22-03-2010, 06:22 AM
Yes, I have been assembling the video/audio and text around this story/claim, and I did indeed write to a "last known" e-mail address for the doctor, a 10-year Marine veteran (Lt. Col. ?]. a graduate of the Army War College and a curriculum coordinator or something at the War College. I have had no response thus far and -- with this many hours gone -- I don't expect to get one. But he is a recent signatory to Patriots for 9/11 where you can find a bio and a statement. (See below.)
As has been pointed out in private conversations, it is certain that many in the US Military are: a) right wingers; b) Christians, sometimes of fundamentalist or evangelical type; c) of other type; d) of uncertain type; amnd e) of unknown type.
Tensions, both political and military, are currently high... on the psychological (Rahe) stress scale .. are probably at at least DefCon 4.
Similarly, I did also reach out to a known contact [someone who has been closely associated with high military officials for most of his long adult life, including most recently a former XO of a missile boomer] for affirmation and got it -- alas, non-attributable -- that the US military -- at the intel level -- is well-aware that 18 Arabs with boxcutters "run" by some fellow with a kidney illness living in a cave somewhere in the Hindu Kush could not have pulled off this event.
But you don't have had to have earned a doctorate from Harvard with a five-year billet in military intel as a G-2 to be able to figure this out.
Especially close to a decade after the fact...
Surely anyone in the military -- then, and now -- is going to play their cards very closely to their chests. There is too much at stake.
Here is what I have thus far:
US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government
WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A 392 page legal filing presented by a four person IRmep delegation in a two hour meeting with top officials of the Internal Security Section substantiated the following case for AIPAC's immediate registration:
Concerned organizations and individuals who wish to supplement the Department of Justice filing or participate in future negotiations with law enforcement officials should contact the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc. at info@IRmep.org or 202-342-7325. IRmep is a private nonprofit that studies how warranted law enforcement and civil action can improve U.S. Middle East policy.
SOURCE Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy
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RELATED LINKS
http://www.irmep.org
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/...90712.html
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Planning for a Post-Israeli Warworld
or
http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.co...-warworld/
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Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College says "The Military Knows Israel Did 9/11"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsWcQXr1Nk8
Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D, University of Michigan) is a ten-year US Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the US Army War College. He can be contacted at docbrosk@comcast.net
Alan N. Sabrosky, PhD – Former Director of Studies, Strategic Studies Institute and holder of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research, U.S. Army War College. A Marine Corps Vietnam veteran with 10 years of service. Graduate of the U.S. Army War College. Teaching and research appointments have included the United States Military Academy, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Middlebury College and Catholic University. While in government service, he held concurrent adjunct professorships at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs, lecturing widely on defense and foreign affairs in the United States and abroad. His published work includes thirteen books or monographs and over one hundred forty articles, chapters and book reviews. Author, co-author, or editor of Prisoners of War: Nation States in the Modern Era (1990), The Recourse to War: An Appraisal of the "Weinberger Doctrine" (1988), Alliances in U.S. Foreign Policy (1988), The Strategic Dimension of Military Manpower (1987), Polarity and War: The Changing Structure of International Conflict (1985), Great Power Games: The Sino American Power Transition (1982).
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Mullen asserted that he was open to a U.S. attack on Iran
By Alan Sabrosky
America's Titanic Rushes the Iceberg
A very strange thing must have happened to Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), on his way to his recent talk at Washington's National Press Club.
He oddly asserted that Iran was indeed an "existential threat" to Israel (nice of the Israelis to have provided that sound bite), that he was open to a U.S. attack on Iran (which is no threat whatsoever to the U.S. ) to forestall that supposed danger to Israel, and that the attack "would also be incredibly destabilizing."
The thesis reviewed
In reality, only the anticipation of potentially catastrophic consequences is accurate. Regardless of what Arab governments do, the Arab street may explode. Iraq -- whose population, police and armed forces are largely Shia, and which now has good ties with Shia Iran -- could easily turn on the Americans in their midst, with gruesome consequences. Oil prices would skyrocket. And that is just for openers.
As for "existential threats," Israel certainly knows something about them, because that is precisely what Israel itself poses to Palestinians. But the idea that an Iran which might someday acquire a handful of crude nuclear weapons would somehow threaten the existence of Israel with its massive nuclear arsenal and American-designed air force surpasses lunacy. The Israelis know this. What they want is for the U.S. to remove their only surviving competitor in the region at America's own expense.
Moreover, Iran has not gone to war against its neighbors in modern times (Iraq invaded it in 1980). But Israel and the U.S. between them have gone to war and invaded other states on a variety of pretexts more than the rest of the world combined, since the end of the Second World War. Civil wars have been commonplace, but not international wars and cross-border interventions, which are visibly Israeli and American specialties.
The Face of Leadership?
Now, the fact that the good admiral sees nothing wrong with the U.S. going to war in the service of another country's interests is bad enough. But that he would do so knowing that a disaster of some sort could ensue defies belief. It is the equivalent of the captain of the SS Titanic being forewarned of an iceberg dead ahead, yet ordering the helmsman to hold his course and the engine room to increase the ship's speed.
I hope Mullen was simply parroting the script given him by the Pentagon's political leadership, which would be yet another strike against perpetuating civilian "amateur hour" in the national security process, just to keep the grave-diggers at America's military cemeteries gainfully employed. It would be more than painful to think he actually believed such nonsense, or lacked the character to refute it when he heard it.
We have been there before. One of the most compelling memories I have from the Vietnam War is the awareness (after the fact, I confess) of the abysmal arrogance and ignorance of most of the civilian so-called "leadership" in the Pentagon, compounded by the fact that not a single ranking general or admiral resigned in protest over what they knew in their professional hearts, minds and souls to be appallingly self-destructive and futile policies imposed on them by those superiors, and the President himself.
Beyond Arrogance and Ambition
A U.S. attack on Iran, alone (which Israel prefers) or in concert with Israel, would be the fourth misery in this decade directly attributable to assorted Israeli agencies, politicians and policies: the 9/11 attacks that set the whole train in motion, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now potentially Iran. With "friends" like Israel, the U.S. will certainly not lack enemies.
Nothing much can be expected from the U.S. Congress in forestalling a war with Iran, and that is no surprise. As Israel's cheerleader and apologist, bought or blackmailed (or both), it is doing its legislative best to force a needless confrontation and lay the groundwork for an unnecessary and destructive war. Congress is simply a key part of the problem.
Nothing much can be expected from the White House either, which is more disappointing. Perhaps President Obama merely lacks courage. Perhaps he has no convictions, and his words in Cairo were as empty as his reservoir of courage. Or perhaps Rahm Emanuel and company have such influence over him that he cannot stand against them. He is simply not part of the solution.
Then there is the professional military, especially the flag officers on the JCS. They have the potential to make a difference, setting them above their Vietnam-era predecessors. A concerted public statement by the JCS that an Israeli-inspired US war with Iran is not in America's interest, and that they oppose a decision that would take America into yet another costly and destructive war, would expose this particular exercise beyond any ability of the mainstream media to suppress it.
It could also cost them their careers, especially if it averted this contrived war. And I understand the significance of that, having once taken a stand at a much lesser level and lost almost everything. I am also sensitive to the concept of obedience to authority embedded in our military.
But obedience does not entail subservience, especially subservience to the dictates of a foreign country and its American lobby. The precepts of "Duty, Honor, Country" ought to be paramount, and the flag of the country they are sworn to serve does not -- at least not yet -- include a Star of David.
If they understand this, and understand in their hearts and their minds that "America's Zionist Wars" are antithetical to those precepts and to the welfare of the American people, then they will take a public stand and help derail this train. Otherwise the next decade will make this one look remarkably good.
-- Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D, University of Michigan) is a ten-year US Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the US Army War College. He can be contacted at docbrosk@comcast.net.
-- Middle East Online
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On Luttwak’s “Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook”
http://bahoowah.blogspot.com/2007/06/blo...-coup.html
Edward Luttwak, the well-known military expert, an adviser on National Security to Ronald Reagan, is an ultra-conservative and a militarist with known links to the CIA, to friends in the Pentagon, to the military-industrial complex and, naturally, to JINSA.
###
The airfield at Newburgh?!
What do we know about it?
And now this…
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-bea...79537.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...79_pf.html
###
WeAreChange named as “hate group” by Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/826.html
###
Pentagon vs. Israel?
posted by Robert Dreyfuss on 03/16/2010 @ 1:00pm
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/..._vs_israel
###
How Petraeus could swing thinking on Israel
His belated recognition that U.S. and Israeli interests aren't always intertwined has particular impact
By Andrew Bacevich
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/0...index.html
###
The ADL targeting ….Gen. Petraeus?
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, March 19, 2010
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/03/19/t...-petraeus/
###
Israel is Boss
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=cont...srael-boss
###
Friday, Mar 19, 2010 04:20 EDT
Rampant patriotism breaches on America's right
By Glenn Greenwald
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_...index.html
###
“If anti-Semitism didn’t exist, Zionists would have to invent it.
And in many cases, that is precisely what they have done.”
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/...5707.shtml
As has been pointed out in private conversations, it is certain that many in the US Military are: a) right wingers; b) Christians, sometimes of fundamentalist or evangelical type; c) of other type; d) of uncertain type; amnd e) of unknown type.
Tensions, both political and military, are currently high... on the psychological (Rahe) stress scale .. are probably at at least DefCon 4.
Similarly, I did also reach out to a known contact [someone who has been closely associated with high military officials for most of his long adult life, including most recently a former XO of a missile boomer] for affirmation and got it -- alas, non-attributable -- that the US military -- at the intel level -- is well-aware that 18 Arabs with boxcutters "run" by some fellow with a kidney illness living in a cave somewhere in the Hindu Kush could not have pulled off this event.
But you don't have had to have earned a doctorate from Harvard with a five-year billet in military intel as a G-2 to be able to figure this out.
Especially close to a decade after the fact...
Surely anyone in the military -- then, and now -- is going to play their cards very closely to their chests. There is too much at stake.
Here is what I have thus far:
US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government
WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A 392 page legal filing presented by a four person IRmep delegation in a two hour meeting with top officials of the Internal Security Section substantiated the following case for AIPAC's immediate registration:
- AIPAC is a spinoff of an organization already ordered by the DOJ to register as an Israeli foreign agent. In November of 1962 the American Zionist Council was ordered by the Attorney General to begin filing disclosures as an Israeli foreign agent under the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act. http://www.irmep.org/1962Order.pdf Six weeks later, former AZC employees incorporated the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, DC, taking over the AZC's lobbying activities. http://www.irmep.org/AIPAC.pdf AIPAC did not register as a foreign agent.
- AIPAC's founder Isaiah L. Kenen was the chief information officer for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New York and for a time duly registered in that role. http://www.irmep.org/Kenen.pdf The Justice Department ordered Kenen to personally re-register after he formally left the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to head up private lobbying and publicity for the Israeli government at the nonprofit American Zionist Council. Kenen never complied with the order. http://www.irmep.org/order.pdf
- Espionage related FBI investigations in 1984 and 2005 reveal AIPAC's ongoing stealth foreign agency activities. Declassified FBI files released on the Internet last week reveal that in 1984 AIPAC and the Israeli Ministry of Economics were investigated for jointly obtaining and circulating classified US economic data to obtain favorable trade benefits for Israel. http://www.irmep.org/ila/economy In 2005 Pentagon Colonel Lawrence Franklin pled guilty and two AIPAC employees were indicted for obtaining and circulating classified US national defense information to Israeli government officials allegedly in the interest of fomenting US action against Iran.
- AIPAC's executive committee consists of the original member organizations of the AZC in addition to newer members. The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, the umbrella group of AIPAC's executive committee, is housed in the same New York office as the World Zionist Organization – American Section, a registered foreign agent that is heavily involved in illegal settlement expansion according to Israeli prosecutor Thalia Sasson.
Concerned organizations and individuals who wish to supplement the Department of Justice filing or participate in future negotiations with law enforcement officials should contact the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc. at info@IRmep.org or 202-342-7325. IRmep is a private nonprofit that studies how warranted law enforcement and civil action can improve U.S. Middle East policy.
SOURCE Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy
Back to top
RELATED LINKS
http://www.irmep.org
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/...90712.html
###
Planning for a Post-Israeli Warworld
or
http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.co...-warworld/
###
Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College says "The Military Knows Israel Did 9/11"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsWcQXr1Nk8
Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D, University of Michigan) is a ten-year US Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the US Army War College. He can be contacted at docbrosk@comcast.net
Alan N. Sabrosky, PhD – Former Director of Studies, Strategic Studies Institute and holder of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research, U.S. Army War College. A Marine Corps Vietnam veteran with 10 years of service. Graduate of the U.S. Army War College. Teaching and research appointments have included the United States Military Academy, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Middlebury College and Catholic University. While in government service, he held concurrent adjunct professorships at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs, lecturing widely on defense and foreign affairs in the United States and abroad. His published work includes thirteen books or monographs and over one hundred forty articles, chapters and book reviews. Author, co-author, or editor of Prisoners of War: Nation States in the Modern Era (1990), The Recourse to War: An Appraisal of the "Weinberger Doctrine" (1988), Alliances in U.S. Foreign Policy (1988), The Strategic Dimension of Military Manpower (1987), Polarity and War: The Changing Structure of International Conflict (1985), Great Power Games: The Sino American Power Transition (1982).
- Essay "Treason, Betrayal and Deceit: 9/11 and Beyond" 9/10/09:
"The official 9/11 Commission's work and report were at best an incomplete exercise. Many people dismiss the findings of the Commission, and that includes its co-chairs [ Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton ]. Many others who utterly distrust the 9/11 Commission report, dismiss the US Government’s explanation of it, and point to both an official cover-up and an “inside job,” include veteran fighter pilots, EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians), air defense experts, experienced commercial pilots, demolition experts, architects and civil engineers – none of them professions that inherently attract and retain the gullible and credulous.
Several things are very clear to me from a careful assessment of both official and critical evaluations of the 9/11 attacks. First, the striking aircraft alone simply could not have brought down either of the two buildings in the manner in which they fell, much less a third building which was not hit by a plane (I expect the one intended to do that as a "cover" had ended up in that Pennsylvania field), given the available physical evidence and a wealth of expert testimony. This means the attackers had assistance on the ground, and it had to have been active before the attacks occurred: preparing buildings for controlled demolition is not something done haphazardly in the midst of chaos.
Second, only two intelligence agencies had the expertise, assets, access and political protection to execute 9/11 in the air and on the ground: our CIA and Israel's Mossad. Only one had the incentive, using the “who benefits” principle: Mossad. And that incentive dovetailed perfectly with the neo-con’s agenda and explicitly expressed need for a catalytic event to mobilize the American public for their wars, using American military power to destroy Israel’s enemies. Only the unexpected strength of the Iraqi resistance kept Syria and Iran from being attacked in the second Bush Administration. Thus, the evidential trail for 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan & Iraq run from PNAC, AIPAC and their cohorts; through the mostly Jewish neo-cons in the Bush Administration; and back to the Israeli government. None of the denials and political machinations can alter that essential reality. Terms such as treason, betrayal and deceit do not overstate the case against them.
Finally, we need to take a hard look at why the mainstream media (MSM) have paid more attention to Sarah Palin’s wardrobe than they have to dissecting blatant falsehoods, discrepancies and inconsistencies in the US Government’s treatment of 9/11 and its aftermath. And the reason is that on this issue, all are on the same side, and the official line is the one they all prefer – “all” meaning the PNAC alumni who took over the Bush Administration’s national security apparatus and their counterparts in the Obama administration, AIPAC and the rest of the numerous Jewish PACs, the MSM owners and Israel." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...e23460.htm
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Mullen asserted that he was open to a U.S. attack on Iran
By Alan Sabrosky
America's Titanic Rushes the Iceberg
A very strange thing must have happened to Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), on his way to his recent talk at Washington's National Press Club.
He oddly asserted that Iran was indeed an "existential threat" to Israel (nice of the Israelis to have provided that sound bite), that he was open to a U.S. attack on Iran (which is no threat whatsoever to the U.S. ) to forestall that supposed danger to Israel, and that the attack "would also be incredibly destabilizing."
The thesis reviewed
In reality, only the anticipation of potentially catastrophic consequences is accurate. Regardless of what Arab governments do, the Arab street may explode. Iraq -- whose population, police and armed forces are largely Shia, and which now has good ties with Shia Iran -- could easily turn on the Americans in their midst, with gruesome consequences. Oil prices would skyrocket. And that is just for openers.
As for "existential threats," Israel certainly knows something about them, because that is precisely what Israel itself poses to Palestinians. But the idea that an Iran which might someday acquire a handful of crude nuclear weapons would somehow threaten the existence of Israel with its massive nuclear arsenal and American-designed air force surpasses lunacy. The Israelis know this. What they want is for the U.S. to remove their only surviving competitor in the region at America's own expense.
Moreover, Iran has not gone to war against its neighbors in modern times (Iraq invaded it in 1980). But Israel and the U.S. between them have gone to war and invaded other states on a variety of pretexts more than the rest of the world combined, since the end of the Second World War. Civil wars have been commonplace, but not international wars and cross-border interventions, which are visibly Israeli and American specialties.
The Face of Leadership?
Now, the fact that the good admiral sees nothing wrong with the U.S. going to war in the service of another country's interests is bad enough. But that he would do so knowing that a disaster of some sort could ensue defies belief. It is the equivalent of the captain of the SS Titanic being forewarned of an iceberg dead ahead, yet ordering the helmsman to hold his course and the engine room to increase the ship's speed.
I hope Mullen was simply parroting the script given him by the Pentagon's political leadership, which would be yet another strike against perpetuating civilian "amateur hour" in the national security process, just to keep the grave-diggers at America's military cemeteries gainfully employed. It would be more than painful to think he actually believed such nonsense, or lacked the character to refute it when he heard it.
We have been there before. One of the most compelling memories I have from the Vietnam War is the awareness (after the fact, I confess) of the abysmal arrogance and ignorance of most of the civilian so-called "leadership" in the Pentagon, compounded by the fact that not a single ranking general or admiral resigned in protest over what they knew in their professional hearts, minds and souls to be appallingly self-destructive and futile policies imposed on them by those superiors, and the President himself.
Beyond Arrogance and Ambition
A U.S. attack on Iran, alone (which Israel prefers) or in concert with Israel, would be the fourth misery in this decade directly attributable to assorted Israeli agencies, politicians and policies: the 9/11 attacks that set the whole train in motion, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now potentially Iran. With "friends" like Israel, the U.S. will certainly not lack enemies.
Nothing much can be expected from the U.S. Congress in forestalling a war with Iran, and that is no surprise. As Israel's cheerleader and apologist, bought or blackmailed (or both), it is doing its legislative best to force a needless confrontation and lay the groundwork for an unnecessary and destructive war. Congress is simply a key part of the problem.
Nothing much can be expected from the White House either, which is more disappointing. Perhaps President Obama merely lacks courage. Perhaps he has no convictions, and his words in Cairo were as empty as his reservoir of courage. Or perhaps Rahm Emanuel and company have such influence over him that he cannot stand against them. He is simply not part of the solution.
Then there is the professional military, especially the flag officers on the JCS. They have the potential to make a difference, setting them above their Vietnam-era predecessors. A concerted public statement by the JCS that an Israeli-inspired US war with Iran is not in America's interest, and that they oppose a decision that would take America into yet another costly and destructive war, would expose this particular exercise beyond any ability of the mainstream media to suppress it.
It could also cost them their careers, especially if it averted this contrived war. And I understand the significance of that, having once taken a stand at a much lesser level and lost almost everything. I am also sensitive to the concept of obedience to authority embedded in our military.
But obedience does not entail subservience, especially subservience to the dictates of a foreign country and its American lobby. The precepts of "Duty, Honor, Country" ought to be paramount, and the flag of the country they are sworn to serve does not -- at least not yet -- include a Star of David.
If they understand this, and understand in their hearts and their minds that "America's Zionist Wars" are antithetical to those precepts and to the welfare of the American people, then they will take a public stand and help derail this train. Otherwise the next decade will make this one look remarkably good.
-- Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D, University of Michigan) is a ten-year US Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the US Army War College. He can be contacted at docbrosk@comcast.net.
-- Middle East Online
###
On Luttwak’s “Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook”
http://bahoowah.blogspot.com/2007/06/blo...-coup.html
Edward Luttwak, the well-known military expert, an adviser on National Security to Ronald Reagan, is an ultra-conservative and a militarist with known links to the CIA, to friends in the Pentagon, to the military-industrial complex and, naturally, to JINSA.
###
The airfield at Newburgh?!
What do we know about it?
And now this…
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-bea...79537.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...79_pf.html
###
WeAreChange named as “hate group” by Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/826.html
###
Pentagon vs. Israel?
posted by Robert Dreyfuss on 03/16/2010 @ 1:00pm
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/..._vs_israel
###
How Petraeus could swing thinking on Israel
His belated recognition that U.S. and Israeli interests aren't always intertwined has particular impact
By Andrew Bacevich
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/0...index.html
###
The ADL targeting ….Gen. Petraeus?
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, March 19, 2010
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/03/19/t...-petraeus/
###
Israel is Boss
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=cont...srael-boss
###
Friday, Mar 19, 2010 04:20 EDT
Rampant patriotism breaches on America's right
By Glenn Greenwald
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_...index.html
###
“If anti-Semitism didn’t exist, Zionists would have to invent it.
And in many cases, that is precisely what they have done.”
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/...5707.shtml
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"