Juan Cole - Sharon's treason: "At a time when American soldiers and civilians throughout Iraq are already daily being targeted by Sunni Muslim guerrillas, for Ariel Sharon to order the murder of Yassin and seven others while they were leaving a mosque is an act of treason against his American ally. It doubles the danger for every American man and woman in Iraq." - as if Sharon would care about the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq, or indeed the deaths of his own citizens in Israel.

Juan Cole - Sharon's treason: "At a time when American soldiers and civilians throughout Iraq are already daily being targeted by Sunni Muslim guerrillas, for Ariel Sharon to order the murder of Yassin and seven others while they were leaving a mosque is an act of treason against his American ally. It doubles the danger for every American man and woman in Iraq." - as if Sharon would care about the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq, or indeed the deaths of his own citizens in Israel.