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| Middle East |
| Bush: Dump Yasser, have your own state |
| 2002-06-24 |
| President Bush urged the Palestinians Monday to replace Yasser Arafat and adopt "a practicing democracy" that could produce an independent state within three years. Finally came out and said it. I knew he would... "Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a Palestinian state can be born," Bush said. In his long-anticipated speech, Bush said "reform must be more than cosmetic changes or a veiled attempt to preserve the status quo" if the Palestinians are to fulfill their aspirations for a state alongside Israel. Paleostinians? Obligations? Paleostinians have no obligations! Everyone else has obligations! Elections should be held by the end of the year for a legislature with normal authority and there also must be a constitution, Bush said. If they even bother with that idea, it'll set the sonsofbitches arguing among themselves... "When the Palestinian people have new leaders, new institutions and new security arrangements with their neighbors, the United States of America will support the creation of a Palestinian state, whose borders and certain aspects of its sovereignty will be provisional until resolved as part of a final settlement in the Middle East." Yeah, and after they put on clean underwear they'll feel much fresher and cleaner. This'll be the part the Bad Guys use to scuttle the whole thing. Take the worst interpretation of "provisional" and then stretch it even further... Senior administration officials said they envision the Palestinians being able to reach provisional statehood within 18 months and full permanent statehood in as soon as three years. And the Bad Guys are determined that it'll be a chill day in the nether reaches of Gehenna... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |