Bush to send delegation to Lebanon to help rebuild country
It's the height of irony, but he's too thick skinned to even realise it:U.S. President George W. Bush announced Saturday that he is sending a delegation to Lebanon to meet with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and discuss ways to help rebuild his nation left in ruins after this summer's 34 days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
The man who sat on his hands whilst Lebanon was being destroyed by missiles and bombs that his own country's money paid for, the man who refused to call for a ceasefire when he alone had the power to make the Israelis stop; indeed, the man who hoped the war would expand into neighbouring Syria... now wants to send a few mates along to ask the Lebanese, "How you doing?"
He's not scaled this level of patronisation since he dropped peanut butter sandwiches on Afghanistan whilst simultaneously carpet bombing them.In a statement, the White House also announced that Chambers, Ghafari and Irani along with Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel Corp., are launching a nationwide effort to encourage private donations for reconstruction needed as a result of the conflict. In coming days, the group will ask Americans to donate money to a fund set up to help the Lebanese people, the White House said.
How deeply touching. I wonder if the money raised will come anywhere near the $6 billion he gives to Israel every year to ensure her military dominance of the region and which helped provide the missiles and the F-16 jets that delivered those same missiles onto the heads of the Lebanese civilian population?
I somehow doubt it. After all, he recently - and again with no sense of irony - donated $230 million as an aid package to Lebanon, apparently oblivious to the fact that the damage the Israelis had inflicted on the Lebanese infrastructure - which he again had funded and supported - ran to some $4 billion.
It's a bit like shooting someone's mother in the head and then insisting on paying for a wreath for the top of the coffin as if this somehow exonerates you and makes everything okay. There are times when it really is better not to bother. And this is certainly one of those times.
Either give a gift that is commensurate with the damage you have caused or sit in shame and say nothing.
But no, Bush is pushing his way to the front of the funeral cort'ege to place his scabby bouquet on the lid of the coffin, wiping mock tears away as he does so.
No doubt his supporters think this demonstrates his humanity, to the rest of us it is simply another example of his brazenness and his shamelesness.
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