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Originally Posted by pug_ster
Actually GW Bush was the only person who said that he is going to go to the opening ceremonies. The presidential candidates, Clinton, Obama and McCain asked Bush not to go. The Leader of UK, France, Germany, Canada said that they are not going because of China's Human Rights record.
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The leader of the UK, Gordon Brown, has never said he is not going to the opening of the Olympics because of China's Human Rights record, though some people hoped this was the reason.
Instead he has said that he never was intending on going to the opening ceremony because he would need to attend the closing ceremony. Britain will be represented at the opening ceremony by our Olympics minister Tessa Jowell.
There is no question that a lot of people were hoping he would boycott the opening of the Olympics but he has not done it.
Regardless of what people read into this, if we were boycotting the opening of the Olympics we would not be sending anyone to the opening ceremony...and he certainly did not say he was 'not going because of China's Human Rights record.'
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