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In a gesture of "good faith", Rice delivers blankets to Lebanon. This gesture reminded me of another gesture of good faith that occurred in America in the summer of 1763 during the Pontiac Rebellion. This gesture is documented in general Amherst's letters to Captain Ecuyer at Fort Pitt.
The commander encouraged the distribution of blankets to the Ottawa Indians. There was just one little problem with the blankets: the Fort had just dealt with an outbreak of smallpox.
Afterwards, these contaminated blankets were given to the Indians in a gesture of good faith. Documented in his letters, General Amherst sentiments were, in his own words, "...their Total Extirpation is scarce sufficient Atonement....".
My question is, Could Rice's symbolic gesture in fact represent this very sentiment? She has already stated that this is "the birth pangs of a new Middle East." Much like Bush's well known Dredd Scott answer when asked about the kind of judges he would appoint during a debate, this too is a coded message to the radical Christians of this country, we are ushering the coming of the Rapture.
This symbolic gesture towards Lebanon along with the "green light" for Israel to continue their aggression against Hezbollah, IMHO, tells me our government's true sentiment: nothing but total extirpation for Hezbollah, Iran, and Shi'ites will be acceptable to the neo-cons.
Neocons want to scapegoat Rice, for not promoting enough War
Neocons look to scapegoat Rice- for her paltry 'peace' efforts in Lebanon being TOO STRONG? and thereby slowing the kickoff of their new war(s).
Yep, the neo-cons and neo-confederates are practically peeing in their pants in anticipation of attacking Syria and Iran, power-mad with lust after controlling the ENTIRE US government budget - billions and billions and billions and billions in government contract spending on defense conracts, oil contracts and profits, Halliburton & Bechtel (et al) rebuilding contracts in Iraq, Katrina contracts, Enron license to extort California ratepayers, etc. etc etc., over the past 5 years.
The Democrats can NOT even be considered to be offering feeble opposition, Bush recently BRAGGED at the G8 summit to Putin about "freedom of the press and democracy spreading in Iraq" - with NARY a Democrat murmer of contention, much less protest.
So, who determines WHO LIVES and WHO DIES? Why, our God-like neo-con/neo-confed friends, of course. Kurdish militia on the Iraq side of the border are "good guys," Kurdish militia on the Turkey side of the border are "evil terraists."
click here Sunni Arabs on the Saudi side of the border are "good guys" (or at least tolerable), Sunnis on the Iraq side of the border are "evil terraists. Anti-Taliban fighters in Afghanistan are "good guys," unless of course they happen to be Shiites or Iranians. Nuclear proliferators are "bad guys," unless they are our Pakistani friends (A Q Khan). Osama bin Laden is a "Bad Guy," unless he releases a video right before the 2004 election, reminding Americans to be scared (and vote for the tough-talking guy already in office, never mind that said guy is allowing said terrorist to broadcast video tapes 3 years after 9-11). "Freedom" and "democracy" are good things, unless it means actually, honestly counting the vote - in which case the other side are evil terrarist-supporting election fraudsters. "Freedom is on the March!" in Iraq, unless you happen to be female (1/2 the population), in which case you better not go to the market without a close male relative, and then all bundled up in a burkha.
Nope, the neo-cons and neo-confeds are simply drunk with money, weapons, power, and post 9-11 "war on terra" death-squads/"no questions asked or answered" empowerment. Thanks in part to cowering Democrats who NEVER found a confrontation - no matter how justifiable - that they couldn't slink away from. (In no small part because last decades 'liberal' neo-cons are this year's neocon warhawks, eg. Thomas Friedman, Joe Lieberman, Dianne Feinstein, etc.) Hell, the cowering Democrats can't even bring up ANY outrage against Ann Coulter, who continues to "joke" about sending anthrax letters or other "from the heart" terror considerations to the New York Times, 5 dead postal workers and one dead journalist from prior anthrax attacks notwithstanding. (In an indication of her mental state, it looks like Coulter really believes that the NY Times is a "librul" organization, the Times' relentless, neo-con support of war, torture, energy policy, tax cuts in time of war, etc., etc., etc., notwhithstanding.)
Well, you've got to give them credit for "Thinking big"! Whether flying at 40,000 feet above Iraq/Iran, or sitting at a missile bunker in America, those button-pushing fingers are getting excited.
http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/Condi2.htm Back-from-ignomy neo-cons Gingrich and Perle join Kudlow, Krauthammer, Sulzberger, deBorchgrave, ad infinitum, in urging a much wider war. Insightmag.com is a veritable buffet of righty war and death-squad lust. In case of Gingrich and Perle, this article documents their attempt to scapegoat Condi Rice for "failed diplomacy," i.e. not yet having come up with a really good excuse to launch another all-out war.
Well, we wish them luck, at least in the "scapegoat Condi" part. When the bombs and missiles start flying in earnest (i.e Iraq x2 or x3 or x4), it would be nice to have the entire crew at the top of the US command structure being pasty-faced neo-con/neo-confed chickenhawks, like Gingrich, Bolton,Perle, Feith, Cheney, and maybe even Wolfowitz and DeLay back for a reprise, too.
You forgot William Kristol and R James Woolsey. You can be sure everyday that more innocents die on both sides, the shareholders in the military-industrial complex get richer. Not because they want to be rich, but because of the political influence it can buy to further their twisted agenda.
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Daniel Reed (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 10 comments)
on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 9:31:58 PM
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