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We're hitting the RESET button on the news and it's early 2007 or something and we are debating the Iraq War all over again. This is after the tea party had stated in 2009 that it was against foreign adventures and some news commentators were announcing "The era of foreign wars is over". You know that - - people have said "If America begins making the right decisions in the future, there is hope for the future that we can correct our problems". One of Glen Beck's "good buddies" said this just today. It's a great opening topic sentence. Too bad the guy got an F on the rest of this college essay. It's a positive thought- - and those of the Joel Olsteen school of "hope springs eternal" would shout a loud "Amen". But clearly NOTHING is going to be changed. Not John Boehner's intransigence and not the FOX news propaganda machine, and not racial bigotry or America's love affair with firearms, or this wave of anti environmentalism. However I might have to make a minor retraction on one thing. I said in response to a 9 - 11 conspiracy site comentary that "There isn't the slightest chance we would instigate some war with Iran in the Mideast because of some false flag opperation". You will remember that the opperators of the site said that "We need War because the only cure for our economic problems is more War and more Debt. The Republicans won't vote money for any constructive purpose, but if it's for gigantic tax breaks for big business, or some sort of War they can't wait to align themselves with those voting an enthusiastic "Aye". Now just to show how either cheap or lazy I am- - here is someone elses' oppinion on the subject.
People forget the extent to which Democrats, who controlled the
U.S. Senate at the time, pushed for and supported the 2003 attack on
Iraq. Remember them or not, theeeey’re back! The Center for American Progress, the head
of whose “action fund,” former Democratic Congressman from Virginia’s Fifth
District Tom Perriello, slipped through the revolving door into a State
Department job in February, is now pushing for “principled” bombings of Iraq. Principled or not, the Center for American
Progress is funded by Lockheed Martin and other huge war
profiteers. C.A.P. has just put out a report recommending that air strikes be
considered. For that to happen, many
other things need to not be considered:
1. The views of the U.S. public, which opposes more wars and some
of whom here in the fifth district of Virginia fantasized they’d elected an
antiwar candidate in Periello several years back. 2. The views of the Iraqi public, who have
been nonviolently and violently protesting an illegitimate government installed
by the U.S.-led occupation. 3. The rule
of law, which bans wars (under both the U.N. Charter and the Kellogg-Briand
Pact) even in places where the U.S. has recently fought wars in blatant
violation of the law without any legal consequences. 4. The U.S. Constitution, which required that
wars be authorized by Congress even before Article VI came to encompass the
aforementioned treaties. 5. The 100-year
history of foreign military interference consistently making things worse in
Iraq. 6. The 11-year history of foreign
military interference making things dramatically worse in Iraq to the point
where it is no exaggeration to say that the nation has
been destroyed. 7. The record
suicide rate among U.S. war veterans, many of whom are realizing the role they
played in destroying Iraq. 9. The
liberties we keep losing as long as the wars for “freedom” role on. 10. The environmental destruction of our
largest consumer of petroleum and greatest poisoner of land masses, the U.S.
military. 11. The financial cost of
trillion-dollar wars when tens of billions in reparations and actual aid could
make a world of difference. 12. The
history of small numbers of “advisors” in Vietnam and many other wars mushrooming
into devastating occupations and millions of murders. 13. The need people have to imagine that
Democrats are fundamentally different from Republicans. Think of the damage
being done to that already tenuous pretense. Spare those tender souls any
troubled thoughts if you can’t spare the lives of Iraqis for their own sake.
Today
at the Capitol, John Boehner met for a photo opp with his designated pick for
new House Majority leader, Kevin Mc Carthy of California, a moderate. Many tea party members count his election as
a loss. Steve Scalize was picked as the
new House Majority whip. After this I
watched all I could stand of President Obama’s droning press conference, with
questions after a brief statement. The
thing is if you believe this little deployment of troops and personnel won’t
result in ‘Mission Creep’ I’ve got a sink hole in Florida I want to sell you. Of course it will. Then I listened to the “all War all the time”
contingent of Mitch Mc Conell, John Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham. It’s like we were living in 2007 all over
again. It’s like all the history of the
War since then - - never happened. John
Mc Cain himself issued a statement upon total American troop withdrawal saying
“It signifies the victory of the Bush war policy”. But of course now he wants to deny he said
that. After this I decided to shave
before dinner.
Bill
Handel was talking about that Brian Stowe fellow who was beaten to a vegetable
by Dodger fans at Dodger stadium. It
seems Stowe was more than legal intoxicated having .15% alcohol in his bloodstream. After eight it was Glen Beck and this
Austrailian guy “making ovservations about America”. Don't you just love these "impartial observers" from other countries with their phoneyed up accents to make them sound half credible or something? I thought "Well, maybe this is a part of Glen Beck's change of heart", but not so. Now this guy started off by saying that we are too
pessimistic and how it will all work out for us. The only thing is – everything else out of
his mouth was either trashing America or trashing Obama - - or talking about
how we’ve lost our “Christian values our nation was founded on”. His talking points were all right out of the
FOX news roster. Then it was Bill Handel
again talking about the Redskins trademark theft by the FTC. Bill Handel appears in favor of it talking
about “changing cultural values”. Of
course this rhetoric is from a guy who never misses an opportunity to bash
Latinos on his show. After nine it was
Rush Limbaugh, who made absolutely no sense about anything. One minute he’s praising Bashei Al Assad, and
the next minute he says that it was the United States that orchestrated the
deposing of the Shaw of Iran in 1978. I'm sitting there scratching my head. (?) And Rush made this generalization that "The trouble with Obama is that he gets rid of leaders that are reliable allies of ours- - like Qadafi for instance. (You're going "huh?") He
later went on to allege that President Obama wants to get rid of Meliki in
Iraq, when in fact the President explicidly said just the opposite. I confess I’m completely lost. The news has gotten so bizarre even I can’t
keep track of it.
They
have thoroughly flushed the whole issue of Will and Sonny and Gabriel and the
baby, from the script. At least we will
be spared Sonny and Will continually making out in public. It’s like they finally figured out that a
soap opera script is not the place for gay advocacy. Still it’s a little strange that all those
people plus ones they never showed like Jessica and Marie, as well as Maggie
and Julie- - will also pass away from the daily script outline. It’s kind of one of these “Plot resets” like
they did with September of 2011 when they flushed a lot of old plots down the
toilet- - just like the toddler in all these “baby’s first flush” commercials. They are bringing back Eve Donavin, who turns
out to be Page’s mother. You know, J J’s
girlfriend. Suddenly Jennifer isn’t
giving a thought to the horrible argument with Dr Daniel but her thoughts are
obsessing on the relation between Frank and Eve, which occurred when they were
in high school. Though if I remember Eve
back then was this mousey little prostitute and she had this “romance” with her
pimp, named Nick, and they even had a favorite song. It would be like if we came in on Mom
tomorrow and she was obsessing over pictures of Wally Mead. And as to this stuff with Samantha, I confess
I am completely lost- - and I don’t have a clue how Kate fits into all this or
some fake scene they staged for E J’s benefit, apparently.
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