Violence Accompanies Bush Visit

[flashl]

Source: AP

The Israeli military fired at Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing three people, after a rocket hit a house in a battered Israeli border town just as President Bush began his Mideast peace mission.
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Just after Bush arrived in Israel at midday, another rocket exploded in Sderot, hitting a house. No one was hurt, police said.
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Before the Bush visit, defense officials said army commanders were instructed to scale back operations against Gaza militants while Bush was in the area.

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Thousands of Islamic Hamas supporters chanted "Death to America" and watched an effigy of George W. Bush go up in flames Wednesday, as they protested the U.S. president's visit to Israel and the West Bank.

During his eight-day Mideast mission, Bush's challenge is to convince skeptical governments that with just a year remaining in his presidency and Americans deep in the process of selecting his successor, he is willing to devote the time and effort necessary to bridge decades of differences between Israelis and Palestinians.

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It's hard to believe that a 'peace' mission will be successful or possible as people are chanting "Death to America".

[polichick]

1. Well, it's kinda hard to look at Bush and think peace. nt

[pretzel4gore]

4. his grampa helped mr hitler...

just like osama helping junyer and his nightstalker admin all the goddam time (thus causing liberals to exclaim 'darn you, Osama! we're on the same side, at least insofar as junyer bush is concerned, will you puleez lay off the threatening videos! jeezus h kerist!' and for gods sake, don't mention michael any moore!)... history, more like hushtory in this case, reveals that prescot bush provided funds for the nazis when they hadn't a pot to pee in! Yet Israel welcomes the punk like he's a normal!

[mamameow]

8. violence

bushies are violence

[bemildred]

2. This could be as good (or bad if you like) as Nixon's Latin American tour.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/nixon.htm

[Demeter]

3. Remember Rich Little's Routine?

His Nixon is talking to Rockerfellow, who got pelted with vegetables:

"I know how you feel, I got stoned in Nicaragua!"

Rokerfellow replies: "I didn't have time for that!"

[leftchick]

5. I'll see it as good

:)

[flordehinojos]

6. did bush double up on Depends? stinky, stinky visit otherwise.

[flashl]

7. You remembered.

[flordehinojos]

13. mostly bush taught us that cowards need Depends.

[superconnected]

9. Bush shows up and the place goes to hell, like they didn't already know his track record.

[Ian David]

10. Why are the Palestinians mad at America? We didn't vote for him! n/t

[IDemo]

11. Has Chimpy attempted to declare martial law there yet?

[DLnyc]

12. "Bush's challenge is to CONVINCE skeptical . . ."

These people don't actually do policies, they just do 24/7 propaganda. They don't try to get the different parties to agree on anything, compromise, work out a deal, anything useful like that, they just try to get various groups to BELIEVE they do these things. Sadly, people eventually pretend they do believe it, just to shut him up.

Headline should read "Violence Accompanies Bushit Photo-Op"

[Amonester]

14. gee... a Walker bu$h there is

provocation

[Tom Joad]

15. I oppose violence, but i wish every where Bush went there were very loud

and well-populated protests. The kind that shut down cities. The kind we need to end this insane war, cuz the Dems in congress don't give a fuck.

[thunder rising]

16. Aren't we going to the moon (or Mars) soon ... also?

All those ambitions and sooo little time. Such a little man, the boy that would be king, with wild visions of grandeur.