Really brought out the racists, loons, fascists and assholes. Good Job. Super, really. You're a real "Boy from Brazil".

GW/Cheneys', the neocons'/Likud political mentality:

OIL

And it's always been about what THEY can get get out of the parasitic mutual foreign policy agreement-not the citizens.

Gordon, B-or GC-good to see ya again too!

Thanks Glenn. I also couldn't believe that Russert would attach rejection of anti-semitism to unconditional support of Israel. Nice one. But what was the most unctious act of the evening, was Clinton's upping of the "rejection" ante. Her pro-Israel stance has always hued to the Lieberman wing of mindlessness in the Democratic party, as has John Kerry...and yes, well, any Democrat who has pretty much ever had to mention the word Israel in public.

I would like to point out that it is heartening to see the admittedly feeble attempts at Obama to break with this cycle. However, I would point to comments such as this in Ha aretz just a week ago:

"My view is that the United States' special relationship with Israel obligates us to be helpful to them in the search for credible partners with whom they can make peace, while also supporting Israel in defending itself against enemies sworn to its destruction,"

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/826665.html

This is a boiler plate democratic statement, passed down as heirloom from progressive candidate to candidate. Obama gave a pass to Israel on its killing of 1,000 Lebanese in 2006, and continues to do so

"I don't think there is any nation that would not have reacted the way Israel did after two soldiers had been snatched. I support Israel's response to take some action in protecting themselves." also from Ha aretz.

That invasion left millions of unexploded bomblets from cluster bombs in Lebanon that continue to maim and kill. This is truly disgusting.

Did anyone catch this little nugget in the New York Times "World Briefing" today?

"Gaza: Israeli Army Clears Itself in 21 Deaths."

Apparently, Israel investigated itself and found that it was not to blame in the deaths of 21 Palestinian civilians caused when an Israeli shell hit residential buildings in Gaza. I would add that this number is greater than the total number of Israelis killed in Katyusha rocket attacks in six years.

A lot of the good points made in this article remind me of a recent speech by Noam Chomsky, featured last night on Democracy Now. In the excerpt below, Chomsky refers to the impotent majorities in the US and Iran. But he may as well have been referring to Israel, or any number of other democracies I suppose.

Well, of course, these four proposals—again, Iran should have nuclear energy, but not nuclear weapons; there should be a weapons-free zone throughout the region; the US should accept the Non-Proliferation Treaty; there should be a turn to diplomacy and an end to threats—these are almost unmentionable in the United States. Not a single candidate would endorse any part of them, and they’re never discussed, and so on.

However, the proposals are not original. They happen to be the position of the overwhelming majority of the American population. And interestingly, that’s also true in Iran; roughly the same overwhelming majority accepts all of these proposals. But that’s—the results come from the world’s most prestigious polling agency, but not reported, as far as I could discover, and certainly not considered. If they were ever mentioned, they would be dismissed with the phrase “politically impossible,” which is probably correct. It’s only the position of the large majority of the population, kind of like national healthcare, but not of the people that count. So there are plenty of “unpeople” here, too—in fact, the large majority. Americans share this property of being “unpeople” with most of the rest of the world. In fact, if the United States and Iran were functioning, not merely formal, democracies, then this dangerous crisis might be readily resolved by a functioning democracy—I mean, one in which public opinion plays some role in determining policy, rather than being excluded—in fact, unmentioned, because, after all, they’re “unpeople.”

Full text here:

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/26/noam_chomsky_why_is_iraq_missing

In yesterdays Washington Post there is article by Philip Kennigott (Images) in the 'Style' section.

The photo of Sen. Barrack Obama is pictured dressed in the traditional garb while visiting Kenya.

Then (turn to Images on page C-10) you can see the custom dress of another country:

Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea don traditional hats (Vietnamese conical) during a 2000 visit to a rural village in Vietnam. P.S. Chelsea is so cute....

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After a two month visit to help build a Health Clinic in 1990, when the First Gulf War War was being orchestrated here in America... I spent two-months in Yien Vien, a village just a few miles outside of the bombed urban Hanoi's population Centers. Devastation! Sad.

The State Department knows all about this because the "Friendship Health Clinic" humanitarian gesture was in 1990, and before the so-called, "Normalization of Trade Relations with Vietnam" was officially approved. Wow. What stories to tell... shhh. yikes. hush?

We 12-vets were guest of The Hanoi Government Peoples Committee.

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Upon arrival home stateside... I hand-carried a note and conical hat to GHWB in DC.

I am so sad that I got No Thank You Card. O, just a potential "threat to American security" letter put in a fbi dossier? I don't want to provoke a dash-hound dog and keep saying:

Um, um, um ,um.

I need to wear a visit a ex-Auschwitz Memorial Center and Listen to person or say dacha and burp the ABCs backward?

apologies- If I'm out of Ban roll-on?

Do anti-war folk apply 'Lemon Pledge'...

What stinkers. I'll wear a tank-top and clad a burqa veil?

I meant to say: Gene Knudson Hoffman has a "LISTENING PROJECT"

She's in her nineties and a old Quaker who's worked for peace all her life.

I think about Mike Lerner [?-Tiki-magazine) but it's hard to keep up with it all....Peace.