AW: Not Just About Iraq (Was: London)

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/07/2005 8:53:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ottosell at yahoo.de writes:

But  isn't Kilgore speculating about the motives too when he says:

"(...)  aimed at Britain not so much as part of the Coalition in Iraq, but as
host  country for a G-8 summit (...)."

The message could also be meant very  personally: "Dear Tony. Look, you're
leaving your capital for just one day  and we blitz it while you're away!"

I think the most truth lies in the  opinion that these people know how to
play the media piano quite well when  they choose the location and the timing
for their attacks.

IRAQ =  It's Really Another Quagmire

Otto

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Betreff: Not Just About Iraq (Was:  London)


Most of Rich's statement below is idiocy.  It assumes  a knowledge of the 
motives of those who did this terrible deed.   Presumptuous, to say the 
least.  That Bush's war in Iraq was a  foolish move is unquestionably true, 
IMHO.  But to lay today's attack  at his feet is idocy:

The following is from TPM  Cafe:

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/7/133153/3136

By Ed  Kilgore

>From: rich  <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>
>Hope all our friends on the  list from London are OK after today's 
>unfortunate events in the ever  expanding global war on terror--a war which 
>the US has no clue how to  win much less protect its own and friends





I'm not sure that Rich is "lay[ing] today's attack  at [Bush's] feet" by 
saying what he said; I think it could be interpreted to  mean that we've gotten 
ourselves into (as Otto says) a quagmire, not that we  necessarily are to blame 
for what the other side does. No? What do you all  think?
 
RF
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