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BlueCollar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:15 AM
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Riots over Hungarian PM's 'lies'
Riots over Hungarian PM's 'lies'




Hungarian police have used tear gas and water cannon to quell violent overnight protests in Budapest in which buildings were attacked and cars set alight.
The clashes happened following a rally demanding the resignation of PM Ferenc Gyurcsany, after it was revealed his government had lied during an election

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Mr Gyurcsany's comments, which sparked the violence, were heard in a tape of a meeting he had with his MPs a few weeks after April's election, and leaked to local media on Sunday.

In excerpts broadcast on state radio, Mr Gyurcsany says harsh economic reforms are needed.

"There is not much choice. There is not, because we screwed up. Not a little, a lot. No European country has done something as boneheaded as we have.

"Evidently, we lied throughout the last year-and-a-half, two years... You cannot quote any significant government measure we can be proud of, other than at the end we managed to bring the government back from the brink. Nothing."

In a speech sprinkled with obscenities, Mr Gyurcsany says: "We lied in the morning, we lied in the evening."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5358546.stm


may not be long before it happens here...
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:25 AM
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1. Lied in the morning and in the evening. Sounds like they
never took a break.
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:27 AM
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2. Sounds like they've been taking lessons from BushCo (nt)
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