Bush Middle East Speech Discussion Thread

[RCW2001]

Bush Middle East Speech Discussion Thread

[cactusSharp]

Bush in the last paragraphs said the Bible speaks of life and death...choose life....them's fightin words my friends.....a plan has been chosen and Bush is no wussy.

The USof A just threw down

[Fred Mertz]

Does this mean Bush is going to stop protecting Arafat? Are the gloves off now?

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Wait - he did NOT call for a provisional Pali state? WHAT?

But, but, but.....isn't that what Steponallofus, what the AP, what UPI, what Reuters, what ABCNBCCBSCNN told us he was going to say?????

I'm crushed....NOT!

Way to Go, Mr. President!

[ladtx]

Some people hear what they want to hear. Sounded like plain english to me.

[cardinal4]

We won't support a Palestinean state until there is a new government, new leadership & renunciation of terror is what I heard.

Thats how I understood it, too.

[Howlin]

Which means, of course, that it will be immediately rejected by the Palestinians, the terror organizations, and most other Arab/Islamic states.

And the malcontents on FR.

[seeker41]

Oh my, he has just set up the whole arab world.(LMAO)

We'll be going after all of them before this is over.

[mombonn]

He is taking, IMO, a harder line than any could have anticipated.

Yet another example of waiting for the MAN to speak rather than falling for the drivel that often precedes him.

[AlGone2001]

Bush is a traitor. He has given into terrorism. He might as well announce the creation of Binladenstan while he's at it. This is truly disgusting and makes me sick to live in a country that now offically supports terrorism.

Bye.

[ladtx]

Looks like I pushed the hot button on a Bushbot. LOL

Hardly. Just understand plain english.

[Howlin]

I told you before, WE should be doing a talk show.......LOL.

[mhking]

MSNBC is trying to spin it as "Maybe down the road, a true Palestinian state with 1967 borders..." Where the heck did 1967 borders get said - was David Gregory(MSNBC) watching the same speech as the rest of us?

[bvw]

Today's Bush's plan is a slap-in-the-face to George W. Bush, who spoke clearly and forthrighty to our nation and the world in the days right after 9/11.

[rintense]

Then move.

[Howlin]

When will "they" EVER learn!

[Types_with_Fist]

He certainly will get an answer soon. And it is NOT a waste of time

Maybe I don't understand. How will this speech make any difference in the Arabs' behavior? I'm not being sarcastic. I really want to know.

[mhking]

Oh my, he has just set up the whole arab world.(LMAO)

We'll be going after all of them before this is over.

Got to rack the balls before you can run the table...

[Amelia]

Looks like I pushed the hot button on a Bushbot. LOL.

LOOKS like you commented without listening to the speech. LOL.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Actually, not a waste of time.

Rejection will carry its own price. The offer, rejected, will allow for a policy of war when it is rejected violently.

War against this heinous form of terror and its adherents has always been the ideal policy for the situation, the policy which many of us who were so critical of the Powell mission have been looking for.

Bush's speech provides the entre for a policy of war against Palestinian terror. That's not a waste at all. And it's many miles from where we were when Powell was sent in practical supplication a couple months ago.

Not a waste at all.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Anyone who says that Bush just rewarded terrorists is either a fool, a liar or both.He just kicked Arafat to the curb and gave the Pale people an ultimatum-do it my way( economic and security reforms, end to terror, honest, democratically elected leaders,etc)or it's the side of the Israeli highway. A great speech.