Bush: Palestinian State Coming Soon

(CBS/AP)  President George W. Bush sought to boost the flagging Mideast peace process Thursday by voicing fresh optimism about the creation of a Palestinian state. He said he remained confident that the definition of a state for the Palestinian people would be reached before he leaves office in January.

"I believe it's in Israel's interests and the Palestinian people's interest to have leaders willing to work toward the achievement of that state," Bush said at the White House with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

"People that can deliver that state, that vision, for the Palestinian people are sitting right here in the Oval Office - led by the president," Bush said.

Bush spoke as his own administration acknowledged that talks have bogged down five months after both sides pledged to reach a deal by January.

"I'm confident we can achieve the definition of a state," Bush said. "I'm also confident that it's going to require hard work."

Abbas headed into the meeting with the goal of prodding the Bush administration to pressure Israel to stop expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank. A halt on those settlements - one of the most disputed aspects of the long-running Mideast conflict - is one condition of the map to peace for both sides.

Bush made no direct mention of the settlement issue in addressing reporters.

Abbas said Palestinian leaders are "doing everything we can" to reach a peace deal that would be satisfactory for his people and for Israel.

"I cannot say that the road to peace is paved with flowers," Abbas said. "It is paved with obstacles. But together, we will work very hard in order to eliminate those obstacles and achieve peace."

CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller reports the president -- calling Abbas a friend and a man of peace and vision -- said they would meet again next month when he's in the Middle East to attend the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the creation of Israel.

[speakinup]

Quetzal0666 - so how''s Hugo today ? I don''t want to bother him, I know he''s out there wrecking the country, looking for something else to nationalize so he can keep the peasants from lynching him.

[underdogus]

COMING SOON!! HIGHER prices at the pump as oil marches toward 121$ a barrel...more attacks in Nigeria.......

[underdogus]

hungry1968...HELLO SATAN!!

[quetzal0666]

Hi im Dumbya,
im gonna make them there peace process really pick up and go.....
that Carter Fella, well, he dont know hoot of how the piece process works,
and we dont neither, but this photo shoot sher was fun, and i got to ride that there big ole plane afterwards, and eat my aquaman cereal.

[speakinup]

"Funny that you don''''t decry the Bush regime''''s "peace plan" of "ignore it and maybe it will go away", while supporting the madman''''s plan to plunge us into needless, never ending war, but instead you choose to go after the "liberal". - hungry1968


That''s because I see clearly, and don''t share the ignorance you do with this far left liberal. I believe in addressing problems and causes of problems, factually. You just want to make silly wild comments based upon your hatrid, and call folks names.


So, yes, you are entitled to make a fool of yourself publically by making groundless comments based upon spin and lies, but that doesn''t make you correct.


Glad you are amused.

[hungry1968]

Your ire doesn''''t seem to be earned, but flies never the less.

Another liberal that can''''t think in terms of peace, but has no problem preaching hate. Anyone see a pattern ? I have to wonder if this person is far left, or is just the norm.

Posted by speakinup at 09:20 AM : Apr 25, 2008





Funny that you don''t decry the Bush regime''s "peace plan" of "ignore it and maybe it will go away", while supporting the madman''s plan to plunge us into needless, never ending war, but instead you choose to go after the "liberal".

Typical.

[speakinup]

"This is the guy who sold us the "roadmap to peace" in 2002.-jerr11

If I remember correctly, Presidents have been trying to solve this problem since Pre Carter era.

And they have all had high hopes, yet none have succeeded.





Your ire doesn''t seem to be earned, but flies never the less.

Another liberal that can''t think in terms of peace, but has no problem preaching hate. Anyone see a pattern ? I have to wonder if this person is far left, or is just the norm.

[hungry1968]

Did I just wake up from a long sleep and miss something? Did our Executive-in Chief just have a picture taken with a terrorist leader and promise a terrorist land and stature of statehood within the world community. Here, People, is the beginning of the end. Here is place from which the Anti-Christ will be formed.

Posted by maxify55 at 06:48 AM : Apr 25, 2008




This is where ideology blinds logic and reason. If you were able to think clearly, and take your religious blinders off, you would see that the palestinians are not terrorists. That is such an absurd statement on your part, that it defies description.

Your calling the palestinians "terrorists", is like someone in Canada reading a story about a bank robbery in America, and then calling ALL AMERICANS bank robbers.

Pretty stupi, huh?

[hungry1968]

They forsake the law of God and walk after the imagination of their own heart or perhaps their man made "religion" but God is not mocked! everyone will reap what they have sown individuals and whole nations,COMING SOON storms,tornadoes and hurricanes,earthquakes,droughts,floods,w
ars,terrorism,high taxes,unemployment,and so on...watch your head.

Posted by underdogus at 07:59 AM : Apr 25, 2008






Your god controls hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, AND high taxes?

So when my taxes go up, it''s his fault?

And when a tornado strikes the mid west and kills people, do you then call your god a murderer?

Does he also control "the great red spot" on Jupiter, or does he only use the weather to kill people on earth?

[babooph]

The propaganda system never brings up Bush "hiding in a hole during 9/11-raving over "wonderful" increases in home ownership-1st thought of Katrina"Hope no one cheats the insurance companies"- staying out of mid east problems-without the propagandists there would never have been such a lowgrade idiot in the Whitehouse.