Bush "happy" to have Israel "pound" Lebanon/Syria

[berni_mccoy]

Check it out: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aKhlUTnPC8JQ&refer=us

They have declined to set limits on Israeli action, and Rice says she won't engage in personal diplomacy until there is a clear path toward ending the extremist threat.... The Israelis are trying to ``teach Hezbollah some new rules by escalating immediately and inflicting pain,'' ... the U.S. would ``be happy'' to have Israel keep pounding

So this is it. The Bush Administration's roadmap to peace in the Middle East is to kill everyone. No diplomacy necessary. Just let them kill each other (or let Israel destroy Lebanon unhindered).

Anyone ever notice that the only times peace in the middle east was taken seriously by the U.S. was during Democratic Administrations:

# Camp David Accords (1978)
# Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty (1979)
# Madrid Conference of 1991 (during Bush Sr. but initiated by Spain)
# Oslo Accords (1993)
# Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace (1994)
# Camp David 2000 Summit





Meanwhile, the U.N. is seeking to stop the violence by sending in a multinational security force to Lebanon. This would prevent Israel from indiscriminately bombing them while at the same time controlling any militant groups in Lebanon. The U.S. is resistent to this solution as it would stop the killing and Israel's ability to completely wipe out their enemies.

[bullimiami]

1. bush happy when people are suffering.

extra happy when he causes it.

i hope there is a god and and afterlife because this bastard is going to have hell to pay.

[CuteNFuzzy]

5. hey Israel is only "defending itself"

you know against those fleeing refugees and children

[Pepper32]

11. Yep, now EVERYONE must pay! n/t

[madokie]

2. of course, they, bushco* are looking for a reason to bomb Iran's

nuclear facilities and that would fly in the face of that objective.

[leftchick]

3. yes we are in a pile of shit

:(

[cgrindley]

4. Come on

No US president would come out and say that Israel is in the wrong on this one, mostly because Israel is not in the wrong. Hell, they even managed to kill 8 of my countrymen, and I'm still not even remotely upset by it. No Canadian should be anywhere near Lebanon and certainly not anywhere near those parts of Lebanon controled by Hezzbullah. Hezzbullah is a terrorist organization and should be wiped off the political landscape. Ditto Hamas. You cannot try to win this point by showing a grimacing Sadat, Carter and Begin. The situations have absolutely nothing in common.

The UN absolutely should go into Southern Lebanon, it's obviously the only way out. The problem is that if the UN goes in prematurely, no one will disarm Hezzbullah and the problem of their terrorism will only continue.

[Howardx]

8. No Canadian should be anywhere near Lebanon

"and certainly not anywhere near those parts of Lebanon controled by Hezzbullah"

how do you know they were? the bombing isnt limited to the hezz controlled areas

[berni_mccoy]

13. If that is the case, then why not have U.S.

put it's money where it's mouth is? If Israel is in the right, as you say, then why is Bush not having the U.S. support Israel militarily in this operation? If Israel is in the right, we should be, shouldn't we? Israel has supported us militarily in every war in the Gulf we've been involved in. But we aren't... and the reason is because Israel has overreacted and has bombed Lebanon indiscriminately.

[PA Democrat]

17. So how many innocent people need to be killed before you are

"remotely upset"?

[durrrty libby]

6. Oh how I miss Diplomatic Statesman. n/t

[warrens]

7. Yeah, bombing bridges and power plants is really sticking it to Hezbollah

This is almost like Iraq. We were attacked by Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. So we attacked Iraq. Israel got in a fight with Hezbollah and attacked a bunch of Lebanese civilians.

[cantstandbush]

9. US stature among the world nations will never recover from what this

administration has done.

[AX10]

10. Sadly true.

[Johonny]

12. I enjoy

Bush Co. does nothing for the first few days of any crisis and then declares that doing nothing was actually their policy. I'm sure any day from no we will get a " no one could have foreseen the..." speech.

[berni_mccoy]

15. Let them go ahead and try to pull that b.s. again

I don't think anyone will buy it (except for some of the 33% who blindly continue to support BushCo).

[Igel]

14. I rather like the idea of UN forces going in to S. Lebanon.

However, I feel that instead of concluding the crisis, it would do what the UN usually does: unable to resolve a problem, they merely put it in stasis. Too many crises have been put on hold already. All Lebanon tried to do with Hezbollah, to the extent that it tried to do anything, was whimper and preserve the status quo.

All that happens is that everybody sits around, happy that the killing's stopped, and then goes all maudlin when it resumes. Stability is not always to be preferred; a stable sucky situation can be worse in the long run than a brief horrendously sucky situation that finally leads to some good outcome.

[Hubert Flottz]

16. Peace don't make money for Poppy Bush's friends and partners!

They are in the WAR racket!

[Xenotime]

18. I am sick to hear this..

[Hippo_Tron]

19. Teach Hezbollah what exactly?

The idea that you can teach them something is based on the assumption that Hezbollah's membership consists of rational people.

[berni_mccoy]

20. They learned they can throw the world into chaos by captureing 2 soldiers

That's one thing they learned.

Israel effectively taught them that.

[Hippo_Tron]

21. I'm pretty sure that they already knew that

They knew exactly what Israel was going to do when they captured the soldiers.

[berni_mccoy]

22. True, just like Osama knew Bush would go after Iraq for 9/11

[Homer Wells]

23. I will be damned surprised

if those two soldiers are still alive. Nobody seems to have seen them or any reports of them since their abduction, at least not in any news source I have seen.