Obama Looking for ‘Off-Ramps’ Out of Afghanistan

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George’s Bottom Line

November 11, 2009

That’s what he wants to “drill down” on in what is likely to be the President’s final meeting with his war counsel today.

One close aide explained that Obama “wants to see more intellectual energy” focused on how this mission ends, saying that the President has insisted that “we’re not going to be in Afghanistan for another 8 years.”

Another said that Obama wants a clear picture of the “American bridge” out of Afghanistan. He doesn’t have it yet.  He’s not satisfied with what he’s heard so far. The President will press for answers today.

Angry at Monday’s CBS report (and the military sources who seem to be pushing it) that the President has already settled on an option that would send almost all the troops Gen. McChrystal has requested for Afghanistan, aides insist that Obama has not told anyone what he wants to do – and that he’s likely to continue to mull his options as he travels across Asia over the next 8 days. …

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/11/obama-looking-for-offramps-out-of-afghanistan.html

President Obama is not looking for a “100 year war”. An “end-game” is being sought for all the wars “nursed” by the neocons. A plan is incomplete if it is missing the “end game”.

The neocons put the Afghanistan war on the back-burner while they started their new Iraq war. Neocons love wars. The Afghanistan war was automated so as not to put too heavy a troop demand on a system that depended upon voluntary troop enlisting. Although they loved wars, they did not dare raise the specter of restarting the draft.

So, the neocons sent the troops to their new Iraq war and the drones to Afghanistan. The drones came – they saw and they fired. Surely there was at least one terrorist in that large gathering of men, women and children.

It is unlikely that an American – visiting Afghanistan would choose to be near a large gathering of Afghanistan people – because drones don’t detect terrorists “too good”.

With drones fighting the Afghanistan war, no serious “end game” thinking was necessary.

And joejolly figured out a possible “end game” for the Iraq war.  joejolly figured that the Iraq war would end:

When the last barrel of Iraqi oil was sold Or when the last American soldier – standing in Iraq – fell.

The neocons are in a class by themselves.

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Cocaine Vs Opium: Which is the Better ‘Product’?

Is it better for a government to sell its citizens cocaine or opium? The question pits America’s neocons against the Taliban. News accounts say both have used proceeds from those recreational drugs to help fund a war.

While the Taliban’s position is one of a struggling group trying to fund a government – the neocon’s position was one of leadership of the most powerful country on earth.

What could motivate an American political party – comfortably seated at the head of America’s government – to stoop so low? The neocons are, and have always been in a class  by themselves.

Legal, ethical and moral constraints – felt by the majority of Americans don’t impact all Americans equally. Those who are motivated mainly by opportunity, may well hold opportunity in high esteem – with less emphasis on behavior constraints that might delay or prevent that opportunity. The idea of doing “what one can get away with” may bubble to the top when an opportunity knocks.

In the 80’s the neocons got away with what they are currently accusing the Taliban of doing. That is a peculiarity of the neocons. They are IN-DENIAL about their own bad behavior as they “slam” others for that same bad behavior.

The neocons are in a class by themselves!

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House Approves Sweeping Health Care Bill, Now All Eyes on Senate

Obama Tells Democrats This Is a ‘Big Moment in History’

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By JONATHAN KARL, RACHEL MARTIN and TEDDY DAVIS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2009

Democrats in the House of Representatives narrowly passed sweeping health care reform legislation Saturday night, with only one Republican joining in the vote and the minority party nearly unanimous in its opposition.

“Oh what a night!” Speaker Nancy Pelosi proudly proclaimed at a press conference immediately following passage of the health care bill.

The vote passed 220-215 with 39 Democrats voting against the bill, and one Republican supporting the sweeping plan, Rep. Joseph Cao, a first-term Republican who holds an overwhelmingly Democratic seat in New Orleans. A whoop went up on the Democratic side of the chamber when the vote exceeded the 218 majority needed to pass and when the final tally was read. Democrats counted down the last few seconds in unison as Pelosi banged the gavel and boomed the standard line with added emphasis, “The bill is passed!” tally was read. Democrats counted down the last few seconds in unison as Pelosi banged the gavel and boomed the standard line with added emphasis, “The bill is passed!” …

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nancy-pelosi-democrats-pass-sweeping-health-care-reform/story?id=9027367

Perhaps America is about to take action on a problem that has been spiraling out of control for many years.

President Harry S. Truman, some 60 or so years ago, brought the problem of health care to America’s attention. While America was “world class” in a lot of areas, the delivery of health care services to its population fell way short. He pointed out that America’s health care services needed to be improved – especially for America’s children. Some adults claim – children are our future.

But that appeal fell on deft ears. America still has millions of children and adults who do not make much of a demand on America’s health care services. Republicans have pointed out that the additional load on America’s health care system would make it worse for those who are currently receiving the benefits of America’s health care system. And that scare tactic triggered vocal reactions from Americans and ugly Americans.

But the health care industry took note of the opposition to changing the status-quo.

It takes a lot of money to conduct a political campaign. And the “goodwill” of one politician can represent the goodwill of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of individual voters. So, the Blue Dogs got the notice of the health care industry.

Still, Nancy Pelosi and her United States House of Representatives have done themselves, and America – proud. They have given America a chance to deliver quality health care services to all American citizens. That should make three American Presidents proud – President Harry S. Truman, President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama.

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Rice: People will soon thank Bush for what he’s done

The then Secretary of State was quoted as saying: “People will soon  thank Bush for what he’s done”

As time passes, memories do fade. Given enough time America’s memory of what Mr. Bush did to America may fade and perhaps America may see Mr. Bush in a softer light. America may become reconciled to the quality of the work performance of the latter-day neocons. And that should will shall be a sad day for America.

Lowering the  performance bar in many areas of political endeavor seems easy when the resume appears to be more tuned to political ideology than to performance skills. There were many areas in which the latter-day neocons contributed performance skills whose results turned out to be way less than desirable.

Climate Control:

In an attempt to manage the news about climate change, the Bush team’s man at NASA had discourse with a NASA weather scientist. The weather scientist, not accustomed to this kind of interference from his government, went public with the Bush team’s interference.

Of course, this kind of government behavior was not meant to be publicized so the Bush team’s man left his position with NASA. But prior to leaving, he was quoted as saying – his job was to make the President look good.

Missing, lost or unaccounted-for Iraq war weapons

The case of the missing Iraq war weapons pitted excellent performance skills against political party ideology and performance skills lost – big time.

The pre-2006 neocon Congress cut funding to those auditors who discovered and “TOLD AMERICA” about the missing Iraq war weapons. And of course – we not “talkin” two or three weapons – we “talkin” 190,000 Iraqi war weapons – enough war weapons to outfit an army.

The post 2006 Congress(Democratic control)  restored funding to those auditors.

The Iraq war

[Mr. Bush had said he hoped to be remembered as a liberator of the Iraqi people but the “two-shoe presentation” to Mr. Bush by an Iraqi journalist seemed to have ruled out wide acceptance of Mr. Bush as a liberator.]

Americans could hardly thank Mr. Bush for what he has done without considering thanking Mr. Bush for the center-piece of the Bush administration – the Iraq war.

The Iraq war stood out as something quite different from other wars that engulfed the world. While no wars are mirror images of each other, the Iraq war stood out because it was an effect that had no cause.

“NOBODY DON’T KNOW WHY THE IRAQ WAR STARTED”.

It is difficult to thank Mr. Bush for his Iraq war without knowing why he started it.

The “weapons of mass destruction” assertion, though accepted by America’s Congress, failed the validity test conducted by the minds of the world’s humanity. The Bush team’s assertion, fueled by those 16 words spoken in 2003, were backed by a “document” held by the British government who records say was somewhat reluctant to release the “document”. But the “document” did get into the hands of the United Nations’ IAEA. And the rest is history.

The document, once in the hands of the United Nations’ IAEA, was quickly proved to be a phony.

The whole shenanigan could have easily qualified as an “APRIL FOOL’S” joke – if a real war had not been started using that phony document as a cause – thus making the Iraq war an effect that had no cause.  But the Bush team did elevate TERRORISM to the world’s conscience while bogged down in fighting the Iraqi war. Some took the shift to world terrorism as the cause of the Iraq war but that was not announced by the one  who spoke those 16 words – thus depriving America of  a CAUSE for the Iraq war.

Spying on Americans

The neocons seems to have worked under a basic terror suspect premise – all America was a terror suspect. The neocons’  terror hunting program brought the communications conversations of  200 million Americans into focus. It is still a fair question to ask – who hurt America the most – terrorists or terror fighters.

The electronic communications of 200 million Americans may have come under the watchful eyes and ears of the neocon government. Does that not sound stupid?

Practically all of America was a terror suspect.  The neocons, who really never demonstrated much of a talent for doing quality work – selected this huge task as their work target. And, as with their Iraq war plan, they spent much time reacting to the execution of the plan after it became public.

America’s FISA court would likely have told the neocons that eves-dropping on the electronic communications of two-thirds of America was a  FISHING expedition. And that is ILLEGAL! That possible response from the FISA court is likely why the neocons never asked the FISA court’s permission to do what they did.

And now it seems like the neocons, since 1980, have filled a Pandora’s box full of activities that must never ever see the “light of day”.

It will likely take a team of historians and archaeologists to dig up America’s neocon history. That history will range from selling cocaine to street gangs in minority neighborhoods of Los Angeles to brutal treatment of detainees connected to terrorism.

It is extremely difficult to believe that America will ever “thank Bush for what he has done”. Some of what Mr. Bush has done ought to interest the World Court. Many years passed but a Peruvian leader was asked to appear in world court. It is my understanding that some things done to humanity have no statute of limitations.

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Unfettered Access to War?

When one believes he is the strongest man on earth, he might issue a “bring it on” to those he opposes.

During the twenty-four year leadership history of America’s neocons, the question: “Are wars natural to man?” may have “crossed the mind” of those who observed the neocon leadership. There have been wars in the world’s history. The neocons seem “predisposed” to war.

But there is an observation that says trade was a significant activity of early man. Wars were not ruled out but they were not necessarily on the “front burner”:

Live Science

History

Peace or War? How Early Humans Behaved

By Heather Whipps, Special to LiveScience

posted: 16 March 2006

Depending on which journals you’ve picked up in recent months, early humans were either peace-loving softies or war-mongering buffoons.

Which theory is to be believed?

The newest claim concerns Australopithecus afarensis, who lived approximately five million years ago and is one of the first hominids that can be linked directly to our lineage with some certainty. Hardly an expert at tearing other animals limb from limb, scientists say the small and furry creature likely spent most of its time avoiding becoming the lunch of those saber-toothed mammals you see in natural history museums today.

That’s a far cry from the spear-wielding image most of the public has of our earliest ancestors, Robert Sussman of Washington University told an audience at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last month.

“I think that the ‘Man the Hunter’ model is so popular because it fits into Western thought so easily. Western humans (especially men) like to think of themselves as completely in charge of their surroundings,” Sussman told LiveScience. …

http://www.livescience.com/history/060316_peace_violence.html

The neocons put wars on their front burner. The original neocon(1980) adopted a war in South America because they had not yet started their own war. That would come later – during the rein of the latter-day neocons.

The adopted South American jungle war brought out many of the traits of the neocons: respect for America’s laws, respect for humanity, and the concept of  human decency were all revealed – early-on by the original neocon who was then leading America.

America had long been a respected world leader – with millions of its citizens contributing toward an American success in national politics, national economics, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, respect for America’s laws and world-class American technology.

But then came the neocons – perhaps in two phases, with a demolition phase preceding a construction phase? After 24 years of neocon “leadership”, the demolition phase could be considered a “smashing” success.

But wars are the center-piece of the neocons contribution to America and the world. While the original neocon(circa 1980) did not start his own war, he was able to get involved:

When the American voter balked at paying “mo money” for the neocons adopted war, traditional neocon problem solving sprang to the front. They studied the problem. Some reported lights burning, for long hours,  in the “basement” of the White House. Finally, EUREKA!

One solution to the money problem was to sell cocaine to gang members of Los Angeles minority neighborhoods. That might not go against the grain of a political party that would use caging to win elections.

When one is above the law, as apparently the neocons are, there are fewer constraints on solutions to problems. One might even be able to sell cocaine in minority neighborhoods after warning television land’s boys and girls:  “boys and girls at home do not try that government trick”.

So, the original neocons(circa 1980) sold cocaine to their own people in order to fund a distant war in the jungles of South America.

How low can they go?

Lower depths were plumbed when the neocons started their own war. The neocons pulled out all stops in their quest for an Iraq war. Americans marching in the streets got called “fascist sympathizers”. That neocon should have looked up the meaning of the word “fascist” before using it.

One ex-member of the CIA called the Bush team’s desire to go to war with Iraq – policy. But, of course, the Bush team did not want something like that to show. So, the Bush team was in the “market” for evidence of a Niger-Iraq uranium connection.

IF THEIR IS A BUYER A SELLER WILL SOON FOLLOW.

If it becomes known, in certain shadowy markets, that a deep pocketed buyer is looking for something – it is likely that the something will soon come forward.

It became known that the Bush team needed evidence of a uranium oxide sale between Niger and Iraq. And WALLA, the evidence was provided.

The “evidence” was an inaccurate fraud but it served the purpose of giving traction to the Iraq war. The office of President of the United States of America spoke those 16 words about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and America’s Congress believed.

Sometimes an office is larger than the person occupying the office.

The Christian Bible speaks of wars and rumors of wars. It must have had the neocons in mind.

The latter-day neocons have certainly brought their own war to the world. And their saber rattling continued after the start of their war. Even when a war belonged to others, the neocons showed up with a battleship in tow and with promises of money for one of the countries involved.

The neocons’ grabbed outer space. And the Chinese military shot down one of their old satellites -  without first getting permission from the neocons. Afterward the neocons sent battleships that attempted to dock in Hong Kong. Both battleships were denied. Apparently the neocons thought it unwise to do a forced docking.

But in the war games arena neither Britain, nor France nor Russia, nor Germany nor Japan … have suggested a “nuclear” solution to the Middle East problem.  Has anyone?

Imagine going to sleep at night knowing that the neocons had the authority to launch a nuke strike on their own:

Thaindian News

US Prez has authority to launch nuke strike without anyones permission: Cheney

December 22nd, 2008 – 2:15 pm ICT by ANI

Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): US Vice President Dick Cheney has said that aggressive prosecution of the War on Terror was a major reason that the nation hasnt been attacked in seven years of Bush Administrations rule, adding that President George W Bush has the authority to launch a nuclear strike the world has never seen.

In an interview to FOX News, Cheney, a 40-year veteran of Washington politics, tried to straighten out a few misconceptions about his tenure and the way the executive and legislative branches are supposed to work.

He said the 1973 War Powers Act is a violation of the Constitution because Congress does not have the right by statute to alter presidential constitutional power.

That it is an infringement on the presidents authority as the Commander-in-Chief. It has never been resolved, but I think its a very good example of a way in which Congress has tried to limit the presidents authority and, frankly, cant, Cheney said.

The president of the United States now for 50 years is followed at all times, 24 hours a day, by a military aide carrying a football that contains the nuclear codes that he would use and be authorized to use in the event of a nuclear attack on the US. He could launch the kind of devastating attack the world has never seen.

He doesn”t have to check with anybody. He doesn”t have to call the Congress. He doesn”t have to check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in, Cheney added.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/us-prez-has-authority-to-launch-nuke-strike-without-anyones-permission-cheney_100133759.html

“He doesn”t have to check with anybody. He doesn”t have to call the Congress. He doesn”t have to check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in, Cheney added”.

The above words, spoken during any America administration “save one”, would not sound scary.

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Voodoo Economics at Work!

Voodoo Economics can transform a healthy economy into a recession within three years!

The neocons, by and large, appeared to be true adherents to Reaganomics – known by many as Voodoo Economics. Voodoo economics appears strange even at the common sense level. The implementation of voodoo economics by the neocons focuses mainly on TAX CUTS. “Nobody never heard” the neocons focus on a balanced budget – “nobody never did”.

Was the four pillars of Reaganomics a ruse to provide a gift to the supporters of a political party? In practice, why has there been little or no focus, by the neocons, on a balanced budget? If a political party can’t balance a budget in 24 years, then it is reasonable to suspect a defect in the tool used to get and maintain a balanced budget. If the defect is not in the tool, then the defect must be somewhere else.

Of course there could be multiple defects but it is reasonable to suspect a defect in tool first.

Voodoo economics fails the balancing the budget test if the four pillars of voodoo economics  are not managed as a set. This idea is detectable at the common sense level. The strange thing about voodoo economics is its defects, though detectable at the common sense level, seems to have evaded detection. How is that possible? One does not need a foundation in economics 101 – just common sense.

You don’t need a course in “Economics 101” to know that Voodoo Economics is a “crap(I hate that word) shoot”. It is an extremely high risk operation for a country’s treasury while a “blessing” for the wealthy with its TAX CUT feature.

The tax cut control is the MASTER control for the economy. If the economy is good and stable, cut taxes to improve upon that condition. If the economy is in the dumps and descending – cut taxes to change the descending to ascending. Managing an economy becomes a cinch when using the tax cut tool – so they seem to think.

Tax cutting and deregulation are only two of the four major “controls” the neocons used to “regulate” the economy of America. But there are four major “pillars” in the neocons’ voodoo economics. A fifth-grader, looking at those four major pillars would likely declare: “You must do them as a set or you are asking for BIG TROUBLE”.

Who, of sound mind and body, could look at the below four “pillars” and declare them disconnected standalones?

Reaganomics (a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey^[1]) refers to the economic policies promoted by United States President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. The four pillars of Reagan’s economic policy were to:^[2]

1. reduce the growth of government spending,
2. reduce income and capital gains marginal tax rates,
3. reduce government regulation of the economy,
4. control the money supply to reduce inflation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_economics

The neocons settled on “BIG TROUBLE” because in no way were they going to control government spending. There were too many thrilling wars to fight to even think about putting a control on government spending. So, the neocons settled for a decreasing revenue base while its spending continued to grow.

The below graph of the national debt as a percent of gross domestic product reminds one of the output of a sorting program asked to sort on “neocons”. The neocons stand out. They are in a class by themselves. They are not Republican centrists; they are not Republican conservatives; they are Republican new conservatives now calling themselves Republican conservatives – perhaps to escape their branding as neocons.

Take a look at the below graph:

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

It is too soon to replace the established traditions of the real Republican conservatives with the far-right train-wrecks of the neocons .

You know the real Republican conservative traditions I refer to. Ex-President Eisenhower, who might blush if he said a “bad word” in front of a lady was replaced by a neocon government involved in the revealing of the covert status of a lady CIA employee. The neocons have frequently functioned better against their own citizens than they have functioned against their declared enemies – terrorists.

And under the neocon rein, the CIA has morphed into something -something -  not us.

From selling cocaine to American citizens in order to support a war in the jungles of South America  to barbaric treatment of terror detainees, the CIA is now a monster in its own right. It is an autonomous organization operating in the middle of a “first class” democracy. The CIA is now SO bad that it can’t be investigated. Opening Pandora’s box may be preferable to opening an investigation into the CIA – the CIA  that the neocons invented.

The CIA is now untouchable. The neocons have left America with a string of untouchables(don’t even think of Mr. Ness) or you could call them secrets. And here is how it all started:

On This Day: Reagan Endorses CIA Support of Nicaraguan Contras

November 23, 2008 06:00 AM

by finding Dulcinea Staff

On Nov. 23, 1981, President Ronald      Reagan provided the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency with $19 million in military aid to support guerrilla groups fighting Nicaragua’s Sandinista government; the decision led to the 1986 Iran-Contra affair. …

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/international/On-this-Day-Reagan-Gave-CIA-Authority-to-Establish-the-Contras.html

The neocons’ continued use of voodoo economics reminds one of kicking a dead horse – to death. Voodoo economics, as a viable tool to administer a country’s economy, is dead. Even a scientist, working the voodoo economics model in a clean-room, would have trouble working with that model. That model would require too much attention.

Neocons are of the “lassie faire” type – not prone to pay too much attention to the day-to-day business of operating an economy. Their “oversight” of the financial industry produced more financial “crooks” than America has seen in quite some time. Where did the “ill gotten” funds go?

Did any of the “ill gotten funds” wind up in Middle East silos containing devices that the UN’s IAEA don’t know nothing about?

Did  Voodoo Economics ever reach the party to whom it was speaking?

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‘09 Exit Polls: Voters Wary of Economy, Obama Not a Factor

Discontent Voters Heavily Favored Republicans in VA, NJ Races

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The Polling Unit

ANALYSIS By GARY LANGER

Nov 3, 2009

Vast economic discontent marked the mood of Tuesday’s off-year voters, portending potential trouble for incumbents generally and Democrats in particular in 2010. Still the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey looked less like a referendum on Barack Obama than a reflection of their own candidates and issues.

The gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey looked less like a referendum on Barack Obama than a reflection of their own candidates and issues. Still, the two Republican victories, in predominantly Democratic New Jersey and in purple Virginia, had to smart.

Just under half the voters in Virginia, 48 percent, approved of the way Obama is handling his job, rising to 57 percent in New Jersey. Most in both states, in any case, said the president was not a factor in their vote.

Perhaps most striking were economic views: A vast 89 percent in New Jersey and 85 percent in Virginia said they were worried about the direction of the nation’s economy in the next year; 56 percent and 53 percent, respectively, said they were “very” worried about it. …

http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/election-2009-virginia-jersey-exit-polls-obama-economy/story?id=8984551

What political party is responsible for the current state of America’s economy? And how did that political party manage that state?

There are obvious answers to the above questions but for those who have trouble coming up with decisive answers, let us revisit a little common sense and a little history.

A Little Common Sense:

A stitch in time saves nine. I believe most Americans would have no trouble understanding and using those six words. Those six words suggests that the sooner one responds to a problem, the less likely the problem will grow into something bigger. There is, of course, no assurance but common sense would suggest “getting as earlier a start as possible”.

A Little History:

April 22, 2008

UPDATE 1 – Bush: U.S. economy not in recession, in slowdown

December, 2007

Business Cycle Dating Committee

Determination of the December 2007 Peak in Economic Activity

For what reason, did the leader of a country facing dire economic consequences, not EVER tell America it was in a RECESSION? The start of the recession enjoys the same anonymity as the start of the Iraq war.

So, what was the delay for? A stitch in time might have saved nine. But it looked like the neocons kept mum about a recession until they passed the banner to the Obama administration – then they went wild. They got extremely vocal. The neocons dumped their economy fiasco into the laps of the Obama administration – let the world know there was a problem with America’s economy and demanded that the Obama administration fix it.

Do independent voters think the ones who got us into this mess are the ones capable of getting us out of this mess? Do independent voters think that the neocons have given up their VOODOO ECONOMICS model for America’s economy.

The Republican party is the only American political party that can  “boast of” two economies killed on their watch.

So, what can the neocon government offer independent voters? Caging has already been allocated. Can the neocons offer good government to the independent voters? If the measure of good government could exclude the CIA, the economy, diplomacy, legal behavior and restrictions against the president using nuclear weapons at his discretion – then perhaps the neocons could offer something to the independent voters.

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Fooling Some of the People some of the Time

Fooling some of the people some of the time is an achievable goal

The possibility of fooling America about an oath of office is usually not blatant but it does happen. Perhaps it happens by design more often than by accident. But one of the most notorious cases on record is likely to be the record made by the latter-day neocons.

The oath of office is a ritual that is part of the American political landscape. American politicians put their hand on the Christian Bible and swear or affirm a behavior that America holds in very high esteem.

An oath of office  is presented below:

Presidential Inauguration

By Martin Kelly, About.com

Presidential Oath of Office – Presidential Inauguration

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/ss/inauguration_5.htm

Notice that a President does not swear/affirm to protect a political party. Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party is THE OFFICIAL POLITICAL PARTY of America. America, at this writing, has neither a STATE-RUN NEWS AGENCY NOR A STATE-RUN POLITICAL PARTY.

The latter-day neocons, with their strange set of “political values”, appears to have put Republican party ideology  above the Constitution of the United States of America. Ex-President George W. Bush, after swearing/affirming to protect the Constitution, described the American Constitution this way:

“It’s just a goddamned piece of paper”

Both the idea and the grammar used to deliver the idea are totally objectionable from America’s highest political office. America needed to hold its breath until the calendar – not impeachment ended America’s misery. America should remember.

It has been said that “a man who remembers nothing – knows nothing”.

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Mossad used Trojan Horse in Syrian bombing

Hacking in London found nuclear secrets

the INQUIRER

By Ed Berridge

Nov. 3, 2009

ISRAELI SPOOKS reportedly got details of a Syrian nuclear facility by sending a Trojan Horse to an official when he was staying at a swanky Kensington hotel.

The German magazine Der Spiegel said that the malware copied details about Syria’s illicit nuclear program and sent them directly to the Mossad agents’ computers.

Israel used the information as justification for its airborne bombing raid on the al-Kabir site in Syria’s eastern desert on September 6, 2007. It is believed to have knocked out the country’s nearly-completed nuclear reactor that intelligence agencies said was being built with North Korean help. …

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1560637/mossad-trojan-horse-syrian-bombing

The only countries that have suffered from the  “Pre-emptive Self Defense” initiative of the West and its Middle East side-kick have been Middle East countries. And the United Nations has been noticeably quiet.

The ones initiating the   “Pre-emptive Self Defense” attacks seem to be the militarily strong ones while the “recipients” of the attacks are the militarily  weak. Will the militarily strong war-mongers be able to retain the war-mongering advantage over the militarily weak?

Would Attila the Hun, if he were with us today, just marvel at how civilization has regressed back to something he could identify with? We are not talking about the the civilized world’s “high tech” domain. The operation of that domain remained in the hands of qualified people like scientists, engineers and technicians – not so much in hands of neocon type politicians.

The neocons’ emphasis on war would likely interest Attila the Hun. And the neocons emphasis on human torture might also be of interest to other figures from the “Dark Ages”.

Human torture is an effective way to make a selected victim talk. Under the right torture conditions, a tortured victim can be “persuaded” to confess to anything the torturer needed a confession for. And that could include a case where the torturer had little or no evidence against the tortured victim.

And the United Nations …

And the United Nations, with “enforcement power” that the old League of Nations did not have, seems to be no more effective than the, long ago dead, League of Nations.

But it wasn’t that long ago that a news story appeared where Israel accused the United Nations of being biased in favor of Syria. That is a serious case of the miss-use of rhetoric.

Rhetoric has certainly enjoyed a strategic place in the neocons sun. Without it, they would be forced to use performance – and the neocons performance is a train-wreck.

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Michael Steele: Voters Giving GOP a ‘Second Look’

The Chairman of the Republican Party says Obama has gone off course in many ways

By Kenneth T. Walsh

Posted November 2, 2009

Republicans may have taken some electoral losses in recent years, but voters are becoming so dissatisfied with the policies of President Obama and majority Democrats in Congress that they are willing to reconsider the GOP and its conservative philosophy, according to Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee. “They’re giving us a second look,” Steele told U.S. News . He said, “You’ll see the first wave of that response” tomorrow with the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races and the special election in New York. …

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/politics/2009/11/02/michael-steele-voters-giving-gop-a-second-look.html

A fool and his country are soon parted.

The neocons have had twenty four years at the leadership helm of America – and it shows:

During the 80’s the neocons sold cocaine to their own people to fund a war in the jungles of South America.

During the 80’s the neocons fired 11,000 control tower workers as a show of how the neocons felt about a labor union’s illegal strike.

During the 80’s the neocons introduced America to a “method” of “managing” an economy that would – in the future – crash America’s economy. That crash would be blamed on the class of people who were sold illegal cocaine by the neocon government.

During the neocon’s rein – wars were a primary goal. They mechanized the Afghanistan war which saw an unbelievable increase of collateral damage but retained the “running in place” war against terrorists.

During the neocon’s rein – they introduced the idea of effects that do not have a cause. The Iraq war was an effect – but apparently, it did not have a cause. The neocon proffered cause – weapons of mass destruction(WMDs) in the hands of Saddam Hussein, turned out to be an assertion whose time had not yet come. Congressman Joe Wilson(Republican) of South Carolina should have described that assertion by his own party’s President – but he did not.

America’s Congress and the world took the neocon’s word at face value thus taking the first step in“fool me once”.

The neocons governing of America has been so bad that one dares not investigate it. Investigating departments, that had heavy neocon attention, could wreck the department. The CIA had the heavy attention of the neocons. The neocons “needed fer to fix the CIA” after that brave American told the world that the neocons were spying, illegally, on Americans.

The new leadership of the CIA was picked from the military – where Mr. Bush sat at the TOP of the chain of command. And 25 Democrats were said to have voted for the switch from civilian to military leadership.

America, after 24 years of neocon “leadership” is well on its way to mediocrity. While the neocons may feel they have a chance they can still “lead” America, leading the world is out of the question. And the likelyhood of the neocons challenging the world to a “war to the finish” is far-fetched even for neocons.

But the neocons would like nothing better than to return to the top level position where they:

Claimed outer space for America

Challenged China’s right to shoot down its own aging satellite

Looked “cross-eyed” at Russia’s claim of minerals on the ocean’s floor

Claimed America had the right to do what Israel did in bringing Adolf Eichmann to Israel.

Demonstrated a lawlessness unparalleled in the recent history of America

The world has responded to the mess the neocons created. And the neocons are not likely to have the world march in lock-step with the train-wreck talent of the neocons.

There are many “RISE & FALL” tales of the world’s countries. And no country is immune to “fall” – even if the country’s citizens have no “perception” of “fall”.

A fool and his  country are soon be parted

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