Brad wrote: > When U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey calls > for Israel to "grab the entire West Bank" and for Palestinians to > move to a Palestinian state someplace else--in their "hundreds of > thousands of acres of land... and soil and property and opportunity" > that Arab countries have, does he know what he is saying? As I see > it, there are three ways to interpret what Armey said to Christ > Matthews: > > I. Armey is a total imbecile who doesn't realize that there are > non-Israelis living on the West Bank. > > II. Armey wants Sharon to "ethnically cleanse" the West Bank--send > all Palestinians across the Jordan--and then annex it. > > III. Armey wants Sharon to annex the West Bank, but allow those > Palestinians who want to remain to remain under Israeli > government--without voting rights, without representation, et cetera. > > I think the most likely interpretation is (I): that Armey's just not > too swift, not well-briefed, and doesn't remember very much of what > his aides told him three hours before.
He's famous for his diarrhea of the mouth - he's the same guy that referred to Barney Frank (an openly gay congressman) as "Barney Fag". Yeah, he's a homophobic jerkwater. Not as noxious as Jesse Helms, if that counts for anything. > What does it say about the Republican Party that it elects such a > guy--either a moral imbecile, or just an imbecile--to head it in the > House of Representatives? It says a lot more about his district that he got elected. Serving as long as he has, he's built up a lot of seniority, which translates into considerable power in the House. > And what does it say about the assembled conservative opinion-makers > of the United States that they are desperately unwilling to talk > about what Armey really meant? If some European lawmaker had said > that the solution is to move the Israelis to the United States, what > would George Will be saying? It says most don't take him seriously, I'd think. Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Democrat so far...
