Without the frenzied tantrums and obstruction of his domestic enemies in and out of government, there's no telling what more he could have achieved.
“President George W. Bush ordered on Thursday a freeze on the U.S. assets of anyone Washington deems to be undermining Lebanon’s pro-Western government.
The Bush administration did not identify those targeted by the decree, but it comes just a month after he imposed a U.S. travel ban on Syrian officials and Lebanese politicians whom the United States accuses of fomenting instability in Lebanon.
The State Department said that Iranian interests could also be affected by Bush’s latest order.
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Bush’s order said the Treasury secretary, in consultation with the secretary of state, would designate those whose U.S. property and business interests would be frozen.
“Certainly Iran and Syria are the principle sponsors, I would say, of both efforts to undermine the government in Lebanon and efforts to promote militia violence ... and the other things we’ve talked about in Iraq,” State Department spokesman Tom Casey told reporters.
“So to the extent that those countries are engaged in supporting those kinds of negative activities, then, yes, it’s very much directed against them and their unhelpful efforts.”
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