THEY JUST CAN'T STOP

Pathological X 2 Karen Hughes, another unqualified crony, masquerading as a diplomat in the middle east actually showed she can lie just as well as her boss when she shamelessly proclaimed "The person I work for, President Bush, is the first president in the history of America to say we believe the Palestinians should have a state, living side by side in peace with Israel". You can get way with that type of blatant lying when your base is half liars and half ignorant, but the rest of the country (the 65% who now get it) won't fall for many of these lies anymore. The first president to call for a Palestinian state? That would be William Jefferson Clinton. "But, oddly, when Bush announced in 2001 that he supported a Palestinian state, administration officials rushed to say that he was simply following a policy articulated by his predecessor, Bill Clinton. In fact, news reports at the time said Bush was merely the first Republican president to support an independent state for the Palestinians"... "Bush first publicly called for a Palestinian state in October 2001, during a meeting with congressional leaders, saying that "the idea of a Palestinian state has always been part of a vision, so long as the right to Israel to exist is respected." Then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell quickly told reporters there was "nothing new" about Bush's remarks. "As the president said this morning, there has always been a vision in our thinking, as well as in previous administrations' thinking, that there would be a Palestinian state that would exist at the same time that the security of the state of Israel was also recognized, guaranteed and accepted by all parties," Powell said. "That vision is alive and well, and we hope that it will come about as a result of negotiations between the two sides. So, in that regard, there is nothing new".