George Orwell’s, Nineteen Eighty Four has arrived where the
representatives of the Left are the Right and the Right, of course
continues to represent the Right only more forcefully and the Left’s
proles are totally unrepresented as the majority population’s class
and culture. 

Dialectical political argument of leaders of the Left is invariably
argued by the Left within the framework of the political dialectical
framework of the Right; it is illogical for the Left to argue political
benefit and best interest of the Left using the frame of the political
dialectic of the Right, as dialectic is a logical loop that is causal in
nature; leaders of the Left arguing a causal loop that does not
support the thesis of their argument for the Left is not beneficial to
the best interest and outcome of the Left in their argument. 

The majority population is deliberately not being represented
because leaders are throwing the majority population under the
bus, not just women, but the entire majority population is being
turned into slavery. 

It took 40 years to bring the United States to the condition it is in
today, and in another 40 years the United States will be
unrecognizable as the same country we once lived in, if the lack of
representation of the majority population is allowed to continue.

“Most people don’t realize that prior to the 1970’s, there were no
corporate lobbyists on K Street. But since that time, they have
built an unprecedented web of power. And you can’t appease
people who are trying to keep you disconnected and in the dark.
It’s time to actively challenge the corporate influence in
Washington and build a movement that insists on real dialogue
and debate. And that depends on independent and inclusive
journalism. ”—Free Press Media Reform http://freepress.net

Real independent journalism would not accept the political dialectic
of the Right or the Left, but would argue for a dialectic of
measured and balanced benefit to both the Right and the Left. Fox
and all other major news media argues within the dialectic of the
Right against the dialectic of the Left and ignore dialectic of
communal benefit altogether.  Currently there is no real dialog and
debate that is representative of the majority population—K Street
has taken over and there is no sense of community, only greed; a
sense of community needs to be restored if we are going to exist
as a nation.

General McChrystal did what any good-ole-boy, political pawn, army
general officer would have done in his position:  whatever his
“handler” told him to do.  The same thing done repeatedly daily, by
general officer treasonists in all branches of the U.S.Military, for
the good of the WWII NAZI empire. 

The fact that the Kenyan, Mr. H.B. Obama appointed him to a job that is
antithetical to his military record, could be Mr. Obama´s subtle manner
of notifying the American citizenry to “bend over farther” to receive
a surprise, since he makes the decisions, birth certificate or not.

“Things appear better than the rumors.  I heard that
when McChrystal met the Tillmans, he shrugged his
shoulders and said, “Shit happens.” ” James M.Martin

He probably doesn´t make this evaluation of himself
each time he views his face in a mirror - ?

Things appear better than the rumors.  I heard that when McChrystal met the Tillmans, he shrugged his shoulders and said, “Shit happens.”

How ‘bout what Stanley McChrystal did to half-a-million Iraqi families, Nardumb??

Obama has proved worthless to the people of the
greater majority in the United States.  Hopefully
there will be someone from the Left run against him
so the populace will have someone to vote for other
than for a Republican or Obama, as they have
proven to be one and the same. And, if there is no
one to vote for other than Republicans or
Republicans Lite, there is no point in voting.

Mack,

“one of the masked men in the group lined up behind the actual beheading made body motions that are typical of an American”

Interesting theories.  Just what the heck could be typical American body motions?  Was he giving a high five?

LOL!! WTF?

Unless McChrystal puts a provision in his last will and testament insisting that he be buried in an undisclosed location, just as Dick Cheney advised ‘W’ to do, the General will spend eternity in a urine-soaked grave.

There’s a pattern here:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/25/james/index.html

US drones killed 957 Pakistani civilians in 2010

Irish Sun

Thursday 14th April, 2011
(IANS)

“A total of 957 Pakistani civilians were killed in American drone attacks in the country 2010, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said in its annual report Thursday.

The report that focused on human rights violations in the country also laid an emphasis on terror attacks in 2010, according to Xinhua.”

http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/769208/cs/1/

If the common man would believe the “Trickle Down Theory”, that Kuwait is a “Democracy in the Middle East that must be Saved”, That Iraq possesses WMD and is “Going to raise Mushroom Clouds in America”, the “Rescue of Private Lynch” story, the Bailouts, the Republican “Death Panels in Health Care” story, the…..well good lord this could go on all day long - then there should be no surprise to learn that those in charge - our criminal Elitists called Government - don’t really give a damn whether you believe their stories or not.

They’ve got their foot on your neck and you might ought to say “I Believe, I Believe”.

If you don’t you might get buried next to the victims of Waco.

I read Krakauer’s book and have seen the documentary. The Pentagon’s actions in Tillman’s regard were as despicable as expected. But that’s what I found so disheartining about the whole affair. Of all young volunteers, Pat Tillman should have known better. He was smart, educated and an avid reader of history, and yet he still bought into the war. If someone like Pat Tillman can be so brainwashed, what hope is there for the average unread, uninformed 18 year old?

@ Blackspeare

Yeah, right; the old bull manure—“don’t you know there’s a war (or two or three) on?!?” As far as I’m concerned, all three of America’s wars are illegal and unconstitutional because none of them were formally declared by Congress, as laid out in Article I, Section 8, clause 11.

I understand Sen. Lindsey Graham wishes devoutly for a way to shut up critics of the wars, a la WWII-style censorship. As I see it, that’s impossible without a formal congressional declaration, so he can kiss my great fat avoirdupois!

And if my attitude is “treasonable” and I’m “not supporting the troops” ... well, my way of “supporting the troops” is to insist that the idiotic wars ought to be ended and everyone brought home, so no one is killed, or maimed for life, or driven mad by PTSD for life. And if that means America is defeated and humiliated in front of the world, that’s tough. “National pride” strikes me as stiff-necked, and a proud, stiff-necked empire like this one deserves to be humbled.

Here’s another slap in the face to military families
from the Obama administration.  The President has
declared April to be National Sexual Assault
Awareness Month - and despite that fact the White
House has been silent on the military rape and sexual
assault epidemic.  Vice President Biden has made a
special effort to highlight sexual assault on college
campuses but has ignored the shameless disregard for
service members who have been raped in the military. 
These rape victims often suffer from military sexual
trauma and have a very difficult time gaining
compensation from the VA. When will the White House
take this critical issue seriously?  And if not
during National Sexual Assault Awareness month then
when?

Blackspeare, What ‘we people DO realize’ is the fact that we are still in three wars is a tragedy and a travesty. And that our ‘military elite’ respects a cretin like McChrystal is a strong indication of what’s wrong with the heads in the Pentagon. And that ‘appeasement’ of those ‘few general officers’ is contra-indicated. They should be thrown out on their a**es so that we do not continue our empiric attempt to subjugate the world.

What you people don’t seem to realize is that president Obama is involved in three wars of various intensity.  He needs the military on his side and McChrystal was widely respected by the military elite and thus the appointment to appease a few general officers.

This is the story of multiple tragedies:

1.  Pat Tillman was killed,
2.  Pat Tillman’s family was used by the cowardly corporate military establishment,
3.  McChrystal has been unconscionably resurrected from a well-deserved career
burial,
4.  Pat Tillman’s death is emblematic of the senselessness and criminality of our
overt “wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan (and covert ones in Pakistan, Yemen and
gawd knows where else; we certainly don’t), and
5.  We Americans know little about our international crimes and care even less.

I am starting to wonder if president Obama is fit to govern. Yes I do mean mentally fit. This is the worst president ever. What a fake he is. He is just the total opposite of what he sounded in the elections. If this was happening in an European country, civil war would have been on already.

Just a thought about our modern generals such as Mcchrystal and our military overall:

We haven’t actually “won” a war since WWII and even that was an allied victory. (Please don’t throw out Grenada or Gulf I as “wins.” The first was a Ronald Reagan jerk-off and Gulf I was an incomplete.)

Generals of Mcchrystal’s vintage (served from 1976-2010) really don’t have any experience in military “success.” They have simply been managers of a largely bloated, ineffective and dysfunctional welfare program.

If, in fact, Jay Carney spoke the truth for once, and Obama is ‘very aware…of the general’s resume’, and nevertheless appointed him to head the Joint Initiative, the purpose of the Joint Initiative must be to insult and denigrate military families and military service, just as McChrystal has insulted and denigrated the uniform he wears.

Who better to run this sham than a fraud like McChrystal then?

As Henry Kissinger said: “Soldiers are just dumb, stupid animals, to be used as pawns of foreign policy.”

The present leadership in Mordor-on-the-Potomac, whether Demo or Repub, practices the above, despite their exhortations to “support the troops”.

To give Mr. McCrystal any post in the government after his actions is disgusting, and unfortunately shows how the government thinks its citizens have “short term” memories.

To think you could give someone like him (and they are and have been others)another post in the government (military even worse)....is simply ludicrous.

I do not know Mr. McCrystal personally, but as a US military officer, military leader (leader period…), and to put him again in charge of anything is simply disgusting and pathetic.

Amazing! As if we did not have enough despicable, hypocritical, miserable self-serving arrogant bast**ds in charge of various government functions and agencies, now we have another. When is the citizenry of the US going to stand up and say ‘Too much is enough’, and take back our nation?

The better way to fill this need could have been to appoint not a military person but a small group of mothers and fathers who have lost sons or daughters in these useless wars.  Without a doubt they would understand the problems of military families better than any other persons.  They would also be able to make more authentic contacts with others who have lost their children. You have to wonder about a lot of these “appointments” which are doled out for reasons having nothing to do with qualifications or aptitudes.

Democrats are as filthy as republicans

And,here are some excerpts from interviews with Amir Bar-Lev, the director of the documentary “The Tillman Story”:

“General McChrystal is just one of several high-ranking figures who’s never been called to account for his role, and the story continues to this very moment. He gets up there at his swearing-in [Senate confirmation hearing June 2, 2009] and basically says what has been said all along, which is, “I know what it looks like. I know that it looks like we deliberately covered it up, but believe us that it was this Rube Goldberg-esque chain of mistakes, blunders, and errors that look like a cover-up.” 

“The only f—-ing idiots who buy that, the only fools who believe that, are the mainstream press. It’s just so clear to everyone else, and it’s the equivalent of saying, “Honey, I know that it looks like I’m f—-ing your sister, but actually I dropped my wallet, and then my belt fell down, and she happened to be there.” That’s what the military has done in the Pat Tillman case.”

“The public perception is that (the Tillmans) have been apologized to over and over again ... it’s ludicrous,” Bar-Lev said. “The idea there was a mistake is itself a lie. It’s a Rube Goldberg explanation. They (the military officials) say there was never any deliberate attempt to deceive anybody.” … “How somebody can get away with a lie that’s worse than ‘the dog ate my homework’ and that he would be put in charge of the war effort is ridiculous.”

” Listen, it’s not a complicated answer. No one in the government has ever admitted that there was a cover-up, and to watch the contortions that these public figures go to in order to publicly flagellate themselves without admitting what’s pretty obvious to everybody — that they tried to cover up Pat Tillman’s death — is absurd.” 

For links to interviews and more extensive excerpts, see http://feralfirefighter.blogspot.com/2011/02/interviews-with-tillman-story-director.html

In the foreword to the August 2010 paperback edition of her 2008 book, “Boots on the Ground by Dusk,” (see preview at blurb.com) Mary Tillman wrote:

“McChrystal’s actions should have been grounds for firing.  That is why it was so disturbing to us when President Obama instead promoted McChrystal to the position of top commander in Afghanistan last year.  [On May 12, 2009,] I had sent the President an email and a letter reminding him of McChrystal’s involvement in the cover-up of Pat’s death.”

“I had sent the President an email and a letter reminding him of McChrystal’s involvement in the cover-up of Pat’s death.  In the letter, I suggested McChrystal should be “scrutinized very carefully” by the Senate Armed Services Committee.  I also contacted the staffs of Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator James Webb [Note: I discussed Senator Webb’s role in my posts, especially “Did They Teach You How to Lie Yet?] and expressed my concerns.  I had several conversations with members of the staffs of both senators, but it was clear that neither senator wanted to get involved.”

“… I had always believed Pat’s case was politically awkward for him [Senator McCain] and so he’d chosen to distance himself from the entire affair.  … McCain was already publicly endorsing the McChrystal appointment before the hearing even began. … Sadly, McChrystal’s promotion had been sanctioned long before the hearing.  None of the congressmen pressed McChrysal about Pat’s case … or detainee abuse and torture at Camp Nama …”

“Over the last five years, the Pentagon and Congress have had numerous opportunities to hold accountable those responsible for the cover-up of Pat’s death.  Each time they’ve failed.”

“The Tillman Story illustrates the corruption, deception, and indifference that is systemic in our government. … The cover-up of Pat’s death was orchestrated at the very highest levels of the Pentagon, and elsewhere in our government … the government didn’t just   lie to us; it lied to a nation.”

Just a couple weeks before the 7th anniversary of Pat Tillman’s friendly-fire death on April 22, 2004, I’d guess the Tillman family isn’t happy with yet another slap in their face by President Obama’s appointment of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as advisor of the new program “Joining Forces.”

Mary Tillman was critical of President Obama’s 2009 nomination of Gen. McChrystal and the bipartisan Congressional failure to hold him accountable for his central role in the Army’s cover-up of Pat Tillman’s friendly fire death.

In May 2004, Gen. McChrystal supervised the writing of Pat Tillman’s fraudulent Silver Star and the cover-up of his friendly-fire death by the Ranger RGT officers. 

Over the next five years, the ensuing Army & Congressional “investigations” were part of the bi-partisan whitewash which “exonerated” Gen. McChrystal and others involved of wrong-doing.
 
For more details, I’d suggest Mary Tillman’s book “Boots on the Ground by Dusk” (revised paperback edition with a new forward at blurb.com), Jon Krakauer’s paperback edition “Where Men Win Glory” (although a flawed bio, it has details on McChrystal’s role in the Army’s cover-up), the fine documentary “The Tillman Story,” and my Feral Firefighter blog at http://www.feralfirefighter.blogspot.com

Last June, I posted “The Emperor’s General” which discussed President Obama’s role in the whitewash of Gen. McChrystal.  Last August, I posted “The [Untold] Tillman Story” which discussed how a bi-partisan Congressional effort shielded McChrystal from accountability (and also the role of NYT reporter Thom Shanker and CNAS’s Andrew Exum).  These posts present much of the source material and/or provide links if you want to “truth dig” a bit deeper.

Ironically, although Center for a New American Security (CNAS) will run the “Joining Forces” program, their Fellow Andrew Exum contributed to McChrystal’s whitewash with his biased book review of Jon Krakauer’s book for the Washington Post (he failed to fully disclose his professional and personal conflicts of interests with McChrystal).

Considering their past betrayal of the Tillman family, it appears that Gen. McChrystal and CNAS are a poor choice to run the “Joining Forces” program to take care of our military veterans and their families.

It’s a real head-scratcher, all right.