Sure you can trust the goverment. Just ask any American Indian. It looks as though America, the bully nation that it is, is repeating itself with the takeover of another country and forcing its indigenous people to comply to an outsiders misguided way of assuming that “we” are right and have “GOD” on our side and you are wrong simply beccause we say so. To strip away everything these people once owned all in the name of greed and profit under the false claim of democracy. Remember,“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. It is happening all over again.

Not to change the subject or anything…but. Did you guys see this yet?

Rove to Quit White House, He Tells Wall Street Journal
By REUTERS

Filed at 4:59 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Karl Rove, a political adviser to President George W. Bush and a lightning rod for anger among Democrats, will leave the White House at the end of this month, Rove told the Wall Street Journal.

“I just think it’s time,” Rove said in an interview with the newspaper published today.

“There’s always something that can keep you here, and as much as I’d like to be here, I’ve got to do this for the sake of my family.”

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics- usa-politics-rove.html?_r=1&hp;=&oref=slogin&pagewa nted=print (1 of 2)8/13/2007 2:44:17 AM

So, what do we think of this? Wonder where he’s headed? Dubai? Paraguay? Israel? Somewhere there’s no extradition agreements?

Quote Eugene Robinson: “...At least now maybe people will understand what I’ve been saying for months, which is that Bush doesn’t care what anybody else thinks. He doesn’t care that the Iraqi government has failed to meet its political benchmarks. He doesn’t care that Maliki is getting so cozy with the mullahs in Tehran. He doesn’t care that Republicans in Washington are getting so nervous about having to face an election…..... the classic neocon analysis—the same grand vision that got us into this mess. If Bush hasn’t changed his mind by now, he ain’t gonna….”

That’s because the money people, the investors in the military-industrial complex, have already ‘decided’. They will now move into climate-change imperatives, infrastructure upgrades and replacements and green energy. Its a guaranteed long-term milk-cow for them and their hedge funds now.

The rest is about ‘telling it as it is’ Colin Powell-style with a straight face until it all has changed beyond recognition anyway. Then they will tell you that they were always right…..... the ship of state has already turned but you are not to know. Of course, they don’t care any longer. Its a stupid war anyway, duh!

“No one can argue against the flowering of democracy, and the United States should help freedom bloom wherever it can…...” Ha ha, ha ha. Suckers! There’s money and prestige in it for us - not for you.

“Bush said we have to stay in Iraq to “change the conditions that caused 19 kids to be lured onto airplanes to come and murder our citizens”—and that’s the heart of the matter….” and Barack Obama has just told you to go into Pakistan and bomb villages and weddings and families so that you can avenge the deaths of “3,000 Americans” in 2001! Now, which side is he on - AIPAC???

Please watch this John Edwards video:

When asked by Barbara Walters on the night of September 11, 2001 if the 9/11
attacks were carried out by forces within the U.S., 2008 presidential
candidate and then senate intelligence committee member John Edwards becomes
evasive and refuses to answer the question, after having spoken to CIA director
George Tenet earlier that day.  «

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8866440606326 94627&q=edwards+9/11+wal
ters&total=23&start=0&num=10&so=0&type;= search&plindex=0

#94018 by felicity on 8/11 at 12:47 pm

...“Heard an Iraqi who works in one of those thousands of Washington think tanks say that the present government in Iraq is corrupt to the core, is profitting hugely from the present chaos in the country so is obviously committed to just sitting back and letting it continue.  Maybe Gonzo’s there to cut himself and Bush/Cheney in on a piece of the action?  The purported reason, afterall, makes no sense whatsoever.”...

Felicity,
I believe this. I’ve heard amazing tales myself, of just like tons and tons of American cash, floating around the Middle East now, having traveled the area since we first took tons of it over there, in shrink wrap, on the pallets in cargo jets. And, it’s not like there hasn’t always been a level of corruption in the dealings of the region, and the U.S. has always assisted in the sponsorship of such. (well, at least some of the players of this regime have been sponsors of Middle East corruption for decades).

As for Gonzo in Iraq, I believe you hit the very epicenter of the bullseye on that. He is there to force some sort of law that will effectively have the Iraqis sign over all of their resources, for the next 30 years, and that includes anything that is already “proven” to exist, and any OTHER oil that they might not even KNOW about yet.

The law they’ve been trying to force on them for well over a year now, requires a “production sharing costs” agreement, that basically leaves the Iraqis in debt to private multinationals for an infinity. Kind of like how they worked out the sharecropper thing after the civil war and the Emancipation Proclamation.

The “draft law” does not promise that Iraqis will be hired to work in the industry, and they have already hired large populations of South Asians to do this work at a much lower rate of pay of course. They are referred to as “3rd world nationals” by the contractors currently there.

Besides, that there is NO requirement that the privateers pay ANY export tax on the stuff, and the amount of profit that they are willing to kick back to the Iraqis, (on the oil that they aren’t paying anything for) is like pennies on the peso.

Now, cheney has been actively trying to shove this on the Iraqis, and the government of Maliki has obviously been cut in on the deal from the beginning, because they needed him to act as the go-between. And, Maliki’s immediate circle has obviously been willing to go along with it, at least at the beginning.

But of course cheney never planned on this much resistance from the population of Iraq, and Maliki has certainly figured it out by now, so he’s long ago begun playing all sides of the fence.

Meantime, the Iraqi Parliament isn’t going for it, and so they left for recess without signing it. THAT’S what has cheney’s pacemaker in such a dither, and he probably had a double shock after Maliki’s recent visit to his buddies in IRAN. Cheney smells the double back double cross. Can’t believe somebody might be beating him at his own game.

So, THAT’S why gonzo is in Iraq. (if he really is, that’s almost hard for me to believe – the little wimp going into such a dangerous zone). But, he’s there to do exactly what they sent him to the hospital, to do to Ashcroft. To make him sign that over the spying powers. Same thing here. It’s the kind of thing gonzo does best. But, I don’t think it’s gonna work this time.

And, cheney is getting desperate…

#93979 Cyrena

No, this is simply too, too, too…much!

Heard an Iraqi who works in one of those thousands of Washington think tanks say that the present government in Iraq is corrupt to the core, is profitting hugely from the present chaos in the country so is obviously committed to just sitting back and letting it continue.  Maybe Gonzo’s there to cut himself and Bush/Cheney in on a piece of the action?  The purported reason, afterall, makes no sense whatsoever.

Gonzales Visits Iraq

Saturday August 11, 2007 4:16 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under fire at home with calls for his resignation, is spending some time in Iraq.

The Justice Department said that Gonzales arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for his third trip to Iraq to meet with department officials who have been there to help fashion the country’s legal system.
``I am pleased to see firsthand ... the progress that the men and women of the Justice Department have made to rebuild Iraq’s legal system and law enforcement infrastructure,’’ Gonzales said in a statement released by the department.

His optimistic assessment came despite the frequent sectarian lawlessness and killings in the country.
The attorney general was accompanied by Michael Sullivan, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and John Clark, director of the U.S. Marshals Service, and other department staff.

Gonzales got an update from Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and also planned to meet with Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, and other U.S. and Iraqi officials, the statement said.
The trip comes at a difficult time personally for Gonzales. Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have called for his resignation.
They have questioned his truthfulness on a variety of issues including discrepancies about the purge of federal prosecutors and issues related to a domestic eavesdropping program.

Gonzales also was an architect of U.S. policy on the treatment of prisoners abroad and author of a 2002 memo saying the president had the right to waive laws and treaties that protect war prisoners.

President Bush has staunchly defended the attorney general.
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So, WHAT WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE???
WHY is gonzo in Iraq? It is the 11th of August, and the Parliament of Iraq, (what may be left of it) has gone on a recess that everyone here – has been decrying for months, demanding that they not take one. So, they cut it in half, and everybody is still screaming. Well, these people have been living in a war torn country that grows worse by the day. (a gov and a police chief killed today). And, we’re demanding that they not take a break while we have to fight, except of course that they never asked us to be there in the first place.

So, they took their break, to take care of whatever business they might be able to take care of, and maybe even work on their own, with each other, on many of these issues. But, they’ve already made it clear that they aren’t going to be rushed on this oil draft law, and that’s what the Cabal is so damned determined about.

So, in the midst of all of this, and desert/sand/blood temperatures in the mid-triple digits, with a complete breakdown of the infrastructure, and people dying all around, or fleeing through the desert..Gonzo shows up to…HELP THEM WITH THEIR LEGAL SYSTEM?

NO!!

This is just another episode of what has become at least weekly visits from one of these clowns, to Iraq, either in person or by video, to slam that oil law down their throats, and to force them to incorporate those changes into their Constitution, thereby effectively signing over their futures. And now they’ve got GONZO over there to do it? What’s HE gonna do? Who is still around, 4 ½ years later, left over from what had been an extremely effective Judicial system in Iraq, prior to our invasion and destruction. Whom among their professional legal infrastructure is even left? Doesn’t matter to george. He’ll send GONZO??? To set-up whatever cheney wants them to have.

This is simply… too much!!

Bush the cowboy on vacation;

“What me worry”  See you in four weeks.  Impeachment is off the table, smell the money in the air, what a beautiful day, rope that uh, cow?  Oh, we are not going to the ranch?  Sail away!

Kiss, I think you’re wrong about Bush. The man not a moron - that is the problem. His stupidity and ignorance is not what has made him so dangerous. He has his agenda, and he is succeeding in achieving it at the cost of American democracy. As he tramples on everything we value, everyone else simply goes off on paid vacation, a sign that they’ve given up.

When DID Bush care?

He has been a criminal nearly his entire life. From fraud to hardcore drugs to desertion to election tampering to complicity in 9-11. NOTHING has been beyond the limit of his scruples.

Then look at his siblings. Shows what a good job Barbara must have done.

Greed and selfishness above all else at any cost. Since this is very American the voters loved him almost enough to win his stolen election.

B

http://b-political.blogspot.com/

This mental deficient moron has his agenda and cares not one iota what the world thinks. His corporate buddies have the perfect dunce to do their bidding. Rove an Cheney have his strings and this puppet of stupidity dances to their tune. Democracy has died under Bush, with 2 stolen elections and the ability to declare elections nil and void, we may see the end of a republic. And the gall to say Iraq is to become a democracy is so ludicrous. It seems that the agenda of the repugs is to have every country divided to a 2 class system, have and have not, Mexican style, if you please.