Thanks genius, for all your blabber.
Of course I do not support US policies, (which, have nothing to do with the issue at hand.)
I do value life equally though, thus the mass killings of thousands of innocent dogs is just as terrible as the mass killings (of millions), which we commit, of children and innocent citizens all across this globe.
I don't think the animals were killed because of propaganda. It has been reported of the conditions which the IOC require for hosting the event. If the stray dogs were unacceptable, and were murdered for there mere presence... then I condem the act.

If you looked at the rest of the site, you'd see that in no shape or form do I accept the foreign policies of the US, nor the terrible domestic policies which exploit and kill the poor.

Your comment is confused and lacking the same perception you accuse me of lacking, but thank you for checking out the site.

Athens is 'cleaned' of its dogs
By Lee Benson
Deseret Morning News

ATHENS — Locals here will tell you of a time when dogs ran wild and free in the streets. The animals roamed the narrow, winding roads and alleys and the hills and vales of Athens with impunity. They went where they wanted, slept where they wanted, barked when they wanted.
It was about three months ago.
Beyond the new super highway that surrounds Olympic city, beyond the expanded subway system and the fabulous state-of-the-art stadiums that have sprung up everywhere, one of the biggest changes the 2004 Olympics has brought to Athens is a significant reduction in the at-large dog population.
It isn't talked about much. Newcomers would have no way of knowing that dogs used to be ubiquitous.
"Oh, but they were," an American who lives here told me. "Up until just recently, dogs were everywhere. When I'd go walking in the hills I'd usually have a pack of five or six join me. They're friendly for the most part and I'm a dog lover, so I was happy to have them. But they were all over. They'd sleep all day and bark all night."
According to the expatriated American, the dogs were castoffs. "People would get their kid a dog and then get tired of it," she said, meaning the dog.
So out goes the dog — cast adrift into a country that doesn't have dog-catchers or an organized humane society.
In dog, that translates to one thing: total freedom.
According to an article in the Athens News, a Greek newspaper written in English, less than three months ago Athens had a homeless dog population in excess of 15,000. "In the whole of Attica it is around 25,000," reported the newspaper, referring to the southern part of the Greek mainland that Athens and its nearly 4 million people anchor.
"Most (of these dogs) were dumped by owners who no longer wanted them, or they are the progeny of owned dogs," said the newspaper. "While in other countries stray dogs are picked up and placed in shelters, from which they are rehomed, reunited with their owners or put to sleep after a period of time, in Greece the concept has not taken off; locals have no interest in adopting street mongrels."
They do feed them from time to time, however, and some people leave out bowls of water so the orphaned dogs can get a drink.
Not a perfect situation, but workable . . . until the Olympics approached.
"The Athens 2004 Organizing Committee was determined to present an Olympic city free from the 'uncivilized' presence of roaming canines," the Athens News reported.
In June, the newspaper said, "strays from around the venues were taken to shelters where they will remain kenneled until September, when they will be returned to their old haunts. About 1,500 strays are part of the stray-housing plan; the remaining homeless dogs of Attica will stay lounging in the parks and shop doorways to greet Olympic and Paralympic visitors."
It isn't at all unusual, of course, for an Olympic city to clean up its act, even if it's only for a short time. In Salt Lake, we did something with the homeless people population; I'm still not sure what it was, but their numbers were way down during the 2002 Games. The same thing reportedly happened in Sydney in 2000. And I remember in Seoul in 1988 when there was a big fuss about restaurants offering dog for dinner. Concerned about what non-dog-eaters coming to the Olympics might think, the organizing committee talked the restaurants into desisting from offering dog during the Olympic period.
In Seoul, they took dog off the menu; here, they took them off the streets.
But there's one big catch to the official story that only a small percentage of the strays are in captivity: It seems almost all of the dogs have disappeared. There are hardly any parks and shop doorways with lounging dogs in them.
I can confirm this. After nearly two weeks in Athens, walking a lot of places in many sections of the city, I have run into only two dogs without collars. These two hang out by the Athens Olympic Complex, the biggest Olympic site in the city. I've seen them more than once. They sleep in the shade of a big "Adidas" billboard. It looks to me like they're putting on weight. I think they're doing well with about 100,000 international visitors adopting them.
But that's it. Two strays. From what I've seen, Athens is mostly stray-dog free — a virtual cat paradise.
Some people smell a sinister plot.
There have been "insinuations," as the Athens News put it, "that the organizing committee "poisoned stray dogs . . . but officials say no animals perished in the cleanup."
Proof of that, I suppose, will come in late September. After the Olympics, Athens will either go back to the dogs or it won't.
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Greece Dog Poisoning Update 23.Aug.2004 17:25
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Connie Durkee connie@idausa.org link
As the host to the 2004 Olympics, Athens, Greece has decided to rid its streets of packs of roaming dogs in an effort to appear civilized and clean for tourists. Home to thousands of stray dogs and cats, officials made plans to poison an estimated 30,000 - 50,000 strays before the games. According to Welfare for Animals in Greece, a NYC advocacy and lobby group that has recently traveled to Greece on a mission of investigation, 80% of the abandoned street dogs of Athens and the greater Attika area, including the Olympic sites, have already been exterminated.

Despite the fact that poisoning dogs is a criminal offense in Greece, it is a traditional method of controlling stray animal populations. Local authorities turn a blind eye to the use of poisons - such as strychnine, rat poison, and farm pesticides - that often result in a slow, painful death that can take days.

Please contact officials at the Greek Embassy at  Greece@greekembassy.org and tell them to halt the practice of dog poisoning in Greece. Let them know that you refuse to travel to Greece until the problem of animal homelessness is addressed in a humane and effective manner.

http://www.idausa.org
503-249-9996

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/08/295327.shtml

I guess it is less cruel to allow packs of feral dogs to roam the streets, feeding off garbage when they can, catching diseases, fighting and dying in hunger or pain.

I guess if that was the situation, your comment would make sense. Since the dogs are often accepted by the public and treated quite well, the situation is different. Broken glass in food or the gassing of wild dogs is certainly worse than allowing free dogs which are not a threat to anything to live. Making a decision like that perhaps should also be applied to the homeless and sick, those with little hope for a healthy future? i'm not sure i agree.

Fuck Greece! I used to admire the Greeks, now I think they're dirt. FUCK YOU GREECE AND FUCK ALL PEOPLE AND COUNTRIES WHO WOULD DENY US THE RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST THE LIKES OF YOU AND ALL TERRORIST SCUM.

Then fuck the world because NOONE is for you .YOU ARE THE REAL TERRORIST SCUM. FUCK USA OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Did you defend your country in 1st war with Iraq? With Vietnam? With Serbia maybe?
-Let's talk about nature! Check what the nuclear tests of fucking-wordsperm-bastards-Americans, English, and French cause... Millions of deaths of every kind of life...
-Let's talk about Olympic Games. The last O.G are the best ever as the Olympic commision said. My opinion and not only, is that the Olympic Games MUST be orginised by their motherland OR their motherland will decide who is going to organise it.Everything about O.G is greek anyway.
-Let's talk about civilization. Just press www.google.com or any other search machine. Then write the word "civilization". HAHAHAHAHA 50% at least is GREECE. I would be only stupid talking Greek civilization,is like to proove that I am not elephant.Just read read read- is good.Some tips ok.... ART-THEATRE-7 wonders (3 are greek). Alphabet (how we communicate now?, LANGUGE, HISTORY, EMPIRES, ARCHITECTURE( even the statue of liberty and the white house and of course ALLthe importan buildings of every caountry are Greek Architcture) ,POETRY, MUSIC- RYTHM (greek words), MATHEMATICS, GEOMETRY, PHILOSOFY, ASTRONOMY, PHISICS, CHEMISTRY,ATHLETICS-SPORTS (oooohh stop a lot of greek words, i got dizzy)
-Just check the rest european civilisation and then the American because America=European sperm.Ok open a dictionary and look the word barbarian. I will explain so you don't get tired to open a book in your life. Barbarian= uncivilised, comes from the greek word(again!!!) barbaros. The greeks that time (and today) used to say that anyone who is not Greek is Barbarian. Because the others haven't got civilization and they don't know even how to talk but they crawl (bar bar bar). So... Rest europeans=barbarians so eurosperm (americans= even worst). The italians are exemption somehow because they are greek sperm from the first Greeks in Sicilia and they are the first who woke up and copied the greek civilization.
-OK sorry guys but if you want not to be related with the greek civilization just move to another planet.

You must be the greatest bastards ever lived. I can't get how you fukin american can speak about us after such a misery you've given to the whole world

If you look at the rest of the site, there is a STRONG & HEAVY focus on the destruction and pain America has caused. We do not attempt to hide our disgust with the policies of murder and empire that this country seems to flaunt. This piece however, is in response to the actions which Greece took in order to present themselves to the international world as a civil and modern home for the olympics. I didn't agree with the murder of that many living creatures, it doesn't make sense to me. I also do not think Greece is worse than the lone superpower of the world for this action, it would be ridiculous, but I felt it needed to be addressed to accompany all the olmpic fever that was going on at the time.