Lieberman and AIPAC

[bex]

The Committee of Fear: Joe Lieberman and John Kyl

July 20, 2004

We cannot overstate how dangerous this development is at this moment in the struggle for democracy in America. Joe Lieberman and John Kyl, the epitome of AIPAC and conservative Congressional power, have revived the Committee on the Present Danger. As the foreign threat flipside of McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee, the CPD kindled fear and preyed upon the ignorance of everyday Americans to push through aggressive defense spending programs.

Now they are at it again . Unlike last time, when America was in a struggle for survival, this time, America is the imperial power. Our security is determined by how we order the world, and right now our economic and military policies are impoverishing and oppressing billions of people. But if history is any guide, Lieberman and Kyl will argue that the threat comes from people who detest our freedoms.

The reality is, we are attacked and hated because of our unjust policies. This is the present danger. Our economic engine is addicted to oil, members of Congress are addicted to AIPAC and defense industry money, and right now that system is falling apart. If there is a danger, it is to the power base of these cynical elite.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_committee_of_fear.php
http://www.thehill.com/news/063004/coldwar.aspx
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040712&c=1&s=kaplan

[SheBop]

1. Here's another article on this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63067-2004Jul19.html

These are the final 3 paragraphs:

"True to its history, the reborn Committee on the Present Danger will advocate strong policies both against international terrorists and their sponsors and in favor of freedom and security. We are committed to advancing this common cause on a bipartisan basis.

In this war, our enemies do not distinguish between Democrats and Republicans. All Americans are the targets of their hate, because all Americans share the values they detest, the purpose that has defined America since the founders declared our independence -- to secure our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy said, "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it." Our freedom is again in danger, this time from Islamist terrorism. Our generation must not shrink from the responsibility to defend it. Together, we will prevail, and freedom's reach will expand."

[Ms. Clio]

6. "freedom's reach will expand"

Yeah, "freedom" will expand into Iran, Syria, and god knows where else, if these scary bastards get their way.

[Hoping4Change]

2. I watched as much as I could stomach of their interview with

Leslie on CNN. I couldn't bear watching Lieberman's ever present pained expression as he pontificated.

In Toronto Globe & Mail today is a timely article about Gore Vidal very relevent to your post.

Vidal is less sanguine about the possibility that his own work or anyone else's will be able to roll back the Bush administration's removals of individual privacy: "When one listens to the parade of Congress persons babbling about monsters that are lurking on every side to do us in if we are permitted any freedoms at all it is hard to imagine them doing anything except further erasing due process and so on."


"Mincing words is the last thing Mr. Vidal does when he is talking about the current U.S. administration: "The so-called war on terrorism is as meaningless as a phrase as it is as a fact," he says. "Where is terror's homeland?"

He also finds the idea of a ghoulishly sinister army of connected terror groups implausible. "A terrorist event tends to be a random affair," he says. "Despite the best efforts of clueless phrase-makers who chatter about the odd 'axis of evil,' there remains no connection between the IRA, Saddam Hussein, Palestinian terrorists versus Zionist terrorists. And so, lacking connections, how can there be a concerted concentrated attack on so much random evil?"

According to Mr. Vidal, the two places the administration did concentrate its attacks were more about territory than terror. He accuses the Republicans of having "every interest in promoting their own brand of terrorism against weaker countries with significant oil reserves."

In fact, he characterizes the "pre-emptive assaults on both Afghanistan and Iraq" as "two acts of brute savagery not witnessed on our planet since the 1930s, when Hitler was pre-emptively attacking one state after another."


http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040717/VIDAL17/TPFocus/

[against all enemies]

3. One thing Bush/Cheney got right.

He is Joe LOSERMAN. Dick Blumenthal please, please primary Joe and give him Joementem out of our lives.

[EndElectoral]

4. Lieberman and Miller will switch parties in 2005 if Kerry wins....

[Hornito]

5. Miller is retiring, and with any luck, someone will run against

Lieberman (dual loyalist, traitorous scum) 06'.