Keith Olbermann rips Sarah Palin-Mccain-Bush foreign policy

Sarah Palin may not have known what the Bush Doctrine was, but we're getting a pretty good idea of what the Palin Doctrine is. Or will be -- because it's still currently under construction. And what is it going to look like? Let's just say, it's going to seem familiar. Of course, the place her neocon mentors hope she's going is the White House. Given their dismal track record, they're smart enough to figure that the American public wouldn't be too keen on letting them in the front door again, so they are trying to sneak in hidden behind Palin's skirt. The Trojan Moose approaches...neo-neocon Joe Lieberman, who is reportedly helping prep Palin for the big ball -- her debate with Joe Biden.

She's already passed her first test with flying colors: being willing to link 9/11 with Iraq, something not even the president is still willing to do. Last week, she told a group of Iraq-bound soldiers that they were going to "defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans."

Of course, the neocons know they already have an ally at the top of the GOP ticket. McCain may have been a reformer on campaign finance, but when it comes to foreign policy, he has always been solidly in the neocon club. He loves to burnish his foreign policy bona fides by talking about how he wanted to fire Donald Rumsfeld months before Bush did. But he doesn't talk a lot about how, in the days immediately after 9/11, he was part of the neocon crowd itching to get into Iraq.

Just a few days after the attack, McCain was already talking about "some other countries" that helped Bin Laden. Countries like Syria, Iran, and...Iraq. And a few weeks later, during an October 18, 2001 appearance on David Letterman, McCain answered a question about how the war in Afghanistan was going by announcing that the invasion of Iraq would be "the second phase" of the war on terror (how prescient of him to know that Saddam wouldn't give up those nonexistent WMD). What's more, he tried to buttress the case for attacking Iraq by claiming that the recent spate of anthrax attacks "may have come from Iraq." Or Fort Detrick.

Six years later, demonstrating how little he's learned from the debacle in Iraq, McCain hired Randy Scheunemann, a neocon darling who helped form The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq in 2002, as his campaign's chief foreign policy advisor.

As TPMMuckraker noted in July, "Of all the hawkish Washington foreign-policy types pushing both before and after 9/11 for war with Iraq -- a war that an overwhelming majority of Americans now considers a mistake -- Scheunemann, not a marquee name, was among the most energetic and influential. And in the invasion's aftermath, he consistently opposed steps that might have helped stabilize the country."

And now, according to the Daily Telegraph, Scheunemann is briefing Sarah Palin.

McCain's selection of Palin may have been reckless, but it was anything but random. The neocons' view of the world may be disastrous, dangerous, discredited, and deadly -- but it's far from dead. Their patron saint, Dick Cheney, the scowling embodiment of the Neocon Doctrine, had way too much baggage -- and way too low approval ratings -- to mount a run for the White House.

That's why the Palin pick was so brilliant. On the outside, she's exponentially more likable and talented at connecting with people than Cheney ever was. But on the inside, once she graduates from the neocon finishing school, she'll be a complete and total Dick. Cheney. With lipstick.
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[xmywifeisawhalex]

Why don't you wake up and realize Governor Palin is probably THE WORST small, petty, and narrow-minded person about politics. I AM SCARED that there is a possibility she can become the next President. NO foreign policy knowledge, NEVER left the country, CAN'T tell us what the Bush Doctrine is, but hey, when i get more examples "I'll bring 'em to ya ;)"

[RJWooller]

Obama-Biden 2008!!!

[elbertsnext]

A liberal calling someone a liar is quite humorous!

[BeeblesTV]

Palin is dumber then a bag of bricks.

[4624tone]

Just cause your no longer in public eye or service, Gives them no pass now, that they lied about Iraq, war has killed more Americans then their false flag attack on 9/11, these guys should all be hung for treason in public! these moth''fu'kers!!And Palin she still thinks she can keep the lie goin, hang her tooo!!!

[Tyco200]

@xmywifeisawhalex "Of course, you FORGET to acknowledge the fact that PRESIDENT Palin is infact a white person, and if you DO NOT like her than you're a RACIST to WHITE PEOPLE in such a way that would make MEL GIBSON LOOK BETTER THAN YOURSELF AFTER he called his wife a CUNT and requested that she be RAPED by A PACK OF nIgErS!!!!" - Conservative version of Keith Oldermann

[Tyco200]

@RJWooller Regret that statement bitch? Where's your so-called "hope" now? In fucking hell? Obama has only 14yrs of experience and is a complete pro-liberal dictator who HAS done nothing. You sir, are liberal FILTH.

[RURIGHT]

@thebarstoolprophet  Typical Liberal filth!

[RURIGHT]

@spiritranchinfo..I'm just wondering what dirty tricks the left will use in November? You know they don't want to lose power and as Communist have a record for voter fraud as we saw in 2000 and the rest of the world in the 20th Century. They have no morals as they are "Moral Relativist" and cheating is ok as it justifies the end results!

[spiritranchinfo]

@xmywifeisawhalex Petty? take a look at Keith!!!!!