Even as it’s being decided there’s no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, that question becomes increasingly unnecessary. After all, he was offering Palestinian human-bomb terrorists an inducement, in the form of $25,000 to their families, and now we have some idea where this money was coming from.
Let’s face it—if the Bush Doctine is to have any meaning beyond high poll numbers for Dubya, Saddam Hussein needs to go down. So do the theocrats in Iran, who are increasingly facing a restive populace, not excluding their own most respected clergy. And let’s not forget the pampered princes of petroleum who preside over the Arabian occupied territories from their palaces in Riyadh.
As for Old Stinky (more charitably known as Yasser Arafat), with one of his top lieutenants dropping a dime on him to Shin Bet, his fall ought to be accelerating presently, even without the Bush Administration onboard. Joel Mowbray’s piece at TownHall.com starts out sounding like a criticism of Israel, and there’s criticism aplenty for Israeli tactics that might not be up to snuff from our rarified perspective (a perspective not yet coarsened despite 9/11), but he lays most of the blame on Old Stinky and his henchmen. There’s a lot to be said for some UN culpability there too.
Editor’s Note: Although there are entries in this weblog dated earlier than this one, those were previously published pieces that were later incorporated into Flyover Blogdom. This is the first actual blog entry I ever wrote.
