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December 17, 2003REALITY BITES--IN THE ARAB WORLDThe ravings of the nugatory nine--minus Joe Lieberman--continue apace, despite the capture of Saddam. Howard Dean and Wesley Clark are simply beyond satire. Even the oh so intelligent, Hillary Clinton maunders on about the need to internationalize our Iraqi endeavours, in the grip of her utopian UN fantasies. Who would have thought, even a month ago, that more sense would appear in the Arab News, than on the Iowa and Vermont campaign trail? In the war of ideas, who could possibly have imagined that our cowboy President might make a dent in the primitive thinking of the Arab world? Yet here is Dr. Mohammad T. Al-Rasheed: "I can’t help being smug, since what I saw gave me back some confidence in the possibility of justice in this world. I had almost lost hope. It took George Bush to give me that back. I don’t agree with him on many things, and while many Americans share my stand, I’ll give the man his due. He will go down in Arab history as the liberator of Baghdad.." See the rest here. Posted at 10:17 PM by
 
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Seeing's how I am a cowgirl, I'll have to recant what I've been spouting for quite sometime. GWBush is a cowboy, and not just a ranch owner. My husband who sure is a cowboy/bullrider/horsetrainer et. al.,
accepts him as a cowboy.
He's gotten proficient at throwing that lasso over the recalcitrant cows' head, and he's been on target shooting from the hip.
I think we're seeing some almighty big history being made in the Middle East, and I think the arab population is about to have their whole ancient world turned upside down culturally.
GWBush will, when his presidential term is up, whether it's 4 years or 8, walk into the sunset with a tip of his Silver Belle.
Posted by: quark2texicanius on December 18, 2003 03:54 PMHillary Clinton maunders on about the need to internationalize our Iraqi endeavours, in the grip of her utopian UN fantasies.
What she seems to have are internationalist & transnationalist ambitions. “Internationalization!!” is a mantra expandable beyond the issue of Iraq. In Oct. 2003, she & Bill, Wesley Clark, Joe Biden, & others met to form links with European social democrats on “common strategies” & “political globalization.”
“Labour forges ties with US' Democrats” Aftenposten, Oct. 23, 2003. The meeting seems to have passed under most press radar.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=653868
.... The goal is to be prepared with common strategies if a majority of them on both sides of the Atlantic come back to power.
But why wait? The EU has since then twice threatened retaliatory tariffs targeting electorally important US states. Hmm!
Posted by: ForNow on December 18, 2003 04:16 PMI’m sorry, Bill Clinton & Wesley Clark were NOT at that meeting, rather Aftenposten reports: “They also had meetings with Ron Klain of presidential candidate Wesley Clark's campaign, and Stan Greenberg, former US President Bill Clinton's campaign strategist in 1992.” And also that the “several top Democratic politicians & party officials” whom the Eurosocs met with “included US senators Hilary Clinton and Joseph Biden” [sic].
Sorry for my sloppiness!
Posted by: ForNow on December 18, 2003 04:22 PMForNow: Wow! An amazing story that sailed completely under the radar. Thanks for the link.
Posted by: Stephen on December 18, 2003 04:25 PMYou’re quite welcome. (By the way, are you Stephen Rittenberg?). I did come back here to see whether there were more comments, but somehow didn’t see yours till today.
Do remember that the "exciting" aspect is, for now, a web of surmise about connections between events some of which, like that October meeting, remain somewhat obscure. I spin the surmise out at my blog, (& may have to edit it yet again because I may have been over-alarmed by misinterpreting certain remarks made by Wesley Clark on Hardball. I don’t know enough about decision-process lingo.)
Posted by: ForNow on December 24, 2003 01:50 AM