President Obama has allowed two years of non-stop Republican bullying to go almost completely unanswered! Now we have to wonder has this wimpish behavior not only hurt the progressive agenda but may actually pose a security threat to the United States? North Korea is hell bent on developing nuclear weapons! They may have already! This week they have performed an act of war against South Korea!

We deploy about 29,000 troops in South Korea. These troops levels are not high enough in themselves to stop an invasion of South Korea by North Korea! However they would stop a “rational” enemy as long as we retain a “psychological deterrence”! But that requires “image credibility“. That is the issue!

Can Obama’s Image Credibility Sustain The Nuclear Trip Wire Defense

Let me explain how this relates to President Obama and his endless study of Dale Carnegie to win right wingers and influence people!

Our troops are placed in South Korea in a similar manner as they were in West Germany prior to the fall of the Soviet Union! It was well known that their lower numbers meant they would be over come by a military attack! Since we could not allow that to happen we would then use “tactical nuclear weapons” to repulse a massive conventional attack. This was well know to the Soviets. Our troops constitute what is termed a “nuclear trip wire”. The danger is the adversary may miscalculate that we would “blink” in a showdown!

It is essential for our national security and to avoid a war that the enemy does not perceive us as weak willed. Many of those who read this blog may suffer from “Dale Carnegie Syndrome”! There are people in this world who are just plain evil! Being nice till you are blue in the face will not avail. This holds true with right wing nut jobs and the external enemies of America!

While the Republicans are not Hitlers they are playing “bully” with Barrack Obama. The only way to deal with a bully is to stand up to him. North Korea constantly tests our resolve. They did it with prior Presidents. But Obama gives the “perception” of weakness with the Republicans! The problem is that North Korea is watching!

President Obama’s “Image Creditability” can be detrimental in several ways not only to the Progressive Agenda but to the world!

1. The Republicans may try to shut down the U.S. Government because they perceive Obama to be weak. Many Republicans believe they could have won in the 90′s if they held out. Since Obama is perceived by them as weaker they may be even more determined!
2. Worse the Republicans can try to shut down the Government by not authorizing the funding of the national debt! This would cause a global financial meltdown!
3. North Korea has now advertised they are enriching uranium on a massive scale. They may perceive Obama as weak and may thus MISCALCULATE! The issue is not simply if Obama is weak, the issue is his image credibility! Our troops lives depend on it! I don’t know who is worse! The Republicans for playing bully or Obama for his gutless response!

Mr. President go to your library and throw out all your books by Dale Carnegie! “How To Win Friends And Influence People” is not going to help you with the Republicans! Worse your making the North Koreans think what we Progressives already know, that you are a wimp! The Republicans don’t read “Dale Carnegie” they read “Andrew Carnegie”!  The North Koreans read Stalin! Wake up Mr. President!

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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!

Let me present to you some points  that we don’t want to face that hits both sides of the political spectrum! Then I will go into detail on each point. Consider these points:

1. We cannot allow Iran (or any rogue nation) to have nuclear weapons – PERIOD!
2. The issue is not Israel, the issue is our national security! Be afraid! Fear sometimes is justified.
3. Sanctions are a joke. They only buy time but there comes a time when action is required.
4. Renegade unchecked Capitalism which places profits over patriotism is part of the reason we are in this mess along with the masochistic tendencies of PC Liberals.
5. George Bush and his vast right wing Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq have undermined the military deterrence of our nation.
6. We must know our strengths and limits for both our military and political power! The issues I raise here go beyond the normal liberal – conservative gap.
7. If we do have to use surgical strikes against Iran then naturally the patriotic thing to do for the oil companies is to submit to nationalization! After all they are “persons” and why shouldn’t they be drafted for the national good?

Below is an excerpt from the “Count Down With Keith Oblermann Show“. He is a noted liberal whom I admire but I have some issues with him concerning Iran.

Notice one of his liberal guests actually saying that if we do attack it will only be a “delaying action” that will make the Iranians mad at us. The guest believes, and I assume Keith Olbermann concurs since he did not disagree, that we cannot stop Iran from obtaining nukes and we don’t want to make them mad now do we?

Note this plays right into the hands of those who attack liberals for being weak and apologizing to America’s enemies! Let me now go through each of the seven points I made above.

(1). We cannot allow Iran (or any rogue nation) to have nuclear weapons – PERIOD!

Well as liberals we do believe in “ethical and cultural relativism” right? Well I believe our nation should never have allowed any other nation to acquire nuclear weapons! Our planet will pay the price for not being decisive in the late 40′s. If we had instituted PAX AMERICA then we would not be in the situation we are today nor would my generation have grown up in the age of M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction).

Politically Correct Liberals will say:

• America does not have the right to be the sole owners of nuclear weapons?
• Letting the Soviets have nukes gave us a balance!

I could not disagree more!

Yet these very same people will lecture us about the dangers to our planet from green house gases! I think the nuclear winter that would have been unleashed by a nuclear war would have hurt our environment too! Why would we need to have the Soviets balance us? That is unless you don’t believe in America! The problem is that conservatives really do have a point here! Many liberals do feel guilty about being American! It really is true as conservatives assert, “Liberals apologize for being Americans”! This liberal is not ashamed about being an American. And if faced with M.A.D. or Pax Americana, I choose Pax Americana. Again pay attention to the video above where Keith’s guest asserts the joys of impotency in the face of nuclear proliferation!  While other nations have nukes we can at least stop Iran and North Korea from obtaining nukes. I would use what ever force it takes! Make no mistake sanctions will not work!

(2)  The issue is not Israel, the issue is our national security! Be afraid indeed and this from a Liberal Social Democrat!

That’s right “Be Afraid – Be very afraid”! Sometimes fear is justified. The issue is not Israel vs. Iran rather it is the dangers that Iran and North Korea bring to us. They don’t even need missile delivery systems. They could sell their nukes to terrorists!

(3) Sanctions are a joke. They only buy time but there comes a time when we have to act!

John McCain was correct that when you point a gun you have to have creditable deterrence that you will fire if need be! The problem is that his fellow traveler, “George Bush” has destroyed American military creditability. But I will discuss that further down.

(4). Renegade unchecked Capitalism is part of the reason we are in this mess along with the masochistic tendencies of PC Liberals,

Yes I blame both conservatives and liberals for the mess with Iran and North Korea! European corporations rushed to get a piece of the action in assisting Iran in it’s nuclear program.

Some of our corporations have aided Iran with the transfer of military technology from our nation to Iran for a profit. Halliburton had a Iranian subsidiary.  General Electric also sold our conventional military technology to Iran for a profit. Renegade Capitalism is part of the reason we face nuclear proliferation because our conventional military deterrence has been weakened by those who place profit over nation!

But liberals also present a problem when it comes to rogue states. PC Liberals love to wallow in collective guilt. True they have forsaken the old Adam and Eve story that says man shares collective guilt because of Adam and Eve eating some stupid apple. Hence humanity is allegedly stained. Liberals have wisely relinquished this collective guilt only to adapt a secular version.

Now it is the terrible white middle class American who  rapes the planet. How dare we go beyond sanctions? After all what right do we have? I disagree! Sure we made mistakes but the thrust is on impotent collective guilt rather than making the world even a little better.

Currently more liberals today are jettisoning this nonsense but if you listen to the video clip above you hear the old impotent liberal stereotype. The problem is that it is not a conservative doing it but the liberal on Keith Olmbermann’s show when he says we cannot stop Iran from getting nukes! – Wrong. We just have to believe in our right to do it and we do have that right. Again we do believe in “cultural relativism” now don’t we as liberals?

(5) George Bush and his vast right wing Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq have undermined the military deterrence of our nation!

McCain just does not get it. Dictators don’t fear being overthrown and replaced by a democracy! No they simply fear being overthrown! When we went into Iraq if we left in a few months after setting up a new government our military deterrence would have soared. But when we changed the definition of “victory” from simply overthrowing the bad guy to also replacing Saddam Hussein with a democracy we then tied up our military for years.

• Iran and North Korea realized our military is tied down!
• They also noticed that Americans (even liberal the MSNBC) got caught up in “Shock and Awe” where we excelled! MSNBC for several years played reruns of the Iraq invasion.  But once the definition of “victory” was expanded to completing a vast social engineering experiment America became impotent!
• Finally if we say we will not allow them to have nukes then why are we building a limited Missile Defense System against rogue nations? Bush pointed a gun and showed that he did not intend to use it else why would we have this limited Missile Defense System. Such a system is predicated that rogue states will have nuclear weapons!

John McCain does not realize that when we point a gun at an enemy, that enemy now realizes the gun is blank!

George Bush and McCain made our guns impotent by their protracted occupation of Iraq. Since we could have been finished with Iraq years ago, in which case our gun would have potency against new enemies! This leads us to my sixth point.

(6). We must be honest and know our strengths and limits for both our military and political power! The issues I raise here go beyond the normal liberal – conservative gap.

We excel at “Shock and Awe” but prefer not to involve ourselves in a protracted war or occupation. Fine! We must KNOW that when we choose our battles rather than letting the enemy decide the battle field. If we do go to war with either Iran or North Korea we must utilize our “Shock and Awe” Military technology. That is unless the enemies of America, that is to say our corporations, have not sold that technology to our enemies! Night vision technology was sold to Iran.

While I am talking about our strengths and weaknesses let me state that I would torture members of Al Qaeda. That’s right I am a liberal and I would torture. My point is I would be blunt and state that we would torture the leadership of Al Qaeda!  We should be decisive and not say water boarding isn’t torture because it is. But we need to follow the Alan Dorchowitz proposal and get a court warrant that is public.

While on the subject of “honesty” I believe we liberals should not be willing to allow conservatives or Republicans to steal the issue of “national security”! If the question is to torture and kill a few Al Qaeda members or else see conservatives defeat the progressive agenda for America then I say torture and “Bomb, bomb, bomb  Iran”!

If we were subjected to WMD our constitution would be at risk from the limited minds of the Sarah Palin crowd. We must avert that at all costs!

As liberals we must be willing to have our nation torture a few terrorists leaders to avert WMD and avert a public perception of liberals as weak that could lead to a Tea Party victory! Now we liberals do believe in ethical relativism don’t we?

(7), If we do have to use surgical strikes against Iran then naturally the patriotic thing to do for the oil companies is to submit to nationalization until the crises is over!

Invading Iran is out of the question. But our objective is not Iran’s occupation but destroying Iran’s capability to have nukes. Hopefully the moderate elements of the population who are trying to revolt now will succeed. But if they don’t we must use surgical strikes!

Iran may hit the oil fields of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia. The patriotic thing to do then is for oil companies to be nationalized! I believe we have a non-nuclear bomb called a “MOAB” that can penetrate underground bunkers. Also if the Iranians attempted to use their army against Iraq or the Gulf States we could surgically destroy their economy by hitting factories, dams and even the food chain. We can beat them with “Shock and Awe”.  If pushed to act we must be decisive!

I believe that because McCain and Bush stood by while Iran and North Korea built up their enrichment plants for years future American Presidents will pay the price! Bush and McCain supported wasting our troops and money on their vast wild eyed unfunded Republican Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq! Thus  our military deterrence has been diminished! But the American people will not stand by if we are hit by WMD. I believe in the “Bush Doctrine”. But Bush failed in the use of his own doctrine because he wasted our troops, finances and world creditability in a protracted war in Iraq! When Pakistan realized we had abandoned our mission in Afghanistan they then made peace with the radicals in their western territories! They did so because Bush abandoned military deterrence in Afghanistan against Al Qaeda!

Republicans must cease to support profit over nation and PC liberals must end their quest for making Americans feel guilty for taking charge of the anti-nuclear proliferation movement! If PC liberals really believe there is no God then it is WE who must act to defend the Earth from a nuclear holocaust. We are just lucky that our prior self doubt did not cost the earth it’s future when we walked away from our duty in the late 1940’s.

Well now I guess a Social Democrat is not always a dove on defense!

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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.

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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

Back in the 60’s when the Vietnam War was the big discussion in college dorms, the issue was how to end the Vietnam War fast. Bleed slowly or take dynamic action such as blasting the Viet Cong from their safe haven in Cambodia! Barack Obama, who said he wants to turn the page from those days, seems to be reliving the very same issues, though the stage is different. Back then I believed America should first decide if it is our fight, then if so, fight to win or not make the investment! Nixon started to be dynamic then he went back to the “slow endless bleed” strategy that gave us the Vietnam and Korean Wars! I still believe our nation must strategically “choose” it’s fields of battle then once chosen fight to win! Just make sure it is the right war first! The war in Iraq is a waste but not the war in Afghanistan and Waziristan which is the heartland of Al Qaeda!

One way that Republicans can beat the Democrats is if they could separate their bad strategy in Iraq from the war on terrorism. When it comes to terrorism I believe in the Bush Doctrine of “Pre-emptive Strike”. My problem with Bush is that he took us into a side show in Iraq instead of fighting the War on Terror! How can one person have such a great idea as the doctrine of “The Pre-Emptive Strike”, then pig headedly undermine his whole strategy and our national seucrity by:

• A side show in Iraq.
• The Dubai Ports Deal,
• Leaving our borders wide open,
• His failure to control and inspect cargo in our ports six years after 9/11
• Complete lack of control concerning the various Visa programs by allowing aliens to remain in this nation when their time is up. Most of the 9-11 hijackers initially came to this nation legally!

Barrack Obama did an excellent job in a recent speech even though some Democrats criticized him! Obama stated that he would meet with the leaders of rogue nations as Regan did with the leaders of the Soviet Union. Barak Obama also said he would attack Al Qaeda in both Afghanistan and Pakistan if our nation was threatened.

Shortly after our nation was born we took Florida because the Spanish, who owned it at the time, could not control the Native American tribes that attacked our then southern border in Georgia! Yes it is true the Spanish did not have nuclear weapons as the Pakistani’s do. But what are we to do wait till a Pakistani scientist gives Al Qaeda nuclear secrets and/or materials? Attacking Al Qaeda inside of Pakistan could entail a problem with China who is chummy with Pakistan! But if Pakistan cannot control Waziristan then it is not a part of Pakistan. If Americans are presented with the choice of sitting idly by while we get attacked again or being proactive, this nation will chose the latter! The problem for the Republicans is that Iraq is not being pro-active! But none the less many Americans would even prefer that to doing nothing in regards to Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Al Qaeda is again threatening our Homeland. They have released a new video saying they will destroy the White House!

Barack Obama came across as a Populist Democrat rather than a PC Democrat. He sounds like a welcome change especially after Hillary Clinton snuggled up to Microsoft and the Silicon Valley crowd when she supported destroying American Middle Class jobs in the technology sector! Hillary Clinton said Barack Obama is naive. Well if Hillary Clinton thinks she can support the H1-B Visa program and the American Middle Class will look the other way then she is naive not Obama!