When audience member Andrew Muller stood up and asked, "Mr. Bush,
will you continue the
Democrats' policy on sanctions and bombing that kills 5,000 children
a month in Iraq?" Oprah
immediately jumped in and told Bush he didn't need to answer
that, and cut to commercial.
Muller and another anti-sanctions activist Andrew Mandell "were
removed from the audience by
Secret Service Agents," according to Voices in the Wilderness
(www.vitw.org). Muller "had just
returned from Iraq and watched children suffer from lack of of
food and medicine," the group said.
Epilogue: On the Tonight Show September 20, Jay Leno played the
tape of Muller asking his
question, and then spoofed Bush's response by pretending that
George W. had Muller
electrocuted in his seat in the audience.
Hats off to Muller, Mandell, and Voices in the Wilderness for
continuing to press the issue of
sanctions, no matter the forum.
As for Oprah and Leno, the immorality of sanctions seems to be
beyond them.