As the middle east seems to be falling apart, once again, their are the usual signs that George Bush doesn't have a clue. Contrast this with Bill Clinton who actually had policies.
Bush's pig tales show disengagement
BY TIMOTHY M. PHELPS
Newsday Washington Bureau Chief
July 15, 2006, 9:03 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- As Israeli warplanes were preparing an attack on Lebanon Thursday afternoon, and a Lebanese militia was aiming a rocket at the ancient Israeli city of Safed, President George W. Bush was bantering with reporters in Germany about a pig.
Bush kept bringing up the roast wild boar he was about to dine on at a banquet that night, even when asked about the swelling crisis in the Middle East, where pig meat is forbidden to religious Jews and Muslims.
"Does it concern you that the Beirut airport has been bombed?" a reporter asked. "And do you see a risk of triggering a wider war?"
"I thought you were going to ask me about the pig," Bush replied blithely. Then he brought the pig up again -- for the fifth time -- before giving a long answer that ended with his saying Israel needed to protect itself.
"He was asked a serious question," said Ian Lustick, a Middle East expert now at the University of Pennsylvania, and his answer "epitomized his disengagement in the Middle East."
Newsday.com: Bush's pig tales show disengagement
Roll on the next Presidential election so we can see the last of this turkey..




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