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Bomber Obama | 16 comments (16 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Bomber Obama (none / 0)

Jeff, delivered as promised. I'm just as disappointed by this. Do you think it's just 'fear' of losing voters that causes this change? How come Israel has such power over candidates? They receive money from the US and not the other way around..
it baffles me. Other than suspecting it's domestic politics at work, I don't understand. Even if it is a feature of not wanting to be seen as 'weak' or inexperienced, does the Jewish voting bloc/money have such a reach? I checked out Jerusalem Post last night and noticed that 'Iranian Threat' is a separate page altogether. And McCain with his poll-ad as to do you want them talking to Iran (forget the exact wording, you've seen it I'm sure; Ahmadjanidad and Obama pics with a quasi poll to 'check' whether you want them talking or not) is a major ad on top of the first page. Israeli newspapers seem to feeding this just as much, of course, only a 'chomsky' will go counter that official public line in Israel.
Ingrid

Politics have no relation to morals. Niccolo Machiavelli

by TexasDutchie (bloggerRoundtableAThotmail.com, all lower cases) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 08:21:46 AM EST

Dual Citizenship - Dual Allegiance (4.00 / 2)

The Israel Lobby
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

Jewish Americans have set up an impressive array of organisations to influence American foreign policy, of which AIPAC is the most powerful and best known. In 1997, Fortune magazine asked members of Congress and their staffs to list the most powerful lobbies in Washington. AIPAC was ranked second behind the American Association of Retired People, but ahead of the AFL-CIO and the National Rifle Association. A National Journal study in March 2005 reached a similar conclusion, placing AIPAC in second place (tied with AARP) in the Washington `muscle rankings'.

The US form of government offers activists many ways of influencing the policy process. Interest groups can lobby elected representatives and members of the executive branch, make campaign contributions, vote in elections, try to mould public opinion etc. They enjoy a disproportionate amount of influence when they are committed to an issue to which the bulk of the population is indifferent.

Defense Policy Influence - Douglas Feith

● Obama and AIPAC
● Dutch Documentary 'The Israel lobby - The influence of AIPAC on US Foreign Policy'

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 09:02:42 AM EST
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Re: Dual Citizenship - Dual Allegiance (4.00 / 2)

Ahead of AFL/CIO. Just amazing.

Jeff

Jeff Huber Pen and Sword

by Jeff Huber on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 09:09:24 AM EST
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Re: Dual Citizenship - Dual Allegiance (none / 1)

Btw Jeff, after I emigrated to Canada, and started studying politics, I found out about lobby groups. In Canada they are (I would assume still, since I haven't lived there since the late 90s) illegal. It is so bizarre that lobbying is considered no big deal here. Of course the 'usual suspects' of the left persuasion are but why not ordinary Republicans? Or why is there not more noise coming from Republican voters about lobbyists?

Ingrid

Politics have no relation to morals. Niccolo Machiavelli

by TexasDutchie (bloggerRoundtableAThotmail.com, all lower cases) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 10:00:06 AM EST
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Re: Dual Citizenship - Dual Allegiance (none / 1)

Dank je Oui. I'll check it out when I have no distractions..

Ingrid

Politics have no relation to morals. Niccolo Machiavelli

by TexasDutchie (bloggerRoundtableAThotmail.com, all lower cases) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 09:56:39 AM EST
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It's incredible... (none / 1)

...They're taking America in on Iran the way they did on Iraq. Israel has us by the nose, and our politicians keep following. I'm in horror.

Jeff

Jeff Huber Pen and Sword

by Jeff Huber on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 09:08:38 AM EST
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Re: It's incredible... (none / 1)

well said. Obama reeks with disappointing talk.

But in the practice of politics, Bush just gave Obama cover on Iran. Engage in direct talks.

Bush did not need to bomb North Korea into abandoning their nuclear weapons aspiration or to remove them from the State sponsored terror list.

But then our foreign policy in the ME is dictated by AIPAC.

Dual standards. Israel first.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 10:16:38 AM EST
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Dual standards... (none / 1)

Oh, what was my joke from a few years back..

If you don't have nukes but won't admit it, America will invade you.

If you don't have nukes and say you don't want nukes, America will threaten to bomb you.

If you have nukes and brag about it, American will conduct diplomacy with you.

Brilliant, eh?

Jeff Huber Pen and Sword

by Jeff Huber on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 10:20:57 AM EST
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Re: Dual standards...Cheney's defeat (none / 1)

A history Lesson for Dickie Cheney:

In the End, Every President Talks to the Bad Guys
December 2003:
"I have been charged by the president with making sure that none of the tyrannies in the world are negotiated with," Vice President Cheney reportedly declared in a White House meeting on North Korea in December 2003. "We don't negotiate with evil; we defeat it."
:::
June 26, 2008:
(Bloomberg) -- North Korea submitted its inventory of nuclear plants and materials, a move followed by a U.S. pledge to remove the regime from its list of state sponsors of terrorism and lift some trade sanctions.
The information was required under a September 2005 agreement by the government in Pyongyang and the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia to rid the Korean peninsula of atomic weapons. North Korea's refusal to submit the declaration on its programs had stalled the negotiations for months.

expedient to Bush's legacy, off-setting the smell of his war-mongering.

JCoS Chairman, General Mullen is in Israel this week. Mullen wants "A healthy dialogue with Iran because engagement would offer an opportunity to understand each other."He can point to North Korea as a reason to cease the saber-rattling on Iran.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 11:00:12 AM EST
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