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Jackson Lee calls on Bush to name Middle East envoy
Houston Chronicle ^ | June 15, 2003, 9:42PM | ROSANNA RUIZ

Posted on 06/15/2003 10:08:39 PM PDT by IoCaster

June 15, 2003, 9:42PM

Jackson Lee calls on Bush to name Middle East envoy

By ROSANNA RUIZ

Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

Upon her return from a summit in Norway involving Palestinian and Israeli women leaders, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said here Sunday that she will call on President Bush to name a special envoy to monitor the peace process in the Middle East.

She proposed former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton or George Bush as ideal candidates for the job.

"We cannot have a start and stop to the peace process -- it's imperative that these negotiations continue," said Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat who served as honorary chairwoman during the Oslo summit called the Women's Partnership for Peace in the Middle East.

Jackson Lee said the primary goal of the summit was to claim a greater role for women in the peace negotiations and in the so-called "road map" for peace.

The meeting began Thursday with much tension in the air, punctuated by the early departure of some delegates and interruptions to announce the death toll from the outbreaks of violence, Jackson Lee said. The group ultimately banded together, she said, to stand in support of the plan for peace and to call for an end to the recent violence that threatens it.

The summit was organized by the Global Peace Initiative of Women, an offshoot of the United Nation's Millennium Peace Summit of 2000, which gathered more than 2,000 religious leaders in New York.

The delegates met at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres were selected for the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Oslo talks will be followed with another gathering in Washington, D.C., then a larger meeting in Jerusalem in November, Jackson Lee said.


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1 posted on 06/15/2003 10:08:39 PM PDT by IoCaster
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To: IoCaster
She proposed former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton

ROTFLMAO!

2 posted on 06/15/2003 10:12:26 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: ladyinred
I had the same reaction when I read it.

:o)

3 posted on 06/15/2003 10:15:05 PM PDT by IoCaster
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To: ladyinred

She proposed former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton

Oh, Jesus.

Yet another sterling contribution to the collected wisdom of Western Civilization from that sage wisewoman, Shiela Jackson Lee.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

4 posted on 06/15/2003 10:17:50 PM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi has returned! Tanned, rested, and ready.....)
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To: section9
I almost drove the big white bus myself reading this. What pisses me off is that I know she did this "conference" on our dime!
5 posted on 06/15/2003 10:39:13 PM PDT by Atchafalaya
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To: IoCaster
Jackson Lee......proving once again that being a liberal is a mental disease....

To hear her speak --- is to hear a brain fart.

America MUST keep morons like this OUT OF OFFICE.

Semper Fi
6 posted on 06/15/2003 10:47:55 PM PDT by river rat (War works......It brings Peace... Give war a chance to destroy Jihadists...)
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To: river rat
Right after we plant our flag on Mars, Sheila.
7 posted on 06/15/2003 10:50:03 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: section9
Every time that woman opens her yap I get pissed off.

I'm going to go beat up a very small man.

8 posted on 06/15/2003 10:52:41 PM PDT by zarf (I'm not Art Bell)
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To: IoCaster
She sets a perfect trap. She lists all democrats except for Sr. Bush. If this ever came to reality (extremely laughable) if he chose Sr. Bush, she could claim he was just picking his family for the MidEast.....
9 posted on 06/15/2003 11:11:08 PM PDT by phalynx
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To: ladyinred
Jackson Lee and Jessie Jackson must be the same person. No two people could be that dumb. BTW, isn't 'Lee' a racist name. Why it brings back memories of that darned Confederate Flag. She should change it. What do you think folks?
10 posted on 06/16/2003 2:53:33 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (France: Where they treat allies just like their best friend's wife.)
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To: ladyinred; IoCaster
http://www.dojgov.net/kosovo_watch.htm

Secretary of State Madeline Albright... After Dark


The U.S. hostages in Iran were held for 444 days under the Jimmy Carter administration and released the DAY that Ronald Reagan took office for his first term in 1981.


"A presidential executive order issued during the Clinton
administration hamstrung the FBI so badly that bureau
lawyers decided it would be illegal to infiltrate Osama bin
Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, a senior
FBI official during the Clinton administration said Saturday."
(June 1, 2002)


____________________
"I don't believe 9-11 happened because of an intelligence breach," Quayle told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."
"I think it was really a policy breach. It was the inaction of the previous administration, by and large, that al Qaeda -- and bin Laden in particular -- thought that they could hit the United States, and there would be a retaliation maybe of a cruise missile but nothing more than that," he explained.

The comments make the former vice president, who served under President Bush's father from 1989 to 1993, the highest ranking former U.S. official to suggest that the Clinton administration should get the lion's share of the blame for not preventing the 9-11 attacks.

11 posted on 06/16/2003 6:49:45 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Dixie Chimps! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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