Letters to the Editor
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PNAC Fascists
This article again exposes the black heart of the Bushista regime. They are empire builders, soul-dead military madmen, and in charge of a foreign policy in which Commander Codpiece, Mr. Mission Accomplished himself, couldn't have found the Middle East, much less its Byzantine history, on a globe, any more than he can find his ass with both hands. We need a clean sweep in November, and start the long and bloody task of undoing what these bastards have done in five and half years. God save us from these last two years if Bushit keeps control of both houses of Congress.
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Where are the Democrats?
Sadly, Democrats, well, DLC/DCCC "Hillarycrats", are unwilling to challenge AIPAC/JINSA/LIKUD solidarity, hence, the Neo-Cons. Only the BUSH-I Wasps are up to this challenge, though, likely, because the Saudi's pay them, too.
Ironically, the LIKUD/KADIMA have failed in Israel. The "Old Guard", Labor and the Army, -- not the Royal Israeli Navy or the Israeli-American Air Force -- have to redeem the failure of HALUTZ and his Northern Command. They must now march into South Lebanon, hold ground, and force what will likely be European intervention. Hizbu'llah has won a strategic victory, even if the IDF can grind them down eventually with unprecedented difficulty and casualties.
Not just the "Clean Break", but "Eretz Israel" is dead unless the Neo-Cons can push this all the way to nuclear war -- their Wagner/Jabotinski/Gibson denoument.
Secy PAULSON can kiss his "Strong Dollar" ass goodby.
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Here's a quote from Dr. Chomsky
"Why are you worrying about voting machine fraud for 1% of the vote when half of all voters never vote at all."
I'm afraid now is too late for the angry liberals to worry about who the President is and how he got there. Moreover, since no one will actually bother to do anything about it all you're doing is gratifying your masturbatory rage. Face it, there was a war and you lost.
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It would be quite an irony of history if by igniting a nuclear conflagration in the middle east
right wing Israelis and right wing Americans managed to turn Israel in fact into a malignancy of the sort that the Nazi claimed the Jews were.
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Since We Know Dick Cheney Hates The State Department...
We've been through the history of Cheney and his hatred of diplomats and of the entire State Department. Since we knows he hates State and has installed his daughter Elizabeth as his spy and his mouthpiece on the Mideast, and since we know he -- and not Bush -- is running the show, then we know Cheney is the one who was behind putting both Colin Powell and Condaleeza Rice in charge of State. Since he hates and wants to marginalize State, doesn't it strike you as an more than just a coincidence that he has placed only African Americans in the position of being the head of the most marginalized part of the government? The Department of State is the one department that Cheney truly despises, the one he has continually humiliated and bullied throughout his tenure.
I don't think it's a coincidence at all.
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Enthusiasm Isn't Indemnification
(Intelligence, including that gathered by the NSA, has been provided to Israel in the past for various purposes.) The neoconservatives are described as enthusiastic about the possibility of using NSA intelligence as a lever to widen the conflict...
Enthusiasm isn't indemnification. As much as I distrust the neocons, sharing intelligence with an ally isn't a provokation. Remember, the intelligence sharing isn't the provokation... the supplying of missiles is. That is of course unless the neocons are providing false or highly shaped intelligence. While I wouldn't put it past them to do such a thing, that wasn't indicated in Blumenthal's article.
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wait a sec
This article stretches at points in coming to the conclusion that Bush and co. are ineffective and misguided rulers, which I wholeheartedly agree with.
Why is providing Israel intel about weapon mvmts from Syria/Iran bad? Which side would you rather us be on?
Are neocons enthusiastic about creating a four-front war? Maybe, probably, but shouldn't Israel do what's in it's best interests? If Israel goes to war w/Syria and Iran, it will be b/c of their weapons shipments, not are intel. To think these(neocons/Bush admin) are pulling Israel's strings is laughable, b/c I believe(arguable point) Israel's leadership is better than ours(Lebanon v Iraq in a few years might help compare, different size/situation I know).
PM al-Maliki(a Shiite) denounces Israel, no shit. You would think with more innocent people dying per week in his country than have died in Lebanon over the entire campaign, he might want to keep his focus where it belongs. Oh, Iraq will be the next supplier rather than Iran, Shiites can't buy a loaf of bread without threat of being blown up by Sunnis!
Why are elder Bush's advisors suddenly "sages". I don't have Sidney's old articles describing them while they were in power, but I'll guess they weren't as smart then.
Hezbollah seems to have done well in the arms department during the relative peace period, I wonder what would have happened if it lasted another ten years? Should Israel have taken that chance? They are doing what they think is best for them and if Bill Clinton went over there, even he couldn't stop what's happening, never mind Condi.
I read a lot of these letters, so I'm not a republican, lean towards democrat, am not Jewish, wish for peace, wish for new leadership here, etc.
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Is Mel Gibson, then, a kind of prophet?
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What ever happened to AMERICAN foreign policy
Either U.S. foreign policy has been hijacked or what? Americans vote for representatives that are supposed to advance American interests(corporate or it's citizen's)around the world. How is our support of "Israel do what you want policy" helping our corporations or our citizens in the world? What ever happened to leadership, neutrality, diplomacy and America being the most powerful nation in the world. This just proves Walt and Mier whatevers thesis that the israeli lobby and Israel have hijacked our nation's foreign policy.
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Even if a few necon intellectuals want a war with Iran and Syria
it doesn't mean Israelis are that stupid.
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The non-Bush alternative
I wonder how Mr. Blumenthal would lay out the scenario of what would happen under a government other than GWB - say, the Bush 41 advisors he discusses.
One issue is that Iran would still be likely to pursue a nuclear weapon, and likely to get one some years from now. The same Al-Queda type threat which Clinton said was the largest threat and for which he had a war plan created late in 2000 would still exist.
What would happen under another situation? Would Hezbollah be strengthened and increase aggressiveness towards Israel? Would the tensions
between one side of the Middlea Eastern nations including Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the other, Iran and Syria (and now Iraq) come to a war head on their own? How would China's increasing influence in coming years and decades as they seek to secure oil and build alliances in
competition with the west affect the situation?
How would the Palestinian situation play out, when Clinton was unable to complete the peace process and since then, Hamas has been elected?
It's be interesting to hear this, since it all is an issue apart from whatever foolishness GWB's people are up to. And it's really important to the larger issue rather than just criticizing the one set of policies.
So often, only one answer appears 'right' morally, and yet, things are more complicated. American history from the genocide against native Americans to the aggressive war to steal half of Mexico are indefensible, and yet, who would undo them today?
Israel came into existence under the worst of circumstances as aid to the Jewish people for the holocaust of Hitler: not the sort of
historical act that society would plan, but one which happened, and now we need to deal with it.
The easy and obvious haven't worked so well - perhaps in large part for lack of any objective outside mediation as all parties try to get
their share of the Middle East.
I'd like to hear the larger story from Mr. Blumenthal - and I compliment the piece of the story he tells here.