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   From: ar231@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
   >> (K): The list is growing.  Harper is still waiting on Bush to tell him   
   >> what to do.........   
   >> ___________________________   
   >>   
   >> - Britain's Prime Minister - Gordon Brown   
   >>   
   >> - German Chancellor - Angela Merkel   
   >>   
   >> - Canada - PM Stephen Harper   
   >>   
   >> - European Union president - Hans Gert Poettering   
   >>   
   >> - Czech Republic - President Vaclav Klaus   
   >>   
   >> - Lithuania - Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas   
   >>   
   >> - Estonia - Toomas Hendrik Ilves   
   >>   
   >> - Poland - Prime Minister Donald Tusk   
   >>   
   >> - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> And possibly more.........   
   >>   
   >> - France - President Nicolas Sarkozy   
   >>   
   >> - U.S.A. - George W. Bush   
      
      
   Angus MacGyver (AngusMacGyver@gmail.org) writes:   
   > You forgot about the non-Tibet involved ones who are athletes and plan on   
   > boycotting the games entirely, which speaks volumes about China's "new   
   > prosperity".   
   >   
   > "World record marathon runner Haile Gebresalassie has said he will not   
   > compete in the event at the Beijing Olympics later this year, citing the   
   > city's high levels of pollution."   
   >   
   > Don't forget that marathon running was one of the key and original impetuses   
   > behind the first Olympics.   
      
   (K): What the hell was the Olympics Committee thinking of when it awarded the   
   Games to China?   
      
   And why should countries be going into massive debt setting up facilities   
   and venues for Olympic games, year after year?   
      
   Find a neutral country to hold them in, and make THAT the permanent home   
   for Olympic competition.  Canada is next to shoulder the cost overruns   
   of setting up for the 2010 Olympic Games.  And a whole lot of that cost   
   will be just for 'security'.   This is just bananas.........   
      
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