1 With that kind of background I'm surprised he isn't a Democrat Presidential Candidate.
 
$3 billion a year for Israel is fine with me.  Far better than what we send to nations that spit on us and help our enemies.

2 http://www.gasandoil.com/ogel/samples/ogel_detail.asp?key=1724

The guy who the conducted the study has been dead for two years and was praised by OPEC.

http://www.worldandi.com/specialreport/1990/october/Sa18308.htm

"Consultant to OPEC"

Sooo,

Truther + OPEC Consulant = Politico Article

Nice.  Didn't Politico readers get to ask Republicans candidates for President questions? Hmm.. Interesting.

3 Well you all know where I stand on something like this.  I believe we have far too few people like Bolynn around.  While his article may have been a little over the top in equating Israelies to Nazis, I think this comment found near the bottom of the website is much more profetic:
 
 

"Middle Eastern policy is shaped in the United States by those with very close ties to the Israel lobby. Those who attempt to counter the virulent Israeli position, such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, are ruthlessly slapped down. This alliance was true also during the Clinton administration, with its array of Israel-first Middle East experts, including special Middle East coordinator Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk, the former deputy director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, one of the most powerful Israel lobbying groups in Washington. But at least people like Indyk and Ross are sane, willing to consider a Palestinian state, however unviable, as long as it is palatable to Israel. The Bush administration turned to the far-right wing of the Israel lobby, those who have not a shred of compassion for the Palestinians or a word of criticism for Israel. These new Middle East experts include Elliott Abrams, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, the disgraced I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and David Wurmser.

Washington was once willing to stay Israel’s hand. It intervened to thwart some of its most extreme violations of human rights. This administration, however, has signed on for every disastrous Israeli blunder, from building the security barrier in the West Bank, to sealing off Gaza and triggering a humanitarian crisis, to the ruinous invasion and saturation bombing of Lebanon.

The few tepid attempts by the Bush White House to criticize Israeli actions have all ended in hasty and humiliating retreats in the face of Israeli pressure. When the Israel Defense Forces in April 2002 reoccupied the West Bank, President Bush called on then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to “halt the incursions and begin withdrawal.” It never happened. After a week of heavy pressure from the Israel lobby and Israel’s allies in Congress, meaning just about everyone in Congress, the president gave up, calling Sharon “a man of peace.” It was a humiliating moment for the United States, a clear sign of who pulled the strings.

There were several reasons for the war in Iraq. The desire for American control of oil, the belief that Washington could build puppet states in the region, and a real, if misplaced, fear of Saddam Hussein played a part in the current disaster. But it was also strongly shaped by the notion that what is good for Israel is good for the United States. Israel wanted Iraq neutralized. Israeli intelligence, in the lead-up to the war, gave faulty information to the U.S. about Iraq’s alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. And when Baghdad was taken in April 2003, the Israeli government immediately began to push for an attack on Syria. The lust for this attack has waned, in no small part because the Americans don’t have enough troops to hang on in Iraq, much less launch a new occupation.

Israel is currently lobbying the United States to launch aerial strikes on Iran, despite the debacle in Lebanon. Israel’s iron determination to forcibly prevent a nuclear Iran makes it probable that before the end of the Bush administration an attack on Iran will take place. The efforts to halt nuclear development through diplomatic means have failed. It does not matter that Iran poses no threat to the United States. It does not matter that it does not even pose a threat to Israel, which has several hundred nuclear weapons in its arsenal. It matters only that Israel demands total military domination of the Middle East.

The alliance between Israel and the United States has culminated after 50 years in direct U.S. military involvement in the Middle East. This involvement, which is not furthering American interests, is unleashing a geopolitical nightmare. American soldiers and Marines are dying in droves in a useless war. The impotence of the United States in the face of Israeli pressure is complete. The White House and the Congress have become, for perhaps the first time, a direct extension of Israeli interests. There is no longer any debate within the United States. This is evidenced by the obsequious nods to Israel by all the current presidential candidates with the exception of Dennis Kucinich. The political cost for those who challenge Israel is too high.

This means there will be no peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It means the incidents of Islamic terrorism against the U.S. and Israel will grow. It means that American power and prestige are on a steep, irreversible decline. And I fear it also means the ultimate end of the Jewish experiment in the Middle East.

4 I believe we have far too few people like Bolynn around.

You're right.

We need more belligerently uninformed, anti-Semitic, 9-11 conspiracy mongering, anti-Israel, anti-American, cop-punching, al-Qaeda denying 'journalists' out there. Too much jooooooish agitprop being believed.

Nothing more needs to be said. You're a moron of the highest order, and anything you write at this site from now on will be linked to this assinine contention. Congratulations - you're an idiot.

And I fear it also means the ultimate end of the Jewish experiment in the Middle East.

I'm sure you fear that - its hilarious enough that you actually believe your tripe. The one democracy in a vast sea of human-rights cesspools of theocratic dictatorships, which has given humanity scores of Nobel prize winners and advances in medicine, technology and democracy, is the one country that is "the problem."

The Islamists have won! Eradicate Israel!

I take it back; you aren't an idiot. You are the supreme, unquestioned Lord-High Grandmaster of Jew-hating idiots posting at this site.

5 BO: Thanks for the morning laugh.

6 I always need a morning laugh when driving to the airport. Going to Miami to get a Cuban sandwich.

7 Geez Bo,
 
       You gotta remember to get outside more, get some fresh air and sunshine.
 
        And son, lose the tinfoil hat... it apparently isn't working anyway.
 
       Respects,

8 Gwedd,
Sir, this Bo is nothing more than a bloody Arab mo-slime, and "John Ryan" is an agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran. These savages were taught by their pedophile pseudo-prophet that "War is deceit". Accordingly, they try to vitiate the clarity and resolve of their opponents by fabricating and endlessly repeating deceitful rubbish.
Meaningful discourse is NOT possible with mo-slimes. FORCE is the only thing these subhuman savages understand.

9 "whether such a group even exists"

What?  Is he calling Zawahiri a liar?