My lovely wife Rosemary noted this today: Remember how, early last spring, all the talk about going after Iraq was suddenly derailed by a massive wave of bombing in Israel? How suddenly the administration was forced to put Israel at the top of its agenda? How as a result they had to deal with all kinds of carping and criticism from all sides for that? Iraq talk was over by the time summer rolled around, when performance of military equipment would be badly degraded, and anti-chem/bio warfare suits would be murderous on soldiers.
Yet fall is upon us and winter nears, and in just the last week or so, it's become apparent that the stupid, ineffectual cowboy in the White House has outmaneuvered everyone--yet again. Saddam Hussein is back in our sights. All of a sudden, the bombs are going off in Israel again. Funny how that happens.
I doubt it'll work this time. We're too far along the path now and can't be turned away. So, watch for the Bushies to signal this: "Do whatever you need to do, Sharon. We'll defend you some, carp at you a little, and mostly let you do as you please without giving you any serious grief. See you in Bagdad."
You read it here first.
This is consistent and predictable.
Arafat is a terrorist in concert with all the rest, chief among them: Saddam.
"Terrorist in concert with all the rest." Well put.
It's not that Saddam Hussein is in charge of all this, per se. It's that they're all more or less working together--and all of them know that if we take down Bagdad, all their lives become infinitely more complicated.
No, of course Saddam is not in charge, exactly. The $25K per suicide bomber he provides the bereaved families has nothing to do with the phenomenon. Or is it now $35K a pop?
That cowboy Bush. How they resent him in Afghanistan, the women and children now flocking back to the schools. They curse his name, surely, they must.
I only wish we would have finished off this clown when we had the best chance eleven years ago. I have never trusted the UN to be the peace keeping organization it is billed as being ever since I took a class on the UN in undergraduate school.
I wrote a paper on the Lebanon-Arafart-Israel debacle in the early 1980's. That UN peace keeping fiasco was nothing more than a one-way sieve. The Palestinian terrorists could raid a kibbutz in Israel, but Israel could not cross the line back.
These terrorists are all in bed together and all must go together.