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RickJ

Perhaps I should have been less naive; as I extend my blogging experience, I expect to keep on learning. The 160,148 that I thought was the number of visits to this site — and I was astonished by the lack of feedback — is in reality the number of hits on neo-neocon’s home site, from which sprout a number of tentacles, of which this is one. The fact is that there’s no way — unless I’m making yet another newbie mistake — of tracking the visits to this particular blog — of how many visits are coming here, rather than to ne–neocon in general in all her multitudinous forms, but it’s a safe assumption that not many of them are being directed here.

All right, so it’s not a dialogue but an online diary; I can live with that. It’s been fun.

tequilamockingbird

It’s unpatriotic! Back the President! Rush, are you calling Dick a liar? Your disrespect for the President is disgusting. If you don’t like it, move to Russia. You’re giving comfort to our enemies by opposing the President. You and all your faggot Al Qaeda-loving buddies deserve a taste of life in Gitmo. You’re being taken in by those lying extremist left-wing weirdo media outlets like Fox. Next thing we know you’ll be taking away our guns and forcing us to have abortions. Why do you hate America so much? Can’t you see you’re just a bunch of bitter losers? Bush was vindicated in 2004 — get over it, you crybabies! Stop bitching and do something positive — support the President! You probably cheered when the Twin Towers fell, you anti-Bush scum. You’d support anything to drag the President down! If you’re not with us, you’re against us! You’re not anti-Bush — you’re anti-American!

Peace and love,
tequilamockingbird

I’ve just recently read a scathing report on Powell’s career by Robert Parry from commercialnews.com. Parry claims that throughout his career and his involvement with the My Lay coverup, with the Iran/Contra scandal as chief aide to Caspar Weinberger, and on to the present day, Powell always carefully tries to be all things to all people, deliberately avoiding taking strong stands on controversial positions, as a leader sometimes must.

An interesting read. I knew nothing about Powell’s military career, but I always thought his performance as Secretary of State was cowardly. It became obvious early on in his term that he couldn’t stomach the Neo-Con idealogues in the Pentagon and the White House, and the correct thing to do, ethically and morally, was to resign, something it seems to me was more common years ago. It seems pretty rare nowadays for people to resign on principle.

Well, Retired Army Lt. General William Odom, now a scholar at the Hudson Institute, agrees with me. He said yesterday: “The invasion of Iraq was the “greatest strategic disaster in United States history,” He said the invasion of Iraq alienated America’s Middle East allies, making it harder to prosecute a war against terrorists.

I said it was the worst military decision made by anyone since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

The U.S. should withdraw from Iraq, he said, and reposition its military forces along the Afghan-Pakistani border to capture Osama bin Laden and crush al Qaeda cells.