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WoW.....HOLY CENSORSHIP BATMAN !!!!?

WASHINGTON - The State Department has a message for White House candidates wanting to expound on sensitive diplomatic issues: Shut up. Are YOu kidding me?? lol ADVERTISEMENT Traditionally silent during presidential campaigns filled with divisive foreign policy debates, the department on Friday delivered a rebuke to would-be nominees of both parties whose recent comments have complicated U.S. efforts to overcome deep suspicion about the war on terrorism in the Muslim world. "Those who wish to hold office can speak for themselves and whoever is elected in 2008 and comes into office in 2009 will then be in a position to talk about what they intend or plan to do," said deputy spokesman Tom Casey, a career foreign service officer Are you kiddin me ???? These guys are out of control now. Have you guys seen this??? and do you agree that the Bush administration is out of control??? http://www.thestate.com/nation/story/136905.html here is one link to the story

Public Comments

1. That's fascist intimidation for you!
2. Do you have a link for the entire story? Edit; The fact that those words were used remind me of that annoying kid in class who would always ask teachers ignorant/rhetorial questions and always had an opinion of one thing or another and you're sitting there saying to yourself, "stfu already." Great story. It's pretty funny.
3. No, some of these retarded candidates are out of control. If I have a friend fighting in Afg, I certaintly do not want the paki's doing any more against him because they think we may invade!
4. Pretty bizarre, isn't' it. i wonder if they will send out pamphlets to all voters to tell us how to vote too. Getting closer to communism all the time....
5. Liberals are in control? Get a grip! Sounds perfectly normal to me and you really need to stop hating your country dude! Unfainess Act is so in control and with it eh? Geez! Stop the insanity!
6. This is the most stupid attempt I have ever seen that tries to bash on Bush. lol If you had to dig this deep to try and start something, you seriously need to get a life. Thanks for the two points.
7. Yeah but as Rupert Murdoch takes over the News Media it won't matter. Just like FOX """NEWS"""" nothing unfavorable will get reported.
8. As Paul Harvey says, and the rest of the story... (Yes, Fox News speaking against a Rep. SHOCK) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292054,00.html The State Department had hoped to steer clear of controversy, complaints and public protests sparked by Obama and Clinton, but Tancredo's comments bumped up against the limit of diplomatic patience. Casey had unusually harsh words for Tancredo, R-Colo., who said this week that if elected he would threaten to bomb the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina, Islam's two holiest sites, to deter attacks on the United States. "It is absolutely outrageous and reprehensible for anyone to suggest attacks on holy sites, whether they are Muslim, Christian, Jewish or those of any other religion," a clearly agitated Casey told reporters, shaking his head in disgust. "To somehow suggest that an appropriate response to terrorism would be to attack sites that are holy and sacred to more than a billion people throughout the world is just absolutely crazy," he said, denouncing "any suggestion that the defense of the American homeland or the defense of American interests would ever justify attacking holy sites." Tancredo's suggestion to bomb Mecca and Medina came as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were on a sensitive mission to the Middle East that included a stop in Saudi Arabia.
9. That's too close to censorship for my comfort levels, I must say! (link below)
10. Well the point was that Presidential canidates should threaten to blow up Mecca and Medina if the Muslims don't stop attacking America. This would be like yelling fire in a crowded theater and is not protected free speech. I think the state dept was correct.
11. It was advice, not an order. If they enforced that type of censorship, then the American populace would bring down the flaming hammer on them.
12. This is what I think. In the america that I grew up in...that bastion of freedom that I knew, a man could run for president and say that he wants the USA to bomb all muslim holy sites and take over the world.....if he wants to. I am not agreeing with that view. I am just saying he has a right to that view. no. the state department has no business trying to censor free speech.
13. Those running for office ARE speaking for themselves; Mr. Casey should be out there making that point, rather than shushing them and thereby giving the impression that they are speaking for the country. I'm getting a bit tired of the global appeasement of Muslim "outrage".
14. I think Obama with his ignorant comments is out of control.
15. From readin threads like this, I am more convinced than ever that many americans would prefer for us to be a fascist type government where the govt controls what people can say and do. They just dont get it......what being an american is supposed to mean.
16. The Bush Administration has been out of control for some time, however, it has now gone so far over the top that I seriously believe he is psychotic. Look at his executive order 7/19, now the terrorism spy bill just passed today, the NAU and the list goes on and on and on and on. Bush thinks he is the Dictator of the U.S. and has NO concept of FREEDOM, FREE SPEECH, CIVIL LIBERTIES OR RIGHTS! His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was involved in a "coup that was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression." (Here is the link to the BBC radio link if you want to hear it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml Bush comes from a long line of fascist thinking elitists. He is know as the son of the "Father of the NWO". (Don't believe me? Watch this 33 sec. clip of "father Bush" declaring his "vision for a New World Order": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CWBTL33MpA) You Bush supporters who blindly drink in what Bush W. spews are mindless pawns in a very big picture of control and manipulation. What little freedoms you have left - and there aren't that many - you just don't know it yet - those too will be gone sooner than later. You need to research, investigate your own news and stop being led to the slaughter by the corporate media propaganda. WAKE UP! VOTE FOR RON PAUL 2008!
17. I agree with Bolton12. except for the part about voting for Ron Paul. There is definitely fascism in the air, and Bush is clearly a dictator wanna be and fascist. I dont support libertarians like Paul because I see Libertarians as elitists as well. Their policies are basically to allow the law of the jungle to rule and survival of the fittest. If you advocate no role for government or miniscule government, then you are essentially empower the rich and powerful such as big business at the expense of ordinary citizens. I advocate balance in such things and I see libertarians as extremists in this regard. But excellent points Bolton12 on Bush and how wrong he is. I personally support Obama.