Looking For A Hissy
by digby
Jonathan Schwarz at A Tiny Revolution notices that some extremely irresponsible politicians have been meeting with an aggressively anti-Israeli and anti-American middle eastern politician who says things like this:
• “We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed [in Iraq] week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.”
• In October 2003, after rockets were fired at the hotel at which Paul Wolfowitz was staying in Baghdad, that “We hope that next time the rockets will be more accurate and effective in getting rid of this virus and his like, who wreak corruption in Arab lands.”
• That he felt “great joy” at the 2002 space shuttle Columbia disaster because one of the astronauts was Israeli.
• That the real axis of evil is “oil and Jews,” and “The oil axis is present in most of the U.S. administration, beginning with its president, vice president, and top advisers, including Rice, who is oil-colored, while the axis of Jews is present with Paul Wolfowitz.”
I feel a faint coming on, don’t you? Click here to find out who it is — and who is meeting with him.
Now, I don’t personally have a problem with meeting batshit insane foreign politicians. It falls under the heading of “diplomacy”, no matter how distasteful. (And frankly, if that’s the new criteria, we can clear Bush and Cheney’s schedule for the rest of their term.)
But the last I heard, the right wing didn’t agree. I wonder what they think of this?
H/T to Julia