Israeli army chief urges US victory in Iraq

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/610756.cms

"I do not think that the Americans will quit Iraq rapidly, even if there is a change after the November US presidential elections," he added.

Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz had said in a newspaper interview last week that Israelis were "crossing our fingers for the Americans" in Iraq/

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Why do I get a feeling that this guy is right...? :eyes: Oh, never
mind....

At least we don't claim that God gave us a mandate to displace the locals.

I'm sure W has worked god in there somewhere....

What occupation are you referring to, btw?

As to the "displaced" locals, I have yet to hear a word against the absentee Arab landlords who sold the land to the "Zionists" out from under them.

Or weren't you talking about Israel?

Daily invasions and war-crime-like behavior is O.K.

in urban warfare, "pacification techniques" and assassinations....
:eyes:

Boy...guaranteed to make friends in the ME.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/brooks1.html

The Israelization of America
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While American power has in general been a very attentive student of Israeli policy and practice, there is one crucial lesson at the back of Israel's textbook that remains unlearned: Israel's approach will never create peace or achieve a just solution. Of course, that suits its purposes. The point of Israeli strategy is to grind the Palestinians into dust until they just blow away, and the last shreds of Palestine can be swept up into Greater Israel, always the goal of the military Zionists and their Laborite alter egos.

Unless forced to do otherwise, Israel, driven by a tragic and fundamentally racist ideology, will fight on for a hundred years to dispose of the "Palestinian problem". But American attempts to apply the localized Israeli model (designed to acquire land the size of Rhode Island) to a "global war on terror" are rewriting the definition of "over-reach". By following Israel's lead (which is constitutionally averse to just solutions) in the "war on terror", we ensure that the war will never be won and will never end. Increasingly, we suspect that our leaders may understand this lesson, too. And they're getting ready to send another 14 billion dollars in shiny red apples (disguised as new loan guarantees and military aid) to their beloved teachers in Jerusalem.

The Iraqis didn't terrorize us.

No Iraqi has yet blown up a schoolbus of American children.

I would think that makes a difference.

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