O’Reilly: Lieberman’s Defeat Shows ‘Americans Have No Will To Restrain Iran’s Jihad’
O’Reilly: Lieberman’s Defeat Shows ‘Americans Have No Will To Restrain Iran’s Jihad’
Yesterday, Bill O’Reilly said that Joe Lieberman’s defeat in the Connecticut primary was “a chilling indication of what lies ahead in American politics.” O’Reilly said, “Iran’s betting we Americans have no will to restrain their jihad.” According to O’Reilly the results of the Connecticut primary shows Iran “might be right.” Watch it:
Lieberman was defeated in large part because of his support for the administration’s policy in Iraq. Having 130,000 troops bogged down in sectarian warfare in Iraq, has distracted the nation from dealing with the Iranian threat. For years, we essentially outsourced the entire effort regarding Iran to the EU.
Changing course in Iraq means taking the threat from Iran more seriously, not less.
Transcript:
OREILLY: I do not believe that Ned Lamont and his fellow travelers understand any of this. The far left continues to believe the USA is the root cause of the terror war, and that Iran is not a major threat. The far left mantra goes, “Why shouldn’t the Iranians have nukes? Israel has them.”
“Talking Points” understands that geopolitical analysis is difficult, and that the Bush administration has not fully explained the grave danger we face from Iran. Joseph Lieberman and others do understand that danger and did not — he did not sell out his country to pander to the anti-war vote. For that, Lieberman was defeated.
Now, I believe this is a chilling indication of what lies ahead in American politics. Iran’s betting we Americans have no will to restrain their jihad, and judging from the Connecticut vote last night, they might be right. And that’s the memo.
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It appears that all the factions of the New World Order have begun to unify behind a major geopolitical event that will attempt to turn the world into a place without any freedoms or liberties. The US, UK, Canada, Australia, Saudis, UAE, Israel and western Europe leadership & corporatocracy has made it clear that everyone should live in fear and look to a police state to protect the world from a manufactured enemy of their own creation. It is ironic that the Reagan administration was speaking out of both sides of it’s mouth when they poured $5 billion into the Mujahadeen and matched by Saudi Arabia while talking tough on terrorism. Each successive leader, driven by special interests of corporatism and the military industrial complex, has continued to exploit the lies of terrorism. These terrorists were funded, trained and supplied by the US and Saudi Arabia. The New World Order has continued to finance these organizations through such scandals as BCCI of which the Bush and Saud families were shown to be part of. The sad fact is that the governments that decry terrorism are the ones that fund them.
It is up to the regular people to expose these people and deal with them as our respective laws provide. The love of money and power by an amoral aristocracy has shown to what depths these “people” will go to in order to maintain power and control over people and enrich themselves at the expense of human lives. How long will it take before death squads that are created and used by the countries New World Order use them on their own people?
August 10th, 2006 at 12:20 pmOFF TOPIC, but please help this woman out!
The Waiting Game
By Sara Rich
Thursday 10 August 2006
It has now been 60 traumatic days since my daughter – who signed up with the Army as an MP, and after bravely serving one tour in Iraq, chose to go AWOL rather than engage in the two more tours to Iraq that awaited her – was forcibly taken from our home in handcuffs. Like many soldiers, she was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. What we didn’t know, what she couldn’t tell us, is that she was also suffering military sexual trauma. Late the evening of Sunday June 11, 2006, PFC Suzanne Swift was taken to the county jail, where she was strip-searched and orifice-checked. She was denied medical care for an abscessed tooth until the following day. She sat in that cell for two and a half days, a veteran of Iraq combat, terrified that she may be sent back. Outside, supporters of Suzanne’s plight lined the sidewalks. The mother bear in me rose up – and I swung into action. I am trying to save my daughter’s life.
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Our petition to support Suzanne has gone across the country. We reached over 5,000 signatures on Suzanne’s petition. (To sign the petition, go to http://www.suzanneswift.org. Petition signers have added comments; on almost every page there are heartbreaking stories of people who have been sexually abused while doing their best to serve in the military. While abhorrent, it is these testimonies that keep us going, and we thank people for signing on. We are printing out the first 5,000 and sending them to Congress and the Senate. Now we need to shoot for 10,000. We need to show the Army that we are not going away and we not stop fighting for justice. Our web site has new updates and information.
Please link to the story, then PLEASE LINK to AND SIGN HER PETITION.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:21 pmBeing in Iraq and spending 300+ Billion has not stopped even ONE terrorist act. That is CHILLING.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:21 pmMaybe Bill needs to go and fight jihad for us.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:22 pmOooh, Bill shows off he knows code: fellow traveler = Communists
Thanks, Bill, you useful idiot
August 10th, 2006 at 12:22 pmoh bill, go away and take lieberman with you
August 10th, 2006 at 12:23 pmThe United States’ concentration on the quagmire that is Iraq is the real thing that is stopping us from adequately addressing the Iranian issue. Without the war in Iraq, Iran would never be as emboldened as it is today, either.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:24 pmI think the unprecedented support of Lieberman by the entire right wing blogosphere speaks volumes. Hey repubs! It’s a dem thing. Stay out of it.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:24 pmI believe that Digby counters the O’Liely argument very well. It can be seen here.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Digby comment.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:26 pmI like how being anti-war means you are ‘far-left’.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:28 pmIs this GOP GO CRAZY DAY? What the heck is all the fuss about Lieberman? Wow the Repubs have all come out of the closet admitting that Joe is their agent > lol.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:28 pmI hate to admit it, but O’Reilly might be right. I have no wish to fight a war with Iran, I bitterly regret that the U.S. is fighting a war with Iraq. I don’t think there is an Iranian Jihad in existance NOW, and I don’t want anyone to provoke one.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:29 pmI just realized something. The repubs are already acting like they’ve lost all their power… And this is well before November. They are making comments that remind me of the Clinton years.
I don’t see how this can be taken as anything but really good news. The fact that they are already “blaming the voters” for doing things they disagree with shows that they know the voters no longer support them!
August 10th, 2006 at 12:32 pmI see that the buildup to war with Iran is proceeding right on schedule (scheduled for sometime in October).
The newly initiated hostilities with Iran and Syria will provide a perfect rationalization for how Repugs managed to win 2006 despite exit poll evidence wildly to the contrary.
(By the way, does anyone here still remember when exit possl were a reliable method of forecasting election results. Exit polls were the most reliable forecast method available….until 2000. I wonder what happened in 2000…)
August 10th, 2006 at 12:33 pmAs the media continue to spew this nonsense and as the public continues to discover that it’s totally untrue, the Republican propaganda machine will begin to unravel. It already is. The question is: will they adjust their strategy, or are they so in love with their “a vote for Democrats is a vote for terrorists” line that they’ll never give it up, no matter how disenchanted the public becomes?
August 10th, 2006 at 12:34 pmO’Reilly said, “Iran’s betting we Americans have no will to restrain their jihad.â€
O’Reilly still doesn’t get it. The Americans don’t have the will for BUSH’s jihad. I must have my historical facts wrong. Wasn’t it IRAQ and Saddam Hussain who fought an 8 year war with Iran with Ron Reagan’s help in the 1980’s? Wasn’t Iraq the one power outside of Israel who kept the Iranian power in check?
I guess watching all the peace and freedom BushCo has spead throughout the Middle East at the cost of our national treasury, thousands of wasted lives, and the destruction of our military might, is more than most Americans can stomach.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:35 pm#13: I hate to admit it, but O’Reilly might be right. I have no wish to fight a war with Iran, I bitterly regret that the U.S. is fighting a war with Iraq. I don’t think there is an Iranian Jihad in existance NOW, and I don’t want anyone to provoke one.
How does any of this suggest that O’Reilly might be right?
August 10th, 2006 at 12:35 pmYou’re missing the point. O’Reilly, Cheney, and Snow (to start) are portraying Lieberman’s defeat as a “purge” and a win for America’s enemies. They are attempting to delegitimize the democratic process, wherein elections reflect the will of the people.
This is not about Iraq policy or Iran policy, or even about Lieberman and Lamont. It’s about conveying the idea that there is a “real” America — represented by O’Reilly, Cheney, and the neocon establishment — and a traitorous, treasonous, terrorist America. Even when the traitors elect their chosen candidates, they’re still traitors, don’t you see. Elections in Connecticut can be just another method for supporting Al Qaeda and Iran.
Could be that the “real” Americans will have to do something about it, if the terrorist-supporters persist in electing traitors.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:36 pmDear Pervert O’reilly,
August 10th, 2006 at 12:38 pmAmericans are fierce in their resolve to defend this country. Defeating those who support failed policy IS PROOF OF THIS. If you fail to capture/kill Osama and start an unnecessary war in Iraq, YOU’RE A FAILURE.
The American voters will show you the light, this November.
#18
August 10th, 2006 at 12:39 pmDidn’t O’Reilly say “Americans have no will to restrain Iran’s Jihad”. Now since I don’t believe in the existence of a Jihad, I don’t have any desire to restrain it.
I swear Fox is well represented in the movie V for Vendetta.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:39 pmOf course. We’re reeling from a blow to the establishment in the Connecticut Primary. Everyone’s talking about Lamont and Leiberman and how Bush, Republicans and corporate backed Democrats better look out because the winds of change are blowing… Suddenly, Big Hero Bush steps in and save us all by foiling a terrorist plot, deftly reminding us that we are “at war.” We’re always at war and will be until the unforseeable future. So let’s all sheepishly return to Bush, Cheney, Chertoff, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the gang for protection. Let’s be tough on terrror, soft on our rights, because there are lots of terrorist plots they can cook up or exploit. Lots of patsies and CIA & MI6 assets that will set it up and take the fall. This smells like Rove brand bullshit, brought to you by CNN.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:43 pmcan someone please shove one of his dildos down his throat and shut this idiot up
August 10th, 2006 at 12:43 pmAll “Jihaders” have to do is read American blogs to know they really don’t need to attack anymore. They know the ball is rolling. They know Americans are slowly casting out the Imperialists.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:44 pmNo Americans and Bush support a Iran backed Shia goverment in Iraq. You can’t spin your way out of that.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:47 pmA foiled terrorist plot to blow up planes over the Atlantic Ocean happened today. If successful, thousands of innocent civilians would have died. It’s another example that we live in a dangerous world. Only the strong will survive. And the majority of the American people are STRONG. And the majority of the American people will demonstrate their STRONG will again this fall on election day. Just as they did in 2004. God bless America and God speed to all of our men and women in the military……
August 10th, 2006 at 12:47 pmSeems to me the Republicans are confused as to who thier boss and employer really is, its the American voter. Now that the American voter doesn’t agree with you, you say they don’t know what is in their best interest?
August 10th, 2006 at 12:47 pmThis all shows that Liberman was the republican’s bitch
August 10th, 2006 at 12:49 pmBill-boe schmill-boe.
It is kind of weird that these people broadcast this junk.
But really, who listens to any of it except for their mothers?
I think it can all be stopped by just renting bill-boards that display the message:
YOUR TELEVISION IS NOT OBLIGATED TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH . . .
August 10th, 2006 at 12:50 pmYOUR TALK-SHOW HOSTS, MILITARY SPECIALISTS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH . . . NEITHER ARE YOUR ‘NEWS’ BROADCASTS
I see all the winger talking heads have gotten the talking-points memo.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:54 pm#19 David B. – I agree with what you said in that I think the O’Reilly and Cheney types are trying to delegitimize the democratic process. I take it one step further and submit that they are actually trying to redefine the word “democracy.”
What they are doing is similar to the Soviet system. Soviets started with a communist idea which essentially (at its core) was supposed to benefit all citizens by guaranteeing jobs, housing, education, etc. This appealed to the citizens, so the citizens listened. They won. They then began to insert their fascism into the equation until it really had nothing to do with communism at all, except as defined by their economic infrastructure. The common citizen was not living better, but the people who grabbed the power were. And they maintained power for a long time. And we all know the rest.
Now if you examine the neocons, they are pulling the same game, but they are using capitalism as their vehicle. Want more of your money and less taxes? Join us. That appeals to people. People have nice houses and jobs, so communism isn’t appealing. However, they could really use more money to pay off all those debts! That is appealing.
Nevermind the drawbacks of less regulation and lower taxes and the massive debt we are passing onto the next generation of americans…
Then 9/11 happened and suddenly they had a HUGE enemy they could use. And boy did they ever milk it. Now, not only are they saving us from big mean taxes and social security, they are saving us from certain death too!
It’s exactly the same path to a dictatorship, just using a different political vehicle to make it happen.
I have faith that the American people will not let it happen. We still have a functioning republic. There is corruption, yes, but the common person is beginning to see through it all. I believe we will overcome this dark time, unlike other countries whose totalitarian revolutions did succeed (Soviet Union, China, Cuba, etc…)
But I’m an optimist.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:54 pmonce again…
Wes Clark on “Being Strong on National Security”
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/9/141354/8076
Wed Aug 09, 2006 at 11:13:54 AM PDT
Wesley Clark came out strongly for Ned Lamont today, but it’s this passage that particularly caught my attention:
You see, despite what Joe Lieberman believes, invading Iraq and diverting our attention away from Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden is not being strong on national security. Blind allegiance to George W. Bush and his failed “stay the course” strategy is not being strong on national security. And no, Senator Lieberman, no matter how you demonize your opponents, there is no “antisecurity wing” of the Democratic Party.
Well said. That’s the Democratic message on National Security this year, and it works. That’s why Republicans are freaking out.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:54 pmMore build up to bombing the crap out of Iran in a few months. The ol’ logic is being played out again… It’s either us or them. . . so we need to act now in order to keep your street safe from Iran terrorists.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:56 pm“Talking Points†understands that geopolitical analysis is difficult,
I agree, Mr. O’Reilly. It is so difficult, in fact, you consistently miss the mark. By a long shot. This instance is no exception.
You should stop the fearmongering and the misleading of your audience.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:56 pm32. I have a bumper sticker on my card that reads “Corporate Media – Weapon of mass DISTRACTION”
August 10th, 2006 at 12:57 pmOh yes, Rove has been working overtime framing the argument and getting those talking points out. And the faithful read them and believe them without having to worry about pesky old logic.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:06 pmThe amount of attention to a PRIMARY race is unprecedented. Since when did right wingers give 2 sh*ts about anything the Democrats do?
The fear that they will lose is really getting to them. I hope that LeMont is the beginning of the end for the right wing. ONLY A FOOL would relate terrorism to a primary race in CT. There are alot of fools out there in pundit tv show land.
Americans need to wage a Jihad on all the re-pundit-cans on all the “news” programs.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:08 pmI dont know that guy Lamont but if he is doing all this blabbery show from the right, then he has my simpathy.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:11 pm38.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:22 pmI like it! Have to get something like that for us.
Maybe Republicans are so blinded by their all consuming desire for endless war, that they may be overlooking the possibility that Americans chose a candidate who does not follow the BushCo agenda, and rejected a JEWISH candidate who openly supports attacking Muslim countries, for no reason. Now they see that not all Americans support BushCo. How is that a bad thing?
August 10th, 2006 at 1:27 pmGeorge Soros is a Hungarianimmigrant who came to the U.S. in 1956, at age 26, and made his fortuneas an international financier. His father, who was born into anOrthodox Jewish family, changed the family name from Schwartz to Sorosin 1936 – a move that enabled the Soros family to conceal its Jewishidentity and thus survive the Nazi Holocaust. In 1947 the familyemigrated from Hungary to England, where an event occurred that greatlyinfluenced the development of George’s personality and worldview. Hebroke his leg and was cared for by England’s National Health Service,free of charge, while the Jewish relief agencies of that era did notoffer him the help he believed they owed him. In that convergence ofevents was born Soros’ favorable opinion of Democratic Socialism, andhis negative view of many Jewish groups.
In1956 Soros started life in America with very little money but awell-developed knowledge of investing, thanks to his education at theLondon School of Economics and his experience working for a Londonstockbroker. He transformed his meager seed money into a huge fortuneby becoming one of the world’s leading hedge fund investors andcurrency traders. In 1969 he started his enormously successful QuantumFund, which, over the ensuing three decades, yielded its long-terminvestors a four thousand-fold increase on their initial 1969investments. During his career, Soros has orchestrated some extremelyrisky, ethically questionable deals. For instance, in a $10 billion1992 deal whose success was contingent upon the devaluation of theBritish Pound, he earned himself a $1 billion profit and the title,â€the man who broke the Bank of England.†Over the years, he has amasseda personal fortune of some $7 billion.
In1979 Soros founded the Open Society Fund, and since then has created alarge network of foundations that give away hundreds of millions ofdollars each year, much of it to individuals and organizations thatshare and promote his left-wing philosophy. He believes that in orderto prevent right-wing fascism from overrunning the world, a strongleftist counterbalance is essential. Asserting that America needed “aregime change†to oust President Bush, Soros maintained that he wouldgladly have traded his entire fortune in exchange for a Bush defeat inthe 2004 election. In a November 2003 interview with the Washington Post’sLaura Blumenfeld, he stated that defeating President Bush in 2004 “isthe central focus of my lifeâ€. . . “a matter of life and death.—America under Bush,†he said, “is a danger to the world, and I’mwilling to put my money where my mouth is.†Claiming that “the Republican party has been captured by a bunch of extremists,†Sorosaccuses the Bush administration of following a “supremacist ideologyâ€in whose rhetoric he claims to hear echoes from his childhood inoccupied Hungary. “When I hear Bush say, ‘You’re either with us oragainst us,’ †he explains, “it reminds me of the Germans. It conjuresup memories of Nazi slogans on the walls, Der Feind Hort mit (The enemy is listening). My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me.â€
Sinceestablishing the Open Society Institute (OSI), Soros has given awaybillions of dollars, much of it to leftwing causes. He pledged to raise$75 million to defeat President Bush in the 2004 Presidential election,and personally donated nearly a third of that amount to anti-Bushgroups (see The Shadow Party). Soros recently gave $5 million to MoveOn.org, the group that has produced political ads likening Bush to Adolf Hitler. He also contributed $10 million to a Democratic Party 2004 get-out-the-vote initiative called America Coming Together, whose directors include representatives from the AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club, the Service Employees International Union, and the feminist political-action committee Emily’s List. He has further pledged $3 million to the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think-tank headed by former Clinton chief-of-staff John Podesta. CAP was formed in an effort to offset the influence of its conservative counterpart, the Heritage Foundation.
PBS broadcaster and Schumann Center for Media and Democracy president Bill Moyersis a trustee of the Open Society Institute’s board of directors. Thenetwork of Soros foundations – the most prominent of which is the OpenSociety Institute – supports a wide array of leftwing groups and causes.
Judd,
August 10th, 2006 at 1:34 pmI can’t find Soros name associated anywhere on the Think Progress website or the Center for American Progress. Are you guys so ashamed of where you get your money that you can’t be honest?
So O’Reilly is totally unaware of the all the polling in the past 9 months that shows up to 65% of Americans don’t support the current activity in the Middle East and are eager for a strategy beyond ’stay the course’ that gets us out of there by 2007?
If he thinks Lamont’s win in CT was somehow telling, he has just shown himself to be woefully out-of-touch with mainstream America.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:34 pm#27. Comment by Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rollah.
Good post. I think you pretty well sumed up my limited knowledge on the subject. Of course, I’m not as smart as Bill O’Rightly.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:40 pmAmerica would be a lot more ready for a potential conflict with Iran, if we hadn’t spent our resources in the Iraq fiasco.
How do you suppose his loyal viewers will react when he starts calling the majority of American voters cowards?
August 10th, 2006 at 1:40 pmThe chorus of commentary that we are hearing from the right seems to be a desperate attempt to shift the debate back to their side. Even if they don’t have facts to rely on, Al Qaeda still exists, so they try and link people’s emotions and domestic events to the terrorist organization’s will power. In all reality, I think that many people on the right were hoping Lieberman would lose so that they could seize the opportunity to convince the American people that the left was “conceding defeat” or “giving a green light to Iran’s jihad” or some other overt propaganda. Now that Lamont won, they will try to use his victory to rally Republican voters by scaring them into believing their opposition are a bunch of softies who don’t care that evil terrorists want to destroy us. I think this was all fairly coordinated by Republicans over the last week, once it was clear Lieberman would lose, as FOX began doing segments about “Have Democrats forgotten about 9/11?” when they would be discussing the primary, and conservative commentators throught the news would state the Lamont supporters want to “leave before the job is done in Iraq.” Pretty cynical opponent we have…
August 10th, 2006 at 1:41 pmFor those of you who don’t know exactly who George Soros is or how he acquired his wealth, which supports this website, here it is:
Recent reports that mega-speculator George Soros is putting millions of dollars into funding think-tanks for the Democratic Party (Center for American Progress, and America Coming Together are two notable recipients), in a not-so-veiled effort to buy up the party, should raise the question: Just how does George Soros make his money? Years of investigation by LaRouche’s associates have answered that question in grisly detail: Soros’s money comes from impoverishment of the poor countries against whose currencies he speculates, and from deadly mind-destroying, terrorism-funding drugs.
We provide below a brief dossier on the low-lights of Soros’s history of theft and drug-promotion.* If, after reading this, you still want to take Soros’s money, at least have the decency to put the truth on your website: “I support drug-pushing. I’m pushing cocaine.”
SOROS THE SPECULATOR:
Hungarian-born George Soros has been involved in financial speculation since the late 1960s, at which time he established the Quantum Fund, N.V., which manages the money of leading British and Swiss financiers, including the British Royal Household. The Quantum Fund is a private investment body called a hedge fund, which is headquartered in one of the leading centers of money-laundering internationally, the Netherland Antilles.
1990: With the opening of the East Bloc, Soros moves into Poland and Russia, with “advice” for devastating economic “shock therapy,” to be administered by his associate, economist Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs’ major claim to fame was his “rescue” of the Bolivian economy, by shutting down industry, and building up the cocaine trade.
1992: In this year, Soros’s speculation made big news, as he pulled off major attacks on the currencies of Great Britain and Italy, after which he bragged about earning more than $1 billion by hurting the currencies of these nations.
1993: U.S. Congressman Henry Gonzalez (D-Texas) called for an investigation of Soros’s manipulation of foreign exchange markets, including the possibility that the same measures used against Great Britain would be used against the United States.
1995: The manager of Soros’s Management Fund, through which he controls the Quantum Fund, took out an ad in the U.S. press, which urged the Congress (then controlled by Newt Gingrich), to proceed with its budget cuts, despite the possibility of a budget impasse (train wreck), because such austerity was absolutely required for the financial markets.
1995: The Italian courts, in response to a legal brief by associates of LaRouche in Italy, launched an investigation of Soros’s role in the speculative attack on the lira in 1992. The suit was dismissed in 1999.
1997: Soros’s hedge funds launch a speculative attack against the Thai baht, in a move widely credited with triggering the great Asian financial crisis of 1997, which destroyed the economies of Indonesia, and many other nations.
SOROS THE DRUG PUSHER
1992-1994: Soros creates the Open Society Institute, and through that, both the Drug Policy Foundation and the Lindesmith Center, funneling more than $15 million for their activities, which focus heavily on changing drug laws, toward legalization.
1996: Ballot initiatives in favor of “medical marijuana” in California and Arizona, funded lavishly by Soros’s front groups, are passed. These were the front end of a campaign that encompassed up to 25 states.
1997: Soros’s Drug Policy Foundation pours money into a campaign to legalize euthanasia in Australia.
Meanwhile, in Ibero-America, Soros becomes a leading finacier of the drive to legalize cocaine. He bankrolls a meeting on Oct. 8-9, 1997 in the Colombian city of Medellin, for the purpose of pushing drug legalization, at the same time that Human Rights Watch/Americas, another major beneficiary of his funds, attacked the national forces deployed against the drug cartels as “human rights violators.” It should be noted that the pro-drug guerrillas in Colombia are known to be bloody-thirsty kidnappers, and murderers, who terrorize the nation.
In the United States, Soros worked with the pro-drug Mayor of Baltimore Kurt Schmoke, to promote “progressive” drug policies, including needle-exchange programs. Soros “donated” $25 million to spreading illegal drugs in the city.
1998: Another Soros-related group, the Andean Council of Coca Leaf Producers, begins to carry out an armed revolt in Bolivia, under the banner “Coca or Death.” The Council was established by a European group called Coca 95, whose chief financier was Soros, and whose directors call for free trade in every narcotic on the face of the earth: cocaine, heroin, marijuana and synthetics.
Soros’s Lindesmith Center in June of this year, issues an Open Letter to Kofi Annan calling for a “truly open” dialogue on illegal drugs — claiming that clamping down on them is worse than drug abuse itself, and demanding that legalization be put on the table.
2000: Soros moves both through Human Rights Watch, and direct funding of the Toledo Presidential campaign, to topple the successful anti-drug government of Alberto Fujimori in Peru. EIR forecasts that the new Soros-backed government will move to put anti-drug fighters in prison, and bring back the murderous Sendero Luminoso — which it has done.
2001: In June, the Wall Street Journal gives major coverage to the decision by Soros, along with billionaires Peter Lewis and John Sperling, to kick in at least $10 million for the 2002 elections, where they will target Florida, Ohio, and Michigan for decriminalization referenda.
Soros also funds a drive for decriminalization of marijuana in Canada.
2002: Soros funded a referendum on the Nevada ballot, which called for the legalization of marijuana use, and would {mandate} that the state begin growing and retail distribution of the drug to anyone over 21 years of age. The effort was run by a Washington, D.C.-based group, the Marijuana Policy Project, which receives direct funding from Soros, through the Drug Policy Foundation, which has received more than $15 million from Soros in recent years. The Drug Policy Foundation recently merged with the Lindesmith Center, a project of Soros’s Open Society Institute tax-exempt foundation. The new, unified entity, the Drug Policy Alliance, is run by Soros employee Dr. Ethan Nadelman. Soros has poured at least $25 million into various dope legalization schemes over the past five years, and has vowed to substantially increase his bankrolling of the dope lobby efforts.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:55 pmThe Marijuana Policy Project was launched by a former official of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Legislation (NORML), the oldest of the drug legalization fronts now under the Soros umbrella.
Judd notes: “Changing course in Iraq means taking the threat from Iran more seriously, not less” – -
*****Judd, I DO understand the DNC talking points – but they fail to take into account the LONG memory of our enemy, radical Islam. I wrote the following earlier and it is applicable to this thread:
Thank you for your not so keen observations. I must be brief due to scheduling – but in a nutshell, conservatives send you a BIG THANK YOU!!! As amusing as you indoubtedly find this, permit me to explain.
It is apparent you and a myriad of your co-horts DO NOT or (FAIL to) understand the importance of Iraq in relation to IRAN. The Iran/Iraq War was in essence a Sunni v. Shiite conflict. Saddam, the erstwhile Sunni, persecuted the Shiite due to their sectarian affiliation with the Shiite leadership in Iran. FYI, Iran harbors the desire to control the vast majority of the Middle East and with it the flow of oil. Should the US abandon Iraq at this time, Iran would end up swallowing Iraq. Currently, as oil IS a vital ational interest, the position of the “Immediate timetable†crowd and “Cut and Run†Neddies is untenable. The patient, long-term goal of Iran is the basis of the radical Shiite militia attacks. For THIS reason, I am in favour of utilizing US oil resources and simultaneously developing alternative energy sources. The Republican Party and security conservatives need to spell the wider scenario out for remedial learners.
I used to admire the BIIIIIG ideas of liberals – until I realized it was ALL a charade. There are few, if ANY, “big picture†thinkers in the progressive movement today.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:57 pmapparently Bill has a rather active jihad that he uses in phone sex conversations
August 10th, 2006 at 2:03 pmMA,
if the goal if Iran is to control all middle east oil, where have a heard that before? And Saddam was a Sunni, who fought against Iranian Shiite domination. Then why would the US remove the anti-Iran group from Iraq, allow the aformentioned Shiites to gain power in Iraq, and thus possibly ally with Iran?
This doesn’t appear to be very security smart.
August 10th, 2006 at 2:13 pmWOW! The media really REALLY wants to keep the US in this war! Are their ratings so indisputedly dependent on whether or not our troops are dying in Iraq? I can’t understand why the media are so one-sided in thier unabashed support of the war and condemnation of everyone who disagrees. Seriously, what’s their game???
August 10th, 2006 at 2:14 pm#51 It’s already too easy to ignore you, but referencing yourself?????
That’s the nail in the coffin for anyone who pretends to care what you think.
August 10th, 2006 at 2:16 pm[...] Yesterday, Bill O’Reilly said that Joe Lieberman’s defeat in the Connecticut primary was “a chilling indication of what lies ahead in American politics.†O’Reilly said, “Iran’s betting we Americans have no will to restrain their jihad.†According to O’Reilly the results of the Connecticut primary shows Iran “might be right.†[...]
August 10th, 2006 at 2:17 pm#50 – For those who are thinking of falling for this crap:
There you go again, telling more lies and spreading calumny and mendacity like it’s a good thing. Poor unfortunate soul.
“Hastert used the Fox appearance to blurt out a bizarre and baseless accusation about billionaire George Soros, a Democratic Party financier and donor to anti-Bush 527s.â€
“Soros spokesman Michael Vachon says there’s been a “concerted effort to smear George Soros since he became an administration critic†and calls the Hastert comments the “usual conservative message-machine M.O.: Throw something out there and see if it sticks.—
“Hastert states in a Sept. 1 letter to Soros that he never referred to drug cartels on Fox News Sunday, that Chris Wallace did. The “drug groups†Hastert claims to have had in mind were the “Drug Policy Foundation, The Open Society, The Lendesmith [sic] Center, the Andean Council of Coca Leaf Producers, and several ballot initiatives across the country to decriminalize illegal drug use.†On this score, Hastert’s letter is completely disingenuous. These groups are beneficiaries of Soros wealth: He’s given them money. In the program transcript, Hastert is clearly asking about the source of Soros’ money for his political and social campaigns, and then he asks the leading question, is it from “overseas or from drug groups�
Where did Hastert get the notion that Soros might be getting money from drug cartels? A good guess would be the organization headed by political fantasist, convicted felon, and perpetual presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. This campaign literature from the “LaRouche in 2004″ Web site, dated Oct. 29, 2003, makes the drug charge directly:
Years of investigation by LaRouche’s associates have answered that question in grisly detail: Soros’s money comes from impoverishment of the poor countries against whose currencies he speculates, and from deadly mind-destroying, terrorism-funding drugs.
The LaRouchie slander of Soros dates back to the early ’90s. Michael Lewis recorded an anti-Soros protest by LaRouche followers in a Jan. 10, 1994, profile in the New Republic. Since then, the drug charge has been a LaRouche literature mainstay.â€
http://slate.com/id/2106077/
Sorry, sad little boy, you don’t get away with your lies here.
August 10th, 2006 at 2:18 pm#50 — legalizing marijuana? Big deal. Shall we create a list of how Bush and the Republican party have raped America and its citizens? There is not room enough on these pages to do so. It would take a book as thick as ten dictionaries to document what the Bush regime has done to this country, and that’s just the stuff we know about. When you write about THE TRUTH ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, then your words might be interesting. Instead, you bore us with investor strategies of the rich and famous and the “terror” of legalizing marijuana. Alcohol and tobacco put people at greater risk of illness and addiction. Please tell us more about the terrors of those two drugs.
August 10th, 2006 at 2:19 pm“Iran’s betting we Americans have no will to restrain their jihad.â€
Did they tell you that, Bill? Actually, everyone including the Iranians can see that the US has neither the forces nor the allies necessary to restrain Iran’s jihad … or anything else.
You can thank Bush for that.
August 10th, 2006 at 2:24 pm.
Bill should go back to phone sex, he is better at that.
August 10th, 2006 at 3:43 pmWhat Jihad? I don’t remember Iran declaring a Jihad against the US.
August 10th, 2006 at 4:14 pmKraz – A unity government actually depends on thwarting the threat of the Iranian Shia joining the Iraqi Shiites – i know YOU understand the implications of that. But if progs want to really get out from under the clutches of the Middle East and OIL companies – start looking into “breeder reactors” – although jet fuel would most likely need to continue to have the properties of fossil fules…for a while…
’til later….
August 10th, 2006 at 5:38 pmliberals will not go after muslims because it is politcally correct to only go after white Christian men.
August 10th, 2006 at 5:39 pm#63 — If you mean white, purported-”Christian” bigots like yourself, then you’re statement is correct. To keep the names straight for everyone, you’ve now posted as Chris, Reddog, Moonbat Patrol, I Hate Liberals, and now Return of Reddog. Just so everyone here knows the neo-nazi they’re dealing with.
August 10th, 2006 at 5:45 pmI’m more interested in dealing with the O”Reilly threat than the Iranian jihad.
August 10th, 2006 at 6:30 pmYeah, that white Christian pervert!
Changing course in Iraq means taking the threat from Iran more seriously, not less.
Really? We all know how TP Judd likes to appeal to popularity. Let’s take a look at the Terrorism Index – a poll of “national security experts” – that TP uses to claim we are loosiing the WOT.
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1763037
Zero liberals think that Iran is a threat to the US? Only 4% of the responders (who happen to call themselves conservative) think Iran is a threat.
Where’s your appeal to popularity logic now?
August 10th, 2006 at 7:10 pmI just cannot comprehend how the man (O’Rielly) can get up every morning, and look at himself in the mirror . I know I couldn’t if I were him.
August 10th, 2006 at 7:57 pmDon’t give Lamont and the anti-war liberals too much credit. Lamont and the other anti-war folks do not see that Iran is the “change of course” at all. They want the troops home period. O’Reilly is right; their issue is solely going to be getting out of Iraq, regardless of the current situation.
And, while we’re at it, let’s see…the young men and women who choose to join the Armed Forces in today’s society know what they are getting into. That does not in any way make their life less valuable, nor does it make the loss of life more acceptable. But, they have made a choice, and I would venture to say that the majority of them are proud to serve their country and help protect the freedoms of those of us who wake up every day and run off at the mouth.
But, they are not being sent off to slaughter – as so many of the anti-Bush, anti-war folks want us to believe.
Finally, the Israel-Lebanon war has nothing to do with 9/11. People who need to remember 9/11 should not read about that or watch it on television. That is completely irrelevant.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:07 pmGod help us! Republicans prop themselves up to be perfect examples of mental illness. Deja Vu, I already heard this from the uneducated: “if you don’t vote for my party you will make the world come to an end”
Bill should try reading a book or turing on PBS so he can join the college educated people. I think Bill doesn’t know the first thing about how tax payers where targeted on 9/11, or why that was. Maybe he could look at the decades of 3 billion dollar grants to Israel’s military, or maybe he could look at the numbers dead on each of the Israel vs…. This guy and Republicans piss me off so much because they have no idea how completely stupid they are, if you’d watch the news or picked up a newspaper 5 days out of the year you could be smarter than them, my point is they don’t even know what’s going on in reality! But they are arrogant, yet so clueless about how wrong they are and out of touch they are. Arrogance and Ignorance is a bad combination.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:12 pmIsrael attacks Connecticut claiming self defense, Rice calls it the”birth pangs of a new Northeast.”
August 11th, 2006 at 12:42 am[...] At the end of the day Dick Cheney and conservatism are terror’s best friend. After several incidents in Britain, the Bali and Madrid bombings it is pretty clear that invading occupation forces don’t stop isolated groups of extremists. The kind of slow determined behind the scene’s work that will lesson the threat of terrorism doesn’t make for great propaganda campaigns on the part of people like Bill O’Reilly who recently said, “Iran’s betting we Americans have no will to restrain their jihad.†According to O’Reilly the results of the Connecticut primary shows Iran “might be right.†[...]
August 11th, 2006 at 2:42 amIf there’s a God, Bill O’Reilley will be reïncarnated into an Iranian girl, raped by american soldiers
August 11th, 2006 at 7:11 am[...] More wit and wisdom from Bill O’Reilly: Not only does Bill want a limited draft (even though he never served before), but he says that people who voted for Lamont have “no will to stop the Iranian Jihad.” Also, O’Reilly has inadvertently proven that the NSA has no need to circumvent the FISA courts to get their jobs done. [...]
August 11th, 2006 at 11:18 am[...] Lamont is anti-Iraq War, the right are painting Lamont as fringe because of this. 84% of Democrats agree with him and 60% of Americans overall. Fringe indeed. [...]
August 11th, 2006 at 6:25 pmTHE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR! THE SKY IS FALLING! TERROR!
August 12th, 2006 at 9:20 am“Just how does George Soros make his money? Years of investigation by LaRouche’s associates have answered that question in grisly detail … ”
LaRouche is a well-known anti-semite with Nazi sympathies. .
August 12th, 2006 at 3:10 pmFrightening. He’s using Iraq and Iran interchangeably. Leiberman’s loss had nothing to do with public discourse on Iran… or did I miss something?
When did “the Iranians” declare jihad against America?
August 13th, 2006 at 3:56 amNovember Predictions:
Another Al Qaeda Attack
Another Bin Laden Video
Another Rigged Election
Another Republican Sponsored Supreme Court Decision
August 14th, 2006 at 3:37 amIt seems republicans are arrogant… M Dad is a die-hard republican. He actually does beleive he announced a Jihad on America… I hate ignorance..
August 19th, 2006 at 5:59 am[...] I’ve said it before, but Joe Lieberman is running the worst campaign in the history of modern Democratic politics. After his loss to Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary, Lieberman announced he would continue his run for the senate as an independent on the Connecticut for Lieberman ticket. His announcement during his faux concession speech, greeted by jeers and a collective hitting of heads to walls around America, came as no surprise as Joe’s solipsism has been a hallmark attribute of his campaign’s ineptitude. With his announcement came the expected flocking of support from Republicans for Lieberman’s independent candidacy – including the NRSC’s decision to back Lieberman over Republican nominee Alan Gold Schlesinger. Joe’s to the right of many Republicans on foreign policy and militarism and with Democratic support for his campaign plummeting in Connecticut, he will need the support of Republicans to have a chance at victory as a fourth-party candidate. [...]
August 21st, 2006 at 8:47 am[...] I’ve said it before, but Joe Lieberman is running the worst campaign in the history of modern Democratic politics. After his loss to Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary, Lieberman announced he would continue his run for the senate as an independent on the Connecticut for Lieberman ticket. His announcement during his faux concession speech, greeted by jeers and a collective hitting of heads to walls around America, came as no surprise as Joe’s solipsism has been a hallmark attribute of his campaign’s ineptitude. With his announcement came the expected flocking of support from Republicans for Lieberman’s independent candidacy – including the NRSC’s decision to back Lieberman over Republican nominee Alan Gold Schlesinger. Joe’s to the right of many Republicans on foreign policy and militarism and with Democratic support for his campaign plummeting in Connecticut, he will need the support of Republicans to have a chance at victory as a fourth-party candidate. [...]
August 21st, 2006 at 8:51 am