Columnist – John Sammon
We committed what amounts to a genocide in Iraq. I’m ashamed of this country for its role in Iraq.

A foreign head of state participating with the president in laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?

Let me get this straight. We invade Iraq based on false weapons of mass destruction that weren’t there, destroy much of the country and kill a million Iraqis. And Obama has the puppet Iraqi leader we set up in power in Baghdad lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington. [ READ: THE WAR CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE UNITED STATES IN IRAQ ] [ MORE CRIMES ]

How would you like to be the puppet? A country that invaded your country and killed a million of your citizens. You’re forced (or invited?) to come to that country and honor the soldiers of a foreign army that attacked your country and killed a million of your own citizens (bad citizens and innocent citizens for alleged reasons good and bad) based on false, concocted premises.

The leader of Iraq is a good puppet ruler.

America can hold its head high because it’s walking away from this fiasco with no remorse. We can do anything and it doesn’t matter because even if it’s wrong we’re still right. If there’s only one person left in this country who says morality is not determined by who wins or who’s powerful then I have to stand up and demand that the American people hear it.

Even if they never hear.

Asking a foreign ruler we set up in power by force after concocting false reasons for going to war to come to Washington D.C. and pay homage to the foreign power that invaded his country is wrong, immoral, and obscene.

Here are some suggested ways we can have the puppet ruler we set up in Iraq pay homage to the United States in a way that will remove even the slightest pretense of the sovereignty of Iraq.

1.   Have the puppet of Iraq serve as Obama’s chauffer complete with uniform.

2.   Have the puppet sweep out the Washington Monument.

3.   Have the puppet engage in campaigning for Obama during the 2012 election.

4.   Declare Iraq a new American state and down-grade the puppet to a governor with a foreign accent.

5.   We got their oil, we killed a million of their citizens based on falsehoods. It’s a win-win.

6.   Instead of “War,” we can re-label this a “Humanitarian Project.”

7.   Of course, other Arab countries overthrew their dictators without the help of U.S. troops.

8.   I think the Founding Fathers envisioned America only going to war when its national security was directly threatened and without the bogus weapons of mass destruction it wasn’t threatened, but the Founding Fathers were out of touch. They had no understanding of the new Roman Empire-style America and its “ends-justify-means” mentality.

9.   If Obama wants to promote good relations with Vietnam he could go to Hanoi and lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Vietcong.

I DO NOT ASK, I DEMAND, A COUNTRY THAT IS WILLING TO FACE THE TRUTH. A COUNTRY THAT IS HONEST. Once again, Obama disappoints me.

Obama before he became president called Iraq a “dumb war.”

It was also dishonest, wrong and immoral.

We’re not right just because we’re America. I won’t let this country hide behind the shield of its power. Somebody has to have the courage to say it.

The war in Iraq was engineered based on lies by George Bush and Dick Cheney. We had equipped, supplied and encouraged the dictator of Iraq (look at the picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking the no-good bastard’s hand). We thought he was our puppet. When he acted too big for his britches, we attacked his country in a false effort to tie it to 9-11. Bush and Cheney needed to sell the war to the American people so they created the false weapons of mass destruction scam.

Americans want to feel good and the president has to justify what happened. He can’t admit wrong or risk being called a traitor. The system has built-in protections to safeguard it from the truth. Obama, as good a man as he is, is a pawn of the system.

No one will ever discuss what we did or learn from the mistakes. [ SPECIAL READ: BUSH'S MIDEAST DISHONOR ]

Iraq War Crimes

George W. Bush — A War Criminal

   Columnist – John Sammon
Never once in my journalistic career have I ever attacked the work of another political columnist. Until now.

On Veterans Day my local newspaper ran a lone editorial on its editorial page written by David O’Brien, a professor of faith and culture at the University of Dayton. The editorial extolled the sacrifices made by our troops. There are reasons I must respond.

The editorial contains falsehoods, exaggerations and half-truths. Secondly, it’s the only opinion given, with no rebuttal. Thirdly, if we are unwilling to learn from past mistakes, or say we never make them, we will repeat them.

O’Brien starts out saying we gather on Veterans Day with heavy hearts mourning our fallen troops and I whole-heartedly agree. No argument there. But then he says, “We put aside our complaints about “Bush’s War” or “Obama’s War” and acknowledge our shared responsibilities.”

We put aside our complaints?

Who are we?

I never put aside my complaints. I opposed the war in Iraq from day one. I’m sure there are others, so it isn’t a case of “we.”

To get Americans to support war in Iraq, Bush lied that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction as he put it “such as the world had never seen,” and maintained that an attack on America using such weapons was imminent. That means like next week. So it was “Bush’s war.” Obama inherited it.

“Shared responsibilities?”

We failed in our shared responsibilities, especially the media, to ask tough questions of the president requiring him to make a truthful case, and instead were swept along on a drumbeat of pro-war fervor in the wake of 9-11 fuelled by deceptions.

O’Brien continues, “After 9-11, we launched our war on Afghanistan, then after extended debate, we invaded Iraq.”

Extended debate?

What is your perception of the word “extended?” I would describe it instead more as a “rubber stamp” fed by falsehoods and distortions, with anyone questioning it labeled a traitor. The Founding Fathers expected presidents to ask Congress for a Declaration of War to maintain some control over the Oval Office, a requirement presidents for the past 60 years have chosen to ignore as they continually extend their power.

O’Brien says, “Later, a majority of us decided that preemptive war in Iraq was the right choice.”

He neglects to also mention that today a sizeable portion of the population don’t consider the war in Iraq worth the cost.

He then says, “We accepted a surge of troops in Iraq and welcomed subsequent news of progress.” As Ronald Reagan would have once said, “there you go again” David, with the “we” statement. I was skeptical of the benefits of the “surge,” flooding parts of a country with troops when you’re dealing with a highly mobile insurgency. Its results can be debated, but there were critics in the military who labeled it “The Pillsbury Doughboy.” You push them out of an area, and like pushing the Doughboy in the stomach, they bulge out the back, simply moving and setting up shop somewhere else.

A surge is like a tide that comes in and out. Assuming it was successful, will it be so permanently?

O’Brien then says, “Those of us who opposed these wars (he finally acknowledges me) blamed presidents and politicians.”

Who else you gonna blame? Lindsay Lohan? I didn’t have a vote on whether to go to war.

“Occasionally we demanded withdrawal, but we proposed no persuasive alternative strategies,” O’Brien continues.

Was Cindy Sheehan’s opposition, the mom who opposed the war after her son was killed, “occasional?”

There you go again with the “we” David. If I had proposed an alternate strategy, would the Joint Chiefs of Staff listen? When you say “we,” we who? There is no alternate strategy to a wrong war, other than not fighting it. Just before the war in Iraq was launched, United Nations Weapons Inspectors were in the country looking for and not finding the alleged weapons of mass destruction. Bush and company basically told the UN “you’re too late, there are weapons, get out of the way.”

I should say at this point I did not oppose the strike on Afghanistan because that country harbored the culprits from 9-11. I opposed Iraq because it was wrong and would weaken our efforts in Afghanistan, which it did.

O’Brien then says, “ending American wars is never easy (I agree),” and he lists past wars, but then adds “our shameful withdrawal from Vietnam.”

President Dwight D. Eisenhower considered an open-ended land war in Asia unwinnable and apparently O’Brien has never heard of the deceptions revealed in the Pentagon Papers in which the government was lying to its own people. This is all documented.

Do I also need to remind readers that the “shameful withdrawal” was carried out under the conservative Republican Administration of Gerald Ford, who had inherited it from the disgraced Richard Nixon, who had earlier pledged to get us out? Perhaps the best way to answer “shameful withdrawal” is to quote anti-war activist and folk singer Pete Seeger, who was labeled a communist because of his views.

“Was Abraham Lincoln a traitor because he opposed the Mexican War?” Seeger asked. “Was Mark Twain a traitor because he opposed the Spanish American War?”

TIM MAK: The human rights group Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest former President George W. Bush when he attends an economic summit in the province of British Columbia next week.

The group accused Bush of “responsibility for crimes under international law including torture.”

Amnesty International asked that Canada either prosecute or extradite Bush for violations that they allege took place during the CIA’s secret detention program between 2002 and 2009. The organization wrote a 1,000 page memorandum addressed to Canadian authorities to make the case for human rights violations by the 43rd president.

“Canada is required by its international obligations to arrest and prosecute former President Bush given his responsibility for crimes under international law including torture,” Susan Lee, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said in a statement. [ READ MORE ]

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ELSEWHERE, THE OBAMA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME FESTERED IN RIGHT-WING CIRCLES:
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Sean Hannity: “Defeating Obama’s My Number One Goal Right Now”

Hannity Tells Hank Williams Jr. He’s “Glad” He Didn’t Apologize For Comments About Obama And Hitler

Once Again, Fox’s Eric Bolling Is Upset That Obama Drank Beer

Straight News? Fox’s MacCallum Asks Why Congress Isn’t Working On “Repealing Obamacare” And Other GOP Pet Issues

Doocy Teases “Fair And Balanced Debate On Class Warfare” By Asking If Obama Is “Fueling The Protests”

Tucker Carlson: “The Truth Is, It’s Impor– You Know, Republicans Feel Like It’s Really Important To Beat Obama”

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   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.

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.

HOT! YOUTUBE PLAYLIST — Bush, A War Criminal!

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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