Bush mishandles Mideast Crisis

Besides screwing up Afghanistan and Iraq, now Bush has taken his eye off the ball again with the latest meltdown in Lebanon. Bush has taken the side of Israel as the rest of the world condemns Israel's over reaction. It's like if you were squirted with a water gun and responded by shooting someone with a bazooka, that's how Israel reacts to events. Meanwhile Bush is busy blaming Syria for Hezbollah and waits while innocent people are being slaughtered on both sides of this conflict. Like everything he has ever done he is screwing it up.

Now his buddies from Saudi Arabia have arrived to plead with this dolt to intervene and call for a ceasefire in Lebanon. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, chief of the Saudi National Security Council, met with Bush for more than an hour Sunday. Remember Prince Badar is such a close friend of the Bush family he has affectionately been named "Bandar Bush." So this meeting is probably more of a dog and pony show than it will actually result in any action by the U.S.

Yes Condi Rice is headed to the Mid East to futher appease the world with a weak attempt at a resolution. Meanwhile the U.S. is sending precision weapons to Israel to aide their attack on Hezbollah. And Syria reaches out to talk to the U.S. about this conflict but John Bolton, the worst diplomat ever, quickly refuses the gesture.

Don't forget Dick "Shoot 'em in the Face" Cheney. He's out stumping for the 2006 elections and is using this crisis as a reason why Americans should be stupid enough to "stay the course" and re-elect the rubber stamp Congress we currently are victims of in this country. Unfortunately for the scatter shot VP the bigger terrorists are Israel from my vantage point. Cheney wants this war. He moved his investments around to take advantage of the current events in Lebanon. Here's what he said on Friday: "This conflict is a long way from over," Cheney said at a fundraising appearance for a GOP congressional candidate. "It's going to be a battle that will last for a very long time. It is absolutely essential that we stay the course."

They want the war. They want it to escalate. If it does and Syria is drawn into it be Israeli aggression, then Iran will come to Syria's aid. Which is exactly what Cheney wants because then he can bomb Iran. Which is what the Neocons have been stumping for this last week on all the right-wing news shows when they are calling this conflict the start of World War III.