Re: Karen Hughes Bombs Out in Turkey

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:51:19 GMT, Rita <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:50:58 -0400, maureen <maureen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:54:22 GMT, Rita <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Turkish women counter Hughes on war
>>>
>>>By Nicholas Kralev
>>>THE WASHINGTON TIMES
>>>September 29, 2005
>>
>>>ISTANBUL -- Karen Hughes, the Bush administration's top public diplomacy
>>>official, scuffled verbally with Turkish women over the Iraq war yesterday
>>>as she waged an effort to persuade one of the most important Muslim
>>>countries of Washington's good intention
>>
>>
>>Karen bombed out allright ! But then who wouldn't bomb out on trying
>>to justify an illegal war that had nothing to do with the attack on
>>America.
>>
>>Isn't, " Washington's good intentions " an oxymoron under Bush ?
>>
>>maureen
>
>I think Karen's efforts really have served a useful purpose -- that is, if
>the administration pays attention. The reception of her cheerleading
>has pointed up how hollow the propaganda the Bush team wants to
>put out to the world really is. When given the opportunity to face off
>with such a propagandist, the people in the Middle East talk back
>and give their opinions in no uncertain terms. If they were the least bit
>canny they would deduce that empty phrases just don't work to cover
>up what many there consider to be a totally disastrous policy.
>
>Bush says he wants to advance "freedom" and if freedom of speech is
>part of that, it is one element the audiences Karen Hughes addressed
>seem to have that down pat. They were not impressed and said so.
>Basically, what they countered with were questions of how the war in Iraq
>can possibly do good for their part of the world.
>
>Think about it. We in the U.S. are agonizing about the destruction of
>natural disasters Katrina and Rita. We see many of our citizens suffering.
>But in the Middle East, the people there see their populations suffering
>unspeakable losses of life of civilians daily -- and the people of Iraq
>living in the Katrina like conditions of failing electricity, unclean water
>and no jobs.
>
>We complain because FEMA and others were slow to react to the
>suffering of our citizens. But they see the suffering of the people in
>Iraq not a burning question for the Bush administration.

True and well said.

maureen

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