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POPSDecember 7, 1941: Day of Deceit--FDR and Pearl Harbor FDR deliberately set up a plan to provoke Japan into attacking the US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor (where they sat as ducks in this new forward position, resisted by Naval commanders for that very reason), in order to force reluctant Americans into war with Germany. Throughout 1941, FDR implemented the remaining seven provocations . He then gauged Japanese reaction through intercepted and decoded communications intelligence originated by Japan’s diplomatic and military leaders. The island nation’s militarists used the provocations to seize control of Japan and organized their military forces for war against the U.S., Great Britain, and the Netherlands. The centerpiece – the Pearl Harbor attack – was leaked to the U.S. in January 1941. During the next 11 months, the White House followed the Japanese war plans through the intercepted and decoded diplomatic and military communications intelligence.
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POPSBarack W. Bush--Obama's "Preventive War" in Afghanistan, Neocons Applaud Obushma's Afghanistan war policy--the BUSH DOCTRINE CONTINUES. The word "terrorism" was hardly invoked, but "essential for our national interests....and attacks on our HOMELAND" implied the same thing. It's still all about the 9/11, and only the rhetoric has changed slightly. But this war is not about "national interests", but International (Globalist) interests. Obama is a Puppet for the globalist agenda as much as Bush was to the neoconservative agenda for "global hegemony". See Rachel Maddow's MSNBC video analysis about Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and proof that the Bush Doctrine continues. Powerful analysis. The real purpose of Af-Pak war policy is here .
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POPSObama's Decision on Afghanistan: Surge! OBushma policy: No 'change' here in this "war of necessity", per Obama. (Never blindly trust a government that uses this phrase, as if to shut down all opposition and end all questioning). This "war of necessity" is merely the parroting the same fear-mongering, unproven, baseless propaganda the GOP is claiming here too: President Barack Obama: "This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. right...we heard the same fear-mongering from Bush. I thought this was all going to "change" (not really).
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POPSHasan's Army Presentation--Is the U.S. at War with Islam?
The central issue. His entire presentation is at the "launch photo gallery" link. While the Wash Post spins this as an oddity it is clear he was invited and able to do this as a Psychiatrist, who are supposed to "get inside the minds" of the troubled soldiers. He identified closely with what he was describing as a psychiatrist and personal sympathizer. After all it is clear to many that the "war on terror" is ironically a Democratic Jihad on Islamic countries to roll them into the imperialistic "new world order" where non-conforming nations are branded "rogue" and "threats" (however minuscule) to the entire world. "Making the world safe (through war) for Democracy" has been the U.S. and British modus operandi since WWI. The agenda for militant democracy ,and for Global Government, has been out of the bag for almost a century. Note his final page (p. 50) and the Recommendation to release Muslim U.S. soldiers if they wish as conscientious objectors.
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POPSOIL: The Real Purpose for the Afghanistan War and Af-Pak Policy It's not about "terrorism" but an oil pipeline from the Caspian region to Pakistan, thru Afghanistan. The proof is that the invasion was planned before Sept. 11th! This fact should be sufficient to establish Motive, should it not? Now you know why the Taliban and bin Laden got fingered for 9/11, instead of Saudi hijackers, etc. "It's not going to be built until there is a single Afghan government. That's the simple answer." Bush began war in the region in Oct. 2001. May 2002 the BBC reported the immediate result The leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan have agreed to construct a $2bn pipeline to bring gas from Central Asia to the sub-continent . Now look at this map of Military and Oil .
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POPSA Reason to "Support Our Troops" -- Bring 'em Back Home From Afghanistan!
The troops' loss of heart to fight is intellectually sound. Depression is caused, in part, by cognitive dissonance, when two things do not square correctly, i.e. we are here to defend the U.S.? Really? The war is an elite war and part of a global agenda, not based upon any credible threat to the U.S. from Afghanistan. Nor is invading and occupying a country a very credible way to prevent terrorism, even if you believe the official propaganda to be true. Now the greatest threat to the continued bipartisan-believed (neocon initiated) propaganda (which Obama continues) is this reality of the troops morale ....you know, the one's whose very lives are at stake in a foreign country, and family lives are divided (unlike those in armchairs who promote the war and send them and claim to "support them"). See "Cost of War in Afghanistan" clipmark below. Also, National Guard from each state were never intended to be deployed like full time military in foreign wars.
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POPSThe Cost of War in Afghanistan -- 779 Troops, $229 Billion Obama's war now. The economic cost of this war that has been paid by Americans as well here , along with the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and higher gas prices (inflation in all consumer goods). See also this article with this obscure fact: ECONOMIC SCENE: Afghanistan will cost US more than Iraq Funding for war in Afghanistan will eclipse Iraq for the first time in next year's budget.
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POPSGermany Hit With "al-Qaida" Pre-election Propaganda Watch for a false-flag event in Germany if Merkel loses ( remember Spain's 3-11 here for backing out of Iraq), which this propaganda is actually designed to help by inciting fear of terrorism and pushing necessary war , by manufacturing an Islamist enemy (beardless youth in suit and tie for the first time) with a domestic terrorism threat in a timely presentation-- all pushed by the government and media , instead of censored! Just who does this propaganda benefit the most? In fact, the "powers that be" do want people to remember Madrid's 3/11, "vote for Merkel, or else". Note the issue is AFGHANISTAN, German people now largely opposing their war presence there (just as a majority in the U.S. and UK does). This is typical FEAR propaganda that always preceded Bush and Congressional elections, allegedly from Bin Laden or Al Qaeda, but always stoking war fever for the neoconservative-Israeli agenda.
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POPS8 Years Later--Osama bin Laden, Dead or Alive? This book challenges the entire foundation of the Afghanistan war as a "war on terrorism". Can they really "not find" him? Or perhaps the real reason is here. Even FOX News reported in December 2001, Bin Laden Already Dead Only propaganda and alleged tapes have kept him "alive", but unfound, the perfect phantom enemy for perpetual war.
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POPSConservative Op-ed: "Time to Get Out of Afghanistan", Propaganda War Starts Note there is a neoconservative (William Kristol) reply to this op-ed below the article at source (because it scares them, really), which also proves that Obama has continued the neoconservative agenda in this "war on terrorism", whether that term is used or not. (Miraculously again, Bin Laden allegedly made a new video or post, which the MSM and Drudge also made sure you saw, while they did not link to this Op-ed of a well known conservative columnist). Conservative policy writers at Cato Institute are also calling for an end by exposing Myths about Afghanistan (here) . Myth #1: Both al Qaeda and the Taliban Are Our Mortal Enemies You can use Will's Op-ed to take action with your Congressmen (especially if republican) at Just Foreign Policy (here).
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POPS'Joystick' Warfare Brings Ethics Debate--UAVs and Other Robotic Weapons Robo-warfare is making it too easy to wage arbitrary war, and is by historical standards cowardly , usually entailing overkill to achieve a limited target (like swatting mosquitos with hand grenades. Can you say "collateral damage"?). To bring no risk to warfare is to undermine the principle of Just War, where people voluntarily enter into war upon principles of justice (self defense), and risk their own lives bravely and willingly. Sending robots risks nothing, and makes unjust war a no-risk situation, and therefore too easy to begin. Also there is the danger factor where human judgment may be lacking instead of a programmed response, without the ability to correct or withdraw destructive actions. Ask the civilians in Afghanistan or Pakistan what they think of drone (Predator) UAV bombing flights so far. More civilians have been killed than 'terrorists".
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POPSAfghanistan, Obama's War; US and Russia Allies This Time Irony: Russia is helping the US in this war while the original purpose of Al Qaeda (the database), trained by the CIA, was to fight Russian insurgency into Afghanistan. Remember that? Now Russia is helping the U.S. do what they originally attempted, but failed (due to the Taliban's resolve). So the U.S. has now played both sides of the fence against each other. At least Russia is consistent! (Video at source).
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POPSObama's Afghan War Sets US Troop Death Record But Americans yawn and approve. Why so complacent? What are "we" really fighting for there, in a foreign country that never attacked us? So that Afghan women can go to school and boys and girls can fly kites (the Bush era propaganda)? Why does Obama get a pass, but Bush did not? "Stabilization" was only necessary because of the US-led insurgency to topple the previous government, which had no connection (no hard evidence, just propaganda) to 9/11 either! Where are all the protesters against Bush's war, that Obama continues, and even has "surged" to expand?
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POPSNew Memo: Bush-Blair Conspired to Start Iraq War Without WMD Motive Hard proof that WMD was not Bush's or Blair's real reason to start war with Iraq. Not mentioned behind the Bush-Blair Anglo-American conspiracy to invade Iraq, is that neoconservative and Israeli elements who fomented the plan based upon their convenient "catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" (from their blueprint written in Sept. 2000, one year before 9/11). Yes, it still matters now, because of those who say that "Bush did not lie, he was mistaken about WMD", which this hard evidence entirely destroys.
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POPSLone Gunman TV Episode 3/4/01 Foreshadows 9/11 The episode plot included "remote control" of aircraft in a "war games" scenario and a "faction within government" behind it for post-Cold War purposes and counter-terrorism wars. Even "110 souls onboard" the aircraft are mentioned (another cryptic 11 reference). The Youtube clip is just 4 minutes. What are the odds of this coincidence just 6 months prior while the government and 9/11 commission said "no one could have predicted flying planes into towers"? In fact the 9/11 cover-up Commission stated: ...there was a failure of imagination Of course war games were going on in real time in NYC and NORAD on Sept 11th , but just another "coincidence" of course.
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POPSDiplomat: Iran Not a Threat, U.S. is Playing Against Russia This senior Russian official refutes the "Iran is a threat" rhetoric and says the U.S. is using the Iran issue for justification to expand military operations around Russia. (Methinks this is a secondary but true motive). The facts seem consistent with his assertion. The neocons had pushed reviving a Cold War with Russia (e.g. NATO missile placement agreements, Georgia-S. Ossettia conflict), which appears still in progress under Obama (despite Hillary pushing the "reset" button--stupid). A dangerous Iran-Russia alliance could be unintentionally forced as a consequence of the U.S.-Israeli propaganda and threats against Iran and maneuvering against Russia, which could set a scenario for major world or regional war, beyond just the middle east. This of course would be blamed on Iran and Russia instead of U.S. provocatory actions and policy.
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POPSYankee War Crimes Exposed, Origins of US War Policy Liberators or terrorists? Saving the Union or destroying cities and civilians? Almost every major city in the South and Missouri was set on fire. Remember "Gone with the Wind"--Atlanta? The imperial terrorism of US wars did not begin with Fallujah. It is a war policy that began here. "Burning (General) Sherman" was a megalomaniac madman unleashed upon the South whose policy was virtual genocide, extermination and destruction, brutal to both blacks and whites, males and females, not sparing unarmed non-combatants. Union Brigadier General James H. Lane: “We believe in a war of extermination. I want to see every foot of ground . . . burned over – everything laid waste. . . .” If "war is hell", the U.S. since the Civil War is playing the Devil. "...blows the lid off the conspiracy of silence about the violent, mass-murdering origins of the American Leviathan state..." -- -Thomas J. DiLorenzo, www.LewRockwell.com
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POPSMemorial Day Patriotism, Myths, and "Day of Deceit"
Memorial Day has become a means of self-justification and propaganda to paint a picture of military operations through "remembering the dead" into National Righteousness. Books like this one quickly counter and dispel such myths about the wars Americans have fought in, being misled by Presidents on a global agenda instead of wars of self-defense. the eminent newsman, Edward R. Murrow, who snacked with FDR the night of Pearl Harbor, told his wife the president had revealed: "the biggest story of my life, but I don't know if it's my duty to tell it or forget it." According to Stinnett, years after the war ended, Murrow informed another journalist: "That story would send Casey Murrow through college, and if you think I'm going to give it to you, you're out of your mind." This article covers much more than this book, up to the present wars since 9/11, showing that "oil" plays an important role in each for Petro-Imperialism See article for much more.
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POPSHR 2159: A 2nd Amendment Revocation Act? The government only needs to label someone "suspect" (they arbitrarily think you might do something, without hard evidence?) and the definition of "terrorist" is very broad: (5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that - (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended – (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; A vehement protester could be labeled such. This is a Carte Blanche for the Feds to strip anyone they choose of their right to bear arms. In other words, you must be a passive, perfectly obedient, tame and mild SLAVE to keep your right to bear arms. When the British tried to seize the arms of Colonists the Revolutionary War began (Boston Massac
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POPSTaleban to Attack America, Propaganda for "April Fools"
The major problem is the Taleban leader here is dead! This is really over-the-top, amazing that a "remote phone call" could be considered a credible source of news and published as such. The 35-year-old leader of Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan (Movement of Taleban Pakistan), made the claims after taking the highly unusual step of telephoning Western news organisations from an undisclosed location. It was him, really....back from the dead. Right! Just like the conjured up "bin Laden" tapes, the cabal of Anglo-American propagandists is trying to pull a fast one to legitimize the Bush-Obama and Britain's "war on terrorism" into Pakistan . Visit the Legitgov.org link to see the articles and case made that this is disinformation for public consumption to justify war expansion, and to re-blame Taleban for 9/11 and India attacks, while there is no hard evidence (except this phony "take responsibility" news) connecting them with any of the attacks.
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POPSObama's Af-Pak Policy, Expanding the War on Terrorism Historically democrats have always waged the world wars (i.e. Wilson, FDR) under the pretense to "make the world safe for democracy". With all the rationale and logic of hunting mosquito's with howitzers the fraudulent "war on terrorism" is being expanded , increased, both in arms and foreign aid for Pakistan (more billions). The mistake of Democrats was in limiting their criticism of unjust war only to Iraq, while Af-Pak wars also have false justifications. (Neither the Taliban nor bin Laden were involved in 9/11, and said so on BBC and Karachi Pakistan newspapers). Yet hardly a cry from the liberals and democrats? How party-loyalty makes one blind.
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POPSTruth to Power: MP Galloway Vindicated on Iraq Parliament member George Galloway is now vindicated. For those who missed it this was the most powerful challenge against the phony "war on terrorism" in Iraq ever made, with the some of the best anger Scotsmen have ever uttered. This was a classic show down between him and the Israeli-controlled republicans in US Congress, stupid fools who brought him in under trumped up charges, whom he attacks with vigor. Unfortunately even now, most republicans will not admit it his words true, nor many spineless democrats. But everything he said here was absolutely true. (He is no saint, but he spoke truth to power, as did Sen. Robert C. Byrd prior to the war, though of no avail.) Canada has barred his entry because the Israeli fascists control Canada's foreign policy (as the US and UK too) and have branded him because they know he knows who was behind the war, Israel. (see link for article).
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POPSIDF Soldiers Admit Atrocities, Gaza War to "Uproot Gentiles" The Israeli soldiers confess and are more honest than Israeli leadership, who remain without conscience. Medical authorities say more than 1,300 Palestinians were killed during Israel's 22-day operation, including some 440 children, 110 women , and dozens of elderly people.... Thirteen Israelis, including three civilians were killed. Note the role of Zionist religious pamphlets during this as a war to "uproot the Gentiles". So it is really not about "democracy" then, by the soldier's report, as Western MSM media always tells us. ...we need to fight to uproot the gentiles who interfere with re-conquering the Holy Land." This is quite a contrast to Rupert Murdoch's speech to American Jewish Committee justifying and calling upon the West to defend Israel unconditionally for the cause of all humanity--except Palestinians.
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POPS"Another 9/11" Being Used to Drive/Justify Obama Policy Propaganda tactics, like "WMD claims" about Iraq, are being used to drive or justify (already preset) military agenda for a Pakistan war front. This is precisely like the same "fixing the intelligence around the policy" used for Iraq --alarmist, "apocalyptic intelligence", to justify what Obama "must do" as a CFR puppet for continuing a "war on terrorism" for global democracy. 9/11 continues to be the justification for "changing everything" and continue wars for "regime change" and more "preventive wars". Are small groups in Pakistan really a threat to Western Civilization? No one could rationally believe this paranoid propaganda. America was less afraid of the Soviet Union than this, and not one shot was fired to stop the Cold War. This is also why another "bin Laden tape" was released this last week. The American people are being prepared for more wars.
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POPSObama to Adopt Neocon's "Multiple War" Policy Blueprint
The first clips reveal Obama's new policy, to which Robert Gates gives evidence, and the American Enterprise Institute (arm of the Israeli Lobby) confidently announces (as if they run the Obama administration). This was the exact blueprint of the neonconservative think tank, Project for a New American Century --who ran the Bush administration's foreign policy from within--and is proven by their own infamous document (clip 3) called Rebuilding America's Defenses, which the policy parrots: LARGE WARS...the United States must retain sufficient forces able to rapidly deploy and win multiple simultaneous large-scale wars and also to be able to respond to unanticipated contingencies in regions where it does not maintain forward-based forces. This resembles the “two-war” standard that has been the basis of U.S. force planning over the past decade. Yet this standard needs to be updated to account for new realities and potential new conflicts
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POPSStop the Afghanistan Surge and Quagmire Afghanistan will be Obama's Iraq...unless, you demand "Change" and take action to your Congressmen here in this system from a good organization called Just Foreign Policy . This campaign as bi-partisan support with even two republicans, Walter Jones and Ron Paul endorsing it. Do not believe the Big Lie, continued by Obama that war and occupation of Afghanistan will "make America safe from terrorism", when the Taliban never attacked America, and this war only contributes to their increasing support against the US (coalition) Occupier. THIS IS A CONTINUANCE OF LIES OF A "WAR ON TERRORISM" CONSISTENT WITH THE SAME NEOCON/ISRAELI AGENDA FOR A NEW MIDDLE EAST for Global Democracy.
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POPSObama's Afghan/Paki Surge, Civilians Will Suffer Most But the politically-correct premise of the entire war there is left unchallenged by the Democrats, and of course Republicans, except for a few lone voices. The heaviest consequences will fall on the civilian population , who will be increasingly opposed in turn against the US-led foreign invading forces increasing resistance who are the real "insurgents" involved in a domestic dispute that is of a very long history. Apparently the 1 million deaths of Iraqi civilians is not enough blood for the bipartisan war-mongers who have bought the neoconservative line of wars for "regime change" , nor the hidden death count of Afghans and Pakis thus far (with women and children). Do Americans really believe that the Taliban is a real or imminent threat to the U.S.? (And no, they publicly admitted on BBC, as well as Bin Laden in Karachi newspaper, that they had no knowledge or involvement in Sept. 11th).
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POPSIsrael is Assassinating Iranian Nuclear Scientists This from an Israeli paper, per Western Intel sources. This is a covert "preventive war" (the doctrine Bush began with the neoconservatives), and not just against Iran. Bottom line is that Israel is trying to provoke open war with Iran, baiting a retaliation from these covert attacks which then would be blamed on Iran as the "aggressor" (as they did with Gaza, Lebanon, etc.). This is their standard M.O.. This also shows that the US is involved in a "proxy war" for Israel (a term the US employs only toward Iran), not a "war on terror": The U.S. journalist James Risen has written recently that the CIA and the Mossad have planned together a number of sabotage operations against the Iranian program , including damaging power lines to nuclear sites in order to cause harm to computer systems and equipment. The Cold Preventive War hinges on nuclear technology. How would anyone respond to this? Maybe proxy wars of their own? "What goes around.
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POPS$125 Billion Fraud: The Iraq Reconstruction "Stimulus" Plan This is how the US gov't manages a "stimulus" plan, in the case of "rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure", which is now being investigated as the largest fraud in U.S. history. To put this figure in perspective, after 9/11 Bush requested $40 billion from Congress for the "war on terrorism", which was considered huge and extraordinary amount. Now consider how much cash this was, distributed partly in "pallets", without a trace of documentation. Where did this money really go?
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POPSThe Pentagon's Propaganda Budget Up 63%! Here is a place the government can cut! The "war for your mind" is real. Fox even reported it, so you decide. Could this in fact be the real war--public perception? The article says it also might be against the law, but what would be new about that? Does the government ever abide by the law? The next time you watch network news a tape of "bin Laden" or terrorist training camps, or film footage of Iran's military, or articles where they quote "defense sources say", but never name them, remember this. This happens alot.
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POPSMoyer's Journal: Is Afghanistan Obama's "Iraq" or "Vietnam"?
His guest Pierre Sprey, a former Pentagon official under McNamera, and developer of military planes like the Warthog, destroys the arguments for war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and particularly of drone strikes in Pakistan, which kill more civilians that alleged, unproven "combatants". (The woman's comments are worthless). Must hear podcast. The "war on terror" based upon 9/11 is also challenged effectively as the entire erroneous premise, which Obama continues just like Bush, for a multitude of errors and war crimes. Sprey on bombing targets with UAV drones: You can't tell with a camera or an infrared sensor or something whether somebody's a Taliban. In the end, you're relying on either, you know, some form of intercepted communications, which doesn't point at a person. It just, you know, points at a radio or a cell phone or something like that. Or, most likely, you're relying on some Afghani of unknown veracity and unknown motivation
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POPSObama Challenged to Downsize "War on Terror" America has been under a perpetual "yellow alert", without any evidence whatsoever, even during the Inauguration. This propaganda campaign and ruse, domestically, has been real expensive, and as long as there is a war in Iraq and Afghanistan and strikes in Pakistan (which Obama continues) merely renaming it will make little difference. Clinton carried out wars abroad without having a major campaign title. US covert military actions have actually retained an almost constant state of "war" without Congressional declarations. The domestic costs of the 'war on terrorism' have distracted state and local police from the very great and real threat of "normal" crimes which have been overlooked while the "terrorism" threat has been grossly Overblown and law enforcement inefficiently deployed and side-tracked with nonsense training and equipment, and increased federal debt
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POPSRon Paul Stands Against Deceitful U.S. Resolution for Israel He decries the real purpose of the bill and he condemns "collective punishment" and one-sided U.S. support for Israel "which has nothing to do with the United States or U.S. interests". Right on the mark! Context: AIPAC forced Congress into "approving" of Israel's actions, and most of the cowards did. "At the very least, the U.S. Congress should not be loudly proclaiming its support for the Israeli government's actions in Gaza Collective Punishment, such as Israel always employs, as a motive and means of warfare is contrary to the limited Christian principles of a Just War, and therefore is "immoral". Paul maintained this same (lost) principle during the primary debates regarding the entire "war on terrorism" and Iraq War, against the other RINO candidates as well. George Washington warned of "entangling alliances", and Israel is a modern one.
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POPSIsraeli Professor Criticizes "Zionist Colonial Project"--Israel a "Rogue State" The war is part of an aim to establish "Greater Israel". Consider the author before closing your ears. He unmasks the real scheme behind the previous Israeli "withdrawal" from Gaza, up to the context of the present war, and rehearses the controversy of the creation of the state of Israel itself in a manner the media never does. This is largely the Palestinian view from a Jewish and Israeli writer, which the media never acknowledges, and therefore is blameless of the typical charges of "bigotry" or "anti-semitism" leveled at all such critics. His conclusion: ... it has become a rogue state with "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". A rogue state habitually violates international law, possesses weapons of mass destruction and practises terrorism. No Clipmark can do this article justice, it must read in its entirety at the source. Powerful! (Hat tip to TN for locating the the source).
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POPSObama Defends CIA Pick to Dems, Neocons Praise And just why are the neocons like Feith (who ran the rogue Office of Special Plans) and Richard Perle praising him as bringing a good pick to "reform" the CIA? Well they crafted the "intelligence" for the Iraq war with lies and circumvented the CIA (and Tenet got a Medal of Freedom Award from Bush for not challenging their unsubstantiated lies about WMD). They want the CIA to do this for them instead to justify their war agenda for "regime change" in the middle east primarily. Just who is praising Obama for this pick is more strong evidence (along with his silent support for Israel's war on Gaza, surge in Afghanistan, etc) that he will continue the neoconservative agenda, only in a "kinder and gentler" manner, in their plan for "global hegemony" for world democracy through "regime change". Not much change here. Panetta has no hard Intel experience.
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POPSGas Prices Shoot Up, Thanks to Another Israeli Middle East War Oil prices are still low yet gas has gone up 20-cents per gallon in the last 2 days. Middle east wars directly effect gas prices at the pump. You can thank Israel's new middle east war for the latest hike as this article mentions. New York Times: Oil prices are up about 25 percent in the last week alone, in part because of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza Now gas prices fell despite OPEC's last cut, and demand has not changed much, so that leaves the market fears of the impact of another Israeli war (as with Lebanon couple years ago), and war-mongering talk, all supported by AIPAC-controlled U.S. Congress and both incoming and going U.S. Presidents. This is not what the U.S. economy needs, and is the fruits of another unjust war! Just when we were beginning to economically breathe on "main street" more wars come to change all of that. Demand Cha