| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:43 am Post subject: |
| Even more Americans dead for Israel in Iraq (yea, that 'surge' is working great Zionist Cowboy, you moron):
Roadside bomb kills three U.S. soldiers in Iraq 2 hours, 6 minutes ago
A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in the Iraqi province of Diyala, the U.S. military said on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bomber killed five U.S. soldiers in Baghdad.
The attack occurred on Monday, the military said in a statement.
Ethnically and religiously mixed Diyala is one of four provinces north of Baghdad where U.S. and Iraqi forces have launched offensives this year after al Qaeda militants regrouped in the north.
The deaths took to 3,982 the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. Ten soldiers have been killed this month, compared to 81 in the whole of March 2007.
(Reporting by Mohammed Abbas) | |  | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject: No surprise for this PNAC Neocon lackey McCain |
| McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq (Correct) (Bloomberg)
Hans Nichols2 hours, 7 minutes ago
(Corrects typographical error in 17th paragraph.)
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain is at least as determined as George W. Bush to stay the course in Iraq and more confrontational than the president on foreign policy issues ranging from Russia and China to North Korea.
The perception that McCain is less bellicose than the administration is belied by his own positions. He's skeptical about Bush's plan to provide nuclear fuel to North Korea. He has signaled he would be tougher on China. And he called Russia's elections ``rigged'' even as Bush said he wanted a ``close'' relationship with the president-elect.
``On Russia and China, he is clearly more hawkish than Bush,'' said Ken Weinstein, chief executive officer of the Hudson Institute, a research group in Washington.
McCain, 71, an Arizona senator, departs for Europe and the Middle East this week, having weathered the contest for the Republican presidential nomination with his image as an internationalist on foreign policy largely intact.
Democrats are eager to challenge the notion of the former prisoner of war as a leader who understands the costs and consequences of armed conflict.
``This is a man who hasn't seen a country he doesn't want to bomb or invade,'' said Ivo Daalder, a former National Security Council aide in the Clinton administration who has advised Democrat Barack Obama in his run for the White House.
By emphasizing his ``more moderate approach on detainee policy and climate change,'' the former naval aviator has been able to cloak his ``more hawkish position on non-proliferation, China and Russia,'' said Daalder.
Visiting `Old Europe'
McCain has embraced his image as a Republican who receives invitations to conferences in what former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once derided as ``Old Europe,'' counting leaders such as Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy as friends.
He's billing his trip to Europe and the Middle East, which includes Iraq, as a listening tour. ``I would like to talk to our friends about ways that we can better cooperate,'' he told reporters in St. Louis.
Yet even on Iraq, McCain has argued for a tougher response than Bush.
He called for an additional 100,000 troops in 2004, presaging the ``surge'' strategy of dispatching 30,000 additional soldiers that the president announced in early 2007. At the same time, he was critical of Rumsfeld and warned that the U.S. was losing the war.
Hardline Positions
On a host of other issues, McCain has telegraphed a more unilateral approach than Bush.
On China, he has said he will make it clear to the government that the U.S. is unhappy at the weakness of the currency and the ``repression of democracy.'' He also vows to oppose any effort by China to force reunification with Taiwan.
``He thinks we need to make sure that the hard edge of the balance is kept up,'' said Gary Schmitt, a McCain adviser and senior fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute.
On North Korea, he questions the agreement by the administration to provide nuclear fuel in exchange for the country suspending its nuclear-enrichment program.
``The jury is still out on North Korea, and Senator McCain has been a little more skeptical about the route they've gone,'' said Schmitt.
McCain has also differentiated his Russia policy from that of the White House, insisting that when he looks at the eyes of departing President Vladimir Putin, he sees the ``K.G.B,'' not the man Bush once said was ``deeply committed to his country.''
`Rigged' Elections
After the Russian elections earlier this month, McCain said they were ``clearly rigged.'' Bush told President-elect Dmitry Medvedev he wanted a ``close working relationship.''
McCain's aides said he has voiced concern that Medvedev is still chairman of OAO Gazprom, whose recent reduction of natural gas supplies to Ukraine is ``a real problem,'' said Randy Scheunemann, an adviser. He also supports a path to membership for Ukraine and Georgia in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Neither McCain nor Bush has ruled out the use of force in Iran or North Korea. Nor will McCain sit down with leaders of those countries, or Cuba, unless conditions are met. Both say troop withdrawals in Iraq will be determined by events on the ground, not timetables set in Washington.
McCain's campaign aides have taken pains to knock down the notion that he is more of a hardliner than Bush.
``He's no neoconservative,'' said Charlie Black, another top adviser. ``But he believes in supporting countries that are struggling.''
Party Split
The Republican Party has been divided between self-styled ``realists'' such as Brent Scowcroft who didn't support the invasion of Iraq, and ``idealists,'' such as Richard Perle and Robert Kagan, who urged Bush to depose Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the name of democracy.
The so-called realists were skeptical of Bush's plan to bring freedom to the Middle East and worried that regime change in Iraq would have unintended consequences throughout the region.
McCain is a ``realistic idealist,'' said Mark Salter, a senior adviser.
His foreign policy worldview is defined by ``standing up for people he thinks are being abused,'' said Salter. ``Here was a guy who was deprived of liberty.''
To contact the reporter on this story: Hans Nichols in Washington at hnichols2@bloomberg.net | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:10 am Post subject: |
| | al Jeffie wrote: | | Paul has already admitted that McKeating is the presumptive nominee |
| Alpha wrote: | | Paul says he's still in the race |
The race is over.
The lights are off.
The crowd has gone home. | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:28 am Post subject: |
| | And you are still a neocon , a liar and a fraud Mr. AIPAC. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:44 am Post subject: |
| And we will see come November you fifth columnist Israel first moron...
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=01kcqKd2Tag
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:02 PM
Subject: Ron Paul *OUR EMPIRE IS COMING DOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoxlzPGIPt4 | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:53 am Post subject: |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoxlzPGIPt4
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