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Barack, We Hardly Knew Ye
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and guns and drums
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye…..
This memorable stanza from the classic anti-war song could not be more apt with respect to Barack Obama. He became President because he campaigned across the land draped in the garlands of peace. Yet he has now promised to spend his final three years in the White House smearing his face with war paint and strutting around the imperial city marshalling his “drums and guns and guns and drums”.
And let’s be clear. The President’s so-called “counter-terrorism” campaign—-that special kind of violent eruption which isn’t a “war”—-is not really about punishing some barbarians who have beheaded two innocent Americans and who have also recruited perhaps a dozen not so innocent Americans to join their blood-thirsty ranks. Civilized adults just do not start a war on the other side of the world on account of such thin gruel, as horrific as the actions involved might be.
Indeed, based on his stated reasons for war—beheadings and venomous rhetoric—Obama is on the same slippery slope that Woodrow Wilson stood on when he sent two million American GIs into the senseless slaughterhouse of northern France. It was to vindicate the freedom of Americans to sail into war zones, even on armed belligerent ships, he said.
In the cold light of history, Wilson’s misbegotten crusade in behalf of an utterly untenable principle accomplished nothing more than to prolong a war which was already over in the spring of 1917 due to the mutual exhaustion and bankruptcy of both sides; and in so doing, he spawned the Bolshevik tyranny in Russia, the punitive peace treaty of Versailles, the revanchist evil of Nazi Germany and the world wars and cold wars which followed.
That was “blowback” writ large—a chain of repercussions that shaped the very warp and woof of the entire next century. Yet in 1917, the safety and security of citizens in Lincoln NE or Spokane WA could not have been enhanced in the slightest by plunging into a pointless war in Europe to secure “freedom of the seas” during its final hours of carnage. Likewise, in 2014 the case for a war on the ancient battlegrounds of the Shiite/Sunni divide and numerous related tribal and ethnic enmities to avenge the murder of journalists who knowingly ventured into a zone of vicious civil war, anarchy and barbarism is no more compelling or rational.
No, what Obama’s war is really about is the capacity of the American Warfare State to co-opt any and all dissenting views and to transform cruel doings from virtually anywhere on the planet into a casus belli.
Accordingly, last night’s patter from the oval office about a plan to “degrade” and “ultimately destroy” ISIS is just so much beltway pettifoggery; its the kind of verbal smokescreen that the chattering politicians temporarily bivouacked along Pennsylvania Avenue are pleased to deploy as they go about implementing—unwittingly or otherwise— the agenda of Washington’s permanent imperial machinery.
Here’s the thing. Washington either means to eradicate the Islamic State root and branch in a Normandy style invasion and occupation of the Sunni-Euphrates valley or its just inviting vengeance and blowback that will pale into insignificance that which has occurred to date. Dropping bombs from high altitude aircraft, or launching Tomahawk missiles from distant ships or dispatching drone payloads via video counsels in Nevada may kill a few ISIS warriors and leaders along with thousands of innocent Sunni civilians in the territories they now occupy. But in the end it will amount to jabbing a hornets nest with a short stick.
Does ISIS’ menacing oratory and graphic videos really constitute a clear and present danger to the American homeland that can’t be handled with increased domestic vigilance and police protections? Does what little we actually know about a regime that has materialized almost overnight provide sufficient cause for launching hell-fire from the skies on a territory bigger than the state of New Jersey and occupied by roughly 8 million Sunni Arabs who in the main are not at all fond of the “indispensable nation” that has appointed itself to rescue them from their new rulers?
After all, just hours before the President delivered up his 13 minutes of vaporous rhetoric, double-talk and self-contradiction, the Homeland Security Department had testified on capitol hill that it had no evidence that ISIS was planning an attack on US territory or had the capacity to accomplish one. The closest it could come to identifying a tangible ISIS threat was chatter on Twitter.
Puleeese!
Likewise, isn’t it breathtaking that in the blood-soaked wreckage of the non-nation of Syria, which was scribbled on a map by dandies in the British and French foreign offices in 1916, we are now attempting to eliminate two regimes at the same time? Never mind that the Assad-Alawites in the southwest and the ISIS-Sunni in the north and east between them control 90 percent of Syrian territory.
So instead of boots on the ground to secure the dusty villages, bleak desert expanses and other pointless redoubts which will be bombed back into the stone age by Obama’s aerial campaign, we will arm and train the Free Syrian Army to do the job of killing off the stragglers. That is, mop-up the fanatical ISIS fighters before they can regroup and launch furious campaigns of revenge throughout the region or even at the American homeland.
That’s right. The silly, naïve man in the oval office has signed up to a bombing campaign which will enrage the hordes of medieval butchers encamped in the Islamic State, hoping that a rag-tag bunch of buccaneers that mostly issue press releases from Turkey, and which recently sold one of the beheaded Americans to ISIS for $50,000 according to the public testimony of his best friend and confidant, will keep them contained and finish off the job.
In a sane world, this would be considered an impeachable madness. In today’s Washington, however, Obama’s ludicrous “no boots, all air” strategy amounts to a three week placeholder. It will be soon engulfed in escalation as Admiral McCain and the rest of the war party demands stepped-up retribution for the next string of beheadings and grizzly media stunts by ISIS in response to the bombings.
Indeed, just consider the stunning emptiness of Obama’s four-point strategy. Most grating was his claim that he could now act more aggressively because Iraq has formed a new government. Now that’s a whopper if there every was one. Their new leader is a life-long Shiite militant who spent his adult life in London passing out anti-Sunni pamphlets, and who has not yet assembled a cabinet or demonstrated that his government will last until even year-end.
The reason that their will be no Iraqi government and war-capable Iraqi Army is that there is no Iraqi nation—–just the Sykes-Picot borders. Yet the latter were long ago irreparably shattered by the Bush war of shock and awe against the last dictator who corralled the Sunni, Shiite and Kurds into a temporary polity at the end of a sword.
The truth is, the brief and vanished nation of Iraq is already partitioned. The Kurds have already created a de facto Kurdistan in the northeast and will play governance games in Baghdad only to buy time to consolidate their regime and make the political and economic deals with Turkey and others needed to insure viability of their new state.
Likewise, the Shiite south is already a de facto province of Iran. So be it. The greater Shiite polity on the north and east of the Persian Gulf is a more certain barrier to ISIS expansion than any imaginary coalition of the unwilling that Washington might concoct.
But here’s the giant flaw in Obama’s incendiary strategy. The Peshmerga can be counted upon to ferociously defend Kurdistan against ISIS encroachment, and the Shiite militias will doubtless accomplish the same in their own territories. But no one with a modicum of historical knowledge would think it sane to send them up into the Sunni lands of the Euphrates valley to mop-up after the American bombs, missiles and drones.
In short, once Washington is in full bombs away mode there will be no Free Syrian Army or reconstituted Iraqi army to finish the job. And the idea of meaningful boots on the ground from a regional coalition amongst the enmity ridden nation’s of Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE is too preposterous to even merit discussion.
So what Obama actually launched last evening was Operation Blowback—Washington's stupidest military campaign yet from among a long list that stretches back through two previous wars in Iraq, countless cold-war coups and interventions and grand disasters like Vietnam.
Needless to say, there is a better way. The best safeguard and only real protection against the theoretical threat of the Islamic State is vigilance and enhanced public security at home. And coupled with it, an end to pointless bombing campaigns in Muslim lands that mainly succeeds in destroying American tanks, artillery pieces and other equipment left behind in earlier delusional campaigns.
And, yes, let ISIS try to govern 8 million people in the dusty villages and impoverished desert expanse of the Euphrates Valley by means of the sword and medieval precepts of Sharia law. The resulting “blowback” from the bestirred people of the ISIS occupied lands will do more for the safety and security of the American people than all the drones and bombers that Washington could send to forge puppet nations within the Syrian and Iraqi “borders” that have already been deposited in the dustbin of history.
The peace candidate of 2008 might have seen the sensibility of that course of action. But after six years at the throne of power in the imperial capital, Barack, as we listened last night, we hardly knew ye.
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Televised: Woman in ruins with cat.
Likely reality: Cat was long dead or eaten, people ran away or got bombed.
Recent polls have shown that the libtards are only anti-war when the presidents' name has an (R) at the end...
Hence the tard postfix. LOL. No rationality.
Of course, given the solutions/reactions are political, rationality is simply not possible.
Assad Is The Only One In Syria that Could Deal With The A-Hole Criminals...
Get Off Yer High-Horses And Team With Him To GET THE JOB DONE...
Otherwise Yer Lookin At Another Aphgan & Worse...
You left out the best part of the song:
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg
Ye're an armless, boneless, chickenless egg
Ye'll have to be put with a bowl out to beg
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye.
Here's a peaceful way to end the fighting.
Open an Apple retail store in Syria and announce that a new iPhone will soon be released.
ISIS is simply another tool in the psycho tool box, the keystone kops of the US/Nazionist/Saud coallition of the morons completely fucked up thier little false flag chemical fiasco, just another in a long line of failures through this whole genocidal gong show that these fuckers have cooked up, and team Vlad has been there to provide the obligatory boot fuck at every turn.
So whenthe old WMD ploy literally blew up in their faces, well their hapless proxies faces to be specific and the Russians outplayed our little team of psychos I reckon the Coaches of Team Retard decided to try a slightly different play that has worked so well in the past - Evil Terrorists - admittedly it worked so well 13 years ago..
.... and you've heard that froot filled Oreo-in-Chief basically lay out the game plan "we're attacking ISIS terrorist in Syria but we want to be fair in our murderous actions so we'll bomb the Syrians too".... I think even George W could follow this play......... maybe
So if this plays out expect the US to strike their ISIS affiliates in Syria followed by equalizer strikes against Syrian Forces followed by downing of US aircraft by Syrian forces then it will be Game On full strike packages delivered onto Syrian positions, ISIS is nothing more than the tinder to get the fire started.
......Syria has always been about control of Europe; DC thought they had it dicked with their little arab spring dominoes plan but as they say "those who win in a rigged game get stupid - (Catherine Austin Fitts) and when it comes to Team Retard ..........
"...Get Off Yer High-Horses And Team With Him To GET THE JOB DONE..."
That's only the CNN cover-job. You're terribly confused about the actual job they're trying to finish.
Those 'A-Hole Criminals' serve the interests of Israel for now. The corrupt, dual-citizen Israeli-firsters U.S. congress will never do anyting meaningful against Fake ISIL as long as that's the case. The only 'message' they need to send Fake ISIL for now is "Keep your hads off our (Israel's) stolen Kurdish oil lands and don't mess with our Syrian pipeline plans" Other than that, Fake ISIL's goals pretty much match the current goals of the U.S./Israel in Iraq:
Kill the Syrian/Iraqi leaders (Assad, Saddam), destroy the Syrian/Iraqi military (done), take Syrian/Iraqi land and resources (Golan, Kurd oil lands - done), and make the Syrian and Iraqi people suffer and die until they obey and serve the interests of Israel (in process). The end game is to get corrupt Syrian/Iraqi lawmakers to rewrite their laws to serve U.S./Israeli interests (in process) and then make sure Syrian/Iraqi voters don't ever have a real chance to undo those U.S./Israeli 'changes' (Syria: in process; Iraq: essentially done).
Fake ISIL would accomplish the corruption of the last two (laws, vote) with their caliphate. They'll never get that far, of course - they're not permitted to. But as long as they are willing to do any of the legwork for the first three tasks (kill leaders, steal land and resources, make disobedient people suffer and die), then Fake ISIL does what U.S. boots-on-the-ground would normally have to do.
Expect a few gratuitous drone/F-16 strikes on a handful of Fake ISIL units, but that's about it. Otherwise, they serve the longer-term U.S./Israeli goals as planned and will not be eliminated until THEY 'GET THE JOB DONE'.
Wilson only went to war to be "the Peacemaker" and to foist his idiot league on The world, he shares some traits with fellow progressive, Braack. Obama is going to war because he is a weak, infantile mama's boy and Val told him he had to. American boys dying for this clown makes my blood boil. Keep your kids out of this one if you love them.
Sadly FORWAD SOVIET!
Turkey now says no to US planes using it's airbases.
I guess there was a coalition announced that wasn't a coalition before the coalition coalesced
Short of going thru Israel there is no way for logistics to work.Even Saudi prolly won't allow
its airbases to be used.
It was obvious weeks ago that Turkey was not going along with this.
I'm expecting Turkey to be the first NATO defector, on its way into the SCO and or BRICS(T)
Wrong Winston, I hate to disagree with you. To your honor
I seldom do. Turkey and anyone else involved through proximity will shut up until ISIS completes its implicit mission ; until eliminating the Sauds will be on stage. Listen to the choir as if it were a drama play.
Yeah, Mr. Consensus Coalition man ain't got one to go with that Nobel thingee.
FORWARD SOVIET!
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Syria is getting it done. Someone should find out who is behind this genocidal war started in the State Department and Saudi Arabia. These ***kers should be hung for what they have done to Syria. We know the lying NeoCons like McCain were totally onboard.
McCain. His old man helped murder the USS Liberty sailors and McCain helped murder thousands of Christians and non Christian Syrians. Syria is one of the oldest if not oldest home of Christianity.
I hope some people burn in hell for what they have done to the Syrians and Ukrainains plus the Linyans, Iraqis and Egyptians to name just a few. I hope LBJ is burning in hell.
Antioch.... Which was Syrianfor most of history, Turkish at the moment...
Well this is exactly the problem.
Republicans: "Let's have an endless War on Terror and wipe our asses with the Constitution"
Democrats: "Let's have a more intelligently-conducted endless War on Terror and wipe our asses with the Constitution"
Americans: "We have lost or fucked up 5 out of our last 6 wars. Could we please try something else? and could we have our Constitution back please?"
Are you including the glorious campaign against the tiny Caribbean state of Grenada.?
That was ok - 'course Grenada did not have an army or even a police force worth mentioning.
off topic, but will brighten your day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhllqmXxyXM
Yea, I bombed a couple folk.
Now watch this duff.................FORE!!!ward
Speaking of "Duff", I sent the same link to Dis-info man "Gordon Duff" at VeteransToday. Told him he should write an article commending the efforts and success of the AE911 group. If you know anything about Gordon, then you know he hates the AE guys for sticking to the truth and not alien conspiracy theories.
I don't think its that simple. clearly VT posts disinfo, but also good stuff. I think the issue with AE911 is that they won't touch the nuclear issue, for whatever reason... but when you study the evidence, its seems very likely that some sort of underground nuclear devices were used. Duff, for all his faults, does back this theory.
I went to Times Square once - was not impressed. Sat on them big stairs and ate cheesecake from one of the nearby restaurants. Good cheesecake. Mmm...
There's so many digital billboards there! Hurts the eyes... Cool to see this one though - someone paid good $$$ for that.
We (the signatory AE911 Engineers and Architects, as well as other supporters) paid big bucks for that....
Thank you very much for your service.
Thanks to plausible deniabilty, Obummer could cut loose the mercenaries he hired to create ISIS. They did a good job, blowing up the Benghazi consulate, bumping off Libyan Ambassador Chritopher Stevens (he knew too much) and almost killing Bashar Assad (the bomb exploded too soon).
Now to another subject, the death of lawyer Edgar Steele, dying in prison after being convicted of planning to bump off his wife and mother-in-law on the basis of doctored audiotape recordings and the testimony of a witness being charged with planting a pipebomb. That witness, a handyman, got everything but the key to the city for perjured testimony describing his role in planting a pipebomb under the car of Steele's wife: a 27 month prisonsentence with half the time being reduced to home confinement.
Steele did too good a job defending undesirables.
Perjury and blanket lying rule in America (see the 9/11 commission report for further confirmation).
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Edgar Steele, First Amendment Martyr, Dies in Prison Under Mysterious Circumstances
September 05, 2014
• “Attorney for the Damned,” who represented some of the most controversial figures in America, dies in prison custody.
By Dave Gahary
http://americanfreepress.net/?p=19437
Edgar J. Steele, who was born July 5, 1945, passed away behind bars yesterday, September 4, 2014, at the age of 69.
Steele, an author and celebrated First Amendment attorney who gained national notoriety defending Richard G. Butler, the founder of the group Aryan Nations, died at United States Penitentiary, Victorville (USP Victorville), California, a high-security federal prison for male inmates. An inmate search on the prison’s website for Mr. Steele reveled the following:
EDGAR JAMES STEELE Register Number: 14226-023 Age: 69 Race: White Sex: Male Deceased: 09/04/2014
On the website “Free Edgar Steele,” a post on the home page reads:
GOVERNMENT MURDERS EDGAR STEELE – CAN THEY GET AWAY WITH IT?
Today, September 4, 2014, early afternoon, a California mortuary notified Mrs. Cyndi Steele that her husband Edgar was dead. Since that time, specific circumstances regarding Mr. Steele’s death are being confirmed. This web site and the Edgar Steele Defense Fund (ESDF) will release more information as it becomes available.
Mrs. Steele contacted the ESDF Board, saying she was utterly devastated by this information, and is furious that no Victorville representative contacted her in the last few days regarding his failing health and did not even call her regarding the death of her husband. It was cruel to allow the mortuary to make the call.
Based on the best knowledge at hand, the following are the most likely causes of death: overmedication, persistently delayed, insufficient or improper medical treatment, medical neglect. The federal government and Victorville Penitentiary bear responsibility for the lives of the inmates who reside there and have refused to be accountable for the decline in Edgar Steele’s health.
Some hours before Mrs. Steele was contacted by the mortuary, ESDF President Robert Magnuson received an email corroborating Ms. Steele’s concern for her husband’s health and safety, validating the suspicion Mr. Steele’s health had been in a sharp decline for the past month. This fact was obscured, if not hidden by the federal government.
First, Mr. Steele was the victim of a false prosecution, then he was imprisoned in the most dangerous prison here in America. Then his wife was never allowed to visit him despite a court order allowing visitation. Then, his health was compromised because of neglect, and finally, the reports came in that he had been drugged out of his mind earlier this week, which was the final blow that killed him. Call it anything else you like, but it is murder.
The facts of this tragic situation will be disclosed as the information is gathered.
Steele, who was a target of the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, has proclaimed his innocence to this newspaper over several occasions through audio interviews conducting from prison. This reporter interviewed Mr. Steele in April, 2010, his first interview since his conviction, which can be heard below. Additional audio interviews will be made available through this website when they are processed.
Podcast Play Button
AMERICAN FREE PRESS reporters are investigating the facts surrounding Mr. Steele’s death and will update this website as new information becomes available.
Dave Gahary, a former submariner in the U.S. Navy, is the host of AFP’s ‘Underground Interview’ series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Steele
Wag The Dog - Albanian Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNDmDZi05dY
Not Albanian, Syrian. She is a Christian and she is trapped on a mountain top. Both she and her cat are about to be raped then have their heads cut off by blood-thirsty Muslims that hate America and are not considered to be "moderate" militants and thus entitled to CIA support and arms. Only a strong American president can save her, and only if he has $5 billion dollars to spend with no questions asked. She is definitely not a Palestinian civilian. It is merely a coincidence that her village happens to be located on the proposed route of a gas pipeline between Bahrain and Europe.
Even sarc can be a fat cat.
More so the feral common form called reasoning.
Much more so having a stringent argumentation and
a swamp to inhabit. And I`am not talking about rodents.
A meeting of the 'I bought too much gold and now I'm Farked' club will be held at the old Armory. BYOB
Just the thought of Obama as a military leader, or leading any type of military operation is just horrifying!!!!! And, sadly comical at the same time.
Good Lord, this nitwit could not lead a squad of pygmy blowguners. More Blah, blah by the loosest mouth and mind in the west. Milestones
Miles: But George Bush, Cheney were like Napoleon.
Please.
Just wait 'til he starts dressing up in a uniform with epaulets, wearing medals for heroism and valor, and calling himself 'General'.
Maybe he'll take one of those cool modern black names along with the epaulettes. Something like K'daffy,.
FORWARD SOVIET!
"A meeting of the 'I bought too much gold "
Anonymous Goldoholics you meant to state ?
Long time member behind the curve you may be ?
Too much money minded and consumption addicted newly rich
might have overstocked on gold and have since sold.
Some or first time one time investors might be on the money of kings and gods without taking into consideration if they and their forebears ever were favorites of gods and imposed kings.
Wrong bet.
Obama hates war!!! That's why he's created this new thing not called war, but has the same exact properties. It's not war though. If only those damn conservatives were smart enough to tell the difference...
....... I believe the term is state sponsored murder or in the case of the US administration we can use a blanket term - States Sponsored Terrorism, hell they even have a motto - We Kill Folks .......
.....I just wish Obombya would go folk himself....
Well, "counter-terrorism" is nothing but terrorism directed at others.
....according to Psychos.gov the terrorist groups are growing exponentially so in the interest of efficiency they've broadly defined Terrorist as; any person group, organization or nation that either disagrees with our world view or that occupy, own or otherwise encumber anything that we believe to be ours by divine right as bestowed upon us by whatever means we deem suitable
There should be a law ... if a national leader wants to go to war, they should publically sacrifice one of their children. To show they believe in the cause they are asking others to die for.
Incendiary democracy is a war like weapon and should be treated as such.
Relentlessly , I could go on with or without purpose.
Modern justifications just about everything avoid
the real and reality is simulated through loathsome attacks
on all the good and good character thereof.
I say we make sassy Lindsay Graham and CINC Obola put on their best not combat loafers and we send them to the front lines of the new not war.
And 54 years ago we were...
https://twitter.com/Syricide/status/510115985236688896/photo/1
More like Operation "Fuck I'm down in the polls and everyone loves a drone strike right?"
Or perhaps Stingers worth $.75B are reaching the end of life. Operation Spoiled Milk?
In memory of the thousands who died on 9/11 and the millions who died in the wars that followed, as well as for the elimination of Constitutional rights in the US as a result of the Orwellian “War on Terror”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEvA8BCoBw (15 minutes)
Architects & Engineers - Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 - AE911Truth.orgAE911Truth's 9/11 documentary Solving the Mystery, the destruction of World Trade Center Building #7, WTC 7 on 9/11/01. Join actor, Ed Asner and Architect Richard Gage, AIA and Architects and Engineers as they narrate an unfolding story that decimates the official account ("collapse due to normal office fires") of this 47 story high-rise which was destroyed on the afternoon of 9/11 in record time: top to bottom in under 7 seconds - and at free-fall acceleration for a third of its fall. Solving the Mystery of the Free-Fall Collapse of WTC 7.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddz2mw2vaEg (58 min)
9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out AE911Truth.orgAn in depth review of 9/11 by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XRMrMdn0NQ (1 hr 45 min)
ZERO: An Investigation Into 9/11An Investigation into 9/11, has one central thesis - that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 cannot be true. This feature documentary from Italian production company Telemaco explores the scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, which directly conflicts with the US Government's account. The importance of this film can not be overstated. If its thesis is correct, the justification for going to war in Iraq is built on a series of outrageous lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUdJ41J_L8o (41 min)
Pilots For 9/11 Truth Presents - "9/11 INTERCEPTED"War Games, Simulated radar tracks, aircraft exceeding their max operating limits by more than 130-150 knots, inaccurate aircraft position reports, false aircraft target reports, aircraft converging -- flying virtually in formation with -- and then diverging from reported 9/11 aircraft, fighters launched in the wrong direction, aircraft seemingly still airborne after the alleged attack, poor communications, phones not working.... What happened on the morning of September 11, 2001? Why were our defenses ineffective? Pilots For 9/11 Truth analyze NORAD response, Audio recordings as well as Radar data provided by government agencies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zY9HfwzGPg (40 min)
Washington Journal CSPAN Aug 2014 interview with Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
In addition, because it's brief (5.5 minutes), witty, fast-paced, and information-packed, I use this one as an introduction to those still deep in denial of what they saw on the tee-vee with their own eyes.
[06:00] 911 Truth ~ 9/11 In a Nutshell
It includes 33 seconds beginning at 05:00 of outtakes featuring NYPD, FDNY, and others who escaped from the Twin Towers.
Private Joker: Any women or children?
Door Gunner: Sometimes!
Private Joker: How can you shoot women or children?
Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much!
Finally an article that the author puts some responsibility on the idiots that go to these cesspools to report so-called news.
Well said. BTW I really like the charicature of MAD Obama. I can hear behind closed doors... "o" you look like a pussy drop some bombs.
That would imply that he actually gives a shit. I see him as the most indifferent president of my lifetime.
If anybody is pissed it's Valerie, who has to try and motivate his sorry ass. Likely has to resort to threatening to cut him off from his golf outings in order to get his attention.
Wilson was an pretty important player for the Red Shield brigade - look what he accomplished for them. Lets see if Barack can fill those shoes 100 years later.
Cue Erkel's "Did I do thaaaaat?"
Feigned ineptitude can work some serious fucking magic when it comes down to covering culpability.
Resident Obama in not even acting as president, and I do mean resident! After listening to his last 2 speeches, it's as if he was already on JPM or GS payroll, or even perhaps working as a lobbyist for defense contractors....no way a real "president" would come out spewing such drivel.
I'm starting to like Stockmans take on things. He is obviously waking up to the madness.
It will be interesting to see if he gains any traction with the MSM. Hopefully, he doesn't own any nailguns, hot-tubs, or Mercedes, as he as taken the debate far beyond the allowable parameters. The tell will be the appearance of smear articles by the likes of Krugmanesque scumbags.
Not that I think it will help. We're so far through the looking-glass, that many cannot even remember it exists.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Agreed. This was an excellent piece IMHO. I've liked some of his others as well, particularly on the economy.
What is bizarre is that the beheadings fueled so much outrage, yet one of our primary "strategic partner" in Obama's plan is Saudi Arabia, which routinely beheads people. From Reuters, Sept 10:"...in Saudi Arabia, which applies Sharia Muslim law, has beheaded 20 people in the past month..."
See - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/10/us-saudi-islam-security-idUSKB...
Hell, the Caballeros Templarios and the Zetas just south of us behead more people than ISIS and the Saudis and nobody's talking about droning them.
A quick summary of the early responses to the Obamaplan. Turkey (Nato member) says "you're not refueling those F-15's here, and we're not fighting ISIS". Germany says "we're not in with bombing Syria". United Kingdom says "we're not bombing Syria, either, and BTW, we never forgot that you replaced Winston Churchill's bust with one of MLK Jr."
I take issue with the author's use of the word anarchy.
What's happening in the Levant is not anarchy. Instead, think of it as a fat white guy in sandpaper underpants breakdancing in a tinderbox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFUTHcjiZGo
Will Obama's war plans put Americans back to work?
He doesn't know how to make peace. He doesn't know how to make war but by god he know's how to make a speech.
If I may be so forward.....he can read well.
It's O'Bomber's nein-11 as Germany refuses to participate!
Why is the Pantygon agreeing to work with this schmuppet? Has he already replaced all the real warfighters in the leadership with his own stylish ass-kissers?
I see QUAGMIRE written all over this "strategy". This is the asinine "strategy" he said he didn't have two weeks ago and that he was formulating (according to CNN) and that we've been waiting for????
Holy SHIT! Of course, I should give him a break - after all, how good of a "strategy" can you work out on the golf course?
FORE!
As soon as they say advisors, quagmire is sure to follow.
Long Smedley.
Buy MIC stock
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Celebrate Peace thru (perpetual) War
I think what has hurt us in the ME is we have 2 strong allies.....Turks and the Kurds, and they hate each other. I always thought heavily armed Kurds would have been a great counter-balance to Sadaam back then....and to ISIS now. BUt he Turks would not hear of that...because part of Turkey, in the Kurds minds.........would become part of Kurdistan.
The timing of this war is perfect...I needed something to take my mind off the economy
Barry truly underestimates the strength of ISIS. ISIS is not some stoogy, constipated, bureaucratic, ass-kissing organization; it is "Open Source" terrorism that is quickly growing and evolving in ways we can't even imagine. These boys don't park their camels at the nearest oasis every night - they're bright, agile, diabolical and capable. ISIS through the world-wide web, is the Silicon Valley of terrorism. DRop bombs on them? Sure, they'll find ways to operate in ways that render that strategy rather pointless and wasteful....Barry needs to take off his golfing hat and put his thinking cap on - like, FAT chance of that happening....
Stockman is right on, but there is an even greater irony.
For all of the Kenyan's bellicose horsecock about ISIS, another of his back alley hires, "Jeh" Johnson, is using the entire apparatus of homeland security to keep the US Southern border WIDE OPEN.
Jeh Johnson is making sure that ISIS can waltz through the back door without fuss. And he's making sure that the border patrol gives ISIS a bus ticket and a box lunch.
Why isn't that treason?
Obama is mearly reading a script, doesn't know his or Reggies ass from wild honey.
'long as we gets a'a EBT, 'bama still getsa leasta 38 points favorbal ratin'...
ISIS = $
I see what you did there, CIA
David Stockman gives us another sharply analytical piece from the perspective of a mature strategic historian/policymaker/thinker. Thank you, Sir.
Agreed. He said everything clearly. He must have read my own mind and uncluttered everything in it, at least it feels that way.
as in ww1 as was outlined and ww2 when there was a majority anti eurowar sentiment even after pearl harbor) the war in the mid east(and ukraine for that matter) has nothing to do with usa security but the security of other people and economic security. this article clearly lays out the reasons why this mid east policy has nothing to do with americans' daily life but everything to do with a particularly shitty country wielding undue influence upon usa foreign policy in the region.
yes, there will be blowback upon the american people in the near term in the form of a false flag to punish americans for wavering in their commitment to perpetual war and greater israel. the most dangerous blowback will be in the aftermath of even a successful campaign as the newly created enemies resort to ever more disruptive warfare.
also, does the usa really think russia will stand down and let the usa take syria, the object of desire?
Does anyone else think these words might apply in a few weeks, months, years?
Putin Says Everything U.S. Touches Turns Out Like Libya Or IraqObamo is so islama-apologetic in this ISIS ordeal it is disgusting. ISIS is not islamic my ass. I'm sure they're just a few bone headed knuckleheads who periodically cut off a head or two of a christian for shits and giggles. Call it what it is. Obama is protecting these guys and only came out against them when the whole world turned against him. What a chocolate flake.
Where is the condemation for islamic leaders? Maybe it is not being reported or they are afraid of being killed or maybe, well you guess...
Obama, the unready, is about to lead without a plan and amuses his cronies with platitudes about how he will eliminate the enemy as he rolls his cart to the first tee.
ISIS, the un-islamic state, is about to behead the Saudis, Israelis and any other non believer in their non-Islamic religion while training merceneries to go into Europe & the U.S.
and begin hostilities. The flaccid left and priapic right are astonished that such slaughter could happen in our enlightened age. Into this steaming pile trods the Thug Putin and the equally
pungent Hamas criminals. We get to watch it all on TV. What's not to like?
Obama, damned if he do, damned if he don't. He should have just stayed being damned for playing golf.
Bombs4Peace sowing recruits isis stupid stuff indeed
When the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and used drones to assasinate suspected terrorist many critics said that strategy would only spawn a new wave of terrorists and result in a perpetual unwinnable war. There were perfectly viable alternate strategies proposed by veteran counter-terrorism experts, but all were ignored.
The main thing is, he has to look like a macho murdering shithead in time for the elections or the dems are toast.
Isn't that the girl with a cat from Wag the Dog?
Once again our daunted leader steped up to the podium and told everyone how competent he is and how he doesn't want to go it alone, but he will if the congress doesn't fold like lawn chairs facilitating his every whim no matter how stunted the thought process was to develop them. Veild threats,,, if I don't get my way I'm gonna do it anyway... Really are we so pathetic that we will accept this kind of behavior from our leaders.
If Our leadership is so great, why do we need a world consensus to validate that we are in the right. Why is right or wrong a group think instead of a fact principled people must face reguardless of the consequences. At this point in the collective govenmental failure and corruption why does it even matter. The war is disrupting the lives of millions in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America. Why the hell don't we stand up to these childish little bastards and slap them silly till they behaive. It worked for my teachers in school when they were getting a handel on me. I am so tired of unethical people telling me what is politically correct and ignoring the truth. There is no room for this kind of behavior reguadless of the reson or ethnicity of the perpitrator.
The Whole World Needs To Grow Up. Do most of you even realise the Isreal is smaller than LA County... It all a childish arguement and until we treat it that way it will never end.
Barack, We hardly knew ye
Really?Might I suggest you read "Pikovaya dama" ("The Queen of Spades") by Alexander Pushkin?
All this is because the Tail wagging the Dog.
Tail = Israeli bankers & corpns.
Dog = u know what
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Or put the wagon before the horse (when on a downhill)
There should be Nobel prize for The Top Fool & Idiot and it should go to
-- Obamma (u guessed it right)