There is a level of hypocrisy and blatant duplicity that even rises above the putrid smoke of scandal and malfeasance of the current White House - if that were possible. It comes in the form of a Bush denunciation of voter driven democracy in Palestine:
CBS/AP) "President Bush said Thursday that ... Hamas, the surprise victor in Palestinian elections, cannot be a peace partner without renouncing violence and recognizing Israel's right to exist.
"I don't see how you can be a partner in peace if you advocate destruction of a country," Mr. Bush said.
Mr. Bush urged Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to remain in office after Wednesday's stunning Hamas victory over Abbas' Fatah faction.
He called the election results a "wake-up call" ...
The Hamas victory "reminds me about the power of democracy," he said."
It ought to a wake up call to the American electorate that the US-British-International Corporate complex Middle East policy is all about OIL. ITS THE OIL STUPID!!!
Let's be very clear: The wake up call is NOT for the Palestinian electorate, its a wake up call to the American electorate: YOU ARE DYING FOR OIL, STUPID.
Given a unfettered, unpaid for vote, the people of the Middle East will reject US occupation, the neo-liberal control of their energy assets, the Imperialistic nature of the current state of Israel EVERY TIME GIVEN THE CHANCE.
It is the US which continues the undemocratic control of the Middle East in collusion with its partners in exploitation and oppression ... specifically puppet regimes like the old Shah of Iran, the military government of the former Iraq, (that was Saddam Huessein,) that of Bin Laden during the anti-Russian war in Afghanistan, the "Royals" of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, et al.
The election of Hamas politicians is the voice of rage against the Imperialist machine of the US. That its leaders have a doctrine of racism directed towards Jews in Israel is a product of US-British manipulation of post WWII foreign-economic policy.
Whatever else may have been at play,i.e., giving the Jews a national home, the establishment of a Zionist state, which drove the native Palestinian peoples from their land, was and continues to be the attempt by the industrialized West to control OIL.
Bush is a liar, fraud and hypocrite and a puppet of energy.
While there may not be an outright call for the destruction of The Republic of China by the Chinese Communist mainland government, their call for absorbing Taiwan back into its nation at the continuing threat of force of arms is clear. And the US policy towards Communist China is one of "partnership" in the great enterprise of labor exploitation and oppression.