AIBU - to think that Bush planned this all along!

[ILiveinhope]

"Poor old George Bush. He certainly picked a good day to be travelling to the Middle East. All eyes in America were on who might be the next US president, rather than him."

Call me cynical, but I think that the White House knows exactly what they are doing and are just paying lip service to something in the last year of presidency.

Full article here
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7178422.stm

very interesting.

Maybe he's like Tony Blair and Northern Ireland , wants to be in history for a big settlement.

Erm, yes, I'm sure he did. And? The thread title makes him sound like a Bond villain.

I didn't the title to sound like that, but I am wondering about his intentions on this. He has been in office for 7 years and this is his first visit. And he chooses it to be on the same day as the New Hampshire primaries.

To me it looks like a way to say "I tried, but nobody would listen". And it feels totally disingenuous

SueB, I think my title tried to say (unsuccesfully), that the media is not giving this decent coverage, and this was preplanned by GW's advisors, in a way to butter up Israel but actually make no differece at all.

IliveinHope, I just presume that all these things work on those lines - Bush or no Bush. But then I'm by turns cynical and far too charitable.