Comments on: Bush’s Visit To The Middle East http://aquacool.subzeroblue.com/2008/01/15/bushs-visit-to-the-middle-east/ Drops of dew to tickle your senses. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:10:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Eman http://aquacool.subzeroblue.com/2008/01/15/bushs-visit-to-the-middle-east/#comment-371213 Eman Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:14:18 +0000 http://aquacool.subzeroblue.com/2008/01/15/bushs-visit-to-the-middle-east/#comment-371213 Janissary, many thanks for your comment. As usual, never fail to add humor to any situation and put a smile on my face. Best of luck to your pink-haired daughter :) Vigilante, I really appreciate your comment, yes, it says it all! Janissary, many thanks for your comment. As usual, never fail to add humor to any situation and put a smile on my face.
Best of luck to your pink-haired daughter :)

Vigilante, I really appreciate your comment, yes, it says it all!

]]> By: Vigilante http://aquacool.subzeroblue.com/2008/01/15/bushs-visit-to-the-middle-east/#comment-369460 Vigilante Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:20:06 +0000 http://aquacool.subzeroblue.com/2008/01/15/bushs-visit-to-the-middle-east/#comment-369460 Chris Hedges, <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_011408F.shtml" rel="nofollow">The End of the Road for George W. Bush</a>: <i>". . . as Bush basks in the glow of his own fantasy, the suffering in Gaza, one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters, along with the savage occupation of Iraq, continues to fuel widespread anger and rage.</i> <i>. . . he has, with Israeli encouragement, isolated governments, even friendly governments, in the Middle East that raised feeble protests. But his day is past. There is open revolt. Opinion polls show that two-thirds of Palestinians, and three-fourths of Israelis, do not believe Bush can affect events in the Palestinian territories.</i> <i>. . . The agenda of the Bush White House is exposed as irrelevant, myopic and counterproductive. Most Arab countries are in open defiance of Washington and are actively reaching out to Iran.</i> <i>. . . It is the end of the road for George Bush. The world takes less and less notice of him. He strutted and swaggered across the stage. He bellowed and raged. He plundered and murdered. And now he wants to be anointed as a peacemaker. His presidency, like his life, has been a tragic waste. But he at least he has a life. There are tens of thousands of mute graves in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iraq that stand as stark testaments to his true legacy."</i> Says it all, doesn't it? Chris Hedges, The End of the Road for George W. Bush:

“. . . as Bush basks in the glow of his own fantasy, the suffering in Gaza, one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, along with the savage occupation of Iraq, continues to fuel widespread anger and rage.

. . . he has, with Israeli encouragement, isolated governments, even friendly governments, in the Middle East that raised feeble protests. But his day is past. There is open revolt. Opinion polls show that two-thirds of Palestinians, and three-fourths of Israelis, do not believe Bush can affect events in the Palestinian territories.

. . . The agenda of the Bush White House is exposed as irrelevant, myopic and counterproductive. Most Arab countries are in open defiance of Washington and are actively reaching out to Iran.

. . . It is the end of the road for George Bush. The world takes less and less notice of him. He strutted and swaggered across the stage. He bellowed and raged. He plundered and murdered. And now he wants to be anointed as a peacemaker. His presidency, like his life, has been a tragic waste. But he at least he has a life. There are tens of thousands of mute graves in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iraq that stand as stark testaments to his true legacy.”

Says it all, doesn’t it?

]]> By: Janissary http://aquacool.subzeroblue.com/2008/01/15/bushs-visit-to-the-middle-east/#comment-368579 Janissary Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:50:04 +0000 http://aquacool.subzeroblue.com/2008/01/15/bushs-visit-to-the-middle-east/#comment-368579 But he is leaving a formidable legacy behind, Eman, in the sense that Ebola's a formidable plague. And he has another year in office during which to create all sorts of mischief. (Yeah, thinking of Iran here--plus the domestic economy's in shambles.) Few but the very wealthy, or the extremely dim-witted, his natural constituencies, can stand him: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2006/02/02/CU2006020201345.html Yet there he is, clearing brush and talking trash. Even assuming we elect a human being and a new Congress next November, it will take decades to repair the havoc and destruction. I think he probably plans to leave as his legacy a very big war and a ruined economy; if so, he'll exit laughing. Anger. Me, I deal with my anger toward him by regarding him as the virus-in-chief. Hard to be angry at a virus. Otherwise, I'd have had a stroke by now. If I were you, though, I couldn't help but be angry. Sending our pink-haired daughter back to college in New York next week. Here in the South, people just stare at her hair, struck dumb, like deer in the headlights at the sight of her--a whole bovine family of them the other day when we walked into a restaurant. :) Some Israeli educators toured Our Special School today, mostly interested in the autistic and medically-fragile kids on the other side of the courtyard. My class passed them in a hallway, overheard them speaking in Hebrew and asked me why Russians were visiting the place. [virtual sigh] Cognac. Cheers But he is leaving a formidable legacy behind,
Eman, in the sense that Ebola’s a formidable plague. And he has another year in office during which to create all sorts of mischief. (Yeah, thinking of Iran here–plus the domestic economy’s in shambles.) Few but the very wealthy, or the extremely dim-witted, his natural constituencies, can stand him:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2006/02/02/CU2006020201345.html

Yet there he is, clearing brush and talking trash. Even assuming we elect a human being and a new Congress next November, it will take decades to repair the havoc and destruction. I think he probably plans to leave as his legacy a very big war and a ruined economy; if so, he’ll exit laughing.

Anger. Me, I deal with my anger toward him by regarding him as the virus-in-chief. Hard to be angry at a virus. Otherwise, I’d have had a stroke by now. If I were you, though, I couldn’t help but be angry.

Sending our pink-haired daughter back to college in New York next week. Here in the South, people just stare at her hair, struck dumb, like deer in the headlights at the sight of her–a whole bovine family of them the other day when we walked into a restaurant. :)

Some Israeli educators toured Our Special School today, mostly interested in the autistic and medically-fragile kids on the other side of the courtyard. My class passed them in a hallway, overheard them speaking in Hebrew and asked me why Russians were visiting the place. [virtual sigh]

Cognac.

Cheers

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