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Neocon Middle East Madness Comment by Larry Ross, February 23, 2005
I agree that the neocons want "to provoke a Pearl Harbour" and "may orchestrate a scenario that will suck the US into a wider war". That certainly coincides with my analysis based on years of studying the situation. The world will see increasing destruction as America is led by the Neocons into progressively more insanity, and detachment from reality. The Neocons are creating a fantasy world of outrageous lies, faithfully propagated by the pliant corporate media as reality. It is truly amazing that so many can be misled by so few.. As Dr Helen Caldicott said "these people are much worse than the Reagan people". She said she feared that US policies would result in a nuclear war during Bush's presidency. Bush's endless wars can bring that about. That can mean the end of civilisation and the end of us.
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President Bush's invasion has turned Iraq into a recruiting and training ground for anti-U.S. terrorists, according to CIA Director Porter Goss in testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Feb. 16. Goss' report was supported by Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, director of the the Defense Intelligence Agency. Jacoby told the committee that "our policies in the Middle East fuel Islamic resentment." The Iraq insurgency, Jacoby reported, has grown "in size and complexity over the past year" with daily attacks increasing 240 percent. The situation, in other words, is out of control. One hundred fifty thousand American troops are tied down by a few thousand lightly armed insurgents. The recent Iraq election was won by Shi'ites allied with Iran. U.S. casualties continue to mount, and our troops can seldom tell friend from foe. Why isn't Bush looking for a way out of the greatest strategic blunder in American history? Why, instead, are Bush and his government doing all they can to spread the conflict into Syria and Iran? |
