(Jerusalem Post on how Jews feel)
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Jewry: The art of deception
-
This documentary by A.C. Hitchcock is five and a half hours long (it took me a week to get through it) but it taught me more about the world than I learned from four years of college. Hello!
After seeing this I'm certain Pat Robertson and neoconservatives are full of shit.
-
This documentary by A.C. Hitchcock is five and a half hours long (it took me a week to get through it) but it taught me more about the world than I learned from four years of college. Hello!
After seeing this I'm certain Pat Robertson and neoconservatives are full of shit.
-
Tomas Young dying young
-
Don't just hate Bush Administration for being "compassionate conservatives" or for transforming our national surplus into years of saddling debt. Despise Bush & Cheney for the same reasons we pride ourselves on despising other lying warmongers: thirst for wealth and power at the cost of misguided lives.
Tomas Young was one of hundreds of delusional youth who enlisted in the military in the wake of 9/11. The economy wasn't great then either and the allure of the military begins to look more and more like a very tempting and "responsible" decision (he married young, besides) but the 22-year old Young signed up out of patriotism, not as a calculated career move. I almost did the same.
That was 2004.
Now it's 2013 and Young has a new dying wish: to see the former vice president and his proxy express remorse...instead of backslapping on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War. And by 'dying' we mean just that. Young and his wife have chosen hospice care. Click above to read an excerpt of his Last Letter.
Don't just hate Bush Administration for being "compassionate conservatives" or for transforming our national surplus into years of saddling debt. Despise Bush & Cheney for the same reasons we pride ourselves on despising other lying warmongers: thirst for wealth and power at the cost of misguided lives.
Tomas Young was one of hundreds of delusional youth who enlisted in the military in the wake of 9/11. The economy wasn't great then either and the allure of the military begins to look more and more like a very tempting and "responsible" decision (he married young, besides) but the 22-year old Young signed up out of patriotism, not as a calculated career move. I almost did the same.
Iraq veteran's 'Last Letter' to Bush AdministrationHe got his wish. He was sent into combat. Only it wasn't in Afghanistan where the bad guys supposedly originated (or Saudi Arabia where some of the terrorists' funding flowed) but, oddly, Iraq. Anywho, he was dying for action and, man, did he get it fast. Less than a week into his first tour Young's convoy was blasted by insurgents (you all remember that word, right?) leaving him paralyzed and dependent on life-providing medicines.
That was 2004.
Now it's 2013 and Young has a new dying wish: to see the former vice president and his proxy express remorse...instead of backslapping on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War. And by 'dying' we mean just that. Young and his wife have chosen hospice care. Click above to read an excerpt of his Last Letter.
Qadahfi: The rat bastard is dead
-
Oh so this is how you kill a rat dictator: click to see raw footage (graphic)
And, yeah, he really was a bastard...didn't have or even know his French father.
Oh so this is how you kill a rat dictator: click to see raw footage (graphic)
In honor of his favorite color, the link is green!
Osama Bin Laden DEAD??
-
That's the BREAKING NEWS headline I just read on Yahoo! News...although Yahoo! is not known for being very newsworthy (but I use it for email).
So...the big, bad boogie man, Osama Bin Laden is dead? We'll see.
And we'll see if our lives can go back to normal after this shit.
That's the BREAKING NEWS headline I just read on Yahoo! News...although Yahoo! is not known for being very newsworthy (but I use it for email).
So...the big, bad boogie man, Osama Bin Laden is dead? We'll see.
And we'll see if our lives can go back to normal after this shit.
Kanye's "racist" understatement
-
Now the former president reveals in an interview with Matt Lauer that he was/is truly bothered by rapper Kanye West's telethon outburst - "George Bush doesn't care about black people" - and regards it as one of the most disgusting moments of his Presidency. If you believe that, I have a squirt of sperm for your eye.
Here is a disastrous "war president" who failed at
At any rate, Mr West's bluntness proved to be a fierce understatement: Bush didn't care about ANY Americans; except, partially, the "Have's and the Have-more's" which made up his financial base.
Now the former president reveals in an interview with Matt Lauer that he was/is truly bothered by rapper Kanye West's telethon outburst - "George Bush doesn't care about black people" - and regards it as one of the most disgusting moments of his Presidency. If you believe that, I have a squirt of sperm for your eye.
Here is a disastrous "war president" who failed at
- war
- the economy
- bi-partisanship
- international cooperation
- uniting the nation
- finding WMDs
- and capturing Osama Bin Laden
At any rate, Mr West's bluntness proved to be a fierce understatement: Bush didn't care about ANY Americans; except, partially, the "Have's and the Have-more's" which made up his financial base.
New al-Qaida leader American bred ?
-
Apparently now ANOTHER Muslim American citizen is at the helm of the terrorist drawing board. Now our CIA and FBI can verify this? Conveniently after baby Bush and his neo-conservatives are out of office from supposedly securing our "homeland" for two terms...? I'm loathe to quote Penn & Teller put the situation warrants it: Bullshit!
I don't believe a word of this AP news article: AP Exclusive: New al-Qaida leader knows US well.
The Public is being led on a ghost chase -- again. And what's with Jose Padilla? How the heck does a Jose cross over to al-Qaida when they can't even pass American high school curriculum?! I've always thought Mr Padilla was -- is -- a scapegoat. Maybe he's a petty criminal or disaffected youth or something, but a terrorist? Sell that shit to the outside-looking-in rednecks who think Glenn Beck or Limbaugh speak the truth.
Apparently now ANOTHER Muslim American citizen is at the helm of the terrorist drawing board. Now our CIA and FBI can verify this? Conveniently after baby Bush and his neo-conservatives are out of office from supposedly securing our "homeland" for two terms...? I'm loathe to quote Penn & Teller put the situation warrants it: Bullshit!
I don't believe a word of this AP news article: AP Exclusive: New al-Qaida leader knows US well.
The Public is being led on a ghost chase -- again. And what's with Jose Padilla? How the heck does a Jose cross over to al-Qaida when they can't even pass American high school curriculum?! I've always thought Mr Padilla was -- is -- a scapegoat. Maybe he's a petty criminal or disaffected youth or something, but a terrorist? Sell that shit to the outside-looking-in rednecks who think Glenn Beck or Limbaugh speak the truth.
U.S. lawmakers reject pullout from Afghanistan
-
Bless his soul, Dennis Kucinich, is a Washington Democratic politician who actually has one. A soul/conscience/moral compass, that is. Yesterday, the congressman presented a bill to the House calling for damn near immediate withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. The bill was overwhelmingly rejected. Whoa. Defeat, yes, but also, in a bigger sense, a winner because the measure's rejection rammed home a reality check to many Americans: F*ck you! We, U.S. Congress, tell you how we want things to go.
So much for "govt for the people, by the people" illusion.
And so much for President Obama's big ass anti-war stance. He, as we were so often reminded during the campaign, voted against the Iraq War because he, as we were so often told, knew from the get-go it was a wrong, ill-conceived, and bogus confrontation. Yet, as President, Obama is more concerned with winning the goddamn tragedy than ending it. I don't think it is about oil so much as it is about his ego. He wants to show that he's tough and imposing. But he isn't; Obama is not a tough guy. He is a charming nerd.
Not only has President Obama gone forward with fighting in Afghanistan but now we know the Democratic controlled House of Representatives supports this war as well; a war which they so vehemently denounced up to twelve months ago.
Bless his soul, Dennis Kucinich, is a Washington Democratic politician who actually has one. A soul/conscience/moral compass, that is. Yesterday, the congressman presented a bill to the House calling for damn near immediate withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. The bill was overwhelmingly rejected. Whoa. Defeat, yes, but also, in a bigger sense, a winner because the measure's rejection rammed home a reality check to many Americans: F*ck you! We, U.S. Congress, tell you how we want things to go.
So much for "govt for the people, by the people" illusion.
And so much for President Obama's big ass anti-war stance. He, as we were so often reminded during the campaign, voted against the Iraq War because he, as we were so often told, knew from the get-go it was a wrong, ill-conceived, and bogus confrontation. Yet, as President, Obama is more concerned with winning the goddamn tragedy than ending it. I don't think it is about oil so much as it is about his ego. He wants to show that he's tough and imposing. But he isn't; Obama is not a tough guy. He is a charming nerd.
Reality check to many Americans: F*ck you! We, U.S. Congress, tell you how we want things to goPresident Obama will not win this war because he is not a fighter, let alone a war president. He is absent of the hard-knuckle, sweaty, domineering toughness that strongmen and bullies, alike, possess that make others move when glanced or shouted at. He is void of any soldier or gangster skills. A man who forwent curriculum at any school of hard knocks as well as military training is far from the best strategist during war. But that's why the nation voted him United States President: to bring home the troops and use his Harvard U. intelligence to right the economy! His unsuitability to engage in war did not matter because we believed the man would not perpetuate the blunderous wars. Well!
Not only has President Obama gone forward with fighting in Afghanistan but now we know the Democratic controlled House of Representatives supports this war as well; a war which they so vehemently denounced up to twelve months ago.
His unsuitability to engage in war did not matter because we believed the man would not perpetuate the wars
Homosexual soldiers
-
Commented Yahoo! user Jimbobber:
Commented Yahoo! user Jimbobber:
I think all this anti-gay-in-the-military talk is ridiculous. In fact, the gays are probably the strongest and bravest soldiers we have in the US military. I believe we should even allow our military to formulate an entire mult-branch force consisting entirely of our brave, strong, gay soldiers and bestow upon them the exclusive right and privilege of leading all attacks on foreign soil, and I truly believe this should commence immediately!
9/11 IS a big lie
-
Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a cupid of controversy and Eastern opposition, "shocked" the world by declaring the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers "a big lie". Here's how Mr Ahmadinejad put it:
September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan...a complicated intelligence scenario and act.
Mr Ahmadinejad is a smiling nutter, that went pound-for-pound for madness with our former president the Monkey, but everything he says is not hyperbole. The big attack that has forever demarcated memories was only a surprise to those of us who did not see it coming; the Bush Administration is not included in that blind lot. It was an inside job. Buildings do not fall neatly into themselves from being missiled.
Now we hail the bravery of great men like Galileo Galilei, Christopher Columbus, Socrates, Johannes Gutenberg for their discoveries in the face of Authority and conventional wisdom and laugh that, at one time, the world could have ever been so backwards as to believe otherwise; but like the blood-thirty, buffoonery public of Antiquity too many among us still decry those who now challenge and expose official govt versions. Am reminded of a powerful scene in C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew that well illustrates the point I wish to strike:
Mr Ahmadinejad is not America's ally. Nor is he Israel's ally. And neither is he incorrect in calling the official U.S. version of the so-called foreign invasion on September eleventh a big lie. It is.
Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a cupid of controversy and Eastern opposition, "shocked" the world by declaring the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers "a big lie". Here's how Mr Ahmadinejad put it:
September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan...a complicated intelligence scenario and act.
Mr Ahmadinejad is a smiling nutter, that went pound-for-pound for madness with our former president the Monkey, but everything he says is not hyperbole. The big attack that has forever demarcated memories was only a surprise to those of us who did not see it coming; the Bush Administration is not included in that blind lot. It was an inside job. Buildings do not fall neatly into themselves from being missiled.
Now we hail the bravery of great men like Galileo Galilei, Christopher Columbus, Socrates, Johannes Gutenberg for their discoveries in the face of Authority and conventional wisdom and laugh that, at one time, the world could have ever been so backwards as to believe otherwise; but like the blood-thirty, buffoonery public of Antiquity too many among us still decry those who now challenge and expose official govt versions. Am reminded of a powerful scene in C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew that well illustrates the point I wish to strike:
And the longer and more beautiful the Lion sang, the harder Uncle Andrew tried to make himself believe that he could hear nothing but roaring. Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. Uncle Andrew did. He soon did hear nothing but roaring in Aslan's song. Soon he couldn't have heard anything else even if he had wanted to. And when at last the Lion spoke and said, "Narnia awake," he didn't hear any words: he heard only a snarl.
Mr Ahmadinejad is not America's ally. Nor is he Israel's ally. And neither is he incorrect in calling the official U.S. version of the so-called foreign invasion on September eleventh a big lie. It is.
Amazing speech by war veteran
-
I believe in war but I no longer believe in this war; I believe in peace and I believe this war will not bring it.
I believe in war but I no longer believe in this war; I believe in peace and I believe this war will not bring it.
How little I regard the war
-
In the beginning I believed the Iraq War had merit. In the beginning I believed our forces had virtue and strategy and would win. In the beginning I believed the cause and effects of the fighting would benefit the American people and country, and, naturally, the world. In the beginning I was conscious of the war and the ticker-tape of casualties. Now; now, I'm not conscious of it. Now, the beginning seems so long ago.
In going through my archives I noticed there was only one entry on the war. Strange, I thought, seeing as how the Obama Administration (not "we") is engaged in two wars just like his predecessor.
Not all of us have loved ones in the militaryTwo wars and, yet, I barely register them. I regard them so little that I can't care less about contributing commentary to the fold. So do these wars still matter...for anyone outside of the White House and soldiers' families? Not all of us have loved ones in the military (or private contracting businesses).
In the beginning I believed the Iraq War had merit. In the beginning I believed our forces had virtue and strategy and would win. In the beginning I believed the cause and effects of the fighting would benefit the American people and country, and, naturally, the world. In the beginning I was conscious of the war and the ticker-tape of casualties. Now; now, I'm not conscious of it. Now, the beginning seems so long ago.
Eighteen months countdown
President Obama unequivocablly declared an end to OUR involvement in the Iraq mess. In issuing a withdrawal timetable the President declared:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
