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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Or how we won the war in Iraq

Mon, 05 May 2008 21:10:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: a new book quoting the "experts" and exposing what they said

It's an in-depth study and analysis of five years of expert commentary on the Iraq war. The authors have somewhat sadly, if not reluctantly, concluded that the most distinguished cast of experts ever before assembled reached a grand consensus on the Iraq war — and that all of them got it wrong. How did it happen? The whole thing is so tragic perhaps only satire can give us the answer.

Did you find a single expert who got it right?

Well, strangely enough, we did. And it was Dick Cheney himself.

he was interviewed in 1994 by

the American Enterprise Institute

He said that if we tried to invade Iraq and go all the way to Baghdad, we'd find ourselves caught between the Sunnis and the Shiites. He said that Turkey wouldn't like that, and they could come down to try to deal with the Kurds. He worried about we could end up as an occupying power and be there for years. He was very prescient.

He obviously decided he needed to change his position.

Tags: books, politics

Bill Moyers opinion on the Rev Wright problem

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:37:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Is there a double standard?

Clip Source: www.pbs.org

Behold the double standard: John McCain sought out the endorsement of John Hagee, the war-mongering Catholic-bashing Texas preacher who said the people of New Orleans got what they deserved for their sins. But no one suggests McCain shares Hagee's delusions, or thinks AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality. Pat Robertson called for the assassination of a foreign head of state and asked God to remove Supreme Court justices, yet he remains a force in the Republican religious right. After 9/11 Jerry Falwell said the attack was God's judgment on America for having been driven out of our schools and the public square, but when McCain goes after the endorsement of the preacher he once condemned as an agent of intolerance, the press gives him a pass.

Jon Stewart recently played a tape from the Nixon White House in which Billy Graham talks in the oval office about how he has friends who are Jewish, but he knows in his heart that they are undermining America.

it is all about race, isn't it?

Tags: religion, racism