Was watching the pat robertson show yesterday and there was a clip of bush talking about how we're going to do it with our "friends and allies". Pat robertson then came on and expressed his view that war with iraq was a bad idea. Even that lovable old ethnic cleansing advocate ( see http://www.counterpunch.org/armey0502.html ) Dick Armey thinks its a bad idea: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61898-2002Aug8.html The Saudi Arabia is out as a staging area and have the us pegged as an extremist fundamentalist state: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56975-2002Aug7.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2181877.stm Britian is trying to distance itself from us. As far as Turkey goes this is the latest I could find: " What Wolfowitz heard, according to Turkish observers and analysts, were assurances that Turkey takes seriously its strategic alliance and probably would allow bases for U.S. land forces that might cross into northern Iraq. But cooperation should not be taken for endorsement of such an operation, Turkey warned. The country remains deeply skeptical not only of a U.S. military campaign against Iraq, but also of what might follow it." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A22374-2002Jul17 Doesnt exactly sound gung-ho does it? My guess with the "stans" is that theyll do what russia does and theres been a recent cooling of relations with russia due to us opposition to a nuclear power plant that russia has planed for iran: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2166429.stm http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/03/140314121409.asp From what I can tell the russains are pissed off that the us is doing in korea the same thing they want to do in iran and somehow its right for the us in korea but wrong for russia in iran. Germany? Doesnt look like well have any support there without a mandate from the un and thats not going to happen any time soon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1877185.stm What the hell is wrong with bush? Even conservatives at home are deserting the cause.
