Middle Class Populist

Why is it that John McCain does not support Senator Jim Webb’s GI Bill? The answer is that he wants to hold the carrot in front of our brave troops so they will serve more tours of duty in the Republican Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq! If the troops were to get a GI Bill after serving their initial three to four year enlistments many would not re-enlist and that is public knowledge even admitted by George Bush!

QUESTION: What is similar to Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destrucition (WMD) and why?

ANSWER: George Bush’s completed service record in the National Guard. Like Iraqi WMD neither can be found!

We live in an era of licentious permissiveness:

• Where Cut and Run American Corporations do business with the enemies of America such as Halliburton that has a foreign subsidiary involved in Iran. You know the nation that is sending ammunition to kill our brave troops in Iraq! I guess it is ok to sit down with Iran when it serves the class interest of upper class Americans whose kids generally (some are not hypocrites) do not fight in these wars!
• When CUT AND RUN corporations like ITT can illegally sell our converted night vision technology to China which can then sell it to our enemies or even use it themselves!
• When our troops could be safe in their tanks and personnel carriers with a weapon system developed by an Israeli company that wants to sell it to us! Yet our government is more concerned about American contractors who will take five years more to develop such a system! This from the advocates of Free Trade! Oh but these sunshine patriots will wear their Flag Lapels! (See the Video Below).

While the bleeding hearts of the Republican Party whine for corporate America the time has come to give our soldiers a G I Bill that will let them have an education and future! The time has come to support our troops. End the Republican Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq!

No doubt our Arab allies, the great democratic nations of the Muslim world will regret that Iraq does not rise up to their great level of democracy! Let them rush to fill the vacuum. Our job is to win the War against the Al Qaeda homeland in Afghanistan and Pakistan!

As the opium crop blossoms into ever higher world records in Afghanistan guess where the money raised from this crop is going to go? It is going to terrorists who threaten our homeland yet Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain are pre-occupied with the social engineering experiment in Iraq! The American Middle Class - our great Silent Majority demands that the evil triad of Afghan opium money, Pakistani rogue nuclear scientists and Al Qaeda Central in the Afghan - Pakistan border region be stopped.

Instead of worrying about trivial flag pins on lapels the Silent Majority wants America’s service men and woman to have a G I Bill and have it now! Let’s win the war against Al Qaeda Central in Afghanistan and Pakistan by stopping this circus in Iraq!

While George Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain lecture us on the virtues of the coming “One Hundred Year War” our nation sadly passed a grim milestone. We have now lost over 4,000 dead. These are the military regulars and reservists who did not emulate their Commander in Chief by not attending their required National Guard Meetings but instead took the call up to active duty. Some even serving four tours in Iraq. Imagine if they did a “George Bush” and did not attend their National Guard meetings as required by law?

Mean while let’s look at the great “fruits” of the Republican SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT that McCain would like to continue for one hundred years! Why look who is coming to dinner! (See the Video Below)

Look who is landing in Bagdad in the video above! Why if that isn’t the ever cuddly Iranian President Ahmadinejad who is arming militias in Iraq to kill our troops! Where is he pray tell? Why he is visiting his chum the Prime Minister of Iraq, al-Maliki! But then again he is only returning the favor as al-Maliki has visited him!

• This is what we are fighting for!
• This is what our nation has sacrificed its’ brave troops for!
• This is what the Social Engineering Experts in the Republican Party have wasted our resources on while our own CIA tells us that the next attack from Al Qaeda will come from the Al Qaeda homeland in the Pakistani - Afghan border country!
• But the Iraqis want us to leave! This according to a poll taken by our own State Department!
  
• The Iraqi President wants us to go! What do Bush and his fellow traveler McCain not understand?
  

Yet John McCain who doesn’t give a krap about the genocide in Darfur and doesn’t even care about CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who are investing in Vietnam, the nation that once tortured him, lectures us about turning a blind eye to the Al Qaeda Homeland in the border regions of Pakistan and even vows to follow Al Qaeda to hell and back but not to their homeland! Yet he criticizes Barrack Obama for wanting to take strategic high tech action where it would count!

Senator McCain is so afraid about genocide in Iraq! When will he and his fellow travelers ever learn you cannot impose democracy on those who are not ready for it! Oh my I made a anti-war statement and a politically incorrect one at that! - Good this is a blog by a progressive Democrat not a knee jerk PC Liberal.

Let’s understand something. Four thousand troops dead for a vital war is actually very small. We lost far more in the Civil War and World War II. But can you imagine five years after the fall of Berlin and that city still having snipers? Can you imagine Germany in 1950 with key cities falling into the hands of insurgents?

That is the situation we have today because we never had enough troops to perform an occupation. But then why should we? Remember MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? As this REPUBLICAN SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT continues to divert us from the War on Terror and our economy is falling from carrying this unnecessary war debt, let us take heart that under our President Taliban opium production in Afghanistan is at record world levels. This drug money will be used by the REAL Al Qaeda in their homeland in next door Pakistan! With this opium money financing renegade Pakistani nuclear scientists and training camps in the Al Qaeda homeland of border Pakistan we can look forward to a mushroom cloud over our cities. So enjoy the diversion in Iraq. But don’t worry just look at the great work George Bush did securing our national borders and ports! Now you can sleep peacefully at 3AM!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority - our great Middle Class to stand up and stop this social engineering experiment in Iraq and return to the War on Terrorism! God Bless America!

Well it appears that while George Bush and his fellow travelers continue to involve our nation in their “social engineering” experiment in Iraq, our national preparation level has sunk to an all time low! Well look at the bright side at least our nation’s ports are not being managed by the United Arab Emirates. Thank God George Bush was not able to advance the cause of upper class “portfolio security” ahead of “port security”! Our Army Reserve and National Guard are being bled dry in Iraq years after “Mission Accomplished” while opium production is reaching all time high levels in Afghanistan and that nation falls further into Al Qaeda control! The combination of opium profits for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, renegade nuclear scientists in Pakistan and our unsecured borders do not seem to upset the “Great Decider” and his minions in the Republican Party.

But the above report should come as no surprise as even our nation’s readiness for a natural disaster from hurricanes is at stake and was discussed in Congress last April. (See the Video Below).

Some members of the Vermont Legislature have decided to pass a bill that would declare President Bush’s authorization to call up the Vermont National Guard to be void as the authorization was for a mission that was already accomplished! Senator McCain apparently does not know about “Mission Accomplished”. Al Qaeda in Afghanistan apparently is also not an issue for McCain. The question is for those in the Republican Primary:

What about a STRICT CONSTRUCTIONALIST interpretation of the Constitution? What gives George Bush the right to create a “new unauthorized mission” for our troops? You know the very National Guard and Army Reserve that he never fully attended? McCain and his fellow travelers are going tor the “feels good” solution! The problem is we are a nation of laws. But then again what the hell we have no national borders anyway the laws that regulated them are violated daily? But corporate America needs cheap labor! These right wing fear mongers talk about genocide occurring in Iraq. What about what is going on in:

• Darfur
• Kenya
• And soon perhaps Chad

Yet these “champions of democracy” have turned a deaf ear to the cries of the oppressed in these lands! The time has come for our nation’s middle class to demand accountability from those who hold office in our land!

Yet again President Bush tries to make the case that the war in Iraq is the same as the war on terrorism! What drives me crazy is some of the guys I work with have a knee jerk reaction in support of this President! The same President Bush who bragged to his college professor that he did not have to do his time in the National Guard! Yet he takes advantage of the duty and patriotism of Army Reserve and National Guard members NOT behaving as he did!

Bush gets away with this because he supports “kicking ass” as he said in Australia. The problem is that many Democrats are afraid to “enjoy” the fact that we really did kick ass in Afghanistan initially! Sometimes it takes more than mere objective logic. The hell with being politically correct! Let me repeat a maxim that my fellow Democrats must learn!

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“With terrorists if you do not kick ass then you are perceived as kissing ass”!

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You can look down your nose at this statement but the fact is Americans believe in this and I have to admit I do also! The question is however “whose ass are we kicking with this war in Iraq?” Certainly not Al Qaeda! We are not making our nation more secure, even General Petraeus in his testimony admitted that. Our nation excels at “shock and awe” which uses our superior technological capabilities! George Bush has changed this to “bleed and gore” in an occupation that never had enough troops and serves no national objective! Why are we involved in this civil war in Iraq? Especially when Afghanistan is growing record opium crops that will be used to finance terrorism against our homeland! Meanwhile Bin Laden runs free in the mountains of the Afghan - Pakistan border! This is where we should now be “kicking ass” before we get struck again.

Bush has “boundary issues”. He cannot defend our own borders where 3,000 people cross illegally each day nor for that matter the Iraqi - Iranian border where weapons are crossing to kill our brave troops! Don’t forget our ports where most cargo containers are still not inspected six years after the attack of 9-11! Oh but Bush did want to relieve us of that responsibility by turning over our major ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates! Then this idiot has the nerve to talk about terrorists following us home from Iraq!

But we can all breathe easy now that Bush has just recently opened further our wide open borders to Mexican trucks! Yes please tell us Mr. Bush, once again how the terrorists are going to follow us home if we leave Iraq! Yet while under your watch Mr. Bush, Afghan opium production has grown to world record highs with the money going to Al Qaeda! Yes tell us how they are going to follow us home Mr. President while next door to this massive terrorist fundrasing operation some of the nice nuclear scientists in next door Pakistan have extremists beliefs and want to kill us! With the marriage of Afghan opium money and Pakistani nuclear smarts plus our wide open borders, does anyone see the mushroom cloud over our cities coming? Ah but I am being an alarmist!

What makes me sleep secure in my bed is the knowledge that our national security is backed by Michael Chertoff! With Bush and his side kick, Michael Chertoff, at the head of our Homeland Security, and Chertoff’s great tack record, surely a mushroom cloud over New York City is indeed a forgone return on idiocy! So my fellow Americans when the dirty nuclear dust cloud starts to fall on us remember the FALLING CHADS as this is indeed a return on idiocy! God help America!

Ah yes it is summer time in Afghanistan. You remember Afghanistan, where under Bush, we allowed Osama Bin Ladin to escape into the mountains of our dear friend Pakistan! With friends like that who needs enemies! But then again where are we going to get the resources for our H1-B Visa program so corporate America can lower the salaries of computer and technical professionals without Pakistan (and India)? Well I will leave that for another post! It seems like only last year I was writing about the wonderful bumper crop of opium that Afghanistan produced! You know the drug that is killing our youth and financing, in part the terrorism of Al Qaeda! While George Bush continues his obsession with Iraq, Afghanistan continues to sink into decay. But this year their world renowned expertise in raising opium even surpassed last year’s crop! Mission accomplished!

This blogger agrees with conservatives in some respects. In the War on Terror our nation needs to take vigorous, aggressive and decisive action! But our theater of operations should be Afghanistan not Iraq! Instead of merely kicking Saddam out of power our President decided to engage in a Social Engineering Experiment! Meanwhile the real war is still not won in Afghanistan. Opium is being raised at record levels yet again this year. It will addict our youth and finance the terrorists!

This blog tries to advance the cause of the Middle Class and a vigorous Pro-American Populist political agenda! Bush has got to be the biggest misfit we have had as President this century! I say that because while I am a Democrat, I believe in some of his ideas! Let us examine how he has taken good ideas and done a “katrina” on each of them:

• Missile Defense System instead of sole reliance on M.A.D. Great idea but don’t build it in Europe where you will make an enemy of Russia! Besides if it is built there it sends the wrong signal to Iran! While we say we will not tolerate Iran having nukes this system in Europe PRESUMES WE WILL! What message is Bush sending our enemies?
• The doctrine of pre-emptive strike! I believe this is a good idea with rouge states. But look at how Bush has worked against his own doctrine! We lose creditability by defining victory as not simply the overthrowing of a dictator like Hussein but adding the criteria he must be replaced by a democracy. Good luck! Iran doesn’t have to fear we will move against her as Iraq will tie us up for years! Hell we cannot even secure Bagdad!
• The use of military force to KICK ASS after 9-1. Good idea just the wrong implementation of it!
• The use of strong arm tactics to induce terrorists to talk! Even Allan Dershowitzthe, the notorius liberal lawyer, has said he would back this as long as a warrant was obtained! However just packing anyone off to Guantanamo is not the answer. Also what guarantee do we have that future Presidents would not use such a power against American citizens who disagreed with them?

By the way why isn’t the news media zeroing in on the bumper crop of opium in Afghanistan? I bet many of you reading this are thinking that I am referring to 2006! Yes there was a bumper crop then also. However the U.N. has stated Afghanistan has done it again in 2007! Yet no one in Congress is screaming that our troops and tax dollars are being wasted while Afghanistan has a bumper crop of opium yet again! Here we have an incidence of the news media acting almost if it is an agent of the neo-cons! The news media is also only now discovering the genocide in Darfur! No I don’t really believe the news media is pro-conservative! But imagine how the conservatives would be screaming if it were the other way around!

While Afghanistan crumbles and our borders remain wide open with our ports having only 5% of their cargo inspected, this bozo tells us that Iraq is the center for the war on terror! Imagine if we had allowed him to go through with his Dubai Ports deal? Meanwhile the Cut and Run Capitalists at Halliburton have moved their corporate CEO’s HQ to Dubai!

The time has come for America’s Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to take our nation back from these effete snobs who squander the lives of our youths and our capital. God Bless America!

The time has come to stop Bush from his policy of “cut and run” from the war on terrorism. Recently the Iraqi Prime Minister has visited Iran. You know that nice country that imprisoned our diplomats years ago and never apologized! The same Iran that wants nuclear weapons. The Iraqi Prime Minister has stated to the Iranians that Iraq will not be a part of any American - Iranian conflict. Read CNN report on visit!

Meanwhile the Taliban is rising in Afghanistan as fast as it’s fresh bumper opium crop. Yet we tie down our troops in Iraq and worry more about Katusa rockets going 25 miles into northern Israel from Lebanon than we do about North Korea, with its nukes, developing and testing ICBM’s capable of traveling thousands of miles to hit our shores!

If we do not fight these Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies in Afghanistan then we will be fighting them in our streets. If we do not fight the terrorists who have safe haven in Pakistan and the North Koreans who already have nuclear weapons then we will risk a mushroom cloud rising from our cities!

Bush has provided a remedy! Yes Afghanistan under the government we installed there has a bumper crop of opium! No doubt they will ship it to our cities and addict our youth. But so what better to enjoy then fine Afghan opium as the mushroom cloud from a terrorist nuke spreads over our cities. With our borders wide open so terrorists can flow in and capital can flow out by cut and run corporations that flee the nation that gave them support, succor and profits, why not enjoy a little Afghan opium!

I guess this is what Bush means by “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”! The time has come to fight these Islamic fascists and their North Korean buddies. We can use “shock and awe” in Iran and North Korea. But Afghanistan needs more troops to fight the people who attacked us on 9-11 and to destroy the opium crop. Mr. Bush talks about fighting Islamic fascists yet does nothing about the genocide in the Sudan!

Bush and his fellow travelers are engaging in a failed social engineering experiment in Iraq! They are leaving our borders open while engaging in a cut and run strategy in the war on terror! Afghanistan should be where our ground forces are. North Korea and Iran can be showcases, if need be, for “shock and awe technological attacks”! Bush talks about kicking ass but is only kicking our asses not the terrorists! Time for us democrats to show him the way!

The time has come for the SILENT MAJORITY - America’s Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to rise up and take our country back!

North Korea has nukes. She has built even more while we got side tracked in Iraq. Now she is testing ICBM’s and Iran is going into the nuclear game. Afghanistan is experiencing a rise in Taliban activity. Next door in Pakistan they are making peace with the terrorists.

(SEE Christian Science Monitor article on peace deal).

Let me raise an important question concerning North Korea and Iran! If we are to disarm North Korea and shut down Iran’s nuclear capabilities are we going to occupy both nations? I doubt it. We are equipped to deal with the problem with our superior military technology. We will use surgical strikes against their facilities and even against their economic institutions without sustained extensive occupation. Iran is Islamic! So are we going to start a crusade to spread democracy to Iran? Will we occupy their nation? Most analysts say no that it will be done by “shock and awe technology”! Well then why must we occupy Iraq especially that North Korea and Iran are FAR greater threats to our nation and we are not going to occupy them?

The issue is not fighting Islamic Fascism. The issue is the definition of the battlefield and the tools of that encounter! By the way if we are so into fighting the Islamic Fascists what about the genocide that these Islamic Fascists are waging in Sudan against the Christians?

George Bush who cut and ran from his full commitment to the National Guard in his youth now spends the lives of our brave young troops in Iraq. He worries more about small conventional warhead katusa rockets from Lebanon going 25 miles into northern Israel than the fact that North Korea has nukes already and is testing ICBM’s capable of going thousands of miles reaching our homeland. Not to mention that she could supply a nuke to terrorists. Yet Bin Laden roams the Afghan mountains and we do nothing but allow the new Afghan government to raise a bumper crop of opium!

The real threat to America is not being addressed. Bin Laden is in Afghanistan or the tribal areas of Pakistan. Our troops there need more resources not only to fight the Islamic fascists but the bumper opium crop! If we don’t destroy the Afghan opium and fight this crop and it’s supporters in the Afghan government, then we will be fighting drug terrorism in our homeland.

Our troops did not die in Afghanistan to make the world safe for Afghan opium! Bush has cut and run:

• From his youthful duty to the National Guard!
• From capturing Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Bush’s ego diversion to Iraq must stop.
• From securing our borders from invasion from the south.
• From placing “PORT SECURITY” over “portfolio security”!

The time has come for the SILENT MAJORITY - America’s great middle class (and those who aspire to be) to stand up and be counted!

President Bush in a recent radio address said the following:

“If we give up the fight in the streets of Baghdad, we will face the terrorists in the streets of our own cities. The security of the civilized world depends on victory in the war on terror, and that depends on victory in Iraq, so America will not leave until victory is achieved.”

READ FOX NEWS ARTICLE

Putting terrorism aside just for one moment, since Bush’s argues that we must defeat the terrorists in the streets of Bagdad else we will fight them here on our streets, then what about the issue of drugs Mr. President? We correctly, IMHO, invaded Afghanistan as that nation was a safe haven for Ben Laden. Afghanistan’s main crop then was opium! The problem is that opium still is Afghanistan’s main crop and export. Their government, the one we helped install, does not want to shut down the opium fields.

READ Global hangover article on Afghanistan

READ MSN/NEWSWEEK ARTICLE

Our brave troops died in Afghanistan and I do not believe they gave their lives so that Afghan drug lords could continue to harvest opium! Nor did our brave troops die so that:

• Our streets would be the battle fields for drug terrorism and addiction.
• Our youth would be infected with addiction as a result of the failed social engineering experiments of Bush and his fellow travelers!
• Mr. Bush and his fellow travelers could harvest pseudo-patriotic hoopla from a Commander - in Chief who CUT AND RAN from his National Guard meeting requirements!

Bush is whipping up fear in the general public and trying to rally his base by giving a substitute goal for winning the war on terrorism. Instead he is trying to upshot his dad by getting involved in Iraq when we had more important fish to fry!

Using Bush’s logic then we MUST defeat the war lords and even the govenrment we installed in Afghanistan in their harvesting of opium. If we do NOT then we will be fighting that opium and the terror it produces in our city streets!

Mr. Bush and his fellow travelers love to provide “feel good” bravado! I am all for “KICKING ASS”! But let us focus on the correct target. Afghanistan was a good target. The problem is we did not use enough troops for a follow-up in destroying the opium fields. Instead we got sidetracked into Iraq! Nothing wrong maybe in knocking off Sadamn AFTER we first take care of North Korea and Iran. Then we should have left Iraq to a puppet general. North Korea and Iran can be dealt with by our advanced technology! China could even be “invited” to install a new communist goverment in North Korea. Our goal is not to push the communists out of North Korea but just stop them from becoming a threat. To force North Korea militaraly to become democratic would invite a major war. That is not in our national interest. But Bush is sidetracked in up showing his dad in Iraq.

You may have heard of North Korea Mr. Bush. You know the nice folks who ALREADY have nuclear bombs and are testing ICBM’s that could travel thousands of miles to hit our homeland. Instead Mr. Bush is more concerned with small conventional war heads fired by Katusa rockets 25 miles into northern Israel!

Mr. Bush you have the correct issue which is homeland security! However my question is just whose homeland you are trying to secure! Certainly not ours when:

• We back a government in Afganistan that is exporting drug terror to America’s streets.
• Our borders are wide open five years after 9-11 and your party controls all branches of government!
• Shipping containers are barely inspected entering our ports.

Mr. Bush do you want to fight Islamic Fascism? What about the GENOCIDE that is taking place in the Sudan against the Christian minority? Instead of focusing on that, Mr. Bush, you and your fellow travelers in the Christian right have an agenda to bring about the second coming by focusing on Israel. Israel has the resources to take care of it’s own problems. Indeed our outward backing may even hamper Israel from doing what it really wanted to do and that is attack the terrorist bases in Syria!

The problem is we Democrats let him get away with this. We also have a stupid subset of PC Democrats that want us all to believe America is the fault of all the world’s problems. When Bush then presents some bravado, even if it is misdirected, most will rightly chose action over guilt trips.

I do salute the President for the successful anti-Missile test just recently conducted. In that issue he is on the right track. But not in Iraq and Homeland Security. If the fate of the free world is at stake in Iraq then we need far more troops! Imagine Germany three years after the end of the war with Berlin in revolt! Do we want to pay that price for Iraq while North Korea builds yet more nuclear weapons and Iran prepares? Time for a change this November!

As we all know the weak government in Lebanon has no real control over it’s own territory. Hezbollah is conducting it’s own private foreign policy by rocketing Israeli towns and kidnapping two Israeli soldiers. Worse is that Hezbollah uses the innocent civilians of Lebanon to act as human shields.

President Bush has demanded that as part of a comprehensive peace plan the so called “Sovereign” government of Lebanon take control of it’s territory from the Hezbollah militia.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/31/us.mideast.ap/index.html

Before George Bush lectures Lebanon on breaking up armed militias perhaps he should look at Iraq and even Afghanistan. In Afghanistan our nation, the most powerful on earth, has still not eliminated the Taliban! Though with the help of some of our European allies, we are doing a “better” job in Afghanistan than in Iraq.

In Afghanistan things are still bad and the prime crop of Afghanistan, which is opium, could be jeopardized by all this in fighting. So lets hope Bush gets his act together so our new “friendly” government in Afghanistan can resume needed shipments to American street corners to addict American youths.

Meanwhile in Iraq we did not even attempt to disarm the militias! So lets not lecture the one year old government of fragile Lebanon on how to do it! This is a real cesspool that we see here! Iraq is about to go into a civil war if it is not already. But lets hope the “friendly” government that we installed in Afghanistan can suppress the Taliban holdouts. After all if someone has got to profit from the poppy fields of Afghanistan, it is better at least that as American youth descend into addiction, that the money goes to this wholesome democratic regime rather than the Taliban! Such advanced military thinking may be beyond our president as he never fully attended his required meetings in the National Guard.

To bad no one remembers George Bush ever serving his commitment to the National Guard as at least Kerry had folks, both pro and con, who remembered him. Hey I served in the Army Reserve and I remember the units and guys I served with! Then again I did not grow up to be President of the United States, and silly me after clearing the Taliban out of Afghanistan I would have napalmed the Afghan poppy fields! What the hell do I know? Well I do know the units I served in and some of my buddies in the Army Reserve!

So when you hear the rhetoric about making our streets safe let’s all give a round of applause to President Bush! He drove the Taliban almost out of Afghanistan and made the poppy fields of Afghanistan safe for the friends of democracy and your local street corner pusher! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!