Life
For those who believe Bush is pro-life, one only needs to look further than their own front porch to see that he's actually the opposite. He's pro-death and makes no apologies for it.I still think he's trying to drum up support to bomb Iran.
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Lebanon crisis is part of broader struggle: Bush By Caren Bohan
Sat Jul 29, 11:18 AM ET
President Bush on Saturday cast the Lebanon war as part of a broader struggle against terrorism and said a strategy to end the violence there must address the threat posed by Hizbollah.
Amid mounting concern over civilian casualties in the fighting between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was headed to Israel to discuss the terms of a proposal for a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a negotiated truce.
A day after Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced they would try to offer the resolution next week, Bush used his weekly radio broadcast to highlight his goals.
"As we work to resolve this current crisis, we must recognize that Lebanon is the latest flashpoint in a broader struggle between freedom and terror that is unfolding across the region," Bush said.
Bush and Blair agreed that a multinational force for Lebanon should be formed quickly to help speed delivery of aid to thousands of displaced Lebanese and help stabilize the border.
"We will work with our allies to adopt a resolution that establishes a framework to end the violence quickly, and mandates the multinational force," he said.
"This approach will demonstrate the international community's determination to support the government of Lebanon, and defeat the threat from Hizbollah and its foreign sponsors."
BUSH BLAMES HIZBOLLAH, IRAN AND SYRIA
At least 462 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Lebanon since the conflict erupted on July 12 when Hizbollah seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.
Hizbollah, which wants to swap the soldiers for Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, has killed 51 Israelis, 18 of them civilians hit by rockets fired into the Jewish state.
Bush blames the violence on Hizbollah and its foreign sponsors Iran and Syria.
But the crisis, coming amid an escalation of sectarian violence in Iraq, has put Bush on the defensive about his foreign policy agenda of trying to spread freedom in the Middle East.
Bush's approach to the Middle East came under criticism in the Democratic response to his radio address.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, said the administration might have been able to handle the Israel-Lebanon crisis more effectively if it had a Mideast envoy in place.
"If we would have had a permanent Middle East envoy in the region, we would have been in a better position to disarm Hizbollah and protect Israel, and implement a concurrent ceasefire along with a legitimate, international peacekeeping force on the ground," Richardson said in the Democratic radio address.
Richardson also said the administration had proven inept at diplomacy. He faulted, among other things, the policy in Iraq where "waves of bloody violence push the country toward civil war" with no end in sight.
Bush cited Iraq in the radio address and repeated his goal of establishing a democracy "in the heart of the Middle East."
In Lebanon, he said ridding the country of "terrorists and foreign influence" would eventually bring about a better life there.
"This moment of conflict in the Middle East is painful and tragic," Bush said. "Yet it is also a moment of opportunity for broader change in the region."
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posted by CherylRenee @ 3:18 PM
3 Comments:
Hey, you really don't like Bush, do you? I was just kidding about him, myself. He has at least one redeeming quality: I think he would make a wonderful town drunk once again for Midland, Texas, which was the job he was most successful at. You're right, he's pro-death. To see that, all one has to do is note his perfect record of capital executions while he was governor of Texas, the capital-punishment capital of America.
That is so true. ha ha, the town drunk. He still does that pretty well I bet. Remember the episode when he was watching football and he supposedly, "choked on a pretzel or something" and briefly passed out?
Wish he'd choked on that bread he was chewing while he was being stupid with Tony Blair at the G-8 conference. A TFM for TFMs.
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