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Saturday, June 11, 2005

Bush Bullying Backfires

Increasingly, the rest of the world is telling the Bushians to -- in that fine phrase from our illustrious vice president -- "Go Fuck Yourself."

First, our major allies rejected Bushian efforts to punish an international official for challenging the Bushian lies about Iraq:

The administration signaled Wednesday that it was dropping its objections to a third term for Mohamed ElBaradei as director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, effectively ending its yearlong effort to replace him with someone more amenable to American policies.

Administration officials have been acknowledging for months that they have been unable to convince any of their major allies that Dr. ElBaradei should be ousted.

American officials tangled with Dr. ElBaradei in the period leading up to the Iraq war.

Second, the nations of Latin America said NO to a Bushian effort to create a kangaroo court to attack Venezuela:

In a sharp setback for the Bush administration's Latin America policy, the Organization of American States rejected a United States plan on Tuesday to create a committee to monitor the exercise of democracy in the hemisphere.

Instead, the organization agreed, at a meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on a declaration that attaches equal or greater emphasis to attacking poverty because of what it calls 'the interdependent relationship of democracy and social and economic development.'

...The United States professed to be satisfied with the final resolution, even though it bears little resemblance to the proposal the State Department introduced last week. The resolution does not include the element that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted it must have, a committee that would investigate troubled democracies.

Ah, Condomskeezer Lice not getting her way. How sweet it is!

Jack Clark 6:02 PM [+]   
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