Former Congressman Linked to Terrorist Funding

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Former Congressman Mark Siljander is linked to a terrorist funding organization, Mitt Romney decides to skip South Carolina for Nevada, and Hillary Clinton is getting support from the Jewish community.

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[njsykora]

Slight overuse of the captions maybe. Please use more, they make good jokes.

[PoliticoPlaybook]

wait so should i use more or less?

[Jamandell]

Last time I checked the end of January was..."uary", not "uray".

Woops?

[PoliticoPlaybook]

another easter egg of failure!

[TheTallestTree]

I loved it when you said FBI and showed a picture of Dr Lector and Clairyce (sp?) from Hannibal Lector! FUNNY!!!

[graumwytheredux]

DID YOU KNOW THAT?!

NOW YOU KNOOOW!!

I love that show.

[MarieLouiseLa]

Maybe you should read SIljander's hopeful book. Do you allow that in a nearly thirty year period a person can change, often radically? SIljander tracks his amazing, life-changing journey in his book, 'A Deadly Misunderstanding.' Are you aware that in 2004 nearly every Arabic/Islamic organization was labeled terrorist by the U.S.? They were all guilty until proven innocent! Similar to American Japanese internment in WWII. READ THE BOOK!

[mowriter]

What if...what if Siljander is trying to brisge the divide between Muslims and Christians, and by doing this has put himself at odds with elements of our government who have NO vested interest in peace between Muslims and Christians?

hmmm...makes you think...especially in terms of "Disaster Economics". Seems Siljander is actually LIVING that Jesus faith, not just pushing in people's faces.

What's wrong with that?

[robbin312]

why dont i ever see anything on ron paul???

[rocinante316]

though they find that the US' unconditional support for israel harms the US' 'nationa interest' in the middle east, mearsheimer and walt couldn't care less about the plight of the Palestinians. they find the apartheid imposed by israel objectionable only insofar as it contributes to violence on the part of palestinians vs. israel and thus harms US/israeli 'interests'

so you see, they're hardly 'loon[y]'

[rocinante316]

i'll have you know that john mearsheimer and stephen walt have corroborated the 'great zionist conspiracy' thesis in their recently published _the israel lobby_. mearsheimer and walt are hardly 'extremist loon[s],' too--they are major figures in the school of realism...

[breanainn66]

LOL! Oh! So, bach can spew his hatred at James, but I can't tell him that if he disagrees so much that he should just go to other sites where his mindless propaganda is celebrated? How enlightened of you!

[breanainn66]

Ah! The great Zionist conspiracy! LOL! I thought you were some extremist loon, but now I see you have no propagandist agenda!

LOL!

You can always find that anyone who attacks James on here is an extremist, as he tries to remain rather unbiased, dealing fairly evenly with all candidates, but that upsets some people when they feel their views are the only acceptable views.

[rocinante316]

given the rather horrendous pro-israel bias in the america media (and american society in general), i think it's entirely fair to take issue with james on this, both for his accepting of smith's zionist analysis and his extending of it (the orientalist 'come a long way' comment)

[rocinante316]

let's talk about 'facts':

the article james cites makes no (explicit) claim about hillary's having 'come a long way' since the 1999 embrace. It notes that she has "spent her Senate term taking a hard line on Israeli security."

it also notes that obama has "drawn some substantive criticism" for taking on

zbigniew brzezinski as a consultant, as he has been found to have "clashed with pro-Israel groups since the 1970s."

[rocinante316]

so basically what you're saying is that critics should shut up--what a fantastic position to take