[CedarDave]

Brit starts off the roundtable by saying he's not sure whether he wants to see the current Powell mission succeed or not! He means that one part of him would like to see the Israeli's continue to rout out the terrorist to the end, rather than stop with a "cease fire". Cici (of the Compost) starts talking about Jenin camp and the "Israeli" atrocities. Barnes shuts her down. Juan goes off the reservation, talking about how Israel is being put down by the rest of the world for its actions. Brit says what's new? The rest of the world (except for the US) has never really supported it.

Brit hits it on the nail, by saying that this has hurt Bush badly, not by Israel's actions, but by his own reversal of his September anti-terrorist policy. Go Brit!!

[Neenah]

Now here is where the Bush logic toward Israel contradicts our own policy. If we apply the same logic to our war on terrorism, then we should stop attacking the Islamic terrorists. We should pull out of Afghanistan before we incite ‘even more hatred’ toward us. We should abandon any plan to attack Iraq, lest we inspire more Islamic hatred toward us around the world. After all, there are 1.3 billion of them.

So when we are attacked by Islamic terrorists in the future, let’s just scold them and tell them that we love them and please don’t hate us so. Let’s not attack them lest we inspire more hatred toward us.

[YaYa123]

thanks for your recap of the round table. I'm with Brit.

[RamsNo1]

I have very rarely heard Brit criticize Bush like this. He is usually very supportive of the president. I hope Bush was watching this because I think that Bush always valued Brit's opinion. Wasn't Brit the first media person invited to the WH in 2001? I can imagine what it may be like at Camp David right now.