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The Daily Mail reports:
George W Bush has cancelled a scheduled appearance at a conference tomorrow because Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is on the same bill.
The former U.S. president was due to attend an education discussion in Denver but today released a statement saying he did not want to share the same forum with someone who has ‘wilfully and repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the U.S’.
Assange is in Britain, where he is fighting extradition to Sweden where he will have to face charges of rape.
He was due to appear today via video conference but it was unclear whether or not it went ahead.
WikiLeaks has released tens of thousands of secret U.S. government and military documents and it is strongly believed that if he is extradited to the U.S. from Sweden, he could face the death penalty.
Spokesman for George Bush David Sherzer said he learned of Assange’s invitation only this week.
He said: ‘Six months ago, President Bush accepted an invitation to speak to the YPO Global Leadership Summit in Denver on February 26, 2011.
‘This week, upon learning that Julian Assange had recently been invited to address the same summit, President Bush decided to cancel his appearance.
‘The former president has no desire to share a forum with a man who has wilfully and repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the United States.’
Approximately 2,000 members and invited guests from more than 75 countries were due to attend the annual YPO Global Leadership Summit.
terrana01 // Feb 27, 2011 at 5:38 am
Perhaps our young President could learn to conduct himself more respectfully in the public arena by observing GWB. His apologetics for union haters, islamic haters, liberal America haters….etc. is wearing thin. The man has the class and carriage of a “pretender”. I would like to be proud of our President, but each day I’m more embarrassed and outraged by his morally bankrupt, self aggrandizing pontification! He really ought to learn to take himself less seriously, the skin encasing his brainpan might loosen up a little bit!
TerryF98 // Feb 27, 2011 at 9:07 am
You must be a parody troll, no one could be that deluded, could they?
JeninCT // Feb 27, 2011 at 11:35 am
TERRANA01, well said!
TerryF98 // Feb 27, 2011 at 12:59 pm
And you definitely are not a parody troll, just a Palinbott.
jakester // Feb 27, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Are you like some sort of talk radio or right wing blog web-bot that was programmed to troll sites by posting meaningless nonsense that only a person of the lowest mental caliber could take seriously?
talkradiosucks.com // Feb 27, 2011 at 8:22 am
“…today released a statement saying he did not want to share the same forum with someone who has ‘wilfully and repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the U.S’.”
This could just as easily have come from Assange.
COProgressive // Feb 27, 2011 at 11:46 pm
I thought that statement WAS about GWB.
Nope, no WMD’s here…. (Laughter….)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdDp_jlgC9M