'Bush Should Be Shot (down)'

reuters: A conservative German minister in a southern state has caused uproar by saying U.S. President George W. Bush should be "shot down" for his handling of the crisis in hurricane-struck New Orleans.

Andreas Renner, Social Minister in Germany's southern state of Baden-Wuertemberg, clarified later that he had only meant Bush should be downed politically.

During a visit to a local company on Tuesday, Renner said of Bush: "He ought to be shot down."

He later retracted the remark, saying he meant Bush should be shot down "in a political sense", according to the Reutlinger General-Anzeiger newspaper. Read more

Note to charles clarke: 'shot down' is not the same as 'shot'. Besides, calling for the assassination of a foreign political leader is no crime.


update: On reflection I think we will bite the big one - he was right first time - Bush should be shot, period.