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It's an afront I tell you, an afront. Wonder how much that golf cart cost the U.S. people.

President Bush drives a golf cart with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah, aboard to the multilateral summit Tuesday June 3, 2003 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Bush, entering the labyrinth of Middle East peace negotiations, looked on Tuesday for a commitment from Arab leaders to end violence and move toward peace with Israel.

Bush Drives Arab Leaders to Photo Session

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - As the golf cart swerved into view from around a corner and behind palm trees at the outset of two days of Middle East peacemaking it became clear: President Bush grinning widely, was in the drivers seat.

Taking the wheel of the large cart, Bush ferried the five Arab leaders he had come here to cajole into supporting his peace agenda to their picturesque seaside photo opportunity. There, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak delivered a statement on the Arab leaders' behalf pledging to fight terror, embrace an internationally crafted peace plan and support a new Bush-backed Palestinian leader.

L. Paul Bremer, right, the top U.S. official in Iraq, John Sawyers, left, the top British official in Iraq and Sergio Vieira De Mello, center, the U.N. representative to Iraq, talk to the media after emerging from their meeting Tuesday June 3, 2003 at the former presidential palace of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Iraq.

U.N., Coalition Preach Teamwork in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The arrival of the new U.N. representative means the reconstruction of Iraq is growing from a coalition effort into a wider international project, United Nations and coalition leaders said Tuesday.

"We share the same goals: to empower the free people of Iraq as soon as possible," Sergio Vieira de Mello said after a meeting with L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. official in Iraq, and John Sawers, Britain's special representative.

Death of journalists was accident of war
Boston Herald ^ | Monday, June 2, 2003 | Jules Crittenden

Posted on 06/02/2003 11:47 AM EDT by presidio9

Two American soldiers are under fire, facing a civil lawsuit, a military investigation and questions about their honesty over the tragic killing of two journalists in the Hotel Palestine in Baghdad. I know these soldiers. I was there and I have to speak in their defense.

Just before noon on April 8, Sgt. Shawn Gibson saw what he believed to be an Iraqi forward observer - someone with binoculars and a telephone in a tall building across the Tigris. It was exactly the target Alpha Company of the 4/64 Armor Battalion had been looking for after learning from a captured Iraqi radio that a barrage was imminent....

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