Planning the Disaster -
The Hidden Links? Roger Ailes, Joe Lieberman, Sheldon G. Adelson, Judith Miller, Mort Zuckerman, Abe Foxman ET CETERA!
All
of the above are surely the most deceitful and mendacious pack of
scoundrels this nation has had to endure since our Civil War [and here we have the individual whose leadership we have been denied,
by the above and their co-conspirators in the Media/Press]. Details at
the end of the following "Mideast Peace Conference" segment. And
secondly it's amusing to hear NPR and its various programs attempt to
blunt the rapier-like thrust to the heart of Bush/Cheney, their
ingrained defeat exposed, reluctantly, by The New York Times' leading
front page story 12/4/07 as stated by Steven Lee Myers: "Rarely, if
ever, has a single intelligence report so completely, so suddenly, and
so surprisingly altered a foreign policy debate." The headline "U.S. Finding says Iran Halted Nuclear Arms Effort In 2003"
directly contradicts the various Bush statements over the years
claiming the threat posed by Iran - Iran an "Axis of Evil", and
threatening "World War III". Near the very end of an accompanying story
by Mark Mazzetti (paragraph #24 of a 26 paragraph story) we read the
understatement of the decade: "Israel intelligence officials for
years have put forward more urgent warnings about Iran's nuclear
abilities than their American counterparts, positing that Iran could
get a nuclear bomb this decade."
To the Editor:
Re "McCain's Conservative Model? Roosevelt (Theodore, That Is)" (front page, July 13 The New York Times):
Is
John McCain aware that Theodore Roosevelt was not a conservative? On
virtually every domestic issue -- race relations, the environment, the
role of government in the economy -- T.R. was what today would be
labeled a robust liberal, and the leading conservatives of his day,
like Mark Hanna, hated and feared him.
When Roosevelt created
his own political party, he called it the Progressive Party, and he is
generally considered the first president of the Progressive Era.
If
Mr. McCain is having a difficult time crafting a coherent campaign
message, perhaps that is because his two political heroes -- Theodore
Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan -- were complete philosophical opposites. -
DAVID S. FRANKEL, South Dennis, Mass., July 14, 2008
To the Editor:
Senator
John McCain says his model for a conservative president is Theodore
Roosevelt. Funny, President Bush claimed T.R. as his model as well.
Look what he has done with that -- an irresponsible war and a
collapsing United States economy.
The Republicans like to claim
T.R. as one of their own but refuse to understand that T.R., like
F.D.R., was a progressive who sought to save business from its worst
instincts through government action. There is little evidence in Mr.
McCain's record that as a maverick senator he understands T.R. any
better than Mr. Bush does. - William Sonnenstuhl, Ithaca, N.Y., July
13, 2008
Margaret Warner, now a regular on the PBS Lehrer
NewsHour began her 7/21/08 segment by quoting Barack Obama on the
7/20/08 Bob Schieffer Face the Nation - "the situation in Afghanistan
is precarious and urgent." Absolutamente'! But Ms. Warner was using
that quote (which, incidentally, is accurate and obvious) as a leadin
to the focus she wanted - Warner: McCain took issue with that today on
ABC's Good Morning America. McCain: "You don't have to choose to lose
in Iraq to win in Afghanistan (Huh?)!" What is McCain talking about?
Ms. Warner continues: McCain's stand seemed to draw support from Joint
Chiefs of Staff Chairman on Fox News (with Chris Wallace). Did Ms.
Warner expect Admiral Mullen to take issue with John Sidney McCain III,
son and grandson of heralded admirals of the past?
Margaret Warner has reverted to her past biases!
RAY
McGOVERN (27-year CIA analyst on 6/6/05 Lehrer NewsHour): "I would go
back to an earlier conversation, and this happened on the 20th of
September 2001, and this happened nine days after 9/11. This involved
Tony Blair, who was in Washington having dinner with the President. How
do we know about this? We know this because Christopher Meyer, the UK
ambassador was there at that dinner. What does he say? The conversation
went like this. President Bush: 'Uh, Tony. Uh, we're going into
Afghanistan in a week or two, but that won't take long and we get out
of there and we're going right into Iraq. Are you with me, Tony? Are
you with me?' And Christopher Meyer says 'My goodness, it was really,
and Tony was really sort of nonplussed, but he said 'Yes sir, I'm with
you Mr. President.' (Margaret Warner tries to interrupt, but Mr.
McGovern continues) So that goes back (a flustered Ms. Margaret Warner)
"Mr. McGovern, speed up!" (Mr. McGovern) "so that goes back to 2001"
(Ms. Warner) "We're almost out of time. Get to the next part!" (Mr.
McGovern) "Okay, that's it." (Ms. Warner, almost shouting) "So, it's
not about Iraq, it's about Afghanistan!" (Mr. McGovern) "Well, no. This
has to do with Iraq. What the President said to Tony Blair, on the 20th
of September (2001) according to the UK ambassador who was there, is
'We're going into Afghanistan in a couple of weeks. It won't take us
long there, and we're going right into Iraq right after that. Are you
with me?' And Tony Blair said 'Yes!'"
In April of
1775 Paul Revere and other Sons of Liberty warned our fellow colonists
in Concord, Massachusetts that the British were coming to capture our
cache of gunpowder. Today, over two hundred and thirty three years
later we need an equally timely and momentous alert that the Israelis,
AIPAC and their subversive infiltrators...are already here, and in the
process of eliminating the core values of American democracy that made
us a beacon of hope in a troubled world - freedom from tyranny, respect
for individual liberty and human rights, and government based on the
rule of law. These recent excerpts regarding the Middle East from
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (7/10/08) and chief McCain
strategist Randy Scheunemann (7/9/08) should alert all Americans to the
threat posed to these United States by the prospective White House
reign of John Sidney McCain III:
Condoleezza Rice: We are also sending a message to Iran that we will defend American interests and defend the interests of our allies (ISRAEL!).
We've done that both by...in the gulf area...the United States has
enhanced its security capacity, its security presence, and we are
working closely with all of our allies (ISRAEL!) to make certain that
they are capable of defending themselves (ISRAEL!).
Randy Scheunemann:
Senator McCain has been very clear. The danger caused by the Iranian
regime having nuclear weapons would be catastrophic for our interests
(ISRAEL!) in the region and would trigger a nuclear arms race (Randy,
will Israel even reduce its 200+ nuclear stockpile?), it would pose an
existential threat to the State of Israel (In that Iran hasn't attacked
anyone in centuries, by being a living and vibrant and peaceful
national existence in the Middle East?).