Saeb Erekat (Pal.) - Condi Rice

Here is a classic example of the paradox of the Bush Administration. The Administration is obviously committed to fighting the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) or American troops would not be in Afghanistan and Iraq with some saber rattling toward Iran to boot.

The paradox is the Bush Administration is wooing Sunni Mohammedan nations that have been unofficially exporters of Islamist doctrine to Middle Eastern terrorists and to the West in a play to build an Arabic consensus against Iranian hegemonic designs. Most of Iran’s client States and terrorists are Shi’ite.

As part of this Arabic wooing the Bush Administration has come under the delusion that establishing a sovereign Arab nation called Palestine with land that is historically part of the Land of Israel AND won as the result of Arab invasions attempting to eradicate Israel will bring both peace and Arabic support for America against the psycho Iranian Ayatollahs and Shi’ites.

And so Secretary of State Condi Rice has harshly criticized Israeli plans to build dwellings for Jews in Eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank as counter productive to establishing that sovereign Arab nation called Palestine.

The Yahoo News article I read this at is entirely slanted to the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians with such expressions as land “won” by Israel in the 1967 war without mentioning the land was won resulting from a victory of an invading enemy bent on destroying Israel from the face of the earth.

Hello! The land won is the price the Arabs must pay for their continuous invasions of Israel. The land was lost by Arabs by Arab aggression and Israel won land that is part of their heritage. The Mohammedan claim that the land has always been Mohammedan is as delirious as the Mormon belief that the lost tribes of Israel came to America and became the Native Americans. The claims are pure historical theo-political lies to justify the death cult’s eradication of Judaism from the land that Mohammedans themselves conquered in war centuries earlier from Christian Byzantines and then non-Mohammedan Persians.

The Bush Administration needs to cut the crap and support the ONLY Western Style Democracy in the Middle East and quite dealings with Islamofascist Arab-Palestine terrorists and Islamic nations as if they are victims when in actuality they are aggressors.

JRH

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Bush RD Bible - God Gave Israel to Jews

It is a shameful thing the Bush Administration is thrusting upon Israel from an Observant Jewish and Christian perspective. Not only is the Bush Administration forcing Israel to create a State called Palestine composed of people that given the opportunity would embark on a 21st century Holocaust, it is forcing Israel to divide the Holiest City to Jews and Christians alike – Jerusalem.

The Bush Administration is intent on the concept that the existence of yet another Arab nation would bring peace to the Middle East and Mohammedans would agree to live surrounding minuscule Israel in peace in harmony.

I have been a party to numerous petitions to keep Jerusalem as one city under Israeli sovereignty. I found to my dismay that many in Conservatives in Congress have also been duped into believing a nation called Palestine with the Eastern portion of Jerusalem as its capital (which includes the Temple Mount) would forge peace in the Middle East.

I received a polite email response from my Senator – Tom Coburn – saying he appreciates my concerns but does not endorse a ONE Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. This means Senator Coburn (at least indirectly) is behind the Bush Administration to give yet another Holy Site for Mohammedans to desecrate in the name of their pseudo-prophet Mohammed and their eclectically created god known as Allah. Do you know what Mohammedans do to Jewish and Christian Holy Sites? Mohammedans desecrate them (Post 1967 Desecration: Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, etc.) in the name of Mohammedan Supremacism ala medieval thinking instead of Western tolerant thinking of the 21st century.

In this one case Senator Coburn is misguided by deluded conventional wisdom politics and I was steaming mad to receive such an email from him.

It is time for a Third Political Party to emerge that will diminish the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or both. I am finding myself forced to vote Republican merely because the Dems have become devoted to American cultural change of Secular Humanism with the goal of rendering Christianity and/or Christian Morality as a myth and an irrelevant faith for modern times. That is another future post some day.

The point is this: MY GOD the Bush Administration and the Israeli Center Left are committed to submerging Jewish Heritage (and so by extension Christian Heritage) to a bunch of hate filled war mongering Mohammedans that have absolutely a zero base for forming a sovereign nation.

Here are some enlightening excerpts from Arab-Israeli Conflict - Basic Facts:

NATIONHOOD

Israel became a nation about 1300 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam. The people of modern day Israel share the same language and culture shaped by the Jewish heritage and religion passed through generations starting with the founding father Abraham. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.

After the Romans conquered Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago, Jewish people were expelled and dispersed to the Diaspora, and the Land of Israel was ruled by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire, and by the British Empire.

Throughout centuries Jews prayed to return from the Diaspora to Israel. During the first half of the 20th century there were major waves of immigration of Jews back to Israel from the Arab countries and from Europe. In 1948 Jews reestablished their sovereignty over their ancient homeland with the establishment of the modern State of Israel.

It was only after the Jews re-inhabited their historic homeland of Judea and Samaria, that the myth of a Palestinian nation was created and marketed worldwide. Jews come from Judea, not Palestinians. There is no language known as Palestinian, or any Palestinian culture distinct from that of all the Arabs in the area. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs indistinguishable from Arabs throughout the Middle East. The Palestinian National Charter adopted by the PLO states this fact in the first article (See the covenant)

The area called Palestine included the territories of present day Israel and Jordan. Under Lausanne agreement of 1923 Turkey transferred all claims to Palestine to mandatory power Britain. In 1922 Britain allocated nearly 80% of Palestine to Transjordan. In 1947 UN partitioned this remaining land into two states, a second Arab state, Palestine, and Israel. The great majority of Arabs in greater Palestine and Israel share the same culture, language and religion. The Arabs in the area began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. Virtually all the Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the West Bank of Jordan River have complete autonomy under the rule of the Palestinian Authority.

See: The History and Meaning of "Palestine" and "Palestinians"

JERUSALEM

For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem (1948-1967), they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.

In the Jewish Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned over 669 times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) 154 times, or 823 times. The Christian Bible mentions Jerusalem 154 times and Zion 7 times. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. Jerusalem is also not mentioned in the Palestinian Covenant.

King David established the city of Jerusalem as the capital of the whole Land of Israel. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. Jerusalem remained under Turkish Ottoman Empire rule from 1517 to 1917, and under British rule from 1917 to 1948.

ARAB & JEWISH REFUGEES

The UN partition plan of 1947 was rejected by all the Arab countries. Arab leadership in Israel and in the countries surrounding Israel, planned a Jihad, holy war, against Israel and encouraged the Arabs to leave Israel promising their return after they purge the land of Jews. The great majority of Arabs left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier (see article and Arab sources that describe what happened during the war of 1948 that caused the Palestinian refugee problem).

During 1940's through 1950's nearly ALL the Jews had to flee from Arab countries to avoid persecution and pogroms. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries is estimated to be a million. This number is greater than the number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948, estimated as 343,000 (see Peters' book cited below).

Most of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries rapidly integrated into the modern society of Israel. This, despite the fact that Israel is a tiny country (about size of New Jersey) without any of the world's richest resources of petroleum in Arab countries. Today, the majority of the people in Israel are the descendants of Jews from Arab countries. (European Jews and their descendants constitute less than half the population of Israel).

The development of the Jewish community under British mandate led to economic growth in the region providing job opportunities for Arab workers. Consequently, the Arab population of Palestine swelled by the influx of Arab immigrants from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and other Arab countries until 1947 (The trend of Arab migration into Israel to find a job continues to the present day). While the British forces limited Jewish immigration, they allowed free entry of Arab migrants. The UN agency UNRWA defined a "Palestinian refugee", as any Arab who stayed in the country for two years prior to 1948. Thus, UNRWA included in their statistics migrant workers greatly swelling the ranks of so called "Palestinian refugees" (for best reference on the subject see: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters).

Arab refugee problem was created by the seven Arab countries that attacked Israel in 1948. Arab refugees were intentionally not integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the fact total territory of Arab countries is about 700 times greater than that of Israel. Out of about 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has not been absorbed into their own peoples' lands. Arab nations still maintain generations of the descendants of the refugees in so called "refugee camps" under squalid conditions with the hope that someday they will dislodge the Jews in Israel. The money spent by the Arab countries on armaments would be sufficient to build houses for all so called "refugees". Arab countries should be encouraged to care for their poor population instead of spending their richest resources in the world on armaments and development of terrorist groups such as Osama Bin Laden from Saudi Arabia.

Since 1948, after three generations the descendants of the Arab refugees are still called "refugees" and are supported by UN "refugee" funds! With the highest birth rate in Arab countries this population has now grown to about four million. In negotiations, Arab leadership requests the "right of return" of this mass of millions into the tiny land of Israel. The settlement of millions of Arabs in Israel would immediately eliminate Israel as a Jewish state. This is the real aim of the Arab countries, to achieve by supposedly "peaceful" means what they could not achieve by unceasing violence in whole scale wars and daily terrorism.

The responsibility for keeping the Arab population who are descendants of the Arab refugees, rests only on the shoulders of the Arab countries that created the problem by attacking Israel in 1948.

Quote from Ralph Galloway, a former head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in Amman, capital of Jordan, in August 1958:

"The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as open sore, as an affront to the United Nations and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don't give a damn whether the refugees live or die."

Related resources:

Who cares about Palestinians?

Jewish Communities of the Middle East and the Maghreb

Jimena - Jews indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa

Jews, almost extinct in Egyptian city Alexandria

HOLY PLACES

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the holiest site for Jews. It was the site of the Beit HaMikdash ("Temple") built by King Solomon (950 BCE), which was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (587 BCE), rebuilt in 541 BCE, and then destroyed again by the Roman army in 70 CE leading to the exile of Jews from Israel. Al Aqsa Mosque and Shrine Of Omar were built at the site of the ancient Jewish temples. The Arabic name for Jerusalem "el-KuDS" [SlantRight Editor: or al-Quds] is derived from the Arabic name "BeT el-MaKDeS", a translation of the Hebrew "BeiT ha-MiKDaSH", the name of the Jewish Temple (see articles).

Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths. Arabs recently burnt the Tomb of Joseph and the ancient synagogue in Jericho (see pictures). To this days Arab Waqf in control of the Temple Mount does not allow Jews to pray in the Temple Mount. Jews pray facing Jerusalem as the location of the Beit Hamikdash. Muslims pray facing their holy city Mecca with their backs toward Jerusalem. Throughout the ages the Arabs have ignored The Temple Mount and renewed interest only recently because of their political exigencies and not religious history (see pictures and articles).

Read the World News Daily article that inspired my ire against Western efforts to basically shove Mohammedanism down the throats of the Israelis, Jews and Christians of the world.

JRH

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Metamorphosis Of Narcissus. Dali

Has anyone noticed that President Bush has morphed on his support for Israel? For that matter Condoleezza Rice also seems to have morphed when she was elevated from National Security Advisor to Secretary of State? When Rice was in the National Security position I even considered her a potential Republican Presidential candidate.

The President and Rice seem to have swung their pendulum toward the Arabs as a means to reach an end of Israeli/Arab strife. Bush has gone from supporting Israel and relying on Israeli Intelligence to forcing Israel into a position of an existential crisis and ignoring Israeli Intelligence.

There is the appearance that the only Western style democracy in the Middle East is becoming expendable as an ally toward the old career State Department bureaucracy favoritism of cuddling with Arabs.

An extrapolation can be made that the Bush Administration has aligned foreign policy evaluation on the level of the EU which blames Israel for all the violence in the Middle East when all the little sliver of a nation is doing is surviving as a Land for Jews to come to where the government respects their Faith and/or Jewish background (amazingly innumerable Jews have abandoned their Faith in favor of Leftist utopian thinking yet still ascribe to their Jewishness).

In Europe the plague of anti-Semitism seems to be growing as Mohammedan immigrants seem to grow larger inciting indigenous Europeans back toward an anti-Semitic mind-set.

I suspect the War on Terrorism is not concluding as Bush envisioned it would in his pro-active days; thus in his last days of President he trying to forge an Arab inclusion to join America on the War on Terrorism (transnational terrorists). To do that, I suspect Bush has decided concessions have to be made to Arabs concerning creating a Palestinian Sovereign Terrorist State even if it is a future threat to Israeli existence.

Read Bill Mehlman’s The Bush Metamorphosis which captured my thoughts of the Bush Administration's political swing. Mehlman is not as specific in his thoughts probably because he is a journalist and I am a blogger; however Mehlman inspire one to think of the long haul transformation of Bush toward Israel.

JRH

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Melanie Phillips

It is like God Almighty is leading me to voices in Internet pundit land that tell things about the latest National Intelligence Estimate relating to Iran. The more I read these pundits the more I am convinced that the NIE has become rogue following its own perceptions of Foreign Policy instead of its boss the President of the United States.

Melanie Phillips has some information about the three main authors of NIE. She describes them as “hyper-partisan anti-Bush Officials.”

I presume “hyper” and “anti” mean no matter what actual Intelligence turns up, it will be written in such a way to discredit President Bush’s agenda to promulgate American National Interests merely because the Bush Administration currently has it stamp in managing foreign policy.

JRH 12/8/07

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I love Israel

Here is some blatant evidence of Bush Administration arm twisting to force Israel into a precarious situation that will further threaten the National Security of Israel against the wishes of over 60% Israeli citizens.

Secretary of State Rice claimed recently that a majority of Israelis wish to give up the West Bank to create a Palestinian State. The poll conducted by Israel Policy Center for Promoting Parliamentary Democracy and Jewish Values in Israeli Public Life also shows that 77% of Israelis believe the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas cannot deliver on preventing rockets being launched from the West Bank if it is converted to a Palestinian State.

That means Hamas from Gaza allowing rockets to terrorize civilian cities in southern Israel and rockets from the West Bank terrorizing civilian cities as far away as Tel Aviv through central Israel. Such an occurrence from a sovereign nation would be an act of war. So why create a Palestinian State if Israel has to defend itself by invading a sovereign Palestine to prevent harm to Israel’s citizens?

Secretary Rice is obviously utilizing propaganda to convince Jewish leaders to acquiesce to the existence of a mortal enemy known as Palestine.

JRH

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Real Americans Defend Israel

As many of know there are scheduled negotiations to take place in Annapolis, Maryland between Israel, the Fatah version of the Palestine Authority (PA) with the Bush Administration participating as moderating negotiator.

The pre-negotiations appear to be panning out as in the past: The terrorists want all the concessions and absolutely refuse respect of Jewish Israel culture.

Olmert on the other hand appears to be ready to toss in everything including the kitchen sink under the delusion the Palestine Authority terrorists will peacefully coexist next to Israel.

Hello! The simplest hurdle that must be overcome is the recognition of the existence of Sovereign Jewish State known as Israel.

PA terrorist negotiator Saeb Erekat proclaims Palestinian Islamofascists (secular and religious) will never recognize the existence of a Jewish State.

If the President Abbas of the PA (and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization – PLO) cannot recognize the Jewish State of Israel, why waste the time of negotiations to establish a sovereign Palestinian State?

Erekat explains the reason for this: “There is no country in the world where religious and national identities are intertwined”.

Does Erekat think the West is stupid? (Don’t answer that, of course he does.)

Every Middle Eastern Nation except Turkey intertwines Mohammedanism as the national and political identity of their citizens. If Mohammedan nations in the Middle East would deny this intertwining there would be massive rights against the respective Mohammedan nations. If Middle Eastern nations are practicing even a portion of Sharia Law then religious and national identities are one.

The PA negotiations are just a continuation of a half-century Mohammedan Arab-Palestinian lies to try to wear down the Jewish citizens in the only nation in the world they do not have to face persecution because of their Jewish race and faith (not all Jews are religious, indeed Israel is officially a secular Jewish State in which at least half the nation are Slanted Left thinkers).

And yet Olmert continues the march to Annapolis. If Olmert gives up the Jewish heritage of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and various places revered as burial or historical Jewish event location AND accepting the PA’s demand of NOT recognizing Israel as Jewish State, then Olmert will be like Korah rebelling against Moses that ended in the perishing of Korah’s followers. Olmert’s path threatens the existence of Israel.

Peace at any cost could be the peace that leads to death.

JRH

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Sacrifice of Isaac, Rembrandt 1635

Even as the Bush Administration and Prime Minister Olmert explore a point of concession to establish another Arab nation which will be called Palestine, the official television network of the Palestinian Authority (i.e. operated by Fatah terrorists) shows a map on their network on October 11, 2007 of Israel as the sovereign nation of Palestine.

What is the concession? Actually the concession is numerous and dangerous for Israel’s existence: the giving up of what Israelis call portions of Judea and Samaria and the West calls the West Bank. The heinous concession on the table for discussion is dividing Jerusalem between Israel and the emerging repugnant State of Palestine.

How is this coming about? The Bush Administration is twisting the Israeli government arm to establish a “Palestine” on Arab terms and Olmert is acquiescing to the arm twist at Jewish expense.

Palestine Authority (PA) President (also Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman) Mahmoud Abbas controls the content station PATV. Somebody explain to me how that makes Abbas a trustworthy partner in negotiation to keep any bargains he submits? It is extremely apparent that Abbas is following in Yasser Arafat’s footsteps of telling the West and Israel anything they want to hear and telling the Arabs called Palestinians that the destruction of Jewish Israel is imminent.

I submit that the creation of a Palestinian State will lead to a blood bath of either Jews or Mohammedan Arabs. How can I say this? I can say so because once the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority under the direction of the umbrella terrorist network known as the PLO becomes a sovereign Palestine, that horrific nation of State thuggery will have the tools to negotiate with rogue nations and arms dealing nations (Russia and China) for a military designed to invade the rest of Israel.

Someone will win and it won’t be pretty. Not only that, due to the current investment of America in the Middle East due to the War on Terror, America will participate in that Israeli/Palestinian war. And if America participates then certainly Iran will follow the Palestinians with Russia joining closely on Iran's heals. I say Russia because the Old Bear has warned off Western nations from attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities. If Iran and Syria partner to support a Palestine, America will attack Iran’s military capabilities – including the nuclear facilities. Russia will have to do something or face international disgrace (again) in talking big but not yielding clout.

A sovereign Palestinian State will lead to this scenario.

It would be better for the Arab nations surrounding Israel to admit their mistake in creating a group of Arab refugees and matriculate those Arabs into their nations. The biggest candidate for the matriculation is Jordan since its existence was intended for the Arabs while a sliver of land was to be reserved for Israel. This was a League of Nations Mandate given to the British then a United Nations Mandate before third world dictators and Arab nationalists backed by oil infected the World Body with corruption.

Just as the British shafted the Jewish people just after WWI to appease the aid that was given by Arabs to defeat the Ottoman Turks, there is the appearance the American government is preparing a raw deal for Israel for global considerations of oil and the need for Middle Eastern allies in the War on Terror. Thus once again Israel is being placed in a position to negotiate away their land acquired by victory during numerous attacks by Arabs to exterminate Israel and Jews. This includes the holiest site to all Judaism and the most significant site to Christendom – Jerusalem.

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Broken Borders

This is a fascinating motive for prosecuting Border Patrol Agents for doing their job. Apparently when foreign governments ask for retribution after Border Patrol Agents nab suspects for breaking American laws (e.g. drug smuggling or illegal entry), the Executive Branch of the American government complies by ordering the prosecution of Border Patrol Agents. This is happening to the tune of even withholding exculpatory evidence that either provides reasonable doubt or outright exonerates a Border Patrol Agent of charges brought against him or her.

So here is the picture: Border Patrol Agents have a mandate to protect the American Border (Canadian and Mexican) from illegal entry and smuggling (whether that is drugs, human trafficking, spies, terrorists or whatever). In the course of their duties a suspect or perpetrator may flee or use violence to withstand apprehension. If the Government representing the foreigner is unhappy with how the American Border was protected, they ask the American Government for some sort of satisfaction. The satisfaction seems to be the prosecution of the Border Patrol Agent or Agents involved in an incident.

If that scenario is used against Border Patrol Agents it hand cuffs their mandate to protect the American Border. The expected result is the free flow of drugs, espionage and terror cells across the American Border – WHY? Because a Chinese Communist Government or a corrupt Latin American Government or a hidden agenda Mohammedan Nation Government complains to the State Department or to the Bush Administration.

That is NUTS!

This is the reason former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are in jail. It is the reason that former Border Patrol Agent Robert Rhodes was unsuccessfully prosecuted. AND it is probably the reason behind the spate of firings of U.S. Attorney Generals recently. This is speculation on my part but a few of these U.S. Attorney Generals that were fired for poor performance or managerial conflicts may have been the result of the desire to follow the rule of Law rather than the political agenda of smoothing over a diplomatic issue of the State Department.

I suspect Robert Rhodes was made the patsy in his case for his sexual preference: Rhodes is an overt homosexual. If you read my blogs you know I am not a huge fan of the immorality of homosexuality; however I am huge fan of justice and the rule of Law. Following the wishes of a foreign government is crazy. A homosexual may be out of line in expecting their alternate lifestyle to be accepted as mainstream morality (as opposed to Biblical Morality); however it is not illegal to be a practicing homosexual. Rhodes became penniless paying the defense that exonerated him from all charges. Rhodes is suing for 25 million bucks for his unjust prosecution. I hope he wins.

As for Ramos and Compean, now I understand as to why President Bush will not pardon them. They are the victims of foreign diplomacy: The kind of foreign diplomacy that does allow drug smuggling and probably allows the entrance of terrorists on to American soil.  

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United Western Decomracies

Here is a week old WorldNetDaily report that comes under the heading of “What’s going on behind the geopolitical doors?” President Bush has signed a document that is supposed to integrate economic standards between the European Union and America. The document is a commitment yet it was not ratified by the Senate as is called for by the U.S. Constitution for International Treaties and Agreements.

Couple this so-called “Transatlantic Economic Integration” document with all the back door media reports of a “North American Union” (linking Canada, America and Mexico as a national entity), Joe Public has to begin to wonder “What’s the deal?”

This Transatlantic Economic Integration document actually creates a “Transatlantic Economic Council.” It is co-chaired by a Cabinet level American (Alan Hubbard) and an EU “vice-President of the European Commission in charge of enterprise and industry.”

The Transatlantic Economic Council could be an entity as simple as standardizing practices, property rights (e.g. intellectual rights such as Copy Right) and so on. The thing that draws suspicion is the lack of Senate oversight and confirmation. This is eerily comparable to the shadow behind closed doors talks of the North American Union; this also seems to be a President Bush initiative without Senatorial oversight and confirmation.

Clearly all the international nations share geopolitical alliances in one form or another. Yet it is also clear that there are many conflicts of interest between these geopolitical nations, especially as to their view of President Bush. It is the differences that cause a huge confusion for me. There is the appearance that President Bush is attempting to hammer out some sort of United Western Confederation without American Constitutional consent and there is the appearances from which America’s International allies believe President Bush’s geopolitical strategy is unilateral rather than multi-lateral. Unilateralism seems to be a huge point of contention for the EU, Mexico and to varying degrees also with Canada.

This secretive Bush strategy coupled with the EU, Canada and Mexico paradox of cooperation and denunciation is almost like a mystical mystery that Joe Public may not comprehend until it is too late to weigh in. It all seems to be un-American in its extra-Constitutionality (somewhat like a Democratic Party ploy).

So what is going on here?

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Monkey Butt

There is something fishy about George Tenet. He has begun his public appearances to publicize his tell-all book “At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA.” Tenet is basically lining up on the Democratic Party side pertaining to the invasion of Iraq.

My first reaction is: What in the world was President Bush retaining an intelligence Director from the Clinton Administration. That was dumb.

My second reaction is: Tenet is telling a different story in his book than what he told Congressional hearings that led to the invasion of Iraq. That makes Tenet a liar who does not want history to blame him if the Democrats write the history books.

Tenet originated the expression that it was a “slam dunk” that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in Saddam’s Iraq. There is even an implication that the lack of finding WMD was a cover-up (by unknown agencies or people) because lack of military man power allowed Saddam loyalists, Syria or Russia to covertly extricate the WMD. That would be a screw-up that Tenet would probably be aware of.

Victor Davis Hanson castigates Tenet on differences from book and public statements of record pertaining to al Qaeda involvement in Saddam’s Iraq.

Thanks to Sandy Berger (Clinton’s Chief of Staff) shredding classified documents that never made it to the pertinent commissions, thus inaccurate conclusions was made pertaining to WMD and al Qaeda involvement.

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