Hillary

Hillary Clinton is not someone I can support for President. First, she is the DLC candidate. The DLC is simply the Republican wing of the Democratic party. Second, she is a warmonger. She sounds like Bush and McCain. "No option is off the table." If she, or any of these other warmongering types, were interested in solving problems in the Middle East, the first thing they should say is military action against Iran is off the table. Third, she is an ardent and apparently uncritical supporter of Israel, a rogue nation involved in genocidal actions against the Palestinians. Fourth, she is apparently the darling of the corporations that will control the elections. Remember, she was on the Board of Directors of Wal Mart (maybe she still is, for all I know). Rupert Murdoch arranged a fundraiser for her. She has far more money than any other candidate, money that did not come in five and ten dollar donations, but, rather, from those power brokers who know what they are up to. I believe she has already been selected as their candidate for the election. I believe they think a Republican cannot be elected in 2008 and, if so, what better than a Republican lite who is already on their payroll? Sorry to be so cynical but I truly believe this is what it is all about. This is not something I like. At one time I was a true Hillary Supporter, gave her money, and whatever. But no more. For me, she has blown it big time. I simply do not believe, among other things, that the most important thing in our foreign policy is keeping Iran from having a bomb. While I believe Iran might want a bomb I don't believe they are very close to having one. Even more importantly, I don't believe if they had a bomb they would use it for anything other than defense. Iranians are intelligent, wonderful, poetic people, surrounded by enemies that all have nuclear bombs. If they want a bomb it would be perfectly reasonable. There is apparently no real evidence they even want a bomb. To continue to threaten them with military action is totally non-productive. We need to engage them diplomatically (a concept apparently entirely foreign to Bush/Cheney).

Now Bush/Cheney are trying desperately to link Iran to the troubles in Iraq. In a private and more or less secret meeting, directed by individuals who refused to use their names, evidence was supposedly presented proving that Iran was furnishing weapons to certain of the Iraqis. They claimed that serial numbers and descriptions of these weapons proved they came from Iran and that high level persons in the Iranian government were involved. General Pace brought them down to earth by pointing out there was no evidence whatsoever that the Iranian government was involved, even if the weapons came from Iran (they could have been purchased on the world wide munitions market, come from Hezbolla, or whatever). Furthermore, as the descriptions were in English, it would be more likely than not that these weapons were produced for the worldwide market rather than explicitly for Iraq. In any case, after their obvious lies about Iraq, most people are not much in a mood to believe them.

Which leads us to Feith who clearly cherry picked and reinterpreted intelligence reports to make a case for attacking Iraq. This is so blatant as to be indisputable. And, of course, Cheney was behind it. Now they are saying that yes, they did it, but they did nothing illegal by making their own interpretations of the intelligence. Wonderful! They distorted the evidence in favor of starting an illegal and unnecessary "war" in which hundreds of thousands have lost their lives, and they have the effrontery to say they did nothing illegal? These people are worse than war criminals, they are monsters who lack even the basic rudiments of humanity. Feith, like Bush, apparently does not have the brains God gave a horse's ass. Cheney, lying, slimy creature that he is, from somewhere in the dark underground, does the Devil's work.