This is a stunner:
VIENNA, Austria - President Bush on Wednesday won a robust endorsement from European leaders for his tough approach to nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea, despite trans-Atlantic differences on Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and trade.
European Union leaders emerged from a summit with Bush in this capital of cafes and cobblestones to back U.S. demands that North Korea abandon a long-range missile test and that Iran quit dragging its feet in responding to a Western plan aimed at getting it to suspend uranium enrichment activity.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that his country will respond to the proposal by mid-August.
Bush was cool to the time frame. "It shouldn't take the Iranians that long to analyze what is a reasonable deal," he said. "We'll come to the table when they verifiably suspend. Period."
The summit host, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel — whose country holds the rotating presidency of the 25-nation EU — said it's best for Iran to agree to the proposal soon. "This is the carrot. Take it," Schuessel said.
In Washington, a State Department spokesman said Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns and his British, French, German, Chinese and Russian counterparts agreed that Iran should accept the offer "within weeks, not months."
On North Korea, Schuessel agreed with Bush that the communist country faces further isolation from the international community if it test fires a long-range missile believed capable of reaching U.S. soil.
"It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes who have announced they have nuclear warheads, fire missiles," Bush said. "This is not the way you conduct business in the world."
Schuessel said Europe would support the U.S. against North Korea if it test fires the missile.
"If that happens, there will be a strong statement and a strong answer from the international community. And Europe will be part of it. There's no doubt," said Schuessel, who appeared with Bush and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to address reporters.
It seems that Europe has had their bellyful of Iranian bullshit.
It's good that the leaders are on board with us against the islamofascists. But the UK press is just as hostile to the USA as the US press is.
ReplyDeleteYes, good point.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, eventually the press will spin this as Bush playing cowboy yet again.
And here comes the ultimate spin. When war finally breaks out, the MSM and liberal left will say it was all our fault. We brought it on ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how that kind of spin would have played after Pearl Harbor.
But I guarantee you, the dhimmis will say it's all our fault and how they tried so hard to prevent the coming catastrophe.
"I wonder how that kind of spin would have played after Pearl Harbor."
ReplyDeleteNY TIMES EDITORIAL from the wayback machine:
America's strangling boycotts, continued despite the mutiple Japanese attempts at negotiation left the japanese in the own words with only the choice of becoming a third rate power or going to war. Therefore that same FDR who, similar to his support for the fiend Somoza, continued ensuring that the influence and hegemony of the USA and its powerful, influential business interests remained supreme, even if it meant driving a modern industrialized nation such as Japan to the edge of war and beyond.
Does that sound like the real thing?