Bush says US remains committed to Mideast roadmap

Xinhua News Agency (PRC state-run) ^ | Sept. 10, 2003

[yonif]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that the United States remains committed to the Middle East "roadmap" peace plan despite a fresh cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

@@"I still believe strongly that two states (Israel and Palestine)living side by side in peace is a hopeful vision for the future of the Middle East. The road map is still there," Bush told reporters when meeting with Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah in the Oval Office.

@@"The fundamental question is whether or not peaceful people will be on the road. And one of the essential tenets of the roadmap is that people are responsible, parties need to be responsible for creating the conditions necessary for peace to prevail," he said.

@@He said Palestinian prime minister-designate Ahmed Qurei's job is to consolidate power within his administration to get all the Palestinian security forces under control and unleash those forces against terrorist groups.

@@Only in this way can progress be made in moving forward the peace process, Bush noted.

@@Meanwhile, Bush said, Israel also has responsibilities not only to protect its own people but to create the conditions necessary for those in the Palestinian Authority who do believe in peace, who do believe in the vision of two states, to prevail.

@@"It's tough times there now. ...But the vision is still there, because I strongly believe it's in the interest of everybody that two states live side by side in peace," he said.

@@Talking about a new US-proposal UN Security Council resolution aimed at broader international participation in rebuilding Iraq, Bush said the United States is hopeful that it can get a "good resolution."

@@He said he does not think France and Germany are opposed to such a resolution but may want to try fine-tune the US-proposed draft. "We're listening, we're open for suggestion," Bush said.

@@"My call, however, to nations is that let us not get caught up in past bickering, let us move forward," he said.

@@"A free Iraq is in everybody's interest. A peaceful Iraq is in the world's interest. And I'm confident we can work together to achieve that," Bush added. Enditem

[yonif]

It pays to be a terrorist murdering Israelis!

[Mark17]

Bush says US remains committed to Mideast roadmap

I don't think anyone else is.

[ThinkDifferent]

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

But the vision is still there, because I strongly believe it's in the interest of everybody that two states live side by side in peace

Blatantly false. Far too many Palenstinians prefer to murder Israelis than to live side by side in peace. Until this changes, no such "road map" is possible.

[onedoug]

Could it be, after everything, that Bush really is stupid?

This sure makes him look that way.

God bless those Israelis soon to be murdered for theis "vision".

[Sparta]

"I still believe strongly that two states (Israel and Palestine)living side by side in peace is a hopeful vision for the future of the Middle East. The road map is still there,"

I have a Brooklyn Bridge to sell you Mr. President.

[A Broken Glass Republican]

What do you expect him to do??? Come-out and screech "NUKE MECCA"???

This is the world stage here...Not Free Republic.

[LS]

I'm surprised so many people keep missing this. The "roadmap" was nothing more than the establishment of set of conditions that the Pales could NEVER meet---and Bush, I think, had no illusions that they ever would. Even with the biased world press, now the Pale attacks and celebrations over suicide bombers increasingly looks like the barbarism it is.

Meanwhil, Bush can say in all honesty, "I tried. I set up a scenario in which the Pales could have their own state, and they simply refused to meet the conditions."

If I'm not mistaken, this is almost exactly the same trap Bush laid for Saddam---set up a series of tests that Saddam would not meet, but which appeared reasonable.

[onedoug]

"What do you expect him to do???"

I expect consistency in the so-called, War on Terror...which is really a war by Islamism against us, against the Jews and everything and everybody else not Dar al Islam.

I want him to stop undermining Israel's options by his strutting his, "Now, I mean what I say" moments that the rest of the world sneers at anyway, and finally get a clue that we're dealing with the same enemy.

God, what is it going to take?

Every minute that goes by in which we, as Americans even, do not take Arafat - as a murderer of Americans - or kill him trying, deepens this confilict to the point of farce.

[A Broken Glass Republican]

Now you want him to declare war on Islam?

Again...This is the real world, not this discussion forum.

[onedoug]

If you recognized the difference between Islam and Islamism, you'd know that Islamism has certainly declared war on us.

A little education might suit you better than otherwise apparently wasting your time on "this discussion forum".

[A Broken Glass Republican]

A "Little education"??

What? From you? Please...

Here's a hint, you eletist...I've not ever seen the word "Islamism" used. And I've been fairly obscessed with "Educating" myself on this subject since 9-11.

I'm sorry I'm not up to your standards. Maybe you could use the term "Radical Islam" like the majority of the non-insult slinging world??

[onedoug]

I've not ever seen the word "Islamism" used."

That's too bad. Keep studying. No need to remember you heard it here first. Good luck.

[yonif]

Meanwhil, Bush can say in all honesty, "I tried. I set up a scenario in which the Pales could have their own state, and they simply refused to meet the conditions."

Ping me when he says something like that.

[yonif]

Now you want him to declare war on Islam?

I want him to stick to his doctrine he set forth in the post-9/11 world view of the US and that is that regimes which harbor terrorists will suffer the consequences of those terror groups it harbors. The Palestinian Authority is a terrorist regime, and instead of supporting Israel's fight against that regime, President Bush comes out with some "peace" plan that Israel needs to negotiate with that terror regime. What am I missing here? Did Bush negotiate with the Taliban? No. He gave them 48 hours to comply and that was it. Why do the Israelis have to continue to suffer at the hands of the Arab terrorists Bush refuses to support destroying, instead saying that the PA terror regime must comfront their own friends. Comeon, give me a break.

I want the administration to equate Israel's war on terrorism with our war on terrorism. So far, as with the rest of the administrations, we have refused to do so. Clinton was no different. We have Olso with a new name, "roadmap"

Peace cannot be achieved with a terrorist entity. Bush refuses to view the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist regime.

[yonif]

Islamists are fanatical Muslims, who usually support terror. Iran is an Islamists State and so is Saudi Arabia.

[The Westerner]

"Meanwhile, Bush said, Israel also has responsibilities not only to protect its own people but to create the conditions necessary for those in the Palestinian Authority who do believe in peace, who do believe in the vision of two states, to prevail."

How wrong can a man be? One nation is never responsible for creating conditions necessary for peace in another nation. Israel is responsible for protecting herself from nihilist techno-Barbarians. Period.

[A Broken Glass Republican]

Thank you.

[yonif]

Palestinian Authority who do believe in peace

Exactly. Was there anyone in the former-Taliban terror regime who believed in Peace?

[Stallone]

"We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe."

"We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.
We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe."

Chamberlain read the above statement in front of 10 Downing St. and said:

"My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time...
Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."

Powell, go phuck yourself, you appeasing twit.

As for President Bush, get a clue, sir.

[The Westerner]

Was there a Taliban who believed in peace? No. By definition, their sole purpose is to take down Western Civilization, period. Israel is the frontline. We are the big target.

All of them, all the techno-Barbarians are nihilists, meaning their only purpose is destruction of the Good. Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged clearly depicts the motive and behavior of nihilists.