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POPSYou're Scaring Me, Obama: Let the Bush Years Die
And then there's Robert Gates, widely rumored to be staying on as your Defense Secretary. Questions about Gates' role in Iran-Contra, not to mention his skewing of intelligence about Russia, still linger. But especially disturbing is his recent push for beefing up the US nuclear arsenal: "As long as other nations have or seek nuclear weapons - and can potentially threaten us, our allies and friends - then we must have a deterrent capacity that makes it clear that challenging the United States in the nuclear arena, or with weapons of mass destruction, could result in an overwhelming, catastrophic response. While we're on the topic of warmongers in your midst. Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff? Yet another hawk, hell-bent on Iran and enamored with nuclear weapons. And now we've got Clinton as Secretary of State. Why is it that none of the 23 senators and 133 House Reps who voted against the war in Iraq are even on a short-list for these critical posts?
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POPSGuilt by Association is a Double Edged Sword Guilt by association is simply wrong. The democrats should no more engage in it than the Republicans and they shouldn't do it even if the McCain campaign does. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it.
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POPSMore Mud Slung At McCain (Ties to Nazi Collaborators) McCain has said previously he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group's letterhead. "I didn't know whether (the group's activity) was legal or illegal, but I didn't think I wanted to be associated with them," McCain said in a newspaper interview in 1986. Singlaub does not recall any McCain resignation in 1984 or May 1986. Nor does Joyce Downey, who oversaw the group's day-to-day activities. "That's a surprise to me," Singlaub said. "This is the first time I've ever heard that. There may have been someone in his office communicating with our office." "I don't ever remember hearing about his resigning, but I really wasn't worried about that part of our activities, a housekeeping thing," said Singlaub. "If he didn't want to be on the board that's OK. It wasn't as if he had been active participant and we were going to miss his help. He had no active interest. He certainly supported us."
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POPSOllie North And That Afghan Airstrike As my colleague Anderson wrote at Newshoggers: It is entirely unclear just what North did to “corroborate” US military claims of Taliban deaths, but his efforts to bolster the military stance appear about to go down in the same flames that killed 90 Afghan civilians. While doubtful, perhaps the US military should rethink their reliance on the fantastical stories of a known bullshit artist and pathological liar, someone who by all rights ought to be in prison. I wonder if we’ll see North answer questions about what he said and why he said it on FOX? Somehow, I doubt it. Keith Olbermann covered the airstrike massacre during his Bushed! segment, its disastrous diplomatic aftermath and North’s involvement on Monday: “Realising that a) he’s not a journalist b) he’s not independent and c) his eye-witnessing includes seeing things that aren’t really there, the US military has now reversed its stance…”
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POPSThe Bush Crime Family Thrives on.
Amazingly, Bush Sr. completely insulated himself from any personal consequences regarding Iran-Contra. Like a good mafia don, he had layers and layers of loyal "button men" willing to shut up and take the fall for him. His good friend Bill Clinton, who by many accounts protected the gun export and cocaine importation leg of this trade as it was conducted out of Mena, Arkansas, ran against Bush for president in 1992, won, and promptly discontinued all further investigation into the Iran-Contra affair. If you want to take this a little deeper, the folks who were incinerated at Waco by Clinton and Janet Reno very early in Clinton's presidency, had a thriving business converting semi-automatic rifles to automatic ones. It's never been made clear who the customers for these weapons were, but if you look at a map, Waco, Texas is not that far from Mena, Arkansas. Bill Clinton's representatives in the ATF office in Little Rock started feverishly developing their case against the Wac
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POPSMcCain: Lies an incomplete list from http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/28/165138/698
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POPSSeeds of Current Propaganda found in Reagan Era Enduring Skills Beyond these individuals, the manipulative techniques that were refined in the 1980s — especially the skill of exaggerating foreign threats — have proved durable, bringing large segments of the American population into line behind the Iraq War in 2002-03. Only now — with more than 4,100 U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead — are many of these Americans realizing that were manipulated by clever propaganda, that their perceptions had been managed. For instance, the New York Times recently pried loose some 8,000 pages of Pentagon documents revealing how the Bush administration had manipulated the public debate on the Iraq War by planting friendly retired military officers on TV news shows. Retired Green Beret Robert S. Bevelacqua, a former analyst on Murdoch’s Fox News, said the Pentagon treated the retired military officers as puppets: “It was them saying, ‘we need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.’” [NYT, April 20,
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POPSFor sale: one used country - cheap The US news media didn't think this post 9/11 "mercy" flight for Bush's personal friends was worth investigating. ============================== How deep the connection goes "September 13, 2001 - Thousands of Americans were dead. They have been killed in a terrorist operation largely run by Saudis. Nonetheless the two men (Bush and Prince Bandar Of Saudi Arabia) each lit up a Cohiba cigar (on the Truman balcony of the White House)... Few Americans realized that these two dynasties had a history dating back more than twenty years. Not just business partners and personal friends, the Bushes and the Saudis had pulled off elaborate covert operations and gone to war together... They had been involved in the Iran-contra scandal, in secret U.S. aid in the Afghanistan War that gave birth of Osama bin Laden." From: House of Bush, House of Saud: The secret relationship between the world's most powerful dynasties by Craig Unger. Page 15
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POPSThe Gaza bombshell The hypocrisy of the USA is astounding. It recognises the "independence" of Kosovo led by the UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army), yet encourages boycotts of Hamas-led Gaza. It complains about genocide in Darfur, yet stands idly by while Israil rains cluster bombs on the children of Lebanon.
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POPSCIA Drug-Running vs. the Phony War on Drugs If there really was a "war on drugs" by U.S. government it would necessitate targeting covert ops by the CIA and other rogue operations. In addition to this article please recall that under the Taliban all poppy production was banned and punished in Afghanistan, but is now again a booming agricultural product since Afghanistan was "liberated" from those kind of laws. The U.S. government clearly says one thing to the American people (using tax dollars for Ad Council advertising too) while doing another behind their backs, even aiding and abetting the trafficking and social degeneracy of the drugs, for profit of course.
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POPSWhat could go wrong here? I sure hope I'm wrong. But this brings up memories of Iran-Contra, etc. The result will be huge sales for the US Gov't, but will standardize the NATO ammo, which could be a REAL problem on the battlefield. From an ex-military person's opinion.
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POPS77 Highlights of Bush's first year in Office 9. Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws. 10. OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting. 11. Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations Ambassador. 12. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest conservation. The rest are at the site
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POPSA half-truth is the most cowardly of lies! Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. - Mark Twain Libby was found guilty of lying because he not only LIED he LIED under oath! 'NUFF SAID... The ones who believe that lying is A-OK and should not be punished if and only "IF" it is one of their own who is doing the lying. In other words, A SET OF LAWS AND RULES FOR THOSE INSIDE THE PNAC CLUB AND ANOTHER SET OF LAWS AND RULES FOR THE REST OF US! Click thinkingblue blog for a Bill Moyer video on this HYPOCRISY. http:// thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSAnother smart move Clearly this is a good idea. You can tell because it's endorsed by one of the key players in the Iran-Contra affair. The Reagan administration casts long shadows.
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POPSSolomon needs his temple foundations examined David Solomon needs to take great care with his statistical work, if he does not want to be tarred with the same 'Chicago school of economics' oily brush that brought us the Iran-Contra affair, the invasion of Iraq, and Paul Wolfowitz. He doesn't take care, and so is gleefully pounced upon by Andrew Bolt to prove that activities directed towards 'global-cooling' are a waste of time. What results is an insight into the workings of noble-lie theory.
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POPSThe Ties That Bind - Hussein, Bin Laden, BCCI and Bush When the BCCI scandal began to break in the late 1980s, the Sr. Bush administration did what it could to sit on it. The Justice Department went after the culprits -- was virtually forced to -- only after New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau did. But evidence about BCCI's broader links exist in numerous U.S. and international investigations. Now could be a good time to take another look at the BCCI-Osama-Saddam-Saudi-Bush connection.
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POPSInvestigate Republican Corruption -- Get Fired.
I was busted last week for smuggling in 500 tons of illegal sagebrush over the Mexican border (it's illegal to bring weeds into the country). It's true I also had kidnapped the sweet 16-year old daughter of the Mayor of Nogales, Sonora. and was carrying my AK-47 and had a few boxes of Stinger missiles in the back of the Ford pickup But these were all 'dirty ops,' for the good guys, like Iran-Contra and our current mulitude of scams in the Middle East. So I was sure glad when the border agents who stopped me were later arrested, and the state attorney general gave me immunity to testify against them. (as we all happened). Now, though, I'm moving my business over to San Diego so I'm glad the Big Jefe, Comandante Bushie is taking care of things over in California before we move our base of operations. Normally you have to live in a third-world banana republic dictatorship to get service like this; but we're all part of a global economy now and War & Oil is the Main Line to the Holy L
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