Singing Minister Disowns 'Die, Bush' Call

[matcom]

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SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's culture minister and singing superstar Gilberto Gil is not calling for the death of President Bush (news - web sites), whatever concert-goers might have thought.

Gil, 62, took time off from his government role this weekend to play shows in Sao Paulo, treating fans to many of his own classics as well as songs by Bob Marley and John Lennon.

During "Soy Loco Por Ti America" (I'm Crazy About You, America) -- a song from the 1960s about Latin American dreams of liberation -- the visual display behind the band flashed up an image of the U.S. leader with a noose around his neck and the slogan "Morra, Bush, Morra" (Die, Bush, Die).

It also featured portraits of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara and Mexican rebel Pancho Villa.

Some Brazilians applauded -- many in this country do not approve of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq (news - web sites) -- but some Americans in the audience were seething.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=2&u=/nm/20040818/od_nm/people_brazil_bush_dc

[sui generis]

1. you know, I'm not a homicidal sort of person

but if the shrub just happened to be choking on a pretzel I would certainly prioritize sorting my sock drawer ahead of heimlich manuevers.

Actually, I think he is a war criminal and a monster, and a murderer of nearly 1000 of our own U.S. troops and countless civilian "collateral" in an unjustified war of greed. If he was choking on a pretzel and I had anything to do with it, I'd shove another one down his throat to make sure it took.

(that was humor Skinner, please don't tombstone me)

[riverwalker]

2. "some americans were seething"

yeah, uh-huh, sure they were.

"It was Condoleezza Rice, national security advisor, who helped her boss out of the embarassing situation. During a conversation between the two presidents, George W. Bush, 55, (USA) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 71, (Brazil), Bush bewildered his colleague with the question "Do you have blacks, too?"
Rice, 47, noticing how astonished the Brazilian was, saved the day by telling Bush "Mr. President, Brazil probably has more blacks than the USA. Some say it's the Country with the most blacks outside Africa." Later, the Brazilian president Cardoso said: regarding Latin America, Bush was still in his "learning phase"."

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/brazil.htm