WTF Is It Now?!?

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Happy Easter, everyone!

Powell talks to Sharon & Arafat, the Coward of Crawford talks to Cows:

"the White House did and said nothing"

The Israeli-Palestinian fighting will be remembered as the Yugoslavia of this administration -- a dangerous situation that, through timidity and willful inaction, the United States allowed to become a catastrophe.

Why has the Cretinous Cowstalker rejected his father's policy? Some in and outside the administration cite an overreaction to the Clinton administration, which escalated U.S. involvement in the Middle East still further but failed to produce a settlement. Others suspect that Daddy's Little Doofus sees his father's heavy pressure on Israel as a mistake that helped cost him reelection, and consequently is resolved never to be caught leaning on Sharon.

Still others know that Buckeroo Bonehead is a mere figurehead, a brainless, snivelling pawn used by his handlers - equally depraved, and as it turns out, equally brainless.

Either way, this president's [sic] decision to disengage is beginning to look like an error of historic proportions.

- - The Washington Post


"President Bush has seemed more intent on securing Republican majorities in Congress in November and getting his brother re-elected as governor of Florida than on securing decency and justice in the Middle East."
- - Ian Gilmour, at The Observer


WTF?!: The Clueless Cokehead "used strong language Saturday" to reaffirm America's commitment to the process. (To whom, his old man? "Daddy, what do ah do? You gotta help me! An' bring me anutha bottle of pretzals, goshdarnit!". Just reading the transcript - see below - proves how idiotic and whorish this statement is.)

"I think it is very important for our country to provide an opportunity for discussion, an opportunity for people to come together," Preznit Primate said. "So Gen. Zinni will stay there. He will stay there to continue to push for a process."

"It reminds me of [Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco] Franco when he was brain dead but was kept breathing on resuscitation equipment until people figured out the succession," said Augustus R. Norton, a Mideast expert at Boston University and author of several books on the region.

The Arbusto administration is also increasingly under fire for not doing enough to avert or manage the mounting crisis. "While all this goes on, Bush fiddles in the White House or Texas, playing Nero as the Mideast burns," Norton said. "It's very sad."

The Clueless Clodhopper is coming under fire even among his supporters.

"The supreme irony is that the greatest power the world has ever known has proven incapable of managing a regional crisis," said Geoffrey Kemp, who ran Mideast policy at the National Security Council for the Reagan administration.

"A 2-year-old could have seen this crisis coming. And the idea that it could be brushed under the carpet as the administration focused on either Afghanistan or Iraq reflects either appalling arrogance or ignorance," Kemp said.

- - - The LA Times

The Moron of Midland Mumbles:

"We are at this point because there has not been enough done to fight off terror. All of the leaders in the world must stand up against terror and must do everything in their power to cut off funding to terrorist organizations, to prevent terrorist organizations from finding safe haven."

QUESTION: Why doesn't Arafat get a call by Powell today?
BUSH: Oh, he may be doing that. I just don't know. Let me - Arafat doesn't need a phone call from me. All he's got to do is what I just said. I believe - and that message will be delivered to him.

"There has been a framework laid out, and now the efforts will be--the focus of the efforts, getting into the framework."

- - The UK Guardian has the transcript here .