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03/12/2004 Archived Entry: "Oops."
Oops.
Or maybe 'duh' would be more appropriate.
U.S. President George W. Bush has marked International Women's Week by paying tribute to women reformers -- but one of those he cited is really a man."Earlier today, the Libyan government released Fathi Jahmi. She's a local government official who was imprisoned in 2002 for advocating free speech and democracy," the president said in a speech at the White House on Friday.
The only problem was that, by all other accounts, "she" is in fact "he".
"Definitely male," said Alistair Hodgett, spokesman for the human rights advocacy group Amnesty International, whose representatives tried to see Jahmi in prison during a recent visit to Libya.
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In remarks before a VIP audience, Bush cited Jahmi as a courageous reformer along with Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman democracy icon and Nobel Peace Prize laureate living under house arrest in Myanmar.
Replies: 4 people speak up
The Truth rises to the top like cream. Even intentional resistance
can not stop this process.
Posted by Aristophanes @ 03/13/2004 12:02 PM NY
The Truth rises to the top like cream. Even intentional resistance
can not stop this process.
Posted by Aristophanes @ 03/13/2004 12:02 PM NY
So Bush can't tell a Man from a Woman?
This may explain the pretty face comments to Canadas pretty boy.
Posted by IXLNXS @ 03/13/2004 08:46 PM NY
That Jahmi must have "a pretty face".
Posted by m @ 03/15/2004 10:28 AM NY
