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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bush rebuffs Blair on peace role for Iran
2006-11-15
US PRESIDENT George Bush has reassured Israel that America will not back away from its view that Iran and its nuclear program are a world threat, despite British Prime Minister Tony Blair suggesting Tehran and Syria could have a role in stabilising Iraq under "a new partnership".

He said that while his Administration was willing to discuss a way forward in relations, Iran must agree to verifiably suspend its uranium enrichment activities or face international isolation.
With Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at his side, Mr Bush continued his tough talk, saying a nuclear-armed Iran would not only threaten Israel but loom as an "incredibly destabilising" threat to the region and the world. He said that while his Administration was willing to discuss a way forward in relations, Iran must agree to verifiably suspend its uranium enrichment activities or face international isolation. Mr Bush's remarks come as his Administration is considering changing its policy in Iraq, after last week's Democratic election triumph that will give the party control of both houses of Congress next year.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Prime Minister Blair generally says what he believes, and he's a man of very focussed faith. I fear this is one of the idiotic things he believes in, like the necessity of Britain joining the United States of Europe, and the importance of respecting the human rights of armed housebreakers not to be hit by poker-armed homeowners.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-11-15 22:17  

#5  Let me play eternal optimist here....

Good cop/bad cop?
Posted by: BA   2006-11-15 14:53  

#4  Sigh.
Posted by: .com   2006-11-15 10:23  

#3  This is a crippling disappointment for those of us who have supported Blair through the rest of his statist/"internationalist" nonsense.

Let us hope he is not saying what Bush is actually thinking. For all the President's tough talk the Iranians continue to make proxy war on the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel and continue to pay no price.
Posted by: Excalibur   2006-11-15 09:57  

#2  Syria and Iran as peace partners in the region.

It just doesn't get any dumber than this, Tony.
Posted by: .com   2006-11-15 09:21  

#1  The Dems Congresional wins will probably be the greatest test for Dubya + his POTUS leadership skills - on one side, Amer faces the LT prospect of demands for US-only WORLDWIDE/GLOBAL FALLBACK-RETREAT; on the other is ever intensifying risk of dedicated, WMD-capable, new terror attacks against America under the PC/PDeniable guise of anti-US, anti-Dubya, "justified" retaliation, INCLUD ASSASSINATION DISGUISED AS TERROR. And he's gotta know that LEFT > ISOLATIONISM = SOCIALISM/GOVT-ISM, EMPIRE = SAME, MISTAKE/ERROR = SAME, OWG = GLOBAL SSR = USSA = SSR/USR = SAME, WOT > LIMITED TOTALITARIANISM vs FULL TOTALITARIANISM, etc. Dubya's place in history will be that much greater iff he = free America can deftly, wisely escape the Left's ninja TRAP(S) within a TRAP(S).
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-11-15 01:42  

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