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.
||