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Explaining The Latest War In The Middle East With One Cartoon

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Because one cartoon is worth a thousand "sponsored post" all you need to know explainers.

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Fri, 03/27/2015 - 12:12 | 5933998 Mister Delicious
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A fully armed A-10 at the next AIPAC conference could do more for America than just about anything.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:04 | 5933754 nightwish
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See that fella confirming that other fellas question? He's on payroll with mossad / cia.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:09 | 5933770 tictawk
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Who gives a shite? 

Fixed it

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:16 | 5933794 silver_stacker
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Crazy stuff going on in the middle east...it appears the U.S. is switching sides...again...

Greg Hunter's Weekly Wrap-up on USA Watchdog does a pretty good job at trying to untangle this mess...

 

This Wrap-Up will try to make sense of the nonsensical, crazy U.S. Middle East policy:

 

WNW 183-War in Yemen, Crazy Middle East US Policy, Iran Nuke Deal

http://usawatchdog.com/wnw-183-war-in-yemen-crazy-middle-east-us-policy-iran-nuke-deal/

 

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:41 | 5933888 the grateful un...
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during the revolution we back the freedom fighters, after the revolution we back the status quo moderate candidate, and after that person is elected we back the global corporate interests. you just need to know which act of the play this is.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:25 | 5933836 VooDoo6Actual
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PNAC & Helgelian Dialectic written all over it.

You can't roll in it w/o getting any on you.

The STOOPID it burns...

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:37 | 5933872 Son of Captain Nemo
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PNAC & Helgelian Dialectic written all over it.

To your point VDA

They'll get their Samson Option one way or another if they're allowed...  My advice to the U.S. military men and women that know they have been serving as war criminals and want real change for a change, better find us a way out soon for retribution to what has been done to them in the past with the U.S.S. Liberty and then the civilian folks with 9/11 and all the wars that were born out of them...

I really do believe that if Tel Aviv isn't nuked by "broken arrows" within the U.S. military industrial complex soon Israel will make that happen for the rest of us when they don't get what they want!

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:50 | 5933912 the grateful un...
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logic demands we (or maybe the british) propose an Islamic state, deport all the Muslims from Europe, (they can persecute a few of them first to speed up the process) then grant them all sorts of aid, and ignore their plans to expand into nearby countries. then it all comes full circle. Israel is a nation which was born out of terrorism. ergo

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:26 | 5933838 F.A. Hayek
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I'm going into the man-dress manufacturing business. I'm expecting a banner profit this year.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:38 | 5933882 the grateful un...
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do you have to wear underwear with those things, or can you let it swing in the breeze?

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 12:15 | 5934008 F.A. Hayek
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Just go Mexican - or 'undocumented', as it were. It's a part of the men's lib movement.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:26 | 5933839 Comte d'herblay
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Calvin and Hobbes, this is not.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:33 | 5933856 the grateful un...
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oh oh this is starting to smell a lot like Iraq, the annotated Iraq is as follows, feel free to add your own:

oil,jeffersonian democracy,regime change,regional stability,weapons-of-mass-destruction,

yellowcakeuranium,rollingbiologicalwarfarelabs,scudmissilesaimedatIsrael,

freepoliticallyrepressedsunnis,freepoliticallyrepressedshiites,freepoliticallyrepressedkurds,

youcan'tthreatenmydaddythatway,alqaeda,missilesthatcouldreacheurope,kuwait,

personalitycult,enemyofIran,prophecyfortheendofdays,cancelthefrenchandrussianoilcontracts,

throw moneyfromthebackofpickups,theywillthrowrosesatourfeet,the1%doctrine

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:37 | 5933879 semperfi
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if it wasn't for war, the middle east wouldn't know what to do

in the ME, religion is hate, religion is war

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 13:26 | 5934378 Anunnaki
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How very Eurocentic of you to conveniently forget this recent History

World War I - 10 million dead soldiers, 7 million dead civilians
World War II - 25+ million dead soldiers, 75+ million dead civilians. 2% of the world's population

Let's tally from WWI Muslim atrocities

Armenian genocide including 300k Assyrians ( my grandmother lost her entire family to Kurdish butchers) several hundred thousand Greeks

So 2 million

Partition in India probably half a million dead Hindus and Sikhs. British famine in Bengal during WWII killed 3 million. Add to the euro count

Pakistan/Bangladesh - 1.5 to 3 million

Iran/Iraq war. Over a million

Muzzies got a way to go to catch up with enlightened West

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 13:39 | 5934433 Loucleve
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the turks killed 700,000 greeks along with 1.2 million armenians.

and the West.............sat back and watched.

Read - Symrna 1922.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 13:46 | 5934453 Mister Delicious
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actually - it was pretty quiet until Zionism.

for centuries.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 13:57 | 5934475 I-am-not-one-of-them
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so ignorant of fact, so oblivious to reality

 

blaming the victims of Western agression

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 14:20 | 5934599 semperfi
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tell me that the women suffering genital mutilation are victims of Western agression

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 15:23 | 5934923 I-am-not-one-of-them
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nothing to do with US aggression murdering millions of Muslims for Imperialism

women don't permanently suffer as I do not permanently suffer from being circumcised (my mom and dad didn't ask me either)

"Areas Most common in 27 countries in Africa, as well as in Yemen and Iraqi Kurdistan"

find an excuse to bomb a country, hate, regardless if it applies to them, so as to steal from them, that is despicable

do you ask a woman if her clitoris has been clipped before you kill her because she's a Muslim living in a Muslim country that the USA wants to overthrow, bomb, torture, occupy and steal their resources?  

and when all Muslim countries are conquered, you'll find new excuses for the other countries left to conquer (Russians and Chinese are communist, blah, blah, mass murder for bootee)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:48 | 5933907 Kokulakai
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The drivel spewing forth from talking heads means nothing.

The continuity of policy points straight at the money.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 11:54 | 5933927 dogismycopilot
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Not only is this a bit of mis-direction for Russia (next step, Color Revolutions in Krygstan, Tajikistan, etc), but the US Federal Government knows that there is NO FUCKING WAY JOE SIX PACK WILL EVER FIGURE THIS MIDDLE EASTERN SHIT OUT NOW. For those who have not a fucking clue about the Middle East they will not know what is going on. You practically have to have a masters in Middle Eastern Studies to know who is who anymore.

Suffice to say, this is bad shit happening at all levels across the Middle East and you know who the fuck keeps showing up?

The United States Federal Government (USFG).

I swear to Jesus Christ, Americans should start referring to the US Federal Government (USFG) by their initials because no American I know would be so fucking dumb as Obama and the Department of State and all of the other dumb fucking USFG people in the Middle East. Also, it goes together really well - ISIS/USFG

 

 

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 12:09 | 5933982 BustainMovealota
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Not true at all,  Joe and Josephine Sixpack can figure out "The Voice", "Dancing with thw Stars", and NFL schedules, NCAA Basketball Brackets,,,  surely they can figure  the Middle East stuff,, should be no problem.  /sarc

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 13:34 | 5934404 I-am-not-one-of-them
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the objectives are plain and simple (Imperialism), it's the excuses given to explain away the reasons that are nonsensical (requires a country filled with hate and stupidity to accept)

 

don't blame Obama, he's just reading a teleprompter (written by NEOCONS and the Ruling Elite), doing his job of flapping his gums fooling the mass morons

 

 

 

 

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 16:31 | 5935170 TeethVillage88s
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Imperialism:

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Cecil Rhodes and the Cape-Cairo railway project. Rhodes founded the De Beers Mining Company, owned the British South Africa Company and had his name given to what became the state of Rhodesia. He liked to "paint the map British red" and declared: "all of these stars ... these vast worlds that remain out of reach. If I could, I would annex other planets".[1]

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 15:06 | 5934841 TeethVillage88s
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Usfug almost sounds Muslim to BTW.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 12:11 | 5933992 JLM
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Severely depressed people have nothing to live for.  They are broken and know it and the doctors give them <15% chance of full recovery.  They are a perfect target for someone looking for a suicide bomber.  Convince them that the cause of their illness is xxx and they will take you down with them if they have forsaken their moral component.  This asshole clearly did!! 

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 13:45 | 5934446 BraveSirRobin
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I have seen no evidence this guy was a Muslim. There was a German blog post stating so from an obviously anti-muslim writer. But there has been no confirmation. If the co-pilot yelled Alluha Akbar on the way down I would say there was stong evidence, but he was silent, and I know of no confirmation of muslim conversion. 

It does not hurt to wait a bit before forming conclusions. 

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 12:16 | 5934015 besnook
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i can't understand why those ingrates can't understand the merits of drone democracy.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 12:19 | 5934027 Paveway IV
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"...Because one cartoon is worth a thousand "sponsored post" all you need to know explainers..."

Of course. How could it possibly have anything to do with Hadi and the U.S.? 

When does the bombing of Muslims in Iran start? [sigh]

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 12:43 | 5934150 Farmer Joe in B...
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Isn't Bill Hillary's beard...??

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 13:54 | 5934314 I-am-not-one-of-them
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“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran..”

 

The list is ~14 years old.

 

What they meant was, here's the starting Global Hegemony list of countries to attack after the Pearl Harbor incident required to jump start the American Century, and any country who ain't with us are against us and will get added to the list in due time until Global Hegemony is complete.

 

Proxies are required for this monumental task, so any and every vassel state of the USA  will be part of it.

 

 

 

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 13:39 | 5934432 BraveSirRobin
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"2. How many Israelis have been killed in 2008-2015, vs. how many Muslims?

Do the math, connect the dots and use your head, rather than just regurgitating other people's stale positions about BO's alleged loyalties.'

This passes as logic? OK, let's try this: "How many Swiss have been killed in 2008-2015, vs. how many Muslims?" or "How Danes have been killed in 2008-2015, vs. how many Muslims?" or "How many Bermuda have been killed in 2008-2015, vs. how many Muslims?" or "How many Canadians have been killed in 2008-2015, vs. how many Muslims?" etc, etc, etc. 

You really are fucking idiot, and actually incapable of any sort of rational though process.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 13:45 | 5934449 Nico Bellik
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how many Danes, Swiss, Canadians etc have committed acts of terror and proclaimed death to Israel & the United Sates?

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 13:49 | 5934466 Mister Delicious
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huh?

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 14:00 | 5934514 Mister Delicious
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Raimondo....

Leave the Houthis Alone! Why are we on the same side as the Saudis – and al Qaeda – in Yemen?

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2015/03/26/leave-the-houthis-alone/

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 14:23 | 5934612 frankly scarlet
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Man I feel for the people of the region...this all goes back to Brzezinski's Russophobia and suckering the USSR into coming to the aid of the very progressive Afghan government that the USA had stirred up the mujahideen against. Its a curse to have oil beneath your turf.

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 15:03 | 5934829 Mi Naem
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I am pleased and proud that our wise and strong American leadership has brought peace to the Middle East, security for the people of Ukraine, strong and constructive relations with other global powers, and a bright future for our own people. 

SO proud.  Yes. 

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 15:15 | 5934879 Rusputin
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Oil can only rise! Putin says thanks :-)

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 19:56 | 5935851 are we there yet
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Their religion is crazy and built on hate, so all politics, and life views built on their crazy religion are also crazy and built on hate.

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