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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 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.