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I've been disturbed by the but-monkeys, who start out with the usual pallatives about how they support Israel and then engage in unconscionably disingenuous criticism about "proportionality" or some other such nonsense.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually did the world a great service by sweeping away the weasel words and distilling the issue to its fundamental components.

"Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented," Ahmadinejad said, according to state-run television in a report posted on its Web site Thursday.

The enemies of Israel are pretty clear on what their goals are, and it seems to me that democrats have to be equally clear about where we stand. No but-monkeys. Now some people are going to cry that this isn't fair--to hell with them. This isn't about an equitable solution, its about genocide.

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