YOUR PRAYERS MAY HAVE WORKED

I can't adequately express how appreciative I am for all the prayers by TTP members for me and my family in response to What's Dhimmitude in Russian? 

There were even a number of offers to bodyguard my family or provide us with safe houses!  It was so very touching I don't have the words.  A number of the messages brought tears to my eyes.  Thank you all so much.

I also must tell you how much your prayers for Paul Joyal have meant to his family.  Paul's wife Liz sends you her deepest thanks.

As of today (Thursday 3/15), Paul is still in intensive care.  He has begun to talk, but only physically, not lucidly – he can make sounds but not any sense.  To be in this state after two weeks shows how horrible the attack on him was by the Kremlin-hired gunmen.

And now, two weeks later, I know why the Bush White House has been quiet about it.

Since the attack on Joyal, not only has Russia signed on to the latest round of UN sanctions on Iran, but has delayed completion of Iran's nuclear power plant in Bushehr.  Granted, the sanctions are weak – but the delay at Bushehr is anything but.  The Russian technicians who are building the plant have already gone back home.

The terrorist act committed upon Paul Joyal is not the sole cause of this but contributed to it.  Let's say it was the catalyst.

As the media reports it, Russia has stopped deliveries of nuclear fuel for Bushehr because of Iranian non-payment.  But bickering over payment schedules and in what currencies (dollars vs. euros) has been going on for a long time.  So this Russian announcement comes as a bolt-from-the-blue, startling everyone in Tehran but not at the White House.

Bush made it very clear to Pootie-Poot after the attack on Paul Joyal:  There will never ever be an attack on one of your critics on American soil again – and you better offer me something worth my keeping quiet about it. 

The attack on Joyal was on March 1^st.  Bush communicated with Putin on March 6^th.  The Russian announcement ceasing deliveries to Bushehr came on March 12^th.   So just maybe, Bush has decided not to be Putin's dhimmi after all.

Perhaps it is even of some solace to Paul Joyal that his testicles served to halt, however temporarily, the development of Iranian nukes.

And thankfully, I and my family can breathe easier.  All those prayers seem to have worked.