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Eenie meanie miney mo? The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Tuesday that there is little to choose between the three front-runners to host the 2008 Summer Games - Beijing, Paris and Toronto. And while there may be a number of legislators on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill who'd love to use the issue stick it to Beijing in the wake of the Hainan spy-plane standoff, the Bush administration is unlikely to try and stop China landing the games...
...nudity b) Book of Mormon forbids "fitching" c) IOC kickbacks are too pricey d) if Orrin Hatch won't pose, Orrin Hatch suffers...
...Colin Powell not say, Look, folks, It’s like this. Either you give us our people and our plane back posthaste, or we start shipping Aegis-equipped destroyers, Patriot missiles and submarines to Taiwan tomorrow. Oh, and we’ll start arm-twisting at the IOC, and you can forget about throwing your personal, Forbidden City version of the ’36 Nazi Olympics come...
...symbolic meaning of the Olympics would lavish unwarranted praise on China, undermining these efforts. The Olympics have long served as a testament to the need for governments to respect the dignity of individual achievement by bringing the best athletes in the world to compete in a peaceful arena. The IOC must ask whether this ideal is compatible with a government that consistently uses brute force to quash political and religious expression. Letting Beijing have the Games would, at best, send the wrong signal. At worst, it would embolden Beijing to commit even more flagrant infractions by showing that the international...
Bullies should not be appeased. The IOC needs to stand up to one of the world’s great bullies by not awarding the 2008 Summer Olympic Games to Beijing. The torch of Olympic idealism simply must not be engulfed in China’s dark night of oppression...