Sharon jumps on "War against terrorism" bandwagon - at last

Hakki Alacakaptan nucleus at superonline.com
Tue Dec 4 04:39:48 PST 2001


Actually what makes the analogy fall apart is not so much the numbers as the fact that the guy who's declaring this particular war on terrorism is an indicted war criminal, whereas Bush hasn't yet been officially indicted, and the guy he's calling a terrorist and shooting rockets at is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, unlike ObL who probably dreams of blowing up the Nobel committee (with dynamite).

Hakki

|| -----Original Message-----

|| From: rhisiart at earthlink.net

||

|| maybe it's just me, but i can't see how sharon can convince shrub or

|| ashcroft that one jewish life equals one US life. i'd say

|| he'd be lucky

|| to get 10 to one. or maybe a constitutional 3/5ths of a person, at the

|| very best -- and that's only when southerners are voting.

||

|| R

||

||

|| At 11:59 PM 12/3/2001, you wrote:

|| >All the wires and papers have Bush giving Sharon the green

|| light, but The

|| >Times says it's just another case of Israel hogtying US policy:

|| >

|| >Hakki

|| >

|| >TUESDAY DECEMBER 04 2001

|| >

|| >Bush hands tied as Sharon joins war on terror

|| >http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001561635,00.html

|| >

|| >FROM ROLAND WATSON IN WASHINGTON

|| >

|| >WHEN Ariel Sharon sat down with President Bush in the Oval Office for a

|| >hastily arranged meeting on Sunday, he had one devastating fact up his

|| >sleeve.

|| >The killing of more than 25 Israelis this week, when taken in

|| proportion to

|| >the US population, was similar to some 2,000 Americans losing

|| their lives,

|| >said his travelling entourage.

|| >

|| >Mr Bush hardly needed to have the implication spelt out. Mr Sharon was

|| >placing the weekend's suicide bombings on the same scale as

|| the September 11

|| >attacks and would respond accordingly. There was nothing that

|| Mr Bush could

|| >do to prevent him.

|| >

|| >Mr Sharon has used the wide-ranging terms in which Mr Bush

|| cast his war on

|| >terrorism to leave the President powerless to restrain Israel.

||



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