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Topic: Where's the purple fingers for Myanmar?
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| chucho | Posted – 9/24/2007 8:21:47 AM | show profile Bush Threatens Sanctions Against Chevron; Says US Oil Concern Supports Dictatorship WASHINGTON -- In solidarity with Burmese monks marching with nuns against the dictatorship of Myanmar, President George Bush announced today that he is considering military action to bring democracy to the Burmese people. During a press conference yesterday the president said he would seek legal action against Chevron and its French partner Total S.A. for working with the totalitarian military dictatorship and utilizing slave labor to maintain its pipelines in Myanmar. "We are also calling for an immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi and for Myanmar to recognize the election results," said Bush at a press conference on Monday. "We would also like to see India scale down it's cozy relationship with the military dictatorship," the president added, saying he would consider scaling back the passing of nuclear-weapons technology exchanges to the world's third-largest nuclear power. The president said, in keeping with his administration's deep convictions and resolve about fomenting democracy in the world, that he is considering military strikes on the Chevron/Total pipeline and the regime's key military targets. The president also said that he is considering ceasing allied relations with Uzbekiatan, which receives millions in annual military aid from the United States. The US also supplies the Central Asian dictatorship with security assistance in the from of police batons and other riot gear that has been used against peaceful demonstrations in that country, which in return allows US military flyovers and depots. "Uzbekistan has for too long now been coddled by the Untied States," said the president. "It's time for America to stop funding the enemies of our enemies, because time and again this has come back to threaten our own national security, not to mention the security of millions of people outside the United States." |
| Newzaroo | Posted – 9/24/2007 9:35:56 AM | show profile Chucho, again you have elevated the TV Newser game. Can't wait until you copy and paste your next unattributed column and lull me into another coma. |
| chucho | Posted – 9/24/2007 12:27:00 PM | show profile In a hushed tone with palms cupped to the sides of mouth: "It's not a real column. . . I made it up." I'll explain: You see, many conservative think we're in Iraq in order to foment freedom and a Jeffersonian McDemocracy(tm) in Iraq. And, thusly, I have written a fake news piece to illustrate George Bush's fake resolve to foment freedom and a Jeffersonian McDemocracy(tm) by illustrating -- in a satirical tone -- the fact that there is some massive protesting going on right now in Burma -- lots of peaceful resistance marching -- the stuff of MLK, Jr. -- and yt Bush has not called on his armed forced to fly in and drop Freedom Bomblets(tm) on the Burmese landscape in order to have contractors install voting machines under no-bid contracts that guarantee profits based on percentage of taxpayer money spent (in an orgiastic union of Adam Smith and Karl Marx). So, no, it's not actually a real news source. And yes, you can find plenty of information online about Chevron/Total's Oil Pipeline Goodness in Myanmar, administered with coordination witht he ruling military junta (which woudl otherwise nationalie the pipeline or stop the oil flowing if it wasn't getting it's pound of flesh) and, of course, maintained by forced underpaid labor because Myanmar makes China (Have you met China? They's very close friends of The U.S.)vlook like a Worker's Paradise(tm). So thank you for your comment. You are a moron. OK, gotta board a plane now. Ta-ta. Love, Chuch |
| Stanley_Milgram | Posted – 9/24/2007 12:44:52 PM | show profile nice post. but please, don't feed the trolls. besides, they live in an irony-free zone anyway. |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 9/24/2007 2:39:39 PM | show profile I'm sorry, but until Myanmar discovers an ocean of oil under their jungles, they are not worthy of our bestowing democracy upon their country. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 9/24/2007 10:06:42 PM | show profile Phew, for a minute there I thought I felt hell freezing over (the Bush oil and sanctions bit). |
