At Last Minute, Bush Sandbags UN Ceasefire Agreement
By Susie Madrak Saturday Jan 10, 2009 6:00pmYou don't suppose Bush reneged on his support to make the incoming administration deal with it, do you? I mean, because that would be breathtakingly cynical and wrong!
Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, was forced to step back from voting in favour of the Gaza ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council after orders from Washington, diplomatic sources said yesterday.
The US abstention on the resolution vote early yesterday, which clearly weakened its impact, was the final twist in a tumultuous three-day marathon of negotiations in New York.
When three of the world's top diplomats -- Ms Rice, David Miliband, Britain's foreign secretary, and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner -- descended on New York on Tuesday to take action there was plenty of reason to believe that their efforts would end in tears. Most alarming was the prospect of a vote on a ceasefire text tabled by Libya. The US was threatening to veto it.
But by Thursday morning, the US had had a surprising change of heart. It could back a resolution, if the British drafted one, which Mr Miliband and his diplomatic crew duly did.
When finally every last hurdle was cleared and the members of the Security Council were headed to their chamber for the vote, there was a mood of celebration in the building.
But before the vote was due, word began to circulate that America was not going to vote in favour after all. The change of heart came about with a phone call from George Bush to Ms Rice in which he said don't veto the resolution but don't vote for it either.
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Bush is a stupid, stupid man.
Does anyone have a copy of the Resolution draft?
Why change his destiny with only 9 days left.
Consistency, consistency!
bush is going to be a f#cking bastard
to the end...what do you expect?
hopefully, bush will get the same treatment
after he leaves office. just let bush try
and leave the USA after he is out of office,
the rest of the world sees him for the war
criminal he is and will prosecute him immediately
and all for the best of humanity.
Hey people, you know after 8 years of mismanaged administration, war, lies, murder, torture, the country bankrupt, a VP who is deranged, a President WHO IS MENTALLY INCOMPETENT and you are still asking yourselves is he putting the boot into the incoming President? Fair go he should go out in a straight jacket but will not. This country and more to the point this Democratic opposition has not had the guts to do anything about this unAmerican administration, so with 10 days to go whats the point in chasing the fuckwit now. He and his brothel keeping lady of the night wife will fly off to Texas, live off the fat of the land, spend 20 odd years inretirement if they are lucky, then be sent to the pages of history. Forget the prick, nothing can be done, let's get on and hope like hell the new Pres shapes up. At least he will have Hillary breathing down his neck, good lady that one.
Evil, evil man. Tehran.
Yes, he is.
I guess that despite all the pious Biblerizifying he boasts about, he must have missed the passage that says, "Blessed are the peacemakers...Blessed are those who yearn for justice".
About those loose nukes that were flown across the country by "accident". Ballsy. Right out in front of everyone. They just figured no one would notice. Except for the guy left out of the loop.
needed for its passage? I thought only a NO vote by a permanent member resulted in its failure.
This news on a large shipment of weapons to Israel might have something to do with it all.
Thanks for the link.
Dicks to the end. The war profitering goes on and on... sick sick sick.
A law was passed in 1976 to make it illegal to export those kinds of weapons: cluster bombs, white phosphorus, really bad stuff-- could that be what's in those containers? Otherwise, why not simply load up a few C-140's and move that shipment.
Hmmph.
How un-American of ya... (/snark)
And before that they doubled the order to Israel for the war with Lebanon, before the war started.
The only politician with guts to stand up to Israel publicly was Chuck Hagel.
Palestine is beyond help now. So everyone -say thank you to all the Democrats who made Israel such a smashingly vicious and perverted monster.
For some very strange reason, Obama has been relatively silent about the war crimes currently being committed in "Israel"/Gaza.
I wonder what is on his mind tonight as he goes to sleep? The Economic Stimulus Package Brou-ha-ha, or the murderous, criminal rampage of the Israeli Nazi's against the occupied Palestinians with U.S. weapons and a "wink and a nod"? And what on Earth he will have to say about it all to the press? How much control does AIPAC REALLY have over President-elect Obama??? I do believe he has said he would talk to Hamas...
Nighty-night all. It's bedtime on the East coast.
And I do thank all of you for the brilliant conversation on these threads. Sure beats going to the local bar to watch a stupid football game and listen to a bunch of jackoffs yack about B.S.
This should not surprise anyone. Bush delights in being an obstacle to anything positive. He will probably be doing something evil five minutes before Obama is inaugerated.
He seems to have problems making up his mind.
"He seems to have problems making up his mind."
..............um...doesn't one have to have one to make up first?
"don't veto the resolution but don't vote for it either"
Pussy. Not voting is almost the same as voting no, but in a more wimp-like fashion.
But needs repeating til the day he dies and beyond.
WHAT A FUCKING DICKHEAD.
Buck Fush.
But it appears the world just might survive Bush after all. If we can just hang in there another 9 days.
I'm in the middle of Texas and I can smell Bush's crap from here.
BTW, it must be saturday night because this thread isn't off the hook just yet. Hey, Tubesox, where are you? Canuck guy? Dangit. I need some entertainment. Make with the crazy talk, I'm bored.
FEED THE TROLLS!!!!
I just made a batch of popcorn, though. Sorry.
I don't know too much about the area, but didn't the British have a direct effect on that area in the past?
"But by Thursday morning, the US had had a surprising change of heart. It could back a resolution, if the British drafted one, which Mr Miliband and his diplomatic crew duly did."
Who is allowed to draft resolutions?
Amended: "In the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, Britain and France had proposed to divide the Middle East between them into spheres of influence, with "Palestine" as an international enclave.
After Sykes-Picot, the British had made two promises regarding the territory in the Middle East it was expecting to acquire. Britain had promised the local Arabs, through Lawrence, independence for a united Arab country covering most of the Arab Middle East, in exchange for their support of the British; and in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 had promised to create and foster a Jewish national home in Palestine. The British had, in the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence, previously promised the Hashemite family lordship over most land in the region in return for their support."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28595386
I have good news and bad news.
George Bush will only be around 9 more days.
he only has 9 days to bring the rapture
the man is certifiable
He's such a sick fuck he doesn't even need to believe in some phoney baloney end-timer crap to be utterly, completely evil. The only one worse is Laura because she sucks it!
Cheney? Wall Street? Israel? Whoever did it, the choke collar really hurts!
Bush has been "serving another master" for the last eight years... and nobody but Bush knows who that master is. His actions are some times mystifying... sometimes downright LUDICROUS... but the truth is that no one really knows what he is trying to accomplish, or who he is trying to please. My GUT tells me that the TRUE PUPPET MASTER for his whole presidency resides somewhere between the Board of Directors for The Carlysle Group... and the Saudi Royal Family.
But would the Saudis really want the horror in Palestine to continue? Oh never mind.
Palestinians/Lebanese are Shia/Christian, so enemies or heretics to the Saudis.
Paraguay to arrest this fucker the moment he lands in his new jungle haven? It be happy to throw a few million of my tax dollars that way. Rebuilding infrastructure indeed.
He did not travel before he took office so I don't expect him to travel after he takes office. He was the stereotypical ignorant American before taking office and he will be the same when he leaves.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that this douchebag and his family goes to Paraguay, and at the same time, cheny goes to Dubai. If they do this, they place themselves outside of all protections of US law and obligations of the US government to protect them. Even if there are no extradition treaties, it will do them no good. These two monsters would do well to review how well such a strategy worked out for Adolph Eichman.
There's no place in the world where these two assholes can go that agents of an authoritative body can't also go to make the snatch and bring their evil asses in for tribunal-based prosecution.
please don't nobody drop a bomb somewhere.
This is Bush's last stand and it's all about murdering as many Palestine people as possible. Israel/Bush/Abbas had the plan to wipe as many Palestine people out as possible before Jan. 20th. Obama will not support this murder spree by Israel and they know it.
Many have asked about Obama character well he will have a party for Powell and McCain on Jan. 20th to thank them for their service and have other Republicans join in. This is but one of the many parties that will be held for our new President and Vice President.
George might have become a prolific serial killer instead.
and made himself a ridiculous figure in the whole Arab world and to anybody with an ounce of understanding of Arabic customs and traditions/symbolism.
To be photographed carrying a sword by the King's side like a palace eunuch OMFG.
The Bushco minions slipped up badly on that 2008 jewelry begging and PR event.
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It's actually a symbiotic relationship.
The Saudi monarchs need the U.S. to keep them in power and protect them from the rising tide of nationalism brought on by discontent, human rights abuses and social injustice in Saudi Arabia. All the while, Bush and the United States need their oil. The fault should not rest entirely on Bush as previous U.S. administrations have done the same.
So, as a result of having these natural resources, the average person in the Middle East suffers because of the industrial world's greed. That's why "they hate us", because the US keeps propping up dictators who serve its interests. The same goes for China, a rising superpower. Its thirst for oil eclipses the genocide in Darfur where China gets much of its oil.
Another example is when Egypt's Gamal Abd Al-Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. It wasn't long before France and Britain joined Israel and launched a war against Egypt. As if Egypt owed them anything.
...a prolific serial killer??! Looking around the globe it appears that millions have died because of him/his admin's policies.
He is a serial killer.
Bush did become a serial murderer. He is a serial murderer and, also, a serial mass-murderer. His malignant personality is identical to that of a Bundy, Gacey, Dahmler and that guy who committed all the Green River murderers.
His murders are committed for the same reasons as other serial murderers: power. Each killing is an attempt to take another's personal power away from him/her and make it his own, as a predatory way of avoiding the life's work of finding his own personal power from within. The only qualitative difference between he and the rest of his ilk is that he has had the advantage, denied the others, to be able to use the powers of elected office to commit his murders. The power of office has provided the cover and a veneer of legitimacy to each murder he has committed, first as governor of Texas and then as First Despot. The killing of defenseless innocents is an irresistable compulsion for him, and death follows him wherever he goes. Had he not enojoyed the protections and opportunities of a privileged life and the prerogatives of elected office, he would probably be an itinerant, randomly murdering his way around the country. Here's the scary part: these guys never stop killing, and they invariably continue to kill until they are finally caught or finally die. I expect that Bush will continue to kill after leaving office, because he will be unable to stop himself. The compulsion will come upon him, and the pressure will build, until he gives in and murders again. And again. And again. He'll either do it himself, or facilitate it through proxies. It won't stop until he's put away or until the day he dies.
Cheney, BTW, is in the same boat.
Indeed there is such a law, but the U.S. government somehow circumvents it every time it ships weapons and ammunition to Israel by asking Israel to promise not to use them on civilians. So Israel uses them on civilians, especially cluster bombs in 2006, and then denies such allegations.
It took western media, like the BBC, a whole year to report on that. So, in 2007, when the UN was looking to file charges against Israel for violating international law and using cluster bombs on civilians, the investigation was somehow "killed" quickly. Congress too looked into it at first, but then gave the UN and Lebanon the finger and moved on to more important things like prayer at school and flag burning, you know, important stuff.
Pity that non-human, Rice
She's the one who's supposed to make nice
The Department of State
Instead multiplies hate
Perhaps she's a species of lice.
she is!
Some common mistakes by Israelis, Hamas and the Bush administration.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentar...
After all, Bush is the War President. War is fun when you know you're not going to die...
I think William the bloody and Sourkraut got in shrub's ear. They think the solution is to let the fighting go on longer, let Israel pound the evil doers until they cry uncle, pretty much how they feel about torture. Pain and blood-letting are their answers. Sourkraut feels the latest Israeli adventure into Lebanon was not a good outcome because not enough people died. These brilliant idiots will never understand that what they propose just amounts to perpetual cycles of violence, revenge, and more violence.
He’s forcing us to count every second until he’s gone. He is the antichrist.
... he can from this "presidency." We've paid a big price for Pelosi's keeping impeachment "off the table."
Everyone should clearly understand that without the Democrats, in particular Reid/Shumer and Hoyer/Emanuel leading the Wall Street/AIPAC donor charge, Bush would have been unable to do jack.
It was always the hard-line Democrats that crossed the aisle and joined withe the Right tp push whatever George wanted through.
And their little Princess Hillary, now in charge of our State Department, joined in for some of the worst votes. The 2006 kiss to Israels ass after their Lebanon rampage/cluster f***, consisted of a handful of Dems joining the Right to defeat another Democrats bill to place a moratorium on the use of cluster bombs on civilian populations.
If you don't think Obama gave Hillary the State job as payback to the Jews, think again.
He was one of the Senators who voted in favor of the moratorium, and against the very people he now honors - Hillary and Joe Lieberman.
For Obama and our Congress to now silently stand by like paid whores while Israel rapes it's neighbors, is probably the most horrific act of any United States official in our history.
Every dead Lebanese and Palestinian killed by an Israeli, has the Democrats seal of approval. And the rest of the world knows it.
back last spring when I would break with Bama on an issue and move to encourage those I know that we need to communicate our displeasure. Now I can tell him why my monthly donations, albeit small by fat-cat corporate donor standards, have stopped.
It is this foreign affairs issue so far as it is developing. I voiced my displeasure on his site. I hope there are others and my voice isn't as effective as a drop in a bucket of water!
Hasmaq you are talking horse shit and you know it. Get off your bandwaggon and try and use the brain that is I presume fixed in your skull. Israel will go their own way, regardless of who disagrees with them. They have this fixation that theirs is the only path to redemption and stuff the rest of the world. Today they proved that, by thumbing their bloody arogant nose at the UN, who for once in their pathetic existance did try to set up a cease fire. Dont preach to the rest of the world about Israel, they do as Israel wants to do. And for the sake of parity dont make out that your palastinian friends are all peaches and cream, piss off. They are as guilty as the desert wanderers, they also kill and maime mothers and children. It makes sense at times that perhaps the parting of the red sea should have gobbled up both of the waring criminal factions.I also remind you in case the small but pertinent fact has escaped your lame brain, Mr Obama is not running this country YET, so wait. You have a problem with the US and Israel? sling your shit at the Bush administration. he is guilty of giving them 65 million dollars a year to keep their little war machie active.Incidently I note you have condemned Hillary Clinton before she takes a first step, hope you live to suck eggs on that one fellah. Perhaps you may be more assistance to the cause by getting your sorry arse into Gaza, instead of firing verbal shots from afar. Or are you all mouth and no do?
You have an ulterior motive for your absurd outburst and it is not nice, we are not all fools.
Might that have been a little over the top? The man was just expressing his opionion, not baiting anybody. No need to get abusive, it diminishes your point....which, by the way is well taken.
It's rotten enough that our own wars suck ass, but for Israel to use weapons we supply to wage a war against the poorest strip of land on the planet, it's enough to make me puke.
Obama DO SOMETHING. Or at least Michelle stand up for the CHILDREN already!
9 more days
If the Dems have the spine (and they don't) and Obama has the inclination (and I don't think he does), they could easily have the last laugh: Just aprove a limited membership of the US into the World Court (applying only to war crimes and crimes against humanity).
They could be careful to exclude from the agreement crimes that may have been commited by Democratic politicians and lower-level Republicans. In about 6 months Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Rove, etc... would be in the Hague facing life sentences.
is HOPE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.
...as Democratic Congressional leadership rubber stamp Bush's full backing of Israel's actions in Gaza.
Gosh, when Obama hedges that he'll "have plenty to say" about Gaza after January 20, I wonder what it is he will be saying?
Get ready for Obama-supporter major disillusionment: "You mean his foreign policy is going to be a lot like Bush's? How is that possible?"
Could be an opportunity for education.
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