Might As Well Start the Debate Now
Before Qaddafi gave up his WMDs, he announced to Berlusconi that he was doing it because of Bush's invasion of Iraq. Literally announced it! That didn't stop the Left from pretending that Bush had nothing to do with it. So now that Syria is next up on the list of Arab dominos to fall because of Bush's cowboy antics, the Left is already working to deny Bush the credit. Mostly because the White House isn't doing enough to publicize this kind of stuff:
The leader of this Lebanese intifada [for independence from Syria] is Walid Jumblatt, the patriarch of the Druze Muslim community and, until recently, a man who accommodated Syria's occupation. But something snapped for Jumblatt last year, when the Syrians overruled the Lebanese constitution and forced the reelection of their front man in Lebanon, President Emile Lahoud. The old slogans about Arab nationalism turned to ashes in Jumblatt's mouth, and he and Hariri openly began to defy Damascus...
"It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq," explains Jumblatt. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world." Jumblatt says this spark of democratic revolt is spreading. "The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it."
On the other hand, the little 4 year old who wants to thank the Pope for his wrongheaded opposition to the liberation of Iraq - that's at 3000+ hits on newsmap.
The leader of this Lebanese intifada [for independence from Syria] is Walid Jumblatt, the patriarch of the Druze Muslim community and, until recently, a man who accommodated Syria's occupation. But something snapped for Jumblatt last year, when the Syrians overruled the Lebanese constitution and forced the reelection of their front man in Lebanon, President Emile Lahoud. The old slogans about Arab nationalism turned to ashes in Jumblatt's mouth, and he and Hariri openly began to defy Damascus...
"It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq," explains Jumblatt. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world." Jumblatt says this spark of democratic revolt is spreading. "The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it."
On the other hand, the little 4 year old who wants to thank the Pope for his wrongheaded opposition to the liberation of Iraq - that's at 3000+ hits on newsmap.
