Bush Faces Global Critics at U.N. This Week

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two years after he made a case against Iraq over unconventional weapons that were never found, President Bush faces global critics at the United Nations this week to argue it is essential that war-ravaged Iraq become a stable democracy.

Bush makes his annual trek to New York to speak to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. His remarks are likely to be seen in an election-year context, at a time of rising casualties in Iraq, fears of civil war and questions about whether national elections can be held in January as scheduled.
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Many world leaders who opposed Bush on Iraq will be listening carefully to what he says about the situation there. He will be able to point to Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi as an example of a new generation of Iraqi leadership. He will meet Allawi at the White House on Thursday.

"He's a tough guy," Bush said at a campaign event on Friday in Charlotte, N.C. "He believes that Iraq should be free and he cares about the hopes and aspirations of the Iraqi people."
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While in New York, Bush will meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who survived an assassination attempt last week, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, an ally in the effort to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda threat along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6273326&src=rss/ElectionCoverage§ion=news

Bush hangs with buddies Musharraf, Allawi and Shell's Karzai touting reigning freedom? Remember back when democratic leaders were elected?

[alittlelark]

1. That's nothing.....

Wait till Nov. 2nd, when he faces his National critics at the polls!!

[salin]

2. Let's watch the coverage closely... not necessarily of his speech...

but of his actions before and after... when he faces hostile world leaders he tends to act churlish and petulant... either snubbing folks by exiting early or refusing to meet with them... or snapping at reporters - even if the questions are not for him but for another world leader... these are the moments where bush reveals his ugly nature. Let's watch the reporting... and if/when/where littlebushjr reveals himself... let's trumpet it...

[ugarte]

3. Allawi "is a tough guy," Bush said

Translation: he's a bloody sadist and murderer.

Translation: about as tough as me.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Saddam was a tough guy too.

Why do we keep propping up "tough guys"?

[flordehinojos]

4. Bush refused to meet with the NAACP because the criticized him.

Why isn't he doing the same with the UNITED NATIONS, particularly when Bush shills like Tucker Carlson and others have said "who cares what Kofi Annan says?" referring to Anan's evaluation that the Iraq war was illegal.

[leesa]

6. I hope they arrest him

[peekaloo]

7. Seeking a signature on his permission slip from the irrelevant

debating society?

Hope there are walkouts or audible hisses!