1.industrial competitors who eat your lunch.
2.a few rich white guys getting obscenely richer.
3.red neck lynchings of tinpot dictators.
4.cheap gas
5.international pariah status.
6.cheap rugs

I heard something that stunned me the other day on NPR– a caller said that ‘we have won in Iraq and Afghanistan, but I am not sure we can win in Iran. But, I guess we do have nukes.’ huh?

there are factions behind all of this that believe disruption & chaos is, in & of itself, a worthy policy & goal. A sort of randomly occurring regime change, taken to the extreme. [I’m not sure how to describe it any better, let alone make any sense of it.] But’s it’s there, buried deep within the whispers in the back rooms. It’s the same force driving upheavals like we saw in Lebanon last year. If you don’t like the way things are, shake things up and see what settles from the dust. I actually heard George say it in front of a camera a couple of years back. From a technical standpoint, it probably hinges on the premise of destroying a society such that a popular revolt ensues, ending in a regime change without our direct involvement.

it’s dark, and it’s terribly perverted. But then so is a day trip to Baghdad on the taxpayers money to buy five rugs for $5 from people who may not survive another week.

a kind of puke in a bottle, labelled “Made in U.S.A.”

also tape from the presser at thinkprogress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..aq-stroll/

Between Graham’s rugs and McCain’s centurion-style bodyguard, methinks the Iraq outing by the honorable senators was a PR fiasco.

Pretty much I think. Even CNN’s, um, war corespondent, Kyra Phillips was laughing about it

I do not think Senator Clinton if elected President, has any interest in the Palestinian situation.

Clinton cannot win the Democratic nomination. She cannot take Florida, California, New Hampshire, Iowa… She has as many votes as she is going to get. Rank and file people are not paying attention until Christmas time.

People will ask themselves “can she win” 1 – being female (not my prejudice, I would much favor Pelosi, over Clinton) and 2 – all the Clinton “weak morals” baggage. She is perceived as “slick” stands-for-nothing.

Republicans are going so easy on her for a reason – They would LOVE to have her get the nomination. This is their only chance to kick Dem ass.

I do not think Senator Clinton if elected President, has any interest in the Palestinian situation.

I’m not sure that many in our congress do.

And if they do, they don’t dare speak out.