Senator John McCain continues to preach for a continuation of the vast costly right wing social engineering experiment in Afghanistan. Today on “Meet The Press” he outlined Republican talking points concerning the war and American foreign policy!

Senator McCain just does not get it!

Maybe he had a consultation before going on the air with that foreign policy genius Sarah Palin!

Let me list McCain’s points then I will discus each of them.

1. “We can win the war”!
2. “We can stay forever just like we are in Europe and North Korea!
3. “We should get involved in Syria but Obama is not providing leadership to stop a humanitarian crisis!
4. “The deficit is out of control”!

You can view the video of John McCain below if you wish! (If it is not clickable press your “refresh button”!)

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Time For A Reality Break!

Let’s Discuss Each Of Senator McCain’s Points

1. “We Can Win The War!”

Senator where have you been we have won the war! Opium production is through the ceiling! We have burned Korans when we should have been burning opium! The British want to destroy the opium but according to British sources we do not want to do this! Meanwhile our religious zealot allies in Afghanistan seem to have no problem with raising opium and killing heretics! Oh yes let’s send Americans to die for them!

Osama Bin Ladin is dead as is most of the senior leadership of Al Qaeda! So why should we stay? We can bomb any Al Qaeda base camps after we leave if they should build them!

We win world wars in the space of 3 – 4 years. We have been in Afghanistan for over a decade! What can we possibly do that we haven’t done already?

2. “We Can Stay Forever Just Like We Are In Germany”!

The difference is that Poland and France are not controlled by Nazis. The Nazi resistance in Germany had no external safe havens. Thus it died. In Afghanistan the Taliban do! Germany also had a more democratic history prior to the Nazis. Afghanistan has no democratic history! Furthermore we never had enough troops in Afghanistan to begin with. Bush even side tracked us to Iraq for years. Time to move on.

3. “We should get involved in Syria for humanitarian reasons but Obama will not provide the leadership!”

Well I would have no problem dropping arms to the Syrian rebels but if John McCain is so worried about people dying I wonder if he ever heard of “DARFUR”! Well now let’s see why is “Syria” so important while “Darfur” is not? Could it be that “Darfur” has no border with “Israel”? Please correct me if I am wrong but why hasn’t Israel screamed the loudest at the genocide in Darfur?

4. “The Deficit is out of control!”

What is even more amazing about John McCain’s logic is he talks about the rising national debt! Great continue the war in Afghanistan and the Bush Tax Cuts! Care for some opium?

Meanwhile Back At Home Time For Hope And Change!

Well at least we have Barrack Obama as president! While our nation is threatened by the subjugation of the individual to the CORPORATE COLLECTIVE we can all sleep peacefully at night with the 2008 Goldman Sachs PAC winner at our helm!

No need to worry that our democracy is going to be undermined by corporations after the citizen’s united ruling! No we live in the era of “Change we can believe in!”

Just look at  the way our decisive president used the bully pulpit to call for a constitutional amendment to separate corporation and state can make us progressives feel a sense of pride! If you believe that then you dear reader have been smoking with McCain some Afghan opium!

Sure I am glad that navy seals took out Osama bin Laden. Now can we have a predator drone go up Senator Joe Lieberman’s ass? Can we get Democrats to once again act like Democrats and demand we take our troops out of harms way? Maybe I need some Afghan opium!

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I abhor the killing of two American servicemen due to the regretful burning of Koran’s. I agree that apologizing was the correct response.  That apology should still stand BUT  Human life comes before a book!  Therefore no further apologies should be made. Not only were our service men killed but many civilians!

Imagine if Christians or Jews continued today to follow the idiotic law of Leviticus! We as Progressives must face the dual idiocy of Christian and Muslim Fundamentalists! (Not to mention Marxist Atheist fundamentalists)  We must not have a “double standard”! Let me be clear I am not saying Muslims are inherently  worse then Christians and Jews. What I am saying is that:

1. Human life comes before any scripture!
2. All scriptures have both positive and negative passages that can sanction or condemn violence.
3. Because of a quirk in history, Europeans had to deal with various hostile religious groups in close proximity! Hence the evolution of secular humanism!

We in the west have learned to distance ourselves from our scripture and/or have created nicey nice strings of passages while forgetting the more horrible ones.

Muslims have not yet evolved past their Deuteronomy stage! Some Christian fundamentalists are also stagnated in this stage of their development.

The time has come to stop making excuses for Muslims! Yes we are all grateful for the creation of algebra and the preservation of Greek philosophic writings but when push comes to shove we must face the facts that Islam is way behind in it’s evolution to modernity and toleration! I urge you to watch the short video below!

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True we Christians have problems in Northern Ireland and the former Yugoslavia! None the less Muslims lag far behind the evolution of Christians in the development of toleration. Europeans had to deal with not simply two brands of Christianity but multiple groups of Protestants as well. We developed a secular humanist society in response to centuries of killing each other!

Let’s stop pretending these were not MASSIVE advancements in human history that far outweigh the development of algebra or for that matter any scripture!  I agree with Bill Maher in his video comments below! 

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At the same time Christians and Jews want to play make believe that there is something inherit in the Koran that predisposes believers to bigotry. They do not want to deal with the dark side of Christian and Jewish Scriptures!

The Bible has passages that condone slavery, genocide, and the killing of Gays and others! Let me refresh your memory!

Genocide –  It’s The Biblical Thing To Do

No these passages below are not from Hitler’s Mein Kamp but from the Bible! What is worse is this is an incomplete list!

 Deuteronomy 20:16

¹⁶ However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

Deuteronomy 2:33-36

33  the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. 34  At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed  them-men, women and children. We left no survivors. 35  But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves. 36  From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

 Joshua 10:40

⁴⁰ So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the LORD , the God of Israel, had commanded.

 Jeremiah 48:10   

¹⁰ ”A curse on him who is lax in doing the LORD’s work!
A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed!

 

Imagine if the ancient Jews had access to zykon–B poison gas like the Nazis had? Genocide is just plain old Bible fun! This is merely the “final solution” to that nasty pagan problem!

But wait? What about “beating swords into plow shares you say”? Sure what about it? The Bible says that but also the opposite!

Joel 3:9 + 10
⁹ Proclaim this among the nations:
Prepare for war!
Rouse the warriors!
Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weakling say,
“I am strong!”

Death Penalty For Blasphemers, Gays And Teenage Girls Who Use Love Spells

Kill the blasphemer!

Leviticus 24:16

¹⁶   ’Moreover, the one who  blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

Kill the Gays!

Leviticus 20:13
13 If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

Death to the pagans and teenage girls who use a love ritual to get a boy friend. The parents must do the killing! It’s called “family values”!

Deuteronomy 13:6-10
⁶ If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, ⁷ gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), ⁸ do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. ⁹ You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. ¹⁰ Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out ofEgypt, out of the land of slavery.

Brothers and sisters do I hear a “hallelujah”?

We Christians must always be on guard as our scriptures are loaded with passages from hell! The scriptures are like a Trojan horse! Bigotry is always underneath along with the good stuff. We in the West have either placed a greater distance between ourselves and our scriptures or we have created a string of nicey nice passages and forgotten the rest.

Muslims, like us have scriptural problems! However our european values have given us a layer of protection! Sorry giving us algebra does not equal the advancement of western secular society!

We were right to apologize for the burning of the Koran but now they have gone beyond anything we have done. Let’s stop making believe that Islam is a religion of peace while also being vigilant for our own scriptural trojan horses!

Our advantage over Muslims is not something inherent but due to the fact that in Europe we had not only Catholics fighting Protestants but also Protestants fighting each other. Eventually secular humanism emerged while the combatants also evolved! Muslims will eventually follow the same “evolution” but lets stop pretending that their level of toleration is as high as ours! Even with all our faults!

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A wise General chooses his battlefield and realizes that he does not have unlimited resources. He also knows where his strength and weaknesses are! We have wasted lives and treasure in Iraq to pursue the Republican’s wild eyed Social Engineering Experiment and Halliburton enrichment program! While the war in Afghanistan was, in my view, totally justifiable we have accomplished our objectives! Bin Laden is dead and there are no more Al Qaeda forces there that can present a threat to us!

We have won World Wars in half the period of time that we have been in Afghanistan! We will never build a Democratic nation there! The only thing we will do is to undermine our national deterrence by destroying our perceived creditability to harm future enemies by bleeding ourselves dry!

IF WE DO NOT LEAVE AFGHANISTAN NOW THEIR POVERTY WILL FOLLOW US HOME WHILE CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS EXPORT OUR JOBS TO CHINA!

Above Keith Olbermann on his new show at “Current TV” slams it to Obama! I agree with Keith Olbermann completely!

QUESTION: But hasn’t George Bush helped to bring about the spread of Democracy in the Muslim world?

ANSWER: No he supported the overthrown   dictators in Yemen and even worse in Egypt! But then again our national policy is so tied up to Israel that Hosni Mubarak received vast amounts of military aid! That aid was even used against the pro-democratic forces in Egypt!  Unlike the Tea Party the “Muslim Springtime” is a real grass roots movement!

The Afghanistan War Is Undermining Our National Security

Dictators do not fear being overthrown and replaced with a Democracy! Dictators simply fear being overthrown – PERIOD! When we changed the definition of “victory” in both Afghanistan and Iraq to not simply overthrowing the enemy regime but doing nation building we undermined our national deterrence!

How is that you ask? Because our strength is “Shock and Awe” not long term “Boots and Troops”! We can debate forever the merits of using “Shock and Awe” but even Vice President Biden was a convert to “Shock and Awe” as he favored the use of cruise missiles and drones!

When rogue regimes see us tied down for years in Iraq and Afghanistan they know they are free to develop nuclear weapons! Our perceived threat is lost! We lose our national deterrence by extensive occupations!

To my fellow liberals let me be clear! We live in an imperfect world! There will ALWAYS be collateral damage! In World War II we killed over 100,000 civilians in Germany with non-nuclear aerial bombing in the Dresden area alone! We liberals believe in the “Doctrine of Ethical Relativity” when it comes to other areas!

Nothing hurt the Progressive cause more than in 2001 seeing some talk about conducting a World Court operation against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan! For Christ’s sake give me a break! It is that lack of testosterone that brings about Republican Victories!

The same lack of testosterone we see today in Barrack Obama! Whether it be having the guts to just say we are now finished in Afghanistan since Bin Laden is dead or in confronting the Republicans here at home on the Public Option, the Bush Tax Cuts or a real stimulus package instead of the castrated one he gave us!

Please don’t insult my intelligence by saying that Obama gave us a job stimulus package! We gave 160 billion to save AIG while we spent a mere 45 billion for infrastructure projects! We need a jobs program with testosterone!

American love ACTION FIGURES! President Obama should be decisive! He should  have just declared victory in Afghanistan and declare we are now pulling out fully! We can always use our shock and awe technology if needed without long term extensive “troops and boots”!

Mr. President get some testosterone!

• Declare “Victory” in Afghanistan and stop defending their opium producing regime!
• Can we now turn our national attention to the CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS that ship our jobs (both blue and white collar) overseas, frequently to our enemies, while the bleeding hearts for corporate America rally with their cry to “Comfort The Comfortable” in the top 1%!
• We need a Constitutional Amendment to end corporate interference in our election processes!
• We need to roll back not just the Bush Tax Cuts but the Reagan and even the JFK Tax Cuts!

Progressives must face reality! Yes we have an historical President who is the first African American! But get over it he is no liberal!

We need Senator Bernie Sanders for President in 2012!

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First we had companies that were to big to fail, now do we have Generals who are to big to fail? General McChrystal may be  important to our war effort but he is dispensable! I do not believe army generals are to be puppets of the President. But there is a Constitutional forum for a General to disagree with the President in public! That forum is before a Congressional Committee. I always resented the way generals would act as if they belonged to Bush and spoke of the “Government” as being the same as the “administration”!

It is important to remember that all military officers receive their commission from the Congress of the United States not the President. The President is the Commander – In Chief. They are placed under him but if called before Congress they MUST answer questions of the Congress that gave them their commission as officers!

Ed Schultz did a great job on his show arguing for McChrystal’s dismissal! I also like the way he pre-empted the right wing on the “patriotism” front. See the video below.

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However I fear that President Obama will let him stay because he emphasized that the troops are the most important thing. Well if they are then maybe we should pull them out of Afghanistan! Yes I was for Obama up scaling the war in Afghanistan last year! But now I must agree that our time there is nearing an end. I do not wish to see American troops die so that opium production profits can go to the Afghan Government!

The time to win the war was years ago. But Bush valued Iraq more! Now we are only making things worse. We can use predator drones and airstrikes rather then continue a worthless occupation. Besides the cost is destroying our economy!

But some will argue we should stay in Afghanistan for humanitarian reasons. I don’t want to hear about saving the people of nation “x” (fill in Iraq, Afghanistan). If saving innocent people from Muslim terrorists was the issue then what about Darfur?

It is essential for our national security that once we do not get bogged down in an endless war. Please read my post concerning how Bush undermined our national security by staying in Iraq. When I wrote that post I was against the Iraq War but still supported the Afghan War. Now I believe that we must move on from Afghanistan else we actually damage our national security!

Briefly the reason is this:

Adversaries like Iran and North Korea do not fear being over throw by Democratic forces! They simply fear being overthrown. By being bogged down in Iraq and/or Afghanistan we undermine our military deterrent in relation to Iran and North Korea. We need to understand our strengths and weaknesses! We excel in our military technology! That is to say “shock and awe”! We do not want to engage in extended occupations!

Our threat potential comes from our definition of victory being simply the destruction of an enemy regime not it’s replacement with a democratic one as desirable as that would be!

General McChrystal must go! As I mentioned above I do believe there is a proper forum for a general to disagree with a President but the general cannot take the initiative it must come from Congressional inquiry! I do not want to give a future Republican President the power to silence the input of a general to our Congress which gave the general his commission in the first place! But that is not the issue here. The issue is the General taking the “initiative” not the Congress!

The time has come to leave Afghanistan! At least we did not follow Bush and turn over our port operations to Dubai! The time has come to worry about our economy!

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I could not post after hearing President Obama announce the troop increase in Afghanistan as I am still perplexed. Well this is just another fine mess that George Bush and his fellow travelers have gotten us into!  I absolutely believe the invasion of Afghanistan was the right thing to do! But the war should have been wrapped up by now and Osama bin Laden should have been hanged years ago! Instead this nation had to endure Dick Cheney lecturing us that President Obama was “dithering” on what to do on the Afghan War!

Yes President Obama has “dithered” but it wasn’t in relation to the Afghan War. We Progressives are tired of President Obama dithering on pointing the finger at the prior administration! But then again President Obama dithered when Sarah Palin accused him of being a pal of terrorists while she has vast connections if not prior out right membership in the Alaskan Independence Party! Amazing isn’t it that some Congressional Democrats can muster the courage to object to the more relevant Afghan War but let George Bush rail road America with two more years of the Iraq War while we had the majority in Congress!

As I see it if we don’t take some action in Afghanistan then Pakistan may go under.

Since Bush wanted to engage in his vast Republican Iraqi “Social Engineering Experiment” (to use the conservative lingo they used against us liberals years ago) Afghan Opium production is through the ceiling and it is funding terrorism!  Ah but we will meet the challenge with more private corporation contractors! (See article from www.politicalwire.com below).

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Progressives must DEMAND that Congress give a though accounting, with televised hearings concerning:

1. The switch in focus from Afganistan to Iraq and how Bin Laden thus escaped from justice!
2. The vast loss of resources generated by the Republican Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq
3. The role of the Bush Tax Cuts to the rich and how the Republicans should not only be blamed for the prior budget deficit they left Obama but also for their culpability for generating the need for a stimulus package and it’s resulting deficit spending. Obama should stop dithering in forcefully attacking the Republicans!

If President Obama wants to act “Presidential” and be above the fray then Vice President Biden must be unleashed as an attack dog against  Dick Cheney and the right wing news media, “FoxNews”!

The Congressional Majority: Use it or loose it! Let’s investigate and keep the nation’s focus on how the Republicans not only let Bin Laden escape and created a huge budget deficit but also how they should be blamed for the budget deficit that we will have to run to get us out of this mess both at home and abroad! The Republicans should be blamed for the new deficit spending of the Obama Administration!

Will they investigate? If they do they will put Joe Liebermann in charge of the hearings! What’s that sound we hear from the Democratic Party Majority in Congress and from the White House?

What we are hearing is their mantra! The sound of “MEOW”!

Well this liberal Euro style Social Democrat does not believe in the orthodoxy of corporate greed nor the masochistic “I hate America” political orthodoxy of the politically correct. Just think of the dilemma of some of my liberal friends when the issue turns to Afghanistan! Now for the advantage of getting re-elected the Afghan President has pushed a law that sets back the rights of woman in his country. True the law only effects the Shiite section not the larger Sunni section of Afghanistan.

My anti-Bush credentials are impeccable. Just read this blog and you can see that for yourself. But I do enjoy showing my fellow liberals their tendency to create a new orthodoxy.

Just what is a politically correct liberal to do in the case of this set back in Afghanistan? On the one hand they do love to blame America for all the world’s troubles. Well then not everything is the fault of America there is also that nasty nasty religion, you know “Christianity!” Ah yes they actually advocate “having dominion over the earth”, as stated in the Book of Genesis! After all Islam is a religion of “peeeeeeece” which is the mantra of the politically correct.

I know, I know, I know the Muslims did not generate the disparaging of woman they LEARNED IT FROM US CHRISTIANS! Yes that’s it! – Wrong!

Now we have been told that we are not going to get involved in “nation building”. So we will hold our noses and fight in Afghanistan and fight for our national interests like we did in Vietnam. George Bush, I am afraid to say, actually learned the lessons of Vietnam and tried to insure that if we fought in the third world we would not back some one like General Ky whom we backed in Vietnam. But that also has it’s problems as we have learned.

Yes I am for pulling out of Iraq and was only for removing Saddam Hussein not the nation building that followed. George Bush slowly realized he could not do it and our model of democracy in Iraq slowly was lowered.

But my point is this! What are we to do in Afghanistan? Should we blame this new law on Bush? No we really cannot since he is out of office. Maybe we should adapt the liberal idea of CULTURAL RELATIVISM in relation to the Muslim treatment of woman! You know the idea that right is not right and is only due to our stupid American ethno-centricism! “Bad, Bad Bad American”!

As I said I am a liberal Euro style Social Democrat. So don’t try to rationalize your cognitive dissonance between liberal ideals on the one hand and the masochistic blame America philosophy of the politically correct for everything on the other. Sometimes the Republicans do have it right. There are people out there in this world who do not care what type of “karma” they generate. North Korea and Iran’s leaders are among them!

We are fighting EVIL in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Not to mention Iran and North Korea! China and Russia are not that cool either. We could see one of our cities go up into a mushroom cloud because we did not take Decisive action! Oh dear but that would be like “having dominion” and we liberals would love so much better to live and wallow in guilt being “reactors” rather than proactive in world affairs!

Yes there is an axis of evil! No I do not believe in Satan but I do believe in fighting what is evil! I am proud that our nation has, as yes Donald Rumsfield said, “Shock and awe military technology”. I am not ashamed that my nation has it and I don’t want others to have it.

We need to take out Al Qaeda! I believe in the Bush Doctrine (OH MOTHER GODDESS FORGIVE ME!) but Bush misapplied his own doctrine by wasting Americas’s resources by “staying “ in Iraq. We need to:

1. Use our superior technology to wipe out Al Qaeda.
2. Allow COVERT CIA operations to take out the beloved leader in North Korea. (What you want them to have nukes and a second Korean War).
3. Stop the Cut and Run Capitalists from selling our military technology to America’s enemies!
4. Pressure Afghanistan to liberalize their laws.

The time to be decisive is now! America does not need the Republicans to be the torch holders of defending American Values! If we liberals do not then the Republicans will regain their prestige with the American people and our nation will never enjoy the fruits of a American stlye Euro economy!

Well the Republicans are on their way out and with the rebirth of Camelot the CIA has found a new way to protect America without the usage of torture. It makes you God Damn PROUD to be an American! No water boarding was used to convert Afghan tribal leaders to support our cause but good ole “American Ingenuity”, inspired back into our CIA no doubt by the election of Barrack Obama as our President. These new techniques by the CIA will really “stiffen up” Afghanistan resistance to the Taliban!

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Hopefully the program will be expanded by the CIA in Afghanistan under our new President’s leadership! Oh sure George Bush was heard to say this new high tech CIA technique is so “Clintonesque”! Just like the George “water board” Bush to say something so derogatory!

Well my fellow Democrats the Age of Aquarius is about to be reborn in America! The 60’s have returned and Camelot is reborn. Hell with this new CIA technique of conversion world opinion will once again look kindly on America as the land of opportunity, gosh darn ingenuity, and ruggard individualism!

Yes – Only In America could we dream up such a happy solution to the Afghan problem. It goes to show the CIA can rise up to any challenge! God Bless America!

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).

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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)

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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.

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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).

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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!