Quote: “Looking back over this kaleidoscopic assortment of claims and theories, there is no logical pattern, no factual rigor, no acknowledgment of realities that don’t fit preconceived scripts. There is only and always the next evasion of responsibility for a disastrous foreign policy, based on a vacant-minded whim, that has cost many thousands of lives and squandered our treasure and prestige.”

I disagree Joe, it’s been orchestrated quite artfully.  The things that have transpired were willful and purposeful.  Everyone worldwide with an ounce of sanity knows that something has run amok.

Chaos is always on your side as long as you are not in it.  Let’s not forget we have many top neocons at home, in their leisure, constructing new and more credible ways to create confusion.

Suddenly W is running around the world “meeting” with this crooked Joe Shmoe and that one.  Why…?  Something is up.  It reeks of something even more atrocious than attacking Iran.

All of it of course is about “trade”.  What’s W’s sudden interest in trade.  Remember, he’s the decider, the commander in chief, macho, macho man.  Suddenly, he’s the shopper’s best buddy?  We don’t know what transpired during the SSP “conferences” in Canada.  What are these “trade” talks he’s having in Austraila…....and now he’s talking about “democracy” for Burma? And something is up in Haiti.

Quote from Yves Engler article, Haiti and the Responsibility to Protect.

“Once again the Haitian people and government are being forced along an economic path dictated by the world’s economic elite and I fear the result will be the same as before. Of the $1.2 billion in “aid” for Haiti announced at a Washington donors’ conference in July 2004, more than half was loans, which Haitians must repay. Haitians will have to repay this money even though they did not choose the Gerard Latortue regime that got most of the money, the US, France and Canada did.”

Somethings up and it isn’t Iran, at least not yet.  Of course we’d believe he’d attack Iran, because he would….....if he had to, to attain his master plan.  I think he qualifies it as “any port in a storm”.

# 98972 scurvybro:

I,too,thought they needed to grow a backbone and considered steriods to help boost this. Upon further research,it was decided by the best medical experts, Dr. Who, who was called in from the future,recommended that a spinal transplant was the only hope in which to achieve this outcome.

That Bush and his band of neocon enablers and apologists would engage in flim-flammery should be greeted with zero surprise. What’s tragically sad is that their brand of snake oil is finding eager buyers in the media and, unfortunately, among some Democrats.

Sadly, this, too, is becoming all too predictable. Is there any way to accelerate evolution so that Democrats can develop a spine?

Such shell games have been played by many politicians in the past but never with such high stakes and never accompanied with so much subterfuge and deception. The pity is that the corporate media now lends so much support, the public is mired in narcissistic materialism, and accordingly basks in apathy. Knowing this, after 9/11 Rove had Bush shush the public like children and tell them to shop. Leave the bogus war and the unplanned occupation in the Bush administration’s incompetent hands. But their attitude followed the philosophical precepts of Leo Strauss. The masses are to be led by the elite who know best what is good for them. Bush and Co considered themselves the elite…and in spite of gross incompetence, still do.

Benchmarks have outlived their Republican Talking Point shelf-life just like WMD, we’ll stand down when they stand up and other simplistic b.s.

And the Bush Administration can’t even play the shell game fairly. There really wasn’t a pea under any of the shells. Just hot air.

When the day arrives and the reports are read,the prez,he will do as in the past when advise from the Iraq Study Group recommended the best options on the war, he chose to ignore commonsense and logic and go ahead with more mistakes.(My daughter told me that people today have no commonsense as they do not teach it in schools.) I remember when commonsense was a given.

Bush could do what was done to the Natives in America. Round them all up, keep them in their cement prison cities(we call them reservations) and turn them over to the Department of the Interior like they did over here. Assimilate them to the english language, preferred religion, they can wait for rations that never come and have every promise made(treaty) broken except for one.“WE will take your land” and they will.Just like over here.

Having traveled the red road for many years I sold items I made, but also sold books. I had a elder come into my powwow booth one day with a young oriental college student,this elder man picked up a copy of “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” and told this student him he needs to read this book,and to never ever let America come in his country because they will do to China everything they did to the first peoples of this land.

Joe Conason does sort of scratch the surface here.  He might’ve continued the “shell game” metaphor a good deal further, however, by acknowledging that the “Iraq war” itself, and indeed the entire so-called “global war on terror,” are also only empty shells in “the great game” of establishing a worldwide dictatorship-of-the-plutoligarchy….with the other 99-plus % of tame Two-Leggeds “enjoying” the permanently degraded status of livestock.

Lucky for all-concerned, us surviving free wild natural peoples have already proven too tough a “nut” for the tormentors to crack.  Time now for everyone to take their Medicine.  We’re it, too.

HokaHey!