But I guess anyone who thinks Sadam and Al Qaeda were buddies, would have no trouble lying about Iran relations with the Taliban.

The American government is the worlds largest economy. The American Federal Government could be considered one of the largest economies in the world alone. The majority of the Federal governments budget goes to the Military. The US military is BIG BIG BIG bucks. Bigger then oil, or any industry you can think of. These people are not going to give up all that money. And because it is the Military that is the source of these peoples money, that is what they will use to protect it. It isnt really even about oil. Sure, they need oil to keep that beast alive, but they could use other energy sources, like nuclear people to feed the beast. Oil is just an easy excuse to start wars. If it the world were to run out of oil tomorrow, it would be about be about religion, or water, or who knows what. You cant put the genie back in the bottle. We created the worlds largest military, and it will be our downfall. Cheney and friends saw the immense unchecked power, and huge sums of money, of the US military, just sitting there, withering on the vine under the Clinton Administration. With greed and lust for power in their eyes, they took control of it. They will never let go. Never. The only thing that can stop them, is bankruptcy. If the US economy implodes, like that of the USSR, then it will be a very dark day for the US, and the world, but less dark then a nuclear winter. We are living in Nazi Germany. We are killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian Muslims. We are invading sovereign nations who have not attacked us. The ruling party is using fear, nationalism, and Fox Propaganda to control the population. We torture and imprison people without trail. We are spied on by our own government. Our rights are being stripped out from beneath us. The left is too afraid to stand up to this tyranny . Land of the Free??? The US has more people in prison, both as a total number of people, and per capita, then any other nation on earth. America, my friends, is anything but the land of the free. The wost is yet to come. This is only the beginning. Pray for peace. Pray for a miracle.

Unless Condi can exert some influence on the Moron-in-Chief, WWIII will start this summer. Of course, We The People could always revolt, but I am not holding my breath.

It will be a very short fight. I wouldn’t worry too much about Gary Ruppert Murdoch. Neocons are all talk and no huevos. When/if we find it necessary to start kicking arse and taking no names, they will scatter to the winds like little bunny rabbits.

Perfect. New name for Dick: Darth Shiva. Has a nice ring to it, mixing high tech weaponry with supernatural destructive fantasy.

Can’t really imagine this happening under any other pres in my lifetime – even Reagan. Well, maybe Reagan.

Condi is an idiot, in my opinion, but she’s the lesser of two evils when Cheney is involved. This shite is getting scarier day by day.

Cheney and the neocons are just an overt manifestation of fascism that has been more or less latent since the Civil War. The real joke is on Bushbots like the troll quoted above, who can only rant about guns, God, and gays, while their children get fed to Bush as cannon fodder.

Nary a word from the MSM.

Taliban = Sunni
Iran = Shi’a

How difficult would it be for the media to debunk this claim?

During the 1990s, the Taliban oppressed the Shia in Afghanistan and on one occasion murdered some Iranian diplomats. What’s more, Iran supplied arms to the Northern Alliance, the forces fighting against the Taliban.

Great article in the June issue of The American Prospect: “The Apprentice,” by Anthony David. It lays out the ongoing history of the neocon agenda which to most rational human beings is totally insane. But they now have the power to be that insane. Libby threw himself under the bus to protect their plans.

The American Prospect site is restricted but you can read the beginning of the article here: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_apprentice

How difficult would it be for the media to debunk this claim?

:-D

It would seem adolescent to expect Mr. Cheney to behave differently at home than he does abroad. But this kind of open warfare among senior advisers to the President could only take place when the President has created a power vacuum around himself. His bubble is passive and empty, waiting to be filled by the first bureaucratic sperm that gets there.

This is a “leader” who dumbs down his responsibilities to match his talents. He uses a caricatured version of what a CEO should know and how s/he should behave. His top staff know this. Before now, they delivered to him easy multiple choice questions with only one answer. That allowed the President to pretend to be the Deciderer, while creating an aura of false consensus and a falser sense of how this purported unity of policy came about.

That “unity” has broken down, it seems, over whether to start another war, this time in Iran. (Odds are it has as much to do with a growing string of failures and a diminishing ability to hide them.)

The question is what will the power vacuum sitting in the Oval Office do? Odds are he’ll remain frozen while waiting for the outcome of the battle among his “consensus” team. Last man standing gets to hand it to the President so that he can “Decider It” to the people. The émigrés leaving Washington (a la Dan Bartlett) and bureaucratic bodies figuratively littering its streets are likely to become as numerous as those in Baghdad.

That’s a dangerous way to run a country or decide on going to war. These are taxpayer paid public servants; if All the President’s Men refuse to do their jobs, that doesn’t excuse Congress. It cannot run the executive branch, but it should at least sponsor an intervention to keep this “family spat” from taking us and the world into another war.