Everyone Knows That Hagee Is A NeoCon, Right?

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This is a tremendous article by Glenn Greenwald and points out the reasons why we need to make sure McSame doesn’t get in. It’s not just buddies being buddies that keeps Lieberman at McCain’s side. It is ideologically important to the Neocons that McCain get in. And while people are making McSame comments and jokes about his age, there would be more of a threat to his presidency than most people realize. There would surely be war with Iran if Lieberman and Hagee have their way. This is an excellent read and links to other article which are sending up flares about McCain’s connection to Lieberman and Hagee.

We need to be focusing on this, now, not letting McCain getting a head start and making an uncontested appeal about his credentials to the American people.


“Last week, as Philip Weiss noted yesterday, Lieberman was the honored guest of evangelical Minister John Hagee and the group he leads, Christians United for Israel. As the Press Release distributed by Very Serious Moderate Lieberman aide Marshall Whittman demonstrates, Lieberman gave a speech there which Weiss, with understatement, calls "shocking." More on that in a moment.

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Lieberman's political comrade, Rev. Hagee, is at once both an extraordinary figure and a common one. He is an evangelical minister who, as an amazing interview he gave late last year to NPR's Terry Gross reflects, believes that "Rapture" -- whereby all Christians literally disappear from earth upon the return of Christ, leaving all non-believers to suffer on Earth -- is "imminent."

Rev. Hagee believes that before Christ returns, the Bible contains prophecies a series of Middle East wars against Muslims. And he also believes that God has placed an absolute bar on the giving away of any Israeli land whatsoever, and thus categorically condemns plans such as the "road map" and the Gaza withdrawal as blasphemies against God. In the Gross interview, the following exchange occurred, beginning with a clip from one of Hagee's sermons” cont…

“(2) Could we at least all agree that it is long past time to dispense with the outrageous taboo which prohibits a discussion of the allegiance to Israel among right-wing neocon warmongers like Joe Lieberman and the influence that it has in their advocacy of endless wars against Israel's enemies such as Iran and Syria? Given that the likes of Joe Lieberman have formed common cause with the likes of John Hagee, and they all explicitly say that God demands that the U.S. defend Israel and wage war against its enemies, isn't it rather impossible to pretend any longer that no such relationship exists?”

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/26/lieberman_hagee/