Egypt will be hosting a meeting on Iraq next week. The topic of discussion: how to end the violence. High-level representatives from Syria, Turkey and the United States are planning to attend. According to a Reuters report, Iran has not yet decided whether Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will participate.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who attended the first Iraq neighbors’ conference in March, said, “We’ll have a chance to, in a sense, test the proposition that Iraq’s neighbors have more to lose from an unstable Iraq than to gain from it.”
The summit will also be a test of the Bush administration’s interest in diplomacy.
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Too little too late. When has Bush ever shown an interest in using diplomacy? He saw an oppotunity to destroy and take over a country based on it’s oil supply. He certainly wouldn’t want the diplomatic route to work out, that would screw up his whole agenda.
Hi Mary!
The preznit and his merry band of “DIPlomats” believe that “meeting someone halfway” begins with the premise that they are already standing on the halfway mark…
Not the truth Mary.
Mary
Like it or not, the fact is, Iraq is the center of world terrorism right now.I happen to think that removing Saddam was absolutely necessary.Even if you don’t agree with that position, pulling out of Iraq would now be a disaster.
Did you know that a former, high ranking officer of Saddam was now an officer of Al-Quida?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1717571.ece
Also, the United States has not confiscated, stolen, taken or otherwise used a drop of Iraq oil without paying for it.
By the way,
Iran IS better off with violence in Iraq. That is why Iran is giving support to much of the violence.
Syria supports bombing and terrorism in Lebanon and in Israel.
You libs are amazing. The only talk that will do any good is tough talk, spelling out what we know about Syria and Iran supporting ruthless terrorism.
Your “Koumbia” peace nut attitude will get more people killed than anything Bush has done, to date.
Farmgirl
Before Ed posts his predictable anti-Israel hateful diatribe, let us first examine where we are.
The United States and Israel have tried, repeatedly, to offer “land for peace” deals to the radical Moslems.Those peace efforts are met with suicide bombers, once paid for and supported by Saddam Hussein, now supported by Iran and Syria.For Israel to offer up land, with US support, is more than “halfway!”
In Iraq, the United States simply wished for Syria and Iran to stay out of the military and militia struggles and let the Iraqi people decide their fate.This is not what Iran wants.Iran wants to dominate the region.Likewise, this is not what Syria wants.You assume that radical Islam wants the same thing we want:Peace and Prosperity.You are wrong.Radical Islam wants you converted or dead.How do you negotiate “halfway” with that goal in mind?Besides, we don’t know if we should convert to Shite or Sunni.If we convert the wrong way, we might still be dead.
Or “half dead” given your desire for compromise!
Very true Mary. I am afraid that Rice will continue with her approach of “dictating terms of surrender” to the rest of the countries in the region as she has done before. This is also reflective of Bush’s attitude toward the Congress - he wants to dictate to them what bills they will pass.
iraq’s neighbors have made it clear that they will not submit to Bush’s or Rice’s orders. Hopefully the Congress will do the same.
Bush is not the king of the world; no matter what that megalomaniac and his toadies think.
Paul - how can Syria and Iran NOT be involved when we have deliberately swamped them with refugees? I haven’t seen you or Bush providing shelter for the millions who have fled the chaos we have created.
Both of those countries logically want to find a way for those refugees to return to Iraq. Of course, you call that interference with our operations.
Perhaps WE should be housing the millions of refugees; then perhaps WE would have influence over them.
Econ101 continues to spout the party line as more and more Americans reject it and everything Bush Imperialism stands for.
Meanwhile, scroll up and take a good look at that photo of Condi. She’s unconsciously indicating how much brains Bush has, when fully erect . . .
“Like it or not, the fact is, Iraq is the center of world terrorism right now”Did anyone tell them in Pakistan? I would not call Iraq the “center of world terrorism” I might say they have a branch office there. Something that has fail to be pointed out with real attention to detail.The Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden all fled to the tribal regions of Pakistan.
The Pakistani intelligence which the President of Pakistan has limited control over at best.
Supported and still supports the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Pakistan’s army either refuses or will not go into the tribal region.
Pakistan will NOT allow the U.S. to go in and clear up the Tribal region.
Pakistan DOES have WMDs.
There are many in the Pakistani military who are supporters of the terrorists.
The stated goal of the invasion was to keep WMDs out of the hands of the terrorists.
But then lets keep the focus on the real reality shall we, “Oh look my house is on fire!”“But wait… If I simply turn around and look in a different direction I no longer see that my house is on fire!”. “Oh I smell something burning!… Ah it must be some one else’s house is on fire!”. “I’ll send in the fire department to that other house and now my house is no longer in danger!”.
Yes by all means, because our focus is on Iraq must mean that is the center of world terrorism for the terrorists too!
The words “terror” or “terrorists” are the Jews meaningless spin words.
The Jews try to make those words synonymous with anyone who is defending their country, land, homes, farms, crops, etc, to cover Israeli aggression.
You can’t solve or deal with any foreign policy problem if the participants are misnamed.
Misrepresentation is the key and only element of Israeli foreign policy. The US is now infected with the same problem.
If you lay down with dogs, you wake-up with fleas.
“The showdown over Iraq that’s been brewing since the November elections will finally come to a head this week as Congress sends a war-spending bill to President Bush. Though the bill authorizes $100 billion for the war, Bush has rejected its October deadline for beginning the withdrawal of combat troops, with the goal of bringing combat troops home by April 2008, and has promised to use his veto, ?his second-ever use of this power ?to kill it.
On Jan. 13, during his weekly radio address, Bush challenged those who disagreed with him to offer their own plan for Iraq. Led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Congress met Bush’s challenge to come up with an alternative policy.
But instead of seeking the dialogue he asked for in his own radio address, Bush and the Republicans went on the attack, calling the bill “defeatist” and “a cut and run” strategy. The truth is that the measure offers a change of course, not a 180-degree reversal. If Bush and Republicans can’t agree to a plan as moderate as the one passed this week, then they really do want a war with no end.
The legislation sets a date to start rolling back Bush’s escalation of 30,000 troops and calls for bringing home the rest of the combat troops. Instead of leaving the void that many of the war’s bitter-enders predict, the bill would reposition roughly 20,000 to 60,000 troops for counterterrorism missions, protecting diplomats and training Iraqi troops. Finally, the measure sets benchmarks for the Iraqi government to meet in order to continue receiving U.S. financial assistance.”
continue reading at:
http://www.fpif.org/fpifoped/4182