Bush blames Hamas for Gaza conflict

[lame54]

Source: WASHINGTON (CNN)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. President Bush laid the blame for recent fighting in Gaza squarely at the feet of Hamas, accusing militants of waging a campaign of violence against Israel with little regard for its people.


President Bush, pictured in December, says Hamas "has no intention of serving the Palestinian people."

"Since Hamas' violent takeover in the summer of 2007, living conditions have worsened for Palestinians in Gaza," Bush says in prepared remarks released Friday by the White House. "By spending its resources on rocket launchers instead of roads and schools, Hamas has demonstrated that it has no intention of serving the Palestinian people."

In a radio address to air Saturday, Bush says Hamas committed an act of terrorism when it renewed rocket attacks into Israel last month, provoking this week's airstrikes by Israel.

"In response to these attacks on their people, the leaders of Israel have launched military operations on Hamas positions in Gaza," Bush says. "As a part of their strategy, Hamas terrorists often hide within the civilian population, which puts innocent Palestinians at risk."

Palestinian medical sources said Friday that at least 421 people have been killed and 2,200 wounded in Gaza since Israeli air raids began December 27.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/02/bush.gaza/ind...

[Ian David]

1. Great. Now he's gonna invade Hamasistan. n/t

[Idealism]

4. Don't worry, after a few months he'll stop pretending and go after Iran

[Idealism]

2. What has Bush actually gotten factually correct in the past 8 years?

[thunder rising]

3. And Israel has no problem slaughtering everybody to get to the few.

[treestar]

12. Exactly. Which there is no excuse for

Terrorist attacks can be investigated and the actual perpetrators found.

[PM Martin]

5. And no one trusts him anymore.

So most of us do not give a damn what you have to say. In 2 weeks time, you will be gone.

[GoesTo11]

6. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[pyro858]

7. Bush knows terrorism well

He's been terrorizing the world for 8 years. How many innocent people have died because of this idiot?

[balantz]

8. This is important.

We all know he is a lying sack of shit and it's all about control of resources to him and his kind, so anytime shrubbie says "Git them terrists!" we should be pushing for doing the opposite.

[defendandprotect]

9. I blame Bush and American r-w . . .our weapons, our money are doing this---!!!

[High Plains]

10. US policy on Israel/Palestine is so incredibly one-sided.

Israel can do wrong, the Palestinians are always and only to blame for their oppression.

How can the US have the gall to call itself an honest broker?

Will Obama be any different? I'm not optimistic.

[williamson86]

13. My two cents

I have a question about this...and I assume that I don't feel the same way that most others on DU do about this conflict...but we aren't an ally to Hamas but to Israel. Are you advocating for the US to not be an ally of Israel any longer? I think I am one of the few here who favor Bush's hawkish attitude in favor of Israel and, I may be wrong about this, but don't most of the country share Bush's views toward the conflict? Just my thoughts...

[LynnTheDem]

18. "don't most of the country share Bush's views toward the conflict?" Nope.

Not only does Rasmussen find that Americans generally "are closely divided over whether the Jewish state should be taking military action against militants in the Gaza Strip" (44-41%, with 15% undecided), but Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose the Israeli offensive -- by a 24-point margin (31-55%). By stark constrast, Republicans, as one would expect (in light of their history of supporting virtually any proposed attack on Arabs and Muslims), overwhelmingly support the Israeli bombing campaign (62-27%).

Meanwhile, most of the rest of the world -- Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East, the U.N. leadership -- opposes and condemns the attack, all to no avail. The parties with the superior military might (the U.S. and Israel) dismiss world opinion as essentially irrelevant. Even the pro-war rhetorical tactics are the same (just as those who opposed the Iraq War were demonized as being "pro-Saddam," those who oppose the Israeli attack on Gaza are now "pro-Hamas").
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/02-10

[classysassy]

20. Your

words have a ring of truth to them.

[EconomicLiberal]

11. He's partly right.

Now only if he would condemn Isreal would be completely correct. But of course he won't. He has Isreali interests in his ear.

[Mudoria]

14. Amazing.. the Bushmeister is right for one of the rare occasions..

[truebrit71]

21. Bullshit.

War-mongers using US arms are to blame...

Want to stop the violence in the ME, INSTANTLY?

STOP GIVING ISRAEL ARMS AND $$$$

[captain jack]

15. A friend of bush is no friend of mine.

[Jefferson23]

16. This miserable piece of shit is a complete disgrace.

[LynnTheDem]

17. Republics always blame the victims.

Always.

The one-sidedness is what will bring us all down in the end.

[KamaAina]

19. That would be the Hamas that Bush** insisted be allowed to run in the elections

over the strenuous, and justified, objections of the Israelis, 'cause "it's not really a fair election unless everybody gets to run." Never mind that practically no democracy allows terrorist groups to run candidates in its elections (for instance, IRA member Bobby Sands stood for Parliament as an independent).

So, the headline should read "Bush blames Bush for Gaza conflict". Can't he just go clear brush for, oh, I dunno, seventeen days or so? Like Jon Stewart said, "We know it's a bike! It looks like a bike! Can't we just have the bike now?"

[subsuelo]

22. typical ignorant response