Marion I really do admire your posting. Please understand my note voting for Obama has nothing to do with his skin color. I simply do not agree with his stance that a large government entity will be better for me and for most Americans. It is that simple.
I don’t like grandpa at all. In fact as usual we have an election where I have to choose between two politicians who I really have strong disagreements with.
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One thing to note though. I do believe the president of Iraq is quite dangerous. He is smart, he is trying to bait the US and/or Isreal into conflict, and it is hard for me to interpet the true rationale of statements made by him. Let’s not forget that this man has made statements questioning the holocaust. He has said he wants to wipe Isreal off the face of the planet. To me this is a bit stronger then trying to help the cause for a Palestinian state. I would go so far as to say the VERY LAST thing he wants is a peaceful resolution to the Isreal/Palestinian conflict and he will do everything he can to prevent it.
I think there is a very fundamental misunderstanding about this man. In fact, if you really look back into the dynamics of what went on in the 1930’s and even into the 1940’s there was plenty of diplomacy.. there were plenty of world leaders who negotiated with Hitler. Didn’t seem like it worked out to well.
Honestly I cannot decide where this guy is coming from. My hope is that he is insane and does believe all the hatred that he spews. That he honestly does say these things because he does want to exterminate an entire race of people. He hates Jews fine… My fear though is that he is way more cunning then that. That he does have an ideological belief that he can induce an epic by baiting Isreal and the US into an attack so that he can indeed rally the entire Muslim world a massive jihad. This would include terrorist organizations and all Muslim nations into warfare including an all important Pakistan. I also would not put it by this man to have some sort of access to existing nuclear weapons, perhaps via connections with terrorist groups or something of that nature and this would indeed give him a reason to use them.
Call me paranoid.
Let me say this… I certainly do not believe the solution is to attack this guy. I think that is EXACTLY what he wants.
Rustico and others…I am not sitting here trying to defend Isreal. I am sure it sounds that way….What they have done to Palestinians with our backing is pretty bad. Yet Isreal has no intent of trying to wipe any society or religion off the map.
I should really delete this post…guess I will hit save…
