Bush skirted main goal in Middle East in favor of threatening Iran

[cynatnite]

JERUSALEM — President Bush 's historic speech to the Israeli parliament was as telling for what it didn't say as for what it did.

In 22 minutes, Bush offered one of the strongest demonstrations of support for Israel ever made by an American president. And he reawakened lingering hopes among hawks in Israel or the United States for a U.S. military strike to thwart Iran's nuclear program.

Israel's Army Radio reported Friday that the possibility of an American strike on Iran was raised in private discussions during Bush's visit.

And Mark Regev , spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert , said that the Israeli prime minister and American president were "on the same page" on the issue of Iran .

"Both Israel and the United States agree that tangible steps have to be taken, that we cannot sit idly by and see Iran develop a nuclear weapon and that the international community has an obligation to take tangible steps to prevent that from happening," said Regev.

Meanwhile, Bush practically ignored a central foreign policy goal for his final year: to advance Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that the president himself launched in Annapolis, Md ., last November.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080516/wl_mcclatchy/2941630

[aquart]

1. Georgie wants to nuke something more than anything in the whole world.

And we're just being mean to him.

[barbtries]

2. it's true

and if that isn't reason enough to move on impeachment i don't know what could possibly be. but it's been proven that NOTHING would convince congress to do something they should have done years ago.

[Doug.Goodall]

3. George wants to promote the American military - industrial complex

He is a puppet of big business, a slave to the oil industry, and profits from war.

He is also a drunken idiot, but that is already well known.

[Octafish]

4. ''Money trumps peace. Sometimes.''

The idiot George W Bush actually said that during a press conference on Feb. 14, 2007.

Money Trumps Peace. Always.

Heh heh heh.

[spanone]

5. it's the reason he went...he thinks attacking iran will cement mccain as prez...out of his mind

fucking crazy bastard