Bush takes aim at Syria and Iran

[Brighton Breezy]

President George W Bush has pledged to confront governments that promote terror and pursue weapons of mass destruction.

Laying out his second-term agenda in his State of the Union address, he singled out Syria and Iran as nations that still export terror - rasing fears that America could launch new military strikes in the Middle East.

"Syria still allows its territory, and parts of Lebanon, to be used by terrorists who seek to destroy every chance of peace in the region," President Bush said.

"We expect the Syrian government to end all support for terror and open the door to freedom."

Turning to Tehran, he said "Iran remains the world's primary state sponsor of terror - pursuing nuclear weapons while depriving its people of the freedom they seek and deserve.

"We are working with European allies to make clear to the Iranian regime that it must give up its uranium enrichment program and any plutonium reprocessing, and end its support for terror."

Hailing the success of elections in Iraq as proof of democracy's march, he promised to push forward for an overall Middle East peace, including an offer of $350 million in aid to the Palestinians.

"The victory of freedom in Iraq will strengthen a new ally in the war on terror, inspire democracy reformers from Damascus to Tehran, bring more hope and progress to a troubled region,'' President Bush said.

"The goal of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace, is within reach, and America will help them achieve that goal.''

With the United States spending more than $1 billion a week in Iraq, Mr Bush urged Congress to support his request for an additional $80 billion.

"During this time of war, we must continue to support our military and give them the tools for victory,'' he said.

He offered no hint of a timetable for a troop withdrawal from Iraq.

The President spent most of his speech on domestic affairs, largely changing the 70-year-old national pension system known as Social Security - so popular with Americans that it traditionally has been considered sacrosanct and untouchable.

He challenged a hesitant Congress to take political risks to make Social Security "permanently sound'', saying the nation's costliest social programme was headed for bankruptcy without changes.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Quelle Surprise

 

[Marc]

"World Police, World Police,
Bush & Bliar are the World Police"




Why cant the prick sit down and chat to the head Syria bloke instead of just ranting about it to the masses creating this hysteria of a possible further conflict!?
He and his advisors have got to be the biggest Muppets this planet has seen since evolution decided some birds can have wings but they still wont fly!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Maybe B.Liar should be voted out just to be on the safe side

 

[REDLAND]

And for those who don't just read the front cover


For the first time in years, Iran has reported defense and military relations with Russia.

Iran's ambassador to Russia reported defense and military cooperation between the two countries. It was the first time a senior Iranian official asserted that the two countries were engaged in defense and military projects.

"Russian-Iranian cooperation is also developing in the military and technical sphere," Iranian ambassador to Moscow Gholamreza Shafei said.

Shafei was quoted by the Russian Itar-Tass news agency as saying that Iran sought to develop cooperation with Moscow. Shafei did not cite any defense and military projects between the two countries.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

This really REALLY pisses me off. Iran has changed so much in the last three years. We've even opened an office out there and the Iranian guy working for us is great. Not a radical at all and entirely happy there. But of course Bush Blair and the media crowd want us to believe it's still 1979 with added nuclear threat!

As for Syria...... it's just a huge big joke.... since Assad's demise the place has changed compeletely.... it's one of the safest places in the region. You would expect that political leaders have been trained in political cultures of different countries and have been told that in the Mid East if you want to survive you have to talk big and pay lip service to the great Satan arguement..... doesn't mean you have to believe it.

 

[ILOVEBHA]

This really REALLY pisses me off. Iran has changed so much in the last three years. We've even opened an office out there and the Iranian guy working for us is great. Not a radical at all and entirely happy there. But of course Bush Blair and the media crowd want us to believe it's still 1979 with added nuclear threat!

As for Syria...... it's just a huge big joke.... since Assad's demise the place has changed compeletely.... it's one of the safest places in the region. You would expect that political leaders have been trained in political cultures of different countries and have been told that in the Mid East if you want to survive you have to talk big and pay lip service to the great Satan arguement..... doesn't mean you have to believe it.

Well said that man

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Maybe B.Liar should be voted out just to be on the safe side

And vote in the Tories who are also pro war? The 2 main parties both want to cosy up to Bush.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

And vote in the Tories who are also pro war? The 2 main parties both want to cosy up to Bush.

Even as a lifelong Labour voter, there does come a time when you have to say enough is enough. f*** the Tories. They'll never get my vote. At worst, I'll abstain, and if that allows the Tories in, then so be it. That's Blair's problem. Blair IS the problem. And the current proposals for indefinite detention without trial are just about tipping me and a lot of people like me over the edge of not voting Labour. And some of the people I'm talking about are hardcore Labour activists of the eighties. Not the same as voting Tory at all - even if it has the same end result. There has to be a mechanism for letting these currants know they are bang out of order, and as the Labour Party appears unable or unwilling to rein these people in, then sadly they maybe need another spell in opposition to make them go and sit in a corner and think about what they've done. A tragedy for the people who rely on the Labour Party to ensure they get a fair deal in life, but there you go.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I'm only 29 and i am so tired of political rhetoric like this. Thinly-veiled threats to those who won't conform. Let's turn the world into one huge, standardized, robotic, christian, soddomizing, hypocritical, money-making blob of whirring contentment. That's what i want to live in/on. All i've ever wanted. To rid myself and all those around of individuality and diversity in order to increase some other c*nt's God-endorsed profitability.
Save me, Bush, from this unclassified maelstrom of uncertainty. Please.

 

[captainmorganrum]

And the current proposals for indefinite detention without trial are just about tipping me and a lot of people like me over the edge of not voting Labour.

I'm a 100% labour voter for my sins.
I'm already 'tipped over the edge of not voting Labour'.
And other former staunch died-in-the-wool former voters I speak to are the same.

I'm old Labour - and utterly ashamed of the shower of shit I voted in last time around.
I won't make that mistake again.

 

[caz99]

Even as a lifelong Labour voter, there does come a time when you have to say enough is enough. f*** the Tories. They'll never get my vote. At worst, I'll abstain, and if that allows the Tories in, then so be it. That's Blair's problem. Blair IS the problem. And the current proposals for indefinite detention without trial are just about tipping me and a lot of people like me over the edge of not voting Labour. And some of the people I'm talking about are hardcore Labour activists of the eighties. Not the same as voting Tory at all - even if it has the same end result. There has to be a mechanism for letting these currants know they are bang out of order, and as the Labour Party appears unable or unwilling to rein these people in, then sadly they maybe need another spell in opposition to make them go and sit in a corner and think about what they've done. A tragedy for the people who rely on the Labour Party to ensure they get a fair deal in life, but there you go.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

I'm a 100% labour voter for my sins.
I'm already 'tipped over the edge of not voting Labour'.
And other former staunch died-in-the-wool former voters I speak to are the same.

I'm old Labour - and utterly ashamed of the shower of shit I voted in last time around.
I won't make that mistake again.

Welcome to the dark side - I've abstained for years. (My democratic right before anyone starts banging on about grandads and war and stuff.)

 

[captainmorganrum]

Cue Looney.....
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[The Great Cornholio]

Welcome to the dark side - I've abstained for years. (My democratic right before anyone starts banging on about grandads and war and stuff.)

My Grandad was at Arnhem btw.

 

[RexCathedra]

You know, I took comfort from 2001-2004 in the fact that the Banana Republicans essentially stole the White House with help from Big Brother Jeb and Justice/Don Antonin Scalia.

But this time nearly sixty million of my fellow citizens decided that sticking it to the fags, and Ay-rabs, and liberals, and uppity Negros, and women, and making every knee bend at Jeezus'name, and making all change STOP was more important than electing someone who could actually, you know, think. :

I got a 15-year old son, and he can go to any university he can get into, as long as it's Dalhousie, McGill, or the University of Toronto....

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Welcome to the dark side - I've abstained for years. (My democratic right before anyone starts banging on about grandads and war and stuff.)

 

[Juan Albion]

I got a 15-year old son, and he can go to any university he can get into, as long as it's Dalhousie, McGill, or the University of Toronto....

Not good enough for Queen's then?

 

[Row Z Creased Shirt]

Even as a lifelong Labour voter, there does come a time when you have to say enough is enough. f*** the Tories. They'll never get my vote. At worst, I'll abstain, and if that allows the Tories in, then so be it. That's Blair's problem. Blair IS the problem. And the current proposals for indefinite detention without trial are just about tipping me and a lot of people like me over the edge of not voting Labour. And some of the people I'm talking about are hardcore Labour activists of the eighties. Not the same as voting Tory at all - even if it has the same end result. There has to be a mechanism for letting these currants know they are bang out of order, and as the Labour Party appears unable or unwilling to rein these people in, then sadly they maybe need another spell in opposition to make them go and sit in a corner and think about what they've done. A tragedy for the people who rely on the Labour Party to ensure they get a fair deal in life, but there you go.

Best political statement on here for ages. Tom you are not alone.

 

[looney]

Nice one Richie.