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Bush’s damage control
Orly Azoulay
Published: 15.01.08, 15:39
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1. needless?!?!?
johnathan ,   israel   (01.15.08)
excuse me but they where very much NEEDED wars. they just weren't executed properly. So what you are saying is to just sit back and let murderers and filth do as they please. FYI. if that is the case you are as guilty as the murderers themselves!
2. Bush has decided to sacrifice Israel...
Ran ,   London   (01.15.08)
...in a bid to appease the Arabs. We will not forgive nor forget. (By we I mean normal Jews, not Olmert and his elite internal enemy conspirators).
3. Azoulay!
Semper Fi! ,   San Diego, USA   (01.15.08)
Needless you say, when at this exact moment, thousand of americans are fighting the barbarians to save your derriere and those of the civilized world. Please shut up and respect your friends. We're getting fed up to listen to idiots like Ran criticizing the best US Prez ever for Israel. Why you guys don't get help from Eurabia?
4. What a childish article. Full of ranting no substance
Harry   (01.15.08)
I just would not like to see Bush make Israel the scapegoat for the perceived failures in Baghdad.
5. #1 do you not realize
stephen ,   ludlow usa   (01.15.08)
Do you not realize the world is saying the same of Israel, satan is swaying world opinion. But have no fear, firmly taped on the fins of the missles that bush is selling to the saudi's is a small tag Do not use on Jews.
6. We've been here before....
Danny   (01.15.08)
http://www.lebanonwire.com/0205/02050814DS.asp , note Alex Fishman's brilliant prediction along with B.Michael's along with our very own Orly. Maybe she's miffed that Israel didn't follow her advice and the result was an almost total collapse in suicide bombing since 2002?
7. Worst president ever and bad for Israel
Steven ,   San Francisco   (01.15.08)
As Olmert is the worst PM ever, Bush is the worst president ever, and I've lived through seven previous presidents. Bush, as is Olmert, is highly incompetent, arrogant, corrupt, and extraordinarily bad for their respective countries. I say good riddance to both of them!
8. Bush tour of Middle East
Ted ,   Chicago Ilinois USA   (01.15.08)
I agree that Bush should have actually visited the Middle East early in his presidency. Unfortunately, Bush is quite ignorant of foreign policy and is ill advised by his cabinet and staff. Americans are good people and are not represented by Bush at all.
9. Like anyone else who is leaving his job…
GuyFromNablus ,   where else   (01.15.08)
G. Bush is working on his retirement plan and bonus. He brought those peasants $100 barrel Oil… Lucky guy, I am certain he will get a handsome retirement bonus. … and speaking of the Arab-Israeli conflict. If someone like G. Bush can resolve the conflict, it would have been resolved long time ago. Wait for Obama, he might be the chosen one! Or maybe this conflict will resolve itself once the Middle East runs out of oil, around 2036.
10. San Fran values!
Semper Fi! ,   San Diego, USA   (01.15.08)
What can we expect of #7? Living in the US Sodom what sort of values can you get? The ones of the traitors, selfloathing elite jews, the worst ones...Worst than terrorist pals...
11. #10 refrain from slander
Steven ,   San Francisco   (01.15.08)
Before you shoot your mouth off you ought to know this: I happen to really love myself, and am not self-loathing in the least. I am a proud Zionist and a taxpaying American. I have never evaded any responsibility as a citizen or personally. I loath terrorism and terrorists. San Francisco is an interesting city, whether the person is straight or gay, and it is far far from Sodom. It has lots of diversity and tolerance, the latter something you may wish to cultivate more of. Don't be stereotyping me based on my city of residence since its unfair and completely inaccurate. You call me a traitor and worse than a terrorist, self-loathing and an elitist. You can rest assured I am the exact opposite of all of your stupid accusations. Tend to your own garden, moron.
12. congratulations!
salleh ,   malaysia   (01.15.08)
this is one of the rare occasions for an objective article to aptly describe the bush presidency in this journal. a quote from samuel johnson: ' integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.' would be appropriate to describe bush who has neither. what he has is a team of greedy accomplice like dick chenny and a pseudo intellectual condi rice.
13. Bush’s damage control
Serge Corvington ,   Huntsville, USA   (01.16.08)
With all due respect, I believe you are not in tune the realities of the moment. The majority of the Israeli and Palestinian problems stems from the inability of both leadership groups to attain and maintain a peaceful coexistance agreement or plan. The Palestinian cause is only a few decades old, fueled at its beginning by a non-Palestinian (Yassir Arafat), and supported by all the Arab nations, mainly Islamic, bordering Israel; these same nations have no desire to see Israel prosper in peace. Bush's foreign policy has nothing to do with the hatred that exist against Israel, and even if he had visted the region the day after his election, the existing quagmire would have still prevailed. The Palestinian situation is a politically concocted cancer that all Arab states created to torment the Israeli nation; even if Israel was to disappear off the face of the World map, they would be at each others throats, killing each other for political supremacy. This administration has done more to control the situation than the Clinton administration; at least terrorists are being exterminated on their own turf, not in the USA. Clinton's solution was to bombard empty training camps with Tomahawk missiles; I guess you would call that a projection of power. Get real! The only way to advance the Palestinian cause is for its leadership to decide to stop the killing, and to reprogram the brainwashed younger generation into a track of pacific and tolerant coexistence. Otherwise the killing will keep on going because Israel is determined to survive and continue existing, and we the "Yanks" will make sure it does, not because they are the "Chosen People" but because it is the "right thing" to do.
14. To # 11 in Sodomisco!!!
Semper Fi! ,   San Diego, USA   (01.16.08)
Like atracts like!!! You got a friend out of Malaysia to attack Bush...What can we expect from a special Zionist from Sodom and a lunatic islamic Obama or Osama follower. BTW, the diversity that you "enjoy" in San Fran which is a beautiful city is as follow: Half of the city is made of drag queens, a high minority crime and the rest made of crazy guys roaming the streets...Mayor himself is a crasy queer...City do not allow army recruiters, or even US Navy museums but bondage orgies and other things you can imagine are allowed in public places.... Shame on you selfloathing "zionist"
15. Canada
Needless wars ,   Frank   (01.16.08)
Mrs Azoulay must admit that the Israeli Left has created much more needless wars than Bush. Most wars fought today by Israel have been created by the Oslo process. Without Oslo or the Gaza withdrawal, there will be no war in Yesha and Gaza. Mrs Azoulay policy will start lots of needless wars with the so-called moderates of WB. Bashing Bush won't change this reality. Bush made several mistakes, he should have attack Iran instead of Iraq, he should have be more reactive to the obvious mismanagement of the post-war and he should not have restarted a war process between Israel and the Pals.
16. Bush is good
alan ,   cape disappointment   (01.16.08)
Even the skeptics of the surge in Iraq have now been silenced in the face of successes in Anbar Province and now starting in the north. Anyone who can say that Iraqis are today not better off than five years ago are simply mistaken. There is hope in Iraq now and GW Bush is the man who got it there. Not that he has not made mistakes. But which President, Lincoln included, has not made mistakes during a war.
17. Bush sux
Petra ,   usa   (01.16.08)
He holds hands with the Saudi drag queens, gives his okay for them to have more sophisticated arms and asks Israel for a two state solution? What a gigantic ignorant oil loving putz! I for one will be thrilled when this horrid prez is gone and (hopefully) forgotten, worst prez ever. He's managed to reduce America to his red necked bubba ways, he would make his grandfather, Preston Bush happy. NEVER AGAIN!
18. Oh please, #7
Cameron ,   USA   (01.16.08)
#10 was only too right. Your city by the bay has become the epitome of every form of self-indulgence & cultural rot as you San Fran. types so proudly wave your Progressive banners. Is there any form of behavior you & your fellow city-dwellers won't rationalize and welcome?
19. Bush has decided to sacrifice Israel...
Serge Corvington ,   Huntsvile, Alabama   (01.16.08)
What worries me the most is not the way things are, but the way folks like you perceive things to be. From my experience I have never experienced or seen "elitism" in the political infrastructure of Israel. Most israeli politicians come from the same pool (normal jews) as you do. The fact that they are elected and elevated to these positions of responsibilities is a testament to the degree of confidence and trust the jewish nation has in them. Maybe you need to understand what their functions are and assess if they are fulfilling their perceived resposibilities. It is so easy, when you are outside of the political decision-making circle, to perceive elistism where there is none.
20. Congratulaions!
Serge Corvington ,   Huntsville, Alabama   (01.16.08)
Samuel Johnson's quote about integrity, is a denigrating way of describing such a noble leadership trait. This is a trait president Bush could fill many buckets, if buckets were the validating yardstick for it. President Bush publically voices what he intends to do, does it, and stays the course, as demonstrated by his actions against worldwide terrorism. Name one more head of state, besides Israel, that is actively pursuing a surgical and aggressive policy of counter-terrorism outside of his/her own territorial boundaries. I think you have more fingers in your right hand than possible names available. Mr. Cheney happens to be the Vice-President of the most democratic country in the World. Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001. As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching. What rock did you crawl out from under, and how do you determine that they are "greedy accomplice" and "pseudo intellectual?" I assume that you have free Internet access from Malaysia! Why don't you do a Google search like I did to analyze each individual's personal qualifications before you go blasting at folks you dislike? Then again, based on the rights to free speech that we respect in the U.S., you also have the right to express any opinion you wish over this open forum, no matter how senseless it may seem. I respect your opinion, no matter how deviated it sounds, but I and many others do not have to accept it quietly either.
21. Thank god
Masada ,   canada   (01.18.08)
#11 good!at least some americans have some thinking and reasoning.Your a credit to your country sir.I just wish more of your fellows citizens would look at the whole picture instead of an anti-semetic look of it.
22. # 5
(01.22.08)
i think i am in love with you.
23. The Bush Legacy
Robert Kern ,   Reno, Nevada, USA   (01.23.08)
The Bush years have indeed been a disaster for the entire world. Still, we are looking at a situation when so many of the people in leadership positions in so many powerful countries (Olmert, Ahmadinejad, Sarkozy, etc.) are not only dangerous but incompetent as well. I fear for my children's future.
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