The Goat Pen

I used to live in Flatbush. Back in my day, your neighborhood was a slum but nowadays it's probably a real happening place to be, right?

Condolences about living in NC? It's by choice. I really love it here. I didn't think I would, but I do.

Bklyn, do you live in Brooklyn? I grew up there but I now live in NC.

Geez, just when I was starting to think I'm like a regular person *sigh*

I'm paying more than $500 a month for mediocre healthcare coverage. It's not terrible... they did play $$$$ for my cancer treatments. But I'm really looking forward to Medicare. If they do away with it, that would be the one thing that might lead me to buying a gun & resorting to assasination. I...

It is riff-raff. But rift raft is kinda cute. It suggests floating around aimlessly.

I think Hedge is funny.

As long as there is one US GI garrisoned in Iraq, Iran will not do anything to anyone (directly.)

They didn't do anything directly before the Iraq invasion either.

to say that a major US military presence has not had any effect of reining in any dirty tricks that Iran possibly had in mind seems very unlikely... I'm basing my opinion on what I'm seeing. Iran has historically attacked Israel via proxy by providing weapons to Hezbollah & the Palestinians. Th...

had a friend who worked in the CIA at the time. The US said that publicly, but privately they supported it I did read that Reagan was pleased with the Israeli attack reportedly because it showed that Israel was able to handle its own problems rather than expecting the US to do it for them. Side not...

America needed a reason to go after Iran (other than Israel telling them they should) Why would Bush need another reason? It seemed to have been enough reason in attacking Iraq. ( another reason I'm not convinced Jews don't love RINO's) Well, it's a fact that Jews overwhelmingly vote Democrat.

When Iraq was a threat to Israel, Israel took care of it on its own. It was glo0bally criticized for taking out Iraq's nukes, with the US among the critics.

Our presence in Iraq hasn't reined in Iran at all. Not only did the US not attack Iran, but it would not aid Israel in doing so either.

The scud missiles happened during the first Gulf War. It wasn't an issue in 2003 when Bush attacked Iraq. If Bush wanted to serve Israel, he would have attacked Iran. That's who Israel has been worried about since the 90s.

That's interesting ecat. I would have guessed you voted Republican. Did you vote for Bush?

Something else... I'm a newbie here so I don't know you guys very well. But if I had to guess, I would guess most of you vote Republican & voted for Bush. If you oppose this war for Israel, why did you vote for Bush? And if you did, why blame Israel for the policy of your guy?

Paul Wolfowitz was named the Jerusalem Times man of the year for pushing America into a long term war with Iraq and his domino theory of the middle east. RINO's are the war party. The Jerusalem Times is not represetative of American Jews. Most people never even heard of this paper. I'm an American ...

>The authors conclude by arguing that when the Lobby succeeds in shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East...

Does that mean the lobby hasn't succeeded yet?

no that's not the way it goes. you just elect someone who doesn't suck up to Israel

Yeah, that would work. Go for it.

Whenever that happens to me, I just get a new computer.