Posted on 04/18/2002 7:32:55 PM PDT by Democrats are liars
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People have been fighting over that land for 3,000 years with nothing to show. Does anyone in their right mind expect Powell or anybody else to change it in 10 days.
This confrontation will end if Israel is conquered by the Islamics, or if Israel atom bombs a pile of Arabs.
Well, I could have saved some tax payer dollars and told him that. Like that was a big secret!
He has become a doddering old man who lies like a rug before our very eyes.
It is hard to see this now, and the nattering nabobs in the press, the sycophants of the liberals, hope this will turn us against Bush. They could care less that by diminishing him it hurts our country.
The same can be said for the conservatives like Rush and William Bennett. Little babies, who want everything NOW and stamp their little feet when it doesn't work that way.
I just pray that our President goes on and does what he needs to do. We will be safer if he does and much much worse off if he fails
I hope you are right. However, it would be a big mistake if Powell goes back over there.
That means that Israel and the US are both in the anti-terrorism fight together and the A-Rabs had better watch it!
That is a pretty good point!
It is abundantly clear now, to all with eyes to see, that GW has both given Powell a fair shot at doing it the old way, and also punched Arafat's ticket for the last time. Now the true purpose of the exercise is clear, and it had nothing to do with any illusory "ceasefire."
Yes the trip was a full success, for exactly the reasons that obtuse observors claim the opposite. It moved the real "process" forward, past the dead end of "peace talks" and on to Reality. At last.
Bush is finding out that these "moderate" Gulf Arab oil states (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait) are definitely not U.S. allies but shift their allegiance like the sands in the wind just to placate their emotionally unstable subjects.
If Bush is really hell bent on removing Saddam Hussein (who owes his survival to Colin Powell's idiotic decision) then the U.S. might just have to unilaterally eliminate the rat without any assistance from the Gulf Arab nations.
It might be wise for Bush to let the sand and dust settle from the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation before extracting Saddam Hussein. Best to erradicate Al-Qaeda in the meantime.
This country DEFINITELY needs to get weaned off of "cheap Middle East" oil, improve relations with the former Soviet Union (jointly develop Siberian oilfields) drill in ANWAR (how about an Executive Decision, i.e. National Security ala Clinton?) and anywhere else that there are commercial quantities of hydrocarbons.
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