Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "That's WHY, Bilow... The Israelis would be handed a tremendous opportunity to "stick it" to the Syrians, and I believe they would milk it for all it's worth."
It appears that you need to be "reeducated". You're still thinking that Oceania is still fighting Eurasia. Actually, the alliances have switched, and now we're fighting Eastasia. Soon our leaders will be denying that they ever were the allies of Eastasia.
Here, read this, straight from an Eastasian newspaper:
Source, quoting Bush: 'We have a problem with Sharon'
Haaretz, June 6, 2003
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The source quoted Bush as telling his National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice that "I see that we have a problem with Sharon," while saying of the Palestinians led by Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, "We can work with them."
At one point, an irked Bush reportedly rebuked Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, telling him "Oh, but I think that you can [help the Palestinians]. And I think that you will."
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Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz burst in at the end of Dahlan's presentation and said: "Well, they won't be getting any help from us; they have their own security service."
You could see that Bush was irritated, the participant said, and Bush turned on Mofaz angrily: "Their own security service? But you have destroyed their security service."
Mofaz shook his head and said: "I do not think that we can help them, Mr. President," - to which Bush said: "Oh, but I think that you can. And I think that you will."
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After that meeting, Bush turned to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and said, "We have a problem with Sharon I can see, but I like that young man [Dahlan] and I think their prime minister is incapable of lying. I hope that they will be successful. We can work with them."
haaretzdaily.com
My theory is that Sharon assured Bush about a bunch of things regarding Iraq that turned out to not be true. (Stuff that you still believe, LOL.) Now Bush thinks of Sharon as a liar, and so is throwing the might and power of the US behind Abbas.
It could get interesting.
In any case, your comments about Syria are silly. After the Iraq disaster, there is no way in hell that the US is going to do anything about Syria. Not a chance in hell.
So what do you think is going to happen? Bush is going to stand up in public and say that he "has top secret proof" that Syria has WMDs? And that is going to provoke a UN condemnation? The problem is that WMDs in Syria are legal, LOL, so you aren't going to get any UN votes authorizing even inspections.
And with Blair fighting for his political life, there is no way that we will have any allies for such an attack. Hell, the Australian press is reporting that the attacks on our soldiers are getting "smarter", while Rumsfeld stupidly blames it on Saddam, who he previously announced the assassination of three times:
smh.com.au
Forget about it.
It's over.
From here, it's just a long slow slide to the elections, and I see that Bush's popularity is already down to the mid 50s:
Polls: Bush far ahead in election race
MSNBC, June 11, 2003
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THE SURVEY taken by a polling institute at Quinnipiac University put the president’s job approval at 57 percent.
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msnbc.com
-- Carl |
