This is my early Valentine to the lady in red:Helen Thomas, I've been watching your work since way back when. Good health. Long life. More great articles, columns and questions for the President. I surely do hope this great journalist, who is not at all timid in asking questions of Presidents, will be in the new president's first press conference and all the others, in the front row, asking the first question (with follow-ups). This woman (me) says, "Brava" and thank you. And yes, war is hell.

Israel took a beating in that war with Hezbollah and had to retreat. Since then, it appears to have been looking for a way to restore its image of military superiority in the region.

**uh yeah
by attacking a prison it holds the keys to.
Yeah-so brave.
They took out an ambulance and a few UN shelters this week.

I think Israel needs to prescribe glasses to all its citizens.
In 67 on a clear day they mistook a silvery steel US vessel for a wooden egyptian horse carrier.

You need an army of optometrists Israel!

What does Bush or Obama say about a) warning citizens to flee their homes to a safe point; b) knowing a safe point is a particular UN school, fully marked as such plus having the coordinates; then c) bombing the safe point to which citizens, in panic, have fled for safety? It's not 70 children killed, but now over 200, with others now being discovered in bombed out houses, crouched beside their dead mothers.

"Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre

FCNL email campaign to representatives for immediate cease fire. Even if you don't believe it will do any good - envision a flood of opposition - and considering adding to it. It only takes a minute
http://fcnl.org/action/2009/lam0108.htm

Thank you Helen Thomas for your unceasingly honest, insightful and extremely important reporting of the news. Keep punching!!!

"Bush had hoped to bring peace to the Middle East but for him it was a one-way street."

For the leader of the Bush League of Extraordinarily Evil Gentlemen, bi-partisanship means the other side does exactly what you tell them to do, without exception. If they do, he has a bi-partisan solution! This is the definition of a dictator. One who dictates, and allows no compromise.

All one need do to understand what is going on, is look at the timing. Just at the end of the Beast Bush's tenure as US Potentate. Watch the timing relative to Obama's entry as the new Potentate. It will be over by then. This was a purely political attack, done to re-establish Israel's bloody hold over it's sphere of influence, after the humiliating Lebanon war in 2006.

And when Helen's gone, who's left?

War is hell alright. As I discussed earlier, I learned that lesson the hard way back in the Vietnam War days. The brown shirts who preach the need for war and killing never bothered serving or learning the hells of war. The lessons can be learned the easy way or the hard way. And even if you don't serve, when you watch the economy tank big time because of all that useless war spending, it'll hit you whether you learn from that or not. Unfortunately, rushing to Iraq indicates that America hasn't learned her lesson and neither has enabling Israel to rack up war crime charges probably since like Washington they know they'll never be held accountable for the forseeable future.

http://deeperthanwars.blogspot.com/2008/04/hell-is-war.html

Helen Thomas: A true profile in courage. God Bless You!

Helen, you ballsy little broad, you are my hero.

Here's a heartwarming transcript of Helen Thomas mopping up the floor with Dana Perino the other day: http://tinyurl.com/8vcjzo

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Obama's golfing while Gaza burns hasn't helped his, or America's, standing in the world. While Emanuel and Clinton no doubt counseled him to disdain diplomacy for the links and peacemaking for the beach, his pro-incursion comments and silence on war crimes do nothing to differentiate him from Bush.

Biden predicted that Obama would be tested early on, and he has failed his pop quiz. Surely it would be political suicide to publicly criticize Israel, but he could have flown to Tel Aviv and met with Israeli leaders, to the West Bank to meet with Palestinians, and to other capitals to meet with leaders to help find a solution. The tired mantra that "there is only one president at a time" is transparently self-serving; he's hoping that Israel will have completed its mission by 20 January. Senators, congressional representatives and private citizens often engage in efforts to defuse tensions.

Israeli strategy harms not only the Gazans, but Israel and the United States. One can be, as I am, philosemitic and pro-Israel without endorsing this blatant violation of international law.

Alex

I don't understand how some of us can blame the UN when Bush/Repugs castrated it.

I, for one, have had just about enough of Israel. I do not think I am alone.

-- EKATON --

Gosh do I ever get mad when people blame Bush for everything...... That little

pimp couldn't perform any of his evil acts without a whole lot of help.

It helps to have a House and Senate whose only worry is just how many Israeli

wangs they can get in their mouths.... And a media whose main function is

making certain their blinders are in place when it comes to reporting on Israeli

war crimes...... A warning to Israel!!! Not all Americans believe you are

god's chosen people.... You are creating an entire army of people that

are coming to realize that you are truly a savage and evil nation..... Have

a nice day..

I

Helen Thomas is one of the few true patriots.

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