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July 14, 2006
WB: The Oil Card

Billmon:

If Nixon and Kissinger didn’t knuckle under to an Arab oil embargo and mile-long gas lines, I don’t think the Cheney administration is going to let a bunch of 25-year old oil traders drive a wedge between America and its 51st state. But you can tell the gang is worried, and that in itself is almost a foreign policy revolution.

The Oil Card

Posted by b on July 14, 2006 at 17:27 UTC | Permalink
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Rebelion. Treason in high places: Pentagon zionists, AIPAC and Israel

The move to high-level spying by top Zionist policy-makers like Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz and others in the Bush Administration is the culmination of a long series of strategic policies promoted by AIPAC designed to enhance Israeli expansionist goals in the Middle East.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jul 14 2006 17:43 utc | 1

Who is Congress listening to?
Democratic Party leadership statements of support for Israel
Nancy Pelosi, $57,000 from pro-Israel PACs.
Steny Hoyer, $92,000 from pro-Israel PACs.
Harry Reid, $318,000 from pro-Israel PACs.
Alcee Hastings, $23,000 from pro-Israel PACs.
Robert Wexler, $11,000 from pro-Israel PACs.
Get the picture?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jul 14 2006 17:51 utc | 2

Its that ever-so-rare-but-predictable moment when the Congress critters of all stripe bleat out a more ignorant and reactionary line than the executive, and certainly than the State Dept. Sort of like time-released kool aid implants. One wonders how they can bear to look in a mirror, er, through a looking glass. Makes me proud to be an American.

Posted by: Anonymous | Jul 14 2006 18:02 utc | 3

If there were creativity and courage the American trump card (no not the nukes) could be used to knock the sense in to everyone.
Just for once side with the majority in the UN. That’s probably all it takes to stop the slide.

Posted by: YY | Jul 14 2006 23:33 utc | 4

Talking points, and talking heads. “Israel has the right to defend HERSELF” (sic)
and “When the ‘terrorists’ dis-arm, dis-band, and release their hostages, then we
will talk about ceasing our wholesale carpet bombing.” Paul McHale, AssDefSecHomDef
Tonight there was a car idling outside our house. When I went outside, they pealed away. Just a warning to all you MF’rs. Google and DHS are GPS’ing your sorry asses,
and you are all already on a ‘no-fly’ list, or a ‘tail-and-report’. Amerika 2006.
It’s really happening, and it’s all much, much worse than your wildest imaginings.
Can you spell M-A-R-I-N-E E-X-P-E-D-I-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y U-N-I-T? “The 80% Solution.”
Die Abschließende Lösung! Aller Sie DNC sind verboten, in der Freiheit zu leben!!
What they Hell are 5B human beings going to do, when their livelihoods are GATT’d?

Posted by: Herr Heinrich Schwartzkopf | Jul 15 2006 3:32 utc | 5

“$100/barrel here we come.”
What’s the Bushie reaction? Not sweat, but SWEET!
That’s extra profit for George, Dick, Condi and Rummie.

Posted by: gylangirl | Jul 15 2006 23:18 utc | 6

To bookend, Uncle’$ first post, has anyone checked out Wolf Blitzer’s bio?? This son of Holocaust survivors, has been Blessed by AIPAC:
His career in journalism began in 1972, in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency. He soon moved to Washington, D.C., where he was White House correspondent for The Jerusalem Post after a spell working for AIPAC. In 1990 he was hired by CNN as a military affairs reporter. His team’s coverage of the first Gulf War in Kuwait won a CableACE Award and made him a household name. He became CNN’s White House correspondent and later co-anchored the daily show The World Today. His coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing earned him an Emmy Award. In 1997, he began hosting the CNN interview programs Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, and in 2000 Wolf Blitzer Reports.Wiki on WolfB

Posted by: jj | Jul 16 2006 0:08 utc | 7

I wonder what Billmon would say about this WSJ op-ed:

Critics of the Bush Administration will surely find a way to blame it for the current crisis, on the theory that this is what happens when you push for change in the Middle East. But the real problem is the growing perception among Arab regimes and terrorist frontmen that the U.S. is so bogged down in Iraq, and so suddenly deferential to the wishes of the “international community,” that it has lost its appetite for serious reform. This has created openings for the kind of terror assaults on American allies we are now witnessing.
Israel can and will handle the immediate military threats on its two borders. But ultimately there will be no resolution in Lebanon and Gaza until the regimes in Syria and Iran believe they will pay a price for the wars they are waging through their proxies. The referral this week of Iran’s nuclear file to the U.N. Security Council is a start, although we have little confidence it will lead anywhere. The White House has cited Syria and Iran as the culprits behind this week’s events, but more forceful words and action are called for. The Middle East stands on the cusp of its worst crisis in a generation, and this is no time for formulaic statements calling for “restraint from both sides.”

Posted by: pembeci | Jul 16 2006 2:15 utc | 8

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