War Stuff
Pat Buchanan says what needs to be said again with this commentary on Senator Lindsay Graham's plans to initiate war against Iran. I especially like his pointing out how it's become accepted that references to Iran's nuclear program equates to a nuclear weapons program, or at least it seems to be by the mainstream media and thus a lot of Americans.
The vast majority of intelligence agencies believe Iran gave up their nuclear weapons program a decade ago. That doesn't mean it's true, but it's the best we have to go on.
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I was waiting to hear what sort of spin the White House and media would put on results of the United Nations' inspector's report of the sarin attack in Syria. I'm not surprised they're saying more of the same and ignoring suggestions that it might have been some group other than the Syrian government responsible for the attacks.I stumbled on to a web site by way of a comment made on an article from the super right wing/ War Party web site P.J. Media. Larry Johnson tells us about the conspiracy to frame the Syrian government for a chemical weapons attack. He tells more about the sarin attack here.
The guy seems to have pretty decent credentials, having supposedly work for the CIA at some point and now being some sort of terrorism security consultant. Kinda hard for me to swallow his claims that his "CIA buddies" would be telling him things they know he's going to make public. Still, it's nice to feel I'm not the voice in the wilderness on this issue.
posted by Fred Mangels @ 11:27 AM
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4 Comments:
Yet another comment that showed up in my inbox but not here:
Fred, in your estimation, why are we hell-bent on attacking Syria?
I don't know exactly. It does seem there are certain groups within our country and government that have an agenda of extending U.S. influence (hegemony, if you will) across the globe.
I'm not sure it's some sort of illuminati that operates as a single entity. In fact, it probably isn't, but whoever these people are, they seem to work towards the same end.
As I wrote here before, I don't think Obama wanted to get involved in Syria, but those forces within our country (and around the world) put such tremendous pressure on him he caved. That's the same pressure that was put on Bush to attack Iraq, although Bush seemed to cave quicker.
Look up the Project for A New American Century. U.S. hegemony is their plan. I'm sure they're part of the force that has us always itching to attack some country somewhere.
Have you ever heard of General Wesley Clark Try googling his name and the seven point plan
THC
1) regarding why. 110,000 dead. Assad is brutal.
2) the reason I came here is to explain Larry Johnson a little. He used to be a anti-war hero of the left in the GWB days. I forget what he did, but he lost his left credentials pretty spectacularly a few years back. I don't trust him, but he does seem to be consistently anti-war which is generally where I agree with Fred. Not always (Syria) but mostly.
Here is Johnson's wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_C._Johnson
Yeah who cares why and who cares who's doing the killing let's just go in and f****** bomb them all right John, are you sure your names not Republican John oh yeah I forgot this is a liberal war because our president has a Peace Prize for being black I bet you're a huge fan of Team America even though it's supposed to be a parity I wonder if you'd be supporting this (intervention) mass murder of innocent civilians if Bush was still in office and how well would you say the seed of democracy is growing in Iraq and Afghanistan
THC
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