Arab News: Another Lie

[Sticky]

AS the final military preparations were being made to overrun Saddam’s Iraq, George W. Bush and his faithful British ally Tony Blair stood side by side and expressed their dedication to the road map for a peaceful and just settlement in Palestine. They offered the hope the war against Saddam would be coupled with US pressure on Israel to at long last deal honestly and fairly with the Palestinians.

It is now clear that this was yet another lie to stand alongside claims about weapons of mass destruction and Saddam’s involvement in Sep. 11. On Wednesday President Bush tore up the road map once and for all. He hailed Ariel Sharon’s plan to abandon the unmanageable, overcrowded and destitute Gaza Strip and annex key areas of the West Bank as “historic and courageous”. Bush may not be in an intellectual position to realize it, but this latest breach of a solemn promise will have serious implications for the US-led occupation of Iraq. Moderate Iraqi opinion, which once represented a large core of the population to which the Americans were appealing for support, will now despair. Whatever other horrors may lie ahead, it will become plain to them that the Americans can no longer be part of any solution because they cannot be trusted.

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When in November George W. Bush enters the history books as one of his country’s most inept single-term presidents, he will leave his successor a poisoned legacy in the form of his Middle East policy. Both politically and diplomatically, it will be well-nigh impossible to claw back this momentous concession to expansionist Israel.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=43212&d=16&m=4&y=2004

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. Just what we needed. Another reason for the Arab people.........

to be pissed off at us. This neocon administration has got to be insane to do this now and I can only figure that Sharon has something on this administration or they wish to put the next president in such a hole he can never dig out of it.

On the side: congrats on the 700 club and I hope you had a good time in Boston.

[Sticky]

2. Kerry will have his work cut out for him

....but it seems he already has a good footing in foreign relationships. Denouncing bush as an idiot will score him big points internationally when he takes the Oval Office. :-)

--- I can't believe I finally made the 700 club! It only took 14 months!! :toast:

[damnraddem]

3. Well, Kerry could really turn it around ...

by changing US policy toward Israel/Palestine. A sharp statement that the US backs a settlement based on a return to 1967 boundaries and a right of return for Palestinians would rapidly change Islamic outlook toward the US. And it would serve Israel well in the long run.