politburo diktat 2.0

Back in September, 2004, Ray McGovern, founder of VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professional for Sanity, an anti-Bush group) openly called for “patriotic leaks” to undermine the Iraq war effort, which he proudly connected to the Vietnam experience.

Ray McGovern: More Troops To Iraq…After The Election

On March 25, 1968, Johnson complained to a small gathering:”The leaks to the New York Times hurt us…We have no support for the war…I would have given Westy the 206,000 men.”

The moral of the story? Leaking can be patriotic; can prevent a wider, longer war.

The Next Four Years

Some say that perhaps the administration’s plan, if it gets four more years, is to “clean out” Fallujah and other resistance strongholds, despite the heavy casualties that would result, and then turn the fight over to Iraqi forces and withdraw.

Not a chance. If, as I believe to be the case, the actual objectives of the war on Iraq have mostly to do with achieving military dominance over that oil-rich region and eliminating any conceivable threat to the security of Israel, four more years will mean a still larger U.S. military force there for the duration. Among other things, to leave sooner would leave Israel less safe than it was before the war, something the president’s advisers are very loath to do.

This week, Ray McGovern stoutly defends Mary McCarthy, a “patriotic leaker,” I suppose.

McGovern is a full “no-blood-for oil and the Jews” Moonbat. From the WaPo, during the Democrats phony hearings on the war in 2005.

Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War

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.