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Showing posts with label War on Terror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War on Terror. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
McCain Unleashes Well of Republican Hatred
Who knew that when you go around accusing Obama of being a foreigner, outsider, unpatriotic and basically a terrorist sympathizer Manchurian candidate it would unleash the frothing hatred that Republicans have been whipping up in the "base" all these years?
Just a few recent examples of hate-mongering run rampant:
Yesterday, John McCain delivered an unhinged anti-Obama diatribe in New Mexico, and when he posed a rhetorical question -- "Who is the real Barack Obama?" -- someone shouted, "A terrorist!" McCain paused momentarily, but did not comment on the remark.
and
Also yesterday, Sarah Palin repeated one of her unusually stupid attacks, rehashing the nonsense that Obama "pals around" with terrorists. One man in the audience, responding to Palin's smear, shouted, "Kill him!" Palin also did not comment on the remark.
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At the same Florida event, Republicans shouted abuse at journalists, hurling obscenities. The Washington Post reported, "One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, 'Sit down, boy.'"
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And just to top things off, last night, the Republican Party of Pennsylvania announced its belief that Obama is "a terrorist's best friend."
As Steve Benen put it:
I expected Republicans to fight hard to win this year. I also expected them to ignore traditional norms, throw caution to the wind, and dispense with honesty and decency. But I didn't expect a wholesale descent into madness. These folks have just lost their collective minds.
Are McCain and Palin responsible for lunatics who shout insane comments at their rallies? Of course not. That said, when the Republican campaign, mired in desperation, deliberately stokes the fires of hate and fear, using disgusting lies to argue that Obama is literally dangerous, no one should be surprised when the far-right Republican base becomes frenzied.
Posted by Metavirus at 10/07/2008 10:23:00 AM 2 comments
Tags: Election 2008 , Fearmongering , General Election , John McCain , War on Terror , Warmongering
Monday, October 6, 2008
Keith Olbermann Special Comment: Sarah Palin and Terrorists
Here is the video of Keith Olbermann's Special Comment aired tonight on Sarah Palin her recent bullsh*t terrorist comments:
Posted by Metavirus at 10/06/2008 09:50:00 PM 1 comments
Tags: Distortions , Election 2008 , General Election , John McCain , Keith Olbermann , Lies , Media , Sarah Palin , Video , War on Terror
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Iraq Wants a Firm Date for Withdrawal
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has made it 100% crystal clear in recent days that they want a firm date for the withdrawal of American forces by 2011 (not "aspirational time horizons" or any other similar bullcrap).
This of course vindicates Obama's call for a firm timetable and eviscerates McCain's stubborn rhetoric on the issue. As Yglesias puts it:"There can be no treaty or agreement except on the basis of Iraq's full sovereignty," al-Maliki told a gathering of Shiite tribal sheiks. He said any agreement must be based on the principle that "no foreign soldier remains in Iraq after a specific deadline, not an open time frame."
Al-Maliki said the U.S. and Iraq had already agreed on a full withdrawal of all foreign troops by the end of 2011 — an interpretation that the White House challenged. Until then, the U.S. could not conduct military operations "without the approval" of the Iraqi government, al-Maliki said.
Progressives think the United States should set a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq. Iraqi politicians uniformly want this. And the Iraqi public is overwhelmingly on board. But conservative analysts have been labeling this policy irresponsible forever. How do they react?
Remember what McCain said in 2004?
Question: "What would or should we do if, in the post-June 30th period, a so-called sovereign Iraqi government asks us to leave, even if we are unhappy about the security situation there?"
McCain's Answer: "Well, if that scenario evolves than I think it's obvious that we would have to leave because -- if it was an elected government of Iraq, and we've been asked to leave other places in the world. If it were an extremist government then I think we would have other challenges, but I don't see how we could stay when our whole emphasis and policy has been based on turning the Iraqi government over to the Iraqi people."
Pretty clear, isn't it? A democratically elected Iraqi government wants us out by 2011.
Period.
Game, set, match.
Posted by Metavirus at 8/26/2008 12:38:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: Barack Obama , Election 2008 , General Election , Iraq , John McCain , McCain File , War on Terror , Warmongering
Monday, August 18, 2008
Quote of the Day: Stop with the Exaggerations
From a great new Reason article on McCain's false and ridiculous claim that Russia's invasion of Georgia was "the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War":
Perpetually exaggerating threats leads to, well, perpetual exaggerations, whether about a bad guy's wickedness or a good guy's virtue. On such faulty edifices are constructed unnecessary wars, those most murderous of foreign policy mistakes. In October 2001, McCain, a longtime Iraq hawk, told David Letterman that "some of this anthrax may—and I emphasize may—have come from Iraq." And the senator has long been a supporter of disgraced Iraqi National Congress schemer Ahmad Chalabi.
So take care when the would-be commander in chief says "we are all Georgians" (a rhetorical flourish made goofy by the fact that not all Georgians are even Georgians). McCain may indeed have a usable, just-add-water approach to Russia (consider that his calls to kick Russia out of the G8 went from being crazy-sounding to a distinct possibility within a few short months), but after nearly seven years of seeing a McCain-lite foreign policy in practice, our burden of proof should shift back to the boys who perpetually cry wolf.
Read the Article: McCain's Georgia Hyberbole
Posted by Metavirus at 8/18/2008 03:32:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: Distortions , Election 2008 , General Election , John McCain , Lies , McCain File , War on Terror , Warmongering
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
McCain On Russia; Unhinged, Frightening
McCain's all-too-familiar rhetoric over the Georgia/Russia war of recent days is really starting to scare me. I had taken as a given that the idealogy of the neoconservative right had been thoroughly discredited by the farce that we got into in Iraq. Well, it looks more and more each day as if they have found a new champion in McCain.
John Marshall has it exactly right:
It's sort of funny when [McCain was] just an unhinged senator. But think for a moment where we'd be if this man were president right now, as he may well be in six months. This man takes the counsel of the people who got us into the Iraq War. On foreign policy, he is in league with the people who were so extreme they've now largely been kicked out of the Bush administration. People like John
Bolton and others like him.
It's beyond Obama or political strategy or dinging McCain on this or that policy. This man is simply too dangerous and unstable to be president. People need to wake up and get a look of the preview he's giving us of a McCain presidency.
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Posted by Metavirus at 8/12/2008 04:27:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: Election 2008 , General Election , John McCain , McCain File , Russia , War on Terror , Warmongering
Monday, August 11, 2008
A Vote for McCain is a Vote for War
It's just that simple. McCain's bellicose posturing on Iran and Russia make it clear that a vote for McCain is a vote for more war in Iraq, a new war in Iran and any manners of other violent conflicts around the world.
Here is a chilling new video that came out recently that paints this situation in high relief. Send it to anyone you know who thinks they're going to vote for McCain because they're "just not comfortable with that Obama guy". They will be knowingly and affirmatively voting to condemn more innocent people around the world to die in McCain's Wars. Period.
Money quote (from Pat Buchanan): "[McCain] will make Cheney look like Gandhi."
Posted by Metavirus at 8/11/2008 07:05:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: Barack Obama , Election 2008 , General Election , Iraq , John McCain , McCain File , Video , War Crimes , War on Terror , Warmongering
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Quote of the Day: May Bush Die in The Hague
Awesome:
The Iraq war is and has always been an obscenity, a filthy lie born of avarice and lust for power masquerading as virtue. This is what imperialism looks like. But the age of empire is over. The same hubris that led Bush into the Iraq disaster led him to miscalculate, again and again, over how to entrench it. But now he is impotent, unable to impose his will, and the nakedness of his attempted imposition has led the American and the Iraqi peoples to wake up and end his nightmare. May his war-crimes prosecutor be Iraqi; may his judge be American; and may he die in the Hague.
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Posted by Metavirus at 7/19/2008 07:22:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: Bush , Election 2008 , General Election , Iraq , John McCain , War Crimes , War on Terror
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Quote of the Day
Publius on McCain's opposition to any right for a prisoner detained at Guantanamo to claim that their detention is wrongful:
Read MoreRights don’t exist if you eliminate all procedures to vindicate those rights. Otherwise, the rights become only words on paper, rather than living breathing liberties that must necessarily be enforced.
In short, actions speak louder than words. And in the world of action, McCain has been a consistent opponent of habeas.
Posted by Metavirus at 6/19/2008 03:26:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: Barack Obama , Election 2008 , General Election , Guantanamo , Habeas Corpus , Iraq , John McCain , McCain File , War on Terror
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