Bush avoids any contact with Israeli prime minister

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=f0c050ad1d9455ea

Despite the Middle East facing its biggest crisis in years, U.S. President George W. Bush has had no contact with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

In fact the president has had no communication with any Israeli leaders, and White House Press Secretary, Tony Snow, says he has no plans to consult with any Israeli officials.

Asked at a press conference in Germany about the bombing of the Beirut International Airport, Mr. Bush avoided answering the question but said he was concerned about any actions that would weaken the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, who came to power in July last year following the exit of Syria from the country.

Bush has telephoned King Abdullah of Jordan, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and Siniora, but has avoided any contact with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The president has strenuously defended Israel's military actions in Lebanon, which followed the death of eight Israeli soldiers, and the capture of two others. At a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday he repeatedly said Israel had a right to defend itself.

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, traveling with the president, said, 'Today on the plane, the President made some phone calls to foreign leaders regarding the situation in the Middle East. He talked to King Abdullah of Jordan, they talked for, I don't know, 12 minutes or so. He also talked to Hosni Mubarak, and the third (call) was to Prime Minister Siniora of Lebanon. The topics were all the same. He thanked especially King Abdullah and President Mubarak for their help in trying to resolve the situation in the region.'


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[PATRICK]

1. Without Sharon

some elements may be duping or doing an end run around the new guy. Bush can't fill him in without spoiling the usefulness of the murky cover, the intense convenience for the WH plans. Either way, this adds up to a show of non-conspiracy, or a greta example of my Coincidence Theory where nothing has to be planned or discussed because nothing in fact is related to anything at all. It just happens, not our fault!

[lovuian]

3. Its amazing how Bush is almost ignoring the whole thing

This is all calculated....

[americanstranger]

2. Two words: 'Plausible Deniability.'

It was a biggie from the Nixon era.

Plausible deniability is a political doctrine originally developed in the United States of America in the 1950s and applied to operations by the then newly formed Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Plausible deniability involves the creation of power structures and chains of command loose and informal enough to be denied if necessary. The idea was that the CIA (and, later, other bodies) could be given controversial instructions by powerful figures -- up to and including the president himself -- but that the existence and true source of those instructions could be denied if necessary; if, for example, an operation went disastrously wrong and it was necessary for the administration to disclaim responsibility.

The doctrine had two major flaws. First, it was an open door to the abuse of authority; it required that the bodies in question could be said to have acted independently, which in the end was tantamount to giving them license to act independently. Second, it rarely worked when invoked; the denials made were rarely plausible and were generally seen through by both the media and the populace.

http://webserve.govst.edu/pa/Political/Not-So-Great%20Expectations/plausible.htm

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[Warren DeMontague]

4. If he wanted "Plausible Deniability",he wouldn't be photographed smooching

the dictators of the nation where most of the 9-11 hijackers came from, now, would he?

[americanstranger]

5. I'm talking specifically about the current situation.

When, in the history of all Israeli-Arab conflicts, can you remember an American president not contacting leaders on both sides to call for restraint?

The original post says he's spoken to practically everyone in the ME about the situation, including the PM of Lebanon.

So why would he not call Olmert?

Call me a tinfoil hat wearer, but something is going on that Bush wants to stay far away from, and it applies to Israel - because that's the only party to the conflict he has not been in contact with. And the article up at the top says that he does not plan to speak to Olmert.

Something stinks.

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[Warren DeMontague]

6. I think he's on a bender, frankly.

C'mon. The guy goes to bed at seven and he supposedly "exercises" several hours a day. Dig? He doesn't work AT ALL. He hasn't been on the fucking job since he took it. And it shows.

And I think the fact that Bush has been in bed with the Saudis since day one is totally relevant to, as you put it, the "current situation" and the assertions floating around here that Israel is somehow the great evil force behind the PNAC agenda. I don't think Bush -or his administration- gives a fuck for Israel. Israel doesn't have any oil.

[PATRICK]

7. I think that is true also

This time, to preserve the appearance of plausible deniability, Bush CANNOT be publicly nervous or scared. He has been given mood modifiers, most definitely, to prop his terrible acting and the simpleton script until this war is started as if by someone else.

The progress of Bush demeanor also spreads out this way in every seeming freely developing crisis.
First he is sullen, withdrawn and shaky and combative in public. Then sequestered. Then on vacation.
Suddenly, as "surprising" things are about to happen or the big "drama" of the election is about go on, Bush smooths out, is confident, sometimes modest and conciliating, even exuberant. That means things are going his way and the fix is in.

The fact he normally doesn't give a sweet damn about the consequences or human toll or the magnitude of the criminal act doesn't preclude a tonic chaser so he can appear calm and above things when the bodies start piling up and the world starts screaming. In fact, considering how badly most crises actually go, it seems almost an inevitability that- with the media and world distracted- he can afford to slip on a chemical mask that almost serves as a stabilizing comfort that at least no dweebish madman is tottering over his crimes insanely out of control.

A dictator at the first tries to enforce n image of stability and legitimacy. Bush's shaky persona and psyche needs the same forced treatment. His own feelings and mind must be chemically tyrannized to keep up the global illusion.

Probability: the high 99% percentile and having his bodily wastes flown back under guard to the US is utterly certain proof.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. What's that? He's got the secret service protecting his poop?

Whoa. I must have missed that little news item.

[maxsolomon]

9. our money sure isn't avoiding the IDF

deliberate strategy - israel gets a free hand.