When Mitt Romney says that a coalition of “Shia and Sunni and Hezbollah and Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda” wants to “bring down the West,” he should be ridiculed for his ignorance.

I wish Paul Krugman had used another epithet: “Masochistically begging to be “humiliated. Romney, Giuliani and McCain are members of a party that constantly complains that the media are out to get them. Yet, the belief in their enemies’ viciousness doesn’t begin to stop them from providing tons and tons of ammunition.

I think the best way to point out their reliance on the most insidious lie of the post-Vietnam era–it makes the others possible–is to act as if they actually believed it and actually want the media to rub their faces in the mud (and the media, like the sadist in the old joke, say No.)

No, it’s simply impossible. Until we fix the media, we fix nothing.

Kathleen @ 80

Latest from Seymour Hersh…” The Redirection”

http://www.newyorker.com/repor…..act_hersh/

So, Hersh is saying that the U.S. gov’t’s actions are making it more difficult to get things calm enough in Iraq to allow the forces to withdraw? Now why on earth would “we” ever want to do something so counterproductive?

“Oil” explains a lot; it may indeed explain everything that we are seeing. There’s an essay on this page http://www.oilempire.us/peakoil.html by Buckley entitled “Oil is worth fighting for”. What steps would “you” have taken to enable you to fight for oil? These people may actually believe that they are doing all of this for our own “good”, that “good” being the preservation of the national lifestyle and not the “good” of the beneficial stewardship of the planet’s resources, particularly those non-renewable ones.

Palast said early on that the Bush administration went into Iraq to shut down the oil flow at least for a while.

Will we be heaing our reps demanding investigations of the record breaking oil profits?

I have not red the Hersch story, but Kucinich has been already the oil analysis. He nails it in detail; it also appears not many are listening to him for some reason.

Thanks for the tip about Kucinich. I see that he gave a 1 hour speech and no one paid attention. What pegs the needle on my coincidence meter is the ability of the “oil” theme to link together not only the war but also domestic events from 2000 on.

Latest from Seymour Hersh…” The Redirection”

http://www.newyorker.com/repor…..act_hersh/

So, Hersh is saying that the U.S. gov’t’s actions are making it more difficult to get things calm enough in Iraq to allow the forces to withdraw? Now why on earth would “we” ever want to do something so counterproductive?

“Oil” explains a lot; it may indeed explain everything that we are seeing. There’s an essay on this page http://www.oilempire.us/peakoil.html by Buckley entitled “Oil is worth fighting for”. What steps would “you” have taken to enable you to fight for oil? These people may actually believe that they are doing all of this for our own “good”, that “good” being the preservation of the national lifestyle and not the “good” of the beneficial stewardship of the planet’s resources, particularly those non-renewable ones.

Power to the People!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

weak power back at ya…you’ve got to fight to kick bushco. ***.

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why are new worlders so surprised by this? it has only been a few hundred years. WE certainly remember that they are doing what manifest destiny compels them to do.

how naive can amurkkkans be? so far, almost 4k of military casualities, untold millions of Iraqi deaths and who knows how many contractors.

too stupid to live, apparently.

This link will take you to the rest of Krugman’s article, if you are interested.

http://home.comcast.net/~veritas20001/shrill.htm

thanks, I HATE that times SELECT thing!