THE K AND K SURGE

[Zlatko Waterman]

Note:

Democrats and others called Barry Goldwater a "right wing extremist" and his campaign for President in 1964 called him "A Choice Not An Echo."

Bush has plumbed the depths to find some crazies who will, as the writer below quotes from some senior Republicans, offer GWB an "Alice in Wonderland" set of choices . . .

Some of the things Roberts claims below ( in his op-ed piece) are a little strong even for my own objections to countenance fully. But I feel he is well worth listening to-- if only to remind us how far we have come in blood and error and that our "leader" is urging us on in the same direction . . .

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( from AntiWar.com)

Keane/Kagan Plan Means More Bloodshed

by Paul Craig Roberts


On Jan. 2, the BBC reported a leak from a "senior administration source" that President George W. Bush is going to give a speech, whose "central theme will be sacrifice," announcing an increase in U.S. troops in Iraq for security purposes. Speculation abounds whether the leak is designed to block Bush's insane policy with protests or to soften its controversial edge when announced. The BBC reports that "already one senior Republican senator has called it Alice in Wonderland."

Bush's proposal, if he makes it, is the work of retired army general Jack Keane and Frederick W. Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute. AEI is the second most important Israeli lobby in Washington after AIPAC.

Keane and Kagan profess to believe that 30,000 more U.S. troops can bring security to Iraq. Keane and Kagan argue that more U.S. troops would permit the U.S. military to retain control of an area after they had cleared it of insurgents. They ignore that Iraq has progressed from insurgency into civil war. There can be no Iraqi army independent of the sectarian conflict. The military problem for the Americans is no longer a small insurgency drawn from a minority of the population, but sectarian strife involving all of Iraq. Today the only choice for U.S. forces is to ally with one side or the other in the civil war or to depart Iraq.

Knowledgeable people regard the Keane/Kagan plan as a proposal designed to continue for a while longer the blood profits of the U.S. military-industrial complex and to advance Israel's interests by spreading Sunni-Shi'ite conflict throughout the Middle East.

The neoconservatives' original plan was to give Israel hegemony in the Middle East by using the U.S. military to overthrow Iraq, Iran, and Syria. The failure of U.S. forces to subdue Iraq has led to a new neoconservative plan to give Israel supremacy by spreading sectarian conflict among Muslims throughout the region. No Arab state would be stable, and Israel could proceed with its seizure of Palestine.

If Bush adopts the Keane/Kagan "plan," he should be impeached for putting two special interests – the military-industrial complex and Israeli Zionist settlers – ahead of America's interests and the interests of peace in the Middle East. The crimes of the Bush regime already stand at a horrendous level. There is no support for the Keane/Kagan "plan" in the American political establishment, among Middle East experts and the American public, or within the Bush administration itself.

The American electorate, or stolen elections, have put in the presidency an ignorant and moronic person who is guided not by sense and reason but by an enormous ego that can admit no mistake. In the name of a concocted "war on terror," the American public has permitted Bush an endless stream of mistakes. These mistakes are destroying any prospect for peace in the Middle East, committing America to endless and pointless conflict, destroying America's soft power while demonstrating the limits of its military power, creating a domestic police state, and endangering the U.S. dollar. There is no imaginable gain from the Middle Eastern conflict that Bush has initiated that could possibly offset these costs to Americans.

The U.S. electorate attempted to rein in Bush in the November election by giving Democrats control of Congress. But Bush refuses to listen to the electorate as he prepares, instead, to mire America deeper in an illegitimate conflict that does not serve America's interests.

President George W. Bush is destroying America. Will Congress stop him?

[stilltrucking]

It beats me what congress will do. I don't see the war ending anytime soon. Not before January 2009.

Yeah the A.E.I.
Boy oh Boy those Jews are sure a problem. It is amazing how such a small group of people can create so much suffering in the world. 12.9 million people out of about six billion. Sometimes I wish I was a Seventh Day Adventist.

[mnaz]

Many right-wing blowhards still think the Democrats "lost the Vietnam War" by de-funding it. Untrue. Funding was cut only after Nixon finally withdrew troops. Fast-forward 33 years. If Dems gotta do the time then why not do the crime? Just pull the plug on that delusional, fading zealot in the White House. His days are numbered and far too sheltered. Consider it an act of mercy, as innumerable conscripted victims of Vietnam's savagery in '71 and '72 would no doubt have testified to a similar act. But... No! We must have victory! What the hell is this victory?

I read an article on Slate today: some neocon revisionist (or not) scribbled on about how "The West" (and those Surrender Monkee Europeans) fail to recognize the inherent evil-ness of totalitarian dictators thruout the 20th Century, and their threat to the world. Maybe he has a point. Or not. Once again (and again and again), Hitler's Third Reich and a toothless Iraq under a declining Saddam Hussein are thrown together, in nearly the same breath, as major threats to the world. I honestly can't fathom how anyone can actually still pick up a pen or clatter on a keyboard and write that kind of an article anymore.

I try to sort thru it all. Honestly, I do. But it seems to me that the people who launched this intractable Iraq war expected short-term riches and long-term prestige over any true visionary claim to long-term justice. But then, that's just one reporter's opinion... I hate to be so negative at Christmas-time.

I watched the end of the movie "Platoon" tonight. I haven't been able to watch that damn thing for over 20 years since it came out. Too damn close to home.

[stilltrucking]

I was checking out David Duke's webpage the other day. He had a banner that said "support our troops, bring them home" I wonder why so many Neo-Nazi, Klu Klux can websites are so anti-bush war?

Yes the democrats will have lost the war by 2009. I think that is Bush's exit strategy. Blame it on the democrats.

You know I can still remember the debate about who lost China to the communists in 1949, it was a big issue in the elections of the fifties. As I remember it the democrats lost China cause they were soft on communism.
The battle cry of the republican wingnuts was to
"unleash Chiang Kaishek"

Nothing to do with nothing, those who remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

I expect nothing but vicious political games for the coming election season. People will continue to die while both parties try to position themselves for the 2008 elections.

I am just a sick bitter old man, with not much hope.

Beam me up scotty

Still reading Fiasco subtitled The American Adventure In Iraq. And that is what the war is about adventure. I want a tee shirt with a picture of George Bush in a flight suit standing on the deck of the Abe Lincoln under that mission accomplished banner. Our warrior presi-dense. It sure beats flying combat missions in Vietnam.

I saw a tee shirt I liked the other day
"I think, therefore I vote republican."
It was no joke, it was on a George Bush supporter's website.

sorry for the ramble Norman
sorry for my pessimism
But I thought Christmas was over.

I am going to pray for world peace
and a mercedes benz.
Oh lordy
make Nancy Pelosi
Queen for a day.

[stilltrucking]

good article on slate

the last two lines sum it up for me.

Bush may yet surprise us. If he doesn't, the next two years are probably going to be hell.

Pretty nice day here, hard rain last night warm sunshine today

A good day to sit outside and count my blessings still.
As if these are the good old days.