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WB: Ten Thousand Years
Billmon:
The objective here isn’t to convince the public, much less the corporate media, that the GOP House leadership is the victim of a fiendishly clever Jewish . . .um, I mean, liberal conspiracy. Rove isn’t that stupid. This is about getting the conservative faithful to go out and die for their emperor (but not before they help with the GOTV drive in November).
It’s very familiar technique: You try to convince the troops (if they aren’t convinced already) that the enemy is a foul, subhuman brute who will rape and kill your women, then skin your children and eat them alive. Better to die on your feet than your knees, etc. This, roughly, is the persona the wingnut sphere has created for Soros.
Ten Thousand Years
Something queer is going on all right but at least nobody’s talking about nuking Iran these days.
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Senator Warner, just back from Iraq, warns Iraq is moving “sideways” and “if this thing has’nt come to fruitation and this level of violence is not under control, I think it’s a responsability of our government to determine: is there a change of course we should take?”
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Dan Murphy reports on Condi’s current trip to client U.S. nations, redefining (in effect) democracy as “moderate” states, aka interests outside Iran’s sphere of interest:
Rice has also adopted a new rhetorical approach on this trip, in which America’s allies in the region are cast as moderates, and its enemies as extremists, something she said was demonstrated by the war in Lebanon.
“When Lebanon happened … [we] got in very stark relief a clear indication that there are extremist forces and moderate forces” in the region, she told reporters. “The countries that we are meeting … is a group that you would expect to support the emerging moderate forces in Lebanon, in Iraq, and in the Palestinian territories.”
“The President isn’t going to stop pressing for democracy because he believes that ultimately it’s the force that will stabilize the Middle East most,” Rice said. “But it does not mean that even if states … are not yet transformed to democracy that we’re not going to have relations with them and that we’re not going to work together to resist extremist forces in the region.”
Stacher says her comments at the start of her trip make the current administration policy on the region look similar to those of past
administrations, when the stability and support of allies was more important than promoting change. “The Bush administration has redesigned policy toward the region. Nondemocratic states that are friendly are being painted as moderates and unfriendly undemocratic states are being branded as extremists. The rhetoric is about to reflect reality”
None of the Arab countries Rice is talking to on this trip – Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Oman – are democracies, and most severely limit free speech and political organization.
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The Eisenhower naval strike flotilla, under WH orders steams toward the Persian Gulf.
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So, currently the Iraq Study Group, headed by Bush “fixer” James Baker is going to break the news, and tell chief clearing brush that the gig is up. That the Maliki government can’t, even if it wanted to, or was allowed to, dismantle the militia structure in Iraq — that they see the U.S. getting tired, and so are holding up any Production Sharing Agreements, in the oil industry, from being signed anytime soon. And furthermore, that (Kissinger style) Shiite power in Iraq cannot be trusted, being as it is’nt, but it is, in the shadow of Iran. The deal in Iraq has been compromised and profited on by the old nemisis Iran, costing a cool 2 billion a week with nothing to show. So, in order to save the deal in Iraq, you change the enemy, call them “extremists”, of the Iranian persuasion — forcing the Iraqi government into the position of being identified, because of its tacid support of its own “extremists” militias, which being now “extremists”, must be under “Iranian” control. The question then becomes for the Iraqi government, to either throw off the “extremists” “Iranian controled” militias, or face a U.S. sponcored coup of some Allawi/Sunni variety. And just to drive the point home James A Baker may offer Maliki either the lead or the silver — by a proxie demonstration, before the election, in Iran — and call it “clearing brush” to the chief himself.
Posted by: anna missed | Oct 6 2006 8:27 utc | 23
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