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This post will examine a very serious issue facing our nation! As an American and a Liberal Social Democrat I believe both political parties have to do some serious talking to each other, preferably outside of camera view! Democrats and Republicans must do that in order to place the nation first when it comes to nuclear proliferation! As I mentioned three years ago in a post called, “Iran: An Inconvenient Truth – A Populist Prospective“, we may indeed have to use some type of military force. Yes and this is coming from a Liberal Social Democrat. Below is a short video of Iran’s first satellite launching into space! What would happen if she developed nuclear weapons!

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Our society depends on banks, air traffic control computers, electrical grids and computer controlled communications! Our military is heavily dependent on computers! If our banks and financial institutions lost their computer capabilities our economy could collapse! I believe this attack should be responded to by our military computer experts even if covertly! Yes I am a European style Social Democrat. But I am sick of our nation being indecisive in the face of North Korea and Iran. Indeed my opposition to the Iraqi War is that it side tracked our nation from our own National Security Interest to focus instead on a vast Republican Social Engineering Experiment.

What the Republicans just don’t seem to understand is this basic maxim:

Petty two bit Dictators are NOT afraid of being overthrown and replaced by Democracies! They are simply afraid of being overthrown! When our nation changed it’s goals in Iraq from the mere overthrow of Sadam Hussein to a vast Republican Social Engineering Experiment we completely lost our Military Deterrence with Iran and North Korea! Both Iran and North Korea realized that instead of presenting a demonstration of our “Shock and Awe Technology” we were shifting to a masochistic “bleed and procrastinate” military strategy of engagement! Iraq made us procrastinate against Iran and North Korea not to mention Al Qaeda on the Afganistan – Pakistan border.

We were no longer a threat to Iran and North Korea! Indeed the very fact that we are going to build a Star Wars Anti-Missile System in Europe to protect Eurpope from rogue nations means we are not serious about stopping nuclear proliferation in the first place!

The very premise of such a system is predicated on the fact that we will allow Iran to have nukes! Now this cock roach of a nation, North Korea is playing games with our computers! These nations must be stopped not simply by economic means but by blatant high tech military force if needed.

But Democrats must realize we cannot allow another nation to rival us in military technology. Since we do not want to shed the blood of our military we must keep the image of Technological Leader. These Cyber attacks are a threat to our military deterence!

Our strength is not in occupations, except when really needed, but in our “Shock and Awe Military Technology”! (Oh my God a Liberal quoting Rumsfeld). I support Star Wars Technology. I just don’t believe it serves our national interests to place it in Eastern Europe which only alienates Russia and sends the wrong message to Iran! It makes me proud as an American to hear that the tests of our Star Wars Technology are running very well! Yes one can be both a liberal and for defending vigorously American interests! We do not have to even cause loss of life in North Korea. We could use EMP Bombs. See video below.

This blog is not your standard liberal blog. Yes I am a rabid Social Democrat and believe in the roll back of not only the Bush but the Reagan tax cuts as well! But I also believe we must be forceful in the defense of our nation. Bush squandered our resources in Iraq. My fellow liberals must understand something very fundamental about the American electorate!

Americans love action figures!

We got attacked on 9-11. Bush used forceful action! He jumped in the polls. He dropped when his “action” turned out to be a loss. We had an economic crises! The Republicans advocated laisse-faire! Obama advocated ACTION! Obama then won! Americans love ACTION FIGURES!

If we expect economic sanctions to work against both Iran and North Korea then we are fools! We will see a mushroom cloud over our cities in that case. This cyber-attack must be met with a counter attack against North Korea’s computers! Even if they did not launch the attack they are a cock roach of a nation that deserves punishment for their nuclear testing! If we Democrats do not act FORCEFULLY then we will loose the elections.

Americans love action figures! The time has come to take action and unlike George Bush, we must take focused action using our advanced technology rather than mere infantry and occupations!

The world is not a game of checkers but CHESS! Kill the king and the game is over! When nuclear missiles and “pulse bombs” can disable our nation’s ability to launch retaliation in fast order we need to protect our President. If reports are to believed we no longer maintain the secret nuclear safe haven in the mountains of northern Virginia under a tourist hotel. It is IMPERATIVE that our President survive a nuclear attack. It is not imperative that corporate executives survive a nuclear attack or for that matter one more day! Below we hear the anti-Obama biases of CNN News.

If Russia or China were to launch a nuclear attack against our nation the first strike most likely would NOT be against cities but against our missile and governmental decision making system. Like the game of Chess you kill the King and the game is over. Then they would present us with the choice of seeing our cities destroyed. Yes the Vice President could take over but if we are going to cut costs on the defense of our President what makes you think the Vice President or others in the chain of command would survive!

Once a first strike destroyed most of our land missiles we would have to rely on our submarines to strike hard against their country.

IF THE ENEMY perceives he can render us incapable of making a decision he is more likely to attack! Remember China lost 20 – 50 Million people in their revolution mostly due to economic displacement. Russian (then Soviet) military doctrine before she had nuclear weapons was to use wave after wave of ground troops in an effort to take a target. Loss of human life means nothing to these people! Yes I am a Liberal Democrat! But we do not live in a world where throwing kisses to our enemies will not work.

If we do not spend money to protect our President then we have created a window of opportunity to the enemies of America! Oh yes did I mention that spending this money on helicopters also produces AMERICAN JOBS!

I hope the Republicans will put their party goals aside and SUPPORT OUR PRESIDENT! Buy the new helicopters! Yes I would say the same thing if George Bush was the President!

We don’t live in a “checkers” world but a “Chess World!”.

John McCain has demonstrated that he also does not understand the “Bush Doctrine”. Telling the whole world our intentions assists the military deterrence of the Bush Doctrine! Both the Monroe and Bush doctrines receive their power if a contingency is being made public by the US Government and we have the capacity to follow through!  If a foreign power does X we will respond with military action! In the case of the Monroe Doctrine if a nation involves itself in the western hemisphere we will attack! This is public knowledge and the fact that it is public is what gives the doctrine its deterrent capability! With the “Bush Doctrine” if a nation is preparing to harm us or allows others to use their territory to harm us then we will attack first. Again this contingency is only potent if an adversary knows we will attack and that we have the capacity to attack! Obama understands this and that is why he made his statement about using force in Pakistan against Al Qaeda targets if the Pakistani’s don’t take action first against Bin Ladin.

In the video above John McCain shows he understands the Bush Doctrine then in that he states before the Iraqi War we will attack. No problem here with “telegraphing” your intention! Why then does he criticize Barrack Obama when Obama stated he would attack Al Qaeda inside Pakistan if the Pakistani Government was unwilling or unable? The whole premise of the Bush Doctrine is that the potential adversary knows up front and in public that we will launch a pre-emptive strike! John McCain does not understand the Bush Doctrine! Actually McCain wants to repeat the “misapplication” of the Bush Doctrine. By closing our eyes to the growing threat of the Al Qaeda Homeland on the Pakistanni – Afghan border and instead continueing to focus on Iraq he is undermining the Bush Doctrine!

Again I actually AGREE with the Bush Doctrine! I disagree with the wrongful use of it! Let me repeat an important axiom that some of my fellow Democrats seem to forget and that gives the Re publicans fuel for elections!

When dealing with terrorists and the enemies of America you either KICK ASS or you are percieved as an ASS KISSER! There are nasty folks out there who don’t care what type of karma they are creating by using a dirty nuke on our cities! Thank God Barrack Obama seems to understand this completly and is, in my opion, stronger on national defense than John Sydney McCain!

John McCain and his fellow traveler George Bush have undermined the military deterrence of the United States by this vast wild eyed Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq! Years after the declaration of the accomplishment of the Congressional Mandated Mission, Bush and McCain have changed the mission and hence destroyed our military deterrence! Let me explain.

The best use of force is the threat of that force! But our threat of force is undermined by this vast wild eyed social engineering experiment in Iraq! We do well with fast “shock and awe” rather than extended occupations which we do not have the heart for. Besides how can we move on to the next enemy if we get sidetracked by an extended stay in Iraq? Our perceived capacity to use force is thus diminished. If we celebrated “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” then our enemies would fear our “Shock And Awe” military technology. That is if our CUT AND RUN Corporations don’t sell it to America’s enemies!

John Sidney McCain just does not seem to get it! He is wasting our troops, financial resources and our credibiity with America’s allies by this fixation with the SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq!

1.  Rogue regimes do not fear being overthrown and converted to democracies! They simply fear being overthrow!
2. What message are we sending Iran if we say we will not allow them to have nuclear weapons yet we are building a Missile Defense shield in Eastern Europe whose sole purpose is to protect Europe from a rogue state having a few nuclear missiles! The very premise of the missile shield is that we are going to allow Iran to have nukes!

John McCain shows even more bad judgment in that he would not meet with potential enemies! We spoke to the Soviet Union. Besides we can always cut off talks if they do not bear fruit. But the purpose of meeting with them is that they can see our willingness to fight if they cross the line. Also it is a means to give an adversary a face saving mechanism to change their course! Finally it gives us creditability with our allies who can help us bear the cost should war be needed!

John Sydney McCain and Sarah Palin just do not have the judgment to defend the United States!

VOTE FOR BARRACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN!

 

Yes I am a Democrat and a progressive liberal. But I am glad to see that our military has successfully tested another instance of Star Wars technology. This time it was from the ocean against two incoming missiles and both incoming missiles from outer space were destroyed! Yes I am against the War in Iraq. But I am for taking aggressive strategic action to defend our nation and our way of life against the bad guys out there! This may come as an Inconvenient Truth to some of my fellow Democrats, but there are people out there who do not care what kind of karma they are sowing!

Life has more than two choices! One can be against the “War in Iraq” yet still support aggressive strategic action to defend our nation and our way of life! Oh dear now I did it! Am I part of the Military Industrial Complex? Hell no they don’t even exist much anymore! Those companies have turned into CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS. They are now transforming themselves from “American” corporations into “Multinationals”. They ship our jobs and technology overseas, frequently even to the enemies of freedom for the buck! It seems no one is minding the store anymore!

Politically Correct liberal Democrats are to busy apologizing to the enemies of America! Republicans see things differently! Republicans see the enemies of freedom and our way of life not as enemies but as “Investment Opportunities”! These Cut and Run Capitalists don’t care about “Port Security” but rather “Portfolio Security”! Halliburton’s CEO now has his headquarters in Dubai.

You remember Dubai! That’s the nice country our CIA asked to stop a shipment of centrifuges that was routed through their port to Pakistan! But Dubai would not comply. Now Pakistan has nukes and is about to meltdown with Al Qaeda at home in Pakistan’s mountains. So how did the Republicans react to Dubai? Why they wanted to let these nice folks in Dubai have control of our major ports! Thank God the Silent Majority of this nation said “NO” to Bush and his fellow travelers!

Well at least Bush pushed for the testing of an Anti-Missile Defense system. Problem is they want to place it in Eastern Europe where it gives political ammunition to Putin. Most Europeans don’t want this system! Even worse, look at the message Bush sends to Iran! We say we will not tolerate Iran having nukes but then that is the whole presupposition to building this system in Eastern Europe, that Iran will have nukes!

What is this masochism that both political parties seem to exhibit? Politically Correct Democrats argue against a missile defense system saying it is too difficult. Yet these same folks were arguing some years back for the creation of massive orbiting solar collectors that would beam a concentrated beam of energy back to receiving stations on earth. God help us if the angle was thrown off by just a fraction! Strange you can shoot a Star Wars type concentrated beam down to earth but not up at an incoming missile! Are we to return to the days of M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) when China rises to a global nuclear power? China could even be an enemy if she turns democratic as her population is so large and their middle class is growing. They will also want access to Middle Eastern oil. Isn’t it time we develop, on a massive scale, some sort of alternative energy? We must place “National Security” over “Corporate Security”. We need to see things beyond the “liberal – conservative” dichotomy!

In this 21^st Centruy, rugged individualism is being threatened by the Neo-Collectivists of the Corporations. They place their corporate profits over the national interests even divesting themselves of their American identity. Guess who will discover their “American” identity when there are profits to be made in the build up against China? The very peril that they helped to create they will seek to profit from! The “Programmer’s Guild” has sent an alert to it’s members concerning an amendment to a Border Security Bill that would raise the number of H1-B Visa holders. Thus destroying further Middle Class jobs and dreams in the interest of the Cut And Run Capitalists! What jobs these Collectivists cannot ship overseas they will undermine at home. Thus even the recent success of our anti-missile system is undermined by the loss of our technological advantage!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority – our great Middle Class, to stand up and take our nation back from these effete snobs of the corporate class! These same effete snobs who want to reduce our Middle Class freedoms to serdom in the Neo-Collectivist dream of Multi-National Corporationism! They scream at Universal Health Care and “Fair Trade” they prefer we surrender our Middle Class dreams to sing their new Multi-National Corporate Internationale! I say no! God Bless America!

I am a Liberal Democrat of the NON-PC persuasion. I believe the continuation of the War in Iraq is wrong! I do believe in a vigorous proactive “strike first” strategy against nuclear proliferation and terrorism.

This world is loaded with people who are not nice and don’t care what type of Karma they sow! Yes I know this will come as an “Inconvenient Truth” to some in my own party!

However George Bush has wasted American lives and our national resources in this neo-con social engineering experiment in Iraq. Meanwhile Afghan opium production is through the ceiling and it will finance not only a Taliban resurgence but will also assist Al Qaeda in acquiring nuclear materials for either a nuclear bomb or a dirty bomb! With the dynamic combination of record profits from Afghan opium and the Pakistani scientific and military intelligence consortium, the weather forecast looks good for a mushroom cloud over one or more of our cities. The sad thing is no one is doing a damn thing about it! For all their blabbering George Bush and his fellow travelers in the Republican Party have the correct strategy but the wrong battle field!

Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon – PERIOD! Yes we should try diplomacy which Bush has not done. Naturally that is based on the silly presumption that our ambassador and his staff would not be held hostage by Iran! They never did say they were sorry for that now did they! Also it would be nice if the person we spoke to on the other side of the table did not believe America is wicked and the enemy of God! Wacky Iranian President Ahmadinejad believes there are no Gays in Iran! He also believed that a halo surrounded him as he spoke the last time to the United Nations. Many in this country say that since there is a strong middle class in Tehran it would counter act the fanaticism of the Mullahs. Perhaps but I don’t want the security of my nation to be in the hands of the good will of Iran’s middle class! Besides if the button is pushed in Tehran there will be no consultation with Iran’s middle class!

Meanwhile Bush is preparing an anti-missile system for Europe that most don’t want and is driving a wedge between us and Russia. By playing on fear Putin is weaning Russia away from democracy! Bush is Putin’s enabler in this quest.

Most important is the message that Bush is sending to Iran with the proposed European nuclear anti-missile system! The presumption of such a system is that America will allow Iran to have nukes! This destroys any creditability we have in discussions with Iran presuming Bush would have such discussions! Iran cannot be allowed to have nukes! They could be given or sold to terrorists, who could then deliver them to their targets in America without ICBM’s. Both Iran and North Korea get away with this because of our damaged military deterrence from the continued Iraq War!

The war in Iraq has weakened our nation in several respects. A wise general knows his army, resources and the terrain before he commits to a battle. Some in both political parties feel we should not proactively fight a war on terrorism! I totally disagree. My disagreement with Bush is his choice of the battlefield and his tactics. We must face several issues concerning our nation and the War on Terrorism:

• We excel at “Shock and Awe” (Mother Goddess forgive me for being politically incorrect)! But we don’t want to engage in extended occupations! If we understand and accept that generally we don’t want to get involved in extended occupations, then we can devise more appropriate military solutions!
• The War in Iraq damaged our reputation in the world in that no WMD were found. Future accusations by our intelligence community will not be trusted by our allies! Even rational people in America will have cause to wonder.
• We don’t want to advertise our dislike for casualties. Especially not against an Islamic foe that sends its members to commit suicide! Actually the losses we suffered in Iraq are very minimal compared to other wars we have been in. The issue is that we paid a price for NOTHING! We excel at shock and awe so we should have done so and then left after installing a friendly General who would pay lip service to democracy.
• Democracy may not be the answer in the Middle East. Just look at Palestine! The folks in the street hate us and there is little we can do about it! Yes I know this is hard for a Vietnam era hippie like myself to say but it is true! We need to restore our CIA’s ability to engage cut throats and covert operations to over throw rogue regimes! Think of it this way! Overthrowing the “Dear Leader” of North Korea and the Mullahs of Iran is a GREEN SOLUTION rather than a Red bloody solution. It is not only cost effective but has less of an environmental impact. CIA covert regime change of rogue governments is eco-friendly!
• North Korea has still not been tamed! What the heck where they doing in Syria?
• Our economy is a valuable weapon lets not waste it by exporting American jobs and technology to the enemies of freedom!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority: our great Middle Class to take back our nation from these effete snobs of George Bush and his fellow travelers!

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!

This blog is against being politically correct. As you can tell by many of my posts I am a loyal Democrat who is against the War in Iraq. But in this post I wish to caution my fellow Democrats from viewing the world with “rosy” colored glasses. This is especially true when it comes to Russia and China. NBC Nightly news ran a news article on a youth group in Russia called “Nashi”. The group has government links and is a sort of “Boy/Girl Scouts” Putin style. Just imagine if the American Boy Scouts had Bush’s picture at every outing and our youth were called the “Bush Generation”! Well that is what the Russians are doing with their scouting equivalent called “Nashi”!

They are running military style camps and becoming political street thugs like the German SA of years past. They harass the political opposition. Imagine our Boy Scouts being used for such a purpose! When I was a youth I resented being dictated to. I guess some Russian youths are so desperate for a camping trip that they are willing to be called the “Putin Generation”!

Meanwhile the Russians are resuming long range bomber patrols! In their defense however our beloved President had decided to build the Europeans a “Nuclear Shield” against rogue nuclear armed states. Bush did this before the Russian decision on increased military activity!

I have stated in this blog “just what is the message Bush is sending Iran by building this shield”? The presumption is that we are going to sit back and let the Iranians build nuclear weapons while shaking our fists saying that we are not going to allow them to do this. Meanwhile the only thing this European shield is gong to do is alienate the Russians because Bush has decided to place the installations on the Russian border in Europe!

For those Bushies who are reading this you might take note that western Europe is where heath care seems to be universal along with strong government commitment for employee rights. Hey they can afford their own missile defense! Damn there I go again! This particular post is against Putin but I still stuck some jabs at Bush. Sorry cannot help it. But my point is that in America I don’t have to worry about our Boy Scouts harassing me for speaking out against the Administration, while in Russia their version of the Boy Scouts does harass for political purposes!

This blogger will attack both the left and the right when Democratic Ideals are at stake. I applaud NBC for their coverage of this issue! This nation had better regulate it’s investors from placing American capital into the hands of nations that pose a threat to our national security interest! There is nothing wrong with overseas investments as long as it fosters FAIR TRADE rather than serving as reinforcement for slave labor as in China!

Our national security must come before portfolio security! We are living in a Brave New World and the orthodoxies of liberalism and conservatism must be subjugated to the needs of America’s Silent Majority! That is to say our great Middle Class and those who aspire to be! God Bless America!

Additional Reader Resources to visit concerning the situation in Russia!

Article in The Christian Science Monitor on Russian Military Buildup

New York Times Video On Nashi

Boston Globe Article On Nashi and It’s Storm Trooper Tactics

BBC on Nashi