Site Presented By
Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Is that actually WHAT Americans want to do:
I can see the Dem response ad now:
"John McCain said he would take us to the gates of hell ...
Is this what we want for America? Hasn't George Bush done enough?"
Of course McCain, along with the two Democrats, is in the pocket of the Israel Lobby. They and Bush have given us a war we had better learn to love because there is no quick way to end it and get out of Iraq.
The one hope is that McCain, as he is publicly distancing himself from Bush on a variety of issues, will also come to see the folly of our Iraq war. That doesn't mean we can get out quickly but it might mean he will stiff arm the Israel Lobby a bit better than the other candidates would have -- certainly better than Bush who has collaborated with the worst Likud elements in Israel's government.
that when a Republican sees the folly in something he stops the doing of it. I don't see any evidence for that assumption.
Aside from the fact that Bin Laden is dead...
McCain's 'plan' is as follows: bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, bomb Pakistan, bomb Syria. It's a good plan too, if he kills enough people, one of them is almost certainly going to be Bin Laden.
He is correct though, his plan will indeed lead America to the gates of Hell.
Sounds serious to me.
"And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run. I was concerned about him, when he had taken over a country. I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban.
But once we set out the policy and started executing the plan, he became -- we shoved him out more and more on the margins. He has no place to train his al Qaeda killers anymore. And if we -- excuse me for a minute -- and if we find a training camp, we'll take care of it. Either we will or our friends will."
buhs
To borrow an idiom from our troops.
No, Glenn, we no longer differentiate Israel and the US. It is abortion and gay marriage. It is tax cuts for the wealthy. It is "stay the course" and The Surge. It is yet one more topic that many Americans know little about but By God We Must Support Israel or the terrorists win.
Of course Glenn, you are anti-Israel and an anti-Semite and somewhere in there you hate America and our freedoms. At least that's what the wingnuts will say. How dare you choose to support the Murderers of Hamas against the peace-loving Israels and their rose-petal bombs? They will say.
No, McCain, who is quickly becoming scarier than George W. Bush, is a Maverick and a Straight-Talker.
We are now in The Suck.
AIPAC and the rethuglicans have sold this song to their base, Glenn.
Saber-rattling by this crazy old man is pleasing to the Kool-Aid® drinkers on the right.
~
What's surprising? McCain is auditioning to be the latest actor in the right wing audience's movie theater of the mind.
It's all performance, dress up and John Wayne heroism by way of 1970s Clint Eastwood lawlessness.
McCain is auditioning. It's part WWE wrestling, part Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster.
Republican voters don't believe in reality, they believe in an awesome kickass movie with American heroes bombing the bad guys. The specifics of the debate are as irrelevant as the plot points in "Live Free or Die Hard."
What about Hillary Clinton saying that she would "obliterate" Iran, presumably with nuclear weapons, if that country's government attacks Israel? Isn't that far worse than what McCain said about him being the worst enemy of Hamas? She's talking about obliterating a whole nation of men, women, and children, not for what they may do to Americans but to a foreign country embroiled in a tense national and religious struggle in a hostile neighborhood (i.e. not NATO members like Britain and France). Even right-wing bloggers like Amanda Carpenter, from Townhall, on Bloggingheads.tv, have said that such bellicose rhetoric is over-the-top.
Why is the mainstream media and left-wing bloggers not screaming from the rooftops how militaristic this country has become? If Hillary Clinton feels that she must "act tough" to prove that a woman can be a strong commander-in-chief while merely running for office, what's to prevent her from feeling the need to "act tough" as the actual commander-in-chief and doing something catastrophically violent?
I agree completely. When Republicans look for factsmulate their foreign policy, they go to IMBD (http://www.imdb.com/)
Christ, it wouldn't surprise me if position papers were annotated thus: "Die Hard" scene 72, lines 23-51.
Poor Electro, he's only seen one movie; "Exodus"
You would think we would know a war-monger when we see one by now. Mc'Cain's ebullient singing about bombing Iran is just about the biggest 2x4 upside the head clue for the clueless. This man gets off on war. Duh. I hope that the Dems use that video clip in a lot of commercials in the fall campaign. Is it possible that not everyone in the country has seen it? That plus the "100 years in Iraq" quote, and it should be crystal clear. This man as president would ensure that our country would continue to be focused on engaging in more and more wars around the globe.
For even more on McCain and the "McCain Doctrine" go read this great article in the American Prospect: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_mccain_doctrine
Report: CIA Shutters Unit Leading Hunt for bin Laden
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
NEW YORK — The CIA says efforts to hunt down Usama bin Laden are as strong as ever, despite a report that the agency has shut down a unit that hunted for the Al Qaeda leader and his top lieutenants...
The recent book "Ghost Wars" says some in the CIA were uncomfortable with the unit, saying its zeal for capturing bin Laden took on a cult-like atmosphere.
***
"The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city.. And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival."
"It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."
"In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones: but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of doublethink. Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world."
EXTRACTS FROM THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." - George W. Bush, June 18, 2002
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
