Re: [Biofuel] Helping Israel Die

2007-02-10 Thread Keith Addison
Israel has a LOT of nukes. The official numbers are crap.
I place Israel as the number 3 nuclear power - ahead of Britain or France.
And of all the people on earth likely to use them - they have this 
psychobabbel about 1000 goyem not worth one of their hangnails. If 
anyone has the us - them psychosis working overtime it is Israel.
Then we have our resident psychotic giving them the green light.
Very very bad my friends.
Perhaps some iodine tabs in the medicine cabinet are a good idea.
 If anyone will turn the desert to glass it is the narcisstic twits 
we have as a ruling class.
Kirk

Can't argue with that Kirk.

Maybe we need a different term. If we want to talk about your twits 
without insulting the rest of you we can say Washington instead of 
America or Americans. We don't mean to insult Israelis (and certainly 
not Jews) when we're discussing colonial Zionist Israel.

Best

Keith


Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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Helping Israel Die

Ray McGovern

February 09, 2007

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the
ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C. He was a CIA
analyst for 27 years and is on the Steering Group of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are
unwittingly playing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in helping the state of Israel
commit suicide. For this is the inevitable consequence of the planned
air and missile attack on Iran. The pockmarked, littered landscape in
Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan and the endless applicant queues at
al-Qaeda and other terrorist recruiting stations testify eloquently
to the unintended consequences of myopic policymakers in Washington
and Tel Aviv.

Mesmerized. Sadly, this is the best word to describe those of us
awake to the inexorable march of folly to war with Iran and the
growing danger to Israel's security, especially over the medium and
long term. An American and/or Israeli attack on Iran will let slip
the dogs of war. Those dogs never went to obedience school. They will
not be denied their chance to bite, and Israel's arsenal of nuclear
weapons will be powerless to muzzle them.

In my view, not since 1948 has the very existence of Israel hung so
much in the balance. Can Bush/Cheney and the Israeli leaders not see
it? Pity that no one seems to have read our first president's warning
on the noxious effects of entangling alliances. The supreme irony is
that in their fervor to help, as well as use, Israel, Bush and Cheney
seem blissfully unaware that they are leading it down a garden path
and off a cliff.

Provoke and Pre-empt

Whether it is putting the kibosh on direct talks with Iran or between
Israel and Syria, the influence and motives of the vice president are
more transparent than those of Bush. Sure, Cheney told CNN's Wolf
Blitzer recently that the administration's Iraq policy would be an
enormous success story, but do not believe those who dismiss Cheney
as delusional. He and his neoconservative friends are crazy like a
fox. They have been pushing for confrontation with Iran for many
years, and saw the invasion of Iraq in that context. Alluding to
recent U.S. military moves, Robert Dreyfuss rightly describes the
neocons as crossing their fingers in the hope that Iran will respond
provocatively, making what is now a low-grade cold war inexorably
heat up.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/01/bushs_trash_talk_about_iran.php

But what about the president? How to explain his fixation with fixing
Iran's wagon? Cheney's influence over Bush has been shown to be
considerable ever since the one-man search committee for the 2000
vice presidential candidate picked Cheney. The vice president can
play Bush like a violin. But what strings is he using here? Where is
the resonance?

Experience has shown the president to be an impressionable sort with
a roulette penchant for putting great premium on initial impressions
and latching onto people believed to be kindred souls-be it Russian
President Vladimir Putin (trust at first sight), hail-fellow-well-met
CIA director George Tenet or oozing-testosterone-from-every-pore
former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Of particular concern was
his relationship with Sharon. Retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft, a master
of discretion with the media, saw fit to tell London's Financial
Times two and a half years ago that Sharon had Bush mesmerized and
wrapped around his little finger.

As chair of the prestigious President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board under George W. Bush and national security adviser to his
father, Scowcroft was uniquely positioned to know-and to draw
comparisons. He was summarily fired after making the comments about
Sharon and is now persona non grata at the White House.

Compassion Deficit Disorder

George W. Bush first met Sharon in 1998, when the Texas governor was
taken on a tour of the Middle East by Matthew Brooks, 

Re: [Biofuel] Helping Israel Die

2007-02-09 Thread Kirk McLoren
Israel has a LOT of nukes. The official numbers are crap.
  I place Israel as the number 3 nuclear power - ahead of Britain or France.
  And of all the people on earth likely to use them - they have this 
psychobabbel about 1000 goyem not worth one of their hangnails. If anyone has 
the us - them psychosis working overtime it is Israel.
  Then we have our resident psychotic giving them the green light.
  Very very bad my friends.
  Perhaps some iodine tabs in the medicine cabinet are a good idea.
   If anyone will turn the desert to glass it is the narcisstic twits we have 
as a ruling class.
  Kirk

Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/09/helping_israel_die.php
TomPaine.com -
Helping Israel Die

Ray McGovern

February 09, 2007

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the 
ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C. He was a CIA 
analyst for 27 years and is on the Steering Group of Veteran 
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are 
unwittingly playing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in helping the state of Israel 
commit suicide. For this is the inevitable consequence of the planned 
air and missile attack on Iran. The pockmarked, littered landscape in 
Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan and the endless applicant queues at 
al-Qaeda and other terrorist recruiting stations testify eloquently 
to the unintended consequences of myopic policymakers in Washington 
and Tel Aviv.

Mesmerized. Sadly, this is the best word to describe those of us 
awake to the inexorable march of folly to war with Iran and the 
growing danger to Israel's security, especially over the medium and 
long term. An American and/or Israeli attack on Iran will let slip 
the dogs of war. Those dogs never went to obedience school. They will 
not be denied their chance to bite, and Israel's arsenal of nuclear 
weapons will be powerless to muzzle them.

In my view, not since 1948 has the very existence of Israel hung so 
much in the balance. Can Bush/Cheney and the Israeli leaders not see 
it? Pity that no one seems to have read our first president's warning 
on the noxious effects of entangling alliances. The supreme irony is 
that in their fervor to help, as well as use, Israel, Bush and Cheney 
seem blissfully unaware that they are leading it down a garden path 
and off a cliff.

Provoke and Pre-empt

Whether it is putting the kibosh on direct talks with Iran or between 
Israel and Syria, the influence and motives of the vice president are 
more transparent than those of Bush. Sure, Cheney told CNN's Wolf 
Blitzer recently that the administration's Iraq policy would be an 
enormous success story, but do not believe those who dismiss Cheney 
as delusional. He and his neoconservative friends are crazy like a 
fox. They have been pushing for confrontation with Iran for many 
years, and saw the invasion of Iraq in that context. Alluding to 
recent U.S. military moves, Robert Dreyfuss rightly describes the 
neocons as crossing their fingers in the hope that Iran will respond 
provocatively, making what is now a low-grade cold war inexorably 
heat up.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/01/bushs_trash_talk_about_iran.php

But what about the president? How to explain his fixation with fixing 
Iran's wagon? Cheney's influence over Bush has been shown to be 
considerable ever since the one-man search committee for the 2000 
vice presidential candidate picked Cheney. The vice president can 
play Bush like a violin. But what strings is he using here? Where is 
the resonance?

Experience has shown the president to be an impressionable sort with 
a roulette penchant for putting great premium on initial impressions 
and latching onto people believed to be kindred souls-be it Russian 
President Vladimir Putin (trust at first sight), hail-fellow-well-met 
CIA director George Tenet or oozing-testosterone-from-every-pore 
former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Of particular concern was 
his relationship with Sharon. Retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft, a master 
of discretion with the media, saw fit to tell London's Financial 
Times two and a half years ago that Sharon had Bush mesmerized and 
wrapped around his little finger.

As chair of the prestigious President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory 
Board under George W. Bush and national security adviser to his 
father, Scowcroft was uniquely positioned to know-and to draw 
comparisons. He was summarily fired after making the comments about 
Sharon and is now persona non grata at the White House.

Compassion Deficit Disorder

George W. Bush first met Sharon in 1998, when the Texas governor was 
taken on a tour of the Middle East by Matthew Brooks, then executive 
director of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Sharon was foreign 
minister and took Bush on a helicopter tour over the Israeli occupied 
territories. An Aug. 3, 2006 McClatchy wire story by Ron Hutcheson 
quotes Matthew