Now That Yowza Arafat's Gone. . .

President Bush plans in his State of the Union address on Wednesday to pledge greater assistance for the Palestinians, including a financial aid package that could total nearly $350 million to bolster development and security, sources familiar with the plan said.

What a capital idea! These poor, deprived people are in dire need of more bomb-making materiel, backpacks for their transportation, rifles, grenades, rocket launchers, and other assorted goodies. Yes, by all means, finance their every whim. Viva la Palestine!

Seriously, let's think about this. This is a blatant violation of the Constitution's specifically enumerated powers of the government. Indeed, all such taxpayer funded "foreign aid" is stepping well beyond the line of the federal government's rights.

This minor inconvenience aside, where is the tiniest iota of logic in this? How foolish must one be to give away hundreds of millions of dollars to a group of people governed by a terrorist organization? Does Bush seriously believe such monies will go toward "the greater good" of the "Palestinians." Apparently, Bush is a true believer in the phony depiction of the "Palestinians" foisted upon the world by propagandists.

Goebbels is clapping from the bowels of Hell over this one.

The announcement would highlight Bush's support for Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, elected last month to replace Yasser Arafat, whom Bush shunned as an obstacle to peace until his death.

According to my limited research on the man, here's what I know about Abbas:

1. He opposes the idea of using force to stop terrorism.

2. In a doctoral thesis, he claimed that far fewer than 6 million Jews dies in the Holocaust.

3. He accused the Jews of conspiring with Hitler to exterminate European Jews--a truly unique perspective only fully appreciated in strait-jacketed asylum wards.

4. He denied the use of gas chambers on Jewish victims by the Germans.

5. He was one of the primary planners of the Munich Olympics terrorist attack.

6. He has been quoted as saying: The "intifada must continue."

Sounds like a classy guy, huh? Why are we giving these murderers money, and why is Bush supporting this wolf in sheep's clothing?

The man's treachery and connivance has all the subtlety of a hammerblow to the forehead.