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It may well be that in denouncing "Israel's" attack on Gaza one, in an important way, unwittingly does a disservice to the cause of holding the Bush Administration accountable for its crimes.
Originally posted by jibeho
Absolutely mind numbing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm surprised that it took this long for someone to actually try to pin this BS on Bush.
America's relationship with Israel goes way back to before Bush. POTUS after POTUS has been dealing with this mess and Obama will be no different.
The US will never solve this problem.
The hypocrisy of it all is stunning. For the descendants of holocaust survivors to perpetrate their own war crimes, to set up their own camps, to sterilize and neutralize and torture in the name of national security..it boggles the mind.
Originally posted by sos37
So why label this "Bush's" war on Gaza? I didn't see him giving any orders to open fire or have yet to see him in a photo firing a weapon at the Palestinians.
You do realize that the U.S.'s alliance with Israel goes back before Bush, don't you?
This thread is nothing but political baiting for your hatred against Bush and you're using the current Gaza crisis to fuel it. You should be ashamed of yourself and the mods should lock this thread.
The two previous UN draft resolutions seeking an end to the violence in the region had been blocked by Washington as well. The United States has so far vetoed over 40 anti-Israel resolutions at the UN.
In a weekly radio address on Saturday, US President George W. Bush supported the Israeli decision to reject a forty-eight-hour ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid to enter the besieged strip.
"Another one-way cease-fire that leads to rocket attacks on Israel is not acceptable. And promises from Hamas will not suffice," said the outgoing US president.
The United Nations has reported that nearly fifty percent of those killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip are women and children.
"I know people are saying: let's have a ceasefire. (Those are) noble ambitions. But any ceasefire must have the conditions in it so that Hamas does not use Gaza as a place from which to launch rockets."
The United States has so far vetoed over 40 anti-Israel resolutions at the UN.
The president, whose speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was interrupted 67 times by applause and chants of "Four more years," delivered mild criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza. "The unfolding violence in the Gaza Strip is troubling and underscores the need for all parties to seize every opportunity for peace," he said.
"In how many arenas can the administration act simultaneously? Will Katrina guzzle all the resources, both financial and political, and will the other issues be neglected for a while? Are Iraq and Katrina all there is? Will there be any time and energy left for us? Israelis and others are asking this. "