It Never Pays to be Bush's Bee-yotch

When it came to the Coalition of the Willing, Eritrea, you may recall, was on board from the get-go.

Eritrea is one of the poorest, most war-torn countries in the world. I call the embassy to ask how it intends to show its support of the US and coalition of the willing, of which it is a member? There is a long, stunned pause before the spokeswoman says: "Can you call back tomorrow morning?"

Whatever their level of committment (and I could find no listing of Eritrean "boots on the ground" in Iraq anywhere) -- do they even have an army? -- you'd have to assume their support of Bush's Folly might at least prove a political boon, no? Perhaps some US financial aid? Some air-dropped food packets? An ICBM or two?


Erm....no.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is considering designating the Red Sea state of Eritrea a ``state sponsor of terrorism'' for its alleged support of Islamist militants in Somalia, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa said Friday.


The State Department is now compiling data to legally back up such a move, which would impose severe sanctions on the impoverished nation and put it on the same diplomatic blacklist as Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Sudan, said Jendayi Frazer, the assistant secretary of state for African affairs.

George Dubya Bush, friend to the end.