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I'm Not Kidding. These People are Crazy.

by: Matt Singer

Sat Apr 21, 2007 at 10:42:08 AM MST


Glenn Greenwald writes up how quickly rightwing pundits, two Congressmen (including the former Chair of the House Intelligence Committee), and possibly the U.S.'s ambassador to the UN have embraced a wacky conspiracy theory regarding an Islamic axis of Syria (OK), Iran (OK), and North Korea (?) being helped by Russia (?) and China (?) in their quest to build an "Islamic" nuclear bomb. This Islamic axis was inadvertently helped by the Bush Administration's failure to secure WMD found in Iraq whose existence is now denied by the Bush Administration out of embarassment and by Democrats out of an unwillingness to admit Saddam Hussein was a threat.

As if that wasn't wacky enough, it also contains the argument that John Negroponte is part of a pro-China cabal operating in the U.S. government.

Insane doesn't even begin to sum this up. Greenwald writes:

Five years from now, and 20 years from now, and 50 years from now, there is going to be a substantial portion of the American population which insists that Saddam really did have WMDs when we invaded. It is not uncommon for a substantial portion of the population of any country to live in a purely mythical world, where desire -- rather than reality -- dictates beliefs. But it is most assuredly unusual for such a group to be the dominant political faction governing the world's only remaining superpower.
This is like if all the major Democratic candidates for President were running on a platform of "9/11 was an inside job." Why are these people taken seriously?
Matt Singer :: I'm Not Kidding. These People are Crazy.
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Speaking of Democratic Presidential hopefuls...

Regardless of your political alignments, I think I found something amusing, to say the least, featuring the Democrats vs. the Republicans in old-school, knockdown drag-out superhero glory...

The Challenge Of The Super-Duper Friends!

Pretty okay Flash animation, and Karl Rove as the Joker really takes the cake.

Check it out. :p


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There has been a debate on choosing a new "ideal enemy" among American political and military elites since the end of the Cold War. Camp #1 (still dominant at the moment) wants the masses to focus their attention on so called "rogue states," like North Korea and Iran, which they claim are supporting an organized, interantional terrorist network. However, camp #2 believes that the United States needs to focus public attention on a more easily identifiable "peer rival." The primary candidates for the honour are China and Russia. What we are seeing now is not so much an organized effort to link China with Iran, North Korea and Russia, but the start of a shift in global political strategy. Now that the the plan to rebuild the Middle East is failing and the popularity of the "War on Terror" is quickly waning, the idea of reigniting Cold War fervor or the "yellow peril" is starting to look good.
Of course, Western powers have always sought an external enemy to unite their citizens and distract them from domestic social ills. The United States is not an exception.

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