"It's important for Israel to understand that," Bush said. "They've signed onto the Tenet agreement, they've signed onto the Mitchell plan, and that is the pathway to peace."

What? Is he kidding? What makes Bush think there can ever be peace in the Middle East based on some negotiated piece of paper? He actually seems to think Arafat is *controlling* these suicide bombers. Does anyone else actually think that? I'm sure Sharon is aware that Arafat has no actual control over these people, and I think our government knows it too. Why the hell are we cutting Arafat any slack and expecting Sharon to stick to a peace plan that requires him to bend over for Palestinians?

I am absolutely disgusted at Bush. Let's pretend for a minute that there was a suicide bombing on Good Friday at a church basement prayer meeting and 20 people were killed and 150 injured. Let's also imagine that the incident was claimed by a terror group that we could locate. Do you think for one second that the headquarters of that terror group would be anything but a smoking crater by now? Do you think we'd make any pretense of NOT trying to kill the leader of that terror group? How does his behavior not contradict the stated reason for everything we are doing in Afghanistan?

Neither side will give up Jerusalem based on a "peace plan" invented by the west and merely enforced by a piece of paper. Until one side lies in bloody ruins with their spirit completely broken, there will be no peace in the Middle East. One side must, for once and for all, DECISIVELY LOSE the battle.

Some say that war never solves anything, but those people are completely ignoring precedents set in the 20th century. This is exactly what we did with the Germans and the Japanese -- we absolutely crushed their sick cultures that wanted everyone-not-them dead or enslaved. Now the Germans and the Japanese are our allies.

Innocent Israelis are being killed every day because it doesn't fit with our plans for the Middle East. We would never tolerate this if it were happening to Americans, so why are we not openly helping the Israelis destroy terrorists? Why are those terrorists less evil than the ones we seek to destroy? Our president's Middle Eastern "policy" is a disaster of hypocrisy. I did verbally support Bush for a while, and I do think that Rumsfeld and Franks are doing a good job with the war, but I'm done going easy on our moronic president.

Gee, that's two days in a row I've harshly criticized the government. Good thing I don't have a big audience, or I'd probably be in jail.