Bush: It could take time for world to view war as a Hezbollah loss

[spindrifter]

Haaretz.com
Last update - 23:30 18/08/2006

By The Associated Press

CAMP DAVID, Maryland - President George W. Bush acknowledged Friday that it could take time for the people of Lebanon and the world to view the war between Israel and Hezbollah as a loss for the militant group.

"The first reaction of course of Hezbollah and its supporters is to declare victory. I guess I would have done the same thing if I were them," Bush said after a meeting with his economic advisers.

"Sometimes it takes people a while to come to the sober realization of what forces create stability and what don't," he said. "Hezbollah is a force of instability."

Bush also expressed some disappointment with France's decision to offer just 400 soldiers to the United Nations peacekeeping force being developed to calm the situation in southern Lebanon. France was expected to lead the mission, and its announcement of such a small number led to doubts that the force would deploy quickly.

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/752182.html

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This is so un-freakin'-believable: First, the sour-grapes rueful projection of how the Israel-Hezbollah war will be viewed--and then the amazing grammar in the third paragraph--

[LynnTheDem]

1. bush, please...shut the fuck up already. How bloody embarrassing it is

nowadays to be an American under that motherfucking idiot.

[Deja Q]

3. Maybe that's the intent...

And other countries will come liberate the US just as we had with Iraq. :scared:

(only so far, Bush is picking targets that the world somewhat understandably agrees is ran by some real vermin...)

[LynnTheDem]

7. Yet even tho the world may agree bush's targets are less than

desirable types, they side with the "vermin" against us. That's how bloody low bush has taken us all.

We're seen (understandably, imo) as worse than his "vermin" targets. Far worse.

[peacetalksforall]

2. What War? That was a killing and destruction SPREE. If a war, what

was its name?

[Baselinereality]

6. They're Still Trying To Figure That Out...

"The Second Lebanon War" seems to be in the lead.

I thought all progressives listened to NPR? This was covered this afternoon.

[peacetalksforall]

9. I've been told I'm a Progressive, I thought I was a U.S. citizen. But, I

don't listen to NPR Monday through Friday because they abandoned neutrality to lean right to too right. When I have some money I send them 2/7th of what I used to send since I only listen on Saturday and Sunday - politics are minor - hosts are great.

[soothsayer]

4. "I guess I would have done the same thing if I were them,"

Mission accomplished ring a bell?

[Baselinereality]

5. I Love This Quote By Bush Today:

"Sometimes it takes people a while to come to the sober realization of what forces create stability and what don't."

Yeah, tell me about it, dipshit. You've been recklessly using our forces for five years now and you still haven't figured it out.

Bush thinks Iraq is stable and Afghanistan is a burgeoning democracy. And he thinks the tax cuts have been good for our country. Oh--and now he thinks that Hezbollah lost this war. Well. If we can't impeach him for criminal behavior, we should at least be able to institutionalize the muthaf*cka for being batshit insane.

[eleny]

8. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

I wish he'd go back to not talking.