Thank G-d for VP Dick Cheney, among many others. Someone has to stand up to the threat of a nuclear holocaust emanating from Iran.
This line of moral equivalence is maddening. You DO NOT negotiate with terrorists, especially since negotiation has produced no fruits historically. They want Jews dead and that is all they want. They understand one thing and one thing only...Death!...Give them what they want and they will shut the allah up.
SCREEEEEECH!!!!
Someone will have to take Powell's place in that respect, since Bush's policies haven't changed and Sharon may occasionally need to be reminded that he needs to stand up to his own ultra-nationalists from time to time. It may even be Wolfowitz, who's on record as being against the so-called "settlements".
-Eric
Tony Snow said as much on his radio show yesterday.
Powell's problem is that he thinks Ariel is the one who needs "reigning in," and not Palestinian terrorist groups and their backers.
...and who also has the stones to put her foot up someome's a$$ if she needs to.
Note to self...Do not hire Powell to handle negotiations between myself and the local criminals.
Richard Boucher, Spokesman
Washington, DC; September 27, 2001
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QUESTION: To what extent does this campaign -- as you constantly review your Middle East policy, what -- how much influence does this campaign against terrorism have in that? What's the input? How does it weigh in here? See what I mean?
MR. BOUCHER: No, I don't.
QUESTION: It's obviously a factor --
MR. BOUCHER: We have talked about this on and off over the last few days. We recognize that there is an influence. Some have said it affects the atmosphere, the Palestinian/Israeli issues affect the atmosphere of cooperation. But, essentially, there are, on some planes, two different things. One is that there are violent people trying to destroy societies, ours, many others in the world. The world recognizes that and we are going to stop those people.
On the other hand, there are issues and violence and political issues that need to be resolved in the Middle East, Israelis and Palestinians. But we all recognize that the path to solve those is through negotiation and that we have devoted enormous efforts to getting back to that path of negotiation.
And we have called on the parties to do everything they can, particularly in the present circumstance, to make that possible. I guess that's about as close as I can come to the kind of sophisticated analysis I'm sure you will want to do on your own. But they are clearly issues that are different, not only in geography but also, to some extent, in their nature
We don't need the 'Global Test' mentality in our state department.
TELEGRAPH FICTION BUMP....NEXT TO THIS JEW-HATING RAG THE ENQUIRER IS THE WASHINGTON POST.
Disinformation. Another piece.
Maybe it comes from Powell, the Israel angle will sell his certain to be coming book.
I can't think of a better reason for it.
FYI
When the cat was growing up "process" was something that Negroes, as Americans-Africans were identified then, and Colon Bowell is old enough to remember, did to their hair. Other than that, the addiction to "peace process' is another Foggy Bottom disease.
Bush shows some guts by getting rid of this guy who's opposed all his foreign policy objectives in State.
Colon Powell's departure is long overdue.
The media made Powell a hero after Gulf War I. However, Powell had been against everything that was successful in Gulf War I.
And we know how reliable they are...NOT.
Through certain private and academic contacts, I've known for months that Powell would not be serving in the second Bush administration. Even before that, when he first took the job in fact, he made it clear that he was signing up for only a single term.