he's watching the mushroom cloud rise above Tehran!

This seems to be the real Bush-Neocon Roadmap working to perfection.

I am not a pro war person, I hate it. But you best place yourself in 1776 and figure out what you had to do to survive.

In your mind, the way to end terrorism is not to do anything that might offend Bin Laden or others like him?

Any critisism of Israeli policies by politiicians or public figures has led to substantial headaches at best or political death at worst.

Here is the PDF of the Mearsheimer and Walt essay The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy from Harvard's Faculty Research Working Paper Series.

Whether you agree or not there really is a War On Terror and this is it. (Jimcee)

The level of damage inflicted by Israel appeared finely calibrated. For example, a missile punched a hole in a major suspension bridge on the Beirut-Damascus road but did not destroy it, unlike less expensive bridges on the road that were brought down. An Israeli strike hit fuel depots at one of Beirut's two power stations _ sending massive fireballs and smoke into the sky _ but avoided the station itself.

The road to Damascus was hit

In Acts 9:3-19a, while on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus, near Damascus, he was hit by a bolt of light from the sky and dropped to the ground. He heard a voice: "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" "Who are you, Lord?" Saul asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," he replied.

The Olmert government in Israel has seized on two incidents involving the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers, first in Gaza on June 25, and then on Wednesday on the Lebanese border, as pretexts for an enormous military operation that was clearly prepared long in advance. It remains to be seen how far the Israeli offensive will go--to Beirut, or even to Damascus--but it is clearly aimed at accomplishing strategic objectives that have no relationship to the incidents that supposedly provoked it. ... in the final analysis, the real target of the United States and Israel is not this or that organization, but the oppressed masses throughout the Middle East. They aim to destroy the will to struggle of the tens of millions of people who have never accepted the Zionist dispossession of the Palestinian people, and who will never accept the US conquest of Iraq and the establishment of a neo-colonial stooge regime in Baghdad. ... It is now 58 years since the state of Israel was established, and 39 years since the Six-Day War which expanded Zionist control of Palestinian territory to include the West Bank and Gaza. These six decades have been an unending chain of violence--war, repression, terrorism, assassination, the expulsion of populations. Now a new and even more terrible war threatens. The first premise of any solution to the crisis of the Middle East is the removal of American imperialism from the region. The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party demand the immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq and the Persian Gulf, and an end to Washington's military and financial sponsorship of Israeli domination over the Palestinian people.