Shrub can't bully big countries, so he bullies small countries instead.

[JohnyCanuck]

It appears that Barbados and Trinidad are not to be granted the privelidge of meeting the world's greates president because he's miffed they told him to bugger off over his plea to exempt the US from ICC legislation.


THERE IS no room at the table for Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago when regional leaders meet for talks with United States President George Bush in New York on Wednesday.

On the other hand, Grenada, The Bahamas and St Lucia are welcomed to break bread with the leader of the world’s most powerful nation.

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According to highly-placed sources, the White House deliberately left Barbados and Trinidad off the invitation list because their positions on the ICC were well known and were not expected to change.

In addition, the Bush regime is said to be “quite angry” with Bridgetown (capital city of Barbados /jc) because of the public statements the Arthur Government made earlier this year in Parliament in opposition to the United States invasion of Iraq.

“The anger at Barbados is still a hard fact of life,” said an official.

Barbados, Trinidad Left Out


A couple acronyms used in the article you might not be familiar with.

Caricom = Caribbean Community and is an association between mainly ex-British West Indian island colonies and Belize, Guyana and the Bahamas to promote a common market in the Caribbean basin and a common approach to foreign policy with the hope that in the long term a political integration of the individual member countries could be accomplished as well.

OECS = Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. Similar to Caricom but smaller in scope. Its comprised of 9 former British West Indian island colonies attempting to integrate their economies.

[ixion]

1. typical neocon behavior: admit we're above the law, or suffer...

yet another embarrassment to our once respected republic. :-(

[gristy]

2. Our government has been doing that for years,

regardless of who's in office.

Shrub can't bully big countries, so he bullies small countries instead.