Walter C Uhler » Entries tagged with "neocons"
Why Bush, Cheney and the Neocons Failed to Protect America from al-Qaeda’s Vicious Attacks
Today is 9/11. After I read Kurt Eichenwald’s New York Times Op-ed, “The Deafness Before the Storm” ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?ref=opinion ), all the memories came back. Also coming back were all the infuriating memories suggesting that the Bush administration’s obsession with removing Saddam Hussein from power created a national security black hole into which sank all the bubbling intelligence about the increasing threat posed by al-Qaeda. Mr. Eichenwald’s Op-ed is an eye-opener. Although everyone capable of steaming up a mirror (when placed under his nose) knows about the August 6th daily brief titled, “bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,” Eichenwald demonstrates that President Bush received more daily briefings about the threat posed by al-Qaeda than previously imagined. “The direct warnings to Mr. Bush about the possibility of a Qaeda attack began in the spring … Read entire article »
Filed under: American History, Bush Administration, Current Events
The “Protocol of the Elders of American Neoconservatism” and the Blood of American Soldiers
As virtually every literate citizen on our planet knows, since the nineteenth century anti-Semites have been extolling the crackpot and wicked Protocols of the Elders of Zion in order to prove a conspiracy by Jews to rule the world. Even today, alas, the Protocols remain popular and believable throughout the world, especially the Middle East. Yet, since the end of the Cold War there has been little in the political behavior of the Jews among America’s neoconservatives to refute such beliefs. After all, it was people with the names Paul Wolfowitz, Irv Lewis Libby and Eric Edelman, who “in 1992…co-authored a security doctrine for the United States that aimed at perpetual hegemony and implied perpetual aggression to prevent the emergence of ‘peer’ … Read entire article »
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Politics
The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq, Part Two: Incompetence
(Note: Part One of “The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq: Criminality, Immorality, Incompetence and Desperation” examined the criminality and immorality underlying the Bush/Cheney regime’s invasion of Iraq. Part Two, below, examines the disasters that could have been avoided, except for the gross incompetence with which the invasion was conducted. Part Three, next week, will examine the desperation, which now compels various political actors to contemplate drastic action before the Bush/Cheney regime leaves office.) Part Two: Incompetence Last month — more than four years after the Bush/Cheney regime’s criminal and immoral invasion — oil rich Iraq was able to produce only 2 million barrels of oil per day, some 500,000 barrels per day less than it produced on the eve of the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Iraq War
The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq, Part One: Criminality and Immorality
Part One: Criminality and Immorality I. Criminality According to Article VI of our U.S. Constitution, treaties entered into by the United States become the “Supreme Law of the Land.” At the urging of President Harry Truman, on July 28, 1945, the U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89 to 2, with 5 abstentions. Thus the UN Charter became the supreme law of the land. And, thus, the United States was legally prohibited from waging war unless attacked, unless an attack was imminent, or unless the United Nations approved such a war. Not for the first time, but most egregiously, did a President of the United States violate both his oath to uphold the Constitution and international law when … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Iraq War
George Kennan vs. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Kristol, Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Coulter
George Kennan’s 15 May 1953 speech at the University of Notre Dame was delivered at a time, when the right-wing anti-communist hysteria, inflamed by Senator Joseph McCarthy, was at its peak. Yet, it courageously exposed the demagogic McCarthyites for the ignorant, self-righteous, fear-mongering extremists they were. Thus, one can hardly avoid the conclusion that John Lukacs appended the speech to his new book about George Kennan, because it has much to teach us about courage during the current campaign of fear orchestrated by today’s American equally self-righteous right-wing extremists. Kennan excoriated McCarthyism’s “alarmed and exercized anti-communism,” as “an anti-communism of a quite special variety, bearing an air of excited discovery and proprietorship, as though no one had ever known … Read entire article »
Filed under: American History, Bush Administration, Media
After All, It’s President George W. Bush: So “Attention Must Be Paid!”
Linda: He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He’s not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person. You called him crazy- Biff: I didn’t mean… (A bit later) Biff: He threw me out of this house, remember that. Linda: Why did he do that? I never knew why. Biff: Because I knew he was a fake and he doesn’t like anybody around who knows. ~Arthur Miller, Death of a Saleman The “Willy Loman” of American presidents, George W. Bush, recently was out hustling for suckers again, trying to make a sale. Poor, pathetic George. Like Willy, “he’s a man way out there in the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bush Administration, Iraq War
When Does Opposition to Israel or the Israel Lobby Indicate Anti-Semitism?
Writing for the New York Times online on March 4, 2007, Stanley Fish asked the question, “Why Does Anti-Semitism Persist?” Quoting Professor Charles Small of Yale University, Professor Fish notes, “Increasingly, Jewish communities around the world feel under threat,” and he blames three words for that feeling: “Israel, Iraq and anti-Semitism.” Here’s how Professor Fish explains the connection: “Much of the world has been opposed to the Iraq war from its beginning, and now after four years 70 percent of Americans share the world’s opinion. Some who deplore the war believe that those who got us into it and cheered it on did so, at least in part, out of a desire to improve Israel’s position in the Middle East. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq War
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