Nancy Pelosi is in Baghdad

Just heard on the radio that Nancy Pelosi is in Baghdad. How did the neocons allow that to happen? On her first attempt to leave the country, the congressional neocons put up a huge fuss. They attacked her and the airplane she intended to fly on.

That’s foreign policy area. That is the domain of the Bush team. If America needs information from the Bush team’s domain, his “TELL AMERICA” press will pass that information back to the electorate..

The Vice President went to Baghdad. The Senator from Connecticut went to Baghdad. If there was information that America needed to know, they would likely have brought it back to America. RIGHT? At least one version of Iraqi war information should have gotten to the American people - whose money and children provide the foundation for Mr. Bush’s War.

Do the neocons want Nancy Pelosi out of the country at the same as Mr. Bush? Does Mr. Bush want to share the focus of the press with Nancy Pelosi?

Will Nancy Pelosi visit the Green Zone? Will the workers in the Green Zone be allowed to keep their bullet proof vest on while she is there - or will they have to remove the vests to give an impression of safety?

And are the State Department diplomats still having problems wanting to work in the Green Zone environment? Some diplomats expressed a desire NOT TO GO to Iraq. Management explained that the job required their presence in Iraq. It must have looked, to some, like two bad choices. Your money or your life.

Technorati : baghdad, bush team, foreign policy, green zone, iraq war, nancy pelosi, neocons, vice president

Israel: Alive for 60 years, Palestine: Dead for 60 years

Palestine, as people knew it, died at Israel’s birth. And Mr. Bush, is now in the Middle East in an attempt, supposely , to bring two waring enemies together. Neocons don’t have high marks in diplomacy - it’s wars that neocons believes solves problems - completely and finally.

Under the Bush team, the neocons have let it be known how deeply biased they are toward Israel. General consensus might say, that is the wrong environment from which to pick “diplomats”. And Arab leaders don’t seem to think much of the Bush team’s “diplomacy”.

Below are some of the comments of the Arab leadership:

Bush is seen in the Arab world as tilting much too far toward Israel. Comments Friday from Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal about Bush’s speech suggested that had not changed.

“We are all aware of the special U.S.-Israeli relation and its political dimensions,” he said. “It is, however, important also to affirm the legitimate and political rights of the Palestinian people.”

He also sharply criticized Israel for the “humanistic suffering weighed upon the West Bank and Gaza Strip population” of Palestinians. He said Israel’s “continued policy of expanding settlements on Palestinian territories” undermines the peace process.

Israelis and Palestinians have been negotiating since December, but nothing visible has emerged from the secretive process.

Both the Israeli and Palestinian leaders are weak among their own constituencies and fresh violence from the Gaza Strip and settlement activity by Israelis are diminishing an already precious supply of trust. The president did no negotiating while in Israel and left the Holy Land with no new progress on an accord

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90478970

The definition of diplomacy may have been redefined by the Bush team. Warmongering neocons may see diplomacy as appeasement. The Bush team can do that if it wants to. The Bush team also decides who is a terrorist and who is not a terrorist. If the Bush team decides that somebody is a terrorist, then the only relationship that is acceptable is WAR. If diplomacy is attempted as problem solving with Bush team defined terrorists that is tantamount to trying to appease a Bush team defined terrorist.

Now take Hamas. The Bush team has declared Hamas is a terrorist group. Prior to 1948, Hamas was not a terrorist organizations.

What happened?

Jewish terrorists!

Backed by the United Nations, Jewish terrorist help the Palestinians to decide to pick up and find a home somewhere else. Were there a Jewish terrorist who later shed the terrorist role and became a leader of Israel? That was OK. But when Hamas WON their DEMOCRATIC election, that was not ok.

And the Bush team, its diplomatic STATE Department and others apparently schemed to scuttle that election.

Prior to 1948, the Palestinians were not terrorists. Prior to 1948, there were Jewish terrorists persuading Palestinians to leave their homes or risk death. Terrorists, no matter their nationality, would rather “square off with civilians” than with soldiers but Palestine had no formidable army to defy the land thieves. Taking of Palestine 1-2-3 was easy.

But HAMAS never forgot the theft of its land in 1948. And HAMAS has fought to take its land back. That makes HAMAS a terrorist organization. RIGHT? Jews NEVER gave up the fight to find and prosecute EVERY Nazi who caused them pain. But that’s ok. RIGHT? HAMAS is not allowed to have the same feelings toward theft of their land as the Jews had about theft of their freedom and their lives. RIGHT?

The two hardest problems for man to solve are land theft and genocide. And a non-diplomat is not likely to have the talent or skill necessary to solve either.

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Technorati : bush, diplomacy, gaza strip, genocide, hamas, israel, land theft, leaders, middle east, neocons, palestine

 

Cleverly Campaigning On Foreign Soil?

Is Mr. Bush doing neocon campaigning on foreign soil? And why is Mr. Bush using the word “appeasement“? And why is Mr. Bush talking about Adolph Hitler? Adolph Hitler’s visit to Poland was much like the Bush team’s visit to Iraq.

Trying to appease the neocons out of their Iraqi adventure was no more effective than trying to appease Adolph Hitler’s aggression. The neocons attempt to sanitize their aggression by renaming it “pre-emptive self-defense” was a joke.

Nobody stopped, via appeasement, Adolph Hitler’s aggression against Poland and nobody stopped via appeasement, the Bush team’s aggression toward Iraq.

For those who tried to “appease” the neocons - they got ignored after being called “fascist sympathizers“. Nobody “appeased” the neocons out of their Iraq war. The neocons, like Adolph Hitler was not going to loose sight of an important objective - the Iraq war. Even if appeasers tried “mightily” to appease the neocons - they were destined to fail. Like Adolph Hitler, the neocons were determined.

Tyler Drumheller, a 26 year member of the CIA told Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes:

“The idea of going after Iraq was U.S. policy. It was going to happen one way or the other,” says Drumheller.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/21/60minutes/main1527749.shtml

Adolph Hitler’s aggression should have been stopped - not appeased. Neocon’s aggression should have been what?

Technorati : 60 minutes, adolph hitler, aggression, appease, bush, cia, ed bradley, foreign soil, neocons, tyler drumheller

Bush warns of Iraq disaster

President Bush warned in an interview Tuesday that the Democratic presidential candidates’ plans to withdraw abruptly from Iraq could “eventually lead to another attack on the United States” and would “embolden” terrorists.

In a White House interview with Politico and Yahoo News - a president’s first for an online audience - Bush said his doomsday scenario for a premature withdrawal “of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”

Mr. Bush is still pitching his FEAR and DANGER rhetoric as if its pertains to something yet to come. America, and the world should feel comfortable while the Bush team is at the helm? The FEAR and DANGER are HERE and NOW.

The Bush team made Iraq worse for everyone but the terrorists. The terrorists must have enjoyed those years of no Iraqi government. They had the “run of the streets” to themselves. They could recruit, train and do human target practice without fear of “law and order”. There was none.

The streets of Baghdad were, and to some extent still are unsafe. Hugely unsafe. And the ones who brought CHAOS to Iraq wants the world to listen to their future - predicting WISDOM? .Maybe the world should listen - politely - and then discard it.

The WISDOM(foresight) would have been right-at-home in 2003. But the Bush team neocons have not demonstrated they have mastered the manager’s tasks of “managing resources” and “predicting outcomes“.

The Bush team’s “WISDOM” is more than a “day late” and more than a “dollar short”. Where is the Bush team’s completed task that displays professionally “predicted outcomes”? “Stay the course” does not qualify because that could be considered a gamble that the laws of chance would give the “managers” a win “sooner or later”.

It is begining to look like the world is being told: “Do it my way, or the SKY will fall”. Is that predicting outcomes? Will America be damaged by terrorist again? Nobody knows. But the Bush team has challenged terrorists to “BRING IT ON” and that idea is likely still incubating in the minds of some terrorists.

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Technorati : , baghdad, bush, iraq, middle east, rhetoric, streets, terrorist, troops

You Can’t Own What You Can’t Protect

The Tasmanians learned their land ownership lesson. The Palestinians learned their land ownership lesson. And finally the Bush team has learned its outer space ownership lesson.

You can’t own what you can’t protect.

Sometime ago, Mr. bush lay claim to outer space. There has not been much additional neocon outer space ownership rhetoric for quite sometime. Mr. Bush’s rhetoric regarding the ownership of outer space prompted responses from two countries - China and Russia.

The Chinese army shot down one of its aging satellites. Apparently, Mr. Bush’s approval was not requested before-hand. The Bush team cried “foul”.

Russian minisubs planted Russian flags on RICH mineral deposits on the ocean’s floor. The West cried “foul”. The West wanted to make the Russians “take back” their claim of ownership of those rich mineral desposits. The West claimed it was ILLEGAL by UNITED NATIONS laws for Russia to claim all those mineral deposits.

The Bush team ignored those very same laws the West was talking about forcing Russia to obey. Neocons don’t feel that laws, national nor international, imposes any constraints on their behavior.

If you own outer space, you must be able to protect outer space or you may wind up like the Tasmanians and/or the Palestinians

And in the case of Palestine, it looks like its demise and the birth of Israel are, timewise, closely related. While Israel has been ALIVE for 60 years, Palestine has been DEAD for 60 years. Imagine that! If you celebrate the BIRTH of Israel, you could be, unknowingly, celebrating the DEATH of Palestine.

You can’t own what you can’t protect. The United Nations, not withstanding, you can’t own what you can’t protect.

Technorati : , 60 years, back button, bush, chinese, missing, outer space, palestinians, russian, tasmanians

Bush tempers upbeat optimism about Mideast peace

Preparing the Faithful for Another Train-Wreck:

Something seemed remiss from the beginning. Mr. bush went to the Middle East(Israel) to kick off his version of peace. There was not much pre-planning announced to the public. It seemed almost like a ’spur of the moment” thing. Land theft and genocide, two of the most difficult problems for man to solve did not seem to get much preparation. Reality has a difficult time trying to get the Bush team’s attention, but this time, maybe, finally, it did.

Israel’s PM welcomed Mr. Bush with “OPEN ARMS”. The Palestinians were not so demostrative. But finally, the “WE COME IN PEACE” banner, towed by a WHITE DOVE was pulled across the skies of the Middle East. RIGHT? Peace at last!!! RIGHT?

As soon as Mr. Bush left his peace mission, all HADES broke loose in the Middle East. It looked like a war between Hamas and Israel. It was a battle of human flesh against tanks and airplanes. The “concentration camp” of Hamas came under attack.

The United Nations, not without sin itself, called Israel’s treatment of Hamas, “COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT”. And Jews, having experienced collective punishment, seems to think it’s ok if not directed toward them.

So, the scenario for “peace” has now been established! Neocons love wars.

Ex-President Jimmy Carter, called IRRELEVANT by the Bush team neocons, used diplomacy to help settle disputes between waring factions. His “Camp David Accord“, a long standing peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, was put in jeopardy by Mr. Bush’s “vision” of Middle East PEACE.

Mr. Bush, and his neocons may have damaged relations between America and the Middle East for many years to come. The 1948 land theft was bad. The systematic killing of those who opposed the land theft makes it worse. Hamas, treated as a villian, is actually the victim of land theft forced upon them in 1948 - because they HAD NO NUCLEAR weapons. The United Nations would have picked another victim if the Palestinians were “armed to the teeth” in 1948.

You can’t own what you can’t protect!

The neocons have two wars on the RAMP and four or five wars in the HANGAR. They are bankrupting the world - because so goes America, so goes the world. But that is changing.

It is extremely rare, but it does appear that Mr. Bush and the rest of the world may be in agreement about the status of Mr. Bush’s “MIDDLE EAST PEACE INITIATIVE”.

Technorati : bush, camp david accord, faithful, hamas, israel, jimmy carter, middle east, pa;estians, peace, train-wreck, united nations

No Help Wanted In the Financial Management of the Iraqi War

The Bush team has kept its Iraq war adventure “close to its vest”. Even the senior Bush was not allowed to help. If you were “up to your neck in alligators” and capable help came along - would you refuse the help? If you were not hiding something, would you refuse the help?

The Iraqi war corruption saga continues:

Ex-State officials allege corruption coverup

By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer 5 minutes ago

The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.

Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department’s Office of Accountability and Transparency last year, and James Mattil, who worked as the chief of staff, told Senate Democrats on Monday that their office was understaffed and its warnings and recommendations ignored.

Brennan also alleges the State Department prevented a congressional aide visiting Baghdad from talking with staffers by insisting they were too busy. In reality, Brennan said, office members were watching movies at the embassy and on their computers. The staffers’ workload had been cut dramatically because of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s “evisceration” of Iraq’s top anti-corruption office, he said.

The State Department’s policies “not only contradicted the anti-corruption mission but indirectly contributed to and has allowed corruption to fester at the highest levels of the Iraqi government,” Brennan told the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.

The U.S. embassy “effort against corruption - including its new centerpiece, the now-defunct Office of Accountability and Transparency - was little more than ‘window dressing,’” he added.

Deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the administration takes the issue of corruption seriously and pointed to its recent appointment of Lawrence Benedict as coordinator for anti-corruption initiatives at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_corruption&printer=1;_ylt=Ar2LvPgJOPqHahytIn7guOuWwvIE

The Iraqi war has been and still is a train-wreck. And the Bush team wants no help.But the macro-management of the Iraq war still suffers. Not long ago, 190,000 Iraqi war weapons turned up missing. Auditors, doing what auditors do, found and made public their discovery. That should have been an ATTA BOY right? Wrong!

The Bush team’s congressional neocons (pre-2006) cut funds to the auditors and Mr. Bush signed off on cutting funds. The incoming Democrats restored funds to the auditors. Those who manage the Iraqi War funds are a close knit group? That could be a reason why no “outsiders” are allowed to “help” with the Iraq war CHAOS.

But, at least one time, a recipient’s CUP “runneth” over and the recipient gave money back to the United State’s treasury.

In January 2004, two Halliburton employees were caught red-handed taking $6.3 million in kickbacks from a subcontractor in Iraq. The company gave the $6.3 million back, claimed it fired the employees, and went on like nothing ever happened.

http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2006/03/cheney_and_hall.html

Technorati : baghdad, bush, bush administration, corruption, halliburton, kickbacks, neocons, state department, train wreck

Is the American Constitution just an (expletive deleted) piece of paper?

The Rant

Bush on the Constitution: ‘It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’
By By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 5, 2005, 07:53

Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.

Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.

GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”…

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

Just what provides the foundation for what the Bush team is spreading throughout the WORLD. Is the United States Constitution a factor? If the United States Constitution is not a factor, could the “brain fruit” of the neocons be a factor? There is no “swashbuckling” cowboy type stuff in the “thoughts” of the United States Constitution but the neocons put “saber rattling” front and center. It looks like the current wreck of the United States economy may be the SECOND time the economy has “tanked” under the neocons.

The neocons also have contempt for dialogue and negotiation - for the minutiae of politics. Henry Kissinger came in for special reproach. Kissinger believed that the U.S. should ally with anyone if it enhanced U.S. power. Such realism was anathema to the neocons. Their foreign policy agenda is simple: to enhance greatly the U.S. military, and to use this military power to reshape the world in the image of capitalist democracy. Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson and his adviser Richard Perle and such neocon organisations as the Committee on the Present Danger and the Committee for the Free World helped scuttle detente in 1974. Once they forced the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) off the discussion table, they fought for an astronomical increase in the U.S. military budget, and they fuelled an arms race that crippled the economies of both the USSR and the U.S.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2102/stories/20040130000506400.htm

Technorati : bush, command-in-chief, constitution, cripple economies, i don’t give a goddamn, republican, usa patroit act

Neocon Foreign Policy Skills - who likes whom best?

Senator John McCain’s Foreign Policy Focuses on Who likes Whom. That is likely a better idea than focusing on the neocon’s performance in the foreign policy arena:

Senator McCain: Democratic contender favorite of Hamas and maybe Iran

By LARRY ROHTER

Published: May 10, 2008

In the clearest indication yet of how he intends to confront Senator Barack Obama on foreign policy issues in the general election, Senator John McCain on Friday again portrayed the Democratic contender as being the favorite of Hamas , the militant Palestinian group, and implied that he would also be friendly with Iran , a Hamas ally…

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/politics/10mccain.html?_r=3&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1210480089-jkKj5CUw3dbWMfp+2VbS+g&oref=slogin

Australian leader: Al-Qaeda wants Obama

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australia’s conservative prime minister slammed Barack Obama on Sunday over his opposition to the Iraq war, a day after the first-term U.S. senator announced his intention to run for the White House in 2008.

Obama said Saturday at his campaign kickoff in Springfield, Ill., that one of the country’s first priorities should be ending the war in Iraq. He has also introduced a bill in the Senate to prevent President Bush from increasing American troop levels in Iraq and to remove U.S. combat forces from the country by March 31, 2008.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a staunch Bush ally who has sent troops to Iraq and faces his own re-election bid later this year, said Obama’s proposals would spell disaster for the Middle East.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-02-10-howard-obama_x.htm

The Australian electorate declined to renew the services of Mr. John Howard.

And now, one last foreign policy objective:

Al Jazeera likes … { To Be Filled In Later }

Hardly a major election goes by without a neocon stating who Al Jazeera likes. Will that be showing up later?

Technorati : al jazeera, al-qaeda, barack obama, bush, foreign policy, hamas, john howard, john mccain, palestinian

Russia puts tanks and missiles back in Red Square parade

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - 2 hours ago

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia showcased its military might and youthful new president to the world Friday, as heavy tanks and missile launchers rumbled across Red Square in a Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era.

In a nationally broadcast speech two days after his inauguration, President Dmitry Medvedev avoided the bellicose rhetoric of his mentor and predecessor, Vladimir Putin, who drew parallels between United States and Nazi Germany during last year’s parade.

However, in his speech marking victory over Adolf Hitler’s Germany, the 42-year-old Medvedev said the history of World War II demonstrated that military conflicts are rooted in “irresponsible ambitions which prevail over interests of nations and entire continents.”

“We must not allow contempt for the norms of international law,” he said, in what sounded like veiled criticism of the United States and its Western allies…

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gXioOMzrlU8hO3Hv0w6TFVvtvq7AD90I8FH00

The United States of America has never been a perfect country but never before has it “gleefully” shown the world its disdain for what makes the world civilized.

What the Bush team and neocons fostered on the world should not have happened - and would not have happened if the United States House of Representatives had done its job. Instead, Brattleboro, Vermont had to do, symbolically, what the House of Representatives failed to do - IMPEACH the Bush team.

It is difficult to believe that the American electorate will sign-off on the performance of the House of Representatives. If they don’t - there should be housecleaning in America’s House of Representatives. The Bush team should not have been “let loose” on the world. There should have been oversight. The country was designed with that in mind. Somebody, likely,did not do their job.

So now the Bush team has: Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Hamas, Nepal and back again to Lebanon. And after getting done with that - if they ever do, they can try to fix some of the train-wrecks at HOME. While the neocons were busy playing WORLD POLICEMAN, they neglected HOME.