Middle Class Populist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John McCain has been critical of Barrack Obama saying that he lacks experience. He faulted Barrack Obama for saying that he would bomb Pakistan and “that you don’t telegraph your intentions to the enemy”! Well aside from the fact that Senator McCain wants to continue the Republican wild eyed social engineering experiment in Iraq, he seems to not understand that Afghanistan is growing bumper crops of opium that finance the Taliban and their fellow travelers Al Qaeda. What’s even more troubling is that Pakistan’s President has stated he does not have the resources to fight Al Qaeda Central which is located in his country. Senator Barrack Obama has stated that if Osama Bin Laden where located and the Pakistanis would not act then he would with surgical precision to kill the man responsible for 9-11. What are we to do wait till Al Qaeda strikes again through our wide open borders and uninspected ports? This war is in Iraq is making America less secure! (See Video below).

When Obama said he will go for the kill concerning Al Qaeda is he wrongfully telegraphing our moves as Senator McCain has accused? Well then if you state that you are not going to act then McCain is giving Al Qaeda Central a free reign! Two side benefits of Senator Obama’s statements are that (1) it would make Al Qaeda live more in fear (2) it would give Pakistan an “incentive” to act rather than waiting for us to do so. Besides who is Senator McCain to talk about tipping your cards regarding foreign policy when he jestingly stated that he would bomb Iran!

In the video above we see how not to telegraph your foreign policy moves according to John McCain!

While this blogger believes taking Saddam down was not a bad idea, our continued presence in Iraq is a bad idea as it is undermining the War on Terror. Senator McCain wants to continue the social engineering experiment in Iraq while his fellow travelers at Halliburton grow richer and the Opium grows higher in Afghanistan!

America’s Silent Majority, our great Middle Class, has had enough of this Social Engineering Experiment in Iraq which has side tracked the war on terrorism! By the way Senator McCain why are Cut and Run Capitalists running to invest not only in China but Vietnam? You would think that conservatives would place patriotism over stock portfolio now wouldn’t you?

I fully sympathize with the Bhutto family concerning the death of the former Prime Minister Bhutto. But she cannot “will” the leadership of a political party or that of a would be democratic nation to her son! I find his statement below almost laughable.

The best revenge is “democracy” but party leadership is achieved by internal party elections not a “political testament” from mommy! True the former Prime Minister was the heir to her own father but a college freshman cannot lead a nation that has nuclear weapons and claims to be a democracy!

Well gosh golly that must be one of my silly American bourgeoisie middle class hang-ups!

I am deeply saddened by the death of this brave woman. She joins President Sadat of Egypt in dying for peace. She surpasses Sadat in that she also died for democracy! Oh yes we will now be treated to the hate rant of many of my fellow Christians who just don’t want to remember the Inquisition or the Opium War! The latter fought by members of my own Anglican Church to bring the “heathen Chinese” the joys of addiction to opium in Jesus name! Does this mean I believe Jesus would sanction those scandals? Absolutely not!

I heard conservatives list some quotes from the Koran that sanctioned killing. Well let me see if I can list some here:

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

Wait the above is not from the Koran but from our very own Bible, Jeremiah 48:10! I am an Anglican (Episcopalian)! My church believes that we understand God via:

• Scripture
• Reason
• Experience
• Tradition

Those who commit barbarian acts in God’s name frequently use only Scripture! By the way ALL scriptures have their particular passages we would like to forget! Islam unlike Christianity, has yet to experience major “secularization”. All believers need to place some distance between their actions and their scripture. Observe the Bible:

Luke 14:26

26″If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters–yes, even his own life–he cannot be my disciple”. - Well there is a nice scriptural passages for a Christmas card!

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.

Well now there is a nice thought! Only thing missing is a “Sieg Heil”! These are only a few of many “delightful passages” we would rather forget! Our religion is guided by “Reason” not just Scripture. We create “Theological Rosaries” by weaving the passages that suit our understanding of the Divine. Then we blank out the rest. With Christianity’s “Evolution” we have created a string of passages to form a “Theological Rosary” that is more spiritual and humanistic! - Thank God! Let’s allow the Muslims the same opportunity, after all Bhutto was a Muslim!

Now observe this passage from the Koran:

2:177 It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the prophets; and giveth wealth, for love of Him, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor-due. And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress. Such are they who are sincere. Such are the God-fearing.

Yes we have to be careful about the Islamic World while they go through their evolution to secularization and liberalization from “Solo Scriptura” to the four fold method I listed above. But Christianity and Judaism are not inherently superior to Islam. We simply went through an evolutionary process that they are behind in. We went through this earlier, probably since we splintered into not just Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox, but even within the Protestant fold there were many warring fractions in close geographic proximity. We learned to live with our EXISTENTIAL ANXIETY! Don’t get the idea that Holy Wars are simply a religious phenomena to reduce EXISTENTIAL ANXIETY! Not at all! Do you remember the Soviet Union, Khmer Rouge or Maoist China? Atheists just love to say that the latter do not reflect the “real Atheists”. Well why not give the same consideration to Muslims, Christians and Jews? Let me also present for your consideration my religion website, that I admit has been neglected by myself.

www.AquarianFreeThinker.Com

Finally Pakistan, in one way, is more advanced then we are! They already had a woman as the “Head of Government”.

As an older hippie, I no longer have the knee jerk reaction that if a Third World leader imposes martial law he is automatically a dictator! Remember Iran when Jimmy Carter was President? We pushed the ailing Shah from his throne and what did we get in return? We got the nice mullahs of “Shia Land” who then sanctioned the kidnapping of our Embassy staff. But that was only the start.

What we in the west need to learn is that having an election does not a democracy make! There must be future elections also and a code of law. Democracy cannot exist without SECULAR HUMANISM and separation of Church and State! No I am not an Atheist! Can you say “Palestine”! However what is worse is that Pakistan has nukes and Al Qaeda inside her borders! Next door in Afghanistan there is a bumper crop of Opium that will finance Al Qaeda in Afghanistan - Pakistan! But George Bush and his fellow travelers are more interested in making silly speeches repeating the term “Al Qaeda in Iraq”.

Well now we have to deal with Al Qaeda in Pakistan! I am somewhat sympathetic to Musharraf. Yes Bhutto is a friend of the USA also. I would prefer for both of them to join forces. However Musharraf’s crackdown could have been “selective” against the radical elements in Pakistan. This leads to questions of his motives, but then again many say Bhutto is not an angel either. Our nation is caught in the middle!

Musharraf should have asserted rule over the insurgent areas in Pakistan. Then when rebels took to the streets in the cities he would have a constitutional duty to preserve order by acting ONLY against those elements in Pakistani society that were in revolt! If he is acting against the extremists why jail lawyers and moderates unless you have some other agenda! Apparently Pakistan like Turkey has a military that does not understand Constitutional law. But we must ask ourselves an honest question: What if the extremists would win the election? Would we want a Pakistan which has nuclear weapons, to be in the hands of extremists? Not to mention they could start something with India which also has nukes.

Well I am sure this situation is causing much political angst. We live in a world that soon could have a nuclear nation in the hands of Islamic extremists. We might have even prevented Pakistan from developing the Bomb but our nice friends in Dubai did not want to cooperate with us by stopping shipments of centrifuges through their port to Pakistan. You remember “Dubai”, the nice folks that George Bush and his fellow travelers wanted to franchise American port security to! Well lets not get all worked up. Might I suggest a peaceful “Mantra” to divert your attention from this crisis? Repeat after me George Bush’s Mantra:

“Al Qaeda In Iraq”

“Al Qaeda In Iraq”

“Al Qaeda In Iraq”

There now you feel better? Perhaps some nice Indian Mangoes would also help. Say good night Georgie!