Bush opens new rift over Middle East plan

[kayell]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1235377,00.html

Attempts by President George Bush to exploit the diplomatic triumph of the United Nations resolution on Iraq were last night running into stiff opposition at the G8 summit, as France joined Arab countries in deriding the White House plans for a greater Middle East initiative.
Buoyed by the 15-0 UN security council vote, Mr Bush and Tony Blair were seeking a three-pronged follow-up that would involve greater Nato involvement in Iraq, plans to bring western-style democracy and economic reform to the Middle East and north Africa and a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Britain and the US believed the UN show of international unity could mark the end of the west's year-long schism and draw a close to a turbulent period in which the two leaders have been dogged by violent insurrection and allegations of torture in Iraq.

"After almost two months of rough news, we had finally had a series of significant moves forward on the political side," said a senior Bush administration official.

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[SlingBlade]

1. Bush opens new rift over Middle East plan

Imagine that .
:shrug:

[pinkpops]

2. by proposing NATO involvement and having it rejected

does he not pre-empt Kerry's proposal to do the same?

[Just Me]

9. No. He's still shoving PNAC down their throats,...

,...not a "peace-keeping" plan.

[MaineDem]

3. But...but...

As I watched (briefly) CNN this morning - in one of the few moments not devoted to their beatification of Ronnie - they gave the impression Georgie had brokered a great deal involving the Middle East. It's a good thing we have the foreign press to tell the deal news.

[mare]

7. Der Spiegel actually posted

an article on its website this morning called "Der gestutzte Bush", (which means something like "The trimmed Bush") that said Bush didn't get real support on any of his political subjects at G8. It could be just me reading into the article but to me it even sounded kind of gleefully. :D

[Malva Zebrina]

4. significant moves forward?

I wonder sometimes if all of these people who seem so talented at spinning what is real into something unreal don't all have some kind of a mental aberation--it is so unreal and out of touch that is does belie some sort of mental delusions or hallucinations. They are all con men at heart.


Did the UN SC not approve of the war on Iraq--did they not caution Bush, did they not point out the lies and did not Bush say they were irrelevant? I thought that somewhere about a year ago, the SC were pointing out to us all the lies of Bush and now we have UN approval and George Bush emerging as a great and wonderful statesman, on the order of Roosevelt and Churchill, who has done enormously great things by bringing democracy and freedom to the ME and not only that, but he has an even greater plan to become the greatest war presdient ever.

He pre-emptively attacked on lies--bombed an ancient city and it's ancient artifacts and killed thousands like a Hitler, and now he is being lauded by his own National Security Adviser as a Chruchill and Roosevelt.


We knew that he would shove it off on someone else once he did the dirty deed. We knew that

No one had the power to stop this evil man

Now he cock a doodles do about pretending he brought democracy and freedom to the ME, while pretending he is a great statesman and no one has the power to stop him

[koopie57]

5. I think that everytime he does something like this

people are so stunned they can't believe it. Each day it seems he does something so inept, stupid, arrogant, ballsy .... each day I find myself being so stunned that I have to stop and think if that was what I actually heard or saw. I think the UN is in a simliar position, they have to stop and wonder about things he said and where he gets that idea from. We should grow use to it, but when it comes to stupid, bush is extremely inventive.

[0007]

6. The circus clowns play up to another!

"Turkey and Jordan were broadly supportive of the plan. But leading Arab states including Saudi Arabia and Egypt snubbed the event to protest what they view as heavy-handed US attempts to impose western values on their cultures."

junior displayed an elaborate spread for Ahmed Chalabi, and the Executive Branch believed wholeheartedly that Mr. Chalabi was the key to the Middle East. Man were they fooled, 'eh?

Iraq's newly appointed prime minister, Ayad Allawi, who was praised by junior may meet the same fate!

[Tellurian]

8. dupe~

Joe Ferret started this thread last night~

here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x613487

[PATRICK]

10. As they craft the stage paste,

the "crown jewel" that is supposed to happen June 30th in Iraq as they declare victory, withdraw to crusader castles, let ghettoized slaves duke it out in the streets("democracy") while they laugh and count the loot....

the center, the true center painfully ignored, for all eyes in the Middle East and the world remains Palestine. They have not even succeeded in managing the oil conquest. The hypocritical sham of healing the ME by democratic conquest is coming to an end one way or another while floundering, butchering Sharon plunges deeper into the primordial mire of the century.