Patrick J. Buchanan's Blog, page 205

Epitaph on Empire

by Philip Giraldi — AntiWar.com

[image error]I have opposed the Iraq war since before it began, but it only became personal for me about a year and a half ago, on April 29, 2008. I remember the moment well. I had flipped open the Washington Post and there, on the front page, was a color photo of a 2-year-old Iraqi boy named Ali Hussein being pulled from the rubble of a house that had been destroyed by American missiles. The little boy was wearing shorts and a T-shirt and had on his feet flip-flops. His...

Israeli Ambassador Explodes: Gaza War Critics Are Calling Us Nazis

by MJ Rosenberg – Huffington Post

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Stick to the facts, Ambassador

Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, writing in The New Republic, says that the Goldstone Report "portrays the Jews as the deliberate murderers of innocents–as Nazis. And a Nazi state not only lacks the need and right to defend itself; it must rather be destroyed."

This is crazy stuff, especially because it comes not from some rightwing crank but from Israel's highest ranking diplomat who serves in its most...

VIDEO: China, Russia Fed Up; Don't Want to Finance America's Wars

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A Third Intifada?

by Jonathan Cook in Nazareth, Israel — Truthdig

[image error]Tension over control of the Haram al Sharif compound of mosques in Jerusalem's Old City has reached a pitch unseen since clashes at the site sparked the second intifada nine years ago.

Ten days of intermittently bloody clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in Jerusalem culminated yesterday in warnings by Palestinian officials that Israel was "sparking a fire" in the city. Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper similarly wondered...

More Iran Hysteria from the NY Times

by Tony Karon — Rootless Cosmopolitan

[image error]The surest sign that another neocon bill of goods is being hawked in respect of the Iran "nuclear peril" is the revival of Rumsfeld-esque "unknowable unknowns", a la Iraq WMD panic circa late 2002. In the real world, of course, solid progress is being made towards a plausible diplomatic deal to strengthen safeguards against Iran weaponizing the nuclear material it is producing. (See my latest on this at TIME.com [1:])

But in the fevered world of the...

Netanyahu's 'Shame' And The Fiction He Weaves

by Sharmine Narwani – Huffington Post

[image error] Understand now, that the Jewish state's raison d'etre has always been based on the mass persecution and genocide of Jews by Nazi Germany – the nation was a gift, so to speak, to the victims who deserved a break. So what would happen if, even for an instant, the entire international community catches a view of Israel outside the parameters of victimhood, an image, if shattered, that could undermine its very premise as a safe haven for the persecuted…

Almost ...

Top Things You Think You Know About Iran That Are Not True

Juan Cole  — Informed Comment

Thursday is a fateful day for the world, as the US, other members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany meet in Geneva with Iran in a bid to resolve outstanding issues. Although Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had earlier attempted to put the nuclear issue off the bargaining table, this [...:]Related posts:GOP Senators: US, Not Israel, Should Attack Iran 'If Necessary'Is Bombing Iran Bush's Call?Pat Buchanan: Guardian of True Freedom and...

Those Tricky Iranians Are Now Threatening To Cooperate

by Eric Margolis — LewRockwell.com

For the record, President Ahmadinejad did not call for Israel to be "wiped off the face of the map," but quoted an old Imam Khomeini speech calling for Zionism to be wiped away and replaced by a state for Jews, Muslims and Christians….

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VIDEO: ABC's Diane Sawyer on Sibel Edmonds, FBI Whistleblower, First Amendment 'Heroine'

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PEN American Center has named Sibel Edmonds, a translator who was fired from her job at the FBI after complaining of intelligence failures and poor performance in her unit, as the recipient of this year's prestigious PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award.

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FBI Veteran Executive Calls For Special Counsel Investigation, Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds Case

By Brad Friedman – The Brad Blog

Details panic inside the Bureau, executive effort to 'keep this whole thing quiet' when matter first came to light in 2002

Further confirms FBI translator/whistleblower's allegations, credibility…

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An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for [...:]Related posts:Listening...