Friday, January 11, 2008

THE MIDDLE EAST An alternative take on the Israeli Palestinian conflict and peace activism. Gilad Atzmon. Dear George... Dubya... my man... what about it, you would arrange peace in the Middle East and I would stop calling you a war criminal and asking for your trial? Deal? I fear I am being much too optimistic. WashingtonPost: "With time running short on his presidency - and on the eve of a trip to the Middle East - President Bush seems to have overcome his aversion to talking about his legacy and is now speaking fervently about how he expects to be remembered. As it turns out, the president sees himself as quite the heroic figure. Bush told al-Arabiya TV why he was so confident that an Israeli-Palestinian agreement could be reached within the year." Trying to emulate Blair's success with Northern Ireland, George? Don't push your luck. You have left us with hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq and elsewhere. The New England Journal of Medicine quotes an estimated number of violent deaths of 151,000 (95% uncertainty range, 104,000 to 223,000) from March 2003 through June 2006. Other sources have much higher numbers: 733,158 to 1,446,063 deaths. Anyway George, you've made a mess of this world and America. Bloomberg: "Erosion of the U.S. housing market and a weaker dollar might drive the American economy into recession this year and stall world economic growth in 2009, United Nations economists said." The coin is flipping. 11:07:00 AM

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