Bush unmoved as EU repeats call for immediate truce

[spindrifter]

By Nada Bakri and Nafez Qawas
Lebanon Daily Star staff
Friday, July 28, 2006

BEIRUT: The international divide over Israel's ongoing assault on Lebanon widened on Thursday as the United States reiterated its demand that any cease-fire be "sustainable," while the European Union pressed for an immediate end to the bloodshed. The latest diplomatic differences come a day after 15 foreign ministers from some of the world's leading powers pledged during a conference in Rome to work toward an urgent, but not immediate, cease-fire. The conference did agree on the need for an international peacekeeping force, but participants failed to provide details on either the composition the force or the precise nature of its mission.

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former US President Bill Clinton called for an immediate Western-brokered cease-fire between the combatants to be monitored by NATO peacekeepers, a position in stark contrast to that of the current US administration.

"We've got to try to move now to get a cease-fire," Clinton said.

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Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, the Vatican's foreign minister, said in a radio interview on Thursday that the existing situation was too complicated to wait for conditions to be right for a cease-fire.

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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=74318

[fearthem]

1. For he has no soul, he's a shell of a man.

[European Socialist]

2. It is so obvious all out war is what Chimp is after.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Well he is the self admitted war pResident, after all.

:grr:

[madrchsod]

4. do you realize no one is going to talk to him

at any world conference in the next two years...they will avoid him like the plague

[spindrifter]

5. CBS-NYT Poll: World Doesn't Respect Bush

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/26/opinion/polls/main1838662.shtml

How stupid does one need to be to spend all the diplomatic capital that *'s predecessors banked?:crazy:

[MadMaddie]

6. Yea...but that diplomatic capital was forged bills.....no one

thought to look!