Labels: CFR, Dr. Evil, global awakening, one world government, Zbigniew Brzezinski
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posted by profmarcus at
2/08/2011
Labels: Afghanistan, CIA, Kabul, Paul Jay, Ray McGovern, Real News, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
2/25/2009
Allowing for retroactive immunity in a FISA bill that had no business even being brought to the floor is not progressive. Folding to Mister Bush on Iraq over and over and over when the vast majority of the country is on your side is not progressive. Sending a big "F-You" to MoveOn.org on the Senate floor is not progressive. Allowing extremist appointment after extremist appointment by Bush is not progressive. Caving to an unpopular President and an even less popular Congressional minority is not progressive. Allowing non-progressives to continuously set the tone of the debate is not progressive.
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I sincerely hope that we can recruit more progressives for the Senate, and win more seats. However, we also expect more from the lion’s share of the current Democratic Senators – on the very issues that we were promised results on. Blaming republican obstruction is part of it - but we know better. There is much more that you and your colleagues could have (and still can) accomplish if you were to keep your promises made to us back in 2006.
You can do better. We did our part for you. Now it is time that you and your colleagues really do what you promised us. If I can't trust the DSCC and who it represents to keep up your end of the deal, then you'll have to excuse me while I work for and donate money to true progressives.
No hard feelings, though...
Labels: Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, clammyc, criminal Democrats, Daily Kos, Democrats, FISA, Hillary Clinton, Jim Webb, John Tester, Mark Penn, US Senate, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
2/14/2008
After enjoying great deference in the conduct of national security for his first six years in office, President Bush now faces an assertive opposition Congress that has left him on the defensive. The nonbinding resolution passed by the House yesterday on a largely party-line vote seems certain to be the first of a series of actions that will challenge Bush for the remainder of his presidency.
At stake is not just Bush's decision to send an additional 21,500 U.S. troops to Iraq, the plan specifically renounced by the resolution. By extension, the 246 to 182 vote passed judgment on Bush's overall stewardship of the war in Iraq and, more broadly, on his leadership in the world. At a time when the president is confronting Iran over its nuclear enrichment program, the House vote demonstrates that he has far less latitude to take aggressive action than he might have had in the past.
"This is an important moment," said Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser and is now a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "And it's an important moment not only about what's in the past, or even in the present, but also what might be happening in the future."
The resolution, he said, "tells the president that the country's increasingly tired of the war and the country's reaction to his provoking a new war would be even worse."
Both sides recognized that the House vote, along with a Senate vote scheduled for today, represents the opening salvo in a more protracted struggle. "To me, this is kind of a baby step. It doesn't have teeth," said David J. Rothkopf, author of "Running the World," a book on the making of modern foreign policy. "The real question is going to be whether the Democratic leadership goes further and challenges funding, because that's where Congress historically has been able to show its influence."
Labels: Congress, Democrats, House of Representatives, Iraq, Iraq resolution, national security, US Senate, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
2/17/2007
Whatever the administration's master plan may be, parts of it are already under way. In mid-January, the U.S. sent a second aircraft-carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf. According to Gardiner, by the end of February the United States will have enough forces in place to mount an assault on Iran. That, in the words of former national-security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, would be "an act of political folly" so severe that "the era of American preponderance could come to a premature end."
The Bush White House has already built the fire. Whether it will light the match remains to be seen.
Forget peace, international coalitions, global warming and universal healthcare. If Dems don't start screaming now about the need to remove Cheney from power now, it's going to be too late. In December, a few of us pooh-poohed all the cheering and predicted an Iran attack in March. Looks like Craig Unger and a few other folks figure March is about when it happens, too.
Cheney doesn't give a rat's ass about the law, the will of the American voters or any force of nature beyond his own rapacious greed and belief that he and only he understands what's right for America.
Cheney and his sock-puppet are moving all the pieces into place for an attack on Iran. Dems will not have much time to act, surely no more than 30 days.
Will the IMPEACHMENT debate provide every Dem with the opportunity to speak up on another invasion, some feel is guaranteed to turn the world against America once and for all? Yes!
Will the IMPEACHMENT debate FOCUS America's attention on the illegal war on Iran just about everyone seems to believe is unfolding before our eyes?
Will Americans forgive Dems for doing nothing again to stop the attack, when folks come forward with Tehran and America's reputation in ashes with the sorry-ass excuse?
Labels: Congress, Craig Unger, Democrats, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Impeachment, Iran, Persian Gulf, Vanity Fair, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
2/10/2007
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