Posted on 02/13/2006 4:07:19 PM PST by strategofr
Our sources in Baghdad report Hamas leaders are making a point of being received and recognized by an Arab government backed to the hilt and sustained by the US government and army.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are urging Jaafari to invite Hamas leaders as a show of independence.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources note: An invitation from the democratically-elected government in Baghdad to a democratically-elected Palestinian (terrorist) party would place the Washington in a cleft stick, after having initiated both elections.
Cooperation between the only two elected Arab regimes would be hard to challenge. On the other hand, since Hamas is listed as a terrorist group in the US and Europe, such cooperation would show the Bush administration as having placed democratic reform in the Middle East ahead of the global war on terror and at its expense.
Israel’s efforts to internationally isolate a Hamas government would not have much chance if Baghdad invited the terror group’s leaders in the wake of a lengthening list of capitals started by Moscow, Ankara, Cairo, Riyadh, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.
"On the other hand, since Hamas is listed as a terrorist group in the US and Europe, such cooperation would show the Bush administration as having placed democratic reform in the Middle East ahead of the global war on terror and at its expense."
Huh? So if we don't dictate to the Iraqi govt. who they can and can't invite in to their country for diplomatic purposes Bush is suddenly "soft on terrorism?" Wow, great liberal lapdog media "logic" there. This is a brain fart twist in logic rarely before matched in the pantheon of liberal stupidity. I guess overthrowing a regime, i.e. Saddam Hussein's which topped the State Dept.'s list of terrorist regimes isn't sign enough for these idiots that maybe Bush is serious about taking on terrorism...or our aggressive efforts at taking down Al Qaeda. I suppose these same idiots will say Bush is being too aggressive against terrorism by wiretapping Al Qaeda suspects in the US. But if we don't tell an independent and sovereign govt. who they can and can't have visit, we're tantamount to the French in terms of surrendering. Sheesh, this guy must have bought some really bad weed.
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