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Kristol: Proper Response To Iran’s Kidnapping Of Soldiers Would Have Been Military Strikes
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/08/kristol-williams-iran-crisis/
Fox News pundit Bill Kristol has been an unceasing proponent of war with Iran. In the past year, Kristol has repeatedly beat the war drums, stating for example that Bush “could easily build support” for an Iran attack “at the beginning of 2008.” He has also said: “I think we could be in a military confrontation with Iran much sooner than people expect.”
This morning, Kristol again promoted the concept of war with Iran. He said Iran’s kidnapping of the 15 British soldiers has brought the world closer to another war. “We came closer to war with Iran this week,” Kristol said, complaining that the U.S. was “very passive.”
Juan Williams then questioned, “Well, what was the alternative? To go in and strike them while the hostages were there?” Kristol said “yes.”
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My question is why this neocon wing nut has any credibility left at all?
Here's a sample of his greatest hits:
March 17, 2003, on the eve of our invasion of Iraq, Bill Kristol wrote the following:
We are tempted to comment, in these last days before the war, on the U.N., and the French, and the Democrats. But the war itself will clarify who was right and who was wrong about weapons of mass destruction. It will reveal the aspirations of the people of Iraq, and expose the truth about Saddam's regime. It will produce whatever effects it will produce on neighboring countries and on the broader war on terror. We would note now that even the threat of war against Saddam seems to be encouraging stirrings toward political reform in Iran and Saudi Arabia, and a measure of cooperation in the war against al Qaeda from other governments in the region. It turns out it really is better to be respected and feared than to be thought to share, with exquisite sensitivity, other people's pain. History and reality are about to weigh in, and we are inclined simply to let them render their verdicts.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/341lxxol.asp
August 26, 2002
Reading the Scowcroft/New York Times "arguments" against war, one is struck by how laughably weak they are. European international-law wishfulness and full-blown Pat Buchanan isolationism are the two intellectually honest alternatives to the Bush Doctrine. Scowcroft and the Times wish to embrace neither, so they pretend instead to be terribly "concerned" with the administration's alleged failure to "make the case."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/550afrhr.asp
April 4, 2003
"There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America ... that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1215563
April 28, 2003
The United States committed itself to defeating terror around the world. We committed ourselves to reshaping the Middle East, so the region would no longer be a hotbed of terrorism, extremism, anti-Americanism, and weapons of mass destruction. The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq have been won decisively and honorably. But these are only two battles. We are only at the end of the beginning in the war on terror and terrorist states.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/564ueebn.asp
March 22, 2004
[T]here are hopeful signs that Iraqis of differing religious, ethnic, and political persuasions can work together. This is a far cry from the predictions made before the war by many, both here and in Europe, that a liberated Iraq would fracture into feuding clans and unleash a bloodbath. The perpetually sour American media focus on the tensions between Shiites and Kurds that delayed the signing by three whole days. But the difficult negotiations leading up to the signing, and the continuing debates over the terms of a final constitution, have in fact demonstrated something remarkable in Iraq: a willingness on the part of the diverse ethnic and religious groups to disagree--peacefully--and then to compromise. This willingness is the product of what appears to be a broad Iraqi consensus favoring the idea of pluralism.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/852lnwyn.asp
July 26, 2004
What the Bush administration did say--and what so many reporters seem to have trouble understanding--is that Iraq and al Qaeda had a relationship that, by its very existence, posed a potential threat to the United States.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/327igxby.asp
March 7, 2005
Just four weeks after the Iraqi election of January 30, 2005, it seems increasingly likely that that date will turn out to have been a genuine turning point. The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, ended an era. September 11, 2001, ended an interregnum. In the new era in which we now live, 1/30/05 could be a key moment--perhaps the key moment so far--in vindicating the Bush Doctrine as the right response to 9/11. And now there is the prospect of further and accelerating progress.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/292bhhzj.asp
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Kristol is a PNAC writer, isn't he?
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Kristol is a PNAC writer, isn't he?
He's the chairman - he's the guy who makes the Kool Aid
http://www.newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm
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He's the chairman - he's the guy who makes the Kool Aid
http://www.newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm
hahaha he also publishes that far right mag that helped sell the WMD claim.
didn't the germans have a minister of propaganda too?
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Here's how it works. Doug Feith (world class moron) working in the office of Special Plans (Rumsfelds handpicked group of neocon Kool Aid drinkers) makes up "intelligence" to fit the administrations objective and then leaks the bogus info to the Weekly Standard. They print the article titled "Case Closed" and Cheney continuously cites it (most recently in January of this year) as "the best source of information"
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/01/27/cheney/index.html
at this point they should just create a cabinet position for him as Secretary of Propaganda or something like that. It's just stunning that this guy could be so continuously wrong about everything and still gets to present his opinion in the press as if it actually has some relevance.
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I bet people in other countries are laughing at how stupid we are.
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I bet people in other countries are laughing at how stupid we are.
I think they're beyond laughing at this point and now they are just horrified.
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People in other countries are jealous..and Kristol is an ass monkey.
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God bless the USA. It ain't fair, but it's reality. Deal with it.
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God bless the USA. It ain't fair, but it's reality. Deal with it.
I'm all for reality
let's call it like it is
cleansing effect of sunshine and all
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i tells ya. tonight i sat in the rocking chair, looked at the sun setting, and just accepted it all. It's life.
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I bet people in other countries are laughing at how stupid we are.
240, We're well past that, ...now we're crying for you. :'(
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Actually, it must really piss people off that we keep getting away with crap like........... what ever............ ;)