Bush, ending Mideast tour, promises to return to advance peace talks

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Bush, ending Mideast tour, promises to return to advance peace talks
Miret el Naggar and Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: January 16, 2008 10:59:33 AM

CAIRO, Egypt — President Bush said Wednesday that achieving peace in the Middle East would remain a priority goal for his last full year in office and promised that he'd return to the region to monitor developments.

"I mean what I say," he said at the resort town of Sharm el Sheik on the final stop of an eight-day tour of the Middle East.

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Independent Egyptian newspapers and opposition activists expressed anger over Bush's arrival in Egypt a day after an Israeli military operation killed 19 Palestinians in Gaza, including a son of the leader of the powerful militant Islamist group Hamas.

"We reject this visit and condemn it, all these massacres that happen in Palestine," said Hamdy Hassan, an Egyptian legislator from the parliamentary bloc of the Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological inspiration for Hamas. "Yesterday's events in Gaza are not a coincidence, and they happen with American weapons. . . . This visit is an insult — two or three hours, just a pit stop."

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[sakabatou]

1. Riiiight...

Peace? Bush? It's like oil and water.

[maxsolomon]

2. Hamdy Hassan is right - it was just a Pit Stop

Since everything he says is a lie designed to distract Murkans & the rest of the planet from his actions, Bush demonstrably does NOT mean what he says.

Too late, George. Your legacy is already written in blood & debt. You look like a whore & cheapen our country by snuggling with the tasteless medieval monarchs in SA & UAE. Don't go anywhere else, please - you just make it worse.

Jan 20th, 2009, please hurry.

[angstlessk]

3. of his 8 years, he has spent 7 creating chaos, havoc, and war so now

he will devote his 'entire' 8th year (means 6 months if you count vacations) promotiing peace? yeach that'll work, sure it will. :grr:

[Magleetis]

4. Bush the peacemaker

:rofl:

[louis-t]

5. He really doesn't know, does he?

Doesn't know the world is laughing at him and has no respect for him at all. He really thinks he's 'mpordant. He believes the hype about himself. Part of the spin will be: Gas prices going down cuz bushie told them Ay-rabbs to 'open the spigot', even though the Saudis pretty much told him to get screwed.

[MsMagnificent]

6. Well, that's that, then.

When Dubya comes out and actually, absolutely declares something as true, when 'he really means it'

...it means the exact opposite.


Hope nobody is holding their breath over this one
Well, maybe the 'pukes, en masse, can hold their breath until he fulfills his "promises". :rofl:
--do the entire world a BIG favor!


And BTW, doesn't the 'religion', i.e. bat-shit crazy sect(s), he belongs to --er, professes to belong to-- say that the ANTICHRIST (Boo!) is going to be a, OMG Peacemaker?

...followers of Jesus Christ my sweet azz!

[damntexdem]

7. If he really wanted to advance peace, he'd promise to stay away.

Actually, if he really wanted to advance peace, he'd resign and take Darth Cheney with him. ;-)