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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (238325)	3/15/2002 7:49:51 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Your original post on Cheney's trip to Yemen and your boorish response to my inquiry seem deceptive, at best. Both the headline and the tenor of that article emphasized Cheney's success in Yemen. You took one sentence out of context (the one starting with, "But," which tipped me off), cut and pasted it from the article, and posted here that Cheney failed in his objective. You exclaimed, "Once again the Bush administration's incompetent handling of MidEast problems means we precious little support in the region. Soon Cheney will be lucky if they grant him a visa to visit. TP" Then, you compounded it in your follow-up when I questioned your cut-and-paste tactics by saying that, "I include the articles I quote except in some rare cases where I cannot make the link work in this environment (such as private subscription or similar)." Well, TarPaper, I didn't have any problem at all including the article you quoted, set forth in its entirety below. It presents an entirely different story from the one you would have us believe. Big surprise. abcnews.go.com Yemen Backs Cheney on Anti-Terror, Differs on Iraq March 14 — By Randall Mikkelsen SANAA (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday won Yemeni support for Washington's drive to prevent the poor Arab country from becoming "another Afghanistan" and to stop al Qaeda forces regrouping there. But Yemen told Cheney it opposed any U.S. military action against fellow Arab nation Iraq for fear it would undermine regional stability, said an adviser to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. "We don't want more oil on the fire," the adviser told reporters. "We need to solve the Palestinian question." Cheney later arrived in Oman's port city of Salalah where he was expected to hold talks with Sultan Qaboos bin Said on Thursday evening. The Gulf Arab state is the fourth station on Cheney's 11-nation Middle East tour. Violence between Israelis and Palestinians has overshadowed Cheney's tour, as Israel this week launched its biggest military offensive in Palestinian areas for decades. It said on Thursday it would gradually withdraw from the West Bank city of Ramallah. Cheney held two hours of talks with Saleh, including a 30-minute private session, after arriving on a U.S. military transport plane amid extensive security precautions. "We discussed a wide range of issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing war on terrorism and the U.N Security Council sanctions and Iraq," Cheney said before flying to neighboring Oman. The Yemeni adviser said during the meeting that Cheney and Saleh were discussing plans for Washington to send groups of 20-30 military advisers for deployments of one month at a time to train Yemeni security forces in counter-terrorism methods. Cheney declined to answer a question on whether the two leaders agreed on a final plan for the stationing of the U.S. military trainers, as did a senior U.S. official. Several top U.S. security officials, including FBI Director Robert Mueller and U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, head of the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan, and CIA Director George Tenet have visited Yemen in recent weeks. BIN LADEN'S ANCESTRAL HOME Yemen, on the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula is the ancestral home of Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect in the September 11 attacks. It was the site of the bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in October 2000 which the United States blames on bin Laden. Washington is concerned al Qaeda fighters fleeing Afghanistan might head for Yemen's rugged mountains, where government forces have been hunting for suspected bin Laden followers believed to be sheltered by armed tribesmen. The Yemeni government is trying to shake the country's reputation as a haven for militants. A Yemeni official told Reuters: "Yemen is a fundamental and strategic partner in the United States's international effort to combat terrorism." Saleh's adviser said there was popular support for the stationing of U.S. military trainers as long as they did not take part in actual military operations. "The people are understanding the importance (of U.S. help) ...but as to actual combat, there is big opposition," he said. "They don't want America to come in and do the fighting. They're taking it personally and they want to do it themselves." Yemen also wanted U.S. economic aid, for education and economic development, saying this was also important to battling terrorism, the adviser said. Saleh described his talks with Cheney as "fruitful and successful." "We have agreed on a host of issues. We discussed bilateral and international cooperation to combat terrorism, in addition to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the war of annihilation against the Palestinians at the hands of the government of (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon," Saleh said. An Iraqi presidential envoy held talks in Egypt on Thursday to organize opposition against possible U.S. military strikes, presidential sources in Cairo said. Izzat Ibrahim, vice chairman of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council has also visited Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. A senior U.S. official said one of the goals of Cheney's trip was to rebalance a distorted image of the United States in the region. He said there had been a perception that Washington had not been even-handed in its policies in the Middle East. photo credit and caption: Vice President Dick Cheney speaks to the crew in the ship's hangar bay while meeting with coalition forces in the region March 15, 2002. Cheney, in a gesture of support for U.S. troops fighting Taliban and al Qaeda militants, visited the aircraft carrier and watched warplanes roar off to Afghanistan. Photo by Reuters (Handout) Copyright 2002 Reuters News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.