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Charlie Rose convenes a five-year anniversary panel of American foreign policy experts to present "both sides" on the Iraq war. As usual, none were actual opponents of the invasion.
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  • I wouldn't want Feith to make it big just by confessing everyone else's mistakes, Chris!

    Can't we just buy a few copies amongst ourselves, and then pass them around? ;~)

    Or, we could just not buy the book, which was probably your real intention, but perhaps we need to know what he says for ourselves, and not have it filtered through the RWNM.

    FYI... I will be ordering Glenn's book.

  • Thanks for the pre-war ad

    I would happily contribute to a fund to re-run it in every major newspaper in the country on its sixth anniversary this September. The timing would be outstanding. What would be the best group to organize that?

  • @bucklyl

    Do you think you are the judge of all?

    buckyl

    Well, he was elected to that position, and by a fairly wide margin, if I remember. I came in, well, let's just say I wasn't on the podium. Oh well.

    It might have been before your time, buckyl, but I assure you, the election was overseen by obsevers and dismissed without any stain upon its escutcheon. And I hope that's how yours is, too.

  • Peace ...

    "For a person who espouses peace and cooperation above all else you sure seem to be petulant and belligerent a good deal of time. Why must you go to war over every perceived slight? ..." --LWM

    I perceive no slight, nor am I petulant. I simply give back what the attacker gives me. It would be unforgivable to not help my fellow man see what he is by holding up a mirror, now would it not?

  • oh, and surprise, someone tuns the tables on Hannity re: Obama the Bigot

    Looks like the Guilt by Association Bigoted smear job is being turned around on our poor friend Sean Shamity.

    http://www.newshounds.us/2008/03/23/neo_naziwhite_supremacist_hal_turner_confirms_friendship_and_kinship_with_sean_hannity.php

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/23/sean-hannity-confronted-o_n_92961.html

    http://www.newshounds.us/2008/03/20/hannity_denies_past_association_with_white_supremacist_but_evidence_suggests_otherwise.php

    On Wednesday, March 19, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party appeared as a guest on "Hannity & Colmes" to discuss the Obama / Reverend Wright controversy. During that appearance, Sean Hannity asked Shabazz if Barak Obama shouldn't be judged by his past affiliations with Reverend Wright, to which Shabazz replied by asking Sean Hannity "Should you be judged by your past association with Hal Turner, a neo-Nazi?"

    I was quite disappointed when Sean Hannity at first tried to say he didn't know me and then went on to say that I ran some senate campaign in New Jersey. In fact, Sean Hannity does know me and we were quite friendly a number of years ago.

    When Hannity took over Bob Grant's spot on 77 WABC in New York City, I was a well-known, regular and welcome caller to his show. Through those calls, Sean and I got to know each other a bit and at some point, I can't remember exactly when, Sean gave me the secret "Guest call-in number" at WABC so that my calls could always get on the air.

    ...

    Here we are, more than eight years later, my friendship with Sean has become some sort of hot issue. Morons are trying to equate my relationship with Sean Hannity, with Reverend Wright's relationship with Barak Obama, a man who may well become President of the United States. It is an intellectually dishonest - even meaningless - comparison but someone thinks they should make this fuss. Fine. So be it.

    I can tell you from my firsthand, personal experience that Sean Hannity does, in fact, agree with many of my political and social views. I can also tell you that Sean Hannity disagrees with some of my political and social views. I won't go subject-by-subject to say which he agrees with and which he disagrees with. You can figure that out easy enough on your own! Suffice it to say that my recollection is that when Sean and I spoke by phone, while no one else was listening, he and I exchanged the kinds of views that most White, Irish-Catholic guys hold, but won't speak in public.

    In my opinion, based on my first hand experience, I believe Sean Hannity is, in fact, a Hal Turner sort of guy. It seems to me that a big difference between Sean and me is that I am willing to say publicly what I think about savage Black criminals, diseased, uneducated illegal aliens and the grotesque cultural destruction wrought by satanic jews while Sean and many others keep quiet to protect their paychecks.

    Another big difference is that I am perfectly willing to use force and violence against my enemies while Sean Hannity and others are not. Those using me as a prop to attack Sean Hannity would do well to remember this fact. Rest assured I will remember them when the opportunity presents itself; especially as it pertains to that douche bag sodomite Max Blumenthal for the falsehoods and total trash he wrote about me in "The Nation" magazine.

    It seems as if Karma can be a real bitch sometimes.

  • Ditto!!!

    It would be unforgivable to not help my fellow man see what he is by holding up a mirror, now would it not?

    And I'm not your fellow man.

  • Sinnard

    That was beautiful.

  • omooex

    the world allows the US and Israel to economically marginalize Palestinians and then throws aid at the problem rather than trying to solve the root problem

    I get the impression that all the major players are intractably wedded to their positions..

    From my perspective the root problem is religion, and that one isn't going away any time soon.

    I went round and round on this with a Jewish member of my family by marriage (now passed away).. An extremely intelligent guy and an atheist to boot.. He was completely unreasonable and kept saying how "God" had given the land to the Jews.. And I know for a fact he didn't believe in God..

    Goes to show how irrational people can be on certain subjects.

  • @Update II - we protest in vain?

    But how can someone who is never invited to and never pushes him/herself to be featured in the Main Stream Media be considered serious, no matter what credentials he has, no matter where he works, and no matter how expert he actually is? Don't you see, one is not serious unless one is featured in the press, and the press does a great job of not featuring anyone who is not serious.

    :)