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To: Metacomet who wrote (83274)	7/2/2007 5:24:16 PM
From: John Vosilla	Respond to of 110194

That is too funny. The other day I was accussed here of being of the liberal persuasion . My initial post clearly stated these periods of reckless fiscal and monetary policies along with a lending system on steroids with lax lending standards ruling the day clearly happen during periods when Republicans are in control in the mid to later 1920's, 1980's and 2000's.. As far as many social ills facing our country both parties are guilty IMHO but at least the Dems in general do care.. Extreme wealth inequality is the biggest cancer facing this country. Iraq, immigration, housing bust are not even close IMHO..

To: Metacomet who wrote (83274)	7/2/2007 5:29:25 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 110194

A Declaration of Independence from Israel by Chris Hedges Israel, without the United States, would probably not exist. The country came perilously close to extinction during the October 1973 war when Egypt, trained and backed by the Soviet Union, crossed the Suez and the Syrians poured in over the Golan Heights. Huge American military transport planes came to the rescue. They began landing every half-hour to refit the battered Israeli army, which had lost most of its heavy armor. By the time the war was over, the United States had given Israel $2.2 billion in emergency military aid. The intervention, which enraged the Arab world, triggered the OPEC oil embargo that for a time wreaked havoc on Western economies. This was perhaps the most dramatic example of the sustained life-support system the United States has provided to the Jewish state. Israel was born at midnight May 14, 1948. The U.S. recognized the new state 11 minutes later. The two countries have been locked in a deadly embrace ever since. Washington, at the beginning of the relationship, was able to be a moderating influence. An incensed President Eisenhower demanded and got Israel’s withdrawal after the Israelis occupied Gaza in 1956. During the Six-Day War in 1967, Israeli warplanes bombed the USS Liberty. The ship, flying the U.S. flag and stationed 15 miles off the Israeli coast, was intercepting tactical and strategic communications from both sides. The Israeli strikes killed 34 U.S. sailors and wounded 171. The deliberate attack froze, for a while, Washington’s enthusiasm for Israel. But ruptures like this one proved to be only bumps, soon smoothed out by an increasingly sophisticated and well-financed Israel lobby that set out to merge Israel and American foreign policy in the Middle East... commondreams.org