Posted on 08/14/2006 12:23:54 PM PDT by silentknight
President Bush Live from the State Department
I don't know if it will be rebroadcast. C-SPAN is spending their time this evening showing the unedited Mike Wallace-Nutjob interview, AT THE REQUEST OF THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT.
I really, really dislike C-SPAN.
(I'm sure they'll show the President at 3:00 a.m., where they always put him).
I will check if I am up in the middle of the night.
I couldn't believe that of all people, they were interviewing Mr. Peanut!!! Ack!
Maybe I should change my name from ZULU to Cassandra.
But I hope EVERYTHING I predict is wrong. But something aweful inside tells me its not.
Y have been checking the cspan schedule about every ten minutes this evening to see if/when they would update it to include a rerun of the President's remarks today.
Look how they have scheduled the programming:
08:00 PM EDT
1:30 (est.) Interview
President Ahmadinejad Interview
CBS, 60 Minutes
Mike Wallace , CBS
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Iran
09:30 PM EDT
0:15 (est.) LIVE
Call-In
Reactions to the Iranian President
C-SPAN
The beginning and end of this live program may be earlier or later than the scheduled times.
10:29 PM EDT
0:30 (est.)
Speech
Israel-Hezbollah Conflict
Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
Hassan Nazrallah , Hezbollah
11:00 PM EDT
1:30 (est.) Interview
President Ahmadinejad Interview
CBS, 60 Minutes
Mike Wallace , CBS
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Iran
12:31 AM EDT
0:27 (est.)
Speech
Middle East Cease-Fire Resolution
Department of State, Treaty Room
George W. Bush , United States
Sounds like a request to Hezbollah to please disarm, pretty please. In the context of this war it is meaningless. Nazrallah doesn't want to "participate in the political life of" Lebanon, he wants to own it and he may.
What we have to figure out is to how to change them.
I have no idea how to do that!
Looks to me like the president wants the LAF to come in a do it.
The Israeli Cabinet voted to accept the cease fire. We did not 'force" them to accept..Of course we all know it won't hold..but there it is.
The LAF cannot disarm Hezbollah and have stated publicly that they won't. That's the problem here. If Israel doesn't do it then it won't get done. It appears that Israel's leaders don't have the stomach for it. So what is Bush thinking? I don't know.
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You're digging pretty deep there Point. Maybe you should stop while you're behind, eh??
What are you talking about? Do you think that Lebanon will be the next Afqhanistan or the next Iraq? I see no evidence of that at all. The U.S. had the opportunity to level Hezbollah in support of Israel. We declined to do so. We didn't even consider it. Condi was after a UN resolution and a ceasefire within one or two days of the begining of this war. This is not Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. This is a war with Iran and we just lost a major battle.
Do you see it some other way?
I'm posting to you because I need to "see" some friendly faces!
But why do all the threads boil down to "the let's blame Bush" and "Bush is a wimp or a liberal in disguise" crowd.
I'm sure glad we have threads like the DOSE and Fr's Finest.
No bloody politics on those threads!
Pay closer attention.
"We" didn't lose anything..........unless, of course, you believe Hizb'Allah.....
That's what's missing from the Bush bashers. They'll use every opportunity that they think they have to bash the President..........even if if doesn't make a lick of sense.
Like on this thread right here.....
Pay closer attention.
"We" didn't lose anything..........unless, of course, you believe Hizb'Allah.....
I don't think I've got it backwards. Israel had the U.S. moral support and certainly intel. But Condi was lobbying for a ceasefire the first week into this war. The messages coming from the White House, State and Condi were very inconsistent. Bush was very pro-war, ready to take out Hezbollah. Condi wasn't. In the end Condi's position prevailed. Now that's the facts.
Could we have given military support to Israel. Apparently not. Would Israel have accepted it? We'll never know. Certainly Olmert was weak and had no stomach for this war and that was the major factor. I don't think that the Israelis will go easy on Mr. Olmert.
And don't think we haven't lost anything here. Iran is emboldened. That is a bad thing. The last thing in the world we need is an Iran who has no fear of Israel and less fear than a month ago of the U.S. But that is what we have whether like it or not.
I see.
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