Hostage rally: Powell warns Italy

[Alpharetta]

Hostage rally: Powell warns Italy

Friday, April 30, 2004

ROME, Italy -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has warned Italians not to send the wrong signal to kidnappers holding three of their countrymen in Iraq.

A day after the hostages' families led a peace march of several thousand people to the Vatican, newspapers quoted Powell as saying Italians should avoid giving the impression their government was willing to compromise.

The abductors had threatened to kill the three Italian captives unless Italians staged a "huge demonstration" this week to protest against the Iraq war.

more at:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/04/30/iraq.italian/index.html

[Alpharetta]

1. Ollie North to the rescue!

Send Ollie North to http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/archive/"">"not deal with terrorists".

[livetohike]

2. Why do we feel it is necessary

to direct the actions of every human being in the world? OK, so Powell told the Italians what they shouldn't do.

What should they do? That would be helpful.

[sniffa]

3. know their roLe

and shut their mouths.

[cally]

4. Powell sure is warning a lot of countries recently

:eyes: The problem is this administration has lost all credibility around the world. He should be issuing apologies instead.

[Spazito]

9. Powell's warnings now have the same credibility that Baghdad Bob...

had and, come to think of it, the bushites are sounding more and more like him!

[Chicago Democrat]

14. That is completely correct

You and I aren't the only ones thinking it.

[dedhed]

5. It's been 5 days...

... and the Italians had their protest, but it doesn't appear to have swayed the Italian government's commitment to Iraq. Does that mean the kidnappers will not release the hostages? Even if they do, will there be more kidnappings, with even more ludicrous demands, in the future?

:(

[John_H]

11. No, it means that the families of hostages are trying to do what they can

to try to save their loved ones, just like anyone on earth, with the possible exception of some entirely teeth-free freeper,would do.

You can bet that if that chief censor Micheal Powell's pudgy ass was being held in Iraq, hundreds of soldiers, intel agents, diplomats and other government officials would be tasked with trying to get him out.

[havocmom]

6. Powell is a known liar and pimp for a war profiteering junta

How dare he try to tell the people of any nation what they should and shouldn't do.

If he hadn't been so complacent about lying and shilling for a policy he knew to be a mistake, perhaps there would be no hostages in Iraq. As far as I am concerned, every American military person over there is being help hostage by the corporations profiting from war contracts and the potential they see in stealing the resources of the Iraqi nation.

How about we practice what you preach, Sec. Powell, and stop giving the hostage takers what they want: Say no to no bid contracts and war for the enrichment of corporations at the expense of the US troops, their families, the people of Iraq and the world as a whole. Who are the worst hostage takers, Sec. Powell, those who hold a handful of people or those who hold millions?

[Ganja Ninja]

7. Were those torture pictures sending the right message?

I'd hate to be a hostage when the Iraqi's see those.

[leesa]

8. Ya know, not all countries have a testosterone imbalance, Colon

Italy rolls out great anti-war demos anyway...not sure why they need hostages.

[Just Me]

10. I'll bet others are as sick as I am of over-inflated neocon egos.

Whether the Bush cabal accepts a fundamental reality or not, they are NOT in charge of the whole world. They are TRYING to dominate the world,...but it will never, ever happen. The world has had quite enough of imperialists.

I am totally sick of the Bush regime's arrogance.

:puke:

[DivinBreuvage]

12. Berlusconi is itching to ask Powell for help

in getting back former Italian possessions like Libya, Somalia, and Greece. They all have trouble with terrorists and Italy won't have to worry about a British-American buttwhipping this time (though the Greeks would probably give them another one).

[zbdent]

13. Wow, three Italian hostages?

What's that, like 25 percent of their "coalition forces"?

[PATRICK]

15. You mean don't "repeat"

the wrong message? Italy has been staging big demos against the war under the neo-fascist CEO Berlusconi. Not only is it too late, but Powell's idiotic warning can only be counterproductive- and ironically giving Iraq captors what they want big time- and unintentionally save a few lives out of this criminal mess.