http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=6934

Steve-AR @ 48

Cokie says everyone is getting more realistic.

Listening to her I wonder how I ever thought she was an informed critic of government. In recent years, her name seems increasingly descriptive of how she arrives at her views.

I “hear” Cokie and Poppy Bush get along well.

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Between Sen. Clinton saying this and here misguided belief that a terrorist attack on US benefits Bush and Republicans, I’d say she’s having a bad week.

Also, if the Florida primary debacle is about helping Hillary because she isn’t doing so well in the early primary states (Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire and S. Carolina), then it might mean she needs a little help from Floridians.

Also, if she is involved with Brazile’s effort to move up Florida, it would look like she’s using the same tactic as Republicans in California who are desperately seeking delegates by changing the rules in mid-game.

And I’m certain the “old” Soviets had numerous “surges” in Afghanistan in an attempt to give their Kabul puppet government breathing space, countless “surges” spanning almost the entire decade of the 1980s, costing the “old” Soviet military forces thousands in casualties while stuck in the Afghani quagmire.

So, the Bush administration has gotten us stuck in a similar quagmire in Iraq, repeating the same mistakes the “old” Soviets made in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Will the outcome be similar?

The similarities between Afghanistan of the 1980s and the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq of today are striking. Warlords. Tribal enmity. Sectarian butchery. The increasing influence of sharia-spouting religious sects, with their murderous followers enforcing sharia, purging Iraq of any secular freedom. “Players” from outside Iraq financing and arming groups inside Iraq. Iraq today sounds an awful lot like Afghanistan twenty years ago, with the Bush mal-administration having taken the place of the “old” Soviet mal-administration, with Bush’s Iraq having replaced Afghanistan of twenty years ago as the quagmire to end all quagmires.

The question is, though, will Bush’s misadventure in Iraq shatter the United States just as the “old” Soviet Union’s misadventure in Aghanistan led to the break-up of the Soviet Union almost twenty years ago?

Elitist conservative warmongers, whether neo-con Republicans or neo-con Communists, always seem to be good at destroying things, as they embark on one imperialistic conquest after another, don’t they?

The United States of America will be lucky to survive the eight years of the Bush administration, the most lying and thieving administration in American history.

Well, not to excess while studying; only afterwards….. Yoga, meditation, religion, alcohol, recreational drugs, all of the above; whatever, you will need a crutch or your mind explodes from the asinine way that law school imparts it’s education. find a couple of third year students that appear well grounded (neither the aggressive top of their class, nor dregs at the bottom), befriend them and seek their wisdom as you settle into the grind. talk to your professors, both in and out of the classroom, study them and research them a little. They all have a point of view, specialized view or position, thought process etc. that is separate from the actual curriculum. If you know, it and understand it, it will be easier for you to regurgitate the material back to them and give them what they want, in the frame they want to hear it in. This is a most important concept to pay attention to. Good luck.

Thanks so much! I’m kind of overwhelmed right now with what the heck I am supposed to be doing (I think I’m taking WAY too extensive of notes on the readings, for example..), but hopefully, as everyone says, I will get the hang of it in a few weeks.

I will absolutely take your advice re: getting to know the professors.. the tricky part will be finding time due to the full time job thing. Thanks again, and I apologize for the late response :-)

“…Third. The unstated threat. And here I criticise the [Bush] administration a little, because the argument that they make over and over again is that this is about a threat to the United States. And then everybody says: ‘Show me an imminent threat from Iraq to America. Show me, why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us?’ So I’ll tell you what I think the real threat is, and actually has been since 1990. It’s the threat against Israel. And this is the threat that dare not speak its name, because the Europeans don’t care deeply about that threat, I will tell you frankly. And the American government doesn’t want to lean too hard on it rhetorically, because it’s not a popular sell…”
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n10/letters.html

So let’s see what we have here: a) A*P*C’s Levin (noting he’s up for re-election in 2008 – strongly relies on Pro-Israel $ for his campaign) and HRC (noting her neolib credentials and needing to keep her Pro-Israel voters and $ in NY and FL happy the CORPORATES for her campaign) shilling to take Maliki out. b) at the same time – we have Bibi coming back into power and (yet again) Allawi’s name is being passed around… Chalbi Baathist puppet the first time round and now Allawi the second time around?

Umm… what’s up?

In 2003:

Netanyahu says Iraq-Israel oil line not pipe-dream (Reuters – 2003)
http://haaretz.com/hasen/pages…..ntrassID=1

Israel seeks pipeline for Iraqi oil (2003 – The Observer)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq…..50,00.html

“…The plan envisages the reconstruction of an old pipeline, inactive since the end of the British mandate in Palestine in 1948, when the flow from Iraq’s northern oilfields to Palestine was re-directed to Syria.

US intelligence sources confirmed to The Observer that the project has been discussed. One former senior CIA official said: ‘It has long been a dream of a powerful section of the people now driving this administration [of President George W. Bush] and the war in Iraq to safeguard Israel’s energy supply as well as that of the United States.

To resurrect the pipeline would need the backing of whatever government the US is to put in place in Iraq, and has been discussed – according to Western diplomatic sources – with the US-sponsored Iraqi National Congress and its leader Ahmed Chalabi, the former banker favoured by the Pentagon for a powerful role in the war’s aftermath…”

Planning still going on in 2006:

Israel and Turkey plan energy pipeline (2006 – JPost)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/S…..e/ShowFull

h/t:
http://www2.washingtonmonthly……php#930861

Nah — the neocons and HRC’s neolibs can’t be that crazy?

wini @ 109

Christy, LHP, et. al. – I started law school last Thursday – yikes! Do you have any brief advice for someone who is continuing to work full time while studying contracts, torts, and writing/research ‘part-time’??

I know it’s OT, but I thought since there are some attorneys in the house, now would be a good time to ask :-)

Drinking a lot of alcohol hel

bmaz @ 112

wini @ 109

Drinking a lot of alcohol helped me.

While studying? :-)

Citizen rwcole and the Firepup Patriots:

“Don’t use civil disobedience as a political weapon unless you are willing to pay the maximum penalty…”

That’s right, brother cole, and the immediate goal must be worth the sacrifice…in this case the immediate goal is the end of the occupation. I should also say that the immediate goal is the IMMEDIATE end to the occupation even if it means political chaos like 1968. Take a look at the political reality right now and the economic collapse that is right around the corner whether we elect a Democrat and end the occupation or not…the calculation to be willing to pay the maximum penalty must be based on the realization that there is no alternative and there are no miracles.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, GOD WANTS US TO MAKE OUR OWN MIRACLES!!