Saddam Huessein, in reaction to Cheney speech urging a preemptive strike against Iraq, has said that, “American threats target not only Iraq, but the whole Arab nation as well.” I only wish he were speaking the truth. No offense to any Arabs, but that place need a lot of cleaning up after we plow through Iraq. Once Saddam’s skull has a “regime change” into an ashtray, there will still be a lot of other nations out there that’s going to be a threat to everyone until they’re democratized. And, if we have to put guns to people’s heads to get them to vote in a free elecion, so be it. Saddam’s words do anger me though, because he shouldn’t be saying stuff like that; he should be dead. Why is he still alive! Why! We don’t need a permission slip signed by the French; just kill the bastard! Everytime he walks by a window and isn’t sniped, baby Jesus cries.

The Palestinians seem to be in a never ending war with any feelings of sympathy I may have for them. Yeah, things have to be tough living under Arafat, but when I see Palestinians cheering when Israeli kids are mudered (hell they seem to cheer when anyone is murdered) and dressing up their children in phony bombs in hopes they’ll one day blow themselves up and many others, it takes a lot of effort to think of them as fellow human beings. And I’m a lazy man. Still, I hold out some hopes that there are enough good Palestinians out there that peace can happen without razing all their homes and sowing salt in the earth. A Reuters story, though entitled “POLL-Palestinians oppose ending suicide attacks,” gives me some hope. If the numbers are to be believed, 53% of Palestinians are for the suicide bombings, but 44% want to halt them. That’s not a small number of people showing rational thought there. That means to achieve peace maybe only 53% of Palestinians need to be wiped out (plus or minus three percent) and then… I dunno… those 3% undecided pistol whipped.