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The Next QuagmirePosted on Sep 3, 2007
By Chris Hedges The most effective diplomats, like the most effective intelligence officers and foreign correspondents, possess empathy. They have the intellectual, cultural and linguistic literacy to get inside the heads of those they must analyze or cover. They know the vast array of historical, religious, economic and cultural antecedents that go into making up decisions and reactions. And because of this—endowed with the ability to communicate and more able to find ways of resolving conflicts through diplomacy—they are less prone to blunders.
To make rational decisions in international relations we must perceive how others see us. We must grasp how they think about us and be sensitive to their fears and insecurities. But this is becoming hard to accomplish. Our embassies are packed with analysts whose main attribute is long service in the armed forces and who frequently report to intelligence agencies rather than the State Department. Our area specialists in the State Department are ignored by the ideologues driving foreign policy. Their complex view of the world is an inconvenience. And foreign correspondents are an endangered species, along with foreign coverage.
We speak to the rest of the globe in the language of violence. The proposed multibillion-dollar arms supply package for the Persian Gulf countries is the newest form of weapons-systems-as-message. U.S. Undersecretary of State
The arrogant call for U.S. hegemony over the rest of the globe is making enemies of a lot of people who might be predisposed to support us, even in the Middle East. And it is terrifying those, such as the Iraqis, Iranians and Syrians, whom we have demonized. Empathy and knowledge, the qualities that make real communication possible, have been discarded. We use tough talk and big weapons deals to communicate. We spread fear, distrust and violence. And we expect missile systems to protect us. “Imagine an Iranian government that was powerful, radical, and in possession of nuclear weapons; imagine the threat that would pose to Israel and to the American-led balance of power, which has been so important in the Middle East since the close of the Second World War,” Burns said in a speech at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston last April 11. “That is our first challenge.” “Our second challenge is that Iran continues to be the central banker of Middle East terrorism,” he went on. “It is the leading funder and director of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine general command. Third, Iran is in our judgment a major violator of the human rights of its own people; it denies religious, political, and press rights to the people of a very great country representing a very great civilization. And so we see a problem that is going to be with us for a long time, and we are trying to fashion a strategy that will work for the long term.” George W. Bush’s latest salvo, on Aug. 28, was more of the same. “Iran’s active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust,” he said. Bush warned that the United States and its allies would confront Iran “before it is too late.” These kinds of words, pouring out of the administration, send a clear message to any Iranian: You are in trouble. Bend to our will or we destroy you. These were the same words, with a few minor changes, that the Bush administration delivered to Saddam Hussein, who, despite numerous compromises, including letting the U.N. inspectors back into his country, was overthrown and put to death during a U.S. occupation. And the Iranians know that without the bomb, which no intelligence agency thinks they can produce for a few years, they are now probably going to be attacked. The Pentagon has reportedly drawn up plans for a series of airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran. The air attacks are designed to cripple the Iranians’ military capability in three days. The Bushehr nuclear power plant, along with targets in Saghand and Yazd, the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, a heavy-water plant and radioisotope facility in Arak, the Ardekan Nuclear Fuel Unit, and the uranium conversion facility and nuclear technology center in Isfahan, will all probably be struck by the United States and perhaps even Israeli warplanes. The Tehran Nuclear Research Center, the Tehran molybdenum, iodine and xenon radioisotope production facility, the Tehran Jabr Ibn Hayan Multipurpose Laboratories, and the Kalaye Electric Co. in the Tehran suburbs will also most likely come under attack.
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By gncarlo, September 14, 2007 at 12:19 pm #
This reminds me of the Carl Cameron story at Fox News a few years ago, a three-part series about Israeli companies AMDOCS and INFOSYS(or something like that) installing and processing telecommunications surveillance systems in the US, as well as the curious story about the Israeli “students” who were witnessed videotaping the first plane hitting the World Trade Center towers. These fellows were seen jumping up and down, high-fiving each other, etc. When they were stopped by police, they said “We are Israeli! We were celebrating because now we are allies in the War On Terror.” Of course, they were celebrating before the second plane hit, at a time when everyone else was still thinking it was simply a tragic accident. Curious, don’t you think? After they and a number of other “exchange students” were rounded up for questioning, the owner of the company that they worked for fled to Israel. The State of Israel, with our tax money, hired them one of the most expensive New York law firms. After being held about ten months, during which Administration lawyers interfered with their interrogations, the State Department, under protest from both the CIA and the FBI, allowed these people to fly back to Israel.
Report thisThe point is that the Cameron story, after complaints from various Jewish organizations, and being deluged with carefully-orchestrated phone and email campaigns, simply ceased to exist. The Fox site said “this story does not exist.” There have been a number of copies posted on Youtube, but they are invariably removed within a few days.
It is sad to see any site compromise its integrity by bowing to special interest groups but I suppose it is inevitable. With enough money, and control of the organs of propaganda, any fanatical single-issue lobby group can create the “reality” they choose, and defame and destroy anyone with the courage to dissent.
There are some sites that so far appear to resist intimidation by the “First Church of the Holocaust” (that should bring out the screamers!). http://www.vdare.com , http://www.antiwar.com and http://www.ihr.org come to mind; no doubt there are others. http://www.Davidduke.com is also a good read, for those of you who are mature enough to go to the source, read the man’s own words (instead of what his detractors hyperventilate about him), and judge for yourself. Don’t let the ADL compile your reading list.
By gncarlo, September 14, 2007 at 12:15 pm #
Interesting: I typed in “Hedges” and found numerous articles by Mr. Hedges both before and after the date of this one, 7/02/2007. But this one: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070702_a_declara tion_of_independence_from_israel is conspicuous by its absence. I wonder if this is an oversight, or are our moderators perhaps trying to “protect” us from the evils of “hate” and “anti-semitism” ?
(Several days later): This article: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070702_a_declara tion_of_independence_from_israel , critical of Israel, still does not appear in a search of “Hedges” at Truthdig. So, for readers who come here, the story does not exist. Down the “Memory Hole.”
One thing to keep in mind is that this article and/or the subsequent discussion would not be tolerated in the Zionist-controlled major media. Since they haven’t yet figured out how to control the Internet, they have to settle for lies and name-calling.
Report thisThat is probably the most important, although the least understood and visible front in the GWOT: suppressing the Internet. I am told there are efforts in Congress to “deregulate” the Internet, allowing the largest ISPs to gobble up the smaller ones and then charge varying fees for access to different websites. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out where that will go. Access to Nizkor or the ADL would most likely remain free, while something like http://www.ihr.org or http://www.antiwar.com could have a significant access charge. I would like to see more discussion and publicity about the likelihood of this from people who are knowledgable about the Internet. It would be unfortunate if we were to wake up one morning and be told that, like internet poker, “our betters” have decided for us which activities are permissible and which are not.
Apropos the article above, I am currently reading a very detailed treatment of this problem. The book title is: “They Dare To Speak Out” by Paul Findley, former Congressman from Illinois. The book is a little dated (1985), but it is a shocker. I suspect things have only gotten worse.
As far as free speech is concerned here, the ball is in Truthdig’s court. The First Amendment only makes sense if it protects your right to say unpopular things.
Question authority.
By Skruff, September 11, 2007 at 1:17 pm #
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Will they Have Mogan-David in heaven?
Oh lord we all want to know.
will they have mogan-David in heaven sweet Jesus?
If they don’t who the hell wants to go!
Gatlin Bros.
Report thisBy GodSend, September 11, 2007 at 11:03 am #
LEFTYPIG:
That’s what I expected you to say!
When you step before the Great White Throne of God, those words (and others) will condemn you to Gehenna for Eternity (a ‘hot’ resort in Hell!)
Bon voyage!
Report thisBy Lefty, September 11, 2007 at 9:50 am #
Re: #99456 by GodSend on 9/09 at 7:16 am
(462 comments total)
If someone calls you an antiSemite, the best and 100% accurate retort is to call them an antiChrist!
That should shut them up!
Report this====================================================
GoatShit, you primitive, superstitious, ignorant, arab, islamist, fundamentalist, terrorist, internet troll, imposter, I am an “antichristian” and very proud of it.
By Inherit The Wind, September 10, 2007 at 12:52 pm #
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Just for DogShit...words penned by a far cleverer man than I am:
The Preacher and The Slave
Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right;
But when asked how ‘bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet:
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
(That’s a lie!)
The starvation army they play,
They sing and they clap and they pray
‘Till they get all your coin on the drum
Then they’ll tell you when you’re on the bum:
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
(That’s a lie!)
Holy Rollers and jumpers come out,
They holler, they jump and they shout.
Give your money to Jesus they say,
He will cure all diseases today.
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
(That’s a lie!)
If you fight hard for children and wife --
Try to get something good in this life --
You’re a sinner and bad man, they tell,
When you die you will sure go to hell.
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
(That’s a lie!)
Workingmen of all countries, unite,
Side by side we for freedom will fight;
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain:
You will eat, bye and bye,
When you’ve learned how to cook and to fry.
Chop some wood, ‘twill do you good,
And you’ll eat in the sweet bye and bye.
(That’s no lie!)
--Joe Hill. Murdered 1915 by the State of Utah
Report thisBy GodSend, September 10, 2007 at 10:34 am #
For those who prefer an in-depth study of Zionism, from someone personally immersed in it for many years, read “The Controversy of Zion” by Douglas Reed. You can read it online here:
http://knud.eriksen.adr.dk/Controversybook/
If you still want more, read:
“Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews” by Alan Hart.
When you’ve finished reading about Zionism, you’ll discover that just about every evil in the world today has its roots in Zionism! Why is that? It’s because the Root of Evil leads from Zionism straight to the Devil and Satanism. That’s not really surprising when you consider that Satan is the “god of this world”, according to Jesus the Christ - and He knows! The Devil is also known as the “Great Deceiver” and you already know that the motto of the Israeli Mossad is “By Deception thou shalt wage war”.
So, Bush, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, the coming ‘Grand Depression’, the assassination of JFK, the attack on the USS Liberty ALL lead back to Zionism and Zionists - Israeli AND ‘American’ (they’re not really American, they’re Israelis in disguise - like Joseph Lieberman, et al)
“You shall know the Truth and the Truth will set you free” FREE, indeed - of the Zionist Devil worshipers who have infested America - and many other countries!
Report thisBy GodSend, September 10, 2007 at 7:21 am #
You may be one of those people like cyrena , who never had Zionism explained to them. If so, here a 2 sites which will explain it all. All you wanted to know about Zionism, but were afraid to ask (for fear of being labeled an ‘antisemite’):
http://zionismexplained.org
and
http://www.ziopedia.org
There is no such thing as going ‘over the top’ about the evils of Zionism and Zionists (like Bush).
Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, September 10, 2007 at 4:09 am #
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#99544 by GodSend on 9/09 at 9:09 pm
Hey, wild old Indian TAO Walker.....’The Way’ is the way of the Cross! Jesus said “I am the Way” (and the Truth and the Life). Seems like you went astray while walking away! Let me suggest for the last time that you find a way to find The Way, while it is still Day! Soon, the Night will come your way and that will mean ‘curtains’. When it comes to your eternal Salvation, it’s essential to do it His Way rather than Frank Sinatra’s or your own ‘My Way’ (which can only end in dismay)! wink Okay?
“Remember your God before the silver cord is loosed”.
With most sermons at least one gets a free lunch. This tired, worn out, disjointed monologue hasn’t ANY benefit… I’m done on this thread.
Report thisBy GodSend, September 9, 2007 at 9:09 pm #
Hey, wild old Indian TAO Walker.....’The Way’ is the way of the Cross! Jesus said “I am the Way” (and the Truth and the Life). Seems like you went astray while walking away! Let me suggest for the last time that you find a way to find The Way, while it is still Day! Soon, the Night will come your way and that will mean ‘curtains’. When it comes to your eternal Salvation, it’s essential to do it His Way rather than Frank Sinatra’s or your own ‘My Way’ (which can only end in dismay)!
Okay?
“Remember your God before the silver cord is loosed”.
Report thisBy TAO Walker, September 9, 2007 at 8:38 pm #
Cyrena (#99537) asks about Turtle Island. It is all the territory purposely mis-labelled “North America” and “Central America” on maps. HummingBird Island is the same, up south. “North America,” “Central America,” and “South America” don’t actually exist anywhere except as words on maps, and in the fevered minds of those unable to distiguish between maps and actual territories. The Native Peoples of other places around the world likewise know the true names of their own home islands.
“HokaHey!” is a way the members of the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Nations have of reminding one another that on any given day there are any number of fates worse than death (living, as the domesticated peoples do, under the-rule-of-fear or, as right now, another just-plain reign-of-terror, maybe the worst of ‘em), and what a good thing it is to be a free wild Human Being in The Great Hoop of LifeHerownself. “It is a good day to die!” we say matter-of-factly.
GodSend does seem pretty much oblivious to anything outside her own little bubble of virtuality, just like those she rages most vehemently against. This Indian aims to follow The Way, in responding to her somewhat disjointed offerings, by “....encouraging what is right in young fools,” and “....walking the trail with no thought of any destination.” This wisdom was lately written down by the Chinese, but it is found in all the Herstories told by all the Ickche Wichasha everywhere on Earth.
Cyrena’s reminder that patience (toward those struggling to make sense of the virtual world-o’-hurt called “modern civilization” enmeshing them) is perhaps the root of all virtue, is very much appreciated by this sometimes too “owlish” old Savage. Thank you, Sister.
HokaHey!
Report thisBy cyrena, September 9, 2007 at 7:04 pm #
TAO (99492)
There IS no accurate retort for GodSend. She’s just our cross to bear. When the Zionist stuff starts going over the top, (which always happens with GodSend) then you just have to respectfully request that she just simply STFU, and that will help for a minute or so, until she starts all over again.
Meantime, I’ve been meaning to ask you where Turtle Island is. I have the Great Opportunity of living in a Native American community as well, though of course we know that one lives the path regardless of one’s physical location. Still, it makes a difference in we have the advantage of the correct ‘atmosphere’, and we have one of those Islands here as well, having been long ago established (centuries ago) by the Chumash tribes of long ago, although I’m sure there are others that have since joined the lineage.
So, that made me curious, after reading so much of your very excellent teachings, because there are many similarities to the ones my own ancestors have handed down.
BUT, I have no idea what HokaHey means, (to a non native or a different tribe) so I was hoping you could tell me that as well.
Meantime, ignore GodSend. I think most of us have already figured out that the indigenous people of this land already had a far better bead on Spirituality than anything the Euros could bring with them when they came and stole the continent.
This is what always happens when people try to fix stuff that ain’t broke to begin with.
Report thisBy TAO Walker, September 9, 2007 at 6:45 pm #
Again for the record, and GodSend’s (#99517) information, this old Indian’s People are not “tribes.” We’re Native Nations, one and all.
The (apparently willful) ignorance and sophomoronic arrogance on-display in that prolific poster’s offerings here are unfortunately all too common among his/her co-religionists who presume to critique others’ “shortcomings” while glossing-over their own....if even acknowledging them publicly at all. So is the monomaniacal obsession with some “evil incarnate” or other.
GodSend’s antipathy toward “Dubya” Bush and his alleged zionist cohorts is expressed in the same terms of self-righteous dead-certainty and “divine” authority that’s so glaringly characteristic of those same “antiChrist” forces’ own attitudes and rhetoric. The Book of Changes cautions against “....branding evil, and fighting its minions blow-for-blow,” because one inevitably becomes what one condemns. “The most effective way to overcome evil,” we’re advised, “is to make energetic progress in The Good.”
A Person of wisdom and integrity will recognize that it isn’t others’ “failings” that she or he needs to address. This old Savage wonders what in the shape and contents of GodSend’s own life has him/her so “nasty” in her/his virulent assaults on those who don’t share his/her peculiar enthusiasms. What condition is GodSend’s condition in?
HokaHey!
Report thisBy bill payne, September 9, 2007 at 6:10 pm #
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By GodSend, September 9, 2007 at 4:56 pm #
CY:
Good News! - you don’t have to ‘buy this’ - you get it for FREE!
Report thisBy GodSend, September 9, 2007 at 4:54 pm #
Hey, Hokahey wild old Indian on Turtle island?:
You sound more and more like a member of another tribe, sometimes affectionately referred to as ‘the tribe’
I wouldn’t be surprised that if I climbed up that tribal totem pole of yours, I would find it topped by the star of David - that symbol of Zionism and the anti-Christ! I didn’t know there are Zionist Indians!
Now THAT’s the tribe that’s VERY familiar with Pride! Faith in Christ is not Pride - it’s Faith in God!
The Devil and his Zionist worshipers are the ones about to fall (after their Pride). Is ‘falling’ the same as MELTING? - could be (with God, all things are possible)
Hava Nagila! (Get Christ! - Get Life!)
Report thisBy TAO Walker, September 9, 2007 at 3:41 pm #
Looks as if GodSend (#99503), exactly like “Son of the MorningStar” George A. Custer and son-of-a-Bush George “Dubya”, has no ears but still keeps-on talkin’ through his/her hat, anyway. For the record, this old Turtle Island Native is no kind of “american” at all. No blame....just fact.
Somebody is maybe headin’ for a great fall from that high-horse s/he’s riding into the ground. GodSend seems not to’ve heard of the “deadly sin” of Pride.
HokaHey!
Report thisBy GodSend, September 9, 2007 at 2:19 pm #
wild old TAO Walker Native American Indian:
It’s not a fear-mongering Gospel - it’s a love-mongering Gospel!
Do they have radios there on the reservation? If they do, find a Christian radio station and start listening to it in your wigwam - or while riding your wild old horse, if it’s a portable radio. You SEE! - Christ suffered and died on the Cross so that any wild old Native American Indian like you can be forgiven your sins (and don’t tell me a wild old Indian like you doesn’t have any!) and obtain eternal Life, IF you believe that Jesus is the Son of God and thereby accept His free gift (free to you, not to Him!) of forgiveness and Life. Yeah, and you DO have to say “I’m sorry” for all the nasty stuff you did in your entire life, including denying that God even exists, and MEAN IT! MEAN IT means not doing any of those nasty things any more - but that shouldn’t be as hard as it used to be for an old Indian like you!
And DO get in touch with an old (or young) Indian who used to be wild and obstreperous but was tamed by the love of Christ.
Any of them will be very happy to tell you about the long and difficult walk in their moccasins to the loving arms of Christ, by way of His Cross! Your walk is likely to be much shorter, of course - maybe just a step or 2?! You could be as lucky as an old Indian Head penny!
Report thisBy TAO Walker, September 9, 2007 at 1:26 pm #
This Old Man wonders what the “....100% accurate retort....” (#99456) would be to the suggestion that GodSend’s fear-mongering “gospel” simply has no traction among free wild Human Beings because we know better....because we’ve been paying attention here for thousands of generations, and doing the ceremonies that keep our memories alive. We are under no illusions about the nature and purposes of the monstrosity that’s been stomping all over us and our Mother Earth these ten millennia....nor do we pray for some “god” to come down from the Sky and save all the “good little girls and boys,” before throwing the rest of us forever into “hell.”
As for the schoolyard habit of name-calling: A “Native American Indian” christian woman once made it her mission-in-life to bring this old Savage around to her peculiar point-of-view. As time went on, and our Native natural immunity to such non-sense held-up under her most vigorous assaults, she finally gave-in to anger and frustration and declared this Person to be “....the anti-christ.”
A mutual friend, who couldn’t help overhearing, gently suggested she was mistaken. “This ol’ guy would have to be your UNCLE Christ,” she was informed. “Your Auntie Christ, his Twin Sister, has been paying attention for many Winters now to what’s going on up there at HummingBird Island.” Fortunately for all concerned, that pretty much ended the campaign to “convert” this particular Indian.
So GodSend might do well to forget about possible specks of sawdust in others’ eyes, and tend to what looks to be the saw-log in his/her own. The zionists, like the islamists and the xtians and everybody else in the heyoka “civilized” world, ultimately threaten only theirownselves.
HokaHey!
Report thisBy GodSend, September 9, 2007 at 7:16 am #
If someone calls you an antiSemite, the best and 100% accurate retort is to call them an antiChrist!
That should shut them up!
Report thisBy GodSend, September 8, 2007 at 1:38 pm #
OK, purplewolf (in purplesheep’s clothing, no doubt!), try to get your mind around this:
God’s Word is not always to be taken literally.
Eternal damnation means eternal separation from God. God is Light, Love, Spirit and Holy. When you are separated from God, it means there is NO Light (24x7 Darkness - Blackness is better) and NO Love. This prospect should be enough to produce abject FEAR (more like ‘sheer terror’) in your purplewolf’s heart! If not, you’re stupider than you talk.
The HINT doesn’t describe the WH - it describes Zionist Israel! The WH is merely a vestibule in the “Synagogue of Satan”. Bush is a Zionist for sure, though. Anti-Christ is more accurate, but all Zionists are anti-Christs!
Report thisBy bogi666, September 8, 2007 at 1:32 pm #
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Remembering that Bush had his epiphany in 1984 while at a matinée movie “The Last Starfighter” it’s not surprising that he and the U.S. in general would embrace the Borg, of Star Trek Next Generation, tactics which started with declaring that they are the Borg[the U.S.]and to resist their pending attack is futile and that the whomever they are attacking should just surrender because of the futility of resisting. To think that Bush didn’t adopt the Borg’s tactic would be foolhardy because what and how he does things so much resemble the Borg.
Report thisBy purplewolf, September 8, 2007 at 12:52 pm #
#99324 GodSend:
Report thisBlackout 24/7? It has always been described,in a book of heresy,written hundreds of years after the fact?,by unknown persons,from tales passed down by word of mouth,yet all the true word of God? Was it ever altered,changed,parts forgotten,parts embelished,you betcha. Those who go to hell will burn in the etenal lake of fire for all eternity. Now fire make light.Light eliminates darkness.No darkness,no blackout.
In your “hint” part is certainly sounds like the people in the w.h. fit this bill very well.
By GodSend, September 8, 2007 at 8:43 am #
It seems that LEFTYPIG doesn’t know the difference between a dog and a goat! Just like he doesn’t know (or pretends to not know) the difference between a Jew and a Zionist.
Now pay attention, LEFTYPIG:
1. A dog goes ‘bow-wow’ and is man’s best friend, while a goat often gets confused with a sheep. If you stick around long enough, you will eventually SEE the goats separated from the sheep. You will be one of the goats, so then you’ll know.
2. A Jew worships Yahweh.
3. A Zionist worships Satan - in the “Synagogue of Satan” (so people will think he’s a Jew).
So which are you? (besides a goat)
HINT: If you just love everything about Israel (murdering, deceiving, lying, torturing, stealing (especially Palestinian land), ‘false-flap’ terrorism (especially the USS Liberty attack and 9/11), blackmailing, bribing, extorting, etc., etc., etc.) and its leaders and think Palestinians are just vermin or cockroaches and should continue to be exterminated by those Zionist Israeli Devil-worshipers, then you’re a Zionist.
Actually, we already knew that you’re a Zionist! (PIG)
Report thisBy Lefty, September 8, 2007 at 7:06 am #
Godsend a/k/a Goatshit, isn’t a christian at all. He’s just another member of the Truthdig brigade of islamist, fundamentalist, propagandist, arab, trolls [BIFPAT], masquerading as an American christian.
Not that it matters much . . . christian = muslim = ignorant, superstitious, tribalistic, fearful, hateful, unevolved, sub-human, moron!
Goatshit, you’re gonna make a tree very happy some day. The sooner, the better.
Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, September 8, 2007 at 4:54 am #
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99270 by GodSend on 9/07 at 10:34 pm
“Think of Hell as any city with a permanent Blackout, 24x7. You’re lost and can SEE nothing but you sense that other lost souls are there.
Think of Heaven as your favorite city, where you are always surrounded by those you love and who love you.”
Exactly the answer I would expect from a carnival huckster. “under which shell is the pea?”
No divine person with all the answers = one must think and do for himself.
No heaven = we must appriciate what we have rather than expect better
no hell = a morality based on individual conscience and personal attachments, rather than one based on fear.
“god” “heaven” & “hell” are nothing but an old fashioned take on the “war on terror” which may be summed up by saying Be afraid “terrorized” and put your faith in anonymous others for protection.
Personally, I just can’t buy this.
Report thisBy GodSend, September 7, 2007 at 10:34 pm #
CY:
Think of Hell as any city with a permanent Blackout, 24x7. You’re lost and can SEE nothing but you sense that other lost souls are there.
Think of Heaven as your favorite city, where you are always surrounded by those you love and who love you.
Report thisBy GodSend, September 7, 2007 at 10:17 pm #
TAO Walker:
Keep talking (to Indians who are Followers of Christ - especially old ones, like you). You don’t have much time left!
Report thisBy bill payne, September 7, 2007 at 4:39 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)
We used the spy sting on Iran for visibility reasons.
Nothing evil.
But we’re a bit concerned that we are getting TOO VISIBLE.
http://www.peakoil.com/post517005.html#517005
Report thisBy TAO Walker, September 7, 2007 at 4:06 pm #
This old Savage has heard plenty of the kind of true-believer “testimony” GodSend (#99111) recommends. Those offering it have been generally sincere....sometimes even friendly, at first. None of ‘em, though, have been Ickche Wichasha. To repeat, we don’t worship persons....no matter how “divine.”
Besides, as also mentioned earlier, domesticated people (including lots of “Native American Indians") are suckers for pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die (ala Conservative Yankee, #99082). It’s just that us free wild Indians aren’t buying it....again, thanks anyway.
GodSend is welcome to his/her predilections, of course, but might try resisting the temptation to jump to the idiotic conclusion that those who don’t share them are visually impaired....and/or subject to the endless torment Conservative Yankee, too, is threatened with (GodSend #99183). A line from Bob Dylan seems apt here: “....that god you been a-prayin’ to is gonna give you what you’ve been wishin’ on someone else.”
“....Happy Hunting Ground in the sky,”....smoke the peacepipe,”....in their wigwam.” Now ain’t that an “enlightened” point-of-view?!
HokaHey!
Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, September 7, 2007 at 2:02 pm #
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99183 by GodSend on 9/07 at 12:36 pm
“Conservative Yankee = Atheist = Hell (this is NO joke!)”
If all those sanctimonious idiot-grin xtians are gonna be somewhere else, Hell won’t be that bad....if I believed in it… which as you have probably assumed I do not!
Tell me this evangelist.. If hell were a city, which one?
what about heaven?
Report thisBy TAMARLAIN, September 7, 2007 at 1:24 pm #
THE AUTHOR DIDN’T MENTION ONE OTHER RESPONSE.
THE ONLY GENERAL WHO WAS MADE A SCAPEGOAT FOR ABU GHRAIB WAS DISCUSSING WITH GEN. SANCHEZ A PROBLEM WITH FEMALE US SOLDIERS DYING OF DEHYDRATION. IT SEEMED THAT THE FEMALE US SOLDIERS LIMITED THEIR CONSUMPTION OF FLUIDS DURING THE DAY SO THEY WOULDN’T HAVE TO URINATE DURING THE NIGHT. THE FEMALE SOLDIERS DIDN’T WANT TO GO OUT AT NIGHT BECAUSE THEIR MALE COMRADES RAPED THEM. GEN. SANCHEZ SOLVED THE PROBLEM BY PROCLAIMING THAT DEHYDRATION WOULD NEVER BE REPORTED AS A CAUSE OF DEATH OF A US SOLDIER.
THE SUPPLY LINES OF THE 150,000 US SOLDIERS AND MORE THAN 100,000 MERCENARIES IS VERY ATTENUATED. ONE WOULD ASSUME THAT THE RAPE-ADVERSE SOLDIERS CONSUMED SOME FLUIDS DURING THE DAY SUGGESTING THAT IT IS RELATIVELY EASY TO DIE OF DEHYDRATION IN IRAQ. INTERDICTION OF THE US SUPPLY LINES WOULD BE AN ATTRACTIVE TARGET BECAUSE SUBSTANTIAL US CASUALTIES COULD BE INFLICTED WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT.
THE FLUID-DEPRIVED US SOLDIERS WOULD TAKE THE WATER AWAY FROM THE IRAQI CIVILIANS. BUT SINCE THE US INVASION AND OCCUPATION HAS ELIMINATED POTABLE WATER FOR IRAQI CIVILIANS, IT IS LIKELY THAT THE US SOLDIERS AND MERCENARIES WOULD BE AT RISK OF THE AMAZING ARRAY OF AFFLICTIONS FOUND ONLY IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA UNTIL THE US OCCUPATION OF IRAQ.
Report thisBy GodSend, September 7, 2007 at 12:36 pm #
Conservative Yankee = Atheist = Hell (this is NO joke!)
Report thisBy GodSend, September 7, 2007 at 12:32 pm #
Zionism = Israel = Synagogue of Satan = MELTING = Gehenna
“Jews Against Zionism”
“Neturei Karta International”
“Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews” (Alan Hart book)
“Conspiracy Penpal”
“Ziopedia”
“By deception thou shalt wage war” (Mossad motto)
Satan = The “Great Deceiver” = “the god of this world” = Zionism
Anyone can put these pieces of The Puzzle together!
Report thisBy Lefty, September 7, 2007 at 10:31 am #
#98562 by lilmamzer on 9/04 at 11:52 am
(487 comments total)
Zionism = Israel = Jews
blame blame blame
blah blah blah
What a frightfully childish and twisted fixation these leftist Trotskyite commenters here at TruthDig have.
I take comfort in the fact that they are factually, logically, and rhetorically incompetent, as are most hate-mongers.
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lil,
Again we disagree. The Truthdig Jewhaters are arab, islamist, fundamentalist, terrorists and christian, fundamentalist, proslytizers.
Real Zionists are liberals!
Report thisBy Lefty, September 7, 2007 at 10:20 am #
Israel Warned US Not to Invade Iraq after 9/11, CON’T.
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Alpher noted that Washington did not want public support by Israel and in fact requested that Israel refrain from openly supporting the invasion in order to avoid an automatic negative reaction from Iraq’s Arab neighbours.
After that meeting, the Sharon government generally remained silent on the issue of an invasion of Iraq. A notable exception, however, was a statement on Aug. 16, 2002 by Ranaan Gissin, an aide to Sharon. Ranaan declared, “Any postponement of an attack on Iraq at this stage will serve no purpose. It will only give [Hussein] more of an opportunity to accelerate his programme of weapons of mass destruction.”
As late as October 2002, however, there were still signs of continuing Israeli grumbling about the Bush administration’s obsession with taking over Iraq. Both the Israeli Defence Forces’ chief of staff and its chief of military intelligence made public statements that month implicitly dismissing the Bush administration’s position that Saddam Hussein’s alleged quest for nuclear weapons made him the main threat. Both officials suggested that Israel’s military advantage over Iraq had continued to increase over the decade since the Gulf War as Iraq had grown weaker.
The Israeli chief of military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Aharon Farkash, said Iraq had not deployed any missiles that could strike Israel directly and challenged the Bush administration’s argument that Iraq could obtain nuclear weapons within a relatively short time. He gave an interview to Israeli television in which he said army intelligence had concluded that Iraq could not have nuclear weapons in less than four years. He insisted that Iran was as much of a nuclear threat as Iraq.
Israeli strategists generally believed that taking down the Hussein regime could further upset an Iran-Iraq power balance that had already tilted in favour of Iran after the U.S. defeat of Hussein’s army in the 1991 Gulf War. By 1996, however, neoconservatives with ties to the Likud Party were beginning to argue for a more aggressive joint U.S.-Israeli strategy aimed at a “rollback” of all of Israel’s enemies in the region, including Iran, but beginning by taking down Hussein and putting a pro-Israeli regime in power there.
That was the thrust of the 1996 report of a task force led by Richard Perle for the right-wing Israeli think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies and aimed at the Likud Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
But most strategists in the Israeli government and the Likud Party—including Sharon himself—did not share that viewpoint. Despite agreement between neoconservatives and Israeli officials on many issues, the dominant Israeli strategic judgment on the issue of invading Iraq diverged from that of U.S. neoconservatives because of differing political-military interests.
Israel was more concerned with the relative military threat posed by Iran and Iraq, whereas neoconservatives in the Bush administration were focused on regime change in Iraq as a low-cost way of leveraging more ambitious changes in the region. From the neoconservative perspective, the very military weakness of Hussein’s Iraq made it the logical target for the use of U.S. military power.
*Gareth Porter is an historian and national security policy analyst. His latest book, “Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam”, was published in June 2005.
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Report thisBy Lefty, September 7, 2007 at 10:18 am #
Ahhh, the Truthdig BIFPAT is out in full force, supporting its Jew hating leader, Chris Hedges. Pssst, don’t tell this to the pimp, Chris Hedges, but, Israel warned the U.S. AGAINST invading Iraq.
Bush and his arab, islamist, fundamentalist, terrorist, partners want war. Israel wants peace!
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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39051
POLITICS: Israel Warned US Not to Invade Iraq after 9/11
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (IPS) - Israeli officials warned the George W. Bush administration that an invasion of Iraq would be destabilising to the region and urged the United States to instead target Iran as the primary enemy, according to former administration official Lawrence Wilkerson.
Wilkerson, then a member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff and later chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, recalled in an interview with IPS that the Israelis reacted immediately to indications that the Bush administration was thinking of war against Iraq. After the Israeli government picked up the first signs of that intention, Wilkerson says, “The Israelis were telling us Iraq is not the enemy—Iran is the enemy.”
Wilkerson describes the Israeli message to the Bush administration in early 2002 as being, “If you are going to destabilise the balance of power, do it against the main enemy.”
The warning against an invasion of Iraq was “pervasive” in Israeli communications with the administration, Wilkerson recalls. It was conveyed to the administration by a wide range of Israeli sources, including political figures, intelligence and private citizens.
Wilkerson notes that the main point of their communications was not that the United States should immediately attack Iran, but that “it should not be distracted by Iraq and Saddam Hussein” from a focus on the threat from Iran.
The Israeli advice against using military force against Iraq was apparently triggered by reports reaching Israeli officials in December 2001 that the Bush administration was beginning serious planning for an attack on Iraq. Journalist Bob Woodward revealed in “Plan of Attack” that on Dec. 1, 2001, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld had ordered the Central Command chief Gen. Tommy Franks to come up with the first formal briefing on a new war plan for Iraq on Dec. 4. That started a period of intense discussions of war planning between Rumsfeld and Franks.
Soon after Israeli officials got wind of that planning, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked for a meeting with Bush primarily to discuss U.S. intentions to invade Iraq. In the weeks preceding Sharon’s meeting with Bush on Feb. 7, 2002, a procession of Israeli officials conveyed the message to the Bush administration that Iran represented a greater threat, according to a Washington Post report on the eve of the meeting.
Israeli Defence Minister Fouad Ben-Eliezer, who was visiting Washington with Sharon, revealed the essence of the strategic differences between Tel Aviv and Washington over military force. He was quoted by the Post as saying, “Today, everybody is busy with Iraq. Iraq is a problem...But you should understand, if you ask me, today Iran is more dangerous than Iraq.”
Sharon never revealed publicly what he said to Bush in the Feb. 7 meeting. But Yossi Alpher, a former adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Barak, wrote in an article in the Forward last January that Sharon advised Bush not to occupy Iraq, according to a knowledgeable source. Alpher wrote that Sharon also assured Bush that Israel would not “push one way or another” regarding his plan to take down Saddam Hussein.
Report thisBy GodSend, September 7, 2007 at 7:44 am #
Old, blind Indian TAO Walker:
You had better wise up about Jesus the Christ before you are recalled to the ‘Happy Hunting Grounds’ in the sky! Visit some of your fellow Indians who follow Jesus the Christ - and smoke the peace pipe with them in their wigwam. They will tell you all you have to know and do it convincingly. People are usually convinced by experiencing Jesus on their own body and soul! - and THEN they begin to SEE!
Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, September 7, 2007 at 4:32 am #
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#99034 by GodSend on 9/06 at 7:10 pm
TAO Walker:
“Enlightened people from all races and nations follow Jesus the Christ, including Native American Indians! smile
Visit:
http://www.tribeofchrist.com (This gotta be a joke!)
and join up! smile”
The concept of “god” was invented by a poor king who wanted to get his peasants to work, but couldn’t pay them...What better way then telling them “You’ll get your reward in heaven” Who ever came back and complained their compensation was not adequate.
Xtianity is a pleasant fairy-tale akin to tooth faeries Santa Clause, and Oz.
AND Sheep follow…
Report thisBy TAO Walker, September 6, 2007 at 10:05 pm #
GodSend (#99034), however sincere, doesn’t make the critical distinction between “Native American Indians” and free wild natural Human Beings....what the Lakota People call Ickche Wichasha. You won’t catch any of us worshipping another Person, no matter how “holy” she or he might be.
“Jesus the Christ” is the product of an advertising campaign instigated by the Roman emperor Constantine, for political and economic purposes. The Cheyenne prophet and healer known to English speakers as “Sweet Medicine” was an actual Person of considerable accomplishment (none of it political or economic) who is still revered and respected....but nobody this old Indian lives with is foolish enough to try to set him up as a “god,” or institute a religion in his name.
Domesticated people, on the other hand, are by-definition in desperate straits, and so are easy marks for anything that promises to relieve their misery and “deliver” them from their death-trap predicament. The women depicted with this article are stark examples of that, as are their counterparts in “The West” against whom they’ve been persuaded by their equally frightened “leaders” to take up arms. This “dynamic” is not called a “vicious cycle” for no reason.
The defining charcteristic of “civilized individuals” is that they all run scared (amped-up several orders-of-magnitude when, like right now, an outright reign-of-terror is in-effect). Their rulers are just as terrified, but “cope” by dumping-on their subject/citizenry....which sets up yet another vicious cycle. Here in these latter days the heterodyne whine overwhelming the senses of all the tame Two-Leggeds comes from a perfect storm of such positive-feedback-loops altogether producing a globe-girdling stress-to-destruct test.
It is in the very nature of such phenomena that some part of some sub-system inevitably fails, initiating a cascading catastrophe that brings down the whole damned contraption. This “process” has already begun. It will run its course and come to an end. Those Human Beings who abide within the integrity of the natural Human organic form and function here will one-day tell this part of HerStory to their GreatGrandChildren around the Winter LodgeFires.
There is no “limit” on how many People that could be.
There are no make-believe “qualifications” of race or religion or national origin. LifeHerownself has room for all Peoples who find theirselves at-home in HER actual Living Arrangement. Everywhere else is just another virtual world-’o-hurt anyhow.
HokaHey!
Report thisBy GodSend, September 6, 2007 at 7:10 pm #
TAO Walker:
Enlightened people from all races and nations follow Jesus the Christ, including Native American Indians!
Visit:
http://www.tribeofchrist.com
and join up!
Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, September 6, 2007 at 12:08 pm #
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98967 by Michael on 9/06 at 11:13 am
cyrena:
“Even in that now so republican and backward state,”
Michael
“I usually look forward to your comment but In this case can you PLEASE STOP BASHING TEXAS.”
You are so right Michael… Any State that can produce an Ann Richards, a Barbara Jordan, a Ladybird Johnson, A John Denver, and a city like San Antonio can’t be “backward.” I usually reserve that title for Arkansas!
Wonderful friendly people in Amarillo, Big Glitzy buildings in Dallas, Great wide white-sand beeches just south of Galviston, and Tex Mex food all point to a splendid civilization. Honking along Interstate 20 west of Abilene makes one think about the TRUE freedom of life… still wide-open empty spaces!
Nothing wrong with Texas… Oh BTW is that hair REALLY Rick’s or did he buy it at that place that still sells “scalps” a bit East of Tucumcari NM?
Report thisBy GodSend, September 6, 2007 at 11:50 am #
There is no greater threat to the world and world peace than the American military and nuclear arsenal, commanded by the ‘Hidden Hand’, Zionist Israel!
Zionist Israel is 2nd, mostly through nuclear blackmail.
Perhaps Russia is a distant 3rd - but they’re not commanded by Zionist Israel!
Then there’s China, the long-term nuclear threat to the world.
Then come the other nuclear powers, most notably Great Britain and Pakistan.
Where does that leave Iran? Not anywhere on anyone’s radar! - except on Israel’s ‘Greater Israel’ radar, and therefore on America’s radar!
Report thisBy michael, September 6, 2007 at 11:13 am #
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Even in that now so republican and backward state,
cyrena I usally look forward to your comment but In this case can you PLEASE STOP BASHING TEXAS. Ok we fell for this moron but so did a bunch of other people across this county. Even you metion he is a fake texan but blame us for him. Most people hear where for what he talked about but never did. Goverment that was honest for fiscal responsibillity and compassion. we got none of this. OH by the way I am 43 grew up on a farm in texas I believe in gun ownership but think the gov should stay the hell out the people lives and bedrooms and pocketbooks. I am neither republican or demo because neither one of the scumbags is for me. thanks keeps up the comments but please cut us a little slack.
Report thisBy michael, September 6, 2007 at 9:57 am #
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Imagine an Iranian government that was powerful, radical, and in possession of nuclear weapons; imagine the threat that would pose to Israel and to the American-led balance of power, which has been so important in the Middle East since the close of the Second World War,” Burns said in a speech at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston last April 11. “That is our first challenge.”
Imagine one that was peacefull democratic and our friend. Oh wait we had that in the 50’s we helped overthrow that goverment and installed the sha all over oil. If I rember right it was the sha’s excess’s that cause the revolt of the 70’s. THIS IS THE IMPORTANCE WE HAVE HAD IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Over and over and over agian.
Report thisBy purplewolf, September 6, 2007 at 9:35 am #
# 98846-Louise & #98881 Cyrena:
If it was so easy for weedboy to assimilate a Texas drawl, he should have no problem learning Iraqi. After all since he wants to run that country and devotes all of his time to “their problems”, with nary a thought to America and its problems, which is mainly the Bush Bunch in Crime Inc., he should be sent ther immediately and permanately.And take all his trolls with him, revoke their citizenship and put their names on the “terror list” so they cannot fly back here. I am certain there are many volunteers who would be more than happy to give him a going away party.
As to weedboy having body doubles,there is no doubt that he has several. On a television show they had a body double-comedian walk out and give a speech and I believe he kissed Laura. Then the real one walked out and she freigned surprise.Probably fake it,what wife wouldn’t know the real thing? It is easy to tell the real weedboy, no one but him can get that negative ticked-off scowl around the mouth, the way it points down shows his displeasure and discust at things around him. That’s hard to copy and it’s a dead give away who is the real George W.Bush.
Report thisBy prosefights, September 6, 2007 at 4:40 am #
Let’s hope Colonel Feehan gets message.
http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/dcvoid/dcvoid.htm#f eehan3
Report thisBy FFURKS, September 6, 2007 at 4:13 am #
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98408 by felicity on 9/03 at 3:01 pm
“Thanks for more details. The last article I read on the subject emphasized the role of Israel over and above North, Poindexter...It actually said that the idea was Israel’s baby - as a cost-free way to update their arsenals.
Then again, as anyone who reads widely knows there are as many versions of events as there are people writing about them.”
There is far more evidence for the Poindexter/North alliance than for an Israeli incursion. The “Israeli version” is full of wholes, and does not explain the major thrust (to arm the Contra rebels) nor the part played by Air America in running drugs from South America to The US.
ALSO The Mossad is far more professional than the North Gang. Had they been handling this opp, it would not have been so widely discovered. Actually, it was a real botch job getting none of the primaries done!
Report thisBy cyrena, September 6, 2007 at 1:17 am #
Louise (98846)
..."By the way, it’s so great to know I’m not the only one who’s noticed he doesn’t always look the same as him. Or ... the same as ... well, you know what I mean."…
Yes Louise, I know EXACTLY what you mean,
, and I have to admit that you’re right about us (or me at least) discussing what might seem a bit trivial, (like his stunt fill-ins) when no matter what the devil he looks like, he’s still chomping at the bit to blast Iran out of the Persian Gulf. Or, “full-speed-ahead-cheney” is certainly frothing at the mouth with anticipation, and that’s all that matters. If it’s what Dick decides, it’s what the Boy will do.
Now, I had no idea about the damage he did to the Queen’s residence, but of course I’m not surprised. I’m surprised myself, that she ever got around to visiting. I don’t think I would have bothered.
This is as bad or worse than the gropes and feelies that he tried so clumsily with Angela Merkel at some other event. Like a kid putting a frog down some girls back, or maybe pulling her pigtails. He’s so gross.
Now of course I long ago realized that the Texas accent was a fake. He started developing that probably 20 or so years ago, when he was hanging out in West Texas with the oil tycoons, and what he likes to call, “the boys in Lubbock”, or “the boys in Odessa.” Still, at this point, it’s an even more outrageous fake than even when he was the Gov. of Texas. (because he didn’t have the walk perfected then)
Of course, his Governorship of Texas was like his first nine months in the WH...nobody ever heard from him, because he was never around. He was always on vacation, or at that raggedy ranch in Crawford, instead of his office in Austin. So, we just pretty much forgot he was even around. Then again, nobody else (even outside of Texas) had heard of him either. At least not in terms of becoming a politician. Even in that now so republican and backward state, most ordinary people expected Jeb to be the next Shrub in the oval office, not this complete moron. (NOT that Jeb would have been any better or different, but I’m just saying how nobody ever paid George any attention, if only because he was only known as a loser).
But, I got off track. What I meant was that I know that accent didn’t develope at Kennebunkport, and so it is possible that it could have been the real him visiting the Queen, when he was taller, and actually speaking in the “original” language of a clan that has ties to Hitler.
So, if we wanted to find out where his doubles hang-out, and really verify which is which, I bet we could find them at the Kennebunkport Enclave.
Quite honestly, that’s where I’ve always believed bin Laden has been hanging out for the past 6 years...in one of the guest suites.
How much taller was that double you saw anyway?
Report thisBy TAO Walker, September 5, 2007 at 10:26 pm #
Thanks anyway, to GodSend (#98709), but us free wild natural peoples won’t be taking-part in the “show” you say is already playing-out according to the script of Abraham’s household god....one “Yahweh” by name. We’ve known that “divine” entity since long before even “his” “chosen people” have....the “Israelites” by name.
“Wehyah” tried to set up shop here on Turtle Island back around 8000 BCE, but us Natives weren’t buying “his” snake-oil then, either. So “he” went off to “The East” and finally managed to hustle a bunch of superstitious sheepherders there, instead.
One thing led to another, naturally, and “his” “servants” came back here half-a-thousand-plus years ago to take another run at us....and our Native Sisters and Brothers here and there all around the world came in for some of the same hard-sell treatment, too.
No hard feelings, really, but if GodSend and other true believers want a role in the grand finale of the self-dramatizing production of “Yahweh & Son,” they’ll all have to take a trip “over there.” Indian Country will be “Closed for Repairs.”
HokaHey!
Report thisBy Louise, September 5, 2007 at 7:57 pm #
cerena, (#98567)
Google “Bush and Blair” then click on images, pages and pages of pix.
I did this back when Bush visited the Queen. You know, the visit when the Bush people trashed her Rose Garden. Tore centuries-old Tapestries. Punched holes in the walls. Enraged the Queen and ended up costing about $2 million in damages.
[No wonder it took so long for the Queen to visit] Then, as if the man wasn’t a big enough dolt in her eyes already, he insulted her when she did visit. Anyway ...
The reason I did was I noticed, watching the news coverage of the Bush visit to the Queen, he appeared to have changed height!
Also, when he spoke, his irritating wannabe-a-Texan accent was hardly noticeable. Sometimes he spoke clear and articulate English. Not only was the accent gone, but his tone changed. He was relaxed, but not sloppy relaxed. In fact he stood and spoke and had a carriage quite unlike anything ever seen in this Bush.
When he walked with Blair and the Crown Prince he, well ... walked. Not that strange pumped up chimp-like “forceful” gangle, but a relaxed walk. And, he appeared to be taller!
Then another shot showed him, and an adoring Laura gazing at him and tightly holding his hand. Not that we haven’t seen that before, but it was different, like a welcome outing with a pleasant stranger. Plus the eyebrow thing. In some pictures his eyebrows give him a somewhat surprised expression. While that is not apparent in other photos. Plus he has his hair dyed, and it’s rarely exactly the same. Sometimes he looks like he has a perm. Other times it’s slightly wavy. Could be a bad wig on a bald actor. Anyway, I often wonder if he does have a double, or two. Now which is which I couldn’t say. But one thing I know for sure ... people don’t grow tall and short and tall and shorter again from one state visit to another. Although lifts could explain that strange walk, except when he appeared taller in Briton, he also walked normal.
And there is always the possibility that someone in the paste-up inadvertently reversed the negative. For someone with a chameleon face, [two sides quite different] this can make them look quite different. Sometimes unrecognizable.
And all that has nothing to do with the coming nuclear holocaust that this nincompoop may start if he attacks Iran with his nuclear bunker-busters except to say ... aren’t we nincompoops too?
Because after all the clown still circles the globe speaking in our name!
[Insert scream]
Another thing I know for sure, never invite JB Fletcher to spend the weekend and never, ever trust Bush with war and peace decisions! The outcome is so predictable!
By the way, it’s so great to know I’m not the only one who’s noticed he doesn’t always look the same as him. Or ... the same as ... well, you know what I mean.
Report thisBy Andre, September 5, 2007 at 7:51 pm #
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Let them eat cake
Report thisBy prosefights, September 5, 2007 at 7:02 pm #
legal activism
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2939/235133
Report thisBy MAR, September 5, 2007 at 6:38 pm #
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I have read some of the posts but do not have the patience to read all to see if anyone has hit the real truthdig.
What it is all about is that the fat contracts in the aftermath will go to the Haliburton Corp and other corporations friendly to the elite (Bushes) to reconstruct the postwar mess - if they even “win.” Just as the same companies got the contracts after New Orleans and after Iraq. It is not about democracy but feathering the nest of corporate America who support the Republicans. And it may be a payoff to Saudi Arabia -= fight their wars to defend oil. Americans have been brainwashed to believe that any move to a social democracy and income distribution is unpatriotic or “communism,” or some such rubbish. Hence your non-health care system and your wars in Viet Nam, Iraq and elsewhere that are posited on the idea of spreading democracy but are really spreading hate against the wealthy West. I believe I am a conservative in my country but next to the Republican corporatism but I must appear to be a socialist. I support universal health care and Keynesian income distribution rather than the economics of selfishness of the University of Chicago and Milton Friedman’. Shame on America. One of the few decent Americans of note appears to be Bill Gates and his friends who have their own income distribution system. America had a period of greatness after Roosevelt and until Reagan. No more - it seems now to be a country led by a dyslectic moron whose strings are pulled by evil geniuses now leaving the sinking ship like the rats they are.
Report thisBy 911truthdotorg, September 5, 2007 at 6:36 pm #
TAO Walker -
Sir, you are absolutely correct.
I was thinking/speaking in terms of saving the Constitution and keeping our freedom from any and all government involvement into our lives. Although, you and all the Native Americans know first hand how this government is able and willing to remove that freedom.
I live in Arizona and I see first hand what you’re talking about.
Report thisBy George, September 5, 2007 at 3:44 pm #
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It was about the oil then, and it’s still about the oil. The next few weeks and months will be critical.
Report thisBoth Syria and Iran are going to be ‘neutralized’. If necessary Saudi Arabia will be ‘annexed’ by the U.S. There’s no way around it, America is consuming some 70 million barrels of oil daily. Figure it out.
Just after the attacks of 911 I watched George Bush tell the American people inn a televised address not to stop shopping! That’s it folks. America is finished.The ‘economy’ is propped up on lead covered Barbies made in Chinese sweat shops at .35 cents a piece. Mattel charges $20.00 US What will be left is ‘BRANDS’. The only thing left of the government will be the ministry of war.
By GodSend, September 5, 2007 at 8:44 am #
TAO Walker:
You make some excellent points!
What, exactly, is going on HERE and NOW and what is worth saving?
SEE! The Puzzle solved at:
http://novalight.org
and click on “We Shall Overcome” in the Prophecies section.
Indians are invited!
Report thisBy prosefights, September 5, 2007 at 8:23 am #
Our NSA visibility lawsuit http://www.jya.com/nsasuit.txt
continues to escalate
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bpayne37/index.htm
What next?
Report thisBy lilmamzer, September 5, 2007 at 6:25 am #
#98625 by Stogo
So waht are you waiting for? Sign up and go fight or shut the f**k up.
I did two tours in Iraq so far. I have seen and done things you can’t even imagine.
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
Report thisBy deliverance, September 4, 2007 at 10:33 pm #
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I live in Idaho and I am having a difficult time writing to senator footsie on this piece of toilet paper. Don’t think for a moment that Craig’s actions are off topic. They are symptomatic of the corruption which flushes Americans’ wishes, rights and children down the toilet. As the arresting officer said “embarrassing, no wonder everything is going down the tubes”.
Report thisBy TAO Walker, September 4, 2007 at 10:19 pm #
When 911truthdotorg (#98629) says The Situation has gone way beyond “....politics,” and is now about “....saving this country,” this old Indian wonders exactly what it is that’s to be saved. Here in Indian Country we’ve watched for quite awhile as theamericanpeople have been employed quite willingly in the systematic destruction of everything that makes human life worth living....not only on Turtle and HummingBird Islands, but all over the Earth.
Maybe what is so alarming to 911truthdotorg and others here is the increasingly inescapable evidence that the plutoligarchy sees little or no further need to “share” with their subject/citizenry even the customary crumbs and leftovers they used to let fall from the banquet table at which the privateers still feast more lavishly, if possible, than ever. Is that something worth saving?
Maybe it’s “The Constitution” that needs rescuing....except that’s surely a purely political matter. What’s more, that documenthas been to all intents and purposes a dead letter guaranteeing that wealth “trickled” always upwards and shit rolled safely downhill. Some of the gangbangers’ “public” servants still pay the thing lip-service. Others of ‘em see no further need for even that subtrefuge, here in these latter days.
If it’s Franklin’s “republic” which is the object of such concern, empire has been pushing that out of the picture, in fits and starts, right from its in