Cartoon from The Arab News
The USA Executive Branch is a global horror. Bush goes to the Middle East in a peace initiative while having invaded Iraq illegally, causing the entire region to be destabilized, killed innumerable Iraqi citizens just because he could as a methodology to victory in order to expand the war, sent millions of Iraqis to refugee camps and cast a full one third of the country into poverty. It's called genocide by every defintion known to international law. If Saddam Hussein had done this in a proportional scale to Kuwait, he'd be hung by now. Oh, wait. He was hung and didn't accomplish nearly what Bush and Cheney did. That is simply amazing.
In this LA Times report, the word "Failed" and "Illegal" appears nowhere, except, in 'description.'
Saudi Arabia is not stupid. In order to prevent invasion across their borders in Bush's 'final war year' they lavished him with jewels and honors while wining him and dining him to insure their annual allotment of USA military hardware.
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In the final year, Bush administration officials are scaling back ambitious diplomatic goals, and appear more intent on managing crises than on reaching legacy milestones.
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 21, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is beginning its last year in office by quietly scaling back its foreign policy ambitions as it struggles with new obstacles and rapidly dwindling influence.
Only a few months ago, senior officials predicted that before their exit, they could deliver the Middle East peace deal that had eluded so many predecessors. But this month, as President Bush toured Israel and the West Bank, officials made it clear that the deal he's now talking about is not a long-awaited final agreement, but a preliminary pact to set the terms for talks.
In addition, the administration's efforts to get North Korea and Iran to end their nuclear programs have suffered deflating setbacks in recent weeks. And although the administration's greatest foreign policy undertaking, Iraq, has seen encouraging security improvements, the goal of Iraqi political reconciliation remains distant.
The upshot is that the Bush administration is going to be spending the next year managing crises and tidying up messes until the next president takes over, rather than reaching legacy milestones, as officials recently had hoped.
