Maybe as a blogger to ties with LGF, et al. you can publicize that at the UN, iyad allawi (PM of Iraq) shook hands with silvan shalom (FM of israel). of course, the muslims heaped scorn on this, but it is quite a symbol.

The siege was written by i think o'brien who was the UN ambassador to ireland, so he sat between iraq and israel, and wrote a fine book about the clash.

now, iraq and israel shake hands - who is gonna write this book?

What would we do without snarky headline writers?

What Bush actually said was, "If we stop fighting the terrorists in Iraq, they would be free to plot and plan attacks elsewhere, in America and other free nations".

Not quite as retarded-sounding as "Terrorists May Plan More Attacks".

I hope you'll indulge me and allow a somewhat long post. I worked for ten years for our feral gummint in international military exchange programs. This gave me the "opportunity" to host many high ranking foreigners at military affairs hither and yon. There were many such "opportune" moments for a US officer to learn how to sweat bullet, but two illustrate my argument.

One such event, the 1986 Statue of Liberty celebration, found me schlepping around with an Arab delegation. I wasn't surprised when my American counterpart with the Israeli delegation asked to arrange a "meet and greet" between our two groups. It was the Arabs who said "Absolutely not. We do not make nice with our enemies." Luck would have it that we ended up with two admirals, an Arab and an Israeli, on board the Chief of Naval Operations "yacht" in rather rough waters in NY Harbor. This was a small yacht and the two found themselves on the aft deck with me standing between them. They bumped me aside and shook hands. Sailors everywhere will know that rough seas wash away lots of things and in this case the two officers and their staffs spent a good part of that time in friendly (one hopes) banter over the conditions in particular and sailing in general.

On one other occasion I and three Arab admirals visited a US military facility where an Israeli scientist was doing an exchange. When apprised that they would be hearing a "brief" from an Israeli, the admirals balked and strongly objected. I said I would try to change the program but was unsuccessful (and not particularly ardent, anyway). After an amazing display of knowledge about matters of mutual interest to both sides by this scientist, I saw these Arabs shake hands with the Israeli and spend the rest of the time alloted discussing the minute details of their interest.

My point is: it's always the Arabs who have been diffident or recalcitrant. They actually see Israelis only as "the enemy". To see PM(i) Allawi take the initiative to cross these boundaries shows how much has changed, fundamentally, with the renaissance in Iraq. Let's pray that it will blossom.

Well, after today, i no longer can vote for kerry. I had left the bush camp for many reasons, and was giving kerry shot after shot after shot.

Today when allawi shook hands with shalom - something US "allies" like saudi arabia and qatar, yemen woudl not do, what does kerry do, he craps all over allawi - i think the american people are willing to give this allawi the benefit of the doubt - sure, he is somewhat of a puppet, but he says there wil be elections and until he goes yasser arafat style i believe him and think he is worth a chance. why john kerry had to be downright unchristian to him makes no sense, but it matters not to me, he lost my vote now.

I will now watch the debates as a true undecided, but will end up most likely voting for george bush cause i see nothing in john kerry but a nearly congenital liar for attention.

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