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July 14, 2006
Australia: The Treason-Mongering of the Mainstream Media
Sometimes an article is so bad, so biased, so nearly-treasonous it deserves attention. I mean, you see a war developing before your very eyes, and what do you do? Blame the President of the United States: Humiliating spectacle of a world leader caught without a policy
IT WAS a stark admission of helplessness from the leader of the world's only super power.With Israeli jets bombing Beirut airport and Hezbollah rockets landing in Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, the US President was asked what he could do to stop the fighting escalating.
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."
Israel had a right to defend itself, he said, but he was concerned about the "fragile democracy" in Lebanon.
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.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at July 14, 2006 11:01 AM
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