Mud-wrestling at the Apocalypse:
"The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," the world-famous movie actor continued, before asking his arresting officer:
"Are you a Jew?"
-Heidi Beirich/SPLC
"pulls the plug"?"It now appears that there may have been substantial preparation by Saddam's regime for an insurgency of this kind," Feith said, "and yet the intelligence community didn't find it.
"None of the things the intel community produced before the war talked about the ability of the Baathists to recruit and finance and command an insurgency once Saddam was overthrown," he added.
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During the 90-minute interview, Feith said that it was "difficult, but not impossible" to achieve a "reasonable degree of success" in Iraq. He defined success as reducing the magnitude of violence and related problems in Iraq while increasing the capacity of Iraqis to handle their own problems.
The goal, he said, is having those two tasks reach a "crossing point" before the United States "pulls the plug."
-Steve Goldstein/PhiladelphiaInquirer 29.Jan.07
Back to Heidi B at the SPLC:
The moment when U.S. troops realized they had badly underestimated the resistance they would encounter from Iraqi guerrilla fighters can be pinpointed to the minute.
An examination of prewar intelligence on the possibility of postwar violence and of the administration's response shows: Military and civilian intelligence agencies repeatedly warned prior to the invasion that Iraqi insurgent forces were preparing to fight and that their ranks would grow as other Iraqis came to resent the U.S. occupation and organize guerrilla attacks.
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Also:
A classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President Bush in late July[2004] spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq, government officials said yesterday.
The estimate outlines three possibilities for Iraq through the end of 2005, and the worst case is developments that could lead to civil war, the officials said...
What is known is that Gibson is reported to have blamed Jews for forcing him to cut a scene, in which Jews and their descendants are held responsible for the murder of Christ, from his 2004 film, "The Passion of the Christ." Sounding a bit like he did that July night in Malibu, Gibson told The New Yorker: "If I included that in there, they'd be coming after me at my house. They'd come to kill me."Foxman? Interfaith dialogue?
Few Americans defended Mel Gibson's drunken rant about the evils of the Jews. But radical traditionalist Catholics did.
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The church has worked extraordinarily hard in recent decades to distance itself from anti-Semitic teachings and the idea of forcing its view of the world on unbelievers. And, by most accounts, it has been successful, with many Jewish and organizations from other faiths praising its efforts. Abe Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, signaled his gratitude after the 2005 death of Pope John Paul II, who, he said, "revolutionized Catholic-Jewish relations" by denouncing anti-Semitism as a "sin against God and humanity." More recently, Pope Benedict XVI's repeated clarifications of statements he made about the Islamic faith in September reflected a commitment to interfaith dialogue.
Abe Foxman?
Foxman:Personally, me, I'm disagreeing with drunken Mel on the "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world" thing.
At a time when Israel is once again under siege - physically from terrorists and Iran's nuclear threat, and psychologically from Islamic extremists and other anti-Israel forces around the world - the pro-Israel perspective of Evangelical Christians is much appreciated. The theological reasons for why they stand with Israel, as a precursor to the Second Coming and Armageddon, take a backseat to current realities. The support comes voluntarily, and we welcome it, as long as it comes without a quid pro quo.
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Foxman:
"Today we face a better financed, more sophisticated, coordinated, unified, energized and organized coalition of groups in opposition to our policy positions on church-state separation than ever before. Their goal is to implement their Christian worldview. To Christianize America. To save us!"
Foxman went on to explain that the ominous agenda of the Christianizers includes working to confirm conservative judicial nominees, restricting abortion and stopping gay marriage.
"They intend to Christianize all aspects of American life, from the halls of government to the libraries, to the movies, to recording studios, to the playing fields and locker rooms of professional, collegiate and amateur sports; from the military to SpongeBob SquarePants," the ADL chief warned.
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I don't think Jews have much to do with North Korea as presently configured. But then I guess there isn't really a war there right now either. Not exactly anyway. Not yet.
And then again, when you think about it, this Moon guy? Reverend Moon?
Is he Jewish? Connected? No?
Okay then.
