The Imperial Bluster of Tom Delay

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Dreams and Delusions
By EDWARD SAID

During the last days of July, Representative Tom Delay (Republican) of Texas, the House majority leader and described routinely as one of the three or four most powerful men in Washington, delivered himself of his opinions regarding the roadmap and the future of peace in the Middle East. What he had to say was meant as an announcement for a trip he subsequently took to Israel and several Arab countries where, it is reported, he articulated the same message. In no uncertain terms, Delay declared himself opposed to the Bush Administration's support for the roadmap, especially the provision in it for a Palestinian state. "It would be a terrorist state" he said emphatically, using the word "terrorist" as has become habitual in official American discourse without regard for circumstance, definition, or concrete characteristics. He went on to add that he came by his ideas concerning Israel by virtue of what he described as his convictions as a "Christian Zionist," a phrase synonymous not only with support for everything Israel does, but also for the Jewish state's theological right to go on doing what it does regardless whether or not a few million "terrorist" Palestinians get hurt in the process.

http://www.counterpunch.org/said08202003.html

[DuctapeFatwa]

1. And his position is the one to which all US politicians must cleave

Unless they want to end up like Cynthia McKinney.

It might seem strange, that Israel would give such a warm welcome to people whose idea of a happy ending is having Jews thrown into a lake of fire, but money always has made strange bedfellows.

[SyracuseDemocrat]

2. as compared to attempting to be friends

with terrorists who want their immediate destruction?

[lindashaw]

3. To know exactly what Christian Zionism is, this site is a must read...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4531.htm.

It's shocking! And a little terrifying. Brace yourself. Then you will know why John Ashcroft had himself anointed with oil in a private ceremony after being confirmed as Attorney General.