Letters to the Editor
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@sajwan
The reason this "mistake" is acceptable is that it supports McCains main message; he is the protector of the United States.
If the enemy is Al-Queda, Syria, Iran, Hamas, insurgents, foreign fighters, Shiite, Sunni, Saddhams ghost, or whatever, in the world McCain has created with the media, no one cares who the enemy is.
There is an enemy and McCain is fighting them. Case closed. Write it up.
Like a mom who continues to check the closet for boogeymen waaayy after this behavior is no longer age-appropriate for her kid...
Norma Bates: "And why not, dearie, it makes him feel better, it makes me feel better... it's such a terribly dangerous world out there... Norman, dear come here. Tell Ms. Crane how much you enjoy running our old motel..."
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"too late".... too sick.... every government worker should call in ill. or, stay home? sell stolen pens on street corners.
@ sysprog, sajwan (momoblog sp?) etc.,
a triskaidekaphobid calling in to Salon as sick?
a dude ranch "journalist" and pork chop-baby lamb eaters.
tucking in the long T-shirt holster, a 500 pound bomb, and boast?
A pro-kill babies McCains brags he was a Pilot and a real estate bank tycoon.
John confesses he's a murder GOP. He gets rich. He has dreams: Since McCain was 13-years old he wanted to lay on the The Oval Rug in the White House.
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I wanted to know the answer
Who has foreign policy expertise so I googled.
This is what I found:
Find a Foreign Policy Expert
Foreign Policy In Focus is a "think tank without walls," made up of more than 700 policy experts, analysts, and researchers. We have experts in all regions and on virtually every topic currently being discussed in foreign affairs circles. Many are available for interviews, background information, expert commentary, and radio and television appearances. To reach one of our experts, look in our online Media Guide, order Global Perspectives, a print version of our media guide containing our best experts, or contact:
Emily Schwartz, Media Director
Voice: 202-297-5412
Fax: 202-387-7915
Email: emily@ips-dc.org
http://www.fpif.org/media/expert_body.html
They are affiliated with the IRC.
http://www.irc-online.org/
I found this among the many links at the home page:
Emily Schwartz Greco pits analysis from the mainstream media against analysis from FPIF in Five Years Later.
http://www.fpif.org/
This is a popular theme lately but greatly overlooked by the media for some strange reason.
It links to this:
As the Iraq War enters its tragic sixth year, it's becoming hard to imagine a time when the United States won't be entrenched in this quagmire any more. In fact, John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, says "it's fine" with him if the U.S. military remained in Iraq for a century. Really? How did we get so deeply into this mess?
Back in 2002 and 2003, the mainstream media wasn’t fully united behind the initial invasion. However, the nation’s editorial boards leaned toward military action, even if many of them lamented how the diplomatic circumstances prevailing in the middle of March 2003 weren't ideal. Overall, influential U.S. pundits failed to express the kind of universal disapproval of the fateful invasion that might have discouraged the Bush administration from moving forward with this boondoggle.
Foreign Policy In Focus predicted this war would be a colossal disaster before it began. We knew that Iraq's reconstruction and democracy-building would fail, before President George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished." We knew this military operation would make the United States and the rest of the world less safe.
Here's a summary of some of our analysis published on our site and elsewhere when the invasion was looming and soon afterward. We've juxtaposed these comments with quotes from more mainstream analysts, as well as newspaper editorials...
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5071
I've heard from all the people who were wrong, from Krautmammer to Pollack. They are like "household" brand names. The names who were consistently right - who?
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Just a thought
Back when the Dept. of War became the Dept. of Defense and national security issues - related to defense, obviouslym - became conflated with war and aggression and empire it might be said that McCain does have some cred when it comes to "defense" (war) and even national security matters (the military, MIC, etc.) but to conflate this with true foreign policy acumen is a mistake. About the best you can say is that compared to Bush when he was installed in office, McCain will be ready to hit the ground with his walker.
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McCain Equals Bush
The media has failed to pick up on the fact that this candidate not only wants to continue Bush's failed Iraq policy, and continue Bush's misguided saber-rattling toward Iran, but he is also continuing Bush's pattern of misleading the public about the nature of military threats that face this country.
Bush aroused calls for his impeachment for misleading the nation into war. In a supposedly democratic nation, lying is one of the worst offences a leader can commit, and Bush marched right up to the line with misstatements, exaggerations, and surrogates who were willing to outright lie, all to create the impression that a war with Iraq was a retaliation for the terrrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Not only did two-thirds of the country believe Iraq had attacked us, but one hundred percent of us know that the connection was made. It was a feel-good war, brought to you by the impulse for racial profiling on an international scale. We have been attacked by the Islamofascists, and we must defend civilization from their corrupting influence, whatever that means.
So when McCain makes a misstatement that IRAN is somehow linked to Al Quaeda, and makes the misstatement repeatedly, why can't the media smell the Big Lie? McCain is using the same technique Bush used 4000 dead soldiers ago. Don't they notice it? For a pundit to say "if it were a different speaker, the misstatement would have gotten more attention", is to totally misrepresent the problem with the misstatement. We don't need to be concerned about McCain's experience. We need to be concerned about his willingness to continue Bush's policy of misleading the nation about the so-called Global War On Terror. If McCain is already lying about the nature of the threat embodied in Iran, why would he stop once he is elected?