President Bush recently held out Israel as the benchmark for Iraq going forward, indicating that Israel’s dealing with terrorism while remaining a functioning democracy would make an ideal role model for Iraq. I know that most of you are frantically rubbing your eyes right now in an effort to clear what you are certain is a caffeine-deprived fog. “He couldn’t have actually written what I just read,” you are saying. Unfortunately, yes I wrote it and yes, he said it. That is right folks, the President of the United States just made things much, much worse in terms our standing in the Islamic world with but a few sentences. I can only imagine how the US “wanting to turn Islamic Iraq into Jewish Israel” is being repeated over and over and over throughout the Islamic world.
Next up for Bush, the President gives campaign tips to the Republican presidential hopefuls. “Kill puppies at the debates!”
29 June 2007
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... not to mention that Israel has hardly been a paragon of restraint, equanimity, and compassion over the years in its attempt to balance security and democratic ideals.
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