Do ya feel safe?  Hope not, because you aren’t.  Here is a glimpse of your elected leader’s administration at work:

The neocons’ next war | Salon.com

Inside the administration, neoconservatives on Vice President Dick Cheney’s national security staff and Elliott Abrams, the neoconservative senior director for the Near East on the National Security Council, are prime movers behind sharing NSA intelligence with Israel, and they have discussed Syrian and Iranian supply activities as a potential pretext for Israeli bombing of both countries, the source privy to conversations about the program says. (Intelligence, including that gathered by the NSA, has been provided to Israel in the past for various purposes.) The neoconservatives are described as enthusiastic about the possibility of using NSA intelligence as a lever to widen the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and Israel and Hamas into a four-front war.

But not to worry!  Our Defense Secretary is chock-full of ideas and brimming with enthusiasm for the current conflict; surely he’s prepared to wage another war!:

Think Progress ? Rumsfeld Claims Insurgent Violence Increases ?In the Spring, Summer and Fall Months?

“Does the violence tend to be up during the summer, in the spring, summer and fall months? Yes it does. And it tends to decline during the winter period. Does that represent failed policy? I don?t know. I would say not.”

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