SMH: Humiliating spectacle of a world leader caught without a policy

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/world-leader-caught-without-a-policy/2006/07/14/1152637872424.html

Humiliating spectacle of a world leader caught without a policy

Michael Gawenda Herald Correspondent in Washington
July 15, 2006

IT WAS a stark admission of helplessness from the leader of the world's only super power.

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Standing beside the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at a press conference in Rostock before he left for the G8 summit in St Petersburg, George Bush said: "We were headed towards the road map, things looked positive, and the terrorists stepped up. It's really sad where people are prepared to take innocent life to stop that process … in fact it's pathetic."

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That response was an admission his administration does not have a policy on the conflict. In fact it has not had a policy since the surprise election victory in January of Hamas in a poll that Washington had encouraged.

The so-called road map for peace is dead and the Bush Administration is paralysed in the face of what threatens to become a region-wide conflict involving Israel, Lebanon, Syria and even Iran. What does Bush expect as he pleads with Israel not to weaken the Lebanese Government in the wake of the bombing of its capital's airport and a blockade of sea ports?

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Clinton got a standing ovation at the U.N. Reagan contributed to tearing down the Berlin Wall. Jimmy Carter won the peace prize for ME peace.

W is shamefully inadequate as are his advisor's. The strong role the U.S. has always had has been tossed out by W's lies, distortions, and inadequacies. He truly is the emperor with no clothes.

highschool-aged students ask him questions.

My guess is their grasp of the Middle East conflict exceeds his by plenty.

And their English, too.

concerning global matters. He knows global corporatism and profits, that's it.

Democrat we have in there instead of Bush.

European press that he was "looking forward to that pig tonight" he might try facing questions by informed highschool-aged people.

I think many European high schoolers would disavow Dubya of his self-importance in quick order.

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Hiya, rodeodance. Nice to see you here in the wee hours.

up after a few hours. what about you? you are in the wee hours also.

sorry to say but we deserve it)---still, it makes me angry that the WH has put our country in such a position.

Don't want to miss the Rapture, you know.

:hi:

...to eating "the pig". Over and over. It was on the Daily Show.

Definitely no policy. Nothing to talk about except the food.

is so venal, so vile, so exploitative that it would be decried from every corner of the earth. Thus it is kept under wraps so RWers can keep raking the money and power in for themselves.

Why Bush's Preacher Pals want Armageddon RIGHT NOW and he's providing it for them!

...and creating more war for the November elections.