HA! HA! HA!  Bush and the Boyz are scrambling around trying to find some form of legacy for this lame duck president.  Now they seem to think that they can find this elusive positive legacy, somewhere in the Middle east.

The US has proposed new talks in a push to reach a deal on the Palestinian statehood before President George W. Bush leaves office in January.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurie said US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had invited the Israelis and Palestinians to a series of trilateral discussions in New York and Washington.

At a US-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis in November that was attended by the Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, the two leaders agreed to calls to halt violence against Palestinians and freeze settlement construction.

However, Israeli officials said this month that they had approved a plan to build 40,000 new homes in al-Quds over the next 10 years, including the annexed Arab eastern sector of the city. Israel also stepped up military operations against the Palestinians in recent months, which has resulted in many deaths and injuries among civilians.

May I suggest that the admin just look elsewhere for some of positive news or better yet let the Egyptians handle the talks, they were instrumental in the Gaza Deal.  They seem to have a much better batting average than the present administration.