Willing to say it out loud: Liberal Street Fighter
Yes, YES, YES … The Puppet Party can out-Zionist the über-Zionist Bushies:
“It is unacceptable that high-ranking officials of the new Iraqi government, whom we have supported with untold precious American blood — some 2,600 by now — hundreds of billions of dollars, should engage in the most vicious, unacceptable, atrocious statements against the state of Israel, our friend and ally, and the Jewish people,” the lawmaker said at a Capitol Hill news conference Tuesday.
“Tomorrow will be an opportunity for the prime minister to express his regret. The whole world will be watching.”
“We OWN you, Iraqi “government”, just as many Iraqis suspect, and don’t you forget it”, bellow Reid, Schumer and the rest of the spineless sellout puppets. After all, if anybody KNOWS about being owned, it’s the DC Vichy Dems, and they’re going to make sure that the other toys remember their place, and which agenda EVERYBODY is supposed to serve.
Seriously, Maliki is supposedly the head of government in Iraq, and what little integrity he has (not much, admittedly, but …) would be completely GONE with his own people, and Arabs in other countries, if he didn’t condemn the ongoing criminal attacks on civilians in Lebanon, and, not to forget, Gaza and the West Bank.
One of the latest attacks raises other troubling questions. Why were UN observers attacked?
The U.N. observers killed when an Israeli bomb hit their bunker in Lebanon Tuesday called an Israeli military liaison about 10 times in the six hours before they died to warn that aerial attacks were getting close to their position, a U.N. officer said.
After each call, the Israeli officer promised to have the bombing stopped, an officer at the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) base in Noqoura said.
Finally, an Israeli bomb exploded directly on the U.N. post near Khiyam, killing four U.N. observers from Austria, Finland, Canada and China, the U.N. officer said.
Kofi Annan isn’t buying it:
Annan issued a sharply worded statement Tuesday evening which said he was “shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting … of a U.N. observer post in southern Lebanon.” He called on Israel to conduct “a full investigation into this very disturbing incident.”
“This coordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long established and clearly marked U.N. post at Khiyam occurred despite personal assurances given to me by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that U.N. positions would be spared Israeli fire,” Annan said.
“Furthermore, General Alain Pelligrini, the U.N. force commander in south Lebanon, had been in repeated contact with Israeli officers throughout the day on Tuesday, stressing the need to protect that particular U.N. position from attack.”
Have to say, given some history from past Israeli military actions, another “regrettable accident” that happened to observers, one has to wonder if perhaps there isn’t something that happened, or is PLANNED to happen, that the Israelis don’t want observed, recorded or reported? From the link above, regarding the USS Liberty:
By 9:50 am, the minaret at El Arish could be seen with the naked eye like a solitary mast in a sea of sand. Although no one on the ship knew it at the time, the Liberty had suddenly trespassed into a private horror. At that very moment, near the minaret, Israeli forces were engaged in a criminal slaughter.
Three days after Israel had launched the six- day war, Egyptian prisoners in the Sinai had become a nuisance. There was no place to house them, not enough Israelis to watch them, and few vehicles to transport them to prison camps. But there was another way to deal with them.
As the Liberty sat within eyeshot of El Arish, eavesdropping on surrounding communications, Israeli soldiers turned the town into a slaughterhouse, systematically butchering their prisoners. An eyewitness recounted how in the shadow of the El Arish mosque, they lined up about 60 unarmed Egyptian prisoners, hands tied behind their backs, and then opened fire with machine guns until the pale desert sand turned red.
This and other war crimes were just some of the secrets Israel had sought to conceal since the start of the conflict. An essential element in the Israeli battle plan seemed to have been to hide much of the war behind a carefully constructed curtain of lies: lies about the Egyptian threat, lies about who started the war, lies to the US president, lies to the UN Security Council, lies to the press, lies to the public. Thus, as the American naval historian Dr Richard K Smith noted, “any instrument which sought to penetrate this smoke screen so carefully thrown around the normal ‘fog of war’ would have to be frustrated”.
Into this sea of deception and slaughter sailed the USS Liberty, an enormous spy factory loaded with the latest eavesdropping gear.
About noon, as the Liberty was again in sight of El Arish, and while the massacres were taking place, an army commander there reported that a ship was shelling them from the sea. But that was impossible. The only ship in the vicinity was the Liberty, and she was eavesdropping, not shooting. As any observer would have recognised, the ship was a tired old Second World War vessel crawling with antennae, and unthreatening to anyone – unless it was their secrets, not their lives, they wanted to protect.
Bamford continues with a vivid description of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, then concludes with:
In the days following the attack, the Israeli government gave the US government a classified report that attempted to justify the claim that the attack was a mistake. On the basis of that same report, an Israeli court of inquiry completely exonerated the government and all those involved. No one was ever court-martialled, reduced in rank or even reprimanded. On the contrary, Israel chose instead to honor motor torpedo boat 203, which fired the deadly torpedo at the Liberty. The ship’s wheel and bell were placed on prominent display at the naval museum, among the maritime artifacts of which the Israeli navy was most proud.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that Israel had attacked the ship and killed the American servicemen deliberately, the Johnson administration and Congress covered up the entire incident. Johnson was planning to run for president the following year and needed the support of pro-Israel voters.
A mistake or mass murder? It was a question Congress never bothered to address in public hearings at the time. Among those who have long called for an in-depth congressional investigation is Admiral Thomas Moorer, who went on to become chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. “Congress to this day,” he said, “has failed to hold formal hearings for the record on the Liberty affair. This is unprecedented and a national disgrace.” Perhaps it is not too late.
We can count on this latest “mistake” to go uninvestigated and unpunished as well. Congress is too busy playing games and berating the barely-legitimate puppet leader of a country we destroyed, too busy answering to campaign contributors and a knee-jerk need to prostrate themselves at the feet of Likud and their lobby in DC.
Strings are being pulled, no doubt, but the Democrats are fooling themselves if they think they aren’t the ones getting yanked.