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http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/04/17/news-bethcolapril17-04-17.html

April 17, 2006

Recipe for Holy War: Add two nut jobs and stir
All right. I'm now officially scared.

Having just read Seymour Hersh's article about Bush's Iran plan, it appears that we no longer have a case of the good guys versus the bad guys.

What we have here is the bad guy versus the bad guy - two madmen playing an international game of chicken, ratcheting up the rhetoric to appeal to their fundamentalist followers.

There's no doubt that Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is mad in the head. In fact, it might help you remember his name if you pronounce it Ah'm mad in ee head.

He's got a uranium enrichment program going on so he can build nuclear power plants. But since he's crazy, there's a lot of worldwide concern that he's going to build a nuclear bomb while he's at it.

The U.N. atomic watchdog agency, which paid him a little visit last week, says there's no evidence that he's working on weapons. Even so, the world is feeling a little squirmy about letting Ah'm Mad In Ee Head carry on with his nuclear program. Everyone keeps asking him to quit it, but he's dug in his heels.

So that's one madman on the loose.

The other one - our very own nut job in the White House - is licking his chops over what he perceives as a stubborn challenge from Iran's president.

In last week's New Yorker magazine, Hersh provided a detailed look at Bush's response to Ah'm Mad In Ee Head. According to Hersh's sources, Bush wants Ah'm Mad In Ee Head to defy U.N. demands to quit playing with uranium.

You know why? Because our own madman wants to trot out one of our own nukes and bomb Iran's madman out of business - along with a few hundred thousand other Iranians, of course.

As one congressman told Hersh, The most worrisome thing is that Bush has a messianic vision. Bush is waging a holy war. He's on a crusade. And so is Ah'm Mad In Ee Head.

One nut-job fundamentalist Christian plus one nut-job fundamentalist Muslim equals one nut-job Holy War.

The administration's talking heads deny this, of course. They say Hersh is in fantasyland. That's funny. It's exactly what they said about Hersh when he broke the story about U.S. soldiers torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib.

And so the rest of the world's people are as scared of George Bush as they are of Ah'm Mad In Ee Head. This unelected president of ours has systematically been dehumanizing Arabs. He's imprisoned them without charges. He's tortured them. He's killed them. And now he wants to nuke them.

He's like a child with a serious case of ADHD. He's lost interest in Iraq and is looking for a new toy to break. Iraq, after all, has turned out badly, so he's doing what he always does when he makes a mess of something - he's turning his attention elsewhere and starting a whole new mess.

The rest of the world prefers diplomacy, and for a good reason.

If Bush attacks Iran, he will unleash Hezbollah - Iran's strong, well organized terrorist organization. And who do you think Hezbollah's first target will be? The sitting ducks right next door in Iraq - American troops. Then Europe and Israel will go up in flames.

So now I'm officially scared. On their own, Bush and Ah'm Mad In Ee Head are frightening enough. Working together, these two could create the Perfect Storm.

Let's have a drink

There are 1,009 days 'til Inauguration 2009 - if we live that long. That means we'll break 1,000 next week. Let's drink a toast to Day 999 on Friday. At 7 p.m. on April 28 I'll be in the downstairs bar at Catherine's Restaurant, 153 West Main St., Goshen. If you plan to stop in, let me know so I can tell Steve at the restaurant what kind of crowd to expect.

Beth's column appears on Monday. Talk to her at 346-3147 or at bquinn@th-record.com.

To me the most important thing is to find out the truth.  For most who know my name “me”, you probably think I’m liberal because I’ve been defending Barack.  But I’m not liberal.  I used to be conservative.  Voted for Bush both times, but after the mess he put the country in and the harm he has done to the country I am now that middle level (conservative on some issues, liberal on others).

When I first heard about JM’s pick I thought “truly no, he can’t be serious”.  For whatever reasons I thought before, my viewpoints have changed because I’ve read a lot of different articles written by conservatives and liberals.

While I believe John McCain is out for John McCain and his rich friends and big government, and while I believe Obama is for the people and wants to give us hope for a better future (still trying to figure out how he will pay for everything).  I do believe that Sarah Palin is probably equal to Barack when it comes to inspiring people to have hope for our future, and she has proven it as governor of Alaska.

Why do I believe this…because she is not tied into the DC.  I also read that she was not McCain’s choice.  He was getting ready to choose Lieberman, when he received the call “telling” him he would be picking Sarah Palin.  That tells me the most important thing I needed to know…that McCain is not calling the shots here and making the decisions.  I truly do not trust his judgment on most of the issues he has voted for, and things he is saying, and for me it’s very important to know that someone over him is running the show and telling him what he will be doing.  I cannot trust him to make important decisions.

While I do think Barack is a good candidate.  I believe he is a sincere person.  I like the work he’s done to help people in the community.  He’s served his time in the senate and has voted right on most of the issues.  He’s an excellent speaker and his speeches are moving and inspiring, but I just like Sarah Palin better.  I’m reading about her record as governor.  I’m not going to go into it (too lengthy), but if you look in Wikipedia you can read about her.  Her work as chairperson of Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is worth reading.  She is pro-environment and has a strong understanding of Energy & Environment.  But there is more about her history that I’m liking the more I read.

Another article I read stated (I’ll try to keep this short only with the highlights).

Sarah Palin is a legend in fighting corporate and government corruption.  This lady will not back down for special interests. She even battled and won against Big Oil trying to come in and carve up Alaska. She has served on the school board, as a mayor, and now as Governor of the single largest, most energy rich state of the union.

She is NOT a DC insider as are McCain, Obama and Biden.  This lady does not like government corruption, will not tolerate it, and is one tough cookie. 

She is a devoted environmentalist and conservationist...and a pragmatist to the core.  It will not take her long to figure out how corrupt DC is and take aim at many of the snakes there. 

Palin is also from a modest background...great credentials in these 'blue blood' times of graft and gangsterism.  Her father was a school teacher and her mother the secretary at that school. She is not part of the elitist clique and cabal of DC and has already proven her courage in standing up to them.

She is an avid hunter, loves fishing, and is a no-nonsense adult.  I guarantee that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are changing diapers frequently right now because the Vice President of the United States is also the President of the U.S. Senate. Sarah Palin will put up with Zero DC Bullsh!t from the House and Senate. 

In announcing her, McCain even humbled himself and said in a self-effacing way that Sarah Palin is exactly the type of leadership needed in DC right now to fix what is wrong in America. McCain was very clear that DC is corrupt, she is not. 

Sarah Palin just changed the entire political landscape not only of the Presidential campaign but of the general state of America.  Assuming voters look past McNutter and embrace Palin with their votes - and make no mistake, she would be THE final reason McKook would win - America may actually find itself on the doorstep of REAL 'change' and hope...for the first time in many decades.  If elected, McCain - the man who called for the bombing of Iran and 颼 years of war' may find the American public empowering Palin to the extent he will go more placidly into his twilight than had he done with either Zionist Cantor or Liebermann biting at his @ss. 

The entire Iraq and Afghanistan lunacy is going to have to stop.  Meanwhile, the real business of America will be settled over on Capitol Hill and having Sarah Palin there could, finally, start the process of turning the US around.

New game now, and what Sarah Palin represents is the best choice America has to get headed back in the right direction. 

The new McCain-Palin motto was rolled out today 'Country First.' Works for me. 

And, lest we forget, we may end up being one heartbeat away from our first woman President...a woman who will command the true respect of the American people...and the world.  A kind of respect Mrs. Clinton could only dream about. 

This is my note (not in the article) –  Do I think McCain would be a good president – NO!  Absolutely not!  But do I think Palin would be a good president.  In a heart beat!  Therefore my vote is going for Palin (JM just happens to be on the ticket with her).