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

To: calgal who wrote (423189)	7/5/2003 1:59:44 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush celebrates with troops as troops are being killed. He really has a nerve huh? Another victory celebration for his own PR.

To: calgal who wrote (423189)	7/5/2003 2:12:12 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 769670

Liberia's Taylor Agrees to Step Down if U.S. Sends Troops Friday, July 04, 2003 MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia's besieged President Charles Taylor (search) said Friday he would step down, but only after an international peacekeeping force is deployed to his west African nation, and he said the United States should send troops. The comments came after President Bush — who is considering whether to send peacekeepers to Liberia (search) — said Taylor's removal from power was a condition for any progress in the war-torn nation. But Taylor — who backed off past promises to step down even as rebels bore down on Monrovia (search) trying to remove him earlier this months — insisted peacekeepers must deploy before he would go. "It makes a lot of sense for peacekeepers to arrive in this city before I transit," Taylor told a meeting of Liberian clerics in the capital of Monrovia. He welcomed the possibility of American troops among a possible international intervention force. "I welcome and will embrace the presence of American troops in Liberia. I think it will be essential for stability," he said. "I don't understand why the United States government would insist that I be absent before its soldiers arrive," he said. Taylor offered a chilling warning, however, to his rebel opponents that government forces were still "capable of carrying out havoc in the city. Even government soldiers and supporters that are angry are capable of havoc." "I'm not fighting to stay in power. What I am fighting for right now is that there would be such a normal transition that anger, frustration and other things don't creep in," Taylor said. U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan, France and Britain have called for a peacekeeping forces — preferably including American troops — to enforce a cease-fire between Taylor's loyalists and rebels. Bush said he would not be rushed into making a decision on sending American troops to Liberia — a nation founded in the 19th century by freed American slaves — before he leaves on a visit to Africa on Monday. "I'm in the process now of gathering the information necessary to make a rational decision as to how to bring — how to enforce the cease-fire, to keep the cease-fire in place," Bush said. He called on Taylor to leave, telling CNN International: "I refuse to accept the negative. I am convinced that he will listen." Nigeria has offered a safe haven for Taylor, who earlier this week rejected the invitation, according to U.N. diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity. URL:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,91102,00.html