Dear President Obama,

Do you really want to be the new “war president“? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing you could do — destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they’ve always heard is true — that all politicians are alike. I simply can’t believe you’re about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn’t so.

It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other way around. That’s the way General Washington insisted it must be. That’s what President Truman told General MacArthur when MacArthur wanted to invade China. “You’re fired!,” said Truman, and that was that. And you should have fired Gen. McChrystal when he went to the press to preempt you, telling the press what YOU had to do. Let me be blunt: We love our kids in the armed services, but we f*#&in’ hate these generals, from Westmoreland in Vietnam to, yes, even Colin Powell for lying to the UN with his made-up drawings of WMD (he has since sought redemption).

So now you feel backed into a corner. 30 years ago this past Thursday (Thanksgiving) the Soviet generals had a cool idea — “Let’s invade Afghanistan!” Well, that turned out to be the final nail in the USSR coffin.

There’s a reason they don’t call Afghanistan the "Garden State" (though they probably should, seeing how the corrupt President Karzai, whom we back, has his brother in the heroin trade raising poppies). Afghanistan’s nickname is the "Graveyard of Empires." If you don’t believe it, give the British a call. I’d have you call Genghis Khan but I lost his number. I do have Gorbachev’s number though. It’s + 41 22 789 1662. I’m sure he could give you an earful about the historic blunder you’re about to commit.

With our economic collapse still in full swing and our precious young men and women being sacrificed on the altar of arrogance and greed, the breakdown of this great civilization we call America will head, full throttle, into oblivion if you become the “war president.” Empires never think the end is near, until the end is here. Empires think that more evil will force the heathens to toe the line — and yet it never works. The heathens usually tear them to shreds.

Choose carefully, President Obama. You of all people know that it doesn’t have to be this way. You still have a few hours to listen to your heart, and your own clear thinking. You know that nothing good can come from sending more troops halfway around the world to a place neither you nor they understand, to achieve an objective that neither you nor they understand, in a country that does not want us there. You can feel it in your bones.

I know you know that there are LESS than a hundred al-Qaeda left in Afghanistan! A hundred thousand troops trying to crush a hundred guys living in caves? Are you serious? Have you drunk Bush’s Kool-Aid? I refuse to believe it.

Your potential decision to expand the war (while saying that you’re doing it so you can “end the war”) will do more to set your legacy in stone than any of the great things you’ve said and done in your first year. One more throwing a bone from you to the Republicans and the coalition of the hopeful and the hopeless may be gone — and this nation will be back in the hands of the haters quicker than you can shout “tea bag!”

Choose carefully, Mr. President. Your corporate backers are going to abandon you as soon as it is clear you are a one-term president and that the nation will be safely back in the hands of the usual idiots who do their bidding. That could be Wednesday morning.

We the people still love you. We the people still have a sliver of hope. But we the people can’t take it anymore. We can’t take your caving in, over and over, when we elected you by a big, wide margin of millions to get in there and get the job done. What part of “landslide victory” don’t you understand?

Don’t be deceived into thinking that sending a few more troops into Afghanistan will make a difference, or earn you the respect of the haters. They will not stop until this country is torn asunder and every last dollar is extracted from the poor and soon-to-be poor. You could send a million troops over there and the crazy Right still wouldn’t be happy. You would still be the victim of their incessant venom on hate radio and television because no matter what you do, you can’t change the one thing about yourself that sends them over the edge.

The haters were not the ones who elected you, and they can’t be won over by abandoning the rest of us.

HATER #1

President Obama, it’s time to come home. Ask your neighbors in Chicago and the parents of the young men and women doing the fighting and dying if they want more billions and more troops sent to Afghanistan. Do you think they will say, “No, we don’t need health care, we don’t need jobs, we don’t need homes. You go on ahead, Mr. President, and send our wealth and our sons and daughters overseas, ’cause we don’t need them, either.”

What would Martin Luther King, Jr. do? What would your grandmother do? Not send more poor people to kill other poor people who pose no threat to them, that’s what they’d do. Not spend billions and trillions to wage war while American children are sleeping on the streets and standing in bread lines.

All of us that voted and prayed for you and cried the night of your victory have endured an Orwellian hell of eight years of crimes committed in our name: torture, rendition, suspension of the bill of rights, invading nations who had not attacked us, blowing up neighborhoods that Saddam “might” be in (but never was), slaughtering wedding parties in Afghanistan. We watched as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were slaughtered and tens of thousands of our brave young men and women were killed, maimed, or endured mental anguish — the full terror of which we scarcely know.

When we elected you we didn’t expect miracles. We didn’t even expect much change. But we expected some. We thought you would stop the madness. Stop the killing. Stop the insane idea that men with guns can reorganize a nation that doesn’t even function as a nation and never, ever has.

Stop, stop, stop! For the sake of the lives of young Americans and Afghan civilians, stop. For the sake of your presidency, hope, and the future of our nation, stop. For God’s sake, stop.

Tonight we still have hope.

Tomorrow, we shall see. The ball is in your court. You DON’T have to do this. You can be a profile in courage. You can be your mother’s son.

We’re counting on you.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

P.S. There’s still time to have your voice heard. Call the White House at 202-456-1111 or email the President.

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The “Colonialists” in the United Kingdom did good for once — they banned “Talk Radio Pedophile,” the one legged racist beast, Michael Savage, from their country. This despicable and carnivorous LEECH, should be banned by “GOD” from breathing any air.

Ed Schultz discusses “extreme, hateful, paranoid” Savage’s UK banning, autism comments

Update: Savage says Muslims, others should be banned from US, but he’s “going to sue” UK for banning him

…and now says: He was joking about autism

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“The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in “rightwing extremist activity,” saying the economic recession, the election of America’s first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines ‘rightwing extremism in the United States’ as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

The nine-page document was sent to police and sheriff’s departments across the United States on April 7 under the headline, ‘Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.’”

The rightwing has responded as if the Department of Homeland Security had attacked mom, apple pie and our brave warriors. The usual suspects in talk radio and Fox News are accusing the Obama administration of besmirching the good name of our military personnel.

The nine-page document was not an attack on our soldiers who are conducting themselves with courage and honor in the senseless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The report clearly states that the return of a “few” disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of the white power movement. The vast majority of our veterans will return to their home towns and lead productive lives. We all know veterans in our neighborhood, workplace and places of worship who are pillars in the community.

But there are a few malcontents who might join white power militias, and use their military training to wreak havoc. The Dept. of Homeland Security is right to warn police departments throughout the country to beware of this small group of racist veterans.

The report wasn’t an attack on the military, talk radio or conservatism, it was a warning that racist groups always thrive in hard economic times.

The detailed statement wasn’t an attack on talk radio, but I won’t pull any punches in attacking talk radio. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mike Savage, Billy Cunningham, Mark Levine and the rest of the reactionary shock jocks pose more of a danger to this country than al Qaeda.

When al Qaeda releases a video Americans don’t take their vile rhetoric seriously, but when Limbaugh demonizes Obama, ostracizes homosexuals and eviscerates feminists, his legions of dittoheads are ready to burn down Planned Parenthood offices and to beat up on gays and lesbians.

Talk radio is a cancer that is infecting our airwaves, a cancer that needs to be excised. I believe in freedom of speech, but some radio stations syndicate only the rightwing nut jobs. For every intelligent and reasonable voice like Alan Colmes, there are a hundred Limbaugh wannabes. There needs to be a fair and balanced approach, we must demand that radio stations put more liberal voices on the air.

When more liberals are on the air we will see a precipitous drop in rightwing extremist activity. Peace and sanity will prevail and the Department of Homeland security won’t have to issue any warnings about extremist rightwing activity.

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Right-Wing Terrorist Threat

Right-Wing Media media freak-out: claim Obama DHS targeting conservatives
in report on right-wing extremists

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Blame It On The Immigrant! Southern Poverty Law Center: It was a stunning revelation: Illegal immigrants hold 5 million bad mortgages in the United States. Conservative commentators pounced on the statistic last October. Many of them were already blaming immigrants for the subprime mortgage mess. Now they had numerical proof, and from no less an authority than the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Just one problem: It wasn’t true. Although HUD immediately debunked the bogus factoid, it nevertheless spread rapidly on popular blogs, syndicated radio shows and major cable networks. This wasn’t the first time that immigrant bashers with virtual megaphones ignored the facts in spreading misinformation about the ongoing financial crisis. Unless media outlets of all stripes tighten their fact-checking standards, it won’t be the last. As the nation’s housing crisis worsened last fall, right-wing radio hosts, bloggers and columnists became increasingly strident in blaming it on the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, a federal law aimed at spurring FDIC-insured banks to lend money to people living in lower-income communities. They claimed the CRA forced lenders to make risky loans to non-whites including illegal immigrants, causing the mortgage meltdown. Never mind that there was ample credible evidence that, like the HUD statistic, this wasn’t true either. The CRA falsehood easily jumped from the far-right fringe to more mainstream, presumably more credible conservative media outlets, illustrating how sloppy fact-checking or no fact-checking at all have become increasingly common in the midst of fierce competition among speed-obsessed media. [ READ MORE ]

MediaMatters – Steele tells Hannity: “If you go back and listen to that exchange, there was no attack on Rush” — A Big FAT Lie!

Among many other issues, the HATE rhetoric against African Americans and Latino immigrants, stand out as the primary causes of the GOP’s problems.

Those moderate Republicans who thought Michael Steele could help reel in African Americans and Latinos, into their imaginary BIG TENT, can kiss that wish goodbye and good night!

Brother Steele is clearly a wimp — and is totally incapable of taming and/or organizing the right-wing of the Republican Party. He will never effect any meaningful change in this party of THUGS, BIGOTS and RACIST NEO-NAZI EXTREMISTS.

Michael Steele is just another BLACK TOKEN — being used to provide an illusion of diversity. He missed an opportunity to assert himself two days ago, when he should have stood up to Limbaugh, and challenged him. That opportunity is irretrievably lost, and Mr. Steele is set to be a powerless figurehead …..a yo-yo to be kicked around like a dead football.

Sooner or later, he will resign or will be forced out.

All of them …. leaders of the GOP, have caved in to Limbaugh, the ANGRY WHITE CHRISTIAN MALE — and that will be FATAL.

Until the GOP fixes its archaic 1800’s attitude and RACIST practices and policies, I don’t see any SANE African Americans jumping ship.

As for Latinos, the now three year old Republican campaign of HATE and XENOPHOBIA, which has resulted in several LYNCHINGS, ……I think may have driven Hispanics, and for that matter, many other immigrant communities, away from the Republican Party for good.

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Here is the ATTACK!

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From The Comedy Jesus Show. Written by Troy Conrad and Alan Lebetkin. Music by Reggie Alvey. Starring: Bill O’reilly, Sean Hannity, Hal Turner, Rush Limbaugh, William Bennet, Ann Coulter … and FOX News.

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