So...Hezbollah is blamed for the next big terra attack in the US...

[Junkdrawer]

and we bomb the shit out of Iran in retaliation. We're then told that the country naturally rallies around the President and the Republican congress and thus "wins" the 2006 mid-terms...

Who'd a thunk it? :shrug:

[peacebird]

1. nah - Iran will be blamed for attacking Israel and we are "forced" to

bomb Iran in support of Israel.

[Junkdrawer]

4. Counter nah...unless some American blood is spilled, no one will...

support our entry into the mess.

[peacebird]

10. * is the "decider" - he really doesn't care what Amurikans think.....

[MADem]

2. But, but, but...Hiz b'Allah is an invention of the Ayatullah Khomeini, and

Saint Ronnie gave the Ayatullah a CAKE....AND an autographed BIBLE!!!!

It's just such a jumble, gosh-a-rooney!

[readmoreoften]

5. An autographed Bible? wait....

Did Reagan write some portion of the Bible I didn't know about?
Did God (or maybe Ezra) sign Reagan's Bible?
Did Jesus already come back, sign Ronnie's Bible, and take a plane back home to heaven?

[TheMadMonk]

12. Autographed not signed.

An author signs his own work. Anyone can autograph anything that will take a mark.

Still, putting one's John Hancock on a Bible (to make it special) is bordering on the sacreligious.

[whistle]

3. Hezbollah terror cells right here in the U.S.

Who'd a thunk it? :shrug:

[Junkdrawer]

6. William Kristol and Richard Perle said so....

On September 20, 2001, in a historic speech to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush famously declared, "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated." Few terrorist organizations meet this standard, but Hezbollah is definitely one of them. The Lebanon-based group has cells on every continent, and its highly skilled operatives have committed horrifying attacks as far away as Argentina. Before September 11, 2001, it was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization. Hassan Nasrallah, the group's secretary-general, recently proclaimed, "Death to America was, is, and will stay our slogan." Since the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada in September 2000, Hezbollah has armed and trained Palestinian terrorists, further fraying the already tattered peace process. Hezbollah operatives have reportedly traveled to postwar Iraq to rekindle historic ties with Iraqi Shi'ites.

It is hardly surprising, therefore, that many in the United States have argued that Hezbollah should be the next target in the war on terror. Shortly after September 11, a group of leading scholars, pundits, and former government officials, including William Kristol and Richard Perle, declared in an open letter to President Bush that "any war on terrorism must target Hezbollah" and urged that military action be considered against the movement's state sponsors, Syria and Iran. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has warned of Hezbollah's lethality, noting that "Hezbollah may be the A team of terrorists," while "al Qaeda is actually the B team."

....

To have any chance of success, a U.S. military operation would have to involve a sustained counterinsurgency campaign -- something that Israel tried for 20 years, only to find that its efforts strengthened Hezbollah's resolve and increased its local and regional appeal. In response to a U.S. attack, Hezbollah might activate its cells in Asia, Europe, and Latin America -- and possibly in the United States itself. The United States, furthermore, is today in a far worse position militarily and diplomatically than it was before the war in Iraq. Occupying Iraq is tough enough; a fight in the Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon, would only make things worse.

....

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20031101faessay82606/daniel-byman/should-hezbollah-be-next.html?mode=print

[tridim]

7. I think Americans now understand that Bush and the Republicans..

Don't care a lick about America or the American people, that's why they'll at least attempt to vote them out of office. However, the final tally is still up to Diebold.

[Junkdrawer]

8. Agreed. That's why I put "wins" in quotes...

It's all about making you believe your neighbors support the madness...

[Junkdrawer]

9. The al Qaeda shtick was getting thin anyways...

Just a intro fill-in until the A Team was called...

[Junkdrawer]

11. .