Peace? Or is that Piece

Here we go again, peace is apparently on the distant horizon in the middle east. The new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired some security chiefs for letting Hamas continue to blow things up. The Israelis have made some overtures to working with the Palestinians.

All this is great but aren't we on Middle East Peace part XI? Haven't we seen this movie before? How long will "peace" last this time. A week, a month? give'em a chance, dude. They have a chance. Secretary Rice is doing her diplomat thing, Egypt is in there trying to help make something happen. This is the best chance in a long time. since clinton brought arafat and barak together. bush did nothing. Clinton didn't do anything other than facilitate a meeting. He didn't broker peace in the middle east. If Kerry would have won the election, you'd be saying he was responsible for the cease-fire and that because Bush was in office peace couldn't happen in the middle east. that's ridiculous. it's the republicans who have a an interest in turmoil in the middle east. They do? How's that? they can keep pouring money into the military, keep haliburton and other fat companies on the dole. bush can keep using the "we're at war" slogan when ever he does something to take away the freedoms that this country was founded on. We are in Iraq trying to make that part of the world a safer place by confronting terrorism and prompting democracy. To say that the republicans want war so companies in the U.S. can make a profit is beyond ridiculous, it's absurd. whatever.

With a tentative cease-fire and the desire to talk and discuss peace, we have a piece of the puzzle to slowing or maybe even eliminating the killing of innocent people.