September 18, 2006

• A Threat to International Security

  Please Somebody WAKE ME UP!!! (From this Nightmare)

   According to one report, greenhouse gases are rising at a faster rate than previously expected. Could this be a SERIOUS SIGN that our government needs to seriously consider GLOBAL WARMING as a SERIOUS (third time of using that word) THREAT?!! I think so!

   Did you know that Repugs in Congress once screamed their heads off and threw a fit about alleged long term ties between Halliburton and President Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War? Now, about 40 years later, they hypocritically criticize our guys for coming out against Lord Cheney’s ties with the same Corporation…shame.

   In comments recently made on his MSNBC show “Hardball”, Chris Matthews made the implication that our enemies around the world would somehow smile upon a Democratic takeover in Congress. He implied this when he said that they would look at such an event as a mandate against BOOsh’s war policies …. Or a mandate in favor of the enemy. Liberal Media?

   I swear I almost fell out of my seat during lunch break at work this past week when I read that Bob Ney is going to plead GUILTY to the charges of corruption in relation to Jack Abramoff. It is truly an incredible day. However, it is tragic as well. I do hope that Ney learns from this and repents of his actions, which would truly be the best first step to recovery that he could take.

   A recent study - which concluded that corporate monopolies of local news circuits diminishes the availability of trustworthy news – was ordered destroyed by BOOsh appointed leaders of the Federal Communications Commission…suppression of the First Amendment at its best!!

   Repug corruption in Congress have even disgusted fellow conservatives so much that they have come out in support of a GOP overthrow in November…that’s right, you heard me, Conservatives want conservatives OUT OF OFFICE!!

   More suppression of the First Amendment...BOOsh’s Imperial Military has been holding an Associated Press photographer in an Iraqi Prison with no official charges. To be exact, this is also ignoring the Sixth and Seventh Amendments as well as the Geneva Conventions…IMPEACH!!!

   The Pakistani Government – one of BOOsh’s key allies in his “War to Terrorize” – has announced that they will be backing down against the Taliban because of a peace agreement, in addition to stating that Bin Laden will not be captured by their government as long as he acts like a “peaceful citizen”!! So, we are not allowed to send our troops into Pakistan to get the Taliban and Bin laden, and Pakistan won’t help us get neither…How did BOOsh once define a nation as being an enemy of the US in this “war”? Why did we invade Afghanistan again? It is well known that the Afghan Insurgency uses Pakistan as a base, but now we just have to wait for them to attack from that country?!! Some ally…

   Never forget the fact that about 3 months prior to 9/11, the BOOsh Regime didn’t want to hear anything about terrorism. They preferred vacations and petty disputes over ANWR and Tax Cuts to dealing with our greatest threat before the worst attack our nation had ever seen from Terrorists!! ABC is lying to you, Clinton didn’t drop the ball, BOOsh was given the ball and he decided to pop it instead of put it in play.

   Along with ABCs deceitful miniseries called the “Path to 9/11”, Scholastic distributed “Guides” for High School teachers to give to their students to encourage them to watch the series and “discuss” what they have seen. It misleads students to think that Clinton is solely to blame for 9/11, that Iraq had something to do with 9/11 and possessed WMDs (both are contrary to the truth) prior to the war and that the 2003 Invasion was justified, it leads students to believe that Afghanistan has been a success despite reports of the rising insurgency and violence that has erupted as a result of BOOsh’s incompetent use of our military and winning the peace in that country (this also includes the fact that BOOsh’s Regime failed to destroy Afghanistan’s Narcotic Problem, effectively making it a powerful Narco-State). Furthermore, it attempts to convince viewers that the media – in observing their First Amendment right to free speech and free press – has become a hindrance to the “war to terrorize”. This is nothing less than an attempt to brainwash our youth and create a new generation of BOOshites!!

   Hell, do you remember when the Right Wing Media attacked the miniseries regarding Ronald Reagan in 2003 because of its falsehoods? Where the hell is the coverage regarding the outcry against the falsehoods of this new crap pile?!!

   Are you into solving puzzles? Well, solve this one for me if you can: 44 - or most of the - Repugs (and one DINO) voted against a measure in the Senate that would increase the Department of Defenses funding in fighting the trade of narcotics in Afghanistan. If you read up on this subject, you’ll find out some very important facts regarding this, warlords now control most of Afghanistan, the Taliban has – in the past – and still profits from the trade of illicit drugs from these warlords. Production of narcotics has jumped 50 percent in the past year alone!! All of this is due to BOOsh’s failure to destroy the drug infrastructure before it became a problem. Why? Mainly because it was a coalition of these Afghan Warlords that helped overthrow the Taliban. Beautiful… Read “State of War”…you really learn a lot about this matter…

   Conservative Radio Host Michael Savage stated that instead of teaching our children how to play sports, we should “militarize” them instead (to respond to the training of Arab kids in using AK-47s). Anyone else view this as being a sick idea? Who wants an army of 14, 13, 10, 8 year olds?!!

   BOOsh’s recent admission to violating international law with the rendition of detainees (around 14,000 to estimate) between various secret CIA prisons and torture-states has prompted the European Union to demand that the location of these prisons be revealed!! BOOsh’s lack of respect for the law (both American and International) is a grave threat to our relations with our nations, especially with the EU. Nice job, ass-mite!!

   As a result of the rising insurgency in Afghanistan; Darth Cheney has stated that we will be in that conflict for a long time. Of course, this is what they said about Iraq, because they have NO plan for winning the peace and getting our troops home, that’s what happens when you allow the Department of Defense to develop it’s own foreign policy while avoiding any role by the State Department in that field. (Remember that the State Department’s number one role is Foreign Policy, diplomacy)

   In the aftermath of 9/11, during that period of time when a large portion of the nation was paranoid towards all citizens of Arab descent, several people were arrested with reasons related to their ethnicity. Hell, the police – in some cases – actually arrested these people on false charges. It is just so sad to see how one event can lead to the destruction of so many liberties.

   In an act to defend America, the Syrian government thwarted an attempted terrorist attack against our embassy recently. Although the BOOsh Regime “thanked” the Syrians for their protection, they concluded addressing the matter by claiming that it didn’t improve our relations with Syria much….WTF?! How are we to gain allies with that kind of attitude? We’ll align with terrorist sympathizers in Pakistan but not with Syria? Hypocrisy…

   In other “fronts of the terror war”, the International Atomic Energy Agency recently declared the Repugs claims against Iran as “outrageous and dishonest”. Hmm, so, they are at it again? According to their report, the BOOsh Regime and their allies in Congress have been misleading the public regarding the their accusations that Iran has been enriching uranium to make WMDs. This must be an indictment of the Repug corruption in our government, BOOsh must be impeached…NOW!!!

   As I have mentioned on this site before, BOOsh is seeking to overturn the War Crimes Act of 1996 (passed by a Repug controlled Congress, BTW). What is his justification? The law and Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions are “too vague”. Bulls**t!! How come whenever it comes to obeying the law or acknowledging important briefings…they are too vague? Incompetence and corruption…plain and simple. Furthermore, BOOsh seemed angry as hell that Colin Powell was criticizing his policies. BOOsh wants to “protect” his cronies from prosecution for war crimes, but doesn’t seem to care that allowing such a thing won’t only jeopardize our image in the world, but would also endanger our own citizens abroad as well as our soldiers….of course, that’s one thing you can expect for the far right wing…they never think long term. It’s a lack of critical thought and historical perspective. Nothing could be more dangerous to our nation’s survival.

   Matt Lauer recently interviewed the Dictator and inquired about his CIA Secret Prisons in Europe and techniques. In response, BOOsh expressed his “confusion” as to why the prisons aren’t within the law, and would later express that he won’t discuss the detail of exactly what techniques are utilized to extract information from detainees in the secret prisons. Let me just say this, if a prison or any facility has to remain secret, then they aren’t only hiding stuff from the “enemy”. Something illegal is transpiring here, and BOOsh (along with his cronies) MUST be punished!!

   If you think that BOOsh and company like our First Amendment, then take a trip down memory lane to the week that followed 9/11 when a number of journalists were fired for writing/expressing opinions that BOOsh’s incompetence was to blame for the attacks. A quote from then-BOOsh Propaganda Secretary Ari Fleischer:

  “There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and that this is not a time for remarks like that. It never is.”

   As well as then Attorney General John Ashcroft: “We need honest, reasoned debate not fear mongering. To those who pit Americans against immigrants and citizens against non-citizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of goodwill to remain silent in the face of evil.”

   Isn’t awesome to have great patriots like these in our executive branch?!!

   The Senate has released a report that merely affirms what the CIA said last fall; there was NO LINK between Saddam and Al-Qaeda!! BOOsh lied to Congress, to the world…to his own people…plain and simple.

   Furthermore, the Senate also affirmed that Saddam saw al-Qaeda as a threat to his power, and would’ve taken “extreme steps” to ally with them against our country. This report underlines the facts that not did former CIA Director George Tenet usually “change” his position on Iraq-Terrorist ties in the lead up to war at the request of the Regime, but BOOsh’s people also ignored certain declassified reports that debunked their accusations of such ties (even one that came out the same day as BOOsh’s October 7^th, 2002 speech to Congress regarding the “ties”). Repugs are claiming that these reports are old news and in no way can be used as proof that BOOsh purposely misled us. Here’s my stance on this, if BOOsh isn’t guilty of purposely misleading us, then he IS guilty for purposely ignoring the incompetence of his Regime Cronies so that his policies couldn’t be discredited. He purposely fought tooth and nail for Rums-failed to stay on board despite all the evidence of his failures (coupled with the evidence of the fact that Rums-failed often ignored BOOsh’s demands to institute his own foreign policy – read “State of War”). Willful Ignorance can be just as dangerous as deceit, when you are the leader of a nation.

   Meanwhile, Repugs in Congress continue to distort the facts – and ignore the reports – while asserting that our “enemies” in Iraq are the “same people that attacked” on 9/11. They also continue to question our patriotism and claim that those opposed to Repug policies in this “war to terrorize” are guilty of wanting us to lose this war. Inexcusable. It should be known that a “war on terror” should be fought like the “war on poverty”, did President Lyndon B. Johnson start bombing our poorest after declaring that war? No, he attacked it with policies that were aimed at decreasing joblessness, hunger, and homelessness. A “war on terror” should be conducted as a “part two” of the “war on poverty”, but aimed at decreasing poverty in the third world, condemning – and not aligning with dictators (like in Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, etc.), condemning the acts of terror by both the terrorist groups and the Israeli government, and truly supporting a two state solution to the middle east crisis. That, not bombs, will defeat terror!!

   In a move that isn't likely to ease tensions in the Orient – not – a former government official of Japan has voiced his strong opinion that the Japanese should consider going nuclear after examining the surrounding nuclear powers in the region…that’s all we’d need…he even cited the possibility that his country and the US might not always be allies as being justification for such a movement…talk about paranoia.

   Four Iraq War veterans and one supporter were arrested at the Pentagon on September 11^th, 2006 while protesting the use of Depleted Uranium by our military. All four of the veterans are victims of this horrible weapon and were silenced because of this Regime’s hatred of our Constitutional Rights…how can you even think about blocking the voice of those that have sacrificed themselves for this country? It’s truly sickening!!

   It appears that many of our allies – including South Korea – are begging the US to not impose new sanctions on the DPRK, for fear of rising tensions on that peninsula. Hey, I’d take the South Koreans word for it, if sanctions would be bad, then – for the love of God – DON’T DO IT!! To the DPRK, sanctions equal “act of war”…remember that.

   Iran’s President has called for a “purge” of Liberal and Secular teachers in their universities. I movement against Liberalism and Secularism….hmmm…sounds like something right out of the Neo-Conservatives/Fundamentalists playbook!!

   Want to talk about suppression of a free press? How about the BOOsh Regime using our tax dollars to pay news outlets to spread propaganda against foreign governments? If we are to uphold the inherent right of all societies to a free press, then we must NOT take part in any act that will lead to actively bribing the media of ANY COUNTRY to deceive their viewing public regarding any government!!

  Tonight's Conclusion

   Too bad this isn't just a bad dream I could be woke up from huh? (Unless there is true progressive reform in November)

   Until next time...

  TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS

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