The Cause of the Fighting In Gaza?

It's Bush's fault!

From the loons at the Charleston Gazette:

Horror: Gaza Slaughter
editorial

This week's hideous death and destruction in the Gaza strip stem, at least partly, from two White House blunders. Here's the record:

Back in 2005, the Bush administration prodded the moderate Palestinian Fatah government of Mahmoud Abbas to hold elections, to show that democracy was advancing. The White House was uninformed, not realizing that Palestinians would vote for fanatic Hamas militants.

When Hamas won control of the Palestinian parliament in early 2006, Washington and Israel were stunned. President Abbas was hamstrung, with extremists ruling his legislature.

Ever since, the Bush administration and Israel have strangled Gaza in an attempt to drive Hamas from power. Israeli troops and gunships block most supplies and aid from reaching the desperate little zone, where hunger and joblessness abound.

Ever since, Gaza's Hamas zealots have acted almost suicidally, firing crude rockets toward Israel - mostly hitting nothing - as if trying to provoke armed retaliation by the Mideast powerhouse.

Ever since, Israel has loosed periodic military strikes into Gaza, killing 100 or so people at a time, in response to Hamas rocket attacks.

This week's severe retaliation is horrifying overkill. [link]

So, there you have it. Bush forced the terrorists in Gaza to fire over 6,000 rockets into Israel (indiscriminately; that's Bush's fault too). And the Israelis retaliated (ever too harshly).

This despite the fact that both Hamas and its Iranian backers have consistently called for the destruction of Israel and have been working toward that end - in earnest - for a year now. They are doing that which they said they were going to do.

I suppose next we'll be reading about the fact that there were no WMD's found.

And "Bush lied, millions died."

Morons.