Powell seeks Arafat aid on terror, warns of 'cliff'

he's always been more on the supply side than eradication...may not work

But a spokesperson said there would be "detentions" - not arrests - and last time detentions lasted 30 days - so media is to report that Arafat is into "a campaign that even in the worst nightmares Hamas and Islamic Jihad never imagined" Does not pass the laugh test.

Good Luck Colin - hope you do better than you did finding "coalition troops - 200 from Latin America - but it adds a half dozen country names to our coalition!" - which also does not pass the laugh test.

From the AP:

"In the end, Abbas and Arafat agreed on a joint statement which said the Palestinian Authority would enforce the rule of law, take control of illegal weapons and end "military displays" by the militants, a reference to marches led by gunmen.Islamic Jihad and Hamas officials said they were ordered by Palestinian police not to speak to reporters, and many leaders of the two groups had their phones turned off Thursday.The Palestinian leadership statement did not refer to arrests, which would appear to be a cornerstone of any crackdown, but Palestinian officials said there would be detentions. "It's a campaign that even in the worst nightmares Hamas and Islamic Jihad never imagined," said Elias Zananiri, a spokesman for Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan. "There's a list of people to be arrested."

He's usually... uh... more articulate.

"At the end of the road map is a cliff that both sides will fall off."

So why in the hell would you wanna follow the map to the cliff? I guess he means if the road map (peace plan) ends, it's into the void... But, sheesh! Is DubyaSpeak contagious?

Ya don't think he's under just a wee bit of pressure, do you?

the one he and his cabal buddies are about to tumble off!

It's an old trick they use back in West Texas...

Tom Delay and the lunatic fringe right wing have proved successful in torpedoing the "road map" as they have tried to do from the very beginning.

Remember Delay's trip to Israel a month or so ago when Bush was in Africa? It was well known he was there to undermine Bush. How do we know Delay didn't arrange for the bus bombing in order to make sure the "road map" never got off the ground?

doesn't need to arrange the bus bombing, all he needs to do is tell Sharon that he has a green light to do a couple of targeted assassination on Palestinian leaders and then the bus bomb is a foregone conclusion.

Two street gangs, the 'Reds' and the 'Blues', are going at each other hammer and tongs in downtown LA. It's a turf war and there is blood and dead bodies everywhere.

So after a while the two gangs sort of decide that maybe there is more to life than killing people or being killed.

So they agree a truce.

Things are going pretty swimmingly for a couple of weeks, and then one day some 'Reds' wander into 'Blue' territory and wack one of the 'Blue' leaders while he is in bed with his girlfriend.

Question: What happens next ??

Not Powell! He and his buddies just gave Israel $9 billion!!

and now Powell is calling on him to do something?

help us Bushco screwed up again,come on you guys are relevant.

a sort of Public Relations operative, going to the UN looking all terribly concerned, saying "we must make every step to salvage the Roadmap", trying to muster all the sencerity that the lying sack of shit can.

"...U.S. officials fear will trigger a new cycle of attack and retaliation."

Don't want to worry you State guys but I think the train may have left the station.