"I guess Bush doesn't see eye to eye with what Cheney said May 31 2003: "With such an enemy, no peace treaty is possible, no policy of containment or deterrent will prove effective -- the only way to deal with this threat is to destroy it completely and utterly, and President Bush is absolutely determined to do just that." ~ yonif
I think you're "misunderestimating" WGB.
The Bush Doctrine is marching on. No one in the mid-east will permitted to derail it. NO ONE.
We are draining the swamp. We have laid down the law to Syria as to what they need to do.
We are giving them time to get it done.
We are giving them time to get it done.
We are giving them time to get it done.
I will guarantee you that behind the scenes, the pressure on them to perform is brutal.
I'm sure it is quite clear to them that if they don't move fast enough, we will do it for them because of the President's political enemies daily clamoring with the mantra, "where are the WMD?".
We are positioned nicely right in the middle --- between all the major players in the middle east who have been housing, funding and otherwise supporting terrorists; Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, et.al.
We are going to be there for a LONG time. And we will protect Israel.
WE ---- will protect Israel. We are the elephant in the middle of the room.
Note this excerpt that shows *Bush's plans for Hamas* and the rest of the terrorists and their supporters:
"... Powell acknowledged Assad's lies: "He did mislead me once before. If he chooses not to respond, if he chooses to dissemble, if he chooses to find excuses, then he will find that he is on the wrong side of history. He will find that he will not have better relations with the United States, and he can take his choice. Does he want to have good relations with the United States, or does he want to have good relations with Hamas? His choice."
".... administration officials point to the sobering presence of 150,000 U.S. troops just across the border in Iraq as an inducement to get Assad to change his ways.
But if he does not, the United States has a well-developed target list. It begins with the obvious: the terrorist training camps in Lebanon's Bekáa Valley run by radical Palestinian groups, Hezbollah and al-Qaeda.
Some of these camps have been used to stage cross-border attacks into Israel.
Others have been used as halfway houses for terrorists on the run from their former bases in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Located in farmhouses surrounded by lush hashish fields, most will make easy targets for U.S. warplanes based in western Iraq or flying off U.S. aircraft carriers.
Next come the terrorist offices in Damascus itself.
U.S. and Israeli intelligence officials say these offices are not just media centers but operations bases used to funnel funds and weapons to terrorists on the ground inside Israel and elsewhere.
Iranian-backed terrorists are believed to have used Syria as a staging area for the attack on the Khobar barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1996 in which 19 U.S. servicemen were killed.
On quiet days, terror "spokesmen" creep out from under the rocks to deliver soliloquies to the press. But when they come under scrutiny for their involvement in terrorist operations, spokesmen of Hamas, PIJ and Hezbollah regularly go to ground, as this reporter found during a trip to Damascus in the 1990s.
Syria's network of weapons plants and dual-use chemical, pharmaceutical and industrial facilities provides another series of targets for U.S. war planners, should they choose to use force against Assad. .........".
Sending a Serious Message to Syria Posted May 28, 2003
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
http://www.insightmag.com/news/437029.html Ken joined Insight in January 2001. Many of his articles are available on-line in the Insight archive or through his own website.
http://www.timmerman2000.com/