Comments on: Patrick Cockburn http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/ Interviews of foreign policy experts, writers and activists. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:43:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Does Obama's new think tank 'Center for a New American Security' just more of the 'Project for a New American Century'? - Politics and Other Controversies - Page 2 - City-Data Forum http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/comment-page-1/#comment-4729 Does Obama's new think tank 'Center for a New American Security' just more of the 'Project for a New American Century'? - Politics and Other Controversies - Page 2 - City-Data Forum Thu, 14 May 2009 13:01:02 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=1841#comment-4729 [...] have written about their nation-building counter-insurgency doctrine at length: it is based on the alleged success of the Iraqi surge [...] have written about their nation-building counter-insurgency doctrine at length: it is based on the alleged success of the Iraqi surge

]]> By: Does Obama's new think tank 'Center for a New American Security' just more of the 'Project for a New American Century'? - Politics and Other Controversies - City-Data Forum http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/comment-page-1/#comment-4703 Does Obama's new think tank 'Center for a New American Security' just more of the 'Project for a New American Century'? - Politics and Other Controversies - City-Data Forum Tue, 12 May 2009 23:41:59 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=1841#comment-4703 [...] have written about their nation-building counter-insurgency doctrine at length: it is based on the alleged success of the Iraqi surge [...] have written about their nation-building counter-insurgency doctrine at length: it is based on the alleged success of the Iraqi surge

]]> By: End Times Blog » Blog Archive » The Rule of the ‘Experts’ http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/comment-page-1/#comment-4697 End Times Blog » Blog Archive » The Rule of the ‘Experts’ Tue, 12 May 2009 14:53:56 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=1841#comment-4697 [...] have written about their nation-building counter-insurgency doctrine at length: it is based on the alleged success of the Iraqi surge - or Surge, as our columnist Kelley Vlahos terms it - and its principal author [...] [...] have written about their nation-building counter-insurgency doctrine at length: it is based on the alleged success of the Iraqi surge – or Surge, as our columnist Kelley Vlahos terms it – and its principal author [...]

]]> By: Irish Left Review · Book Review: Muqtada by Patrick Cockburn http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3242 Irish Left Review · Book Review: Muqtada by Patrick Cockburn Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:24:04 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=1841#comment-3242 [...] Radio has a lengthy radio interview with Cockburn which was broadcast on the 13th of November 2008. In the Interview Cockburn discusses [...] [...] Radio has a lengthy radio interview with Cockburn which was broadcast on the 13th of November 2008. In the Interview Cockburn discusses [...]

]]> By: Attack the System » Blog Archive » Updated News Digest November 23, 2008 http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3223 Attack the System » Blog Archive » Updated News Digest November 23, 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:55:06 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=1841#comment-3223 [...] The Surge Didn’t Work Patrick Cockburn interviewed by Scott Horton [...] [...] The Surge Didn’t Work Patrick Cockburn interviewed by Scott Horton [...]

]]> By: What the Clinton Appointment Means | New World Order Truth http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3187 What the Clinton Appointment Means | New World Order Truth Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:16:33 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=1841#comment-3187 [...] was a big break for the War Party: it meant, first of all, that the focus was taken off two losing wars – their gift to the new president. It also meant that the incoming president would have his hands [...] [...] was a big break for the War Party: it meant, first of all, that the focus was taken off two losing wars – their gift to the new president. It also meant that the incoming president would have his hands [...]

]]> By: Bill http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3169 Bill Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:04:10 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=1841#comment-3169 "The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservatives, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history." -Ari Shavit Ha'aretz News Service (Israel) April 5, 2003 ---------------------------------- Chief Rabbi Metzger thanks Bush for intervening in Iraq M. Wagner -- Jerusalem Post 1/9/2008 During a short verbal exchange Wednesday at the Ben Gurion Airport Terminal, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger thanked George Bush for the US's military intervention in Iraq. "I want to thank you for your support of Israel & in particular for Waging a War against Iraq," Metzger told Bush, according to the chief rabbi's spokesman. Bush answered that the words "warmed his heart". ---------------------- Iraq Oil to be Shipped to Israel Amiram Cohen, Haartez 4/14/2008 'The US has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq TO the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Ministry official. The pipeline would take oil from the Kirkuk area, & transport it via Mosul, then across Jordan to Israel. The telegram included a request for a cost est for repairing the Haifa pipeline that was in use prior to 1948.' “The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservatives, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history.”
-Ari Shavit Ha’aretz News Service (Israel) April 5, 2003

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Chief Rabbi Metzger thanks Bush for intervening in Iraq
M. Wagner — Jerusalem Post 1/9/2008

During a short verbal exchange Wednesday at the Ben Gurion Airport Terminal, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger thanked George Bush for the US’s military intervention in Iraq.
“I want to thank you for your support of Israel & in particular for Waging a War against Iraq,” Metzger told Bush, according to the chief rabbi’s spokesman.
Bush answered that the words “warmed his heart”.

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Iraq Oil to be Shipped to Israel
Amiram Cohen, Haartez

4/14/2008
‘The US has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq TO the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Ministry official.
The pipeline would take oil from the Kirkuk area, & transport it via Mosul, then across Jordan to Israel. The telegram included a request for a cost est for repairing the Haifa pipeline that was in use prior to 1948.’

]]> By: Alex http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3168 Alex Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:20:25 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=1841#comment-3168 My apologies, that should read, "I sincerely hope Bill's opinions........" My apologies, that should read, “I sincerely hope Bill’s opinions……..”

]]> By: Alex http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3167 Alex Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:16:21 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=1841#comment-3167 Saudi Arabian and Turkish Inteliience services often liaise with Mossad and there are pipelines currently under construction with a view to ferry oil from Northern Iraq to Tel Aviv. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=332835&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y Caspian oil is also being channeled for Israel. I sincerely hope Nick's opinions are merely innocent mistakes rather than poor attempts at misdirection. Saudi Arabian and Turkish Inteliience services often liaise with Mossad and there are pipelines currently under construction with a view to ferry oil from Northern Iraq to Tel Aviv. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=332835&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y Caspian oil is also being channeled for Israel.

I sincerely hope Nick’s opinions are merely innocent mistakes rather than poor attempts at misdirection.

]]> By: Alex http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/11/13/patrick-cockburn-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3166 Alex Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:27:02 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=1841#comment-3166 Nick, the document called 'The Clean Break' may just disagree with your theory. Nick, the document called ‘The Clean Break’ may just disagree with your theory.

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