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but she probably won't provide much of substance because she has to be very "circumspect and diplomatic." I don't think she should have to be that way and hope she will continue the administrations "throw down" approach

The reason she is being that way is because the Bush Admin is basically playing a stalling game. They are keeping all the various nervous nellies in the US Congress and various foreign Govt talking about "process". Thus while Israel cleans house, Bush is covering their backs See your average Leftists thinks if they talk about a problem they are "doing something". That why the Clinton's always had meets and made plans but never actually DID anything about Terrorism. They figured they were doing something since they talked about it! Bush is merely using this weakness against them.

"The reason she is being that way is because the Bush Admin is basically playing a stalling game..."

I agree 100%, and I would like to add one other possible factor for "the stalling game". I think the Bush administration is following the money, specifically money from recent sales of gold, in May and June.

Gold reached a high of roughly $725/oz. on May 12th. The selloff began the next day. We were all led to believe the decline was because of lower oil prices, which is mostly true. On June 20th the price was $570/oz. Friday, July 14th, the price was $666/oz. (coincidental price for sure). The reason for the recent uptick for the cost of gold is probably because Iran, Russia, SA and other OPEC countries (the petro dollars) and China are buying it to add to their reserves.

Now, just think of what has happened since May 12th. There was the bombing in India, Hamas conflicts with its own Palestinian people and this blame war between Israel and Hamas. Syria and Iran are deeply involved. As we can safely surmise, petro dollars from Iran are used to purchase gold. The gold can be transferrd to terror groups. And, I would bet my last Krugerrand that Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria have all been selling lots of gold the last 6 to 7 weeks.

Just a thought, one which I have had for many years when thinking about how terrorists pay for their attacks, etc.