Religious leaders appeal to Bush to take the lead in Mideast peace process

[Kadie]

Religious leaders appeal to Bush to take the lead in Mideast peace process
SIOBHAN McDONOUGH, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, January 13, 2005


(01-13) 09:14 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --

Leaders of Jewish, Christian and Muslim groups urged President Bush on Thursday to discuss a renewed role by the United States in Mideast peace initiatives.

With a newly elected Palestinian leadership and Israel's plans to withdraw from Gaza, the United States should take a higher profile role, religious leaders said in its public appeal to the president.

"This is an unprecedented initiative that brings a powerful moral voice to a pivotal issue at a pivotal time," Baltimore Cardinal William Keeler said of the coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim groups pressing the president to make Mideast peace a top priority.

Coordinating with 35 national religious leaders are leaders in more than a dozen cities including Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Hartford and New Haven, Conn., Baltimore, Charlotte and Durham, N.C., and Washington, D.C.

The leaders are asking that Bush:

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[villager]

1. these would be "sane" religious leaders?

Bush doesn't listen to those.

[EVDebs]

3. True. The Bush crowd are the Third Temple Pilots...n/t

[Vincardog]

4. No sane leader would want aWoL any where near the Mideast

Look at how he has managed to drive everything he has touched into the ground.

[Downtown Hound]

2. Asking Bush to lead a peace process is like

asking the Klan to lead a civil rights march.

[KoKo]

5. You said it.....they should want Bush to stay far..far..away! He destroys

everything he touches!

[VegasWolf]

6. That should just about torpedo any chances for middle-east peace.n/t

[BRLIB]

7. Just what we need, an honest broker.....

(Just kidding)

[frictionlessO]

8. this makes perfect sense!

if youre trying to derail the peace process!

These leaders must be fanatics or corporates in disguise!