so-conclusions I have made after watching the senate armed service committee hearings

[w8liftinglady]

1.McConnell will use the "I am new" excuse to avoid giving any position for some time to come
2.They have only now begun war games involving our withdrawel from iraq
3.they will continue to make iran the enemy,while ignoring pakistan,syria,and saudi arabia
...any more observations?

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Keep the money flowing?

[w8liftinglady]

2. also-Republican sycophants will continue to verbally fellate this administration

[w8liftinglady]

3. specifically Graham and Sessions

[patrice]

4. Part of their justification for the Invasion was to do something about Israel and Palestine.

Do they even mention this anymore?

Seymour Hersh said some interesting things about the role of Palestine in the Redirection:

"Patrick Clawson, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, depicted the Saudis' cooperation with the White House as a significant breakthrough. 'The Saudies understand that if they want the Administration to make a more generous political offer to the Palestinians they have to persuade the Arab states to make a more generous offer to the Israelis.'"

So, someones want us to believe that the Redirection is supposed to do something(?) positive for Palestine (free it?, maybe, maybe not.)

Hersh goes on in describing the actual mechanisms of the Redirection to say the Saudis are using Asbat al-Ansar, which is a radical Sunni group situated in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, to help the Siniora government in Lebanon resist the influence of Hezbollah, which as I understand it, supports a Free Palestine.

So how is that supposed to work? If you split Palestinian support between pro-American/Siniora and pro-Hezbollah factions in Lebanon, where does that leave Palestine?

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/070305fa_fact_hersh

[w8liftinglady]

5. they did mention that Iran missles could reach Israel

[patrice]

6. Which, according to Hersh, is why they are using Saudi Arabia, who is

using those radical Sunnis, including members of Al Qaeda, to attack Iranian/Hezbollah influence in Lebanon.

I think this thing about Palestine is a HUGELY cynical attempt to tell a significant contigent of the anti-War movement that wants to see a Free Palestine to shut up. It's marketing of the MOST exploitive kind, because the Oil Gang can always come back and say "It didn't work because Saudi Arabia dropped the ball" somehow.

[w8liftinglady]

7. they also said conditions in Al Anbar are MUCH better-Ramadi is the capitol

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6401839.stm
Bomb kills Iraqi football youths

A car bomb has killed at least 18 Iraqi children near a football pitch in the western city of Ramadi, officials say.
The victims, boys aged 10 to 15, had gathered to play football when the bomb went off, police said.

[patrice]

8. "God" that hurts!!!

Such things should change each and every American who hears of it - Forever.

The poor Families, to loose a child has always seemed the absolutely worst thing to me.

I fucking HATE this shit.

[rodeodance]

9. 'im just getting up to speed on that"

[w8liftinglady]

10. you don't want to know what I said when he said that

getting up to speed on that-while our troops are being sacrificed!!!!