Sunday, July 16, 2006
Bush's Sleepytime
I am not the only person to remark on how disinterested Bush seems with the whole Middle East World War III thing. While President Bush enjoyed a barbeque in Germany on his visit there Thursday Lebanon continued to burn under Israeli assault. He conferred with some people in the Middle East by phone on his flight to Russia for the G8 meeting. Then he spent Saturday biking in Russia.
James Wolcott snidely remarked “perhaps the president might make an effort not to see quite so blase, detached, and in-character.” Josh Marshall remarked that the Bush Administration has “marginalized itself” and shown “impotence and irrelevance.” Jon Stewart ran a piece at the Daily Show mocking the President’s lack of interest in Middle East questions Thursday at the barbeque in Germany.
Is this not reminiscent of Bush’s delayed reaction to Hurricane Katrina, when it took him days to realize that the city was sinking beneath the waves? What diplomatic mission to Germany could be so important so as to pre-empt the beginning of a region-wide disaster?
You will find no leadership from the White House on this issue. Bush’s plan since the beginning of his presidency was to ignore the peace process in the Middle East and let Israel do whatever it felt necessary. The results of that diplomacy are evident today.
A good president would have gotten on the horn with Ehud Olmert and told him to suspend his military strikes. But, of course, this president will do no such thing, even when he finds the time to address the situation. He has voiced support for the Israeli action and even directed a veto of the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s actions (and, of course, the kidnapping of the Israeli Army members).
German media covered the president’s visit to Germany by highlighting the protestors there protesting Bush’s visit, in America we received no such information. His visit was covered by a small story buried in the depths of the Chicago Tribune, which made no mention of the inconvenient fact of the protestors.
In other news:
When it comes to the K Street Gang, it’s just a different face, same situation.
Presidet Putin of Russia gives President Bush a snide jab over the results in Iraq.
A certain Judiciary Committee Chairman who is dead to me (previously referred to as “Worm”) floated his previously-mentioned sham legislation in Congress recently, a bill that was mostly written by Dick Cheney.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 12:25 PM 
