Wake Me At Armageddon
To a certain extent, all of us are what we think. And what we read determines our thoughts. Ergo, we are the product of what we read. No wonder I am confused most of the time. What I have been reading lately is terribly confusing and contradictory. I would prefer to be enjoying the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Robert Herrick, the orations of the American Indians, and poems from ancient Greece. As it is, I am stuck in a world of geopolitics and the current American scene, where everything is up for grabs. There is much mendacity and cocksureness, but no beauty. It is dreary and sometimes downright depressing.
For example, I keep reading about how the twice-elected President of the world’s lone surviving “Superpower” intends to attack Iran before he gets out of town. Immediately I am confused, like many Americans, because:
1) There seems to be no good, objective reason for attacking Iran, and
2) Our President does not possess the constitutional authority to do it.
No matter. Domestic politics and “neocon” propaganda dictate that he should. So maybe he will. The latest indication that an unprovoked, “preemptive” attack on Iran is in the cards is from Ken Silverstein of “Washington Babylon” at Harper’s, dated September 4th, and entitled “Former CIA official expects war with Iran”. Most informative, credible and kind of scary. Read it and see what you think.
Then there is the item on another progressive website, CounterPunch.org, entitled“Bush, Iran and Israel’s Hidden Hand,” by former CIA analysts Kathleen and Bill Christison. It calls for Cheney and Bush to be impeached before they can attack Iran. Under this scenario, impeachment would be a preventative measure as well as the penalty for gross malfeasance. That Iran will be attacked “sometime before January 2009, when the Bush administration leaves office” is a given. I am inclined to agree 100 percent with the Christisons on both propositions: (a) Cheney and Bush richly deserve to be impeached (I would add that their closest advisers should be bastinadoed for good measure) based upon the factual record to date and (b) Cheney and Bush in their imbecility will attack Iran, unless stopped. It all makes sense. So far, so good.
The only problem is, Cheney and Bush will not be impeached and they cannot be stopped. There is no way a Democratic-controlled Capitol Hill in 2007-2008 is going to impeach Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Why? Simply because a Democratic-controlled Senate in 2002 authorized the launching of “Operation Iraqi Freedom” and has funded the enterprise every foolhardy step of the way. In plain English, if they tried to impeach Cheney-Bush over the enterprise of Iraq, the Democrats would be impeaching themselves. And both sides know it. So it’s a standoff. The Democrats would be inviting onlookers to ask why the Democrats authorized this predatory war in the first place. Do you think Hillary Clinton et alia want to see video clips of themselves dumping hogwash on a gullible American public back in 2002-2003? The electorate might compare it, side by side, to the hogwash of today as it relates to the bogus threat from Iran. The electorate might put 2 + 2 together, and who wants that? Certainly not the Washington establishment or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Moreover, if Congress actually had any intention to stop Cheney-Bush from attacking Iran, it does not need to impeach them. Both houses of Congress could simply pass a binding resolution forbidding the President from taking military action against Iran without Congressional authorization. Presto, Edgar and Charlie would be handcuffed. All this would fit nicely within the powers accorded Congress by specific language in the U.S. Constitution. Remember that document? However, at the direction of AIPAC, the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have quashed the requirement for the President to come to Congress for war authorization. At the same time, the White House and its neocon support network are ratcheting up the propaganda against Tehran—in dreary rerun of their prevarication campaign concerning Iraq in 2002. In effect, Capitol Hill has given the Cheney-Bush White House a free pass to launch a barrage of air strikes on Iran at any time, probably in coordination with Tel Aviv. That is the reality.
Similarly, it would not require the impeachment of Cheney-Bush to end U.S. participation in the Iraq inferno. Capitol Hill could simply cut off funding and set a date certain for withdrawal from that civil war zone, which is all of Iraq except Kurdistan. Republican Presidential hopeful Congressman Ron Paul and Democratic hopeful former Senator Mike Gravel have pointed this out in no uncertain terms. But neither the Democratic nor the Republican leadership will cut off funding—again thanks to politics and the war lobbies—even though Iraq has transmogrified into a ten-star disaster for all concerned. In short, the Democrats are complicit in the Iraq misadventure up to their armpits, along with the Republicans. The lunatics are running the asylum. The question remains, “Who put them there?”
Here’s another question: Why shouldn’t peace-lovers get behind a Ron Paul/Mike Gravel third party ticket to explode the fraudulent two-party establishment? They may not win, but they can ask an endless amount of embarrassing questions to rattle the hypocrites and the frauds in charge.
Which brings me to Mike Ledeen, one of the outstanding warmongers over at Nationalreview.com, where conservatives have given way to neocon crazies like Ledeen and professor Victor Davis Hanson. “Freedom Scholar” Ledeen wants to bomb Iran yesterday, as part of a campaign to “liberate” it and ignite a regional war of liberation. Read his in-house interview “Tick, Tock” on NRO. Evidently, Ledeen is a true believer in his own propaganda, much like the communist apparatchiki in days of yore. This may make him intellectually honest. It also makes him more dangerous. The joys of “Operation Iraqi Freedom” are not enough for Ledeen. He wants to spread the joy to neighboring countries, with all the collateral blowback to America which that will entail. He and Hanson—how do they sleep at night?—may be out of their minds, but they have a soul-mate in the basement of the White House as well as inside the Oval Office.
That operative in the basement is Elliot Abrams, “the last neocon standing“ and he is at the controls of U.S. Mideast policy. Elliot Abrams and Dick Cheney are frantically looking for any excuse to bomb the hell out of Iran. Abrams is the son-in-law of the “neocon” mugwump, Norman Podhoretz and his wife Midge Decter.
May the Force be with you. The fix is in. What Trotsky was to Bolshevism, Podhoretz is to Neoconservatism. Podhoretz is Rudy Giuliani’s chief foreign policy advisor. Get the picture? Rudy is sending a signal and going for the gold. Podhoretz made his wishes clear last June in a Commentary article entitled “The Case for Bombing Iran”. So even in the unlikely event that Edgar and Charlie were impeached, and they don’t get around to bombing Iran, Iran will get whacked in the next “neocon” administration—of either party. The sheer gall of intellectuals like Podhoretz, Ledeen, Decter and Hanson—who take it upon themselves to propagandize Uncle Sam into a gratuitous war to advance their own private agenda and feed their colossal egos—is breathtaking. Well, they got away with it, so why shouldn’t they try it again? Who is to stop them? Certainly not Congress.
At this time allow me to draw your attention to an antidote to the Ledeen-Hanson-Abrams-Podhoretz-Decter balderdash. It may be found in the August 21st interview entitled “Iraq Does Not Exist Anymore” with American journalist Nir Rosen on the left-wing website Democracynow.org, run by peace activist Amy Goodman. What is a traditional conservative like myself doing, perusing a left-wing political Web site? One has to embrace common sense and sanity where one finds it. They have become rare commodities. Nir Rosen has been there—to the actual places called Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Lebanon and Pakistan—and he tells it like it is. His outlook should be taken seriously.
Here’s what Rosen has to say about the current meltdown in Iraq: “...the Iraqi government doesn’t matter. It has no power. And it doesn’t matter who you put in there. He’s not going to have any power. Baghdad doesn’t really matter, except for Baghdad.... The government doesn’t do anything, doesn’t provide any services, whether security, electricity, health or otherwise. Various militias control various ministries, and they use it as their fiefdoms. Ministries attack other ministries.” All this chaos comes courtesy of your tax money and mine. Assuming these circumstances are true, or even halfway true, what does it matter what General Petraeus reports with respect to his military successes? Iraq is a nightmare. Petraeus is doing his job, but he and his men should not be there in the first place, and we all know that now.
Here’s Rosen’s take on Iran: “Iran, until now, I think, has been the primary beneficiary of the US war in Iraq, in that their people are the ones in charge, and their main enemy, or one of them after Israel, Saddam Hussein, was removed. So we could have seen Iran as an ally in all this, and I think that we could have seen them as an ally in Afghanistan, as well. But we’ve chosen to invent an enemy [emphasis added] where we didn’t have one before.”
So now, to even the scales, we are being set up by the White House to bomb the foremost beneficiary of its own self-defeating war in Iraq, which war was launched at the behest of the Israel Lobby and at the urging of its agents, the neocons. Always more war. We are witnessing the results. To what end? Does it make any sense?
The entire Nir Rosen interview is worth reading from start to finish. At the end, Rosen addresses the all-important but studiously-neglected topic of Palestine, which is sure to warm the cold hearts of Mike Ledeen, Victor Hanson, Norm Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Elliot Abrams, et alia in the Likud/Neocon constellation. Palestine is at the heart of their regional war, of their widely touted “clash of civilizations,” and at the epicenter of almost all the bloodshed in the Middle East since 1948. Of course, the usual suspects very seldom confront this central issue, except to dismiss it offhandedly as a side story. Rosen concludes: “What needs to happen at this point is a one-state solution, where Palestinian refugees are allowed to go back to their homes, where Israel is a state for Jews and non-Jews alike, a state for its citizens. And this one-state solution is inevitable.” Rosen has touched upon the ultimate taboo: the right of return for the injured party. Sounds like democracy to me, purportedly what Cheney and Bush and even the “neocons” themselves are trying to promote in the Middle East, right? At least that is what they say. Or could “democracy” be just another outlandish White House cover story, a hoax? What a surprise and disappointment that would be.
In the meantime, I will be reading Marvell and Herrick, which is what I studied at Columbia. I want to get back to the metaphysical poets and to Lord Rochester and Will Shakespeare. I’ve held on to all that material. Please don’t disturb me until Armageddon.
Patrick Foy is the author of The Unauthorized World Situation Report.
Comments
It’s a stand-off, eh?
If it is, then it’s an “anti-Mexican Stand-Off”, that is, when all parties have the guns pointed at themselves, and nobody really wants to commit suicide...as for the argument against war, as defined by the Constitution, since when does the Constitution mean anything in America? Did President Washington have any Constitutional Authortity regarding the so-called “Whiskey Rebellion”? No, but it didn’t stop “them”.
Every sensible person realizes what kind of disaster Iraq really is, especially those people that are what we call “sensible” had have been there. My father was in the US Army for 20+ years, and MANY (10+) of my friends from high school enlisted into the various armed services, and most of them have been to Iraq and Afghanistan more than once (I’ve “only” had 2 friends killed in those two hell-holes) and they have all expressed a desire never to go back. War is HELL, and this war is no different. The only difference is that no one, that is reasonable, can find any reason for it.
As for that shitty little country, and it’s influence and benefit of this (these?) war(s), it doesn’t matter. We don’t have to worry about how Israel benefits, or suffers, what should concern Americans more is how their own conscious is affected. That’s the beauty of democracy - if 50.000000001% are psychotic maniacs, and are unaffected by murder, then that makes it OK, right?
Of course NOT. That is the very EVIL of democracy.
In the long run, as democracy exists, there will be evil in the world, not that monarchism any better.
Evil exists in the world due to the Fall, and that’s the way life is, but don’t make your self part of it by voting.
At least with monarchs the blame is on THEM not you the voter.
I’d rather Elizabeth I or II go to Hell than some poor slob that voted for Tony Blair, even though I pray for both their souls.
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“How do they sleep at night?” Very simple. They have no worries about themselves or their children being involved in the wars they foment. Does anyone know of a single neocon of either party who has ever worn a uniform? An American one, that is. One must make an exception for those who like Rahm Emanuel put on an Israeli uniform.
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Last February, it was widely reported that a US attack on Iran was averted when several high ranking military officers advised that they would refuse to obey an order to attack Iran. The name of CentCom head Admiral Fallon loomed large in these reports and he was quoted as saying, “We’re putting the crazies back in their boxes”. It was the crazies in Washington he was referring to.
Now, in the midst of another drive for war with Iran by the neo-cons and their kept media, we hear Admiral Fallon quoted, in an Al-Jazeera interview no less, that there will be no war with Iran and that the war propaganda should be ended. It’s also been reported that the Admiral is working out procedures with his Iranian counterparts to avoid accidental confrontations in the Gulf and the escalation of such confrontations. It’s also been reported that Fallon called his subordinate, the ambitious courtier General Petraes, “an a##-ki##ing little chicken-#hit” to his face.
The boy emperor needs another ingredient besides a cowardly Congress and a compliant media for his proposed war against Iran. He needs military men who will carry out his immoral orders without question. Maybe he has run into one who won’t. Maybe there are others. Dare we hope?
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The senior military under their oath to the constitution, must some how prevent this, both paries are under control of the Israeli lobby.
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I am beginning to wonder if all the buildup in offensive capability in Southwest Asia may not be used against Iran, but instead is intended for a surprise attack on Pakistan. The Pakistanis already have both nuclear weapons and the missiles for delivering them and are consequently a current and direct threat to Israel. Certainly they are increasingly politically unstable and are a breeding ground for jihadis that are infiltrating Afghanistan, and fighting against our puppet government. They have also directly proliferated nuclear technology and materials to other “rogue states”.
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Another simple reason why the Dems won’t initiate impeachment proceedings is that they’re content to wait for the 2008 election, confident that they’ll take the White House and both houses of Congress. For them to challenge Bush and Cheney directly with an impeachment effort would risk rallying the (remaining) GOP base prior to the election—and, as Foy notes, exposing their own complicity in the Iraq debacle.
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Yup, it’s never about accountability with supposed leaders. It’s always the next election. Cheney got 5 deferments from vietnam. John Ashcroft got 7 deferments, which makes me question where his allegiance lies. Ashcroft doesn’t have allegiance with israel like the neocons. Ashcrofts allegiance and all of Bush’s henchmens allegiance is with themselves and their richness and their thin theads of connection to the upper class. Kinda nihilistic if they no longer care about the afterlife.
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Do not expect politicians and generals to end unjust shit wars.This responsbility belongs to the DEMOS.Americans this sunday ,Instead of sitting on their fat asses to watch the NFL or taking a trip to the mall to consume themselves to oblivion,decided to march on all fifty state capitols to take their democracy back.We might begin to see some daylight. The democrats are useless.The GOP must be made to feel this war will break their party in order for them to move in the right direction. So demos take the fear game and throw it back in the politicians faces. Ostracism from the troth of power is a concept polticians understand.
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Please...They won’t impeach the Armageddon Twins
because they are ALL controlled by the same global
financial crime syndicate. One big charade so yes
please wake me up when we arrive at Armageddon so
I can see the look in the eyes of the sheep.
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Iran confident it can defeat the US/Israel if war breaks out
Why Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Wants War with the U.S.
on 2007/9/21 15:40:00 (377 reads)
William Pfaff
Paris, September 20, 2007 – The degree of alarm and war propaganda generated in the United States and elsewhere by the Iranian nuclear program reflects a variety of ideological, political and industrial interests that have little or nothing to do with the actual risks a potentially nuclear Iran poses to anyone.
What the current debate fails to appreciate, or does not know, is that an important part of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard leadership actually wants the United States to attack Iran, and is attempting to provoke it to do so.
Iran’s ability to manufacture a militarily useable nuclear weapon is by general professional and intelligence consensus (even in the U.S.) at least a decade away. With such a weapon it would be subject to American, Israeli and other nuclear deterrence, and potentially obliterating retaliation. (“Iran is not a suicide nation,” General John Abizaid, former head of U.S. Central Command, remarked a few days ago.) The nuclear weapon’s utility to Iran for any other purpose than deterrence of attack against Iran would be slight to zero.
Sources inside Iran, opposed to the present mullahs’ government, but loyal to the Islamic republic, have described to this writer why leading figures in the Revolutionary Guard believe that an attack on their country by America or Israel (or France — since the Sarkozy government in France seems sympathetic to extreme measures against Iran) would actually produce in political but also military terms a great victory for Iran and the Islamic cause, as well as serving the Revolutionary Guard’s own organizational and political interests.
They see Bush administration hawks, Washington’s neo-conservatives, and Israel’s lobbyists for an attack on Iran, as objectively their allies in promoting a defeat for the United States and decisive blow to the international standing and strategy of the United States.
They believe they can apply to U.S. Naval forces measures of asymmetric warfare, using advanced technology, just as Lebanon’s Hezbollah did last year in resisting Israel’s ground intervention in Lebanon and destroying Israeli armor.
Similar methods, applied by the insurgents in Iraq, have taken a severe toll in American vehicles, armor and troops.
These Iranian officers think they can successfully attack American naval and air bases with rockets and commando interventions, and sink American warships with attacks by swarming fleets of speedboats and civilian vessels armed with anti-ship and armor-piercing weapons, blinding, overloading or crashing ships’ radar defenses and countermeasures by the sheer mass of the attacks.
They also believe that after their successful eight-year war with Iraq, they have become masters of entrenchment, subterranean defensive measures, dissimulation and camouflage, military dispersal, misdirection and misinformation, so that even the two thousand U.S. air and missile attacks spoken of in some Washington reports would not be able to find and destroy the essential components of Iran’s nuclear research and manufacturing capabilities.
U.S. and Israeli attacks could destroy buildings and national infrastructure, causing mainly civilian casualties, but this would strengthen Iranian popular support for their radical leaders and win international sympathy, with politically devastating effect on U.S. standing in the non-western world, and on opinion among U.S. allies.
If the U.S. were to break the world’s six-decade nuclear truce since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and use nuclear weapons against Iranian defenses, as Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly favors, these Iranian believe America would be left an international pariah.
An American attack on Iran would also be welcomed by these Revolutionary Guard officials because the crisis would vault them into leading places in Iran’s leadership. These are relatively young men, from poor or modest backgrounds, radicalized by war service in the Revolutionary Guards during the eight-year war with Iraq, and by underground and political work since 1980. They now are advanced in their careers, and want power.
They also want material rewards. War is profitable. The Iran-Iraq war was deliberately prolonged by Iran after a 1988 UN cease-fire because during wars civilian economies become black-market economies, and military leaders and military institutions are those best placed to profit.
It may be that the calculations of these Revolutionary Guard officers concerning war with the United States are wrong. But they suggest that starting a war against Iran today carries risks less easily predicted than the present discussion complacently assumes.
http://www.williampfaff.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=254
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Iran is not the biggest problem in the region. Pakistan is armed with nuclear weapons and very unstable. President, and US ally, Musharraf is not really able to control his more radical countrymen. He is no Saddam Hussein. Sadly, the world would be safer if he was.
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i have given over to calling the ‘iraq war’ the ‘usa war’ on iraq soil… lets call a spade a spade.. it is usa’s war being fought on iraqi soil… i will also be calling the war the warmongers want to start in iran the ‘usa war’ albeit iran soil.. americans need to be made aware that is how the rest of the world sees it. americans need to also know that the people being killed/murdered in iraq are due to the americans.
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I agree that we won’t get any help in this situation from any insider. When one of them gets too noisy, he/she gets taken out. The the alternative would be that we stand all together and say we want our democracy back. Easier said then done. If we do that we do have something to lose. Our present comfort. My observation is that most of the time we(including myself) wait until things get bad enough and that we don’t have anything to lose before we act. This was the case in many revolutions. So my guess is that until the majority of us really see the threat in advance and are ready to risk a temporary worse off situation, nothing will move. We just wait until the situation has worsened to a point where it might be too late ... or will it be?
It’s up to all of us really, just like in a cancer situation, to weigh the risks of acting now or the risks of waiting. Did anybody hear of anyone being better off waiting when he gets diagnosed of cancer?
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I congratulate you, Mr Foy; you have taken the first step from left and right thinking. You are now on your way to becoming an anarchist.
I’m not too fond of the Scottish traitor, Queen Elizabeth II, but the one smart thing she does, every day, is read ALL the newspapers. How can you be fully informed if you do not?
But that jerk slagging off Elizabeth the first can go wash his foul mouth out. Elizabeth was the last “English” Queen, and in her speech at Tilbury she told the people not to live in fear; that our enemies have to live in fear. As a leader, she was a good leader. Any time you want to argue about it, Andy Capp, do feel free. What did Elizabeth do with the gold she took from the Spanish, French, and Portuguese? She used it to start the industrial revolution, freeing people from slavery on the land, and creating modern society, instead of hoarding it in the coffers of the Church. It is the Scottish/Hanoverian monarchs ever since that went in for Empire building.
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The War in Iraq is a fraudulent and criminal act against humanity. It is a manufactured war. It involves the theft of billions of American tax dollars to finance killings of Iraqi citizens. The spin doctors spin on American mass media. The talking chickenhawks cluck for a war they will never fight and never pay with their own blood. Based on lies, drowned in blood of Iraqi citizens and naive American soldiers that believed it was a nobel cause--but in reality the ultimate deception. Rise up and restore America’s dignity. End this criminal war.
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It’s not politically correct but it’s true: Again it’s the Zionists. Yes, call me what you want, but The Zionists speak through AIPAC and the Congress and President do their bidding. But, some day America will wake up and there will be hell to pay. Then let’s not hear them ( yes a collective term with collective guilt) complain.Deport them, the President and the Congress to Israel and let them all await the second coming. Oh, only if they would all be rapured up before the war with Iran.
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We should pray that people come to their senses.
Both Iran and the USA have messianic leaders ...
At least in their own minds.
Intersting Persia is mentioned in these End Times
scenarios.
We’d be better or worrying about Russia’s new
dry run bomber patrols launched at the US mainland,
or threats of nuclear attack by Russia and China
over the Balkans and Taiwan.
We are a cowardly nation that sends women with
babies and small children into combat.
It’s sickening to watch how far my country has
fallen since Reagan left office.
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What in the world is going on with the Jewish elites? Can they not see that this bald-faced advocacy for war on Iran is generating enormous ill will towards Israel and Zionism? If one is going to be a behind-the-scenes manipulator, one has to be a little more subtle than going full-tilt crazy with venomous hatred towards everything Muslim and/or Iran. Our Congress may be 100% in AIPAC’s corner but the majority of this country is scratching its head asking “Who the Hell is running this country - Americans or Israelis?”
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the great united states war machine can not even defeat a few thousand insurgents in iraq what the hell are they going to do against 70 million iranians have you stupid ass americans lost your wind
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Maybe we aren’t supposed to win. Maybe that’s why the Elites are buying real estate in South America. Maybe this is the big die-off scenario that’s been discussed in some academic circles. Believe me Americans are PLENTY pissed off. I constantly see comments by people overseas asking what is wrong with Americans. Sure we watch football and laugh at silly cartoons, but you want us to march en masse to overthrow the government? That would be suicide. Clearly these people are maniacs and will have no problem killing, torturing, imprisoning their own people should they be foolish enough to interrupt their plans. Its not like the old days where the people are just as well armed as the government. They have total information control, satellites, prisons, tasers, etc. Plus, I am convinced that just like in COINTELPRO days they have infiltrated any group that could possibly pose a threat or organize any kind of mass protest. And of course the media would just ignore the protest anyhow so no one would know anything about it, or it would be minimized. There have been a lot of protests (and a lot of arrests) it just doesn’t get much attention. I don’t know what else to say to you folks out there who think Americans caused this to happen. Elections were rigged, maniacs with no ethics grabbed power, and we have no choice but to watch it unfold from the inside. May God helps us all and have mercy on our souls. best of luck.
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And one more thing: I hate the comparisons of the Americanpeople to the German citizens of World War II. The Germans were more than happy to glorify the war machine and serve in the armed services. Here, only the poorest of the poor serve willingly in the military and right now EVERYONE wants out that is in. If they try to institute a draft then you will see riots, so instead they just hire paid mercenaries to do their bidding. These mercenaries will kill a journalist, a citizen, or an enemy combatent with equal cold prejudice. This isn’t a national war, its a commercial enterprise.
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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
— Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- ), American writer
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Bush and his cronies might very well decide to bomb the “you know what” out of Iran to stop its nuclear power project. The world stood by when Israel did the same to Iraq. But in a few years with an ever increasing demand for monies to execute these unlawful ventures and to somewhat repair the damages done, Americans are going to wake up the economic impact of this foolery. When the USA debt limit is raised from 9 trillion to 11 trillion dollars in a few months so that the government can pay its bill, the average American will accept the government’s financial opinion that it doesn’t matter. Well it does matter. The real worth of a US dollar around the world has tumbled (already by 50%) meaning that the USA might again compete with China and Mexico in exporting cheap products. That’s jobs paid for in cheap US dollars. The price of a barrel of oil (a better measure of world wealth than the $) will exceed $100 US next year. The cost of Americans to travel outside of the USA will become unthinkable. Of course most Americans have never travelled outside their country and those that have did not learn very much about how other people choose to live. These 21st Century War Senarios by Bush and his backers have only advanced the day when the USA dominance as the world super-power will come to an unfunded end. Enjoy the empire while you can and hope that what you have created in the middle-East doesn’t come back to seek revenge.
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In my experience everyone supports the war. We are the Germans of WWII! And the intense brainwashing machine is way more sophisticated now. People actually believe all the lies on the mainstream media about the war and the Middle East. Anyone with a sober dissenting opinion is infiltrated, discredited or attacked.
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In my experience everyone supports the war. We are the Germans of WWII!
Hear, hear. Germans ain’t Martians, Aaron. Enough with the Anglo exceptionalism--save that crap for Chicago Boyz or Albion’s Seedlings.
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Palestine is indeed the heart of this slaughter.
And most Americans support Israel because of their
religious beliefs. I never even knew who actually
really owned Palestine until I started reading the
day after 9/11. I discovered the Balfour
Declaration. I now know of our extreme support of
the jews. I know of the USS Liberty attack. I know
of the jews who have spied on the US. I know of
all the lies told by the jews. They say “a land
without people for a people without land”. And yet,
the Balfour declaration itself puts the lie to this
little quip.
And I also now know of the facts about the so
called holocaust. The jews have told many lies
about “their” holocaust. The jew soap. The jew
skin lampshades. The “six million”. The gas
chambers. Everyone has seen those walking and dead
skeletons. It looks horrible. But I ask you to
think. If the nazis were intent on destroying the
jew, why would he allow those wretched humans to
exist. It would have been much simpler to have just
crammed them in the old gas chamber. Why not do a
katyn massacre on them. I can tell you it takes
over 2 hours to burn a male body and 2 hours to
wait for the oven fire bricks to cool. Open that
door too fast and all your firebricks crack. And
people who die from zyklon and carbon monoxide gas
turn red - not blue. I investigated zyklon and
carbon monoxide and even helped burn a body.
Believe me, that Iranian president is correct.
Not a single jew died of poison gas and only a
few died of starvation and disease. But if you dare
to even utter this in public in Europe, they will
indeed put you in prison. Even the former German
soldiers have been so brainwashed, they believe it
too. Think about it. The holocaust as claimed is
a physical impossibility.
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Armageddon narrowly averted again? Once more the web is full of rumors of a US/Israeli nuclear attack on Iran which didn’t quite come off in September due to the silent mutiny of US Air Force and intelligence officers. Most of the members of the hidden oligarchy which rules the US behind the facade of democracy realize that they must restrain their errant son and his puppet master Cheney to avert catastrophe. But can they keep on doing it for another 16 months? And what if Israel attacks Iran on its own, confident that Iranian retaliation will drag in the US anyway?
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