More info about the current SOFA deal with Iraq (Status of Forces Agreement).

SOFA's are a scam to begin with, an attempt for the military, for Bush to make a treaty deal with Iraq but claim it's not a treaty: Claiming it's more like a 'contract."

Doing it this way, using a SOFA, is done to prevent the terms of the deal being considered by Congress.

Treaties (deals between nations) are suppose to be reviewed and approved by the U.S. Congress.

More details about this SOFA with Iraq are here, at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq29-2008oct29,0,1139514.story

Will the cash bribes work?

I don't know but Iraq desire to get the USA out and not go along with this junk f...

More info about the current SOFA deal with Iraq (Status of Forces Agreement).

SOFA's are a scam to begin with, an attempt for the military, for Bush to make a treaty deal with Iraq but claim it's not a treaty: Claiming it's more like a 'contract."

Doing it this way, using a SOFA, is done to prevent the terms of the deal being considered by Congress.

Treaties (deals between nations) are suppose to be reviewed and approved by the U.S. Congress.

More details about this SOFA with Iraq are here, at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq29-2008oct29,0,1139514.story

Will the cash bribes work?

I don't know but Iraq desire to get the USA out and not go along with this junk food scam treaty is strong.

The treaty being offered Iraq is like all the 167 broken peace treaties offered to the American Indians.

But Iraq sees through the scam.

This shows how money is another weapon.

Why did North Korea agree to allow nuclear inspection? -- Because they agree that the USA has a right to tell them what to do? Or are they enticed by hundreds of thousands of oil the USA promised them?

Why did Pakistan's dictator General Pervez Musharraf go along with USA desires? Because he just happens to like Americans? No, Musharraf probably stuffed billions of dollars into his own pocket.

It goes deeper too where money buys elections. Who wanted the new Pakistani Bhutto elected the most? The people of Pakistan or the U.S. government? Who put up the cash?

Not only is the U.S. dangling this loss of cash in front of the Iraqi government, there are also reports of individual members of the Iraqi Parliament being bribed.

Many think the "Surge," of U.S. troops into Iraq in 2007 was the cause of reducing violence in Iraq. But maybe the so-called "Sunni Awakening,' really did the job -- the U.S.A. paying the salaries for 100,000 Sunni Arabs.

These Sunni Arabs, BTW, were previously all members of Saddam Hussain's army and members of the Bathist party (Saddam's party).

Yes.
It's easier to kill or dominate people when you first trick their mind. Like the Jews were told they were going to take "showers."

America tells nations the same thing: we're good for you, we'll make you safe, we'll bring you freedom and democracy.

It's quite a trick to tell your citizens you're out to spread freedom and democracy and have them believe you, while you're supporting dictators and kings and overthrowing democracies and elected governments you don't like.

Pakistan's President Musharraf, the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran after the Shah was gone, President Mubarak of Egypt, The Saudi Kings, etc.

But, of course, the people's election of Hamas was...

Yes.
It's easier to kill or dominate people when you first trick their mind. Like the Jews were told they were going to take "showers."

America tells nations the same thing: we're good for you, we'll make you safe, we'll bring you freedom and democracy.

It's quite a trick to tell your citizens you're out to spread freedom and democracy and have them believe you, while you're supporting dictators and kings and overthrowing democracies and elected governments you don't like.

Pakistan's President Musharraf, the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran after the Shah was gone, President Mubarak of Egypt, The Saudi Kings, etc.

But, of course, the people's election of Hamas was no good.

We killed Salvador Allende and put dictator Augusto Pinochet in power.

That's the real American foreign policy. Killing Allende and putting Pinochet in power; nothing could say it any better.

Panama. Columbia.El Savaldor, Hati.

In 1954, the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was toppled by U.S.- backed forces lead by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas[4

So many other places...now Bolivia.

Oh..yes...Bolivia. The true populist and democratically elected government of another Central/South American country being subverted due to the interest of American corporations and American greed.

And then ...life rolls on. It's quite a trick. Do a genocide of maybe as much as 70 million Native Americans and still like you're the cowboy with the white hat.

Some U,S. general said he spent his life fighting for the United Fruit Company. And now we're fighting for Exxon.

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Wow!

I couldn't find that general's name and have never heard about this FDR plot.

Wow!

I was actually beginning to feel a little bad about the ruthless way I sometimes describe this country.

Yet the facts are there and it's not a pretty picture. It's certainly not Disneyland. It's not like 'the 7th Cavalry coming to the rescue."

Maybe things were better before WWII (if you weren't a slave, Mexican, or Native American) but since then it's been way worse for us all.

Vietnam War was started on a lie. (Gulf of Tonkin Incident).

This War in Iraq was started on a lie (Deliberately fabricates intelligence linking Saddam to WMD's -- that yellow cake-Niger falsehood).

Nice enough living here...

Wow!

I couldn't find that general's name and have never heard about this FDR plot.

Wow!

I was actually beginning to feel a little bad about the ruthless way I sometimes describe this country.

Yet the facts are there and it's not a pretty picture. It's certainly not Disneyland. It's not like 'the 7th Cavalry coming to the rescue."

Maybe things were better before WWII (if you weren't a slave, Mexican, or Native American) but since then it's been way worse for us all.

Vietnam War was started on a lie. (Gulf of Tonkin Incident).

This War in Iraq was started on a lie (Deliberately fabricates intelligence linking Saddam to WMD's -- that yellow cake-Niger falsehood).

Nice enough living here, though. Although also nice things in other places. But basically for most folks your homeland remains where you born - for better or worse.

The USA story sometimes reminds me of that movie, "The Picture of Dorian Gray." There's this nice pretty picture on the wall but all the evil and ugliness is hidden.

I once told an audience that Uncle Sam was just a mask with a skeleton head full of leaches hidden behind it's eyes.

A few folks cheered. More others wanted to chase me out of the room. But speaking the truth is necessary.

At the end of the day we all want to go to Red Lobster or P.F. Chang's - listen to some good music, watch a few good movies, have a few good friends.

At the end of the day it comes down to needing to elect better leaders.

So that's what I do and believe strongly needs to be done. And still seek to speak the truth, but more realizing we're all in the same boat and not only has there been ugly, hateful and destructive truth often hidden behind the scenes of the USA American story but also work and hope to make it better.

There wasn't just slavery. There was massive effort and great sacrifices to end slavery.

Okay...I think I went off the track here but I needed to get to that last sentence, above.