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Bush may have been crass when speaking to Tony Blair about Syria, but he was dead on. This is what he said to the British leader today when discussing the MidEast crisis (he did not know the Mic was on)
BLAIR: Well it's only if I mean, you know. If she's got a..., or if she needs the ground prepared as it were. Because obviously if she goes out, she's got to succeed, if it were, whereas I can go out and just talk BUSH: You see, the thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over.
While Bush was his usual inarticulate self, he was right on the policy end. Syria and Iran are stirring up trouble in the region and must stop or be vanquished. These two regimes offer the world little more than instability and terror. This was not a diplomatic move by Bush, but at least Syria knows exaclty where the president stands.
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Even a broken clock gets it right twice a day.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/17/2006 6:47 PM
Why is it we call it protecting our interests when we do it, but when another Arab country does it we call it "Aiding Terrorist"? This is what countries do. Unfortunately, in the Twenty-first Century we haven't changed.
Let's not forget, Syria and Lebanon came into being because of France "protecting their interest".
posted by Anonymous, at
7/18/2006 6:47 AM
Israel IS the problem. They are engaged in racial cleansing and have a huge nuclear arsenal. Israel, like other true Axis of Evil nations America and Britain, are the problem. All are empire builders who claim 'good' when they are anything but. Anyone who buys the propaganda serves their interests.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/18/2006 10:03 AM
Radical religious extremists - particularly Muslims - ARE the problem. Notice that anywhere they are in the world wars and death take place. To blame Israel is just plain hatred, not to mention stupidity. If you don't think so, take your ass to Iran and see how you are treated. If you are gay - you might even be murdered.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/18/2006 11:03 AM
The difference between Israel and Iran?
If you are gay in Israel, you will find a boyfriend who is well hung.
If you are gay in Iran they will hang you if you look for a boyfriend.
For all the pseudo-liberals who support the arabs against Israel, you are essentially pro-terror and rabidly anti-gay and too ignorant to realize it.
Bring your rainbow flag to Tel Aviv and then to Tehran and see in which place your fare better.
Israel is a terrorist nation. If your only test is flying a rainbow flag, then you are indeed naive. Israel is not the only terrorist nation, but one of many including the US, Iran, Britain, N Korea, etc. Anyone who seeks to tell another nation how they should be living and imposing their standards is part of the whole problem. Nevertheless, claiming innocence when you are just as guilty shows just how deceptive you are. Then there's the bounty offered in Israel for killing gays in Jerusalem in the upcoming event. As for the US, come back when gay marriage is a national right. Until then - people in glass houses...
posted by Anonymous, at
7/18/2006 4:17 PM
Actually, Isreal did not start this fight. I do think they have gone too far in their retaliation, but I can offer no viable solution. It saddens me to see innocents killed on either side, but Isreal does have the right to defend itself and the responsiblity to get the kidnapped soldiers back. And I hope this is the only thing about which I will ever agree with Bush.
posted by jekelhyde, at
7/18/2006 8:51 PM
Syria and Iran are stirring up trouble in the region and must stop or be vanquished.
And the US is not? Stirring up trouble in the region, I mean.
The US has been stirring up trouble in the region for the past several years, what with the invasion of Iraq. And with the Bushies' saber-rattling against the regimes in Syria and Iran. If the Syrians and Iranians really are pulling the strings in regards Hamas and Hezbollah's recent operations in Israel, maybe it's to send a message to the Bushies that they had best cool it in regards Syria and Iran.
One thing that appears to be lost in all this is that the operations by Hamas and Hezbollah in Israel were rather successful operations against Israeli military targets, in the course of which they captured three Israeli soldiers. They were not operations against civilian targets. That must have been terribly embarrassing to the Israeli military.
i would agree, except to characterize the taking of the isreali soldiers as captives, I feel is incorrect. A capture of soldiers is legal under the geneva convention. To demand a ransom for the release of such is purely kidnapping, which is wrong on a number of levels.
posted by jekelhyde, at
7/22/2006 11:47 PM
