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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject: $300 Billion Terrorist Training Ground |
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$300 Billion Terrorist Training Ground
by Paul Craig Roberts
October 3, 2005
Capitol Hill Blue, the Washington DC publication that cultivates relationships with White House staffers, reports (September 28 ) one White House aide saying: "It’s like working in an insane asylum. People walk around like they’re in a trance. We’re the dance band on the Titanic, playing out our last songs to people who know the ship is sinking and none of us are going to make it."
"If POTUS is on the road, you can breathe a little easier," says an aide. Otherwise it is one temper tantrum after another from Bush, whose "cakewalk war" has turned into interminable conflict, whose idiocy in diverting funding for New Orleans’ levees to war in Iraq was disastrous for the famous city, and whose Social Security privatization has been rejected by the electorate.
Even rah-rah Republican Newt Gingrich says the White House is surrounded by failure.
No member of the White House staff wants to deliver news to Bush, because the news is bad. Bush demands sycophancy and equates bad news with disagreement and disloyalty.
Little wonder that Republican minority token Condi Rice was dispatched to Princeton last week to inform the university that democracy comes out of the barrel of a gun. US military force, said the secretary of state with a straight face, is required to force democracy down the throats of the Muslims in order to save future American generations from "insecurity and fear."
Condi obviously doesn’t want Bush to put her in the "against us" camp. She told Princeton that she agreed with Bush "that the root cause of September 11 was the violent expression of a global extremist ideology, an ideology rooted in the oppression and despair of the modern Middle East."
Every American should be scared to death that a secretary of state can make such an ignorant and propagandistic statement.
Many Middle Eastern countries are ruled by puppets on the American payroll. Even the Saudis are under American protection. If there is oppression in the Middle East, it is because US puppets and protectorates are doing what the US government wants, not what the people they rule want.
The Middle East is in despair because almost a century after the First World War freed Arabs from Turkish occupation, they still cannot get free of US and British occupation. The reasons Osama bin Laden has a cause among Muslims are US military bases in the Middle East and the genocide that Israel practices toward Palestine by stealing the West Bank and herding Palestinians into ghettos.
What kind of fool believes that the way to bring democracy to a country is to invade, destroy cities and infrastructure, and kill and maim tens of thousands of civilians, while creating every possible animosity by aligning with some members of the society against the others?
Condi Rice’s speech at Princeton has branded her as the greatest fool ever to be appointed Secretary of State. The same day that she declared, Mao-like, that democracy comes out of the barrel of a gun, Lt. Gen. William Odom, Director of the National Security Agency during President Reagan’s second term, a scholar with a distinguished career in military intelligence, declared Bush’s invasion of Iraq to be the "greatest strategic disaster in United States history."
No one can impugn Gen. Odom’s patriotism. When I wrote on April 1, 2003, that "the U.S. invasion of Iraq is a strategic blunder," the hate mail poured in from bloody-minded Bush supporters, who assured me that the war would be over in one week. Only a liberal pinko Bush-hating commie could fail to see that the war was won, they jeered.
Two and one-half years later with rising casualties and instability, no one can dispute Gen. Odom. As all news reports make clear, there is no trained Iraqi army. Consequently, says the US commander in Iraq, the hopes that some US troops could be withdrawn next spring is forlorn.
The Democratic Party is no help. Its warmongers are pushing legislation to increase the available US troops by 80,000 in order that the US can keep the war going in Iraq.
These troops, too, will perish in the interminable conflict.
Meanwhile the US, which cannot occupy Baghdad or control the road to the airport, is making more threats against Syria. The Bush administration is blaming Syria and Iran for its failure in Iraq. "Our patience is running out," declared US ambassador to Iraq Zaimay Khalilzad.
The Israelis have told their US puppet that if the US doesn’t use force to destroy Iran’s nuclear energy programs, then Israel will undertake to bomb Iran. This despite the announcement by the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency that two years of unfettered access to Iran’s nuclear programs has failed to turn up any sign of a weapons program.
When will Americans notice that the threats flow from the US to the Middle East? No Middle Eastern government has made any threat against the US or initiated any hostile action. In contrast, the US has invaded two Middle Eastern countries and is threatening to attack two more.
Terrorism is not an activity of Muslim states. Osama bin Laden is a Saudi who dares not return to his homeland.
Most Muslim states are too impotent to stamp out independent terrorists and too fearful that terrorist networks will be organized against them. Ignorant US officials equate weakness with intention and demonize Middle Eastern governments, including our own puppets and protectorates, as "state sponsors of terrorism." Isn’t it ironic? The US damns vulnerable Middle Eastern rulers for not stamping out terrorism when all the troops and violence the US can muster cannot stamp out terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The implication of a recent CIA report is that the US itself is a state sponsor of terrorism. According to the CIA, the US invasion of Iraq has created a terrorist training ground for al Qaeda where no previous terrorists existed. The US is creating more terrorists in Iraq than the rest of the Middle East together. Why is President Bush spending $300 billion running a terrorist training ground in Iraq?
Why does Condi Rice think that democracy would wipe away the hatreds that the US and Israel have created in the Middle East? How does she know that Middle Eastern democracy would not uphold terrorism against Israel and the US? In the US democracy is upholding an illegal war based on deceit. In Israel democracy is upholding genocidal practices against the Palestinians. Does Condi Rice really believe that democracy, a mere political form, insures that people and their governments never behave wrongly, immorally, or violently?
If America is going to preach democracy, shouldn’t it lead by example? According to all the polls, the vast majority of Americans do not agree with Bush and Rice that democracy comes out of the barrel of an American gun. They do not support Bush’s goal of using American blood and treasure to force democracy on the Middle East or anywhere else. The majority of Americans want the war over and the troops home. Why do Bush and Condi Rice oppose the will of the majority? Why don’t these two who preach democracy practice it?
The Bush administration is the administration of deceit and hypocrisy. It is the antithesis of democracy. All democracy rests on persuasion, which implies disagreement. Yet, Bush and Condi regard dissent as disloyalty. They glorify coercion.
They believe in their will alone. Where have we seen that before?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts125.html
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| They believe in their will alone. Where have we seen that before? |
I do believe some famous person said that....lol
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US military force, said the secretary of state with a straight face, is required to force democracy down the throats of the Muslims in order to save future American generations from "insecurity and fear."
"that the root cause of September 11 was the violent expression of a global extremist ideology, an ideology rooted in the oppression and despair of the modern Middle East." |
I don't know which is more disturbing: that Candi believes this nonsense, or that by speaking at Princeston University it gives the appearance to the average Joe that intellectuals endorse her assinine comments. 
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She was 100% right about that. Can anybody say "New World Disorder"?
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People STILL aren't waking up though. They just don't get it. The people in the US are so used to having everything handled for them, and having their opinions given to them on the news that they will never get it. WWIII is on it's way and I doubt the US will survive this time as a country.
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I believe the word is "Cattle" and they've been branded. 
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| People STILL aren't waking up though. They just don't get it. The people in the US are so used to having everything handled for them, and having their opinions given to them on the news that they will never get it. WWIII is on it's way and I doubt the US will survive this time as a country. |
Or maybe, just maybe, a single dude from the side of the true america will redeem the US in the eyes of the world, stop WW3, and bring back the old red white and blue for the guys who fought for it back in the day, unwhittingly of course.
Or maybe he knew what he was doing the whole time?
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| People STILL aren't waking up though. They just don't get it. The people in the US are so used to having everything handled for them, and having their opinions given to them on the news that they will never get it. WWIII is on it's way and I doubt the US will survive this time as a country. |
Or maybe, just maybe, a single dude from the side of the true america will redeem the US in the eyes of the world, stop WW3, and bring back the old red white and blue for the guys who fought for it back in the day, unwhittingly of course.
Or maybe he knew what he was doing the whole time? |
YOU?
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| Rev. Adam wrote: |
| People STILL aren't waking up though. They just don't get it. The people in the US are so used to having everything handled for them, and having their opinions given to them on the news that they will never get it. WWIII is on it's way and I doubt the US will survive this time as a country. |
Or maybe, just maybe, a single dude from the side of the true america will redeem the US in the eyes of the world, stop WW3, and bring back the old red white and blue for the guys who fought for it back in the day, unwhittingly of course.
Or maybe he knew what he was doing the whole time? |
YOU? |
Yep.
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| People STILL aren't waking up though. They just don't get it... they will never get it. |
They're not...? They won't...?
Take heart. Rekindle hope. Check this out:
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AP Poll: Only 28% Say Country On Right Track
Bush Approval Hits New Low
POSTED: 5:43 pm EDT October 7, 2005
UPDATED: 6:23 pm EDT October 7, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Questions about the country's direction have President George W. Bush's poll numbers falling again.
An Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows only 28 percent of those surveyed say the nation is headed in the right direction, while nearly seven out of 10 say it's on the wrong track.
It's more bad news for the president, whose job approval of 39 percent remains at the lowest level of his time in office.
MORE>> http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/5072643/detail.html |
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Bush Poll Numbers Hit New Low As He Loses Independents
by Joe Gandelman
If George Bush's previous poll low numbers reached the "floor" during Hurricane Katrina and later went up after an improved federal response to Hurricane Rita, perhaps you can now say his latest numbers are going into the basement:
(CBS) This CBS News Poll finds an American public increasingly pessimistic about the economy, the war in Iraq, the overall direction of the country, and the President. Americans' outlook for the economy is the worst it has been in four years. Most expect the price of gas to rise even further in the next few months.
A growing number of Americans want U.S. troops to leave Iraq as soon as possible, rather than stay the course, and the highest percentage ever thinks the U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq. When given a set of options for paying for rebuilding the hurricane-racked Gulf Coast, only one — taking money from the Iraq War — gets majority support.
President George W. Bush's overall job approval rating has reached the lowest ever measured in this poll, and evaluations of his handling of Iraq, the economy and even his signature issue, terrorism, are also at all-time lows. More Americans than at any time since he took office think he does not share their priorities.
The public's concerns affect their view of the state of the country. 69 percent of Americans say things in the U.S. are pretty seriously off on the wrong track — the highest number since CBS News started asking the question in 1983. Today, just 26 percent say things are going in the right direction.
And, worse for GWB, this poll confirms an ongoing trend: the administration is holding its partisan GOPers fairly well, but independents are running away in droves:
President Bush's job approval rating has fallen to his lowest rating ever. 37 percent now approve of the job he is doing as president, while 58 percent disapprove.
Those in his own party are still overwhelmingly positive about his performance (nearly 80 percent approve), but the president receives little support from either Democrats or Independents. And while views of President Bush have lately not changed much among Republicans or Democrats, his approval rating among Independents has dropped 11 points since just last month, from 40 percent to 29 percent now.
Note that Karl Rove, in a masterstroke (or Machiavellian stroke, depending on your perspective) used a "general mobilization" strategy in the last presidential election where his number one priority was to appeal to the party's base and get it out to vote. In most other elections there has usually been a conscious effort to woo independents and centrists. Rove gave a new meaning to the phrase "base politics."
Even so, Bush picked up many votes from independents, centrists and Democrats who didn't trust John Kerry or who were turned off by the historically inept campaign run by his campaign manager Bob (I-Usually-Lose-National-Elections-I-Run) Shrum.
The problem for Bush: his polls' trending continues now to be generally downward.
MORE>> http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1128667313.shtml |
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Bush Poll Numbers Continue to Be Low
The latest Associated Press-Ipso poll shows that President Bush's job approval rating continues to be an at all-time low. The poll results say that people are concerned about the ongoing war in Iraq, gasoline prices, the economy and the cost of rebuilding after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
The poll found that only 28 percent of those surveyed believe that the country is heading in the right direction while 66 percent say the nation is on the wrong track.
MORE>> http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2005/Oct/EEN4346d86d19b20.html |
You're simply hanging with the wrong people, Rev. Adam...and it's wearin' ya down.
I'm packin' my bags and getting out of DUMFUCKISTAN before next hurricane season...you might consider same, for your own spiritual and mental health.
I'm not kidding.
Get the hell outta Dodge and find some "real" people... not the baseball cap wearing, pickup truck driving morons who think Budweiser is a real beer. 
Save yourself, man!
Follow your bliss,
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No, no....I don't hang out with them. I just run into them everywhere I go, and I quite enjoy trying to change their minds. They're the one's that get bent out of shape over it, not me, lol! I run my mouth off about the current state of affairs to everyone I see....it's fun because the majority don't even know the names of the people I'm talkin about unless I say BUSH, then they get offended, hehe.
I have often thought about leaving here to go stay near Roger in Hawaii, believe it or not. If I could afford the move for my family, and afford to start my business up again I'd do it right away. Maybe once I actually grow a business here, I'll have the money to move to the islands where cannabis isn't persecuted so heavily. I think it would be very nice to see the rainforest, the volcanoes, etc....wait.....volcanoes!
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....wait.....volcanoes!
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Oh...I think some protective eye-wear and thick sole shoes will get the trick done...
Think roasted marshmellows and s'mores! Don't forget the Johnsonville Brats!
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No, no....I don't hang out with them. I just run into them everywhere I go, and I quite enjoy trying to change their minds. They're the one's that get bent out of shape over it, not me, lol! I run my mouth off about the current state of affairs to everyone I see....it's fun because the majority don't even know the names of the people I'm talkin about unless I say BUSH, then they get offended, hehe.
I have often thought about leaving here to go stay near Roger in Hawaii, believe it or not. If I could afford the move for my family, and afford to start my business up again I'd do it right away. Maybe once I actually grow a business here, I'll have the money to move to the islands where cannabis isn't persecuted so heavily. I think it would be very nice to see the rainforest, the volcanoes, etc....wait.....volcanoes! |
Yeah, the volcano is pretty cool!
After a 6 mile walk (round trip..and it's 'lava miles') you can find a stream of people hanging out around a lava flow that creeps towards the sea at around an average speed of 10-20 feet per hour. And hot!? You can't stand closer than ten feet to it without getting singed!
The flow right now is about 8 miles from the volcano (Pu`u O`o, an offshoot of Kilauea Volcano) and has been adding new land to the island for 22 years now.
Check THIS out.
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lol !
i love your style bro.mystic.pure class !
quote "I'm packin' my bags and getting out of DUMFUCKISTAN "
shit. i had no idea you were in england !get out fast man.run , swim , fly do what you have to , but for fuck sake get far away from this gang of loons.
personaly i favour county Cork in Ireland.them old geezers up in those hills tend to shoot at anything in a uniform on sight.i sort of like their attitude.
no cameras on the street , no helicopters buzzing the house at 3 am , no assholes in uniforms telling me how to live , no brits , acres of green rolling hills warmed by the gulf stream , dancing , singing , beer , organic food , hundreds of Americans who escaped from the planes shipping them to Iraq and buckets of fresh green cannabis.
ahhhhhh paradise.
beautiful world we live in , what a shame a handfull of assholes are destroying it.
PEACE.
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