Iraq was a wrong war, no doubt. Bush is the name of a mad cow disease. You spread violence with violence, as we see happening.
The need to spread democracy in the Arab world is acute. I have been arguing consistently at this blog that spreading democracy the progressive way, not the neocon way is the way to win the Long War.
Lieberman has supported Bush blindly. And he has been paying the price. If he loses the primary, he should not run as an independent.
Bush misused the Congressional authorization on Iraq. No Democrat voted for the war that Bush jumped into. He was supposed to exhaust all political possibilities.
You can't just leave tomorrow. But the Democrats do have to compete with each other to come up with plans that get the US troops out as soon as possible. That is healthy competition. And that is in sharp contrast with the neocons. They want to stay there forever.
Progressive peace can not be about isolationism. It has to be about spreading democracy the progressive way. I don't see any of the anti war activists getting this point. You don't counter wrong foreign policy with no foreign policy.
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Anyone ...... this murderous organisation Hezbollah, which is the long arm of Iran ..... We didn’t like very much UNIFIL which was very useless and very helpless. ..... Everyone understands that Israel was the defensive side and Hezbollah was the offensive side. ..... I will do everything possible in order to influence the resolution to this direction. ...... Ariel Sharon’s, ‘brave step’ of disengaging from Gaza and the lack of emergence of ‘moderate elements’ in Hamas ....... we have to win the war against global extremism and that we have to win it at the level of values and at the level of force ...... I don’t think relations between Israel and America is established on the basis that we get orders from the administration. ...... We all share the same commitment to the basic values of democracy, of equality, of tolerance and that we are ready to fight for these principles. ...... The war started not only by killing eight Israeli soldiers and abducting two but by shooting Katyusha and other rockets on the northern cities of Israel on that same morning. Indiscriminately. ...... can you imagine seven million British citizens sitting for 22 days in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham in Newcastle, in Brighton and in other cities? Twenty two days in shelters because a terrorist organisation was shooting rockets and missiles on their heads? What would have been the British reaction to that? .......... How many innocent civilians were killed in Kosovo 10 years ago? ...... The difference between us and Hezbollah is that when we kill innocent people we consider it a failure, when they kill innocent people they consider it a success. .... It was registered by the UN that Israel has pulled out entirely from Lebanon and we don’t occupy one centimetre of Lebanon. ...... it has to be made up of armies, not of retirees, of real soldiers, not of pensioners who have come to spend leisurely months in south Lebanon, but, rather, an army with combat units..... Israel is not afraid of missiles. ..... my wife - she went today to the north to visit with some people and communities and she told me: 'Listen, it's not pleasant. They are falling all the time, everywhere.' ........ we responded in such a manner that will be registered in the collective memory, of not just the Lebanese, but of every nation that has ever had any plans to attack the state of Israel with missiles. They will know that we respond and sometimes the response can be very, very, very painful....... Israel will never, ever allow anyone any more to attack Israel without response....... - a big infrastructure created for Hezbollah. .... in 2001 in the middle of the intifada when we had to face every day suicide attacks in the middle of our cities ...... the military campaign has been brilliant. ...... I don't know of any army in modern history which has done near what we did against a guerrilla organisation....... Look how difficult it is for the allied forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? Because you don’t fight big formats....... If Lebanon as a country had been the target within half an hour there wouldn't have been any air fields, any planes, any tanks, anything, and that would be it. ...... the enormous, unbelievable intelligence we knew in every village which home they had these launchers ...... We destroyed most of the launchers of the longer range missiles, again due to unbelievable intelligence. We also destroyed 700 targets that served as command positions, as logistical positions, as storage houses as offices of Hezbollah across Lebanon. ....... look at the face of Nasrallah .... had he been able to reverse it to square one and not to start it altogether he would have done it immediately ........ the Hezbollah lost entirely their status in the political structure of Lebanon. Number two, they lost their position amongst the moderate Arab countries. For Hezbollah to hear that Saudi Arabia is opposed to them is a blow in the heart ....... error of judgement was that Israel would not respond in the way that we did. ...... I am not a Nasrallah. I am not talking in this arrogant and pompous manner......... if Nasrallah is so courageous why doesn’t he resurface? Why is he afraid even to feel the light of the sun...... Where exactly is Nasrallah, this big mouth? ......
It's Israel that is the larger threat Toronto Star, Canada
Open letter to Bush from an Arab girl Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates your foreign policy is completely biased towards Israel ..... it is our — the entire Arab and Muslim world’s — choice to support Lebanon. ..... In Qana, 57 armless, defenseless civilians died in an Israeli air strike, 37 of them were children..... they matter to more than 200 million Arabs in the Middle East..... How many more, Mr Bush, should die before you decide to stop sending those bloody weapons to Israel? Perhaps we can afford a sacrifice that will rein in your generosity towards Israel permanently....... Not the "New Middle East" that you’ve been brainstorming in your Oval Office. ..... "They murder the murdered and walk in his funeral." ......Your credibility and your government’s credibility have long been lost — irretrievably lost like those lost innocent lives. People will not forget this though. They will not turn the other cheek; they will retaliate — just like you had chosen to retaliate after 9/11...... I was born too late to see how the British Empire had collapsed, but right on time to see how the American Empire is falling apart. Mr Bush, You will surely be remembered in history for hastening that process.
No side winning War The Israeli people are not winning because they live in constant fear of terrorist threats and suffer continuous attacks. The Palestinian people aren't winning because they haven't yet regained their homeland; they live in constant fear of Israeli reprisals and suffer unbearably when Israel retaliates. Both Israel and the terrorists lose face, in their struggle to dominate, when they kill innocent civilians........ The only people who seem to be winning are the politicians and leaders who incite passions and use the conflict to further their aims; the organizations that gain money and support by inciting anger; the weapons manufacturers and distributors, which make billions selling their hardware; the security companies, which make billions advising leaders and selling their equipment and all the remaining companies that supply other goods and services to the warring factions...... After all is said and done, the Palestinian issue will eventually be settled using the non-violent methods of diplomacy, talking, negotiating, handshaking and paper signing
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