Pickles in Israel as Freedom Marches On: "what an emotional place this is"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157283,00.html







JERUSALEM — Protesters besieged Laura Bush (search) during her visit Sunday to two of Jerusalem's most sacred sites, with Israeli police locking arms to restrain the crowd and Secret Service agents packed tightly around America's first lady.

Stepping into the long-running Mideast conflict, she appealed for Israelis and Palestinians to commit to working for peace and said Americans "will do what they can in this process."

The demonstrations at the Western Wall (search) and the Dome of the Rock showed "what an emotional place this is as we go from each one of these very, very holy sites to the next," Mrs. Bush said later in the West Bank town of Jericho (search) as she stood at the ruins of the 8th-century Hisham's Palace.

"We're reminded again of what every one of us would want. ... What we all want is peace and the chance that we have right now to have peace, to have a Palestinian state living by a secure state of Israel, both living in democracy, is as close as we've been in a really long time," she said at an ancient home of Islamic spiritual leaders.

[vogonjiltz]

1. Wow the sunlight really brings out hagginess.

[vogonjiltz]

2. Emotional is a bit of an understatment...

unless by emotional you mean, "they'd brick my ass if it weren't for all this security."

[leesa]

4. It's too bad The Xanex Queen doesn't notice we're emotional at home too

I guess she's never noticed the hundreds of thousands of people protesting her husband's follies.

[Mark E. Smith]

3. You Know How Excitable Foreigners Are

Always going on about something, aren't they Pickles?

[GoBlue]

5. This one reminds me of the wicked witch of the west

just before she starts to melt.

[gratuitous]

9. Is there something wrong with her pinkie?

Her right pinkie is bent over in a way I've seen on carpenters and framers, but since I've never heard of Pickles doing a hard day's work in her overpampered life, I can't imagine why she'd have such a problem.

Maybe it was just a momentary thing caught in the shutter blink of a camera.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. MSNBC photo: Cops protecting her from all of that "Israeli Love"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7918891/

"Surrounded by Israeli police and security guards U.S. first lady Laura Bush arrives for a visit at the Western Wall and the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City Sunday."

[MoJoWorkin]

7. W can't run again, so they are putting Pickles in the limelight, why?

Maybe they think she can shill for Cheney and the neo-cons. If Dems run Hillary, for example, they might run Pickles. I know it is absurd, but I wouldn't put anything past these conniving Nazis. . They recently played up her humor; now they make her look like a heroine; next they will show her being an ambassador, and show her supposed intellect, etc.:puke:

[Bill_Shankly]

8. The Stepford Tour of the Middle East

Since when did this woman become a diplomat? Since when did she acquire the skills necessary for diplomatic service? She has the inane grin of the Stepford Wife who is married to a man with a stupid smirk.

[spooky3]

10. welcome to DU, Bill_Shankly!

[SharonAnn]

11. Well, it is an emotional place. I had the same emotional and also

spiritual feelings when I was there. It's hard to explain but it is overpowering.

It's truly incredible.