The latest nonsense from sinister mastermind of "Greenworld". Let's see, how can I counter the undeniable fact that al Qaida is by far the most effective and deadly part of the insurgency in Iraq. Ah, yes! It must be a Bush conspiracy to keep us from surrendering in Iraq!

Fact: No one other than the extreme defeatists like Greenwald, Pelosi and Reid try to argue that Al Qaeda is a non-factor in Iraq. Osama and Ayman have specically stated that Iraq is the central front in their war against the USA. Osama's exact quote was, "Success in Baghdad will be success for the United States. Failure in Iraq is the failure of the United States. Their defeat in Iraq will mean defeat in all their wars." Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number two leader of al Qaeda, said that Iraq "is now the place for the greatest battle of Islam in this era." He also said, "the Jihad in Iraq requires several incremental goals: The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq." Of course Greenwald thinks these guys are nothing more than common criminals and that there is no global radical Islamic movement that should concern the USA.

Fact: No one who does not have a defeatist political agenda like Greenwald, Pelosi and Reid, disputes that Al Qaeda is behind almost all of the suicide bombings in Iraq that take the greatest toll on Iraqi civilians and drive the sectarian strife in Iraq. There were almost no sectarian killings in Iraq before the original Samarra mosque bombing and the heinous daily suicide bombings that have occurred since that time are al Qaeda's tactical strategy for pushing defeatists like Greenwald, Pelosi and Reid to force America out of Iraq so that they can use it as a base for their designs on the Arab gulf states and to attack the American homeland.

Fact: Even the extreme left media like NBC, NYT and WaPo do not deny that Al Qaeda is embedded in the Iraqi civilian populations and that Iraqi Sunnis from Ramadi to Baquoba to the neighborhoods of Baghdad are seeking to drive them out with American assistance.

Greenwald invents this nonsense because he fears that America might actually help Iraqis defeat al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and thereby position America to make a responsible reduction in forces in Iraq rather than pursue the abject geo-strategic, political, military. moral and economic capitulation to radical Islam that Greenwald advocates.

The reason behind Greenwald's gesticulating denials of al Qaeda's central role in Iraq is that it might result in a positive outcome for America in Iraq that would be very bad news for Pelosi, Reid and their defeatists cohorts who care more about their political ambitions than America's national security. Al Qaeda, Iran, Syria and the rest of radical Islam are all pulling for Greenwald's point of view to prevail because they believe the Greenwald's of the world can help them defeat America from within.

This inescapable reality and the huge risks and devastating consequences of Greenwald's surrender strategy (see link below) should tell any sane person everything they need to know about the true motives of Greenwald's grotesquely self-serving demagoguery. Greenwald could not be doing a better job of undermining America's national security if he was directly collaborating with the forces of radical Islam that are dedicated to America's destruction. Are you, Glenn?

http://www.politicalrealityonline.com/The_Bottom_Line.html

That's a nice Sunday sermon. Care to establish your proof for what I believe? Seriously - I'd like to hear it. By the way you engage in the same topic that people who scream 'racist' at everyone uses. It's meant to stop all words dead. In the US if you call someone racist it's a auto convicting accusation.

See the thing is, fundamentally it's not about how individual NYT page one below the fold human interest stories about Palestinians make you feel. It's about the relationship between one group of people and another. It's about politics and power. It's not about your imaginary feel good group hug. Why is that? Because it's about tolerance.

Tolerance is about tol-er-a-tion. Tolerate. Put up with. Not love or like or identify with or having Sunday cookouts in the park together. If I'm wrong then I need you to lug your suburban white ass to some East St. Louis ghetto neighborhood and force yourself on those people because it gives you such a warm fuzzy.

Anyway - I don't and most Israelis don't actually care what the Palestinians wind up with vis a vis their own society. If they want a sharia theocracy in Gaza - wonderful, send me a postcard. If they want something else, that's great too. But in practical terms what they will wind up with is all of Gaza, about 90% of the West Bank, a portion of East Jerusalem and continued mastery of al Aqsa, etc. That's pretty much what they will get. That's reality. That's the bottom line and they can fire another one million rockets into Israel in protest they can even unleash chemical weapons or biological weapons or worse and it won't matter. It may make them and the people feel better or feel smug but it won't change the final state of things. Beyond that they are free to to chisel out whatever destiny they want. They can be a dependent rump state of the EU they can be a confederation of militant groups who fight each other or anything else. See no one cares.

But be aware that the history of the Palestinians in the middle east is a lot more complicated than simply screaming "Evil Jews". For example there are hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Lebanon who have been there 3 or 4 or more generations who the Lebanese govt won't grant citizenship too, like wise Syria. In 1991 there were 260,000 Palestinians in Kuwait who were simply expelled from the country because the Kuwaitis were furious at the Palestinians for having supported Iraq in the invasion of Kuwait. Similarly now, today, Palestinians in Iraq, mostly in the north are harassed and are being driven out of the country because of their long support of Saddam. ANow if one goes to the West Bank one can see that the main crossing into Jordan, the Allenby Bridge is a huge chokepoint for travel. These are Palestinians who actually hold Jordanian passports yet are denied entry into Jordan because Jordan doesn't want the problem. About 1500 people a day are denied entry. Ever since the PLO tried to topple the Jordanian government in the September 1970 war which resulted in 30,000 casualties there's been bad blood between them.

One can see that the THE DAY a Palestinian state is declared that the neighboring Arab states will purge themselves of their Palestinians and force them out to their 'homeland'. That's really the nasty problem that the Palestinians will encounter. And that's one of the key drivers behind Arafat's proclamation in 2000 that he would declare a state followed by his quiet reversal on that a few weeks later. It doesn't appear that the Palestinians are prepared to manage that problem in lieu of keeping the 'movement' alive.