Iraq War and Bush's agenda - Hamas

[LeftHander]

While Bush and his pals were vacatoning and promoting tax cuts, Alito, fighting the Iraq war...

The Palestinian government was turned over to Hamas....

U.S. officials have stated that they were "surprised". I am so sick of hearing the "surprise" in Condies voice everyday.

These losers need to be tossed out on thier ear.

:WTF:

Aleep at the wheel again. Because of the President constantly on a public relations campaign to defend his thick headed decisions the U.S. has lost touch with reality.

How the fuck did they not know that Hamas would gather that much popular support?

This story is going to get bigger.

Now they have a organization with a declared purpose of destroying another country. Bush's influence of "regime change" has shown to all nations it is okay to use state sponsored "terror" (say shock and awe) to overthrow other governments you don't like.

Hamas is now official. They are the Palestinian government.

[Crankie Avalon]

1. "No one anticipated the breach of the levees..."

"...it was impossible to foresee that bin Laden determined to strike in the US..."

The world is just full of surprises when you're a Bush Administration official!

[Beer Snob-50]

2. You would think we would try to embrace the new government

after all it was elected fairly as far as I can see.

[global1]

4. I Agree. If We Reject Them And Encourage Others To Reject Them.....

and cut them off - it seems to me that they will only get desparate and when people get desparate - bad things happen.

I'm not saying totally embrace them either. But isn't there a way that Hamas can be brought along with a carrot and stick kind of approach.

I think about the American Revolutionaries. They fought and they took control and started the road to the country we were before *Co got a hold of it.

Maybe we can compromise here.

[Beer Snob-50]

5. totally rejecting a country has been proven to not work

look at cuba. i think if we kept up a presence there (economically) we could have gotten a form of government there that we could live with.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. "Democratic" elections are only "democratic" when our guys win.

Tsk, tsk. Those neocon/neolib geniuses will probably make up for "spreading democracy" by invading Lichtenstein or some other danger to our "vital national interests".

They sure are scoring great victories in making new freinds of Amerika.