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Saturday, October 6, 2007 06:05 PM
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Pedinska

I have no problem with jews/Israelis.

I DO have a problem with Jewish members of a lobbyist group with too much influnce in this country who want control Americas' foreign policy-like AIPAC.

I think win has more than made the point that many members of this AIPAC group or sympathetic to it-think that they are beyond blame for any of the war-promoting going on in the Mideast. Glen has stated he thinks they are but one cog in the wheel and I somewhat agree-there have been lots of enablers.

I don't doubt that there are Israelis who want peace-I just wish that they would elect officials who felt the same way. I suspect that they are victims, just as we Americans are-to the massively corrupt military complex.

I also know Israel is a big customer of the US military complex-so to keep it going-it would be beneficial to have a pro-war govt/complete with propaganda machine in the media to feed it-just like us. So to keep Israel in fear of its' neighbors-to NOT have any kind of peace accord just keeps the $$$$ rolling right into the military complex that the neocons see as the only way this economy makes $$$. The propaganda in the media goes along with this by feeding us a steady diet of Brittny news to make us NOT focus on the wars they intend.To keep us from loooking at thier corruption. After all GE, is majorly involved in the military complex also.

To hell with anyone aginst war, against peace,against finding other sources of oil......guess it'll continue until cars are just relics of the last days of oil left scattered throughout our landscape and the earth is just a crater of the ravages of war.

I'm vehemently anti-war and I resent those trying to make false claims to further embroil us in more. If there were not such enablers to the military complex-wars would not be so easy for corrupt governments to launch.

Sunday, October 7, 2007 12:25 PM

the problem I have with the Broders

of the GOP is that they are just old. OLD-thinking, OLD-acting..

They constantly want to kiss the ring of Henry K.-who really when you think about it, is consistenetly wrong on foreign policy.

So all of these old-school foreign,social, economic minds are too deeply entrenched in thier own minds of thinking one way only.

For the past many years for the GOP it has been about "bling". They want to trot their candiadtes out to the same Big, Pharma, NRA, fundie, AIPAC, AARP crowd....

Same ol' dog and pony show. Been doin it for years-we all know the drill.

I think once a person reaches a certain age, they stay with what they are used too-comfortable with. The bigotry,the hate, the mistakes, the hard-nosed ideology, the rejection of truth and change in their world- lives on in them.

But we have seen how far GW has taken this country down the wrong road-and unfortunately-we are left as a nation with options not to compromise-but an activism by everyone to participate in the making of the country WE want to see. WE-as babyboomers, gen X, Gen Y-NOT the Cold-war thinkers. These Cold-war thinkers don't want change-they want to continue on with business as usual-trying to hide the facts of global warming, depletion of the military, depletion of our treasury, depletion of our civil rights.....and pretend it does not exist. People know better.

Sorry-but it's time to pass the torch and step aside and let a younger, fresher generation restore what it knows this country is capable of. We are at a pivital time in history where we can't let religion stop science from advancing, or deny global warming, or continue with our current energy policy, continue on our current immigration and healthcare policy, continue the erosion of civil rights......nature and technology are proving us fools for continuing on such a disastrous plan. New thinking is what is needed-and I have no faith the Beltway crowd has a clue how to tackle it-so they deny it.

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