Columnist – John Sammon
Obama has severely disappointed me but the thought of the other side regaining the throne and running wild exorcising our dwindling rights and presiding over the collapse of America into a hopelessly debtor, middle-classless, unemployed police-state end-of-the-Roman-Empire type monstrosity makes me want to puke.

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You’ve got to hand it to the wretches and fanatics in the Middle East. They managed to freak America out so much that we’re throwing our rights in the trash can. The Bill of Rights. Earlier this week President Obama authorized the drone bombing of an American Al-Qaeda member in Yemen.

Let’s agree this guy is bad and deserved to be killed. It’s still yet another extension of presidential power that never ends. Names are added to lists and people targeted. How soon before someone who is innocent is taken out?

Taken out by mistake because his name appeared on an enemies list.

Do you feel safer?

Secret camps where prisoners are tortured, wiretap spying under the Patriot Act, drawing up lists of subversives. Just like the McCarthy era of the 1950s. We’re throwing away who we supposedly are in the interest of making us safe.

Obama is a one-term president. He can’t stimulus-fix the economy, which is set to tailspin into another recession. The boom days are over and the American people, many of whom were never comfortable with a first black president in the first place, are angry. Americans will forgive an immoral war, they will ignore one million Iraqis killed over false weapons of mass destruction.

They will ignore a diminution of their rights because they don’t even know what their rights are.

And even if they did know, they don’t care.

They’ll ignore and forget everything, except being out of work. They’ll blame Obama for it, who will have to run in 2012 on a negative-oriented, “things will be worse if you elect the Republicans” election. Americans won’t listen to that.

When things are bad, whoever’s in gets thrown out.

And the Middle East. Well that’s war forever. First, we had the weapons of mass destruction scam, then Operation Iraqi Freedom (it isn’t true freedom if a government is imposed by force the people themselves didn’t select). Then we had the Surge. The newest scam from the secret government is the “Drawdown.”

Here’s how it works. Like promising weapons of mass destruction that aren’t there to sell you on the idea of war, the government uses the word “Drawdown” to convince you our occupation is ending in the Middle East. Some troops are actually shipped home, giving you the idea the war is coming to an end.

It isn’t.

Troops are shipped home, new ones come over, troops are rearranged, put on border areas, peripheries, whatever. It’s a smoke-and-mirror game to keep you docile. It doesn’t take much because you were docile to begin with. You don’t care. You’re safer, at least you think.

What’s that clicking? Somebody wiretapping my phone because of my political leanings. Somebody studying my internet searches (all those porno adult websites) to discredit me because of my political beliefs.

It doesn’t matter. I’m safer this way.

Five years from now you’ve forgotten all about it, and we’re still occupying parts of the Middle East.

The American people don’t care. Our economy is going down the drain and we’re spending billions each week nation-building and police-actioning countries in the Middle East while our roads and schools rot, and the American people, like a bunch of sheep, go along.

Say “Baaaah!”

In an earlier column I asked readers of Politicalarticles.net if they thought the America of Richard Nixon, of the Silent Majority, the country of lies and cover-ups and covert actions was the real America, and not that of the hippies or anti-war protestors.

The hippies, often selfish, loud, slobbish and spoiled, at least had enough decency to try and obstruct a system that had gone wrong and was in trouble.

I said then it was clear Nixon’s America was America, and still is.

Obama has severely disappointed me but the thought of the other side regaining the throne and running wild exorcising our dwindling rights and presiding over the collapse of America into a hopelessly debtor, middle-classless, unemployed police-state end-of-the-Roman-Empire type monstrosity makes me want to puke.

There’s only one thing Obama can do, that leaders from time immemorial have done who are in trouble and need to take people’s minds off their domestic problems.

We need another foreign adventure.

   Columnist – John Sammon
The 10-year anniversary of 9-11 will include memorializing and flag-waving on television networks under the motto “We Won’t Forget,” but will not include any mention of our attack on Iraq in a false attempt to link that country to 9-11.

We choose to forget that part.

No mention will be made of the approximate million Iraqis killed in a war started by George Bush and Dick Cheney, who lied us into a war by claiming that Iraq under Saddam Hussein was involved in 9-11. Bush later openly admitted they weren’t.

He has never faced justice for these deceptions.

Apparently, what Americans choose to remember in the 9-11 tragedy through the media is selective.

The fanatics who did 9-11, mostly Saudi Arabians, came from a country with which we have the friendliest of relations. Let’s say for argument’s sake these nuts attacked us and will do so in the future for no other reason than they don’t like us because we are primarily a Christian country.

That still doesn’t change the fact that we attacked Iraq because we didn’t like its leader, and killed a million people not to mention the lives of U.S. soldiers lost because we falsely tried to tie Iraq to 9-11. The perpetrators of this misdeed remain unpunished, even glorified.

The observances of 9-11 will also include no objective assessment of our role in the Middle East in past history, and how it has helped to de-stabilize the region and give impetus to extremists. Let me give some specific examples of the history Americans choose to forget, or are totally unaware of.

Let’s take Iran. The United State backed the former Shah of Iran, a brutal dictator who had secret police forces imprisoning and murdering Iranians. Backing by the U.S. fueled hatred of the U.S. in that country and gave unwitting help to extremists under the Ayatollah Khomeini, which led to the taking of American hostages at the embassy there and the current hostile, authoritarian regime.

Our behavior in the Middle East has been less than wise.

How about Egypt? We supported Hosni Mubarak, a ruthless dictator now facing court trial, virtually right up until the time he was overthrown by a popular people’s street movement.

What about Saddam? We supplied equipped and encouraged him guaranteeing him we wouldn’t let him lose a war with Iran. Former Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld posed for a famous picture shaking Saddam’s hand in his palace.

We choose to forget that.

We gave at least voiced support to rebel units fighting the Russians in Afghanistan during the last of the Cold War who later became the Taliban.

We choose to forget that too.

The list goes on and on.

Bush and Cheney approved the torture of prisoners and threw out the rules of the Geneva Convention, instituted a gulag of camps in which prisoners had no recourse to an attorney, and instituted illegal wiretap spying on American citizens that violated The Bill of Rights under the guise of making us safer and which was ludicrously and perversely called “The Patriot Act.”

We’ll also forget that.

Rather than acting as a peace broker in the Middle East, which occasionally we have, for example, the attempted Camp David Peace Accords between Israel and Egypt, we have pretty much given Israel a blank check to do whatever it wanted. This included pushing Palestinians out of ancestral homelands and building settlements which has heightened tensions.

Our memorializing of 9-11 will not include an overall objective assessment of this history as a whole. The idea conveyed will be that the U.S., innocent of ever doing anything unwise, was picked on for no reason by evil people.

There is some truth to this. But that is a stilted viewpoint.

What terrorists did on 9-11 is evil. They are fanatics. The heroism of responders to the tragedy and the loss and sacrifice should be remembered and honored.

But to selectively choose to remember only what we want to or to “cherry pick” history so that a one-sided viewpoint (good guys versus evil fanatics) is presented does no one any good. History is not a vacuum, or wearing blinders, but a long catalog of events, often decisions errantly made.

Our history of involvement in the Middle East has not always been wise. That will not be discussed during the remembrances of 9-11. This website, Politicalarticles.net, allows me to say this. Other websites will not and would censor what you are reading here because they are afraid or angry with ideas with which they don’t agree.

There is nothing unpatriotic about the truth, or criticizing the government of this country for its past mistakes in a volatile region. It is not unpatriotic to disagree in a so-called “Free” country.

Reference: Contradictions and Hypocrisy Haunt U.S. Policy in the Middle East

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

You little sawed-off dwarf, you can’t even pick up a rifle.

CIA director under war criminals George Bush and torture dungeon Dick Cheney, and now mis-advising Obama as defense secretary, Gates blasted European NATO allies last week for being reluctant to go to war. He said the NATO countries, allies to the U.S. for 60 years, could face a dismal future because of their “penny-pinching and distaste for front-line combat.”

Gates must also have distaste for front-line combat because he’s never had any himself. If a fire cracker went off, he’d probably hide under the dinner table. It’s doubtful that if he fought his wife in a fistfight he would win, the little paper-pusher.

Remember when Cheney insulted our European friends by calling them “Old Europe,” because being more intelligent, these countries were reluctant to squander their economies and the lives of their soldiers in needless, unwinnable, disastrous military adventures.

You see, the United States under men like Gates is a hierarchical system in which those on top like Gates dictate to other countries much like a schoolyard bully, making a mockery of any pretensions smaller countries may have to independence or sovereignty. Unlike Dwight Eisenhower, who as overall commander of D-Day knew how to work together with allied countries using tact and diplomacy, never talking down to them, Gates and his ilk are the opposite. They always lecture and insult. They’re bombastic, arrogant. They don’t work with other people. They dictate.

They create ill will.

All except for England, which like a good dependant boot-licking lackey, parrots whatever the U.S. wants.

Since the European countries banded together under the “Euro” dollar, they collectively have more clout, but they are still smaller economically, with smaller populations. They don’t have the money and lives to squander like the colossus, techo-corporate, all-powerful, world-ruling U.S. They also don’t view war as Gates does, a useful instrument of foreign policy rather than as a purely defensive measure.

Why don’t you go F… yourself Bob. To use a line from the movie City Slickers, “I crap bigger than you.”

Gee Bob. Have you ever fought in a front line Bob? I don’t mean visiting troops in Iraq and posing with them for souvenir pictures, the troops towering over your little five-foot-something frame.

Gee Bob. You’ve never risked anything. You’ve never had to smell the smoke, hear the screams, see with your own eyes the entrails on the ground that represents war. You love to promote war, but all you’ve ever been for most of your life is a schemer. Too often, old men who plan wars never have to fight them.

Gates wraps himself in the flag.

Straight A’s in school, the classic dysfunctional driven overachiever, Bob was created and nurtured in the corporate boardroom, where his ruthless dishonesty secured advancement. He was involved in the Iran-Contra fiasco during the administration of the amnesiac Ronald Reagan, who couldn’t remember under oath how it all happened. During his tenure in the CIA under William Casey, Gates helped corrupt the spy organization to a low point from which it has not fully recovered to this day (Leon Panetta is trying to repair the damage).

A former Eagle Scout, Gates was accused of spreading false information and ignoring realities in the CIA, the perfect attributes for him to promote under false pretenses the invasion of Iraq under George W. Bush. Gee Bob. Government is one of those strange places where the truth is whatever you say it is, and where you can demonstrate a consistent record of failure and still be promoted.

I’ll tell you what Bob. Maybe I’m wrong about you, maybe I have the wrong idea. Maybe you’re not just a little flag-waving runt who loves to plot wars you’ve never had the guts to fight.

If you’ll get out of your limousine and hang up your gold embossed cuff links and skip your servant-delivered Eggs Benedict for a moment and meet me in Afghanistan, we can go on patrol. The sight of two older men will amuse the troops.

Put on a flak vest. We can both walk point. That means at the front of the patrol Bob.

Don’t worry Bob. I’m twice as tall as you are, better looking, and have a better build. They’ll shoot me, not you. If you do this, just once in your life risk something, I promise, I’ll abandon the contempt I currently feel for you.

Secretary Gates: “NATO is Dead!”

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   Columnist – John Sammon
Eight heavily armed men dressed in camouflage show up at a door and knock. A servant answers the door.

“Excuse me sir, we’re working our way through college. Would you like to buy an encyclopedia?”

The servant disappears into a hallway and a bearded man appears. Bin laden.

“Would you like to buy an encyclopedia, the Saudi updated version?” the college student asks.

Bin laden nods. He reaches into his robe like he’s going for a gun.

“Get interested in this.” The college students open fire.

BLAM!

“Take that!”

BLAM!

“How about another?”

BLAM!

“How about one on the layaway plan?”

BLAM!

“Hey Marcel, watch this.”

BLAM!

“You want leaded or unleaded?”

BLAM!

“One Lump or Two?”

BLAM!

Evidently, Bin laden thought he could out-draw eight Navy Seals who already had their guns out. It would have been nice if he could have been taken alive to stand trial and demonstrate the rule of law Americans like to say they’re so fond of.

Thus opens a new phase in the soon-to-be 25th unresolved year in the war on terror, the Upscale Condo Mansion Gated Community Raid. Navy Seals disguised as college students go to exclusive residential neighborhoods and dispatch a miserable wretch.

Meanwhile, George Bush, the world’s other arch terrorist, claims credit for the operation. He feels like donning his old National Guard uniform that he wore to avoid service in Vietnam, the uniform he seldom wore because he skipped Guard meetings. Or better yet, the flight suit he paraded around in when he posted that dopey “Mission Accomplished” sign on the aircraft carrier, years before thousands of U.S. servicemen were killed.

Bush, who with his lord-high inquisitor fat-boy Dick Cheney, killed a million Iraqis to get even with Bin Laden and his handful of wretches for 9-11 even though Iraq had nothing to do with it.

Bush, who validated torture and wiretap spying on Americans and setting up an American Gulag Archipelago of secret torture camps in foreign countries and threw out the Geneva Convention to which America for decades had adhered. There would be no trials like the Nuremburg trials to demonstrate the rule of law by the civilized countries of the world.

Bush and Cheney with the apathy of the American people operated under the principal that to combat terror, you have to abandon democratic ideals and act more like the terrorists.

Such a man deserves praise.

And isn’t it fascinating in a Freudian way that the operation to get Bin laden was partly code-named Geronimo after the famous Chiracahua leader of the 1880s. Native American Indian activists were angered the government compared Bin laden to Geronimo. I get it, our government leaders, most of them paunchy white boys in their 60s, grew up watching John Wayne movies.

They can’t help compare today’s Middle Eastern terrorists with Indians. Subconscious and psychologically, it reminds them of snug safe days as five-year-olds when the world was simple, when they curled around a TV set with a cup of hot coco watching Wayne dispatch Indians and bad guys, the annihilation of our native population complimentarily called by racist America as the “Winning of the West.”

Gopher Killed: Will Ferrell Brutally Spoofs George Bush on Bin Laden

There are similarities between the Indian Wars of the 1870s and today’s struggle against terrorists. In both cases, the government spent billions of dollars and involved millions of troops going after perceived ignorant savages who never numbered more than a few thousand. In an eerily reminiscent echo of the present, in 1875, Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors were imprisoned in a prison in Ft. Augustine, Florida, erased from memory without trial or attorney, not even 100 miles from Guantanamo.

The Bin laden operation was also code-named “Neptune.” This ties in nicely because in a further bizarre twist Bin laden, who spent his life on sand dunes, was buried at sea. The fish probably felt like throwing him back.

And look at the now-famous picture of the big-shots in the Pentagon White House War Room watching the Bin laden raid results. Obama looks like a college kid who wandered into the room, which is what his Republican detractors and even some of his white subordinates probably consider him to be, a college kid on an ethnic studies scholarship temporarily occupying the White House. Hillary Clinton’s hand is to her mouth as though readying to chew her nails, as though she’s watching a favorite soap opera.

By the looks on their faces you’d think they were planning D Day.

Is this the same country that took on Nazi Germany and Japan, the most powerful military power in the history of the world terrified of a bunch of wretches who 50 years ago would have been stealing sheep?

It’s to Obama’s credit that he didn’t pose with the body for photos. You can tell a lot about the immorality of a society in the way they pose with bodies for propaganda purposes, like we did with the sons of Saddam Hussein, or even the Abu Ghraib Prison dungeon S&M pictures where the bound bodies were still alive.

As we celebrate and Obama says “We won’t forget,” how come our memory is selective?

It begs the question. Is America incapable of doing wrong? Do Americans ever study the history of events that lead up to the current situation?

Is America operating in a vacuum, or an ivory tower?

For example, Ronald Reagan, everybody’s icon and hero, backing right-wing death squads in South America that killed millions. Or giving Israel a blank check to run wild and dispossess Palestinians which fueled the current conflict and gave Bin laden the opportunity to prominence he never should have attained. Or supporting Saddam Hussein with military equipment and guarantees leading him to miscalculate he could invade Kuwait and we wouldn’t do anything about it.

Or meddling in the internal affairs for economic or natural resources gain (oil) of a dozen other countries.

Or Bush killing a million Iraqis over false weapons of mass destruction to get even with Bin laden. We love the Saudis even though the 9-11 plotters including Bin laden were Saudis.

Today, we’ve largely forgotten the Viet Cong. We have friendly relations with North Vietnam. Our tourists go there. See, we do forget in a sense. Over time.

WHY DO WE FORGET WHERE AMERICA HAS BEEN WRONG?

Has America ever been wrong?

We’re never wrong, and even if we are, it’s not wrong. That’s called being a patriot. Ask Bush and Cheney.

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High Crimes & Misdemeanors: Why Condoleezza Rice Should Be in Jail For Life – (Part 1)

The New York Daily News reported on Wednesday that George W. Bush wouldn’t be at Ground Zero with President Obama Thursday in part because he feels his team is getting short shrift in the decade-long manhunt for Osama Bin Laden.

   Obama Meets 9/11 Families at Ground Zero

“[Bush] viewed this as an Obama victory lap,” a highly-placed source told the Daily News Wednesday.

“He doesn’t feel personally snubbed and appreciates the invitation, but Obama’s claiming all the credit and a lot of other people deserve some of it,” the source added.

“Obama gave no credit whatsoever to the intelligence infrastructure the Bush administration set up that is being hailed from the left and right as setting in motion the operation that got Bin Laden. It rubbed Bush the wrong way.”

Bush spokesman David Sherzer said Bush “appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight.”

The Credit That Bush Deserves

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Who Killed Osama bin Laden? Eleven Bush administration officials come out of their hidey-holes to take credit for Osama bin Laden’s death.

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Fox’s In-House Baboon Glenn Beck Bashes Obama’s Ground Zero Visit Again: “This Is A National Tragedy,” It’s Like He’s “Pinning A Medal On Himself“

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Bush’s cabal directed an illegal war on Iraq, based on blatantly falsified evidence. His claims of weapons of mass destruction(WMDs) and a connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda were patently false. The ding-bat ended up causing the deaths of over a million+ innocent Iraqi women and children and thousands US soldiers.

That’s premeditated murder!

Bush sanctioned extreme torture — severely violating the constitution of the United States, and screwed up a healthy economy turned over to him by Bill Clinton big time, resulting in the current economic mess.

The War Crimes Act of 1996, provides penalties up to the death penalty for abuse of military detainees. Bush also “gravely breached the Geneva Conventions,” to which the U.S. is a party.

Another Fox Asshole Eric Bolling Reads List Of People His Viewers Want Waterboarded — Including President Obama

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REFERENCES:

1. Right-Wing Media Tout Bin Laden Death As Victory For Torture, Ignore Dispute
2. GOP Hypocrites Who Have Repeatedly Attacked Obama As ‘Weak on Terror’ Now Busy Transplanting ‘Bin Laden Credit’ To ‘War Criminal’ George Bush.
3. Lost at Tora Bora: How Osama Bin Laden Eluded Bush in Eastern Afghanistan.
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Notes: First Republican ‘Primary’ Debate (Greenville, South Carolina, 05/05/2011) — Only five GOP hopefuls took part, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), former Sen. Rick Santorum (PA.), former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, and former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain.

It wasn’t a feast of fearmongering like the 2007 New Hampshire debate, because the real lunatics — Gingrich, Palin, Huckabee and Trump were missing in action.

   First Republican “Primary” Debate — The “Jokester LineUp”

One lone lunatic hyena participated — the homophobic abortion-terrorist, Rick ‘Man on Dog‘ Santorum. The former PA Senator slipped in a “Bush on Obama Smear” ….. Mr. Santorum called President Obama’s foreign policy “a continuation of Bush policies,” otherwise most of the attacks on Obama were on the economy and health care.

The token black man in the debate, His Minstrelsy Herman Cain, performed his usual “Jumping Jim-Crow” antics — to the satisfaction of the predominantly white racist gaze.

The vast majority of the people sitting in with Republican pollCOOKster Frank Luntz said Cain had won the debate with his “directness” and “straightforward” delivery — READ: Clown Act. (This despite the fact that when asked about what he would do in Afghanistan, he replied that he would rely on “the experts and their advice and their input.”

Luntz appeared blown away by the response to Cain, which he cast as unprecedented. “Something very special happened this evening,” he said.

Yeah, something special alright — a black man who will never, repeat NEVER be elected to the highest office by a thoroughly racist Republican electorate — won the debate!

What a joke!

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