(Posting is a big question mark for today, by the way – don’t know yet…).Those shameless rascals :- ) – can hardly wait to hear the howls of outrage from “the usual suspects” over this one…
Dear MoveOn members,I think supporting MoveOn here is the least we can do, considering that they're John McCain’s favorite people.
How did President Bush respond to the bombshell last week that Iran had stopped its nuclear program? Here's how one of his top military commanders put it: "There has been no course correction."(1)
For years, Bush and Cheney and Rove have governed using fear—talking up war and terrorism to win elections and push their agenda. They used this method to get us into the war in Iraq, and now the President's at it again—trying to rally support by marching the nation toward war with Iran.
Someone's got to call him out. Our ad team has come up with a unique twist on the issue. We want to run this as a full-page ad in The New York Times. Can you help out with $25 to help run the ad? We think you'll like it—take a look.
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We need to expose not just the President's lies but his political motivations behind them. To do that, we need the media to be asking tough questions. Running this ad now can force those answers to be made public.
Consider this: Days after the White House's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) reported that Iran stopped developing nuclear weapons years ago, President Bush and his proxies are still out stumping for war.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that "Iran seeks to create chaos" everywhere they go.(2) And leading neocon and Giuliani adviser Norman Podheretz, has even accused the intelligence community of lying in its report.(3)
It's an old political trick, and one that got us mired in the war in Iraq. Back in 2002, Karl Rove advised Republican candidates to use the fear of war to win their campaigns.(4) And right-wing commentators openly brag about how Bush used the war to win the election in '04.(5)
This time, the report's revelations about Iran's lack of nuclear weapons give us just the opening we need to expose their lies and force the media to question the motivation behind their march to war. This is just the ad to do it. Can you chip in to make sure that this story gets told?
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Thanks for all you do,
–Ilyse, Adam G., Marika, Karin and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
1. "Pentagon plans unchanged by Iran report: general," Reuters, December 7, 2007 (here).
2. "Gates Says Iran Seeks to Cause Chaos," Associated Press, December 8, 2007 (here).
3. "Dark Suspicions about NIE" Commentary Magazine, December 3, 2007 (here).
4. "General Karl Rove, Reporting for Duty," Time, September 29, 2002 (here).
5. "Five-Tool Player," National Review, August 14, 2007 (here).
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2 comments:
And what do you think of Obadiah Shoher's arguments against the peace process ( samsonblinded.org/blog/we-need-a-respite-from-peace.htm )?
I thought it was kind of interesting the way you automatically assumed that there can be no peace with Palestinians because they're all essentially terrorists who stand in the way of Israel's "religious and nationalist objectives." Yes, blood has been spilled on that side, but the other side is guilty too.
I reluctantly agree with you that the whole "peace process" thing is a show that gets trotted out every now and then whenever a president losing popularity needs "a shot in the arm" so to speak in terms of approval ratings (hopeless in Dubya's case, of course). For a time, I thought the U.S. should just "blow off" the whole thing, but that's a worse alternative.
To be fair, I should note that, deep down, I suppose I wouldn't mind so much if both the Israelis and the Palestinians just blew the crap out of each other and decided to end this mess once and for all, though there are plenty of innocent parties on both sides as far as I'm concerned and I suppose that's the wrong attitude. But all I know is that AIPAC (and their PNAC fellow travelers) had an awful lot to do with suckering us into this stinking war in Iraq, not the Palestinians, and accountability for that seems to be nowhere in sight.
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