Last Thursday, some of the far-left Democrats in the House decided to play dress-up in the Capitol basement, using cardboard name tags and pretend witnesses to hold a mock impeachment trial of President Bush. If it wasn't bad enough that this nonsense happened at all, read the following excerpt from the Washington Post:
The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration "neocons" so "the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world." He said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
"Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation," McGovern said. "The last time I did this, the previous director of Central Intelligence called me anti-Semitic."
Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), who prompted the question by wondering whether the true war motive was Iraq's threat to Israel, thanked McGovern for his "candid answer."
At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations -- that an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there was an "insider trading scam" on 9/11 -- that previously has been used to suggest Israel was behind the attacks. I don't even know where to begin. The
Sept. 11 nonsense is so crazy that it's not worth spending time debunking (though I provided the snopes.com link anyway). That a country of less than six million people is controlling a country of almost 300 million people is absurd (a word I've justifiably been using a lot lately to describe Democrat rhetoric). What makes it more absurd is that there are about one billion Muslims in the world -- the US is siding with six million people over one billion? Moreover, isn't the Bush administration supposed to have such close ties with the anti-Israel Saudis? Well, which is it? And isn't the United States pressuring Israel to force thousands Jews out of their homes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank right now? Who is controlling whom? Ariel Sharon helped to found the settler movement and now that US is forcing him to be the one to destroy the settlements, something that is incredibly unpopular in Israel. If you read the Israeli papers, you'll see that they are (quite rightly) pointing out that the United States makes policy for Israel. Not the other way around.
But these lefty Democrats don't like letting the facts get in the way of their paranoid fantasies.