Bush: 'Worth It to Try' on Mideast Peace

Quote of the fucking decade:

Hours after opening a Mideast conference, President Bush said Tuesday he was worried about the consequences if the search for peace failed but declared, "It is worth it to try."

Bush cautioned it would take time for Israelis and Palestinians to reach an agreement. The goal is to reach an accord within 14 months by the end of Bush's presidency.

"I don't think it's a risk to try for peace," the president said in an Oval Office interview with reporters from The Associated Press. "I think it's an obligation."

Then why has he been the first American President to so blatantly ignore that obligation for seven long years?

Indeed, he encouraged Ariel Sharon to use force to create a "new reality" in the Middle East rather than to seek peace, as he is the first US president who has legitimised the illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories when he said that there will be no return to the borders of 1967.

That's quite a track record for a man who now says he has an "obligation" to seek peace. He appears to have been doing everything in his power to avoid it since he came to office, hoping that Israel's superior fire power would win the day.

His plan failed.

So, now he sets out to portray himself as a man of peace, as he once famously called Ariel Sharon.

There are many of us who view Bush as exactly the same kind of man of peace as Sharon was.

Both of them are war criminals.

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Tags: Bush, Israel, Palestine, Middle East, Annapolis