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"The United States has vetoed a Palestinian-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to bar Israel from extending a security fence deep into the West Bank.

The measure, which also would have denounced plans to build 600 new homes in Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, won the support of 10 of the council's 15 members while four others abstained -- Britain, Germany, Bulgaria and Cameroon.
But the 'No' vote from Washington, one of the council's five permanent members with veto power, was enough to kill the resolution. Voting in favour were Angola, Chile, China, France, Guinea, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, Spain and Syria.

The veto on Tuesday follows by less than a month the U.S. veto of an earlier Palestinian resolution demanding that Israel back away from a threat to 'remove' Palestinian President Yasser Arafat."

Bubba Bush has one again missed an opportunity to give a counterexample to the ever-growing body of evidence that he is a complete jerk. The consequences on world opinion, especially the Arab world, will once again be disastrous.

The war on terrorism starts in your own politics, Bubba Wubya!

BTW: No mention in the NYTimes online. The veto will be largely reviled worldwide, but the US readers will be oblivious to its extreme impact on world opinion.