PLovering @ 195

Ron Paul is our only defense against Hillary, Bill, and their Neocon strategy to bomb Iran.

Senator Schuemer is a super hawk on Israel and an arch liberal on everything else.
I keep wondering if Schuemer was part and parcel to taking Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty out. (McNulty involved in the investiation and prosecution of the A*P*C Rosen espionage trial that has been delayed 7 times)

Why is it that so many the so called liberals take a sharp turn to the far “right”(wrong) on the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Schumer, Lieberman, and A*P*C are all on the same team wrt the Middle East.

Schumer sleeps with the Hedge Funds.

Permanent bases and an 8000 family Embassy in Baghdad, pitting religious and political factions against eachother simply to breed instability, … sounds like another day in the West Bank.

Arabs killing Arabs: warms a Neo Cons heart, while the oilmen grab-and-go.

To hell with the NYT. They saw some major defections this week, and put this shit out because they were afraid of being scooped by Lugar, and even wacky Ricky, fer crissakes.

Frank Padgett of Ruston recently wrote that radical conservative Republican right-wing warmongers are willing to throw away the lives of our brave men and women.

It’s useless to argue with him, but I remind those who read his letter that Iraq violated 17 United Nations resolutions and refused all demands to disarm, shooting at our planes daily.

I would not have waited 17 times to react.
Padgett says conservatives are the ones who bring shame and disgrace to our country. I remind him that it was his Democratic hero who for two years called our soldiers murderers, rapists and terrorists on a daily basis.

It’s his Democratic hero who won a majority in the Senate in November 2006 and fought so hard to defund our military while at war. I remind him that after the Democrats said they would not fund the war, they passed funding by a vote of 80-14. This is now a Democratic Party-funded war.

Padgett said the majority in the country feels the war cannot be won. That’s why his Democrat Congress has 14 percent approval rating. Padgett is wrong. Most Americans feel the war can be won. The only way we can lose this war is for the politicians to make the decision to lose.

We should speak to some of the hundreds of soldiers coming and going through Atlanta and see what they think.

Padgett wants to fly the white flag. Most of America wants and prays for victory.

God bless our country’s military.

Mark Corbin

West Monroe”

This was printed today in my old home town newspaper. I sent them the following in response: “I ask that the Monroe Newstar World cease printing opinion letters referring to “winning the war in Irag” without first ensuring that the letter contains some definition of what constitutes winning. People should be able to freely express their opinions, but a newspaper has an obligation to ensure that there is at least some logical depth to items they print. Quite frankly, the majority of opinion letters printed in this paper would make great punch-lines in a Saturday Night Live skit.”

I urge anyone reading this to do the same. Find a small town paper in a red area and submit something similar, daily.

Sorry, I posted this on the wrong thread earlier.

Here is the FDL post that documents lunacy and racism of Ron Paul.

http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..rld-order/

Unlike almost all other GOPer and DIMer candidates, Ron Paul is a firm supporter of our Constitution.

What a refreshing set of principles.

selise @ 215

why do you think that?

his position on terrorism is well reasoned – he’s even read robert pape (that impressed me).

The only reason is that I think David Neiwert is a reliable judge of character. This is his final statement in his FDL post:

Ron Paul may or may not be a racist — and arguing about it is likely to end up nowhere. But what is unmistakably, ineluctably true about Ron Paul is that he is an extremist: a conspiracy theorist, a fear-monger, and an outright nutcase when it comes to monetary, tax, and education policy. The more believers and sympathizers he gathers, the worse off the rest of us will be.

but david’s statement says nothing about iraq or foreign policy (only monetary, tax and education policy).

Steve @ 213

His position on Iraq is not a result of reason or morality but is a by-product of his “New World Order” paranoia. “Even the blind squirrel can find an acorn once and a while”

why do you think that?

his position on terrorism is well reasoned – he’s even read robert pape (that impressed me).

The only reason is that I think David Neiwert is a reliable judge of character. This is his final statement in his FDL post:

Ron Paul may or may not be a racist — and arguing about it is likely to end up nowhere. But what is unmistakably, ineluctably true about Ron Paul is that he is an extremist: a conspiracy theorist, a fear-monger, and an outright nutcase when it comes to monetary, tax, and education policy. The more believers and sympathizers he gathers, the worse off the rest of us will be.

There is one guy that has had a plan from day 1. It is the only plan that will work. His name is Kucinich, remember? The only guy that is right on every issue the left is supposed to care about. But he is short, not a charmer, hasn’t made the kind of deals necessary to get the moola, has this funny idea that war is not the natural state of humans and is head over heels about his wife.
215 comments and Ron Paul gets more attention.
Just remember that when you yell for impeachment, who actually has a bill pending. Dennis Kucinich.

kucinich got money from me for his run in 2004. i’m still a bit pissed at him for not talking about the war during the 2004 dnc – that after all is why so many people (like me) supported him.

that said, i may support him again – if gore doesn’t run and if edwards doesn’t need my support to beat obama/clinton.

Quite clearly the WH and its loyal Bushies in DOD, State, DOJ, JCS, etc. do not generate good or accurate or worthwhile information and analysis. But information is everywhere and accessible through lots of sources.

Almost nothing involving many of the issues is subject to an effective information stranglehold. Rand’s public info on the ME situation has been far better than Bush’s private info. The main area where a stranglehold exists is in the diplomati arena with actually making deals. Congress can’t do much there – but they can definitely set up committees and request that the Saudis, Jordanians, refugee NGOs etc. meet and work out plans and then give testimony and presentations based on that info. The military can be asked to make reports on possible scenarios and work with Congress as well.

Lots Congress can do if only they will do it, and Cheney’s stranglehold is mostly on his own choked chicken, not on the real and important issues the NYt points out. IMO, FWIW