Pat, on certain issues you're right on.
And he has hit the bullseye on this as well.
Pat couldn't connect with this issue if it was a golf ball sitting on his nose, and he was holding a golf club.
Don't forget, PJB maintains that "The Amen Corner" intends to bring about regime change in nations other than Iraq.
I must be in the Amen Corner, since I agree with Israel most of the time. I must have misplaced my memo on Iraq. Please forward a copy.
(Whose War?)
Was it Israel's trade center that got knocked out of the sky? Was it Israel's center of military management that was attacked? Please explain to me why this was Israel's war and not ours. While you're at it perhaps you can explain away the al Qaeda camps north of Baghdad.
As it now stands, unless some of those nations attempt to intervene in a last ditch effort to save Saddam, Dubya will have his Iraqi victory, but not the justification for
expansion into Iran, Syria, or whereever.
And who said President Bush was intent on taking on Iran or Syria next? As a matter of fact Iran has an internal problem that will see it's leadership changed pretty soon on it's own. Iranians aren't any happier with their leadership than Iraqis were. As for Syria, with Turkey on the North, a new western Iraq on the East, Israel and Jordan on the South, it's going to have some major problems. I wouldn't be surprised to see it moderate on it's own, squealing all the way.
Even Kim Jong-Il gets a pass if he stops his sabre-rattling.
Kim Jong-Il is not going to get a free pass. China has already cut off oil to them. The US already has moved one aircraft carrier into the area, and long range bombers are already in range.
32 posted on 04/02/2003 4:20 PM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
Look Willie, I have no dogs in this fight other than my nation. I didn't vote for Bush and did vote for Pat. On this issue he's dead wrong.
Let't get something straight up front, Ron.
I do NOT, and never have, claimed that this was "Israel's war".
Saddam is a malicious tyrant that needs to be taken out. Period.
IMHO, it should have been done a dozen years ago.
Nevertheless, I won't let that blind me to the complicating influence of the Israeli lobby in our foreign affairs. And I will not be browbeat into compliance by hordes of slanderous Holocaust pimps who smear anybody who dares disagree with them with the "antisemite" label. If anything, those political tactics have fully obliterated and alienated any support for Israel that I may have once had. IMHO, those who practice such tactics have adopted the spirit of Hitler and are a despicable stench on the memories of the actual Holocaust victims.
My position on the Arab/Israeli conflict is simple and straightforward: absolute strict neutrality. I don't want anything to do with an ethno-religious tribal feud that dates back for millenia. And I deeply resent anybody who attempts to draw me into it on one side or the other.
Furthermore, I am also resentful of an incompetent federal government that has for the last 30 years been totally derelict in its duty to peacefully develop our own Energy resources. IMHO, politicians on both sides of the aisle have myopicly jeopardized our National Security by maintaining our dependence on Mid-East oil, and thus continued entanglement with the Arab/Israeli feud.