This could be interesting. President Bush will visit a Caterpillar plant later today in the Peoria area.
Caterpillar found itself in the center of the nasty politics of the Middle East when a Caterpillar product owned by the Israeli Defense Force, the D-9 bulldozer, accidentally ran over leftist activist Rachel Corrie in Gaza in 2003.
Corrie refused to get out of the way of the oncoming bulldozer, although her leftist supporters claim, without evidence to back up their belief, that the Israelis purposely killed her.
So in Central Illinois there will be a perfect storm of craziness. Bush-haters and Israel-haters will converge near Peoria today.
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