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The fact-free extremists who brought us the invasion of Iraq haven't gone anywhere and are busy trying to exert their influence before this administration ends.
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  • Michael Ledeen; Israel; Zionist warmongering swine

    Michael Ledeen is a Zionist warmongering swine. Like all neocons, he's an armchair commando chickenhawk. Like all neocons, he puts Israel's interests ahead of America's interests. He's always willing to fight to the last drop of YOUR blood.

    Naturally, that rabid Zionist warmonger Norman Podhoretz is begging the Chickenhawk-in-Chief to attack Iran. Podhoretz, like Senator "Zionist Joe" LIEberman, thinks the U.S. exists only to fight Israel's war(s).

    The Israeli ambassador to the U.S. was on FAUX News (where else?!) to piss and moan for war with Iran. Of course, Israel wants hegemony over the Middle East, and they want America to do its fighting for it.

    Hey, Mr. Ambassador, why don't you get back to your boys in Tel Aviv and thell THEM to pull the trigger on Iran? It would be just as criminal, but given the fact that Israel controls (pardon the expression) "American policy" in the Middle East, the U.S. will cover for you, don't sweat it.

    Then again, Mr. Ambassador, why get impatient?

    Hell, if "Commando Hillary" Clinton gets in, she'll probably attack Iran. Bear in mind that the Israel Lobby controls her, too!

  • Bird in Hand

    Thank you for writing this article. I too have had a foreboding that Bush, under the spell of these scheming, power hungry neocons, is in the process of setting up some kind of pretext for attacking Iran before the end of his tenure. While the neocons would smuggly delight in the prospect of either a John McCain or Hillary Clinton presidency---since both have been signaling their "commitment" to the neocon agenda by beating the drums of annihilation of Iran---Bush is still their best bet. He's the bird in their hand.

  • more unsubstantiated lies ...

    lwm:

    I rarely do this, go back to an old thread after I am certain I have brought the wrath of the Pauliacs down upon me. The antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com crowd. I've heard it all before and the conspiracist cultural marxism rants from the likes of them and Pat Buchanan will begin again in earnest as soon as America reverses its current foreign policy course and they turn on the left again.

    This is just the sort of swill that Glenn G. goes after if it is done by a reporter, but is it ok here?

    We have a smear of two large anti-war, libertarian groups coupled with guilt by association. Facts? We don't need no stinking facts in this blog area, now do we?

    That Rothbard tried to convince the "new left" in the 60s/70s to join with libertarians to fight the established warfare/welfare parties if of no import to lwm --- he claims that libertarians, who are opposed to government intervention, will somehow enslave the American left after we get the rethugs out of office.

    Is there a Doctor in the house?

    Note: The "I rarely do this" was a hoot; you gotta admit he can be funny.

  • Glenn Greenwald at site lwm hates ...

    ... The antiwar.com and LewRockwell.com crowd. I've heard it all before and the conspiracist cultural marxism rants from the likes of them ...

    lwm has called these two groups far worse, but now we have seen him go across the spectrum from "far right loons" to "Marxists" in his rants. He has called them, their posters, and their readers every vile name in the book.

    And yet Glenn Greenwald is yet again a featured poster at the site today. He even gets to be at the top of the list today. He is almost always in the top ten most read list in any week his posts appear, and Lew loves his work as do the readers.

    lwm, are you going to put Glenn in the same smear category as the other "loons" in your smear attempts? Inquiring minds want to know.

  • The Neocons have to lie!

    How else would they be able to sucker the rest of us into fighting Israel's wars for hegemony over the Middle East?

    How many Americans (not to mention Iraqis, Iranians and others) will have to die to shore up an apartheid theocracy that poses as a democracy?

    I guess the answer is: for as long as the rest of us, including the great majority of politicians, continue to be misled by the Israel Lobby (or don't have the guts to stand up to it).

    Those with the courage to tell the truth, like Jimmy Carter and professors Walt and Mearsheimer, are immediately dismissed and marginalized (and even accused of anti-semitism!) by the MSM. But people are starting to understand how devastating it is for American interests to have a foreign power manipulate and control Middle Eastern policy.

  • The troll family: nth in an ongoing series

    Are Electro, Scooter, Norbitgeek, etc. all really the same person?

    No. Scooter is far more detached and efficient than the otehrs, and doesn't change every topic to the persecution of Jews. He reads Glenn's posts, ignores comments he can't use to his advantage, and only comments about once per day. He has shown remarkable facility in changing his tune over the years, an indication that he doesn't believe---and doesn't need to believe---most of his assertions.

    Arne's characterization of Electrotroll is dead on. Of course, he's not really a spambot, but he may as well be. When he's not introducing persecution non sequiturs to get the crowd riled up, he likes to pile on meaningless facts like "the USSR has twice the number of nuclear-armed missiles possessed by the US." But he can't put together a single coherent comment. He is easily drawn into juvenile fistfights (see General Zod's expert handling of these) and is emotionally immature. I think he's actually too unprofessional to be working for AIPAC, though I have accused him of it.

    Knorbit is naive, not very bright, probably quite young, and has a lot of time on his hands. He is easily confused and thinks he is far smarter than he is. (Use this to your advantage.) He literally spouts nonsense and silliness to get attention, yet takes himself very seriously.

    "Susan" is more in control and probably older. He is capable of mounting disruptive attacks that demand counterattacks, because they actually sound almost reasonable. I suspect her of professional status (possibly AIPAC/ADL) for this reason. She doesn't comment as much as the above 2, but chooses her words well.