Republicans don’t support an attack on Iran
This is excellent. Klayman blames Republicans and especially McCain, for fighting the wrong wars in the MIddle East and shrinking from the one war worth fighting, namely against Iran.
Republicans: Worthless cowards!
By Larry Klayman, FREEDOM WATCH USA
Sen. John McCain, that venerable Vietnam War hero, former presidential candidate and perpetual blowhard, typifies the dilemma we all now find ourselves in regarding the Iranian nuclear threat. Sure, President Barack Hussein Obama – a Muslim sympathizer not coincidentally born to a socialist Muslim Kenyan father – has intentionally been negligent, along with his Democratic comrades, in allowing this cancer to grow to the point where it not only is an imminent threat to Israel, but also Europe and the United States – but Republicans as well bear a significant responsibility for the mess we now find ourselves in.
McCain is the “best” example, but just one of many! For John McCain, there is virtually no war that is not worth fighting and dying for – particularly if it concerns a weak Arab country in the Middle East. But when it comes to Persian and now powerful Iran, the senator, like the rest of his Republican colleagues, is a coward.
McCain’s desire to be only a tough guy when it comes to weak and less formidable Muslim states has been made clear over the last 10 years. First, there was Iraq, a war with noble goals at first – to kill Saddam Hussein and eliminate weapons of mass destruction – but prolonged for no good reason, for nine years, after no such weapons were found. McCain was one of the first to advocate the so-called “surge,” which meant sending more of America’s brave military men into harm’s way when it looked like the United States was “losing” – with no end in sight. In the end, all this accomplished was to prolong the inevitable; Iraq, now controlled by Shiites loyal to Iran, has become a surrogate client state of the mullahs in Tehran. Blood is thicker than water, as the proverb goes, and the leadership in Iraq feels this ” Muslim brotherhood” with fellow Shiites in Iran. After well over 4,000 American troops dead and over 45,000 seriously wounded and maimed, all that we accomplished was to eliminate Saddam Hussein – who, looking back, seems “desirable” compared to Iraq’s current Shiite leaders – not create a democracy in Iraq loyal to the United States and the West. And, what about Iraqi oil, a commodity we so sorely need these days? We have not benefitted from one drop of it, not even having the Iraqis use the proceeds to pay the United States back for “liberating” them from their Muslim selves.
Then, there is Afghanistan, a hopeless cause if there ever were one. McCain wants us to remain there, apparently indefinitely, circled by Taliban terrorists and the Afghan government itself, one of the most corrupt in the world! To make matters worse, the senator, like most of his Republican brothers who spend most of their time enjoying the fine dining of Washington, D.C., has no clue how to end the war and accomplish our objective of defeating the Taliban, which has grown in great strength since the days following September 11.
Then there was McCain’s desire for the American military to intervene in Libya and its so-called Arab Spring revolution to overthrow former strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
Yes, Gadhafi was eventually killed, but by radical Islamists who hate our guts and want us dead as well. Now, Libya has predictably fallen into the hands of radical terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, equipped with military equipment like handheld anti-aircraft missiles the West supplied them with.
Last but not least comes the raging civil war in Syria, where McCain now wants to save the Muslim populace. Again, the Vietnam vet and alumnus of the Hanoi Hilton wants to go in full guns blazing. To what purpose, Senator? Would it not just be better to let the multiple murky Islamic factions kill themselves, a reality that should have sunk into U.S. foreign policy bigwigs when Iran and Iraq were at war many years ago? Why stop radical Muslims from whacking themselves, saving us the trouble of one day having to finish the job before they predictably turn on us once again?
Last week, with the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C., there was much grandstanding and breast beating by the Republican presidential candidates in particular. Like Sen. McCain, and despite Obama’s treasonous actions with regard to Iran, not one of these Republican “losers” advocated immediate American military intervention in a joint raid with the Israeli Air Force. It’s one thing to talk a good game, Messrs. Romney, Santorum and Gingrich; it’s another thing to actually stick your neck out and be direct about American interests and Israel’s imminent peril. Iran, during the Clinton, Bush and now Obama years, has been allowed to grow in strength and now is a great military power. Instead of fighting Iran when it was weak, we instead fought lesser Muslim states and, incredibly, failed at that as well.
It’s time for Republicans to finally face reality and be “men,” not cowards. The Iran nuclear threat needs to be removed now, and if the United States does not directly participate in this, the only rational intervention in the Middle East in at least the last 10 years, then our nation, Israel and the West will soon be in immediate danger. And, if our cowardly political leaders leave it to the Israelis to do the job themselves, the Jewish state will be forced to use tactical nuclear weapons given its lesser conventional military capabilities. This could set off World War III!
Republicans on nearly all fronts – including non-existent real domestic budget cuts – have been a fraud. Obama is a traitor, but there has been no political counterweight to his treachery from the other party. We no longer have a republic, but just a bunch of dangerous political hacks from both sides of the aisle occupying time, space and “growing fat” in Washington, D.C., at our expense!
Larry Klayman is a former Justice Department prosecutor and the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. His latest book is “Whores: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment.”
For an interview with Mr. Klayman, email leklayman@yahoo.com. See also www.freedomwatchusa.org.
Good, all posted now – thanks.
If it reads like projection
and sounds like projection
and is, under the circumstances, most easily explained by projection
then [NewsFlash!]:
— it’s projection.
I DO believe you, Max, when you say that you’ve “been beaten up and tortured”
— but I do NOT believe you when you say that was “nothing.”
I believe, on the contrary, that the spirit of those who beat you
— is now inside you.
You may well have repressed the full memory of the terror & revulsion; i.e., the full impact of it could well have been way too much to carry around in your conscious memory.
However, I believe you hated them — and subsequently resented them (re-senter < L: "to feel again") — for what they did
— but hatred/resentment traumatizes
(always traumatizes; no exceptions)
and the trauma permits a mirror image — a “photo negative,” if you will — of the spirit of the victimizer
to be replicated in the victim; in this way, evil gets a toehold in the innocent & makes a home in him/her.
This is, for example, why so many child abusers (emotional, sexual, violent) invariably turn out to have been THEMSELVES victims of child abuse.
Whatever it is I ‘dwell on’
— I seem to sleep pretty well at night
FWIW.
No, he is not.
Not American, that is.
Born & raised in Israel
— by parents who were, and ARE, citizens of Israel.
He studied at M.I.T., as I recall, and speaks American-accented English with the fluency of a native
— but I’m unaware of any point at which he ever took up US citizenship
or renounced Israeli citizenship.
You’re welcome to your opinion, Felix, about the quality or propriety of his public service.
I might conceivably even join you (or not) in your assessment of that service.
But you are flat-out wrong to characterize him as an “American Jew.”
That’s not subject to spin or interpretation.
It’s factually false.
If the Chinese revolution is your idea of a ‘successful’ one, you’re crazy as a bedbug.
This is the vilest drivel.
A lot of the “elements” of the “former regime” — are children.
The conceit of power.
And nothing but.
No way you can compare Hamas/Hezbollah/Fatah/Islamic Jihad to everybody else.
These scumbags intentionally target noncombatants (or intentionally make no distinction betw civilians & fighters)
— and deliberately hide behind the tender flesh of their OWN women & the trusting credulty of their OWN children whenever you shoot back at them.
Not everybody makes such a practice
— your comparison of these slime to whole classes of people is flagrantly disingenuous.
And I strongly suspect that the only reason that more people don’t call you on this stuff, Max, is that
they are too revolted by what you write
— to be willing to engage you.
How many showers can one take in a given day?
I have little doubt that Mossad has had these, and probably for some time now, Wallace.
Recall that when the Labor govt brought back the PLO from Tunis, to prepare them for (what turned out to be) Oslo
— Arafat suddenly got married to Suha Tawil.
Now why would somebody with Arafat’s obvious proclivities (I heard about them regularly) do a thing like that?
My dollar-to-your-donut says that was part of the deal with the Labor govt
— ‘get married, acquire respectability if you’re going to be the Re’is,
because ultimately your behavior will necessarily reflect on your partnership with us (viz., the current G.O.I.).’
Amazing how naive they turned out to be.
Arafat was a bad dude. “How Arafat Got Away with Murder.” “The State Department covered up his responsibility for the 1973 slaughter of two American diplomats in Khartoum” * * “In the summer of 2002 [the author] contacted the State Department for a comment on a draft column addressing the question of Arafat’s responsibility for the Khartoum murders. State Department Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs deputy director of press affairs Gregory Sullivan responded: “I can’t say I’m impressed with your research or argumentation. You’re obviously writing a piece designed to elicit a certain reaction rather than one based on factual accounts or actual comments made by the U.S. government. I really don’t have the time to do the research for you, but I do find myself compelled to point out . . . Evidence clearly points to the terrorist group Black September as having committed the assassinations of Amb. Noel and George Moore, and though Black September was a part of the Fatah movement, the linkage between Arafat and this group has never been established.”
Given Sullivan’s statement, the State Department’s posting this past June of the 1973 CIA summary of the Khartoum operation came as a surprise. Sullivan to the contrary notwithstanding, the summary stated that “the Khartoum operation was carried out with the full knowledge and personal approval of Yasser Arafat.”
Yet he was invited to the White House as an honored guest and not to jail as a criminal. The US pressed Israel to deal with him.
DoS knew — right from the jump — that Khartoum had the little creep’s “personal approval” (and Sullivan himself probably knew personally that he was handing you a pile of pig plop when he gave you that statement):
Mossad had tapped Arafat’s phone, and had his own recorded voice giving the explicit, direct order to kill the kidnapped diplomats — and they had given the tape to State almost immediately.
Yes.
He should have spent the final seconds of his life suspended between heaven & earth, dancing the kosachky on the end of a rope & decorating the ground beneath his feet with the contents of his bowels & bladder. . . .
G.O.I. should’ve gone public with what they had; could’ve leaked it.
Might’ve shuffled the deck for them anyway.
Shouda, coulda, mighta.
And then, too, you know what they say about hindsight. . . .
dweller,
I agree. It was a surprise to me and the editor of Powerline blog or somewhere else where I picked it up. My short term memory is shot. The whole point was that Sullivan had lied. It was not a surprise to the US Department of State. And Arafat had murdered two of the State Department’s own. That is outrageous.
Don’t think of it that way.
It’s true that after a certain age, short-term memory operates DIFFERENTLY
— but I wouldn’t necessarily characterize that difference as failure.
For want of a better image, I think of it as a computer hard drive, which
— having filled up with RAM over time — tends to run out of ‘space’ eventually
and therefore needs, at some point, to begin making space for newer, more immediate input, if it’s to be able to hang on to it for any duration.
To do this, it must clear out what is continually collecting (short term), hence the sense of constant forgetfulness.
But another way of addressing this is to see the whole process as a message from the heart of Reality that the time has come (or is now more earnestly present) to begin sorting out — in the light of a now (presumably) better-focused perspective — what is (& isn’t) worth having.
Yeah, I know: Back on-point, and enough with the excursion.
??? — Not a surprise “to the DoS”? — Is this a typo?
“Not a surprise” to State that Sullivan had lied?
Or not a surprise to you that State had lied?
What will it take to give the Augean Stables at Foggy Bottom a good shoveling out?
— the “work”s been piling up down there since Ed House & the Wilson Administration.