Grayson Opponent Calls For Establishing Several Democracies In Middle East

[seafan]

Run time: 01:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfKiILL_51c   Posted on YouTube: September 17, 2010 By YouTube Member: tpmtv Views on YouTube: 1421   Posted on DU: September 24, 2010 By DU Member: seafan Views on DU: 345

 
Now, where have we heard THAT before....

"No stages," he said. "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just Let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from now." ----Richard Perle to John Pilger, 2002

Hat tip to TPM:



Republican Daniel Webster

Florida Republican congressional hopeful Daniel Webster has a 2003-era view of American wars. A source sends over video footage of a Webster campaign event where he advocates that U.S. troops stay in Afghanistan indefinitely at the military's discretion, and use it to create a series of democracies in the Muslim world.

"Our national interest is this: We need a beachhead in the Middle East, that is a democratic beachhead, not a party but a form of government," Webster told voters. "And to me, if we have a democracy in several countries there, it (becomes) a beachhead. It also protects us because once that beachhead is established it can move further and further and hopefully free up the people of the middle east."

Webster was asked specifically how long he believed U.S. forces should remain in Afghanistan. He says that's none of voters' business. "However long we stay is a military decision that should not be shared with the (world)," Webster insisted, to a round of applause.

Grayson's challenger is Daniel Webster, 61, winner of a crowded, bruising August 24 primary. A soft-spoken, silver-haired champion of the Christian right, Webster served as majority leader in Florida's Senate and speaker of its House during twenty-eight years in the Legislature. A longtime advocate of home schooling and "covenant marriage," Webster was endorsed in the primary by a former National Rifle Association president and Jeb Bush, the state's popular ex-governor. Taking the opposite side from Grayson on virtually every issue, Webster has pledged to roll back Congress's "runaway spending" and stop the "bailouts, buyouts and payoffs." He has criticized healthcare reform as a "redistribution of wealth plan" and, more ominously, adopted the mantra of the Tea Party: "You know what? It's our country, not theirs. So let's take it back." The night of his primary victory celebration, held in a megachurch gymnasium, he made it a point to denounce the "Ground Zero mosque." ----The Nation

And the billionaire Koch Brothers are pouring money into opposition tactics aimed at Alan Grayson.



Pushing the permanent return to the Robber Baron Era, heavily laced with aggressive imperialism abroad, and shouting, bigoted street preachers at home, the Big Money Vampire Squid is overtaking our country.



Unless we stop it.

[activa8tr]

1. That guy is dangerous, "none of the voters' business"??? Who the

F*** does he think he is? Ceasar?

I wish I had $ to give Grayson, but my income is limited and all I can afford is to donate to my local D incumbent and volunteer for her campaign.

[ladjf]

2. That should be good news for Grayson. However, one can never

underestimate how dumb Americans can be about politics. nt

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Wonder if he'd be willing to run a platoon maned by his children and

grandchildren in that total war? How many of his familiy members will he be willing to send to die?

[dgibby]

4. I'd be happy if we could just save THIS Democracy

from assholes like him and the rest of his ilk.

[yurbud]

5. If he wants to establish democracies, we can do it by stopping military and intelligence

aid to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the various little oil emirates.

Save money and make friends. It works for me.