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Blair and Annan Call for “International Force” to Guarantee Lebanese Peace While Bush Looks to “Wider War on Terror”
Closed Published July 17th, 2006 on Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better PlaceFinally. A western leader who will buck the code of silence invoked by Israel and the U.S. to perpetuate the ongoing mayhem in Lebanon. Haaretz reports that Tony Blair and Kofi Annan have jointly called for the deployment of an international force to guarantee the peace between Israel and Lebanon:
British Prime Minister Tony […]
Bush on Haditha Massacre: Marine Corps to ‘Reinforce That Proud Culture’
Closed Published June 1st, 2006 on Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better PlaceGeorge Bush made another one of those tremendously awkward statements he tends to make when under pressure and when someone under his command makes a really, really big mistake:
Bush said he had discussed Haditha with Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “He’s a proud Marine. And nobody is more concerned about […]
Olmert’s ‘Realignment’ Roadshow Comes (to Washington) and Goes
Closed Published May 25th, 2006 on Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better PlaceBush rolls out red carpet for Olmert (photo: Kimberlee Hewitt/Whitehouse.gov)
Ehud Olmert came to Washington with high hopes for Bush Administration embrace of his convergence (now called “realignment”) plan to unilaterally set Israel’s international borders and thereby swallow up considerable territory beyond the internationally-recognized Green Line. What did he come away with? Well, he […]
Bush, Dinosaur
Closed Published May 7th, 2006 on Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better PlaceBush addresses Oklahoma State commencement (photo: Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP)
There are oh so many descriptive phrases that come to mind regarding George Bush: hopelessly out of touch, disengaged, defeated. But now add a new one: dinosaur. The NY Times quotes this passage from his commencement address at that hotbed of free-thinking intellectual fervor, […]
Steven Colbert’s Wicked Send-Up of the Bush Presidency
Closed Published May 2nd, 2006 on Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better PlaceUntil yesterday, I knew nothing about the year’s most devastating and entertaining evisceration of the Bush Administration. Then I read Salon’s Video Dog column and learned of the wickedness Stephen Colbert had perpetrated on our beloved president and his worshipful followers in the White House press corps.
This past weekend marked the annual White House […]
Bush’s Identity Crisis: Where’s the Rest of Me?
Closed Published May 1st, 2006 on Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better PlaceGeorge Bush: “Is this me?” (photo: Roger L. Wollenberg)
George Bush is having more than a political crisis. It appears he’s having an identity crisis as well. How else to explain this picture of Bush and his “double” at the annual White House Correspondents dinner? I guess if I had so many […]