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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:57 PM
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Katrina vanden Heuvel: Giuliani's Foreign Policy Adviser Sounds Like a Madman
from The Nation:



GIULIANI'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER SOUNDS LIKE A MADMAN...In an interview in Saturday's Daily Telegraph, one of Rudy Giuliani's leading foreign policy advisers-- Norman Podhoretz --prattles on about we must bomb Iran. Talking about military strikes, including cruise missiles and "bunker busters", this neoncon man sounds delusional: "It would take five minutes. You'd wake up one morning and the strikes would have been ordered and carried out during the night. All the president has to say is go."

Putting aside the immorality and illegality of this death wish, military action would be irrational for both sides. The US military is already stretched to the breaking point. We'd witness unprecedented pandemonium in oil markets. Our troops in Iraq would be endangered.

What about the fact that six weeks of bombing in the Gulf War in 1991 didn't take out the Iraqi Scud missiles? Nor did the Israeli bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor have any impact on curbing regional proliferation. What about Podhoretz's professed concern for democracy in the region, especially for Iran's dissidents?

Listen to Akbar Ganji, an Iranian journalist and dissident, who sat in Evin Prison from 2000 to 2006. In an op-ed for the Washington Post last week, he wrote: "The Iranian people, myself included, need freedom, democracy and peace--not war conditions and constant worries about a potential barrage of US missiles."

Podhoretz and his insanity will embolden Iranian hardliners, plunge the region into even greater and darker instability and undermine our security. If one needed any more reasons why Rudy Giuliani should be fully, completely, unequivocally disqualified from being President and Commander-in-Chief, listen to Podhoretz's insanity.


Posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel at 10/28/2007 @ 2:27pm

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=246661

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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:58 PM
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1. K&R
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:59 PM
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2. Well, Rudy's batshit crazy. Why would anyone associated with
Edited on Mon Oct-29-07 01:00 PM by acmavm
him not be the same? He's trying to pull what doomed McCain. War, terra, war, terra, war, war, war, bomb, kill.

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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 02:36 PM
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9. the idea of looking at Guiliani's crazy face for four years makes me ill
what a piece of work is (this) man ...
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 01:08 PM
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3. giuliani is an extremely dangerous individual
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 01:28 PM
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6. But according to Chris Matthews, America wants a fascist
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 02:45 PM
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10. Matthews makes fascism sound so romantic...
NOT!

--IMM
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 01:12 PM
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4. These guys just don't learn...do they??? What is it?? Termites in the Brain??
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 01:17 PM
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5. Invading Iran would be madness.
Madmen do these kind of things.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 02:14 PM
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7. K&R. (nt)
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 02:19 PM
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8. Well, that's because Norman Podhoretz IS a "madman" ... a sociopath, imho.
:shrug: Simple enough. PNAC nationalist, "might makes right" militarist, and corporate colonialist.
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