Bush to revive push for peace, not stage 'photo-op'

[rodeodance]

Source: afp

Bush to revive push for peace, not stage 'photo-op'

by Lachlan Carmichael 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush will launch what is touted as the first substantive push for Israeli-Palestinian peace in seven years when he opens an international conference near here Tuesday.


Topping the guest list for the meeting in Annapolis, Maryland are Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas who seek to start negotiations for a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel.

Abbas arrived in the United States late Saturday, Olmert was expected to fly in on Sunday.

By having both sides delve straight into the thorniest issues like the status of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees, the US administration says it aims to clinch a final deal before Bush leaves office in January 2009.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071125/pl_afp/mideastdiplomacy_071125113655;_ylt=AuY_lvDXdNY.HYn3fvHLsJes0NUE

[rodeodance]

1. What a headline!

[Maeve]

14. It's missing 4 words--'So stop saying that!' eom

[babylonsister]

2. I predict: too little, way too late. nt

[flordehinojos]

3. helloooooooooooo out there. does anyone believe in bush crap-u-logic any longer?

[0007]

6. As a matter of fact there is one person. (At least dressed up like one)

"Failure is not an option," US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

[flordehinojos]

7. O:-)

[whistle]

4. I doubt if any world leader will take what Shrub* says seriously and even

...if Bush comes out with a profound proposal and commitment for peace, no one will trust him. With Dick Cheney clearly in control, Israel and Palestine know deep down that their efforts to achieve peace will be for naught.

[gratuitous]

19. How can you say Bush isn't serious?

The conference is scheduled to last nearly half a day! Surely you're not saying that our MBA President can't solve the Middle East in four hours? Have you forgotten the economic summit in Waco, when Bush devoted parts of nearly an entire day to fixing the economy, and look how well that worked out!

Why do you all hate America so much?

[maddezmom]

5. Run-up to Mideast talks hints at split from Bush

Run-up to Mideast talks hints at split from Bush
THE WASHINGTON POST
November 25, 2007
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WASHINGTON - When the Middle East peace conference kicks off Tuesday in Annapolis, Md., President George W. Bush will deliver the opening speech and also conduct three rounds of personal diplomacy with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Such an active role is notable for a president who has never visited Israel while in office, has made only one trip to Egypt and Jordan to promote peace efforts, and has left the peace process largely in the hands of his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice.

Rice logged 100,000 miles shuttling back and forth to the Middle East eight times over the past year, telling Israelis and Arabs that despair can lead to radicalism, and that a generation of Arab youth may be lost if there is no progress on a Palestinian state. "Failure is not an option," she has often declared.

Her efforts have yielded this one-day meeting in Annapolis. But Arab officials are skeptical that the conference will amount to much, because Bush has remained relatively silent on the matter, said Daniel Kurtzer, Bush's ambassador to Israel from 2001 to 2005.


"You don't get a sense that he's invested in it," Kurtzer said.

more:http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-usrice1125,0,1622354.story

[Gman]

8. When Clinton did this the Republics, led by the fundies,

did everything they could to subvert the process and make sure there was no peace.

[Ian David]

9. What can POSSIBLY go wrong?

[rockybelt]

10. Yeah

rriiiigggghhhhht!:sarcasm:

[pinkpops]

17. Uh huh

[asjr]

11. Pure BS.

[sendero]

12. Legacy.... legacy.... legacy...

.... sorry George, your legacy is well established.

You could have easily built on the good work Bill Clinton did, but you had to toss it aside to do important things like wreck the economy and start wars you cannot end.

So now in the eleventh hour you call a meeting. God you are an idiot.

[balantz]

13. "Bush to revive push for peace, not stage 'photo-op'"

That's good, 'cause he's kinda ugly!

[go west young man]

15. Yawn. And I'm the fucking pope.

[minnesota_liberal]

25. Which one?

I'd be really impressed if you were PJP2!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. Why did they add that last part in the headline?

Who was accusing our esteemed peacemaker of a president of only seeking a photo-op? Shame on them!

Meanwhile the WH is working overtime attempting to stage a photo with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, the representative from Saudi Arabia and bush all holding hands and singing Kum Ba Yah. However, it will be a natural and spontaneous photo. ;)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

18. Then they drive the point home with Condi's quote (5th paragraph):

"Failure is not an option," US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is fond of saying.

Isn't that PRECIOUS?

:rofl:

[aquart]

27. Not an option, the sole choice.

[regnaD kciN]

20. In the words of Noah: "Riiiiiiight!"...

Note the phrasing: "the first substantive push for Israeli-Palestinian peace in seven years" -- in other words, since Bush became president.

Kind of a bit late for doing something about the biggest stress-point in world relations, isn't it? Imagine what might have happened if Commander Crotchsock had shown that determination from day one in office.

[LiberalFighter]

21. When will he find time? Between naps? Between reading his coloring book?

[balantz]

23. "Heh heh heh"

"You don't think I have the power to take a break from nappy time? Well I'm here to tell you I do, b'cause I'm the decider! And I'm decidin' it's time to make it look like I'm pay attention to this issue!"

[SammyWinstonJack]

56. ...

:spray:

[Cha]

22. Fucking Photo Opportunist!! Too

bad the world is way past sick of his fucking image.

All they want to do is throw it away with the rotten garbage.

[AzDar]

24. So...who gets the unsolicited neck massage, Abbas or Olmert?

:rofl:

[aquart]

26. Oh, dear god. Did they find oil in Jerusalem?

[Retrograde]

28. A little late to start thinking about your legacy, George

Do you really think walking in Carter's footsteps will undo your real legacy: Iraq, the economy, the plunging dollar, the Supreme Court and other appointments.

There'll be a legacy, alright, and I regret I won't live long enough to see it undone.

[TankLV]

29. And who is claiming this? And just because they're saying it somehow makes it true?

BULLSHIT.

Period.

So, in the last month of eight horribly tortuous long and miserable years of this DICTATOR, he is now suddenly soncerned with "peace"?

Give us a break...

Don't ever forget: EVERYTHING bush* TOUCHES TURNS TO SHIT. EVERYTHING HE SAY HE WILL DO OR WANT, THE OPPOSITE HAPPENS.

THAT, and that alone, is his "legacy"...

[xxqqqzme]

30. Hey what hapened to that 'roadmap' plan

chucklenuts had? Wasn't that all over the corporate media for about 2 weeks? Must have lost their way.b (As if they ever had a clue where they were going.)

[LynnTheDem]

31. TWO INVASIONS, and that psycho MFer "pushes for peace"??!

Only in bush's America could such blatant crap be tolerated.

[onehandle]

32. Bush lends heft to Mideast peace talks

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - President Bush will lend his clout Monday to help broker an elusive agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on the contours of long-stalled peace talks the two sides expect to relaunch this week at a high-stakes international conference.

Resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been a priority of a succession of U.S. presidents, and late in his two-term tenure, Bush has made that long-coveted diplomatic victory his goal, too.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/mideast_summit

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"Heft?" What an absolute fucking joke.

[cboy4]

33. The war criminal acting as peacemaker.

:puke:

[HuffleClaw]

34. WHAT 'clout' ????

"...he is not expected to advance any of his own ideas..."

ok, if i understand this he's gonna shake a few hands and that is it. but of course, before the ink is dry on any 'peace agreement' he'll personally take credit and before long we'll be hearing the freepers calling for his receiving the next Nobel Peace Prize.

[trof]

35. Yeah, I saw that headline this morning. Hunh?

About as much heft as goose down.

[Demeter]

36. Bush Is Trying to Throw His Weight Around

before he throws the missles==that's not what "throw weight" means, George!

[jimshoes]

37. Either you guys start talkin' peace

or I'll clobber ya', see. Mister diplomacy last wants to help broker a peace deal? Right. Pardon me while I fall down laughing. :rofl:

[Cobalt-60]

38. They have no credibility

particularly with Palestinians.

[LynnTheDem]

39. ROTFLMAO!

:rofl:

[underpants]

45. ABC - Bush Lends Clout to Mideast Peace Talks

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/WireStory?id=3912111&page=3

:rofl:

[Orsino]

40. They left out a 't' there. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

43. and an extra C

there's nothing this lout won't do for a cheap publicity stunt.

worst president of all time.

[MissDeeds]

41. "Heft" and "clout"?

Jesus. Journalistic integrity is indeed dead.

[boricua79]

42. what clout?

Bush is like the clumsy police guy in Police Academy...nobody wants his ass around them.

Anything Bush touches, in diplomatic circles, gets the kiss of death.

Who will believe anything that he puts his weight behind...they'll think there's some ulterior, right-wing motive for it and they will not want to support it.

Frankly, send Bill Clinton and George Bush 1 or Carter...THAT'll do much more to get peace.

Bush 2nd is used goods...nobody wants him.

[lonestarnot]

44. Misprint: heft/hash; clout/doubt

[tom_paine]

46. Wow, AP is really going at it with the nonstop propaganda

This is perhaps the creepiest thing of the past seven years (so many atrocities and orwellian nightmares to choose from!) is the way, STILL the MSM pumps out Bushie infoganda, regurgitating it with all it's high-Q-rated-words intact.

You CAN fully reengineer a false reality, these days. We watch it daily. Our Proud Fuehrer, will lend his clout, his heft to the peace process, and so peace will be declared.

:puke:

We have front row seats for the New 1937. Perhaps we are witnessing the analogue of the Munich Accords of 1938?

Or maybe it's just more Nazi/Commie/Bushie Lies and bullshit masking whatever their true intention is.

[hadrons]

47. As much 'heft' as a lightweight can ... or maybe Bush will send Hugh Hefner???

[gratuitous]

48. If I tried to type that crap about Bush and heft and clout

I'm sure my computer would throw up.

[hatrack]

49. The "heft" of an empty Ziploc sandwich bag

Pathetic.

[bemildred]

50. "Bush to stay on sidelines of Mideast talks"

Damn fellas, let's at least keep our story straight ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bushmideast26nov26,0,1935430.story?coll=la-home-world

[leaninglib]

51. I hate to be cynical, but this so-called "push for peace,"

will more than likely be no more successful than those before it.

[tabasco]

53. Carter's effort was hugely successful.

The peace treaty between Israel and Egypt has been honored to this day.

Clinton kept things from going to hell but Bush has moved the peace process back decades.

[MilesColtrane]

52. "Gotta do some Middle East peacifyin'...even though it's hard work."

"Them egghead scholars in my new Prezidentialibary are gonna need pitchers of me bein' a untier not a divider."

[Orsino]

54. It's always a photo-op for the Potemkin presidency.

But when they have to say it's not a photo-op, it's doubly so.

[Thor_MN]

55. Someone told him a picture is worth a thousand words,

So now he thinks that diplomacy is unnecessary since they will be taking so many pictures at his photo-op summit.

[Javaman]

57. It turns out, it was a photo op after all!!

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/22139.html

Bush to open Mideast conference, but won't stay for discussion

WASHINGTON — President Bush, who's largely ignored the risky business of Middle East peacemaking throughout his nearly seven years in office, will take center stage Tuesday at the international peace conference he's hosting in Annapolis, Md.

He won't remain there for long, however. Bush plans to head back to the White House after delivering his opening speech to the diplomats and dignitaries at the U.S. Naval Academy, and while surprises are always possible, White House aides said he wasn't planning to offer new American proposals to resolve the conflict.

(are we really all that surprised?)

[sutz12]

58. How about this?

We get Israel to drop the height of the wall by two feet, then we get them to put up a plaque naming it after Dubya.

Ship off a couple of pallets of $100 bills to each side and pat them on the back a bit.

Legacy in spades. :sarcasm:

[ProudDad]

59. I couldn't imagine a worse place to try it

than the USNA at Annapolis.

That fucking place is redolent with the sweaty efforts of thousands of children being taught how to become professional murderers. I know, I spent some (wasted) time there in the early 60s and decided I didn't want to be a killer for USAmerika...


I would have held it at Yosemite -- at the Ahwahnee Hotel...




Then you could get something good done...



But the the bushites probably love the idea of rubbing the noses of "Mid-Eastern" diplomats and leaders into the stench of USAmerikan militarism.

[sakabatou]

60. Push for Peace?

Really? He's actually doing this?

Unless he's doing a bait and switch...