Posted on 09/19/2006 6:27:02 AM PDT by RobFromGa
President Bush is expected to address the situation in the Middle East, Iraq, and Iran's nuclear ambitions...
I wish he'd chew them all out and then treat them to a slide presentation on Dafur.
Love it! LOL!
I did hear the president say the UN needs to clean up it's act and that US taxpayers want to know what's going on with THEIR money at the UN...he sounded exasperated..
I hope that the Secret Service have orders to "shoot" if Mad Mood gets anywhere near the President! (God forgive me)
Direct link to UN webcast
rtsp://a4.l878435134.c8784.g.lr.akamaistream.net/live/D/4/8784/v0001/reflector:35134
copy and paste above link into RealPlayer
[Link will also work in MediaPlayerClassic and KM Player]
Thanks, SE. It almost feels like the showdown at the OK corral. My money is on our guy :)
OK, Bush is at 11:30. What time does Leisure Suit Larry speak?
I would be okay with that (and may God forgive me as well). Since that little twerp is afraid to be in the same room where wine is served, one of the SS guys can just carry a glass around with him and splash it on Madmood if he gets too close.
I think he's Prime Time about 7pm. I'll try to confirm that.
Thanks so much for the ping Howlin.
Good morning to you.
Good morning to you, too!
I'm just pinging today; Rob's doing the "hard" work......herding this thread!
Unfortunately, I have to go out and do a LOT of errands I've been putting off for weeks!
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NEW YORK (AP) - President Bush is trying to persuade skeptical world leaders to embrace his vision for the Middle East in a speech before the United Nations on Tuesday where he is calling on the world to ‘‘stand up for peace'' in the face of violent extremism.
Bush's challenge is to build international support to confront multiple problems in the region: unabated violence in Iraq, a stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, armed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Iran defiantly pursuing its nuclear program.
The Iranian issue was at the top of the agenda for Bush's morning meeting with French President Jacques Chirac, who is balking at the U.S. drive to sanction Iran for defying U.N. Security Council demands that it freeze uranium enrichment.
Chirac proposed on Monday that the international community compromise by suspending the threat of sanctions if Tehran agrees to halt its uranium enrichment program and return to negotiations. The U.S. and other countries fear Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons, while Tehran insists its uranium enrichment program is to make fuel for nuclear power plants.
Besides Chirac, Bush also was meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa.
Bush's speech was the last in a series on the war on terror, timed to surround last week's fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and to set the tone for the final weeks of the U.S. midterm elections.
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Bush was allotted 15 minutes for his annual address to the general assembly, and White House aides said he planned to use the time to call on the world to support moderate governments and help build up weak democracies in Iraq and Lebanon, as wells as the Palestinian Authority.
With remarks aimed especially at people living in the Middle East, Bush was drawing a distinction between the moderate governments that want peace and extremists who want to spread terror and violence.
He was describing his vision for moderates to choose the future instead of the extremists, pointing out that the same principles are in the U.N. charter and its declaration of human rights, aides said.
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He planned to describe how every nation in the civilized world has a stake in the region, but especially the Muslim countries.
‘‘The world must stand up for peace,'' Bush said in remarks prepared for delivery.
Bush also planned to address the issue of Sudan, where three years of fighting in the African nation's Darfur region has killed more than 200,000 people. The president was scheduled to announce that Andrew Natsios, the former head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, will become Bush's special envoy for Sudan to help end the fighting.
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Bush was speaking in the same cavernous room where four years and one week ago he made another plea for action in the Middle East. On that day, Bush said Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of deadly chemical and biological agents that the United Nations must confront.
He was wrong, but still forged ahead with war against Iraq without the support of many other nations. And he is still trying to rebuild credibility with the body, experts say.
‘‘The sense outside of the U.S. is that the United States is responsible for many of the failures in Iraq, first by going in mostly alone and then by incompetent administration,'' said Jon Alterman, a Mideast expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
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‘‘The problem with the way he's talked about democracy in the Middle East is not that people see it as undesirable,'' Alterman said, ‘‘it's that people see it as naive. He needs to persuade cynical people that not only is he sincere, but it's achievable, and here's what they need to do to make it so.''
Interviewed on ABC's ‘‘Good Morning America'' Tuesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was asked about increasing indications of hostility toward the United States and the Bush administration in other parts of the world.
‘‘We've had to do some difficult things,'' she replied. ‘‘We've had to make clear that the war on terrorism has to be fought, has to be fought on the offense.''
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‘‘While people may not always agree with our policy, they love the United States,'' Rice said. ‘‘This is still a beacon of hope for the world.''
I think it would be great if for once the President came out and said something completely different from what they told the media they were going to say. The above would be great.
Well thanks and have a good day then. :-)
The wicked witch of the west just popped into my head.
"I'm meeeeehhlllting!"
marking spot
Iranian Prez talks between 6 and 7pm tonight, see below:
Iran's prez skips chance to razz Bush
BY KENNETH R. BAZINET
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
There won't be a confrontation on the General Assembly lunch menu today because the Iranian president has decided to skip it - passing up his best shot at ambushing President Bush with an impromptu debate.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged Bush to a debate, and when the U.S. President turned him down, he suggested he would dog Bush at this week's General Assembly.
Bush has made it clear that he does not want to run into Ahmadinejad at the UN General Assembly this week because of Iran's secretive nuclear program, its support for terror groups like Hezbollah and vile comments the Iranian leader made calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
It's not clear why Ahmadinejad is passing on the lunch, which Fidel Castro once successfully used to shake hands with former President Bill Clinton.
Chances that the two men will bump into each other in the halls of the UN have been lessened by the fact that they are speaking nearly eight hours apart.
Bush is scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m. discussing the war on terror, Iraq and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
The President is expected to single out Iran and Syria for trying to thwart democracy in the region.
"I think the President sees this ... as a struggle between the forces of extremism and the forces of moderation in the Middle East," national security adviser Stephen Hadley said, previewing Bush's speech. "And it's really a crucial time."
Ahmadinejad will address the gathering between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., according to the UN.
They are still expected to engage in a war of words, with Ahmadinejad given the advantage of being able to respond in his remarks to Bush's speech.
that's my spot. you just stepped on me.
Get a grip you whinny losers in the Failed Media. Leaderhsip is not a popularity contest.
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