Sunday, February 24, 2008

Headlines for 02-23-08

The three trillion dollar war Most Americans have yet to feel these costs. The price in blood has been paid by our voluntary military and by hired contractors. The price in treasure has, in a sense, been financed entirely by borrowing. Taxes have not been raised to pay for it - in fact, taxes on the rich have actually fallen. Whose war is it?


Iran vows reprisals against any new UN sanctions


Iran says more sanctions won't halt nuclear plan


Nukes and Rumors of Nukes


Christian Zionists stand firm as friends to Israel Hagee uses biblical references to threaten Iran for its anti-Israel posturing as easily as he talks about the love of Jesus, and he leads a fierce opposition to Israel forfeiting so much as one more grain of sand to Palestinians.


Presidential Primaries 2008 / McCain's unconditional support for Israel likely to draw Jewish voters


Yes, There Is a Guerrilla War Against Zionism in the U.S. What Should Jewish Institutions Do? When Congressman Berman went into fits of denial that there is an Israel lobby, after saying that he joined the Foreign Affairs Committee because he cared about Israel, this was not honest.



We must get out of the Middle East no matter what, CIA vet says To make his case against foreign entanglements, Scheuer quotes America's Founding Fathers, the U.S. Constitution and the man he considers our greatest president, George Washington: "[A] passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils," Washington once wrote. It creates "the illusion of an imaginary common interest [...] and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and Wars of the latter."

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