Saddam Hussein used to say all sorts of things that got the blood pressure up. He had the same attitude problems exhibited by the mullahs.
More recently he took part in a memorable video without his trusty shotgun and his big mouth. The bottom dropped out of his market.
Bush put him in that spot.
Something is happening. An Iranian nuclear scientist dies. Oil prices drop and their economy suffers. Carrier groups arrive. US jets head for (over?) the Iranian border. Troops surge. Numbers surge from 25 to 50 thousand. One hundred thousand anyone? Provocations become more outrageous.
President Reagan talked about the boy who wanted a pony. Years went by. Then came the day when we watched the Berlin Wall come down on the tube.
It took a relatively short time to deal with Saddam. And it is not over.
I don’t give the mullahs a pass regarding responsibility for 9/11. They have a history of destroying buildings with Americans in them.
I don’t need proof. And they need to wonder. Because on 9/11 President Bush and the rest of us who care watched men and women jump from those buildings and felt something that will never go away.
I don’t believe he has forgotten. Millions of little peons just like myself will never erase those images burned in our minds.
I know President Bush has not forgotten. I know he will not share what he knows with me or us. He is clearly capable of being deceptive with a New York newspaper. And there sure are a lot of Army, Navy and Marine personnel congregating near the Iranian horizon.
Maybe I’m naive. So what. I stand on the history of the United States. All of it.