Bush's Kiss Of Death

[kentuck]

Do you agree with Parry on this assessment?
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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/031105.html

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George W. Bush’s grab to take credit for a few democratic openings in the Middle East has endangered the region’s reformers while his two-year-old military adventure in Iraq continues to founder, a disaster sinking in the blood of Iraqi citizens and U.S. soldiers.

That grim assessment is, of course, not the imagery favored by the U.S. news media as it resumes its role of courtier press, lavishing praise on Bush and his neoconservative advisers as heroic visionaries leading the Middle East to freedom.

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One of the results was a backlash that saw pro-Syrian Hezbollah stage a counter rally of a half million people in Beirut on March 8, denouncing U.S. intervention in Lebanese politics and accusing Washington of regional “terrorism.” This massive outpouring emboldened Lebanon’s parliament to re-elect pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami, who had resigned just nine days earlier in face of the anti-Syrian protests.

The twin developments were a stunning reversal for U.S. policy in Lebanon, putting the country’s political position back almost where it was when the anti-Syrian protests began following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Feb. 14. The heightened tensions also have complicated the United Nations’ strategy for pressuring Syria to withdraw its remaining 14,000 troops from Lebanon.

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[Straight Shooter]

1. I don't know about "the kiss of death" vis-a-vis Syria

But it was amazing to see the protestors. bush is a simpleton, his world is carved in black and white. All his life his folks gave him what he wanted. He thinks by wishing, by intervention, he can make it so. bush doesn't understand how complex the cultures of other societies are, because he is a simpleton both morally and mentally.

[The Doctor.]

4. Don't forget 'hypocrite'.

Ok, ok, we could be here all day.

So what do you think the arab world must feel about our demands that Syria leave Lebannon while we sit in a smoking Iraq?

There must be a joke in there somewhere.

[Last Lemming]

5. Black and white?

I believe that is needlessly compicating his world view--I think we could discribe it using just the color black

[leftchick]

2. Have you read this Kentuck?

This fellow is being brutally honest about bushco** Hypocrisy...

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2005-03/10/article01.shtml

Egyptian FM Rebuts Bush’s Claims on Democracy


“What model are we talking about in Iraq? Bombs are exploding everywhere, and Iraqis are killed every day in the streets,” said Aboul Gheit.


WASHINGTON, March 10, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – In a point-by-point rebuttal of US President George W. Bush’s argument that democracy is on the march in the Middle East after the Iraq invasion, Egyptian Foreign minister said the region feels by no means grateful to Washington.

“What model are we talking about in Iraq? Bombs are exploding everywhere, and Iraqis are killed every day in the streets,” Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in an interview with the Washington Post, published Thursday, March 10.

“Palestinian elections? There were elections seven years prior,” he added, referring to presidential elections held in occupied Palestinian territories in January, 2005.

The Egyptian top diplomat was critical of Bush’s speech Tuesday, March 8, in which the US president listed elections held by Iraqis and Palestinians and anti-Syrian demonstrations in Lebanon as signs that “clearly and suddenly, the thaw has begun” in the largely authoritarian Middle East.

As for Syria, Aboul Gheit dismissed Bush’s comments that the demonstrations were out of his “policies that allegedly aim at leading the region towards democracy”.

Aboul Gheit, on his part, referred to something that Bush entirely ignored; that is Tuesday's mega pro-Syrian demonstration in Lebanon.

[kentuck]

6. How discouraging.....

that there are some that will not parrot the positive, dream-like meassage of the Busheviks. <sarcasm off>

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. When I heard Bush...

attempting to take credit for Syria leaving Lebanon, all I could think of was - OH Crap!

[applegrove]

7. I don't know if the myth is for the Middle East to buy... or if it is for

Americans. Because after WWII - feeling in Canada was "great of you to join us USA after 2 years - thanks allot for letting it get so bad". And we really didn't see the Myth of USA in WWII the same way as USA did.

Perhaps the myth here again is for the USA. Perhaps they accept that all the Mid East will be thinking of them as "Ironic" to put it nicely. And the big prize is to give the win for the Middle East to the Repukes so they can remake USA in their image for the New American Century.

In other words they need democracy in Mid - East to undo the Islamic Fundies who the Right Wing USA in fact created in Iran and elsewhere by policies. So practically Mid East has a new structure (democracy) and inside USA has a new Myth: Republicans made peace in the Mid East.

Just guessing and putting it out there.