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MicroHydro on October 18, 2006 - 2:10am

There is a good cop bad cop dynamic going on here. The US commitment to control of the Persian Gulf (military if necessary) is known as the Carter Doctrine, from January 1980.

Clinton waged war on Yugoslavia with depleted uranium. Clinton also passed NAFTA and some pre-Patriot Act type laws after OKC. Now Bill Clinton vacations with his good buddy G.H.W.Bush.

Zbig Brzezenski (Carter's national security advisor) called for a New Pearl Harbor to galvanize the US populace into supporting an imperial resource war in Asia. The book is called "The Grand Chessboard" and is available on Amazon.

Hillary Clinton does lunch with Rupert Murdoch every week.

As for Al Gore, his daughter Karenna married Andrew Schiff.

As for Kerry, he is a cousin of G.W.Bush and fellow bonesman.

There are style differences between the red and blue squads, but they are all one team at the end of the day and serve the same masters.

Seriously. Assume democrats (none of them populist) control congress and the presidency in 2009. Do you believe they would repeal HR6166 (The Military Commissions Act)? Do you believe they would repeal the Patriot Act? Do you believe they would withdraw from the middle east? I don't believe any of those things.

Assuming that a real populist candidate got some traction, I would recall the fates of Huey Long, JFK, RFK, MLK, George Wallace, and the death threat to Ross Perot's family in 1992 when he briefly led in the polls before dropping out for the summer

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jweather on October 18, 2006 - 8:41am

This article talks about how the Democratic rank and file wants out of Iraq, yet the Democratic leadership is providing candidates who oppose even talking about a timetable for withdrawal. And Hillary is supporting at least one of these candidates.

http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh10142006.html