[DB]

And how do you know this isn't all for public consumption?

This may be nothing more than a smoke screen to make the Arabs feel better for a short time.

[spycatcher]

I hope it is a smokescreen and we're using them. If so it's better if the far right gets mad and Bush looks like a sensitive moderate sellout.

That way when he goes hardcore on their terrorasses they won't know what hit them. "Wait, I thought we were allies" -- Saddam Hussein's last words.