Posted on 08/18/2006 12:28:25 AM PDT by goldstategop
Expect a no confidence vote by the end of the year. Olmart is finished.
Prediction : Bibi and Likud back in.
>>It isn't about ideology for someone like Hillary Clinton. It is all about attaining power. The preferred method would be as a socialist. But she'd run as a Bible-thumping moderate with a hawkish defense policy if it garners her 270 electoral votes. I suspect the same could be said about Bayh of Indiana, Mark Warner of Virginia, and Osama Bama Ding Dong of Illinois.
Think it isn't possible? We're rapidly descending to a "only Nixon could go to China" moment...permitting a Dem pseudo-hawk to do with foreign policy what the Republicans have abdicated from doing.
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Ehhh, maybe !
getting pretty close to that point if you ask me.
Drop one on Damascus, Tehran, Medina and suddenly the Mideast becomes much more tame.
Vote Bibi. I've been wondering what they're waiting for.
he thinks Olmert will be gone in a few weeks
I wish I could believe that. The shameless weasel will find a way to hang on and brazen it out. Kind of what Clinton did after the Lewinsky scandal broke. Anyone with a sense of shame and honor would have resigned.
Israel needs a buffer zone in Southern Lebanon--period. They are relying on an international force to provide one, but methinks that force will provide cover for Hezbollah more than anything else. Especially if you see it filled with troops from places like Malaysia and Bangladesh. So next time the Israelis need to take-care-of-business, they'll have to fight their way through Hezbollah and the UN.
Who is this non-existing democrat with this self-defeating agenda? He couldn't be electedi n any Primary of the Planet
I am beginning to believe Bibi may return. However, I do believe that Moshe Ya'alon is high up on the list as well. Either way these 2 individuals have what it takes to lead with strength. Not really a hard act to follow (Olmerde).
The "great man" fallacy again.
Israel in its present form is terminal not BECAUSE Olmert is PM, but because it is the People of Israel who put him in office.
Olmert is a nobody. What he signifies is that the People will not defend the land if it is necessary to do so with weapons other than words.
*T'Heck R U talking about. He vetoed it several times before republicans FORCED him to sisgn it as he was heading into an election.
Triangulation? Try reality
It's actually the same person as the mythological 12th Imam, and the unicorn and the centaur and the honest Clinton.......
If Golda Meir was made to resign after 1973 (which was quite perilous for Israel but ended well), Olmert should be tarred, feathered and then made to resign after the fiasco so far...
I don't know about that. I heard this from my friend in Haifa on August 14. She knows the war was necessary but is glad life is returning to "normal". Here's what she wrote.
"The son of a very well known peace activist, and also a will known author, David Goodman....Who only two days ago, begged to end the fighting and bring the soldiers home..His 19 years old son was killed by anti tank rocket fire. This happened not long before the cease fire.hours.I know it is hard on all those parents, but this was so sad,as his father was well respected by the Arab community...Tragic indeed and the fact that he was against all these wars.."
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