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winterbadgeror at least read the transcripts afterwards, which I didn't do.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/16/israel/index.html
So we're basically confirming all the extremist Islamic rhetoric that grew up around the beginning of the war. What's the one system that's working in Iraq? The oil industry (not the refining part that gets oil to Iraqis--that's still not fixed, just the exporting part). And who are we aligning ourselves with, rhetorically, diplomatically, and by imitation? Israel. Why don't we jsut declare them the 51st state and get it over with?
In his press conference of April 13, President Bush gave several reasons for cracking down on Iraqi insurgents. He said their motivation was the same as those who set off bombs in Jerusalem; he tied them to the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, executed by al-Qaida in part for being Jewish. He also cited Shiite radical Muqtada al-Sadr's support for the Palestinian Hamas organization and the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah party. He gave as one reason for having gone to war against Saddam Hussein the former dictator's support for Palestinian terrorists. In this speech, he presented the Iraq war and its violent aftermath as an extension of the Israeli struggle to subjugate the Palestinians and Hezbollah.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/16/israel/index.html
So we're basically confirming all the extremist Islamic rhetoric that grew up around the beginning of the war. What's the one system that's working in Iraq? The oil industry (not the refining part that gets oil to Iraqis--that's still not fixed, just the exporting part). And who are we aligning ourselves with, rhetorically, diplomatically, and by imitation? Israel. Why don't we jsut declare them the 51st state and get it over with?
