Until 911 is really investigated, I will assume that Saudi Arabia financed it, Israel and the Neocons thought it up and carried it out, and the Republicans covered it up and benefited from it.  It is all about crooks without borders.

Yes Blackspeare your comments are on target. The last President of the US to question the Zionist authority was Ike. The democrats have been in the Exodus mentality from the start. Then the republicans beginning with Nixon have swung over to the same disastrous viewpoint. Like the myths about Lincoln, these things have a way of becoming undisputed facts, despite all evidence to the contrary. I only have to be reminded of this when I recall recent media attacks on Presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, when he questioned the validity of the Civil War. A closer examination of Lincoln’s conduct during that period reveal a rather brutal tyrant who preferred to put you in jail for dissent, or worse, for just remaining silent. But orthodoxy will hear none of it. Even severe social critics such as the late Walter Karp, refer to Lincoln as “One of the noblest figures in history”. But of course, he was not!
The propaganda efforts on the part of American-Israeli lobby have been most effective because of the money (that mother’s milk) that has been infused into the process. Thus the Palestinians, Arabs, and even rebellious Persians, are depicted as savage brutal animals out to destroy the good, peace loving Israelis. And of course media orthodoxy will hear nothing about this peaceful little country being supported by multi-billions of dollars, complete with their own nuclear arsenal. The myths continue, from New York to Washington to Hollywood.
All of this is quite effective in hood winking the US citizens, but in the rest of the world? Not exactly. Those client states who follow the United States do this out of fear more than respect. Ask yourself: what does this image of George W Bush and King Abdullah mean? A photo-op for two despots. That is all.

Hamas enjoyed a brief electoral victory, which ought to have given them political control over the ragged remnants of the Palestinian entity, and hence the right to designate the spokesman for the Palestinian people. Their electoral victory was instead nullified in concerted military assaults by the forces of the PLO, backed - in what is surely among the most bizarre twists in modern diplomacy - by the US and Israel. As an answer to the Bush regime’s assertion that our prime mission is to “democratize” the Mid-east, Israel jailed some forty of the duly elected Hamas parliamentarians and quarantined the Hamas-dominated Gaza strip.

Anyone close to the situation can see that the tawdry Annapolis exercise was anything but domestic political theatre? The target audience here is the American public; no one in the afflicted region buys a line of it.

Mr Olmert foolishly asserts - in essence - that commingling the Palestinian and Israeli peoples into one multiethnic state would destroy the Zionist nation. Well, duh.

In this pronouncement - intended, one supposes, to appall a trembling world - he signals that the “right of return” is forever off the table. The “right of return” binds the Palestinians into the same sort of nationalist myth that “Zionism” binds the Israelis. The competing claims for sovereignty over Jerusalem are similarly self-sanctified and obdurate. Mr Olmert affirms that these two fiercely counter-poised ethnic belief structures are entirely antithetical. In short, there will never be a reconciliation.

There could some day be peace, certainly, but it will be the peace of the dead. Someone’s going to lose, utterly. Absent a concerted Arab/Muslim will to confront the massed power of the US and Israel, the Palestinians can look forward to their own trail of tears.

The permanent presence of a US military mission in the region guarantees - explicitly - that there will never be a unified Arab/Muslim power.

The Israeli political strategy has been both remarkably disciplined and remarkably effective for some sixty years, now...Just keep stalling. With the continued material and military backing of the West, Israel will eventually force the Palestinian people and the tattered remnants of their aspirations to melt away into history.

The only likely role available to Syria and Iran in this drama will be to host the diaspora of a defeated Arab people.

Let’s not kid ourselves.

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He not only did that, he also said mockingly, he had no trouble going through the check points. What kind of person with any decency would do that?

As for it being the end for him, the damage he has created will live on in the hatred he’s created abroad as you mention and also here at home, especially in the Supreme Court, where he has managed to stack it with federalist society cronies who will continue his legacy for many years to come.

Have you see this empty place before? A vast stretch of nothingness where an occasional abandoned vehicle can be seen with sometimes a rotting severed limb. A few cultural scraps of what was, once, consumer happiness: a talking toy from the Walt Disney Company, a tattered swoosh of an athletic shoe, a t-shirt from a future Olympiad that no one seems to remember…
A place where literally, all hope has been abandoned. Where survival is but an agonizing continuation of suffering. The incalculable loss of the unexplainable. This is Chaos. The bastard child of the demigods Bush and Cheney.

Somebody must be getting cut out.

Looking over the field of candidates, it is apparent we as a society refuse to exceed our angle of repose and in fact keep ourselves slightly below it.  The angle of repose in this instance is the angle at which this whole criminal conduct allowed by us, will come crashing down.  Nobody is talking about a return to our pre-9/11 rights = below the angle of repose.

By RNPDP, January 15 at 8:45 am

Redeemed?Who’s the bafoon?
So this stooge,useful idiot,bafoon writer of the New York Times ( A True Propagator of the Zionists[as in FREEMASONS, ASHKENAZI JEWS & Ecumenist FALSE CHRISTIANS]- Swinehundts and all things that allowed LIARS of the Dualistic Jingoism-better known as-’THE ONE WORLD ORDER’)talks of ‘redeemed’. So, thats ALL IT TAKES!To be REDEEMED!Oh ‘I’M sorry’! For all I’ve done and allowed to happen as the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES CORPORATION and that ‘Goddamned piece of paper’which I helped trash along with all my partners in CRIME;JUDGES LAWYERS MEDIA CORPORATIONS,BANKERS(rhymes with GANGSTERS) called the US Constitution.  Well, perhaps during the chinese year of the rat he can go and be just like one of his partners in crime Tony Blair and become a ECUMENISTIC CATHOLIC blessed by the denoument Bishop of Rome;none other than ecumenisic Pope Ratsinger.Can’t you see it now! All will be forgiven and redeemed by this JOHN ,PAUL ,KAROL ,and Rats brigade and their VATICAN COUNCIL 2 ‘Spirit’ with the ensuing applause of the Mason and Ashkenazi Jews and Ecumenistic Heretical Christians(plenty of Catholics there) .Of course, HOMELAND SECURITY,PATRIOT ACT 1 and soon ACT2,MEDICAL EMERGENCY ACT,MILITARY COMMISSION ACT,DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT,H.R. 1955,and a host of others will be forever in place as ‘THE LAW OF THE LAND’ mandated for US by other ‘Partners in Crime’. [Like one who told us: ‘YOU WILL LOSE YOUR RIGHTS!’]Getting US all ready with all the DUCKS lined up in a row and ‘AS THEN SO NOW’ Albert Pike said ‘we never begin a revolution before its time’.THE ‘REVOLUTION’ that the EVIL EMPIRE STATE NEWSPAPER has done EQUAL or GREATER SERVICE for THE ONE WORLD ORDER as anything, by commission or omission ,that the corporate President Bush has his hands dirty with.Just think of why Rockefeller so thanked your newspaper that you work for for KEEPING THE NATURE OF THINGS OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE to accomplish his and his ilk EVIL WILL.  ‘REDEEMED’ comes with a price !!! And that price must accompany the CRIMES and GUIL T.And the PUNISHMENT must be commensurate with the CRIMES and when sufficient with penalty of HANGING.If and when this were to Manifest in Corporate President Bush’ heart and he accepted the PENALTY Then and Only Then could HE BE REDEEMED! Anything less is HERESY and ELITISM better known as LUCIFERIAN ROYALTY AND ARISTOCRACY of which your newpaper ‘The New York Times’ has ever promoted to all of OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS DEPRIVATION!

Hedges, have you finished wiping? OK - have a look at the post referenced above. You attract this incoherent paranoid melange of bigotry and psychoses precisely because it mirrors what YOU write.