Cheney Quotes Racist Anti-Semite to Demonstrate ‘Progress’ In Middle East

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Vice President Dick Cheney, in a speech this week to a leading Israel political action group:

Over the past four years, other free nations have risen in the broader Middle East. … Across that region, the political dialogue has been transformed — and politicians, scholars, students, and men and women from every walk of life are talking about freedom, equal rights, and accountable institutions of government. One leader in Lebanon said: “When I saw the Iraqi people voting, it was the start of a new Arab world…The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.”

The “leader in Lebanon” whose analysis Cheney apparently trusts is Walid Jumblatt, a racist anti-Semite who has celebrated the deaths of U.S. soldiers and referred to Condoleezza Rice as “oil-colored.” A few of Jumblatt’s low lights:

– “We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.”


Read full piece here:


http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/10/cheney-quotes-racist-anti-semite/

on edit: found link via rawstory - thanks RS!!

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1. love me some freedom

[MsKandice01]

2. I just read that...

And to think people are actually fooled by this nonsense.