Letters to the Editor
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These people would make John Paul II curse like a sailor
I remember in 2006, Dubya told Stephanopoulos regarding the Iraq war, "We've never been stay the course, George."
Glenn, great post.
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these are, of course, the true enemy of the u.s.
the neocons like to regard themselves as tough and intellectually rigorous, but they are marked by nothing so much as the sheer dishonesty of their warmongering.
and even if there is a democrat in the white house for years to come, they will not go away, they will not be silenced. witness PNAC and the 1998 Iraq resolution stewarded through Congress with the help of the likes of lieberman that set the stage for the 2003 invasion.
it's almost irrelevant to them who's in power, because they will get paid handsomely regardless. what's unfathomable is why they have anyone's ear, either of elected officials or of the media. unfathomable, that is, unless the truth of these bush years becomes self-evident: that the levers of power are exerted on behalf of a military industrial complex that is the nation's true permanent establishment.
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Way out front on this one...
This is one of those posts I have to keep in the back of my mind for the time when (oh, my cloudy crystal ball says two weeks or so) Ledeen and the AEI "experts" are all making the corporate media rounds, even more obviously ginning up support for the military "intervention".
BTW, is this sentence missing a "be"?
An intense email campaign over his Iraq comments to AEI and National Review's Editor Rich Lowry demanding a retraction or some comment from them on Ledeen's blatant falsehoods over his Iraq stance was simply ignored, as will this episode concerning the article by McCarthy and Levin smearing Bamford due to Ledeen's alleged opposition to attacking Iran.
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Like father, like son.
Bush 41 invaded Somalia just before leaving office, knowing full well that how we got out would be his successor's problem. Bush 43 may have Oedipal issues, but he has also inherited all his father's worst character flaws, notably the viciously vindictive streak, as well as the obsession with proving his own very questionable manhood by posing as a military leader. The one thing that may prevent this from happening is that we're already fighting a losing war on two fronts, and the military knows we can't afford to open a third. But we all know what happens to the career of any military officer who questions the delusions of Bush-Cheney.
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Thanks. I gotta go back and 'hit' the blue letters.... I'll eat a fig neocon Newton cookie....
James Bamford's mentions the "shady"....
War cheerleaders. Hacks. Fake "citizens" hypocrites.
The GOP politico's are always celebrating death's son's advancement....
A Nepotism Party. The GOP offers offspring a dutiful LIE role to advance killings.
A Hack license is passed on and 'our' disgust grows... At a GOP meeting ~ A discussion?
okay. Go stoop. The GOP will teach a loyal-creep to wolf-whistle to rural Amish teenagers next?
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Dear Glen:
Has anyone done any contemplation of the fact that the intellectual fathers of the neocon movement were often former Trotskyites? I wonder about this because Trotskyites and other movement people are well trained in the brutal real politics of organizing and subterfuge to win their position, often have embraced almost Leninist tactics to win and ignore inconvient facts that don't match their nearly black and white view of the world? You can see the Trotskyite tactics in how they lay their plans and fight their battles, as well as their belief that they are following a higher path...once it would have been dialectical materialsm and the Marxist view of history and the inevitatility of communism, but today that is replaced with a mythic sense of "freedom" in the democratic mode...indeed, their dedication to freedom is such that freedoms may be surrendered in order to achieve and secure freedom -- A contradiction that bothers them no more than the death of millions would bother a Trotskyite in the advance of communism.
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This seems to answer "the eternal question" about the rightwing gang...
...you know: "Are these guys stupid, delusional, or lying?"
While "stupid" and "delusional" can't be ruled out, we have firm evidence for "lying".
Gimme a f****'' break: pretending to have opposed the Iraq invasion!!!
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Ledeen wasn't lying
He said "Yesterday." That meant any time from 1992 to the day before. Clearly, the time for invasion was over by the time Ledeen gave this answer. And now, he believes the time to attack Iran has come, where before he did not.
Thus, he can honestly say he vigorously opposes a war (or two) he strongly advocates.
You've got to be mentally nimble to be a major player in today's post-Cold War global order.
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Dear Shooter...
In the comments on Glenn's previous post you said this:
When doing a blog that relies on character assassination and unrelenting criticism, what else do you expect from the commentariat?
The topic of this new post offers you a fine opportunity to substantiate your claim that Glenn relies on character assassination. Can you show us, line by line, where he does this? Or will you continue to avoid specific, documented, thoughtful criticism? The answer is apparent, but you should have every chance to prove your point.
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Hopefully Obama's People Will Read This
Hopefully Obama's people will read this, and when the time comes politely and firmly show the neo-cons the door.
That's phase 1.
Phase 2 is far more difficult; that is to purge the lower profile neo-cons from the various jobs they hold in and around Washington. You can sure the cries of 'vindictiveness,' 'witch hunt,' 'partisan' and the inevitable 'anti-semitism' will be raised.
But the stakes couldn't be higher, and the American people and their President must demand a foreign policy establishment that isn't crippled by neo-conservativism.
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Congress approves $300 million for covert Iran offensive?
I was alarmed to read Alexander Cockburn's story (at http://www.counterpunch.org/andrew05022008.html ) that President Bush signed a secret finding, six weeks ago, authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime. He also claims that Congress has approved $300 million in funding for the program. However, I have no idea where he got this information, so I'm not sure how much credence to give it. I would love to read what Glenn thinks about this. If true, it's a very disturbing story that obviously deserves a lot more attention in the press.
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..."way out there".... is right. What spam.
The hacks are clueless. They would not know what a ten-penny nail looked like, nor a price of a penny post-card, a price of a first-class stamp, or if a human Life has any value.
A GOP would not yield the right-of-way to a squirrel on a double line rural road.
They need forewarn their offspring. Children will need to purge the GOP memory.
Spam.
The war monger needs to reek as they observe steam flow from the bloody corpse.
Cold bloodied possums.
What uncertain ugly days.
Grandchildren will purge.
What a sick batch who ruin.
The GOP administration is dead.