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I still maintain that Bush has privately told Sharon, and Netanyanu, privately, just to hang on a little longer.....yes, the US looks foolish for its apparent double standard in dealing with PLO terrorism against Israel, but folks, really, the dogs of war are about to be unleashed real soon against Iraq....I say again, within 60 days..the entire Saddam regime will be gone....and then, the rest of the Arab states will be suffering huge shortages of toilet-paper, because as soon as we start on Iraq..Israel starts on the PLO....

I still maintain that Bush has privately told Sharon, and Netanyanu, privately, just to hang on a little longer.....yes, the US looks foolish for its apparent double standard

Waiting is so hard to do. You're a smart guy, Ken, and I hope you're right, but I wonder. What do you think of Powell as Secretary of State?

Your lips to God's ear.

One can only hope, it's a damn travesty what the Israeli's are having to put up with.

i think you may be right... i think whats happening is bush and friends fear/EXPECT world war three, and want to do it on our terms. which means, when we are ready and have the machinery in place to win, and win big!! thanks again to klinton for his defense cuts, in all areas, particularly in refusing to replenish supplies of tomahawk missiles, for this delay, and subsequently, this unneccessary bloodshed in israel. what if israel did go for it now, and that opened it up for iraq to get a first strike so to speak with scuds into israel? we would be starting the war unprepared and on their terms. i believe sharon and bush know this, and there will be a whole bunch of sorry arabs when we pull the trigger! this is the relative calm before the historic storm, so to speak. when you hear that to start now in iraq would weaken our efforts in afghanistan, we all have one administration, and one anti american, treasonous SOB ex prez to thank, mr william jefferson klinton, the antichrist!

I say again, within 60 days..the entire Saddam regime will be gone.... because as soon as we start on Iraq..Israel starts on the PLO....

I'll wait and see on whether your Iraq prediction holds true. Nevertheless, Israel-vs.-PLO would be a natural part of the plan -- protecting our flanks, as it were. We would expect the Palestinians to act as Saddam's surrogates in the region, in order to distract or dissuade us from continuing.

As for Iraq, I suspect that the method of choice would be hunter-killer teams (already inserted), calling in airstrikes on Saddam and as many of his doubles and underlings as possible. Also, no large-scale invasion by U.S. forces, but rather a set of liasons with indigenous resistance forces, as in Afghanistan. And of course airstrikes transform any sizeable group of the Republican Guard into hamburger.

I still maintain that Bush has privately told Sharon, and Netanyanu, privately, just to hang on a little longer.....yes, the US looks foolish for its apparent double standard in dealing with PLO terrorism against Israel, but folks, really, the dogs of war are about to be unleashed real soon against Iraq....I say again, within 60 days..the entire Saddam regime will be gone....and then, the rest of the Arab states will be suffering huge shortages of toilet-paper, because as soon as we start on Iraq..Israel starts on the PLO....

I thought the same last month, but with each passing day, I'm not so sure. It's getting increasingly painful to hear Bush say "terrorism will not be tolerated," or "those who support terrorism will be considered our enemies" -- whereas terrorism against Israelis is most painfully tolerated, and Arafat is most carefully tiptoed around, including our strongarm attempt to make Sharon release him to go to the Arab summit. Arafat's speech via television link to the summit this morning was so inflammatory it had to be cut off (by Lebanon, apparently) -- how would it have helped if the same speech was delivered in person, which is clearly what we wanted Sharon to facilitate?

I guess we can only scratch our heads and hope there is "some secret plan," but many of us are getting very sore scalps in the process.

I agree with you. I think that they are allowing things to escalate in Israel, to prove that Islam is a peaceful religion...not. The PLO is doing just what we want them to do, they are proving that they are terrorists.