Critique of Weiner's Rumsfeld Confession Article [View All]

[Harlequin]

At the core of it, Mr. Weiner sneakily equivocates American foreign policy with Israeli foreign policy here in saying "...opposed to OUR existence." (emphasis mine). "Our" in that sentence is meant as Rumsfeld speaking of America. The reality is our country has been coopted by Jewish neocons to carry out the Israeli foreign policy aims.

Not only was there corruption on massive scales in many of those autocratically-ruled nations, but fundamentalist Islamic forces were gaining strength against these regimes; we couldn't risk these countries falling to Al Qaeda-like forces violently opposed to our existence. This was our thinking before 9/11; afterwards, it was intensified a hundred fold.

The reason Al-Qaeda attacks the U.S. is, in part, due to its unconditional support of Israel. It didn't make it in the mainstream, but that's what Osama bin Laden was saying in his unedited transcripts. I know: I was in the newsroom, reading and comparing the originals against what the Times was printing.

So Weiner fails, like everyone else in the fucking world, to mention that what's really the interest is a) defending Israel from weakness in our Saudi Arabian partnership and b) pure and simple bloodlust on the part of the Bush Administration and its hawks.

Weiner's just as bad as they are as far as not disclosing the truth. He's practically written an apology for Rumsfeld. Weiner's just as bad.