 7, 2009, Azar and a Lebanese-American colleague, Dinorah Cobos, were seized by "at least eight" heavily armed FBI agents in Kabul, Afghanistan, where they had traveled for a meeting to discuss the status of one of his company's U.S. government contracts. The trip ended with Azar alighting in manacles from a Gulfstream V executive jet in Manassas, Virginia, where he was formally arrested and charged in a federal antitrust probe.

Target Of Obama-Era Rendition Alleges Torture

HUH? I was referring to Switzerland. America is in NO way neutral.

so was I.