In case Safire hasn't noticed, the NY Times slept through most of the "great" events during the Clinton administration.
For years, U.S. officials kept mum about the duplicity of Saudi Arabia in financing anti-U.S. incitement while professing to be a U.S. ally. But because The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, the oldest investigative reporter alive, held his ear trumpet to our ultra-secret Big Ear,
The NY Times has an ultra-secret big ear! LOL [sorry]
we now have telephone intercepts between Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, and his father, the defense minister. The Saudis never have been on our side in the war on terror — which our leaders have long known but most Americans did not.
I don't believe for a second that the NY Times is just now finding out that the Saudi's aren't on our side in the war on terror. They only report what they want to report, when its convenient to them.
That wearing of blinders by our intelligence agents was recently revealed by The Washington Post's columnist and editor Jim Hoagland, who is dry behind the ears, to say the least.
First super-secret ears, now dry behind the ears...
"One war at a time" goes the coalitionaries' mantra, which our spymasters take to mean "Don't follow leads to Iraq." Journageezers ignore such government manipulation. Nobody has come close to my Times colleagues in covering the cataclysm and the war it triggered, but it would be good to see a new wave of reporters beat the old media bigfeet in advancing this story.
Iraq may be next in line for the bombing, but will we have the guts to take out Saddam? Want to wager??
Folks, if we don't take-out Saddam this time, the Israelis will use their war-chest!
There won't be a 'Palestinian-Problem' anymore in Israel, and several Capital cities in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudia Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen, and others, will glow-in-the-dark!
Actually, after reading that, I think it's a good idea!
These people have stated that they will kill us, and destroy our Country, at every opportunity, and 9/11 has occurred. Just getting antsy, I guess. Stay well and vigilant....FRegards
I asked my neighbor, Red Dullknife, that very question.
Please excuse his diction, by the way, Red has a problem
with his "L" and "R."
"We won't be taking out Saddam. The Wussians have
too much money invested in Iwaq to wet us mess up
Saddam's abiwity to expoht. Putin's pwan is to
sidwe up to Bush and be fwiendwy and pwomise
to agwee to misswe weductions and joining NATO.
Then he wiw ask Bush to not attack Saddam.
After the waw is ovah, Wussia wiw say,
"We foowed you!" And that's the twuth.
But it wiw be too wittwe, too wate.
By then, the Muswims wiw be in Honowuwu."