Comments on: Dahr Jamail

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:20:32 +0000

Whats all this moaning and groaning about long interviews–thats the way they should be. Pop them in your IPOD, go for a run or weight lift in the gym, or listen to them when your in your car or the subway. Scott Horton has one of, if not the best political talk shows in the country.

By: Marycatherine Barton

Marycatherine Barton — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:56:21 +0000

Eugene Costa above, you have it right.

By: Eugene Costa

Eugene Costa — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:54:21 +0000

The key here has to be finally admitted–it is deliberate US and Israeli policy to destroy and fragment Iraq, and it has been from the beginning. A million and a half Iraqis killed directly or indirectly by the US invasion, millions more displaced or forced into exile, encouraging sectarian violence and even spreading cholera–that has been the United States’ deliberate aim and task, and the conclusion is unavoidable. The rest is propaganda and cosmetics.

Are all US military units in on the project? No–these troops think they are trying to rebuild, those think their goal is peace, and so forth, but they also are propagandized, as some of them are beginning to see.

Their real purpose, imposed from the top on unknowing pawns, is to kill and destroy and fragment and make it impossible to rebuild.

That is the goal of the NeoCons directing Bush policy and also of the Likudniks directing the NeoCons, who want a weak divided Iraq.

Note also that Senator Biden, who made the proposal to divide Iraq into three “sovereignties”, an old Israeli policy, and who recently publicly called himself a Zionist, now has his eyes on the US gaining control over Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, using domestic strife and the threat of a fundamentalist takeover as the cover.

This too is an Israeli policy and mapped out by the Necons to make the Near East “safe” for Israel.

That goal includes no nuclear weapons or capabilities in the hands of Arabs or Muslims in general, and disassembling Iraq was just the first step, with the tail of Israel wagging the dog of the US.

Will it succeed? No. But if present policies continue the US will go down in the attempt.

The US cannot afford to attack Iran. Before that it could not even afford the attack on Iraq.

Do the extremist Israelis care really?

Not a whit. The joke going around is that the Likudniks are now demanding all US monetary aid to Israel to be paid in Euros.

By: George Buddy

George Buddy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:04:37 +0000

Maybe the real culprit for dissatisfaction with a lengthy radio interview is Scott Horton and Antiwar radio. Maybe radio interviews like this are just too time-consuming and old fashioned. There is a difference, however,between what you get if you sit down and right it out on your own, and the outcome when the interviewer guides the conversation toward where he wants to go, not the writer.

The odd thing about Iraq is that there is such an overwhelming number of opinion outlets and individuals who are against the war that 26 minutes with Dahr Jamail doesn’t seem as “needed” or as “important” as it might have been in a different opinion climate.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:04:32 +0000

Dahr Jamail is very good indeed, but I agree with Michael … let’s have it written, please.

By: Michael E. Piston

Michael E. Piston — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:56:54 +0000

I’m sure I speak for many Antiwar readers when I say that I just do not have 26 minutes and 39 seconds to listen to an interview that probably could easily be boiled down into a 1 or 2 page article. If Dahr Jamail doesn’t have time to write anymore – well, then I don’t have time to listen.

By: 8ball

8ball — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:07:14 +0000

“Iraq floats on a sea of oil….”