Ramping Up War

On Monday July 17, 2006, Rush refers to Israel's invasion of Lebanon as a "gift." Rush says: "... If we were to route out the current Mullah regime and that has to be objective number one, that's why I think this is a gift to the world, folks this is an opportunity to finally do something about Iran. Iran is the elephant in the room in all of this,... and if we sit here and say its Syria or Hezbollah or Hamas um we are blaming the tentacles and not the brain. Iran is the center of all of this and that's why this is a gift."
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Also on Monday July 17, 2006, we have John Bolton. You remember John, the US ambassador to the UN. Appointed by Bush during a recess of the Senate, as not even a Republican Senate was willing to take on this Bush appointee. The same man who lent his signature to the PNAC document. The same John stating that it would not make a bit of difference if the UN lost its top floors. Anyhow John is working on the moral implications of the killing of innocent civilians by Israel, its OK according to John.
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in Israel from "malicious terrorist acts".
"... I think it would be a mistake to ascribe moral equivalence to civilians who die as the direct result of malicious terrorist acts," he added, while defending as "self-defense" Israel's military action, which has had "the tragic and unfortunate consequence of civilian deaths".
"It's simply not the same thing to say that it's the same act to deliberately target innocent civilians, to desire their deaths, to fire rockets and use explosive devices or kidnapping versus the sad and highly unfortunate consequences of self-defense," Bolton noted.

In addition we have William Kristol on Fox News Sunday July 16, 2006, exclaiming the virtues of a possible war in Iran. This is of course no surprise again considering William the ultimate neo-conservative is at the center of PNAC and their interest in endless war. Also we have Newt Gingrich dusting off the cobwebs asking for Bush to come clean and tell the American people that we are already involved in World War III.

Comment: We are seriously lacking a vital outspoken wise diplomat from America at this point in time. We are in the grip of an extreme right wing warring cabal, which lacks or rather abhors diplomacy. I can not recall anyone ever referring to war as a "gift." Only one who is incapable of knowing its horrors could make such a statement. Bolton justifying civilians deaths which are in fact the result of collective punishment is an an outrage. John, murder is murder.
The neo-conservative movement is very alive. With Bush's approval so low, and the Republican Congress approval even lower, what better way to avoid the November elections than another war.