Even the pro-Israel neocons are turning against Bush

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Even the pro-Israel neocons are turning against Bush
BY ERIC S. MARGOLIS

NEW York has always been the least American of America’s cities. It’s almost as if a piece of Europe became detached and washed up onto North America’s shores.

New Yorkers like myself often feel uncomfortable with fellow Americans from ‘fly-over country,’ which means everything between the East and West Coasts. People from the deep-fried South and Texas are regarded with distaste.

These days, Texan President George Bush is about as popular in New York City as he is in Teheran.
Another turning point came this week. In the course of a speech by hawkish Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a highly respected former CIA official, Ray McGovern, stood up and asked Rumsfeld: "Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kinds of casualties and was not necessary?"

McGovern was clearly speaking for the many CIA officers outraged by war propaganda, corruption of national security by the neocons, and seeing their agency blamed for the debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Watching McGovern, I was reminded of that glorious moment when one man in a crowd began booing Romania’s odious dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu. Others quickly joined him. The Romanian despot was struck dumb; his face mirrored total incomprehension. No one had ever dared challenge him. In hours, his dictatorship collapsed.

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[Behind the Aegis]

1. What an elitist!

He starts off with an idiotic title that isolates one group, then continues with generalizations, and insults. His opinion piece is barely tolerable.

[Hardrada]

2. This guy can kiss the collective DU butt!

[TomClash]

3. Huh?

"New Yorkers like myself often feel uncomfortable with fellow Americans from ‘fly-over country,’ which means everything between the East and West Coasts. People from the deep-fried South and Texas are regarded with distaste."

No, elitist snobs like Eric Margolis are regarded with distaste. We New Yorkers like everyone. I know a couple of "deep-fried South" ex-Presidents who are pretty popular in NY.

Back in New York, there is hope the era of domination of US politics by the pro-Bush South, Midwest and rocky mountain states may be nearing an end. The nation’s traditional internationalist eastern establishment senses a return to power.

More crap. The Midwest is hardly dominatng US politics - what have those and many southern states - see La and Miss - gotten under Bush. And for President I'll take any lib Dem from anywhere who can win.

Then he doens't mention which neo-cons are deserting Bush at all, which was supposedly the point of the article. I suspect there aren't too many. Ray McGovern has long opposed Bush. What a contrived piece of garbage this article is.

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4. He wasn't referring to McGovern as a neo-con.

He mentioned him as being a turning point, which it was.

"Another turning point came this week. In the course of a speech by hawkish Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a highly respected former CIA official, Ray McGovern, stood up and asked Rumsfeld: "Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kinds of casualties and was not necessary?"

Absolutely correct.

The part about New Yorkers I know nothing about. I think he's also right on the point that neo-cons are deserting Bush, but perhaps not as many as he seems to think.

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5. "New York has always been the least American of America’s cities."

Any "article" that begins with such a sentence doesn't need to be further read.

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6. So New Yorker regard the South with "distaste"?

What a sweeping mis-generalization.

You sure this Margolis guy isn't a Bush-neocon plant?