U.S. opposed to cease-fire with Hezbollah

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_mideast

WASHINGTON - The United States held the line Thursday against a quick cease-fire deal in the Middle East, increasingly isolated as world powers and the United Nations demanded an immediate end to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was meeting Thursday night with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who earlier in the day denounced both Israel and Hezbollah and called for both sides to stop fighting immediately.

"He was talking about a cessation of violence in the context of a lasting, durable solution, which is exactly what we have been talking about," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.

The Bush administration is playing down expectations for Rice's upcoming trip to the Mideast, saying she will not shuttle among capitals to broker a deal.

"You're not going to see a return to the kind of diplomacy, I think, that we've seen before where you try to negotiate an end to the violence that leaves the parties in place and where you have status quo ante," McCormack said.

I will be so glad when the young Republicans are drafted for this insanity.

They won't get drafted, nor will any scions of the well off. There will be loopholes and deferments and education overseas.

No draft, not ever! We can't afford having a madman like Stupid get an unlimited supply of young bodies to waste in his wars!

"Except that Kofi wants an immediate ceasefire while in our plan roughly 10,000 more people have to die --soon."

Otherwise EXACTLY THE SAME!

Why not support an end to fighting???

and hegemony would be my guess.

to the kind of diplomacy, I think, that we've seen before" . . . you know, a successful effort.

WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR.

rogue nation run by people who's main objective is the destabilization of the entire planet, they could not have done a better job than they have the past couple of weeks.

NOW DON'T GET ME WRONG HERE, I understand fully that the intelligent beings on this planet understand that they're into death and destruction as a means to garner themselves more riches and power from what you can see in Iraq. And from their constant hootin' and a hollerin' about Iran and Syria.

But this is different. This is the bush** administration PREVENTING a cease fire in Lebanon, thereby insuring more death and destruction. And they are doing this while the rest of the world is calling for a halt in the bombing and invasion. There is no wide held belief, albeit totally incorrect, that Lebanon has WMDs. There is no bad guy ruler that they can say killed his people. There is no flimsy 'let freedom reign' bullshit because Lebanon was, for the Middle East, a pretty stable and free nation.

Why in the hell is the rest of the world letting Israel and the US get away with this? I don't understand.