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Monday December 01, 03
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12:46 PM - They stole the memo, leaked it, then lied about it.
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Recently I saw an article which examined the GOP pattern of labeling potential foes “evil” such as “Axis of Evil” whose parent was “Evil Empire”. The author considered that this was an immature act by the GOP aimed at an audience, which they considered to be at the 3rd grade level. It reminded this author of his son’s favorite cartoon, Sponge Bob, in which the good guy, Mermaid Man is always yelling Evil.
This scam of late November 2003, which will has already lost its ranking of being the latest--the GOP stealing a computer file or scrap paper of a Democratic staff member, was as per usual, cunningly evil. This aide, of Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, reminds of the phrase, “every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints.” The GOP was trying to accuse the Democrats of playing politics with the Iraq war. In an objective analysis of this, since the GOP stole an unfinished work product of an underpaid, and very junior, aide, Rove’s boys committed the only crime.
I can’t have “Sympathy for the Devil” Dubya, while so many innocent lives are being wasted! The crime of theft, in this escapade that became public on November 6th, 2003, has been forgotten. The entire incident has as Rove noticed that this particular skirmish with the red staters’ apathy wasn’t playing out at all, negatively or positively, for the GOP.
Rove knows all about lazy people, look at Dubya. Sometimes they are just too zoned-out for perfectly adequate scams to gain any momentum.
The GOP, back in November was pretending to be incensed by this document. It was a memo that stated an obvious concern for securing information from a stonewalling GOP. The “Liar, liar pants on fire” GOP was yammering about the politicization of the pre-war Iraq intelligence. Was that memo any more damning than Rummy’s recent “The meaning of Slog” memo?
I have two associates who work in the White House. There are two cafeterias there. One of my chums, a working drone as I am, goes to a cheaply decorated, but vastly over-priced eating area—-really just vending machines, called the “Bee Hive”. The other person, an arrogant yuppie, eats at a snazzy, moderate priced establishment for Senior Executives only, the “Queen Bee”.
I know for a certain fact that each of those places has hidden bugs. Another of my buddies uses voice translation hybrid software to put these illegally bugged conversations into databases.
In both places slogans are placed. One week it will be “Mission Accomplished”, another it will be “Huge Progress in the Iraq Occupation”, another it will be “Victory in Afghanistan”. Last year a few of them were “Hussein instead of bin laden” and “Hussein’s WMD are an imminent threat”.
The practiced GOP operatives experiment with these signs, and use brainwashing techniques or the unwitting Government drones. When they have, for example, “Mission Accomplished” up, they placed subliminal messages into the music playing for the patrons. As some western ballad about somebody doing someone wrong and the whistling train hummed a sad song, in the background noise, the phrase “Dubya is good” was audible, but just barely so.
The software isn’t bug free but my buddy provides the results to guess whom? Karl Rove sees the reports and uses this anecdotal data to guide his cunning capers. Yes, the willing drones of the Queen Bee in the “Bee Hive”, the people who fit the profile of the red stater as well as can be hoped for, believe big brother mini-me by a 90% ratio. The college educated Senior Executives see through the tissue of lies, by a 90% ratio, but keep quiet because maintaining the status quo suits their purposes.
This will result in the US never getting the “Mission Accomplished” sign in Dubya’s “everlasting war against terrorism”. Forget the fact that Dubya has backed off of claiming he won the Iraq war, as the overall anti-terrorism policy is abysmally failing Dubya won’t have to find someone else to take the blame f
Rove remembered how in the 1960s that scantily clad girls draping themselves onto Mustangs sold cars. Worse, at movie theatres and TV sets “Drink Coke” messages were rampant, until the government realized that these campaigns were unethical.
I remember back in the 2000 campaign, Rove had the ad with Bush mumbling about something and in the background was a sign that should have said, “Democrats are bureaucrats.” Well, 43’s big, fat, empty head blocked out parts of the sign so that only the words, “Democrats are rats.” could be seen. You’d think that Rove would be embarrassed by the clumsiness of that. You’d be wrong because that ad was clearly aimed at a drooling dolt and that is what Rove considers his bread and butter, red staters to be.
This politicization of the Iraq war started during the 2002 mid-term election. No ethical president, and that includes JFK and Dubya’s Poppy, would ever start a war during an election period. Dubya dances to Rove’s orders, and Rove has never seen an ethical barrier that he wouldn’t exploit. Two articles, “Counting Votes While the Bombs Drop” of May 7, 2003 by James C. Moore of the Los Angeles Times and “Bush's Political Future Hinges on Quick War” by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post Staff of March 15, 2003, illustrate this hypocritical, Herr big brother 43 tactic.
Dubya attacked Max Cleland, as well as other Democrats, during the 2002 mid-term election. Even John McCain, who Herr Rove, smeared in the Republican primaries, couldn’t stomach what Dubya did to Cleland. Rove follows the Atwater, “winner takes all, don’t take any captives” GOP negative campaigning to the extreme philosophy. That also includes, dish it out and never take it.
Now, they the nerve to complain about the politicization of the pre-war Iraq intelligence. Every intelligence agency within the US, including the CIA, told Dubya’s team the truth about Iraq. That is why Dubya, through his PNAC thug, Cheney’s advice, doctored up intelligence. Cheney depended on an operative, Douglas J. Feith, to phony up reality.
Back in the period of the run-up to 43 pushing us into Iraq war part 2 there were articles in the progressive media such as, “The Pentagon Muzzles the CIA” by Robert Dreyfuss of December 16, 2002. A quote follows, “Even as it prepares for war against Iraq, the Pentagon is already engaged on a second front: its war against the Central Intelligence Agency. The Pentagon is bringing relentless pressure to bear on the agency to produce intelligence reports more supportive of war with Iraq, according to former CIA officials. Key officials of the Department of Defense are also producing their own unverified intelligence reports to justify war. Much of the questionable information comes from Iraqi exiles long regarded with suspicion by CIA professionals. A parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation, in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Feith, collects the information from the exiles and scours other raw intelligence for useful tidbits to make the case for preemptive war.
These morsels sometimes go directly to the president.”
Recently, Dana Priest of the Washington Post’s article, “Politicized Memo Incites Row”, of November 6, 2003, had this hook, “A barely contained partisan squabble over assessing blame for the apparent failure to find chemical and biological weapons in Iraq broke into the open yesterday when Republican senators said they had a memorandum indicating their Democratic colleagues were preparing a campaign to disparage a Senate committee report on the quality of prewar intelligence before it is even completed.”
Rockefeller, in a released statement, said the memo "was likely taken from a waste basket or through unauthorized computer access." "Exploring or asserting the rights of the minority under the intelligence committee rules in no way amounts to politicizing intelligence," he said. "The American people deserve a full accounting of why we sent our sons and daughters into war."
The article concludes, “The committee has combed through thousands of pages of documents and interviewed more than one hundred intelligence analysts, operatives and scientists. It is preparing a report that is said to be harshly critical of the CIA and other intelligence agencies for their lack of substantive information and analysis on Iraq.”
That is a namby-pamby lie. The Democrats can’t speak truthfully, or the GOP will not even allow them to attend meetings. The truth is this. Remember the just mentioned Douglas J. Feith? He had another role in the Iraq war, as did other PNAC thugs, such as Richard Perle.
Did you ever hear of Richard Perle? He is renowned as a war profiteer, and is making out like a bandit in this Iraq debacle.
In an article of November 6, 2003, “Diplomacy: Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War”, this quote mentions Feith again, “As American soldiers massed on the Iraqi border in March and diplomats argued about war, an influential adviser to the Pentagon received a secret message from a Lebanese-American businessman: Saddam Hussein wanted to make a deal. Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct a search. The businessman said in an interview that the Iraqis also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 who was being held in Baghdad. At one point, he said, the Iraqis pledged to hold elections. The messages from Baghdad, first relayed in February to an analyst in the office of Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy and planning, were part of an attempt by Iraqi intelligence officers to open last-ditch negotiations with the Bush administration through a clandestine communications channel, according to people involved.”
The article continues, “The overtures, after a decade of evasions and deceptions by Iraq, were ultimately rebuffed. But the messages raised enough interest that in early March, Richard N. Perle, an influential adviser to top Pentagon officials, met in London with the Lebanese-American businessman, Imad Hage. According to both men, Mr. Hage laid out the Iraqis' position to Mr. Perle, and he pressed the Iraqi request for a direct meeting with Mr. Perle or another representative of the United States.”
Iraq offered free UN access to view the bogus WMD and also would give the US anything they asked for just to end the war before it started.
Iraq offered to hand over Abdul Rahman Yasin, who has been indicted in United States in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Mr. Yasin fled to Iraq after the bombing, and the United States put up a $25 million reward for his capture.
It goes like this. They lie, they plant evidence against their enemies, and they hit their enemies, be they Iraq or Democrats in Congress, with attacks of “Shock and Awe”. They never try for the surgical strike when they can intimidate their present enemy and future adversaries cower.
It comes down to the dumb don’t need to be treated with finesse. You know who you are. You FOX viewing, never reading a newspaper, disinterested, red stater, become completely involved or don‘t vote. You can’t be in it halfway. Dubya’s, “you are either for us or against us“, can be modified to, “if you are in for a penny, you are in it all the way“.
The alert are not going to be swayed by just another GOP lie, by another of the never-ending list of connected GOP thugs. The rest of the GOP group, follow the orders of Rove, and who could have a bigger “credibility gap” than the political advisor to a lazy frat boy whose Poppy’s US Supreme Court gave the dunce the 2000 election?
Why would anyone believe a word that Dubya, the man who disowned the "Mission Accomplished" sign, as well as the “16 words”, before his own crowd of advisors explained to him that even the dimmest of dim-bulbs couldn’t believe his transparent lies.
The red staters are condescended to and are told what to believe. They want it easy so they’ll sheepishly go along with any Dubya drawled inane remark, as long as he remains staunchly for NRA, NASCAR, bible-thumping, racist, warmongering policies.
How can they lie so boldly! They realize the red staters are their stooges and the rest of the world--well the GOP might as well yell “expletive deleted” at them. Anyone who is actively concerned for their own self-interest, won’t vote for the GOP and their policies which benefit only the “Rangers” and “Pioneers”.
“The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."
No one other than Adolph Hitler said that phrase. 43's team understands it well! For sheer audacity, what about the boob, who dared dress up in a Top Gun outfit for an unnecessary jet flight to a US aircraft carrier on May 1 2003 to declare victory over Iraq? The USS Abraham Lincoln emblazoned the sign "Mission Accomplished". As events have sadly developed the sign should have been "Mission Failure".
b. connors
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Tuesday November 25, 03
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02:34 PM - Hollywood would throw this out as Hitler has played this bef
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Just how many atrocities have to occur before the US media levels with us? The slitting of the throats of 2 our best on November 23rd, 2003 is disgusting. In Mosul 2 US soldiers were killed in an ambush by Iraqi teenagers. First the US heroes were pummeled with concrete blocks. Television footage showed the US heroes splayed on the ground as their comrades struggled to secure the area. It reminded us of October 1993 in Somalia!
The US soldiers are not equipped with adequate local intelligence and they are not capable of winning a guerilla war against these insurgents. In the history of the world the super-powers never have won these guerilla skirmishes as the US in Vietnam, and both Russia and the US in Afghanistan, can attest.
These scenes are going to be repeated. Until recently Mosul has been a success story, unlike the Sunni Muslim area as close to Baghdad. It has now deteriorated so rapidly that no place is safe for the occupiers, and the sad status of previously disinterested teenagers attacking our youth is a revolting example of just how poorly the occupation was planned for.
In Baghdad Brig, Gen, Kimmitt confirmed the Mosul deaths, but “We’re not going to get ghoulish about it” he said. Bush, in a break from trying to ruin the US economy by setting unattainably unreasonable records of deficits, by such huge ticket items as the Medicare and Energy bills, said, “These recent tragedies show clearly how well the “Operation Iraqi Freedom” project is advancing.”
Red staters just better bow down in homage to Herr Führer because, “his boys in blue will find a way to silence you.” Clearly the current FBI Bulletin on protesters, which cites that Big Brother is monitoring anti-war protestors, is a step toward a Gestapolike police state being sanctioned in the US. Civil liberty groups and politicians said these clearly evil tactics would surely jeopardize people’s First Amendment rights.
The GOP is illegally intimidating decent US citizens who don’t like the age old GOP tradition of warmongering for profits for “Pioneer” and “Ranger” big-time contributors only.
They also are intimidating union members, a traditional Democratic strong hold. In this marked FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE of November 24, 2003, “The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) is calling for a Congressional investigation into "a massive police state," created in part with federal funds, to intimidate union members and others critical of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and limit their rights during FTAA meetings in Miami last week.
"Last week, the fundamental rights of thousands of Americans … were blatantly violated, sometimes violently, by the Miami police, who systematically repressed our Constitutional right to free assembly with massive force, riot gear and armaments," said Leo W. Gerard, USWA international president, in a letter to Congressional leaders…….
"To do less would be to endorse homeland repression in the guise of homeland security," Gerard’s letter concluded.”
Florida’s police force had practice intimidating Democratic voters in the 2000 election. They just wanted to keep in practice for the 2004 election, if Ashcroft allows it to occur!
Just to make sure that Herr Mini-me, big brother 43, keeps in power the GOP is re-running the ads they used in the test phase of their plot to control the US, the 2002 mid-term elections. Those are the ads in which Dubya states that anyone who doesn’t agree with him totally is an evil degenerate in league with bin laden. Max Cleland, a celebrated Vietnam War hero, is still livid over a now-infamous TV commercial that Republican challenger Saxby Chambliss ran against him in the 2002 mid-term elections. By the way, the man who would “return honor and dignity to the white house”, picked a man who lost 3 limbs defending the US to attack with this filth. It opened with pictures of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and then attacked Cleland for voting against President Bush's Homeland Security bill. It didn't mention that Cleland supported a Democratic bill that wasn't radically different.
"That was the biggest lie in America -- to put me up there with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and say I voted against homeland security!" Cleland says, his voice rising in anger.
Now Cleland, who is a member of the independent commission set up to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks has accused the Bush administration of deliberately delaying publication of an earlier congressional inquiry into the attacks.
Cleland said the administration feared publication might undermine the administration's case for the Iraq 2 war, which was based in part on the allegation that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had supported Osama bin Laden _ and the attendant possibility that Iraq might supply al-Qaida with weapons of mass destruction.
Cleland said, "The administration sold the connection (between Iraq and al-Qaida) to scare the pants off the American people and justify the war. There's no connection, and that's been confirmed by some of bin Laden's terrorist followers ... What you've seen here is the manipulation of intelligence for political ends."
This propaganda blitzkrieg worked so well for Herr Rove in 2002 that it had to be used again, but the piece needed to be spiffed up in its minor details just so the red staters would not think that they are held in so little regard that they can accept misinformation that isn’t even updated to match current events.
The strategy is designed to portray Democrats as weak on defense and to suggest that President Bill Clinton could have been tougher on terrorism, GOP officials said. Democrats called it an attack on their patriotism and noted past pledges by Bush not to politicize the war on terrorism.
The party unveiled the theme in Bush's first ad of the campaign, which is to begin running in Iowa November 23rd 2003. Over funereal music, the ad opens with a clip from Bush's State of the Union address in January in which he raised the specter of a chemical or biological attack on U.S. soil. Then, the screen fades to stark lettering: "Some are now attacking the President for attacking the terrorists," the type says. "Some call for us to retreat, putting our national security in the hands of others." The word "terrorists" turns red. Then viewers are urged to call Congress and "tell them to support the President's policy of preemptive self-defense." Bush has developed his preemption doctrine, a policy of attacking potential enemies before they can hit the United States, since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
It doesn’t seem much different than the 2002 mid-term election propaganda that FOX blared constantly.
I didn’t see it anywhere in the US media that protestors in Trafalgar Square in London toppled an effigy of Dubya. My, don’t they love the “Toxic Cowboy” in England? Maybe even more than in another staunch US ally, Australia, where just in the summer of 2003, Bush was cursed during a visit to their parliament. Makes you feel goose-bumpy with all of these pure moments of unadulterated love.
Pretty soon in a lie coming to you Bush will say he has won “the everlasting war against terrorism” particularly in Afghanistan. Sounds good, but if Dubya says it, it must be a total falsehood.
The recent Afghan News Network News Story, “US says Taleban still a threat” states, “Members of the Bush administration are worried that the Taleban is winning more support in parts of Afghanistan. ….
The US strategy is to win more popular support for the government of Hamid Kharzai by accelerating the re-building of the country. …
But critics wonder whether the Bush administration has simply become too distracted by dealing with the parallel crisis in Iraq.”
Okay, so “Washington's envoy to Afghanistan has called for new efforts to combat the Taleban and al-Qaeda there.”, but the people in Afghanistan are making great strides in achieving a democracy.
Sounds good, but if Dubya says it, it must be a total falsehood.
Another recent Afghan News Network News Story, "US Concerns Aired in Over Parts of Draft Afghan Constitution" states, “U.S. officials and experts testifying before a congressional panel have expressed concern about parts of the draft constitution for Afghanistan. Witnesses said progress is being made in Afghanistan, but changes may be necessary in the draft to make sure the rights of all Afghan citizens are protected.” While avoiding direct mention of Shariah, Islamic holy law, the draft states that "in Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the sacred religion of Islam and the values of this Constitution." This could not be a surprise to Dubya’s crack team, but now, at this late juncture it is emerging as a problem. Most of the Muslim countries have this adherence to religious precepts in their government, not just Afghanistan.
Well, Dubya will say, we learn and that will not be a problem in Iraq. WRONG!
The article of Haroon Siddiqui “What Iraq will get isn't self-rule” states, “On the political front, Bremer's job had been to slow down self-rule, lest the dreaded majority Shiites take over. ....That triggered Plan B — a 15-member governing council, genuinely representative of Iraq's religious, ethnic and tribal interests, but bereft of power....The council does not know what its job is, replied Massoud Barzani, the seasoned Kurdish leader.... There is no coherent plan yet whether a constitutional assembly would be elected, as the Shiites want, or nominated.”
The fact is that the entire rational world has realized this since this bogus war began, “Notwithstanding Bush's lectures on democracy, only the naïve would continue to believe that America wants anything other than a satellite state.
The only change toward that overall goal is the gradual reduction of the American footprint in Iraq, with an increase in remote control from Washington.”
Doesn’t it make you feel like a piece of dirt that our non-elected resident of the US white house is considered to be a war profiteering fool by the world, and we have to vote him out, or he might be in place for four more years of vile GOP treachery!
The GOP operatives can easily say that the US is a democracy, not ruled by a tyrant, as a Nazi government requires. That is true but some of the developments since 9-11 are too evil to be brushed off as being merely “Orwellian”. If the GOP could have its way, Iraq would be nearer to a democracy than the US. He has already, with his Dad’s US Supreme Court Justices, thrown out the 2000 election results. Maybe he can get Ashcroft or Olsen to mumble something about elections can’t be held during “the everlasting war against terrorism” and throw out the 2004 election. When the dust settles on this they can work on changing the US Constitution and allow Dubya to be named resident for life of the white house.
Remember Dubya saying that a Democracy is hard and he’d prefer being a tyrant. A man who lost the popular vote, the electoral vote, the state of Florida, has the hubris to talk about being named the tyrant of the US. The better label is Dubya‘s self-proclaimed “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”.
This isn’t so far fetched. He got the US to say bin laden, then he switched them to Hussein. He tells them about the progress in the US occupation of Iraq even though the world realizes it is a criminal tragedy. Give the red staters a few months, a few elevation of the threat level, and a few beers and they will be terrified and numbed enough to believe anything. They believe Dubya won in 2000 don’t they? They can believe that they can believe anything!
Most chilling are these two quotes:
"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator," said Adolf Hitler.
"God told me to strike at Al Qa'ida and I struck them. And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. With the might of God on our side we will triumph," said George Bush.
We know how Hitler worked out. Take your pick. Auditory hallucinations have a very limited realm of possible causes. Dubya could simply being lying again to cover-up some illegal offshore deal, he might be insane, he could be a dry drunk, he could be undergoing some post-traumatic stress syndrome, or there could be a physical cause. He has never done anything traumatic, and he rarely works even now as president, so it can’t be a post-traumatic stress syndrome. His family, going back to Prescott Bush, had strong ties to illegal activities using foreign cut-outs. 41 and 43 are in bed with the Saudis and 43 has bin laden’s brother-in-law as a benefactor.
I went to Sunday school and I remember that “love one another” and “thou shalt not kill” were part of the 10 Commandments. How can starting a war against Islam--which really failed in the Middle Ages, be considered an edict from God by a sane person? Now, I heard John Wayne mumble “you’re for us or against us” in many of his macho movies. Maybe Dubya just got those lines scrambled and he is just stupid. Just being stupid really looks to be the most favorable analysis so far.
Does anyone know if he has 666 branded somewhere upon his body? He might simply be the Anti-Christ!
In the name that is all that is good and decent in world, how did the lazy privileged AWOL flyboy, bumble his way to the highest pinnacle of the world. Why doesn’t the “Peter Principle” apply to the ultra-connected Bush family?
The US isn’t a democracy though if the GOP cuts the Democrats from participating in legislation and guides all of the profits to the “Rangers” and “Pioneers”. That, dear “red stater”, is the definition of an oligarchy!
A lazy fool, who after he was finally able to give up alcohol and drugs and has a marked improvement in his life is good. His reactions after that were all bad. It is guessed that his recovery occurred because of his newfound devotion to God. That he consequentially developed a Messianic view of his role in the world is worse than stupid, it has a component of emotional illness in it. His miraculous recovery, only in Dubya’s eyes, from a profligate youth to a loser in every business venture he ever undertook—I don’t see much recovery at all, has reformed the world into his personal torture device for those who are not with us. Hollywood would throw this script out as Hitler played it before.
b. connors
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Thursday November 20, 03
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12:57 PM - Dubya is a Nazi!
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The passivity of the brainwashed red staters is responsible for Dubya’s atrocities. Their doltish acceptance of the weakest Herr Rove generated lies, about everything in both domestic and foreign policies, has facilitated the burgeoning worldwide “Eve of Destruction”.
From Steppenwolf’s “The Ostrich”, “Just pretend that all is grand and everything will turn out fine” is the mantra of the disinterested red staters. Let’s hope that the hatred that Bush will encounter during his trip to suck up to Tony Blair can somehow seep into the consciousness of our weakest links, those who are foolish enough to throw away their vote for Dubya.
This is what has already occurred in Dubya’s excellent adventure. One protester used a bullhorn to bark a stream of anti-Bush and anti-Tony Blair invective at Parliament Square Tuesday afternoon, comparing the two leaders to Hitler.
"How can you be bombing babies, Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair? It is not Christian, it is blasphemy!"
Those wacky Limeys, how can they compare Dubya to Hitler?
Simple! The following represent some of the key ideas (tenets) or beliefs of the Nazi Party:
A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. - Adolph Hitler
I am not concerned with both sides. I see only those who are for National Socialism, and those who are against it, and I know how to deal with the latter. - Hermann Goering
It is silly to claim that National Socialism governs by a dictatorship. The government of the Führer in Germany is the most genuine and the purest democracy in the world. - Dr. Frick
Everything that man is, he owes to the State.... All value which man has, all spiritual reality, he only has through the State. – Hegel
The National Socialists believe in Hitler, who embodies their will.... Only what Adolf Hitler, our Führer, allows, or does not allow, is our conscience. - Robert Ley
We National Socialists believe that in political affairs Adolf Hitler is infallible. - Hermann Goering
It is only on one or two exceptional points that Christ and Hitler stand comparison, for Hitler is far too big a man to be compared with one so petty. - Julius Streicher
The concept of the Reich is based on the idea that the whole civilized world must be united under a single power. The Reich incorporates a higher moral principle which directs the fate of the world, bringing order and justice. The Reich must direct the life of nations, individuals and states. The Reich signifies a mission. - German primer published in 1936.
The races of mankind are markedly different in the nature and also in the extent of their gifts, and the Germanic races belong to the most gifted group, the group usually termed “Aryan”. - Houston Stewart Chamberlai
Suppose the above quotes were cited to our red staters, excluding the authors, and the identifying remarks? As far as the unmotivated, “broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts”, would know each and everyone would be applicable to, Herr Führer, big brother 43. The top 1% group could easily be substituted for “Aryan”!
The article in News From Babylon “Hitler's Ghost - Nazi Influence in America” carefully examines the influence of this awful tyrant’s regime on this current GOP awful tyrant’s regime.
The article describes how Hitler’s tactics and philosophies are in the offices of Senator Trent Lott and on the House side in the offices of Representative Tom Delay, an avowed Christian Zionist, who advocates the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by Israel and is a proponent of the Security Fence, while at the same time admonishing those who will listen to him to "stand unashamedly for Jesus Christ".
In the Pentagon, Hitler's ideology, has a friend in the form of US Marine Corps Lieutenant General William Boykin who believes that "God supports the US military because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian.
That's what the Aryan Nation says too. They proclaim that they have God's support. Like all God-fearing Nazi's, they hope "To ordain, establish, and pledge our fidelity to our Aryan Racial Nation, under the Law of God, the uniting of our individual strength as a united lawful power, for the preservation and total independence from all alien influence and control over our Faith, Children, and Destiny. "
Most chilling are these two quotes:
"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator," said Adolf Hitler.
"God told me to strike at Al Qa'ida and I struck them. And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. With the might of God on our side we will triumph," said George Bush. Or was that Hitler talking to Bush?”
Remember Mrs. Reagan had an astrologer guide Ronnie. GOP presidents have a history of stupidity and insanity. The trouble is you can’t tell if they are more insipid than they are crazy! Unfortunately the world pays for their incompetence.
The article from News From Babylon, “U.S.'s 'Iron Hammer' Code Name 1st Used by Nazis” is strikingly ironic.
The quote, “ Eisenhammer," the German for "iron hammer," was a Luftwaffe code name for a plan to destroy Soviet generating plants in the Moscow and Gorky areas in 1943....
"Operation Iron Hammer" this week launched the 1st Armored Division's 3rd Brigade into the roughest parts of Baghdad to ferret out the attackers who have killed scores of U.S. troops since Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was ousted in April.”
Yeah, the protestors in England now comparing him to Hitler are right.
The GOP believes in conservation; consequentially as they have obviously spent time researching Nazi tactics, this phrase struck a chord with Herr Rove. Remember, they switched “Evil Empire” to “Axis of Evil” as their crack, or is it crackpot, psychological operations unit must believe these old terms appeal to red staters on some subliminal level.
Other highlights of Herr big brother 43 excellent adventure with the Limeys also are being ignored by FOX.
In the article “A day of pomp, pageantry and protests as the President proclaims his mission to
the world”, this quote shows some of the milder antipathy exhibited towards mini-me, “The dramatic silence following the 41-gun salute that marked the President's arrival at the Royal Pavilion was broken by a lone heckler addressing himself to the crowd on a loudspeaker.
"If you think that Blair's a poodle, shout 'woof, woof'. If you think Bush is a moron shout 'retard'," he chanted, before the heavy security presence silenced him.”
The Guardian article, “'He is just a foolish cowboy” contains this quote which fairly oozes hatred, “Mr Bush must therefore be desperate to prevent the cameras from capturing the true image of his visit, and that means doing everything he can to keep the protesters as far away from him as possible. It is no great surprise to find that the Blair government has no choice but to go along with this. It must go along with it no matter what the consequences for the concept Mr Bush and Mr Blair ostensibly went to war for: democracy."
A Gulf Times Editorial, should provide some enlightenment for our red staters, "With a tough re-election battle ahead of him, Mr Bush may recall that film of Ronald Reagan with the Queen worked wonders for that president's re-election prospects. The appearance of a royal endorsement from Queen Elizabeth is just what Mr Bush needs to counter criticism of his Iraq policy, many say. Whether the British will like their heritage being used as a re-election gimmick is doubtful. There will certainly be many thousands on the streets using the event
to try to send a very different message across the Atlantic."
The Dubya propaganda machine is all-encompassing for our slackers. In an article, ”How to Change the News on Iraq”, which should be quoted continually, E. J. Dionne cites this research,” The audience for Fox News, as the poll found, is significantly more Republican than the rest of the nation. And sure enough, Fox viewers' attitudes closely match those of Republicans, 55 percent of whom also see the media as portraying the reality in Iraq too negatively. On the other hand, CNN viewers -- and, as it happens, newspaper readers -- held views on reporting from Iraq similar to those of Americans as a whole.”
The red staters are too lazy to become adequately informed! They are allowing Rove to spoon feed them GOP propaganda! That is disgusting!
Deep in their subconscious those who identify with the disengaged “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances” realize he has a nasty side. All lazy, one-toothed red-necked goobers do and that is that is the essence of his “moral clarity”. It is a vindictive nature who labels the world as being for or against us, and preemptively attacks defenseless countries.
Contributing to the docility of the timid sheep is old-fashioned fear of the GOP. “Don’t criticize the fatherland--Those who shape your destiny—They’ll send out their boys in blue-- You’ll lose your mind, your soul and all the friends you knew--They’ll find a way to silence you—” “Tricky Dick” had his lists and Dubya has the Patriot Act.
Maybe Dubya isn’t a Nazi, but without announcement he has changed the US from a democracy to an oligarchy. The GOP is excluding the Democrats from the process of legislation and consequentially due to this illegal subversion of our government, they are giving every last thing to the top 1%!
Every bill since 9-11 has been steamrolled through the Congress with no debate being allowed by the minority Democrats. One of the latest bills is detailed in the article “The Senate Tries an Odd Experiment” notes that “But a full-blown debate is desperately needed on President Bush's $87 billion request for the Iraq struggle. Democrats are already complaining it may not occur. Initial committee hearings are being tightly gaveled by the majority Republicans, with a member's question time limited to as little as eight minutes as administration officials testify. One senator was blithely autographing glossy photos of himself during the appropriations hearing on Iraq. We can only hope that he was listening with one ear to the proceedings, and maybe even aching for a gripping clash any day or night now in the debating chamber.“
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Tuesday November 18, 03
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12:36 PM - Brainwashing the red staters.
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The GOP has transformed the US into an oligarchy. That is a government by the few in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes. The Democrats have tried to explain this, but the media and the red staters are not paying attention. When enough red staters can stick their heads into the sand, and blankly smile and say, ”Dubya is good” then they have been brainwashed. They have identified with their aggressor, Dubya, the man who “would return honor and dignity to the white house, but in reality has succeeded in terrorizing and hypnotizing his own citizens into a state of stupor. He has turned a once proud populace into timid sheep afraid to ask questions for fear that Dubya will cause something horrible to happen to them personally. That is what the outing of Mr. Wilson’s wife, a covert spy, was all about and it accomplished its evil goal.
He has held reality hostage from the weary populace, as he practices misdirection so extreme that even Houdini could not match his duplicity. This latest scam of lauding progress in the evil Iraq occupation as our boys and girls die in huge numbers, and the “collateral damage” statistics sky rocket, is too diabolical for a decent human to comprehend. His “BIG LIE” is so huge it is numbing the common people, who are just in need of some respite from these almost daily attacks on their connection to external reality.
Way back in the day, Emile Durkheim coined the term “anomie”, a sense of normlessness. Herr Rove must have read a comic book version of it. He watered it down into lie big and all of the time to get them so confused that they won’t know up from down. Herr mini-me Furher would buy anything if he didn’t have to expend any energy. Rove sold it to the lazy, frat-boy Dubya, with its value being apparent every day. Painful tragedy after tragedy in Iraq occurs and Dubya’s poll number stay at the tipping point, which with magnitude of this war crime is astonishing. With each day of horror in Iraq more of his PNAC buddies sock away bundles of blood-soaked booty.
There are numerous sites that describe brainwashing. The one I picked, URL: http://www.rickross.com, had this quote, "Little by little we were taught all these things. We grew into them.", by Adolph Eichman, a Nazi war criminal and a source of inspiration for Herr Rove. Some of the sub-topics are: “There's a Sucker Born in Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex”, “Brainwashing and thought control in the news but far from new”, “The Process of Brainwashing, Psychological Coercion, and Thought Reform”, “Expert helping make sense of madness fueling terrorists” and “Thought Reform Programs and the Production of Psychiatric Casualties”. They all touch on aspects that the truly evil GOP is presently perpetrating. Someday some of the people will wake up and realize that what they had in 1999 has disappeared, and that the top 1% has gotten even more. When that happens there are only a few possible courses of action that can be followed. The person can become homicidal, or suicidal, the person can become addicted to a variety of self-destructive activities, they can become permanently impaired--or the person can go through one of these phases temporarily and right the destructive pattern.
THANK YOU HERR FURHER, BIG BROTHER 43 for destroying the US more thoroughly than even “Tricky Dick” could back in his Vietnam war, Watergate days of ignominy!
Meet the red staters where they exist. They are uneducated, bible thumping, NRA and NASCAR loving under-employed, rural, males. When Dubya puts on his phony southern drawl, which he manages to lose when it doesn’t suit his purposes, he is one of them. His pledge of being “the leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances” is diabolical in its duplicity. With jargon like that he is the epitome of the common man, their ideal. He could rape and pillage the world and still get every red state vote because when Ma and Pa get a belly full of corn mash and get to jawing on the state of the world, Dubya, is their man. They like clear talking and simplistic reasoning, “moral clarity”. Dubya is the red state “Marlboro Man”, the independent person who pledged to look out for them the best he can.
The latest energy bill is a perfect example of how the GOP is eliminating the Democrats from even participating in the development of legislation, and giving all of the money to their chums--in other words acting in an oligarchic manner. It is so mind boggling I’d like to quote other sources of objective reality. From the article “Congressional negotiators near deal on energy bill--Senate Democrats threaten filibuster” by Ted Barrett of the CNN Washington Bureau on November 14, 2003, “ Minutes after top Republicans announced they had finally reached a deal Friday on a long-stalled comprehensive energy bill, Senate Democrats said they had the votes to filibuster the measure and would do so when it reaches the floor as early as next week. ….
…..Democrats have had little involvement in the negotiations, which were kick-started after the August power blackout in the Northeast and Midwest…….
…..Democrats complain the legislation, and its estimated $16 billion in tax breaks for the energy industry, is in large measure a payback for the political contributions industry executives have bestowed on Republicans.”
Kenny Boy isn’t in jail, but I’d have to hope that he doesn’t make out like a bandit with this. With all of the GOP offshore scams though, who could know for sure?
This is precisely what the GOP has been doing since Dubya’s unethical campaign, won both the House and Senate for the GOP. Why do I say unethical campaign? It was centered on Rove’s politically motivated Iraq war—which was precisely timed to gain maximum benefit for the GOP in the 2002 mid-term election. Please read, “Counting Votes While the Bombs Drop” of May 7, 2003 by James C. Moore of the Los Angeles Times for details regarding the hypocrisy concerning the timing of this war.
Recently Global Free Press has put up 2 articles by, John Kaminski. One is, “When The Big Lie prevails, crime pays” which articulates valid ideas,
“Two years after 9/11, the lies that almost immediately were put in place are still in place, unsubstantiated fictions of how a Muslim terror group that has never been able to be tracked down concocted a colossal conspiracy to crash airliners into American landmarks because, as our president said, "they hate our freedoms". The leaders of the Western world, who have been revealed as consistent liars on virtually all other matters, have managed to get away with their lies about 9/11, waxing reverential and righteous in the staggering silence that has comatized America.
But the stark fact remains — the claims that Osama bin Laden bombed the World Trade Center have never been proven. And the people who clamor for his hanging stole the 2000 election by preventing tens of thousands from voting, rigged the entire U.S. election system by using secret computer software, stole billions from people in California by manipulating energy markets, used nuclear weapons on Afghanistan and Iraq, continue to go to war over what are later learned to be complete fabrications, continue to cynically kill their own soldiers with various poisons, and have completely changed the character of their country by imprisoning and killing people without trial and passing sham laws that destroyed the U.S. Constitution. These are the criminals the American people continue to believe when they say that Muslim terrorists perpetrated the attacks of 9/11.
Why does everybody refuse to see?”
The other article by John Kaminski, by its title alone “Arrest the president now! Enough 9/11 evidence exists to hang Bush, imprison thousands”, is self-explanatory.
Even in Tony Blair’s England, where Dubya is currently visiting, he is hated. Even his one ally’s people loathe the “Toxic Cowboy” for his preemptive warmongering. When will this filter into our dim red staters’ consciousness? The first selected resident of the US white house will get his fair share of abuse in England, because the view of this informed countries’ populace is summarized in the Global Free Press article, “Livingstone (Mayor of London) says Bush is “greatest threat to life on planet””. How can the red staters not understand this?
Eventually the ostriches will yearn for the light of day, and truth’s clarity. When they do the awakening will be painful.
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Sunday November 16, 03
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01:29 PM - Brainwashing the red staters.
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One of the techniques used to break down a captive’s emotional stability is to continually lie. In the day, Simon and Garfunkle had a song in which the lyric, “The pattern never alters until the rat dies” applies to the Dubya administration‘s technique of brainwashing his own citizens, particularly the red staters. They are the group who would be most susceptible to this procedure, as they identify with the aggressor, big brother 43, their soul mate, the “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”.
How many red staters remember that, just in the end of September 2003, Dubya made no concessions to the UN, as he pretended to ask for their help? In this UN speech Dubya flipped them off regarding the core issue, the thorny problem of a timetable for the handover of power from the occupation forces to a sovereign Iraqi government. "This process must unfold according to the needs of Iraqis, neither hurried nor delayed by the voices of other parties," Mr. Bush said, giving a diplomatic jab to both the French and the Germans.
Herr big brother 43 made it clear that even though the United States is trying to secure military assistance and troops from other countries for Iraq, the US will be done Dubya’s way. US forces in Iraq will not be placed under UN command. The Iraqi economy will not be run by UN bureaucrats. The US will decide when the Iraqis can elect its own government, and this government must match the US requirements. “Operation Iraqi Freedom” really means that they will become a democracy that suits the US design, even if it is not what the people of Iraq want. Doesn’t seem to be fair does it? Every sentient being realized that this was a scam by the little Furher, but since Rove controls FOX, the GOP controls the 2004 election.
What is happening now, just a month and a half later?
Herr Furher’s Iraqi Viceroy Bremer has been pulled into Washington for meetings with Dubya. The latest United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq calls on the IGC to provide the Security Council by Dec. 15 with a timetable and a plan for drafting a constitution for Iraq and for holding elections. “UN Resolution 1511 calls for the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) to accelerate the process of setting up a constitutional track,” said Dan Senor, the spokesman for Bremer, who accompanied him to Washington. “As that deadline approaches we are intensifying consultations with the IGC and within our own government about the best path forward.”
Bush apparently is taking the stance the UN has always required and the stance the Democrats in Congress insisted upon. The Democrats were lied to by Dubya at the time of US Congressional Iraq resolution, but that is par for the Dubya course. The psychotic part of this is that Dubya and his PNAC boys won’t admit that they changed their policy, because doing so would cost the GOP votes. Our soldiers die, Iraqis “collateral damage” statistics sky rocket, but Dubya, the liar, who return “honor and dignity to the white house” skates his way through a pretense of being a decent man, sacrificing truth for a few red state votes.
I’ll briefly describe some of additional organizations and vile characters currently in use by the GOP, or is it easier just to refer to them as current day Nazis? A full rendering can’t be attempted due to the limits of computer technology, as even the hugest super computer would not possess enough memory to contain it all.
Remember the Orwellian Office of Disinformation, which was purportedly disbanded? How do we know it was? All we have is Dubya’s word for it, and who could trust him? I can predict the future and before long the GOP will lose its monopoly of the media as well as the government. On that fine day Dubya will be brought before a Congressional Investigation and he’ll mumble that before it was disbanded that it provided too much bad data and he wasn’t in the loop, and that apparatus did the loose cannon, Ollie North routine. He’ll put on his phony southern drawl and tell untruths about the Office of Disinformation being the entity to blame for our current mess, not him. It was allegedly developed to confuse foreign powers, but Dubya isn’t up on the finer distinctions such as that.
Maybe the Office of Disinformation has been dispersed, but someone is still trying to distort reality. On November 12, 2003 the CIA report regarding how poorly the occupation of Iraq is progressing was brought to the public’s attention despite the efforts of the administration to cover-up. The CIA and the White House refused even to confirm the existence of the report, which was first disclosed by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Reminds me of the Pentagon Papers being suppressed by “Tricky Dick”. Who knows what else they have covered up?
Why would they subvert the report from being known to the public? Dubya has told us everything is going swell, hasn’t he? “It says that this is an insurgency, and that it is gaining strength because Iraqis have no confidence that there is anyone on the horizon who is going to stick around in Iraq as a real alternative to the former regime,” one American official said.
Among other concerns raised by the C.I.A. report, the officials said, was the danger that Iraqi Shiite Muslims, who represent a majority of the country’s population, could soon join minority Sunni Muslims in carrying out armed attacks against American forces. The report also described what it portrayed as major obstacles to efforts by the United States and American-led Iraqi forces to halt a small but steady infiltration of foreign fighters from Syria and Iran.
This was first predicted by all of the accredited intelligence agencies prior to the war. This will just get worse. Way back on March 21, 2003 Gwynne Dyer’s article “Aftermath: SCIRI” gives us some recent history, “Bush 41 incited both the Kurds of northern Iraq and the Shia of the south to revolt against Saddam Hussein at the end of the 1991 Gulf War. But both groups felt betrayed when U.S. forces did not support them.
The Kurds managed to hold on to most of the traditional Kurdish areas in the north and have been free from Saddam’s control for the past dozen years. But the Shia in the south were massacred and utterly crushed. Thousands of Iraqi Shia fled across the frontier into Iran, where the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (SCIRI) in Iraq took responsibility for their lives.”
This article stated then that, “SCIRI’s leaders are moving back into Iraq right now. Two years from now, they will either be ruling Iraq or struggling to break away from it (and take most of the oil with them).”
Remember that Rummy said the US wouldn’t accept a democracy in which the Iraq Shiite, the group which comprises almost 80% of the Iraq population, gains control? Guess what is happening with the new plan to speed up the process of Iraq becoming a sovereign nation?
The IGC’s performance was a main theme of the discussions at the White House, several officials said. Among the options considered in the White House meetings, officials said, was whether to hold national elections to select delegates to a constitutional convention, a step favored by the Shiite majority in Iraq but viewed with misgivings by other religious and ethnic groups.
All of this speed to give Iraq a role in its own security and forming a government it could sustain has come abruptly with no transition. Why? The “moral clarity” guy couldn’t have an ulterior motive, could he?
Heading into an election year, Mr. Bush also has his own domestic political considerations. Reflecting the impatience even within the president’s own party at the pace of progress in creating a viable Iraqi government, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, told reporters on Tuesday that the members of the IGC “aren’t doing their job.” At a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery Bush said the United States was “a nation at war” and cast the loss of life in Iraq and in the struggle against terrorism as painfully necessary to protect the country and what it stands for.
He mumbled, while staring impatiently at the teleprompter, “Young Americans have died in liberating Iraq and Afghanistan. “The loss is terrible. It is borne especially by the families left behind. But in their hurt and in their loneliness, I want these families to know your loved one served in a good and just cause.”
Remember that all of this started because of lies Dubya told the US. These lies didn’t work with the world and the UN, but our disinterested populace bought them hook line and sinker. Douglas Feith, a protégé of Richard Perle, the former chairman of Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board (DPB) who stands at the center of the neo-conservative foreign policy network in Washington, was in charge of another purportedly defunct GOP atrocity, the Office of Special Plans (OSP). Feith is alleged to have collected - often with the help of the neo-conservatives’ favorite Iraqi exile, Ahmed Chalabi - and “cooked” the most alarmist pre-war intelligence against Saddam Hussein and then “stovepiped” it to the White House via Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, unvetted by the intelligence agencies. This abomination became so important during the run-up to the Iraq war when every credible intelligence agency discarded everything these exiled liars for pay said. By the way, Ahmed Chalabi is now on the Iraq Governing Council and he is renowned for disagreeing with his US cronies in effort to consolidate his power in Iraq. For thugs, turn around is fair play, and Ahmed Chalabi, as well as the PNAC boys never saw an ethical dilemma they wouldn’t exploit.
The saddest truth is that this was not necessary. As American soldiers massed on the Iraqi border in March and diplomats argued about war, an influential adviser to the Pentagon received a secret message from a Lebanese-American businessman: Saddam Hussein wanted to make a deal.
Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct a search. They even offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 who was being held in Baghdad. The Iraqis pledged to hold elections.
The messages from Baghdad, first relayed in February to an analyst in the office of the afore-mentioned Feith were part of an attempt by Iraqi intelligence officers to open last-ditch negotiations with the Bush administration through a clandestine communications channel, according to people involved.
The messages raised enough interest that in early March, that the afore-mentioned Perle, met in London with the Lebanese-American businessman, Imad Hage, but nothing came of it as the it would have interfered with the PNAC boys’ plan of US hegemony.
It wasn’t the only Iraq attempt at averting the war either, but the PNAC boys rebuffed them all.
This is typical GOP smoke and mirrors a classic misdirection of the magnitude that Houdini would envy.
George W. Bush is a sociopath, a person who has no conscience. It is clearly evident that this is true as more than 50 times Rumsfeld, his authorized expert of WMD, approved missions likely to vaporize at least 30 innocent people. These plans mutilated at least 1,500 people by unstoppable high-tech weaponry crashing down on them without warning, without the slightest chance of escape. Reports today estimate the count as being over 30,000 innocent Iraqis casualties.
He is also a serial liar, a privileged frat boy, whose vaunted “moral clarity” leads to his self proclaimed “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances” moniker, as well as being a puppet dangling at the whims of his PNAC masters. Some veterans of Bush 41 think that the neocons, the ghouls in PNAC, packaged their rabid desire for US hegemony so well that it appealed to Bush 43's born-again sense of divine mission and to his desire to achieve immortality by transforming the Middle East. Maybe they are right ... or maybe Dubya was so lazy that the first ideas that were thrust on him by Cheney he accepted, rather than have to think for himself.
In Mosul Iraq on the 15th of November seventeen soldiers died when guerrillas downed two U.S. helicopters just hours after a faster timetable for self-rule was unveiled which Washington hoped would pacify Iraqi resentment.
This is the pattern of manipulation used in the psychological experiment. Dubya’s PNAC boys offer the rats, in this case disinterested US red staters, optimistic news. Remember Dubya’s latest trend of positive spin on Iraq tragedies, what is that other than positive reinforcement? They also use negative reinforcement in this Pavlovian testing. The red staters mouths drool with hope when Dubya tells them all is well. If that doesn’t work his Machievalian oriented political master, Herr Rove, figures out a way to jolt them with an electric shock of negative stimuli. How very evil the current GOP are as they are happily performing psychological experiments against his own people to assure himself of their vote!
Our brainwashed red staters are supporting their silly soul mate. They can identify with his lack of intellectual curiosity. His Iraq occupation, which the rest of the world realizes to be a “Mission Failure“ has hoodwinked too many of them. Their Commander-in-Chief, the successful AWOL fly-boy, told them that all major combat operations were over, and he wouldn’t lie, would he? If they think he can lie to him about one thing, then they will start doubting more of his statements. They want it easy and becoming aware of the truth that would cause them too much emotional stress and intellectual effort.
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Tuesday November 11, 03
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02:17 AM - I’m begging you red staters to know the facts.
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Disqualify yourself from the responsibilities of a democracy, a government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system, if you can’t hold up your part of the bargain.
You “expletive deleted” people—you know who you are, either read a newspaper or exclude yourself from taking opinion polls and voting. Put a label on your shirt that takes you off the hook from discharging your greatest responsibility, your hugest right that of voting.
“Some people think I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one”. Think about how quickly and totally 43 get off course. He attacked the country, Iraq, with the least ability to contribute to the bin laden led Islamic extremist attack against the US. If we had continued to elicit the cooperation of the world, in which the US received a tremendous amount of support directly after 9-11, how would this stand now? Maybe instead of losing the Iraq war, we could be working in cooperation with our former allies, including some Islamic ones. This Iraq front, an unnecessary battle, is progressing atrociously-—as Rummy mentioned in his “slog” memo, which also admitted that the US couldn’t kill enough Islamic terrorists to put a dent in the number of new ones that can be turned out.
Suppose instead of attacking a defenseless country we had tried to attack the reasons that Muslim youth are forced, out of desperation of their plight, to become terrorists. Could it have been better for the US and the world if we tried a different tactic? Say we worked together to improve the economic opportunities of these Muslim youth and tried to put an end to the extremist Islamic schools which have been brainwashing children, who possess no economic future, to become jihadists?
We’ll never know, and with the shaping of the discussion in the US by right-wing Christian extremists and PNAC “expletive deleted”, the theory will never be broached.
This unwillingness to become informed of our red state voters has been too obvious by the fact that Dubya is not being lined up for impeachment, and is still very much in the hunt to win re-election. The article, “How to Change the News on Iraq”, by E. J. Dionne Jr. on October 25th, 2003, notes that “The audience for Fox News, as the poll found, is significantly more Republican than the rest of the nation. And sure enough, Fox viewers' attitudes closely match those of Republicans, 55 percent of whom also see the media as portraying the reality in Iraq too negatively. On the other hand, CNN viewers -- and, as it happens, newspaper readers -- held views on reporting from Iraq similar to those of Americans as a whole.”
This cynical GOP manipulation of our intellectually detached US populace is sickening. Yes, a middle-class hero is something to be and it is a noble goal, but our vast red state population, just as Dubya, don’t read newspapers, or even think! Whatever Rove prepared drivel that FOX and Limbaugh et al spew, this vast segment of our unwitting populace accepts. That is dangerous, and the world deserves a better effort from these righteous, disinterested folk--bible thumpers just as Dubya their role model is. He also admitted on Brit Hume’s FOX show, just before his recent UN pitch, that he doesn’t read the papers either. He depends on his information from his yes-men and PNAC masters. Brit Hume must have slipped that question after Rove had prepared his pupil, because Herr mini-me 43 had that deer caught in the headlight look he gets whenever his tele-prompter doesn’t work.
It is hard being the lead-man. This self-proclaimed “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”, this GOP Fuehrer, is too much a lazy frat boy to actually develop his own ideas.
You remember Ken Adelman don’t you? He was the PNAC “expletive deleted” who had the diabolic phrase “mushroom cloud over an American city” patented. What a compilation of hokum about a country that doesn’t appear to have any WMD after all of this time.
On November 9th 2003, on the Hardball show Ken Adelman was quoted as saying that Ansar Al-Islam is Iraq's Al-Qaeda Connection, under the control of Hussein. A few months ago on Meet the Press Cheney said the same tripe. The day after Cheney’s lie on Meet the Press Dubya had to contradict his vp.
Adelman tried it on November 9th 2003 just to see what Chris Matthews would do. He let it slide and his non-insane guest, Eric Margolis stated that it was active in Iraqi Kurdistan, one of the areas in which Hussein had no control. While Eric Margolis was speaking the camera was trained on Adelman who had an evil smirk on his face, which said, “I just said it and because I did the good people will believe me”. You know—it is the expression that Dubya and his PNAC advisors get whenever they are caught in a lie.
Matthews isn’t a right-wing extremist, but he didn’t go out of his way batting Adelman down. That is the problem. Tim Russert isn’t a right-wing extremist either, but Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell and Rice have all gone on his show and lied to the American public without being called on it immediately and forcefully.
On FOX it is different. They aggressively attack people who disagree with the GOP. Tony Snow of FOX NEWS had the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Service Committee, Michigan Senator Carl Levin on. Snow was openly arrogant and antagonist to Levin regarding the Iraq occupation. To Levin’s remark, “We have these jihadists flowing into Iraq now, because now this is a war against the West, which it should not be and cannot be. This has got to be a war against terrorism, and that means that it's got to be universal. It's got to be the world that's involved, not just a few Western nations, because that plays right into the hands of the terrorists who say, "This is a Western effort against an Islamic state."”, Snow responded, “There — as I mentioned before, there are 30 nations. They are not all Western nations. They are scattered across the globe. They've been contributing.”
Snow’s remark was plainly directed at people too uninformed to realize that the US and England have more than 98% of the troops in Iraq.
The Democrats know the score. Too much of our populace doesn’t get any information other than that what is hand fed them through Herr Rove’s propaganda outlets. Levin knew Snow would abuse him, but he had to try to counter the misinformation.
Did you know that never in the history of the world has the superpower conquered the insurgents? The pertinent research is that Russia lost in Afghanistan, as we currently are now with the recent Taliban resurgence, the US lost in Vietnam, and in the near future we will lose in Iraq. Our military might, our “Shock and Awe” weapons, doesn’t work against guerilla warfare tactics. You can’t argue with history--it is just cold, hard facts, and the US populace hasn’t been provided with this knowledge. Dubya is a liar, and recently Republicans such as McCain and Lugar have stated that the administration hasn’t leveled with the US about this war’s cost in money and blood. The PNAC boys have advised their puppet leader to stress the positive aspect of this tragedy. As US soldiers are attacked and killed they have been saying that it is because the US is doing so well. As Senator Daschele has said, “We can’t take more of this progress”.
Cheney and Ari Fleischer, “Be careful, very careful of what you say”. As Steppenwolf has said, “We’ll send out our boys in blue—We’ll find a way to silence you”. Do you doubt it? Big Brother’s Nazi storm troopers, in the guise of the Patriot Act, are already in place.
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Sunday October 19, 03
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03:58 PM - We are all expendable foot soldiers.
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We are all pawns in Dubya’s schemes. Some of us are not soldiers, but we might as well be in garrison US. Since the US economy is being destroyed to give his buddies, the top 1% everything, while funneling every last cent into the high-tech, bloated military, we can say we are under the control of the military’s payroll. Do you doubt that? Read the articles “Fiscal Doomsday in the Offing” by David Broder and “Stating the Obvious”, by Paul Krugman which portray Dubya not as a typical “compassionate conservative, but as a radical GOP swindler raping the US. He is ruining our economy and intentionally destroying our social service network, for GOP political advantage.
The list of lies and charades is so all encompassing, and so transparent, there has to be a devious plot brewing for the 2004 election. Can Solicitor General Ted Olson find a loophole that either Homeland Security Director Herr Ridge, or Attorney General, “Cover-up the nude statues” Herr Ashcroft can use to call off the 2004 election? Olson cheated the nation out of the 2000 presidential election--maybe he is planning to revamp that role and cancel this before its starts with hypocritical national security reasons.
Maybe they are planning on destroying the election, and the article, by the Global Free Press, “Former Diebold Worker: Company installed Uncertified Patches”, shows a perfectly overt method in which they can do so. This quote, is disgusting, “Last January the electronic voting machine maker faced public embarrassment when voting activists revealed the company's insecure FTP server was making its software source code available for everyone to see. Now a former worker in Diebold's Georgia warehouse says the company installed patches on its machines before the state's 2002 gubernatorial election that were never certified by independent testing authorities or cleared with Georgia election officials. If the charges are true, Diebold could be in violation of federal and state election-certification rules. The charges also raise questions about the integrity of the Georgia election results and any other election that uses patched Diebold systems that have not been re-certified.”
I’m a computer programmer, and believe me; I’ve had a set of modifications being tested since July 17th. The purpose of my programs is trivial in comparison to providing for the accuracy and security of the nation’s greatest responsibility, the right to vote.
The “you won’t have Richard Nixon to kick around any longer” hypocrite; Nixon had his “domino theory”. It went that the Communists would takeover over the world, domino by domino, to terrify a dimly aware US populace in 1968. It was the precursor for both the “Evil Empire” as well as the “Axis of Evil”. Dubya liked Ronnie’s so much he had to keep “Evil”. My son watches Sponge Bob cartoons and one of the good guys, Mermaid man is repeatedly screaming “Evil”. I guess the GOP has market tested that phrase to appeal to 10 year olds, which the right-wing villains consider to be the average intelligence of their target audience.
“Tricky Dick” would have loved to tell us his “Secret Plan to end the Vietnam War”, but he couldn‘t do so without revealing plots and characters.
Dubya has already used the current day reincarnation of the phrase “can’t reveal sources and methods”, so evilly and constantly to push the US Congress and the UN into the Iraq War. Soon, the Congressional hearings about his “16 words” and other intelligence failings will start, as Republicans are already peeling away from Dubya. When he gets backed into a corner about his “everlasting war against terrorism” he can apply that technique into a rationale for stonewalling, or using executive privilege, for not discussing anything that will reveal the truly treasonous activities of his regime.
October 17, 2003 saw two major events occur. The US Senate and House passed very different versions of the $87 billion bonanza for Dubya’s “Rangers” and “Pioneer” contributors for rebuilding Iraq. Also, the UN passed the US Iraq resolution. The Washington Times, a major piece in the Big Brother Herr Führer 43, propaganda blitzkrieg has telegraphed the method that Herr Rove has ordered for this to play out.
The Washington Times ran this article “Bush plan on rebuilding Iraq nears final Hill OK “, which sound promising for Dubya. It doesn’t tell the facts though. There will be a meeting between House and Senate leaders to reconcile the differences between their versions of the $87 billion. Doesn’t that sound promising?
How this reconciliation will play out is obvious from recent history. Remember how DeLay pushed through a Senate House compromise. He stated that he would not consider a Democratic measure to provide an increased tax credit to 6.5 million low-income families who did not receive it in the new tax law, and since these smug thugs are so evil, he didn’t. How did he do it? The credit was dropped in negotiations among House and Senate leaders and White House representatives that included no Democrats.
Prior to this reconciliation, the House had wanted $1.7 billion to be in loans and the Senate $10 billion out of the total of $20 billion for Iraqi reconstruction. Maybe I’m cynical of this group but my guess is that at the conclusion of these meetings there will no loans and the money being spent on the Iraqi reconstruction will increase to at least $30 billion. The promising part of this, which is not mentioned in the Murdoch-Rove media, is that eight Republican Senators, after getting face to face intimidation sessions from Dubya, voted against the agreed upon GOP policy. Maybe the lock step efficiency of the Dubya Nazi regime is finally faltering.
Doesn’t this Washington Times’ article, “UN backs US on Iraq resolution” sound fair and balanced? It skipped a lot including that the concession announced earlier this week, setting a deadline for Iraq's US-appointed governing council to draw up a timetable to a new constitution and elections, allowed France, Russia and Germany to support the resolution. But the US still had to postpone the vote - originally scheduled for yesterday - to allow the three to discuss the final draft and decide whether to support it. The German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, told reporters at an EU summit in Brussels that the leaders had agreed their line believing the resolution to be an "important step in the right direction". But their backing does not in itself guarantee that the US will receive the financial and military support it is seeking.
The fact is it is only a sham. Next week there will be a UN donor’s conference for the US occupation of Iraq. The US will be begging these countries, which have no incentive to help Dubya out, to save his stupid butt. The US has already, via legal maneuvers, tied up the Iraq oil profits until 2008. If these countries help the US they are stupid. Their help will not equal the amount of money passed in under the table negotiations that Dubya’s money peddlers have been dishing out. Also, these counties have a modicum of humanity, unlike Dubya.
Remember on October 12th 2003 Meet the Press show that Senator Dick Lugar, R-IN, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee said that Dubya had to be the president, the Commander-in-Chief, instead of attempting to place the blame for Iraq on his minions. Dubya has a habit of switching roles and people, as that can be used as excuses for failed policy. What is this current hypocrisy of placing Rice above Rumsfeld about other than another GOP pretense? Ivo Daalder, who for five years has run a Brookings Institution-University of Maryland study project on the NSC, says that the new emphasis of Rice's role is her way of trying "to take control of a process that was in some sense running away from her -- which was clear in the Iraqi reconstruction process, but also the foreign policy process writ large." This temporary facade of Rice over Rumsfeld will result in no change of the US PNAC military policy; it will just take the heat off Dubya, the Commander-in-Chief.
What can be made of the charade of 4 speeches by Big Brother 43`s team about the progress being made in Iraq? These excursion from reality were made to try to address what Rove is describing as the filter that stops the positive news about the progress in Iraq from reaching the US populace. Republican Senator Dick Lugar, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee also on the October 12th, 2003 Meet the Press show said that even these speeches were contradictory. None of them truthfully tried providing the US populace with information as to what Dubya's goals are in Iraq and what the projected cost, in terms of US troops or financial resources will be.
Democratic Senator Joe Biden, also on that show said that Dubya has to take charge of the atrocious situation, not push it off on Rice. Biden's remark is the ultimate usage of irony against the "Top Gun" , "bring em-on", we'll take him "dead or alive", self-proclaimed, straight shooter. If Dubya had taken the lead in this mess then his strong willed advisors would respect his opinion. More and more Republicans are coming out against Dubya's fiasco for oil. It makes my head hurt trying to give this guy the benefit of the doubt.
They’ve co-opted John McCain. McCain‘s concern over excessive influence of connected companies doesn’t extend to the bonanza that Cheney’s former company received, some without competitive bidding. On Hardball Chris Matthews asked McCain, “ Do you think that that is a bad situation? To have a huge contract that led to a company that the vice president was CEO of?” McCain‘s response was troubling, “ I’m going to get in trouble by saying to you that any appearance of impropriety is not good, because it gives your opponents ammunition. And so, no, I don’t think it’s a good thing to do. I think that Dick Cheney is a totally, completely thorough, honest man. A man of integrity. Unimpeachable integrity, in my view.” When McCain’s Campaign Finance Reform legislation was pushed off by Dubya’s GOP operatives, McCain was irate, and now this doesn‘t concern him. He has been paid off. As of now other Republicans are exhibiting more “honor and dignity” than McCain.
How many of us can’t remember how the GOP ruined Clinton’s second term because of much less than this. Why isn’t the major media attacking all of these business scams for profits at the expense of US soldiers lives and over 30,000 Iraqi innocent civilians being placed into the euphemistically labeled “collateral damage” statistics?
Some background on this is that as part of the administration's postwar work in Iraq, the government has awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to American businesses. Those contracts, some without competitive bidding, have included more than $500 million to support troops and extinguish oil field fires for Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, which Vice President Dick Cheney led from 1995 until 2000, and they are not even providing adequate services.
That has to be all wrong--Big Brother 43 is doing his best for our soldiers, isn't he? According to the Newhouse News Service, "U.S. troops in Iraq suffered through months of unnecessarily poor living conditions because some civilian contractors hired by the Army for logistics support failed to show up." Not surprisingly, civilian contractors, and their insurance companies. get spooked by war zones. In Iraq, reports The Baltimore Sun, "the Bush administration continues to use American corporations to perform work that United Nations agencies and nonprofit aid groups can do more cheaply."
Where is the universal disgust regarding lying about the rationale for war and then seeing Wolfie of Arabia’s comments in the Guardian/UK article, of June 4, 2003, “Wolfowitz: Iraq War Was About Oil”? These PNAC boys are arrogant as well as loose-lipped, but that type of hubris always leads to a huge fall.
Where is one intelligence agent that didn’t tell Dubya that he would be increasing Islamic terrorism by this Iraq War? Two articles of October 15th, 2003, “Al-Qaida may try 'spectacular' attack on U.S. forces, group warns” and “Iraq war swells Al Qaeda's ranks says report” are particularly troubling. The bin laden tape fn October 17th, 2003 promised attacks on US and threatened nations that are helping the US led occupation of Iraq.
Where is Dubya’s pledge to be an “uniter not divider”? He has two piles, the top 1% and the rest of the world. This is diametrically opposed to that trite uniter remark. His “Ranger” and “Pioneer” campaign contributors get the cream off the top and the remaining 99% get scraps. If you happen to live in a country, such as Iraq, where there is oil, the likelihood of becoming “collateral damage” geometrically increases. In the US, with no tax revenue for the social service network and domestic policies, due to his tax cut for the top 1% and bloated military and homeland security budgets, our children are being left behind, and our ill, elderly and poor are dying before their time.
The liar will campaign on his leader of the “everlasting war against terrorism”. Two of his former GOP operatives,
Thomas White and Rand Beers, who in the short span of Dubya’s illegal occupation of the office of the US president, have left in disgust, have different facts to impart.
Even in the Rummy’s Pentagon, advisors are on record as being against the planning for the post-war Iraq occupation. In the article, "White-Rumsfeld Dispute, Round 2", White spoke about the inadequacy of Rumsfeld's planning for postwar reconstruction. White also sided with Army Chief of Staff Eric K. Shinseki, warning that several hundred thousand troops would be needed to stabilize Iraq after hostilities ended.
Dubya will say has made us more secure from terrorist threats, but Rand Beers disagrees. "The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism," Rand Beers, a former special assistant to the president, told the Washington Post in an interview published June 16th 2003.
Remember how Dubya’s group promised a quick Iraq war? A typical estimate that Bush's team was pushing to the US during his pre-war propaganda blitzkrieg is contained in the of February 9th, 2003, Newsweek's article, "Post-War Iraq Hope Would be to Withdraw Troops in 30-90 Days", which just seems clearly silly! For an opposing point of view see, "The war in Iraq is just starting", by Jon Carroll on August 7th, 2003 for the San Francisco Chronicle, which seems closer to the truth. In this matter, as in all others, he tried his earlier con with a pair of twos again, but the world is prepared this time, and he is having many losing hands as a result of his earlier bluffs. Also, in a October 19th, 2003 New York Times’ article, “State Dept. Study Foresaw Trouble Now Plaguing Iraq”, it is quoted that, “Officials acknowledge that the United States was not well prepared for what did occur: chiefly widespread looting and related security threats, even though the State Department study predicted them....The Pentagon squandered a chance to anticipate more of the postwar pitfalls by not fully incorporating the State Department information.”
How is Dubya doing with the Muslim world? Bush's address to a joint session of the Philippine Congress was delayed more than an hour because of Secret Service concerns about the undulating throngs of protesters who lined his motorcade route past rows of shacks. More than 3,000 demonstrators also gathered outside the House of Representatives chamber, where Bush was speaking, and university students burned him in effigy along with about 100 American flags. Some of their signs stated, “Bush is a terrorist”.
If some of these points penetrated the consciousness of out populace how could Dubya continue? Where is one true word that Dubya has said? Where is the “return of honor and dignity to the White House”?
All of us NY or DC residents feel like unprotected potential victims of terrorism. Everyday, with these new bin laden tapes and reports of impending doom we are wondering when the next attack will occur. Some of us feel we are just hoping against hope and many of us are taking leave to correspond with anniversaries of al queda attacks. The consensus among the people at my water cooler is that the second we can retire we will. Many of the anxious ones don’t think that they will survive to reach their retirement, and that their spouse will be receiving survivor benefits. Why don’t we receive hazardous pay as we are just blocks from the White House and Congress?
b. connors
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Thursday October 16, 03
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12:00 PM - One true word?
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Where is?
Where is Bin laden?
Where is Hussein?
Where is the coalition that Dubya promised both the US Congress and the UN he would get before he attacked Iraq?
Where are the WMD?
Where is one sign that Hussein was an imminent threat to the US?
Where is an intelligence agent who thought that there was an allegiance between bin laden and Hussein? bin laden labeled Hussein as being a bad, socialistic, Muslim, so this makes no sense, doesn’t it?
Where are the Iraqis who would greet us as liberators?
Where is Iraqi satisfaction with US-installed interim governing council? The Sunni Arabs in Iraq have been “shortchanged” by the Americans, especially with regard to the US-installed interim governing council, Sheikh Ahmed Al Kubaisi, head of the Iraqi Muslim Ulema Front. His quote, “Because most of the armed resistance takes place in Sunni areas, the Americans deprive the Sunnis of their legitimate right to have an equal say in their country’s affairs,” does not sound like the Sunnis are happy. “The US forces were abusing the basic human rights of the Iraqis. “We are being humiliated in our homeland,” he added, “I urge the American to change their behaviour immediately.”
Otherwise, he declared, he and others will call for “an armed resistance” to drive the Americans out. So far, he has refrained from supporting the sporadic armed attacks against the US forces, but said his position may change soon.
“When I first returned to Baghdad, I said the Americans had one year to fix things and leave; however, I don”t see any practical steps in this direction,” he said. “Time is running out.” When asked if he was to declare “war” again the Americans next April, when the one-year ultimatum ends, he said: “Of course, what else can we do to end an occupation that seems to want to last 60 years?”
Where is one intelligence agent that didn’t tell Dubya that he would be going into a quagmire when he occupied Iraq? The most obvious source, Poppy, didn’t want to destabilize the area when he attacked Iraq just 12 years ago, and that was his stated reason for not going after Hussein. Is Dubya so “lacking of intellectual curiosity” that he could not even understand this?
Where is Poppy’s “honor and dignity”; was he unethical in 1991? The first President Bush incited both the Kurds of the northern Iraq and the Shia of the south to revolt against Saddam Hussein at the end of the 1991 Gulf War, but both groups were betrayed when US forces did not support them. Why would Dubya, Poppy’s apple fall far from the tree?
By the way, before any of this buildup to the war, when Rove was beginning his plan to win the 2002 mid-term with his cheerleader Dubya attacking Democrats as being in league with bin laden, there were many articles which suggested that attacking Iraq would become a mess. Gwynne Dyer’s article in that time frame, “What If Iraq's Sunnis Decide to Put Up a Real Fight This Time?”, seemed to be prescient didn’t it? One quote about the end of the 1991 Gulf War, “The U.S. decision to stop after freeing Kuwait was based largely on the assessment that these mostly Sunni Arab troops, and especially the Republican Guards divisions, would fight for Saddam, and that the American casualties involved in a further campaign to dig the Iraqi leader out of his bunker in central Baghdad would be unacceptably high.”
Where is one sane person who doesn’t think that all 3 segments of Iraq don’t remember 1991, all of the intervening years of economic sanctions, which decimated the majority of the country, and don’t hate the US?
Where is one, among all of our former allies, who sympathized with us over 9-11, who doesn’t loath Dubya?
Where is the respect of the world for the US?
Where is “Honor and dignity in the White House”?
Where is the filter that Dubya says is blocking the positive news from Iraq from reaching the US populace?
Where is one truthful reason behind the scam for allegedly switching control of the Iraq occupation? National security adviser Condoleezza Rice will head the new Iraq Stabilization Group new group. The purpose of this nifty reorganization is to remove a bottleneck in decision-making by identifying and resolving problems aced by the US-led occupation.
This is too stupid to be dignified with a response. In the article, “Rice to Lead Effort To Speed Iraqi Aid”, this quote, “Reaction beyond the White House to the Bush announcement was muted. Skeptics said they welcome added attention to details by Rice, but they wonder how effective the new group will be and how it will change the situation on the ground.”
Where is the use of logic by people? What possibly could be the cause for the percentage of agreement with Dubya’s Iraq travesty, as reflected in his latest improved popularity poll slowly edging up to 56%? His administration’s policies have not improved so that increase is not consistent with an examination of the facts. Are these people just bending because of Dubya’s recent campaign of spinning Iraq positively?
Where is the outrage that Dubya should be exhibiting for at least the following:
the bad intelligence regarding the need for the Iraq war,
the “16 words” in particular,
the lack of planning for the subsequent occupation,
the leaker?
Where are the 28 redacted pages?
Where are the ledger sheets showing Dubya’s cronies’ profits at the price of US and Iraqi bloodshed?
Where is Dubya’s “moral clarity”?
Where is the rationale for attacking Iraq as a segment in the “everlasting war against terrorism”, when Saudi Arabia had 15 of the 19 terrorists who were involved in 9-11?
Where is some truth regarding the abrupt cease of the hunt for bin laden? Remember the “Crusade” to get him “dead or alive”? All of the US resources devoted to tracking down bin laden, the perpetrator of 9-11, ended their duties when Dubya switched from constantly speaking about bin laden to Hussein. What could be the reason to shriek to such a complete reversal to attack Iraq?
The Bush Administration consciously took the decision in “the post September 11 consultations” with Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad, Pakistan’s chief spy, to directly “cooperate” with Pakistan’s military intelligence ISI) despite its links to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. In a Times of India/Guardian department article of August 23rd, 2003, “Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has struck a deal with the US not to capture Osama Bin Laden, fearing this could lead to unrest in Pakistan, according to a special investigation by The Guardian. The paper reported that Bin Laden was being protected by three elaborate security rings manned by tribesmen stretching 192 kms in diameter in northern Pakistan”. It is believed an agreement was reached between Musharraf and US authorities shortly after Bin Laden’s flight from his stronghold Tora Bora in Afghanistan in December 2001.
Where is the universal disgust regarding lying about the rationale for war and then seeing Wolfie of Arabia’s comments in the Guardian/UK article, of June 4, 2003, “Wolfowitz: Iraq War Was About Oil”? These PNAC boys are arrogant as well as loose-lipped, but that type of hubris always leads to a huge fall. The Global Free Press section entitled, “ Deception Dollars” including the article, “Warmongering and plots for oil”, among many others, spell out these scams in detail.
Where is one intelligence agent that didn’t tell Dubya that he would be increasing Islamic terrorism by this Iraq War? Two articles of October 15th, 2003, “Al-Qaida may try 'spectacular' attack on U.S. forces, group warns” and “Iraq war swells Al Qaeda's ranks says report” are particularly troubling.
Where is Dubya’s pledge to be an “uniter not divider”? He has two piles, the top 1% and the rest of the world. This is diametrically opposed to that trite uniter remark. His “Ranger” and “Pioneer” campaign contributors get the cream off the top and the remaining 99% get scraps. If you happen to live in a country, such as Iraq, where there is oil, the likelihood of becoming “collateral damage” geometrically increases. In the US, with no tax revenue for the social service network and domestic policies, due to his tax cut for the top 1% and bloated military and homeland security budgets, our children are being left behind, and our ill, elderly and poor are dying before their time.
If some of these points penetrated the consciousness of our populace how could Dubya continue?
Where is one true word that Dubya has said?
b. connors
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Tuesday October 07, 03
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04:05 PM - Raping everybody for the top 1%.
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It is not as graphically disturbing as seeing soldiers and “collateral damage” victims, but Dubya is causing death in the US as a result of his awful domestic policies. These duplicitous scams can be summed up as—rape everybody for the benefit of the top 1%. Dubya the Flim-Flam man is the merchant of death, as he is deciding who lives in luxury and dies in squalor.
Rove’s puppet boy, Dubya, is intentionally ruining the US and worldwide economy for political advantage. He is making sure his international “Ranger” and “Pioneer” buddies are getting war-profiteering profits, as last illustrated in his $87 billion Iraq bonanza. The most brutal example of the lack of morality in Dubya though is that even the US soldiers, who are in continual jeopardy, are getting shafted.
In the July 8, 2003 article, “War, Tax Cuts, and the Deficit” by Richard Kogan the author cites this quote, “This nation has got a deficit because we have been through a war.”, by President Bush on April 24, 2003.” In that speech, three sentences later, the President added. “And we had an emergency and a recession, which affected the revenue growth of the U.S. Treasury.”
Problem is Dubya was lying “Yet the cost of war, though by no means trivial, is responsible for only a small share of the deficits we face. The President’s tax cuts are a much more significant cause. Congressional Budget Office data indicate that in 2003 and 2004, the cost of enacted tax cuts is almost three times as great as the cost of war, even when the cost of increases in homeland security expenditures, the rebuilding after September 11, and other costs of the war on terrorism —including the action in Afghanistan — are counted as “war costs,” along with the costs of the military operations and subsequent reconstruction in Iraq.”
Further misrepresentations in that speech include, “The President stated that the first way to deal with the deficit is to “increase revenues to the Treasury through economic growth and vitality.” His budget and the congressional budget plan call for major additional tax cuts, however, causing revenues to decline rather than grow, relative to current projections. Dubya’s own budget acknowledges this; it shows that his tax cuts will increase the deficit substantially, not reduce it.”
Maybe I’m a crank, but the neutral Congressional Budget Office, as well as Dubya’s own budget that both came to the logical conclusion that his tax cuts will increase the deficit substantially! By the way, every estimation of the tax cuts states that they benefit Dubya’s contributors, almost exclusively. Wealth redistribution from the lower classes to the upper 1% is a radically preposterous plan, yet that is what Dubya is doing.
Maybe another source would be appropriate. In the article, “Stating the Obvious”, by Paul Krugman, he cites some further disastrous predictions. If his theses are correct then the current economic structure of the U.S. is definitely being challenged by 43’s administration.
Krugman writes, “”The lunatics are now in charge of the asylum.” So wrote the normally staid Financial Times, traditionally the voice of solid British business opinion, when surveying last week’s tax bill. Indeed, the legislation is doubly absurd: the gimmicks used to make an $800-billion-plus tax cut carry an official price tag of only $320 billion are a joke, yet the cost without the gimmicks is so large that the nation can’t possibly afford it while keeping its other promises”.
That sounds bad, but Krugman predicts such a complete destruction of the U.S. economy that the “social safety net built up over the past 70 years” vanishes. He hypothesizes that this is a calculated strategy. He attributes this dishonorable plan to laziness by moderates and liberals and further states,” But the people now running America aren’t conservatives: they’re radicals who want to do away with the social and economic system we have, and the fiscal crisis they are concocting may give them the excuse they need. The Financial Times, it seems, now understands what’s going on, but when will the public wake up?”
This is overkill, but there are so many lies. In the article, “Fiscal Doomsday in the Offing” by David Broder of October 5, 2003 the author writes,” Maybe all the others are wrong…..I would not be that foolhardy, not when the list of people warning that this nation has embarked on a dangerous and unsustainable fiscal course that will wreck our economy and threaten our international standing includes those who now are frantically signaling us to straighten out our policies before it is too late.
Some members of Congress of both parties have argued for months, if not years, that the lack of spending restraint, coupled with the penchant for ever-larger tax cuts, cannot be allowed to go on. Their cautions have gone unheeded.
David Walker, the comptroller general of the United States, is an appointed official with a 15-year term that gives him complete political security. His staff in the General Accounting Office provides the fullest range of information on government finances. Last month, Walker went to the National Press Club to raise a public alarm where he hoped it would be heard. “Our projected budget deficits,” he said, “are not manageable without significant changes in status quo programs, policies, processes and operations.”….. The Committee for Economic Development, a group of business and education leaders; the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning research and advocacy group; and the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan organization focused on sound fiscal policy, issued their first joint statement on fiscal policy. They called the current budgetary situation “the most fiscally irresponsible” in American history.’
Here follows their agreement with Krugman’s take on this foolish Dubya’s policy, “Staff members of the three groups said that a realistic picture of the next decade shows it is likely that annual deficits will rise from current levels of $400 billion to more than $600 billion and total $5 trillion between 2004 and 2013 -- even assuming a quick return to healthy economic growth and lower unemployment.
Those numbers are incomprehensible. But a better sense of their meaning comes when the groups say that if current policies remain, balancing the budget by 2013 will require raising individual and corporate income taxes by 27 percent, cutting Social Security by 60 percent, cutting defense by 73 percent or cutting all programs—except defense, homeland security, Social Security and Medicare—by 40 percent.
That sounds like scare talk. But the reality is that after 2013, things will get worse. The first of the baby boomers reach retirement age in 2008, and from that point on, Social Security and Medicare payments will explode, as the number of claimants rises each year. As Pete Peterson, the Republican former secretary of commerce, told the news conference where this report was presented, anyone who thinks those programs are solidly financed ought to think again. “To talk about a Social Security trust fund is a fiscal oxymoron,” he said. “It isn’t funded and it can’t be trusted.” Rather, the government faces $25 trillion of unfunded entitlement obligations.”
All of us aging baby boomers have lived through a milder version of this before, in every GOP administration. This is all part of an age-old GOP strategy. They terrify the US into believing that the military must be built up excessively. Reagan had the “Evil Empire” and Tricky Dick had the “domino theory”. Then they add to this tax cuts for their rich 1%. Guess what—Et voilla no money for Democrats! The US budget can’t support this military buildup as well as fund the social safety net, so which budgets get reduced? We see our own relatives and neighbors dying before their time. We are without adequate health care, decent medical insurance. Too many of us must choose between purchasing either prescription drugs or food. Due to Dubya’s awful administration of the US economy each of the states are cutting everything they can. When the Democrats, who are the champion of social service programs, ask for money to help the 99% of US citizens, the GOP have a pat comment. “They are typical tax and spend Democrats!”
He has also selected specific states where his political future may be determined, to attempt to give a few of the lower-income workers, a better chance at getting a job, in his jobless recovery strategy. He even blew that though, basically to incompetence. A little over a year ago, on March 5, 2002, President Bush made a serious mistake by imposing tariffs on imported steel. Recently, the Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition, a business group, published a study showing that as a result of tariffs, job losses among steel users exceed those in the entire steel industry. It estimates that 200,000 jobs were lost among steel users, while there are only 187,000 total people employed in the steel industry. Sixteen states lost at least 4,500 jobs, including California (19,392), Texas (15,826), Ohio (10,553), and Michigan (9,829).
The reason why steel-consuming industries lost jobs is because the tariffs greatly increased their costs — costs that could not be passed on to consumers due to the absence of inflation. Hence, these higher costs had to be absorbed out of profits. With many manufacturers already suffering losses due to the slow economy, the result was layoffs and bankruptcies. According to press reports, the World Trade Organization has ruled that the U.S. steel tariffs imposed last year violate trading rules that we have agreed to abide by. Although the Bush administration intends to appeal the ruling, its best course would be to just let the tariffs die.
His “everlasting war against terrorism” is a pretense, a con game to funnel money to his buddies. Bush has a calculating strategy whose independent variable is swag for his cronies. Any other variable doesn’t matter as long as the bottom line shows his top 1% has pillaged every last blood soaked cent it can from whatever source. Since our dear troops aren’t in the top 1%, Dubya isn’t going waste his blood soaked booty, on adequate military equipment and processes on them. So what if through his idiotic actions Dubya has forced their lives to be on the line. So what if they are the only ones whose lives are in the balance because the PNAC boys could not wait for the plundering begin, until after we built an international coalition? So what if the war was not sanctioned by the UN and now the UN won’t buckle under Dubya’s conceived to fail, unreasonable demands. For Dubya you either have the secret membership card, a big, fat wallet, or you are cannon fodder. Bush proudly struts around as being concerned for the military. What was his tremendous photo-op on the USS Lincoln, with “Mission Accomplished” behind him other than a chance for his act as the mighty, Commander-in-Chief? His words don’t match his actions. In general, the PNAC death dealers, trying to masquerade as being supportive of our troops, draw the line when that support might actually cost something. The usually conservative Army Times has run blistering editorials on this subject. Its June 30 blast, titled “Nothing but Lip Service,” begins: “In recent months, President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have missed no opportunity to heap richly deserved praise on the military. But talk is cheap — and getting cheaper by the day, judging from the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately.” Various Bush cronies are making these financial killings. While they are making ill-gotten gains, can’t they provide adequate services for our youth?
There is a sucker born every day, but even the GOP can’t swallow this 20.3 billion for Iraqi reconstruction. Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) urged that the administration press nations such as France, Russia and Germany to forgive some of Iraq’s $200 billion foreign debt, which Bremer conceded is now the United States’ responsibility. “It’s tough to make a case to give $20 billion outright,” Flake said. “There are a lot of us who are still troubled.”
What kind of person ruins the economy--allows our greatest treasure, our youth, to get massacred and still has to grasp for more spoils. Double-dealing Dubya, the self-proclaimed man who would “return honor and dignity to the White House”, can’t control his insatiable greed.
Those of you who are not benefiting by this, essentially 99% of the US, better get this straight. His tax cuts help the top 1%, and you are not in it. Also, these tax cuts will make sure that the needed social services you depend on will be slashed, as the revenues to support them go to his “Ranger” and “Pioneer” buddies. Your kids are getting an inferior education. You know people eating dog food and taking their daily prescription once a week because they can’t afford to take them as prescribed—therefore dying before their time. No one ever makes estimates regarding how inferior social services contribute to death, but the results would be staggering. His misadministration of the economy is not as blatant as the horrific scenes of young soldiers dying, but he is causing deaths in the US by his policies, probably of a much higher magnitude that in his “everlasting war against terrorism”.
You red staters, none of you are in his blue-blooded secret club. Please think about this. If you vote for him you are hurting yourself.
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03:17 AM - He is immoral and will grasp for anything!
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Views from a dimension that Dubya attacks—reality!
In the Guardian/UK article, of June 4, 2003, “Wolfowitz: Iraq War Was About Oil”, by George Wright this quote, “The US Deputy Defense Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair's position over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them as a "bureaucratic" excuse for war - has now gone further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is "swimming" in oil, shows less than what you’d expect from the man who would “return honor and dignity to the White House”.
Wolfowitz thought this was such a cute phrase, and contrasted Iraq with North Korea as he elaborated, “"Let's look at it simply. The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil."
The just mentioned undermining of Tony Blair's position over WMD is fleshed out in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine on May 9th. At that time Wolfowitz, appeared to minimize the importance of WMD in this quote, "The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason," he said, according to a Pentagon transcript in which he stressed other justifications for the war.”
So, they dummied down the rationale for the Iraq war, so that Dubya could win votes for it. The Guardian was intimidated and removed the article of June 4, 2003, “Wolfowitz: Iraq War Was About Oil” from their website and posted the following, “A report which was posted on our website on June 4 under the heading "Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil" misconstrued remarks made by the US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, making it appear that he had said that oil was the main reason for going to war in Iraq. He did not say that. He said, according to the Department of Defence website, "The ... difference between North Korea and Iraq is that we had virtually no economic options with Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil. In the case of North Korea, the country is teetering on the edge of economic collapse and that I believe is a major point of leverage whereas the military picture with North Korea is very different from that with Iraq."
It seems like the nitpicking drivel that the “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuances”, with his vaunted “moral clarity” would never subject his loving US populace with! Later Wolfowitz predicted that Iraq would rapidly be able to pay for its repair to its infrastructure with the huge oil profits. He had to back away from that also.
In an August 2, 2003 article “ The sheep turn on Wolfie--US senators are pressing for some straight answers about security”, Maureen Dowd writes, “The military and rehabilitation efforts now under way in Iraq are an essential part of the war on terror," Wolfowitz proclaimed, capitalising the "W" and the "T" in his written testimony, and underlining the sentence for those too dim to understand its importance.
Brazening out the failure to find the Saddam-al-Qaida links and weapons of mass destruction, Wolfowitz has simply done an Orwellian fan dance, covering up the lack of concrete ties to the 9/11 terrorists with feathery assertions that securing "the peace in Iraq is now the central battle in the war on terror".
From Meet The Press of March 16th, 2003 the quotes:
“Tricky Dick 2” Cheney: My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
From Meet The Press of September 14th, 2003 the quotes:
Mr. Russert: The Washington Post asked the American people about Saddam Hussein, and this is what they said: 69 percent said he was involved in the September 11 attacks. Are you surprised by that?”
Cheney: No. I think it’s not surprising that people make that connection.
Mr. Russert: But is there a connection?
Cheney: We don’t know.
On CNN Aaron Brown’s NEWSNIGHT of September 17, 2003 this quote:
George W. Bush: We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th.
CNN, regarding this Dubya doltish quote, has to broadcast to attract viewers, so this is a mild but accurate summation by their John King: Aaron, what he said was that the administration has no evidence that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with the September 11 attacks but Mr. Bush went on to say there's no question in his view that Saddam did have ties to al Qaeda, the latest installment in a running battle. This president's critics say he deliberately blurs the line so the Americans do blame Saddam.
From the latest Meet the Press interviews somehow Cheney implied that we are doing swell in Iraq, which strains credulity. Instead of a public flagellation he should be forced to give that spiel to each and every US family who have lost a dear youth as a sitting duck soldier, and each of the over 30,000 Iraqi citizens that have become “collateral damage“ statistics.
Mr. Russert: Let me turn to the situation in Iraq. We all remember this picture from May 1. The president on the USS Lincoln on May 1; mission accomplished. Since that time, these are the rather haunting figures coming out of Iraq. We had lost 138 soldiers before May 1, and 685 wounded, injured. Since that time, since the president came on the carrier and said major combat was over, we’ve lost 158, and 856 wounded and injured. Those numbers are pretty troubling.
Cheney: You’d like to be able do everything casualty-free. When you think about what we’ve accomplished in terms of taking Afghanistan—we had a total of 30 killed in action in Afghanistan—taking down the Taliban and destroying the capacity of al-Qaeda to use Afghanistan as a base to attack the United States, launching an attack into Iraq, destroying the Iraqi armed forces, taking down the government of Iraq, getting rid of Saddam Hussein, capturing 42 out of the 55 top leaders, and beginning what I think has been fairly significant success in terms of putting Iraq back together again, the price that we’ve had to pay is not out of line, and certainly wouldn’t lead me to suggest or think that the strategy is flawed or needs to be changed.
I don’t have the restraint that Tim Russert has. I would have presented Cheney with the contradiction between Bush saying "Bring 'em on." and the BRING THEM HOME NOW organization of patriotic US military families who hate this duplicitous, heartless regime’s careless destruction of our greatest asset our future, our youth.
All of this treasonous activity is leading to at least four separate congressional investigations. One is for the “16 words”. A second is for the redaction of the 28 pages in the Congressional 9-11 report. A third is for the illegal, despicable act of retribution against Joseph Wilson, by exposing his wife, a CIA operative. Last, but not least, the notorious Presidential Daily Briefing which stated “bin Laden had wanted to conduct attacks in the United States for years and that (his) group apparently maintained a support base here”.
Remember Dubya forgot that he know “Kenny boy” until enough people exposed him for his lie. Maybe, Cheney used Dubya as a model for Cheney’s baseless remark that he knew nothing about Joseph Wilson’s Niger report, and didn’t even know the man.
On MEET THE PRESS Cheney, the former deficit hawk had these simply evil comments about the US economy.
Cheney: I am a deficit hawk. So is the president. The fact of the matter is, we’ve always made exceptions for recession, national emergency, time of war. The deficit that we’re running today, after we get the approval of the $87 billion, will still be less as a percentage of our total capacity to pay for it, our total economic activity in this country, than it was back in the ’80s or the deficits we ran in the ’90s.
From the article, relating to the last Dubya tax cut for his “Ranger” and Pioneer” buddies, "Stating the Obvious", by Paul Krugman, he writes, ""The lunatics are now in charge of the asylum." So wrote the normally staid Financial Times, traditionally the voice of solid British business opinion, when surveying last week's tax bill. Indeed, the legislation is doubly absurd: the gimmicks used to make an $800-billion-plus tax cut carry an official price tag of only $320 billion are a joke, yet the cost without the gimmicks is so large that the nation can't possibly afford it while keeping its other promises".
That sounds bad, but Krugman predicts a destruction of the U.S. economy so that the "social safety net built up over the past 70 years" vanishes. He hypothesizes that this is a calculated strategy. He attributes this dishonorable plan to laziness by moderates and liberals and further states," But the people now running America aren't conservatives: they're radicals who want to do away with the social and economic system we have, and the fiscal crisis they are concocting may give them the excuse they need. The Financial Times, it seems, now understands what's going on, but when will the public wake up?"
They are radical in their economic policies as well as their warmongering. When did we know this was their plan, and how dare they do this when they certainly have no mandate, because unless they conveniently forgot, they lost the popular vote, as well as the 2000 election
Right now you’d have a better chance to have a workable power grid, improved education, health care, and a free press in Iraq than the US. When the baby boomers retire, in less than ten years, the US will be in even worse shape than the deplorable state it is now.
So, you can’t believe the transparent lies that Wolfie of Arabia, Cheney and their puppet president, have to say. Is there anyone in that PNAC crew you could feel confident in believing?
This is a very scary time. As a baby boomer I’ve seen a lot but I have not been so distraught since 1968 when the afore-mentioned “Tricky Dick” spellbound just enough losers with his clearly transparent ploy, the “secret plan to end the Vietnam War”. I knew of no one who actually believed that spiel, but the thug won the election with it. This thug is even bolder and if the media and the public don’t exhibit their outrage, worse days are to come.
The right-wing, with Clear Channel radio stations, and FOX and FOX lite Cable TV, tell the red state voters what to think! It is just like the "Outer Limits" in which "they control the TV; they control what we are shown and therefore what we can conceivably understand. they control the TV; they control what we are shown and therefore what we can conceivably understand.
Previously, every evil tyrant has had to start off small, but 43 changed all that. When his lawyers stole the 2000 election the current GOP organization knew that the entire country was theirs for the taking. When they realized that the US Supreme Court, which 41 stuffed, was in their pocket, they were delighted. Add the complete control of the media to their political and legal stranglehold on the US, and they developed hubris. Many people have died unjustly in wars that should have been democratically debated, but eventually, this regime will be changed. Kerry was right about that point, and if Rove had spent any time studying history, he'd realize that no empire has ever survived when their reach exceeds their capability.
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