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Well I’ve said a lot of nasty things about him, or at least about his policies, but here’s a big bravo for his latest efforts for peace. The roadmap for peace has about a 5% chance of succeeding, but if it does it would be most important thing any president has achieved in years—crucial for countering terrorism also. He has no political capital to gain from this since most of the people who voted for him oppose the roadmap. Anybody else impressed by this? The only other thing I liked about his presidency so far was when he sent me that $300 cheque a couple years back. But this I REALLY like. Go Bush Go. I’ll give my $300 back if you succeed.

He doesn’t want it – invest it.

i’d be very happy if this works, too. wouldn’t it be ironic if a lot of progress was made in the middle east and bush was nominated for a peace prize?

i have to admit that the roadmap has already gotten further than i expected, which is positive.

Apparently it wouldn’t be as ironic as I had thought.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08157237.htm

yeah except according to that story he was nominated for the peace prize for going to war against iraq. ironic indeed.

bush is a checkers man. his foreign policy is structured as such: enough time elapses, bush decides to jump. he doesn’t bother with fancy castling moves, no strategic pawn or knight missions, no deliberate checks. he simply reacts.

at least that’s what dennis miller told me this morning on the television.

you were watching fox news. i saw that too.

i think a lot of the changes that took place with the downfall of saddam hussein are going to spread throughout the entire mideast, including palestine.

hi tommystinks, can you ellaborate on that last point?

well, i just think that the war in iraq seriously changed the way the middle east operates. already we are starting to see a lot of the governemnts introduce democratic reforms and stop their funding to terrorism. iraq was one of the largest contributers to islamic extremism in palestine, and the collapse of the regime will naturally change the dynamic of the entire middle east. only time will tell how the situation in iraq, afghanistan, and palestine will unfold, but there is no doubt that the bush administration’s foreign policy has already had a profound effect.

i’ll certainly agree that the war in iraq has changed things in the middle east, but i don’t know that everything is as positive as you make it out to be.

could you give specific references to articles describing the democratic reforms being made in middle eastern countries? it would be really interesting to see countries reacting so quickly.

I’d be interested in evidence for the drying up of terrorist funds as well… I had heard the opposite.