bush's cautioning about attacks

[lessthan]

so you think bush is provking one of them to do something. like calling them out saying that " oh you wont do this because your afraid too" or is it one of the "i dont want my money to stop flowing" i dunno i think hes calling them out on it. ill edit this tomrrow ive gotta work in the morning and im tired2

[Impenitent]

I think bush wants arafat to send a whole army into israel so israel has the excuse to kill everything that moves in the occupied territory

[dotcoma]

That would just be fabulous Imp, wouldn't it.

[Impenitent]

it would take care of the problem... that is the reason arafat isn't accepting any palestinian state... one homocide bomber and it is state to state full out war... 1500 posts!!! excellent

[dotcoma]

Originally posted by Impenitent, kill everything that moves in the occupied territory

it would take care of the problem

[lessthan]

hahah yeh i bet that would turn in to another world war. buhs would want ot control that part and make it a US territory. BUSH's plans WORLd domination and change us to communism ( he seems liek he wants communism)

[PhanthomOps]

President Bush does not want Sharon to kill arafat.

Regretfully, the Palestinian people have been duped into believing arafat is for the people. They are taught from childhood to hate the Americans and Israelies, that their poverty, etc. is our fault, and all the while without them realizing it their education and media is state controlled. They are really unaware that the billions of dollars sent for the benefit of the people have been deposited in his personal bank accounts. Also, he secretly encourages the suicide attacks and even funds them through his antafada.

However, with Hamass and the other terrorists alive and well in the area Sharon must be careful not to incite an all out war with the Palestinians and the surrounding Arab states. Killing arafat would just do that and all hell would break loose.

I say go in and remove him - put him in prison with no outside contacts, treat him decently, and have a televised appearance once a week to show he is still alive. This might force the Palestinians to seek a real leader who will end the terrorism and establish peace between the two nations.

[joshjosh]

I think that Bush would be delighted if Sharon killed Arafat, it'd feed the islamists in palestine and would turn the struggle of the palestinian people even more into a religious struggle and less into a revolutionary struggle.

this transition from revolutionary to religious started happening after the oslo accord in 1992, in which arafat sold out the palestinians by acknowledging israel as a legitimate state, and so paving the way for a two state solution.

if there was even more of an islamist backlash then that would mean that Sharon's war on the palestinians would look legitimate,

[RightThinker]

The last thing Bush wants is more trouble in that region before this election. Sharon killing Arafat would somehow get blamed on Bush.

Another reason Bush would not want that is because he does not want Arafat to become a martyr. The only type of assassination Bush would support would have to be something that would look like natural causes.

If Sharon kills Arafat the killings will pick up and then they will even off back to their current levels. The attacks will never stop. It is just a question of how many attacks and everything you have to watch out for.