Cheney’s aide-de-nepotism — daughter, Elizabeth — despite leaving her job as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs two years ago after the birth of her fifth child, has once again rallied to his cause. At the recent AIPAC conf…

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Ehud Olmert was recently caught with a few hundred grand of ill-gotten gains stuffed in his drawers. As for Cheney, oh Lord, where do I begin.

Violence and sabre-rattling are the last resort of crooks and liars. As Dr Slammy noted, its a question of whether the so-called good guys have the backbone*.

On a slightly tangential note: how about a post on the systematic murder of journalists and civilian actors by the IDF, starting with the the story of Rachel Corrie who was crushed by a bulldozer, upto the recent death of Fadel Shana by an Israeli tank shell. By now the IDF’s has established a record worthy of the worst state oppressors in this area. And no, the “nuclear option” of dismissing any and all criticism of Israeli policies and actions as flowing from anti-semitism won’t work anymore.

*a gender-neutral alternative to cojones