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| You would think that if President Bush and Tony Blair were going to have an emergency meeting, the least they could do would be to pick some place the millionaire talking heads of CNN could pronounce, but then maybe there's some subtle nuance to calling these islands the "asorrys." No doubt, mentioning that this meeting is taking place on the island of Terceira in the Azores is much too much to read off a monitor and too much of a clue for the al Qaeda who have operatives everywhere you know. With anti-war demonstrations again taking place this weekend in both England and America, and Washington's Roll Call reporting a movement to impeach Bush, this seems a good time to get away to some island resort. Having finally given up on the propaganda stories about having put together enough votes to at least pass a symbolic vote for another UN resolution, and then not putting the votes together, our newsmakers are now claiming that this meeting is to plan the next step Bush, Blair, and Spain (they're not sure which way host Portugal leans) can take with the UN Security Council. Too bad, because it might be an excellent and fruitful opportunity for Bush and Blair to plan how they can get out of this mess gracefully. And they could still do it if they wanted to. I have full confidence that they could put the spin doctors to work on a story about how they've played the ultimate bluff, pressured Saddam Hussein into cooperating with inspectors and disarming in a way that would never have been possible without carrying things this far, and how they can now pull back the troops and let things continue towards a peaceful resolution—a story that we've already won. Hey, it worked for Clinton in Haiti, didn't it? Maybe it's time to send Jimmy Carter to talk with Saddam. He can team up with Colin Powell again. I'm also certain that they can come up with some tremendous story to put Tony Blair back in the good graces of the British people and his Labor Party. Bush, on the other hand, might claim that he had a conversation with a burning shrub in the Rose Garden. We've given Iraq deadline after deadline after deadline. Some people are so tired of hearing these threats they would just as soon go to war just to get it over with so they can go back to important American pastimes like watching joggers on survival shows. Saturday morning, the NBC Today show brought us the following bit of brilliance from the White House National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; "Sooner or later the UN Security Council has got to decide to act or not to act." Gee, you might even say we're going to war or not to war or quote some Shakespeare here. I'm trying to decide to sleep or not to sleep, to end this article or not to end this article. |
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