Political Perusals
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Your tax dollars at work: Google "Parsons Iraq" for a Business Week Magazine article on the Parsons corp. ... currently being investigated by the Inspector General in Iraq for MASSIVE construction fraud and war-profiteering. Parson's spokespersons are naturally blaming their ineptitude on "the Government", while pocketing BILLIONS. (Sort of like HALLIBURTON??( Let me remind you, that NONE of this investigation occurred during the Republican-dominated administration) It now seems painfully obvious, that this war was NOTHING more than an excuse to "line-the-pockets" of corporate-contributors, and military-industrial "contractors"; a concept promoted by Dick-Head Cheney. Cheney's recent interview on the FOX "News/propaganda" network has reinforced my opinion of him.... He has worked SO LONG in the C.I.A. and with the "spooks", that he no longer has a grasp of reality. It now appears that he is TRULY delusional! He continues to claim that the "situation" in Iraq is improving, and that "progress" is being made; while ALL evidence points to the EXACT OPPOSITE! The chaos-of-war is the perfect setting for greedy, corrupt politicos and their financial-backers to pillage, steal, and pilfer from both Iraq and the American taxpayers. This week, it has been divulged, that the White House "filtered" and manipulated scientific research and publications regarding "Global Warming".....USING A LOBBYIST FROM THE "OIL-INDUSTRY"!!! Dick Cheney MUST be indicted, and prosecuted... for his criminal involvement in the Valerie Plame Wilson affair, as well as his illegal "secret" meetings with energy-industry officials. His incompetance is nothing less than criminal, immoral, and outrageous! Dick Cheney is the "poster-child" for the phrase: "Absolute power, corrupts absolutely". Cheney should be spending his "retirement" in a Federal Prison!! Is it possible for an "average" citizen to make a "citizen's arrest" of a Vice President?.... Maybe I'll go buy a pair of handcuffs, go to Washington, and find out!!!
Friday, January 26, 2007
Today there were MAJOR developments in the "Scooter" Libby trial; testimony by the C.I.A. chief in charge of White House intelligence briefings warned Dick Cheney not to divulge the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson.... warning that doing so would endanger the lives of scores of people who she worked with, and destroying an intelligence gathering unit that took many years to establish (a "boiler-plate" operation which set up a bogus oil & energy exploration company in order to obtain "intel" in the middle east). This high-level C.I.A. official stated in court that he had personally warned Dick Cheney NOT to divulge Plame's identity weeks before the infamous N.Y. Times article mentioning her C.I.A. identity. Another member of Libby's staff stated (in testimony) that Dick Cheney had directed her to inquire into Plame's activities, and to delegate he "outing" to Libby... a direct contradiction to Libby's statements that he learned of her C.I.A. affiliation from "reporters". The indictment of Libby for "perjury" is carefully calculated... It is often said that prosecutors should never "try" cases that they don't know they can win. It will be a "slam-dunk" to convict Libby with the testimony heard today; it is NOT as easy to convict him of "treason".... I suspect that , after he is convicted, he will be offered a "plea-bargain" to testify against Dick Cheney... Just imagine..... if Dick Cheney is indicted for treason, and George Bush is impeached.... IT WOULD MAKE NANCY PELOSI THE PRESIDENT!!!!!!
Friday, January 19, 2007
The news media is full of speculation about who's going to "run" for President in 2008. We must remember that the president, "doesn't actually do anything" except "delegate" to others. Perhaps we should concentrate on a wider perspective than just one-person... perhaps we should develop an entire Cabinet and platform before then. So I'm "open" to suggestions for the various "Cabinet-Level" positions. Here are a few suggestions: Bill Richardson for Secretary of State (experience in the field) ; Joe Wilson for Secretary of Defense (experience in C.I.A. matters, and HE tells the truth) ; Hillary Clinton for Secretary of Health & Human Services (She could finally get her national Health Care plan) ; Al Gore for Secretary of the Interior (he could work on the environment, and Global Warming) ; Warren Buffet for Secretary of the Treasury (lots of financial experience) ; .... We should recruit experts in their "fields", who are NOT financially connected to Corportate "special-interests"... After all it doesn't matter much WHO is president; what matters is who is actually RUNNING THE COUNTRY. (Think Karl Rove, Dick Cheney). Got any other suggestions?
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Condaleeza Rice spoke to Congressional inquiries today; in typical "Neo-Con" fashion, she used a new word: In reference to the proposed 21,000 man increase of American troops in Iraq, she wouldn't call it "an escalation", or "a surge"; she preferred to call it an "augmentation". Aren't we ALL sick & tired of all their "spin"???.... In the words of some unknown cowboy: "you can call it manure, if you like, or maybe compost, or organic-cattle-by-products..... BUT IT'S STILL BULLSHIT!!" One Republican Congressman called it: 'The biggest foreign-policy blunder since Viet Nam".................DITTO. (My head is STILL spinning!)
A story appeared on "Mainstream" television last night, (perhaps on A.B.C.??) It told of a "weapons-system" developed by the Israeli military, which has been tested and proved to defeat 98% of R.P.G.s (Rocket Propelled Grenades)... the same weapons which have been SO sucessful in killing American soldiers. It seems that out PENTAGON chose to "decline" this system, opting for another similar one being designed by RAYTHEON. While the Raytheon system is "STILL ON THE DRAWING BOARD", NOT tested, and NOT READY TO BE DEPLOYED!!! This "emits a noxious odor" (smells) of "war-profiteering" at THE VERY LEAST!! I encourage anyone who reads this, to investigate and make our "elected-leaders" aware of this!! PASS IT ON !! Meanwhile, "Dubyuh-Dumb-ass" is proposing a "surge" of American troops in Iraq; 21,000 troops to be deployed DIRECTLY in neighborhoods, where they become much-easier to kill by insurgents. Lest we not forget, 21,000 troops will ONLY restore troop-levels to the SAME numbers that we had 2 years ago!! (And we all know how well THAT was working!!) Since when is it a "good-idea" to ignore the 'will-of-the -American-people", the opinions of MOST American military-leaders and the Iraqi government, and to continue with a mis-guided, poorly executed, and illegal policy??? It smells like "the same-old-shit".... Or perhaps "Stay The Course"????? Since "Dubyuh" will leave office in two years, he can conveniently blame his failures on the incoming administration.. Just like the Republicans blamed their failed fiscal-policies on Bill Clinton.... I can hear it now: "If ONLY the Democrats had "stayed-the Course", we would have victory".... In the "West" they have a saying: "You made the pile, YOU stepped in it, and YOU can clean it up!!" I wonder.... which government-contractor "Dubyuh" will work for, after he leaves office??
Friday, January 05, 2007
As I predicted to anyone who would listen, the recent execution of Saddam Hussein appeared on the internet within hours. This escapade is but the most recent policy-failure and example of the hypocrisy found in the Bush/Cheney administration. It has been said that "Dead men tell no tales"; the execution of Saddam will forever hide the truth about those "weapons of mass destruction", the allocation of his Billions in pilfered "oil-for-food-money", and the lack of evidence about his alleged connections to "terrorists".The "Right-To-Life" president Bush has NO qualms about executing people... He presided over the execution of 143 Texas inmates while he was governor. ( Ignoring ALL evidence,The "statistical-probability" exists that SEVERAL of those executed "death-row-inmates", WERE NOT GUILTY!!...) Yet George Bush allowed a "review" of each "death-penalty" execution..... of no more than 15 MINUTES EACH!! How's THAT for "Family-Values"!!! (maybe he meant "The MANSON FAMILY"!!) The total death-toll for American soldiers has now topped 3000; with an estimated 60,000 dead Iraqis (mostly civilians) and tens of-thousands injured... without considering the psychological trauma of "post-traumatic-stress" suffered by tens-of-thousands MORE! For a concise, frightening account of HOW we "got into this mess", check out the P.B.S. show Frontline: an episode called "The Dark Side". It documents Dick Cheney's maniacal rise to power, with lies, slander, secrecy, and "cherry-picked" intelligence. One C.I.A. "Intelligence-operative" stated that the C.I.A. collects enough "intell" to support ANY conclusion... by "cherry-picking" and selective disclosure of intelligence, it is possible to support ANY agenda... and this is EXACTLY what Cheney did to promote his illegal, immoral and very-expensive invasion of Iraq.. (completely illegal by dozens of "International Laws", and unprecedented in American history) To add to that, the Bush/Cheney/Rove "crime-family" lined-the-pockets of their friends and contributors by cutting taxes during a "time-of-war" for the RICHEST 1% of Americans.. (also unprecedented in American history) Meanwhile, Democrats are attempting to regain control of Congress cloaked in an aura of "bi-partisan", co-operation. The MOST important "reform" that they have-yet to discuss is the "campaign-funding-reform" which would provide PUBLIC funding for elections. Such a plan would eliminate lobbyists, and cost FAR less than the wasteful, corrupt, and unfair control of "OUR" government by well-funded "special-interests". These "corporate-crooks" are the same people who infiltrate the "Cabinets" of government, creating their own laws and favoritism; often paying little or no taxes while "outsourceing" American jobs. I don't recall the "Declaration of Independance" saying" One nation, Of the corporations, by the corporations , and for the corporations"!! In a rare display of "Cojones", the Congress has over-ridden the block on Federal funding for stem-cell research!! A thought recently "flowered" in my fertile brain: Why has no one yet questioned the motives behind the opposition to stem-cell-research?... Could it be, that Pharmaceutical companies would rather "TREAT" diseases, than to "CURE" them?? As in the case of the "Common-Cold", Billions of dollars in profits are made by TREATING the symptoms of a viral infection... yet little is done to cure those viruses. Remember when we were children?.. How scientists predicted that we would soon see a CURE for "the Common Cold"??? It seems much more profitable to treat the coughing, wheezing, sneezing, congestion, aches, and fever (If you don't believe this, just take a look at how much "shelf-space" is devoted to over-the-counter "Cold" remedies at the local grocery or drug-store) Why has no one demanded "ownership" of their own "un-used" frozen embryos?? Are they not OWNED by the people who produced them?? Can they not decide their ultimate fate? George Bush has often stated that "destroying embryos is murder"... Yet we don't see Federal Marshalls, F.B.I. agents, and S.W.A.T. teams descending on fertility-clinics that regularly "discard" un-wanted frozen embryos. I used to support "impeachment" efforts, yet I now realize that impeachment would only "legitimize" Dick Cheney's control of our nation... after-all he IS really the president, not that puppet named "George".
