JOE LIEBERMAN - Irony and Hypocrisy
MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 8/8:

"Americans feel happy, prosperous, the world is at peace, for the most part."

Senior CNN commentator commenting on Joe Lieberman becoming V-P candidate.

There are so many ironies in contemporary history; there is so
much hypocrisy in our world.

Joe Lieberman and Al Gore were two of the 10 Senators of the
Democratic party who voted to make war on Iraq and who have
pressed to maintain the genocidal "sanctions" on that country.
At the time of that vote the Senate was controlled by the

Democratic Party and had they voted and urged the other way
history itself could have been altered.

Both Gore and Lieberman have propelled and financed their
political careers partly as extreme supporters of Israel, no
matter what; and they are both darlings of the Israeli/Jewish
lobby.

Joe Lieberman -- moral pillar we are told, Orthodox Jew, decent
man, with a wife whose family survived the Holocaust -- may
present a thoughtful image, a pleasant charm, a "moderate"
and "principled" record according to CNN and the corporate-
controlled mass media. But when the actual policies he has
advocated are examined in cold fact he has been one of the
primary advocates of modern-day genocide, of neo-apartheid in
the Holy Land, and of a rampant American militarism whose day of
reckoning is yet to come.

Now of course there's nothing better to say about George W. and
Cheney. But they at least don't put themselves forward as moral
pillars and deeply religious personalities.

The only American candidate who makes any moral and principled
sense at the moment is Ralph Nader. But the irony here is that
his candidacy appears to be most likely to help Bush and Cheney
take charge again in Washington; and they are even more
dangerous and even more militarist than Al and Joe.

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