Crooks, thieves, charlatans, and demagogues: Bush’s Doctrine in 2006. Now, really. It is high time to evaluate Bush’s doctrine in this year. This new Palestinian election-under-occupation is big, and the results are quite significant not only in terms of Palestinian struggle, but also in terms of Bush’s so-called project for changing the Middle East. You have to think about it: his policies has helped install the rule of the Ayatollah in Iraq (and the fragmentation of Iraq), and now the rule of Hamas in Palestine. Make no mistake about it: the Palestinians were not voting for Hamas’ ideology; nor for its peculiar style of rhetoric and “actions.” This was merely a strong vote against Bush’s Palestinian candidates: a vote against the charlatans, crooks, thieves, and demagogues who lead the Fath’s list of Bush’s candidates. I mean, would you buy a used potato from the likes of Muhammad Dahlan or Jibril Rajjub? I saw a debate a few days ago on LBC-TV between Dahlan of Hamas’ Mahmud Az-Zahhar: it was not about ideology, as you watched. It was the very clear sign that Dahlan represents something very corrupt, very sinister, and very suspicious. I am convinced that the Palestinian people do not necessarily adhere to the ideology of Hamas (and I am not saying this due to my own strong opposition to Hamas’ ideology and record in Palestinian struggle). Hamas succeeded by fielding candidates who benefited merely from not being Dahlan or Rajjub. With Ahmadnajad in Iran, you get a clear picture of the repercussions of Bush’s doctrine in the entire Middle East region. The news in the last few days (first revealed in the Washington Post) regarding US government’s funding of Fath’s candidates has certainly helped Hamas further, and reinforced the suspicions toward the crooks, thieves, charlatans who led the list of Bush’s candidates on the Fath’s list.