Bush's road map to nowhere

[Violet_Crumble]

Michael Gawenda
July 15, 2006

IT WAS a stark admission of helplessness from the leader of the world's only superpower.

With Israeli jets bombing Beirut airport for the second time in 24 hours and Hezbollah rockets landing for the first time in Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, George Bush was asked what the US could do to stop the fighting from escalating any further.

Standing with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a news conference in Rostock, Germany, before he left for the G8 summit in St Petersburg, Bush said: "We were headed towards the road map, things looked positive and terrorists stepped up.

"It's really sad when people are prepared to take innocent life to stop that process — in fact, it's pathetic."

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Whatever the cause — and however blame is apportioned — Bush's response was evidence that the Administration has no policy on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Indeed, it has not had a policy since the shock election of the Hamas Government last January, an election that Bush urged a reluctant Israel and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to hold.

Even Bush must know that the so-called road map is dead and that talk of "terrorists" derailing a positive process is an admission that his Administration is more or less paralysed in the face of what threatens to become a region-wide conflict involving Israel, Lebanon, Syria and even Iran.

And what does Bush mean when he pleads with Israel not to weaken the Lebanese Government, when Israel has bombed Lebanon's major airport and instituted a sea blockade of the country?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bushs-road-map-to-nowhere/2006/07/14/1152637871556.html

[AlamoDemoc]

1. He means he insisted Israelis not bomb five Lebanese commercial

airlines and be taken safe airport in Cyprus for safekeeping.

"And what does Bush mean when he pleads with Israel not to weaken the Lebanese Government, when Israel has bombed Lebanon's major airport and instituted a sea blockade of the country?"

[TomClash]

2. Bush couldn't care less about any road map

Israel is currently satisfying his three major constituencies: 1) Big Oil - which happily saw crude prices rise to $78/bbl today; 2) Conservative Evangelical Christians - who quixotically hope and pray for Holy Land Armaggedon while allegedly believing in Jesus; 3)the Neo-cons - who are fervently pro-Israel and see the destruction of Iran and Syria as an immediate necessity, consequences be damned.

[heidler1]

3. Bush has forged the stupidity chain link by link and placed it

around our necks along with the accompanying millstone we're stuck with. The whole notion that we can short change the countries that have excess oil we so desperately need and they will quietly accept our greed is the current driving force that has us in deep shit. They do dream on.

[whistle]

4. Like Jacob Marley in Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol"

[heidler1]

5. Yup

[Matilda]

6. Bush is the only American leader in my living memory

who wouldn't cut short his European trip, however important, and fly
home to do what he could to defuse the crisis.

I really don't think he understands at all.

[ChuckyDee]

7. negotians don't work with terrorists

Neville Chamberlayne thought he could negotiate peace with Hitler....and that worked out just swell, didn't it? Newsflash people - negotiating with psycopathic barbarians doesn't work. You either stomp those cock-roaches or they keep coming back.

The rogue elements within Syria and Iran (along with Hamas and Hizbullah) must be destroyed, no questions asked. These toilet turds will not stop until all Jews are dead and Muslims take over the world and bring it back to the 10th century.

I say "no thanks" to that....and Godspeed to Israel. May they succeed in doing what needs to be done to make this world a safer, more peaceful place. The bullies behind Hizbullah and Hamas who hide in Iran and Syria are about to be hit back - FINALLY.

Peaceniks who truly wish for a better world should be 100% behind Israel. Sadly, most peaceniks believe it's far more moral to allow Islamo-fascism to hold the world hostage to their barbaric way of life.