Assad State Of Affairs From There To Here
Tuesday April 22, 2003 - 07:21:05 PM, PDT Last Updated Apr 22, 2003 at 16:31 Sierra Time SierraTimes.com, An Internet Publication for Real Americans By R. A. Hawkins
It is quite apparent that Iran was not interested in Saddam's "Please take a Baath" program because they told the escaping leadership to take a hike. Syria however seems to have a suicidal tendency just like Saddam's government. Now that the cash cow for the Palestinians is gone, maybe the parents of the children there can find better things for their kids to do than blow themselves up to line their parent's pockets. Saddam isn't around anymore to send them money. Syria's Assad might be dumb enough to take up where Saddam left off however. The only neighbor they have invaded is Israel which is cool with the Democrats unless they are in New York and have to court that Jewish vote.
Syria poses a bigger problem for all of us here because they actually have a rather nice missile program. I suspect that missile program is what prompted Sharon to go to the Al Aksa mosque. He knew exactly what he was doing when he went there, make no mistake. He was also aware that Arafat had violated everything he agreed to in the Oslo Accords. When Israel finally pushed back after Arafat let the inmates out of the asylum, they found all sorts of weapons and explosives that the Palestinians had promised not to keep or buy ever again. They seem to have a bit of trouble keeping their word. Rather than just attack them, Sharon simply pushed their little buttons and they acted accordingly. He knew the other side was depending on a bunch of loonies to do their dirty work. The problem with loonies is they have no self control and lots of buttons.
To all of the antis who have chanted "Not in our name", right you are. Nothing was done in your name at all. Those who have helped us in Iraq are better Americans then a lot of the antis. Those people are leaders and glad to have gotten rid of Saddam's sleazy regime. If Europe and all of the antis had gotten their way those people wouldn't have even had the chance to help get rid of Saddam. They probably would have ended up with a wife's or daughter's severed head on their porch.
Yes Syria is building an ICBM and they even have a base for it. Nice pictures we took of it to say the least. You can find them over on Newsmax.com. China and Russia have been helping with that for quite a while now: They are such great world partners. Russia and China have been quietly undermining us for a long time. Anybody ever hear of Yamantau mountain? Anybody ever seen the Chinese bases in the Bahamas? They are setting us up and the funny part is the rhetoric is all too familiar.
They are in Venezuela and blaming us for having tried to remove Chavez. If we had been involved in that, the guy would be pushing daisies. It wouldn't have had the stink and haunting familiarity of the phony kidnapping/coup in Russia. That was such a well orchestrated joke it was laughable. The really amazing part is the number of people, small though it is, who believe the Russian and Chinese lies in all of this. They are so contrary they will believe the government of the enemy before they will believe their own. When the WMD's are finally located those dullards will say we snuck them in. Never mind the fact that Saddam was probably smart enough to realize we were going to pound them with bombs and it might not be a very bright idea to keep those vials of VX next to the old head board or on his nightstand, or anywhere near him. They are buried and hidden, nice, safe and deep.
The funny part about all of the rhetoric lately is that it is quite familiar. All one has to do is change the scapegoat and it all sounds the same. That belies a single source. Anybody ever read any of Zhirinoffsky's comments? They sound like they are from 'Mein Kampf'. The same is true with a lot of the radicals here. In Ambrose Evan Prichard's book, 'The Secret Life of Bill Clinton', he had an interview with Mahon from Elohim city. He stated Iraq was helping to fund their movement. Now the amount of money wasn't much and he said they quit sending money the moment the OK bombing happened, but he said they were sending money up until then. Isn't that interesting? To those who think that bombing was a great and patriotic American achievement I would like to point out what was accomplished by that one act in OK city. Clinton had done such an incredible job he had just lost Congress to the Republicans. His loss was probably due to the assault weapons ban for one thing. Then there was that little fundraiser for the BATF in Waco. When that bomb went off he managed to regroup against the Republicans and started an open war on the real conservatives in this country. Nice Job! So if we look at that one act and ask the rather basic question of 'Who gained?', Bubba's name pops up on the screen doesn't it? I have noticed people have forgotten that Bubba is now gone and it will take years to root out all of the nasty people he installed. All of the really sleazy acts occurred after that incident. We had our nuclear secrets stolen and in the next election we suffered from China syndrome. It only got worse after that.
My view is that we have an alliance with Israel and we should stick to it. Any nation that dumps its allies when the going gets tough is doomed to have no allies. I don't back the European approach that said a long time ago "Send them down there and we can get rid of them later." That approach is just more Nazism with a stupid little smiley face pasted on it. Since my view makes me a neo-con that makes those who hold the European view Neo-whats?
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R.A. Hawkins is the author of "Through Eyes of Shiva", available through amazon.com. Visit Entropical Paradise for more commentaries and editorials by R.A. Hawkins.