Why do leftists need to start discussions with clipped and pasted garbage from the pro-war zio-expletive deleted likes of a Kenneth M. Pollack (resident zionist propagandist warmonger for the 'liberal' Brookings Inst.)? Of course I know the likes of YF or CC are not misled by this stuff, but I see this sort of thing posted everywhere with almost no real comment. Wouldn't a better place to start be with what few anti-war elements showed their timid selves during the post-9-11 mass hysterical mass media bout of voyeuristic post-traumatic stress syndrome and collective war madness in the USA 2001-now?
BTW, I would say Iran the current government has no influence over the Badr gangs, they being more associated with 'reform' elements of Iran that were given the boot with the last election. What hasn't defected at the grassroots level to al Sadr is now in the pay of the US. Meanwhile, the current government in Iran supports al Sadr's realism, social involvement and nationalist aspirations, but it has very little means to do anything in Iraq. I think the only hope in the US is to keep coming back to the fact that Americans lack what the rest of the OECD takes as a right, starting with universal health insurance and/or health care. CJannuzi
