Also did you notice I was right about the release of new “intel” on Iran, but of course that’s old news now as well, and still no verdict. Now they’ll have to find something else to try to blank the verdict with, and watch for Cheney to go off on another unannounced trip.

“The real agenda in all of this of course, was to redraw the political map of the Middle East. Now that is code, whether you like it or not, but it is code for putting into place the strategy memorandum that was done by Richard Perle and his study group in the mid-90’s which was called, “A Clean Break – A New Strategy for the Realm.” And what it is, cut to the quick, is if you take out some of these countries, some of these governments that are antagonistic to Israel then you provide the Israeli government with greater wherewithal to impose its terms and conditions upon the Palestinian people, whatever those terms and conditions might be. In other words, the road to peace in the Middle East goes through Baghdad and Damascus. Maybe Tehran. And maybe Cairo and maybe Tripoli if these guys actually have their way. Rather than going through Jerusalem.”

19:46: http://next.epic-usa.org/epicd…..son-32.mp3

“On the other ones, the geopolitical situation, I think there are a number of issues at play; there’s a number of competing agendas. One is the remaking of the map of the Middle East for Israeli security, and my fear is that when it becomes increasingly apparent that this was all done to make Sharon’s life easier and that American soldiers are dying in order to enable Sharon to impose his terms upon the Palestinians that people will wonder why it is American boys and girls are dying for Israel and that will undercut a strategic relationship and a moral obligation that we’ve had towards Israel for 55 years. I think it’s a terribly flawed strategy.”

13:33: http://next.epic-usa.org/epicd…..-qa-32.mp3

The War Party – BBC
http://video.google.com/videop…..1338241311

Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk – Maureen Dowd

Two other steroid-infused manifestos would find a host body in W. years after they were written. In 1996, three men who would become Bush national security advisers and leading hawks in the whack-Iraq group — Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser — helped write a report about how Israel could transcend the problems with the Palestinians by changing the “balance of power” in the Middle East and replacing Saddam; they had prepared the report for then-Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Even the hard-line Bibi found the plan too far-out and rejected it. And in 1997, while W. was worrying about changing the Texas taxes and execution controversies, Bill Kristol, now of the Weekly Standard and Fox News, and other conservatives formed a nonprofit group called “Project for the New American Century.” They published a “statement of principles” signed by Jeb Bush and future Bush officials Rummy, Cheney, Wolfie, Scooter Libby and Elliott Abrams. It rejected 41’s realpolitik, called for a return to “a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity,” foreshadowing what five years later would become 43’s preemption strategy.

http://news.bookweb.org/graphi…..dIntro.pdf

Then what?

One thing here. The press is not stupid or cowardly. The reporters are doing what their CORPORATE masters pay them to do. There’s less ‘truthiness’ in news where there is less corporate influence. Sites like this are a prime example, but are only available to us high information types.

The whole lot of Neocons and their Prince ought to be questioned using the same techniques they’ve approved for terrorists.

To this day I’ve never seen a debunking of the very lucid story of Saddam’s death pits, which I’m sure exist/existed and probably held many thousands of bodies. On the other hand, I haven’t seen the first picture of them and I have seen pictures of tens of thousands we’ve killed/wounded/displaced. By now we must have killed at least as many actual religious zealots as Saddam had to deal with…and in a much shorter time frame. I guess we create graves and Saddam creates deathpits?

Many of us knew they were lying (about causus belli) when they were doing it, yet Hillary and many others pretend like they were lied into it? You’d think at least Hillary would have been a little more keen to lying bullshit males in power….

Enjoy.

http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..ent-531304

Add my long-overdue expression of gratitude for excellent trial coverage. As a former felony defense lawyer, I’m enthralled.