Freedom’s march.
Iraq was just the beginning:
Founded this summer by a dozen wealthy conservatives, the nonprofit
group [Freedom's Watch] is set apart from most advocacy groups by the immense wealth of
its core group of benefactors, its intention to far outspend its rivals
and its ambition to pursue a wide-ranging agenda. Its next target: Iran
policy.
Next month, Freedom’s Watch will sponsor a private forum
of 20 experts on radical Islam that is expected to make the case that
Iran poses a direct threat to the security of the United States,
according to several benefactors of the group.
(…)
One benefactor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the
group was hoping to raise as much as $200 million by November 2008.
Raising big money “will be easy,” the benefactor said, adding that
several of the founders each wrote a check for $1 million. Mr. Blakeman
would not confirm or deny whether any donor gave $1 million, or more,
to the organization.
Since the group is organized as a
tax-exempt organization, it does not have to reveal its donors and it
can not engage in certain types of partisan activities that directly
support political candidates. It denies coordinating its activities
with the White House, although many of its donors and organizers are
well connected to the administration, including Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary.
(…)
Mr. Fleischer said: “After the president announced the surge, and even Republicans
started getting nervous, there was a palpable fear among several of us
that this fall Congress was going to cut off the funding and the Middle
East would explode and America would likely get hit. It really wasn’t
much more complicated than that.”
That may be the best description of this drumbeat so far. Read the whole story in today’s New York Times.
It seems pretty clear that most if not all of the group are wealthy Jews whose interests center first on the well being of Israel and secondly to the US. Sensibe Jewish people resist such an approach. This is the same group of neocons who broke from the theocons who wanted to make the invasion of Iraq an endeavor of the Christian God. But the same zionists leanings prevail while there is little regard for the plight of the Palestinians.
It appears to me quite irresponsible to lie blatantly about the situation. There is very little danger of American getting hit especially by Iran which is not that insane. Obviously, the terrorists threat is real and must be guarded against.
We really have to check ourselves out in the way we look at things. To compare the situation with stopping Hitler at Munich is to play into fears. The biggest trump is 9/11, although terrible dwarfs in comparison to the Holocaust and the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
This group is blatantly political. They hide behind Reagan but Reagan was a lot more sensible than this group is. The sad fact is this group, contrary to most
Americans, still feels the Iraq invation was right. They are a dangerous group who manipulate opinion for their own ends. Their comparison to MoveOn.org is also farcical since Move On is grass roots while this is a bunch of greedy billionaires.
Iran will be attacked not later than the end of 1Q2008. There is not a damned thing the toothless Democrats and their sometimes fellow-traveling Republican cohorts in the House and Senate can do about it.
The pundits will roar. The politicos will posture. And the vast majority of Americans will continue to shop and go deeper into debt.
The only thing that can nip this in the bud is to reinstitute the draft. THEN the meringue will hit the mixmaster and some form of popular rejection might happen on a large enough scale.
Wanna bet on the last part?
Jimmy Mac said:
“The only thing that can nip this [the invasion of Iran] in the bud is to reinstitute the draft.”
You are probably correct on this, Jimmy, much as I hate to admit it. But I doubt whether the Democrats have that kind of political will. By the way, here’s some good news from Iraq:
“US military losses in Iraq for September stood at 70 on Sunday, the lowest monthly figure since July last year, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.
The figure also marks the fourth consecutive drop in the monthly death toll following a high of 121 in May. June saw 93 deaths, July 82 and August 79. The monthly toll in July 2006 was 53.”
The full article is at http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070930130445.qafstsne&show_article=1
Better yet, send all of the overpaid mercenary forces to Iran and keep the US military out of there. The military can ensure that supplies get in the the body bags get out.
No, Bob. It’s not.
Remember the name “Freedom’s Watch.” Money will enable them to be all over the place and will find plenty of idea prostitutes to cater to them. Money cannot buy heaven but can wreck many people’s path on the way there.