Bush's Popularity — Page 3

Papa, you bring out the salient questions. Establishing peace in Iraq -- and (cover your ears, Pops) nation-building in the Middle East -- will never succeed outside of the larger context of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The United States has an obligation as well as serious national security interests to foster the geopolitical conditions for a resolution.

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zola, just as you think that without a solution there that there can be no wider solution to the problems in the middle east, i don't think that we can impose a solution there or do much more to make the geopolitical conditions any better than was done by one wild bill clinton. as much as i will carp on billy boy for a lota things, even i have to face it: bubba got the palestinians the best deal they were gonna get and they spit in his face. the intifada, sharon, the wall and the eventual (sonner than later i hope) fall of yasser the fish and the civil war inside the palestinian people that will follow are a direct result of that action.

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Bush means what he says and says what he means most of the time. That is if he remembers what he means. And if he can ACTUALLY SAY what he thinks.