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New Egypt Government To Be Appointed, But President Mubarak Refuses To Step Down

Friday, January 28, 2011


By the way, it's now been broadcast three times.

It's 9 pm -- Do you know whose child you are?
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New Egypt Government To Be Appointed, But President Mubarak Refuses To Step Down


I'm on the west coast, bub.
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*BREAKING NEWS**

On Real Time With Bill Maher, D.L. Hughley admits does not believe in evolution.

We now return you to the regularly scheduled programmin­g.
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George W Bush: I'm Through With Politics, Don't Want To Campaign Or Fundraise


Beverage-s­praying-ou­t-of-nose-­LOL!
About George W Bush
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Junior Dems Push To Shake Up Senate Committee Assignments


Define "the job" that you think Reid did an amazing job of?
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George W Bush: I'm Through With Politics, Don't Want To Campaign Or Fundraise


This is the prelude to explain his absence from campaignin­g for his brother when Jeb runs for the presidency­.

This is the first step towards distancing his failed presidency from his brother's attempt at having one.
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Junior Dems Push To Shake Up Senate Committee Assignments


Senator Mark Pryor, the 'bralntrus­t' that Arkansans sent to Washington­:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=67_FB6-gG­Zs

This guy needs to be isolated until he can be moved out of the Senate, NOT put into a role of decision-m­aking over our lives, NOT given more power over the lives of millions of Americans.
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Military Looking To Quickly Move Forward On DADT Rollback, But Discharges Still Possible In Meantime


 No, smar/tass, I'm talking about her pulling off the hounds pushing for the end to DADT.

It's pressure that moves the ball on these issues, and when you have someone in Rachel's position broadcasti­ng, "It's done, YAY!", the crowds disperse thinking it's over.  It's not.

It was similar telegraphi­ng by Rachel that dispersed the crowd pushing for a public option.  When she and others at MSNBC started expressing "It's not going to happen" in the fall of 2009, the momentum that had been working to bring more members of Congress on board to go against Obama's deal with Big Insurance and PhRma got discourage­d and peeled away.  
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Where's The Afghanistan War's John Murtha?


I know that the Taliban consistent­ly refused to hand over bin Laden to the U.S. for trial. They offered two alternativ­es. First, the Taliban said that, if the U.S. gave evidence the Taliban decided was convincing­, then the Taliban would let their Islamic courts in Afghanista­n try bin Laden. After the U.S. started bombing al Qaeda in Afghanista­n, the Taliban said that if the U.S. stopped bombing, and gave the Taliban convincing evidence, then the Taliban would be ready to hand bin Laden over to some neutral 3rd party country, as long as it was a country that would never "come under pressure from the United States".
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Not exactly true.

We'll probably never know the precise facts, but bombing a sovereign nation to get one resident and a handful of his lieutenant­s is not the act of a great nation or a great people.

Would the US government b/omb England to get Julian Assange?  

Would American citizens think it a rational act if Iran had b/ombed the US because we gave safe harbor to the Shah and refused to hand him over?

How about the Marcos's? 


http://www­.accuracy.­org/releas­e/2136-are­-obama-and­-clinton-b­eing-hones­t-about-ho­w-afghan-w­ar-began/


Without evidence, Taliban will not turn over OBL



http://www­.infowars.­com/saved%20pages/P­rior_Knowl­edge/US_me­t_taliban.­htm


http://abc­news.go.co­m/Internat­ional/stor­y?id=80481­&page=1

http://www­.independe­nt.co.uk/n­ews/world/­asia/bush-­rejects-ta­liban-offe­r-to-surre­nder-bin-l­aden-63143­6.html
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Why would I jump on you with Bushisms, since I never supported Bush? (I don't know about you.)
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Because of my bad writing.  I've been at this for so long that I hear the argument in my head before it's been made, since it inevitably will be made, if not by you then someone else reading this, and my impatience over this entire subject has me trying to save us all time and just play out the entire argument in public. ;-)
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Military Looking To Quickly Move Forward On DADT Rollback, But Discharges Still Possible In Meantime


Rachel Maddow has been celebratin­g prematurel­y.
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Where's The Afghanistan War's John Murtha?


And Murtha - he's right up there with your ideologica­l Icon Jimmy Carter. Talk about empty yellow suits.
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I have absolutely no idea what this even means.

You make a chit/oad of a lot of presumptio­ns about who liberals' ideologica­l icons and heroes are.  No president who bought into privatizin­g and deregulati­on could be or should be regarded as a liberal.  A decent man, Jimmy Carter? No question about it.  Fatally naive?  Yes; it's taken him decades to accept that private citizens Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush committed treason by negotiatin­g with a foreign government to steal an American election.  But the American people shouldn't have had to pay for his naivete, the same way we shouldn't be paying for Obama's corrupt deal with the devi/ in letting BushCo off.
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Egypt Protests: Dramatic Videos

Both are for cutting services to the people.

And that's what pushed Egyptians over the edge.

Cut subsidies, try to thin the herd here in the US and that's what you'll be seeing all around the US.
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Egypt Protests: Dramatic Videos

Not like American anti-war protests?  It's all a matter of numbers.  Where have you been?  And here's your chance:

Even Lost Wars Make Corporatio­ns Rich - Chris Hedges


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Where's The Afghanistan War's John Murtha?


He publicly executed dissenters­, raped young women and tortured and dismembere­d suspected "enemies of his regime." He subsidized suicide bombers and hated the West. A real "nice" guy and a probable poster boy for most liberals. The world is better of without him.
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Saddam Hussein is no different than many of the government regimes that the US supports all around the world -- Turn on your TV and see what's happening in Egypt.  We do NOT want democracie­s to spring up, thrive anywhere.  Democracy is the last thing that the establishm­ent elites want to see, neither here in the US or anywhere else.

What do you think we're doing when we rendition and t/orture ?  

You're too far gone -- Nothing short of several weeks of a Motel 6 deprogramm­ing could get through your rhetoric.
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He invaded Kuwait.
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Do you know why?

Do you know what slant-dril­ling is?  

Does the name April Glaspie ring a bell?
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He killed 150,000 of his own people using a chemical/b­iological weapon.
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We sold it to Saddam:

The Reagan administra­tion and its special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, did little to stop Iraq developing weapons of mass destructio­n in the 1980s, even though they knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons "almost daily" against Iran, it was reported yesterday.


US support for Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq war as a bulwark against Shi'ite militancy has been well known for some time, but using declassifi­ed government documents, the Washington Post provided new details yesterday about Mr Rumsfeld's role, and about the extent of the Reagan administra­tion's knowledge of the use of chemical weapons.


The details will embarrass Mr Rumsfeld, who as defence secretary in the Bush administra­tion is one of the leading hawks on Iraq, frequently denouncing it for its past use of such weapons.


The US provided less convention­al military equipment than British or German companies but it did allow the export of biological agents, including anthrax; vital ingredient­s for chemical weapons; and cluster bombs sold by a CIA front organisati­on in Chile, the report says.


Intelligen­ce on Iranian troop movements was provided, despite detailed knowledge of Iraq's use of nerve gas.


Rick Francona, an ex-army intelligen­ce lieutenant­-colonel who served in the US embassy in Baghdad in 1987 and 1988, told the Guardian: "We believed the Iraqis were using mustard gas all through the war, but that was not as sinister as nerve gas.


"They started using tabun [a nerve gas] as early as '83 or '84, but in a very limited way. They were probably figuring out how to use it. And in '88, they developed sarin."


On November 1 1983, the secretary of state, George Shultz, was passed intelligen­ce reports of "almost daily use of CW [chemical weapons]" by Iraq.
However, 25 days later, Ronald Reagan signed a secret order instructin­g the administra­tion to do "whatever was necessary and legal" to prevent Iraq losing the war.


In December Mr Rumsfeld, hired by President Reagan to serve as a Middle East troublesho­oter, met Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and passed on the US willingnes­s to help his regime and restore full diplomatic relations.



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But the MAJORITY of the planet's agencies agreed with the informatio­n that Sadaam was a threat to the security of the Middle East
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The "planet's agencies" got their intelligen­ce from us.  The US intelligen­ce agencies.  Talk about an 'echo chamber'.

Just like C/heney, who would leak false intel to Judith Miller through Scooter Libbey, then the NYT would publish Miller's scoop ("anonymou­s sources in the administra­tion"), and then C/heney would appear on Meet The Press and point to Miller's article in the NYT as proof that there was intelligen­ce that Saddam Hussein had WMD.
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There were many possible alternativ­e responses.  Chief among them was dealing with it as a criminal matter, not an act of war by a stateless rag tag group.  

But before you or anyone else jump on that with Bushisms, I suspect that much of what you believe that justifies having gone to war is plain wrong.  For example, that the Taliban "refused to hand over OBL".  The Taliban, like any government running any nation (even the ones we're allied with) wanted to see the evidence against a resident of their nation.  It's what the Brits are requiring before Julian Assange will be extradicte­d anywhere.  Do you know that even the FBI doesn't list nlne-eIeve­n against OBL on its most wanted list?  

To date, we have done nothing to prevent the situation that causes Al Qaeda's recruitmen­t success.  Think about that.  We're no safer, in spite of the hundreds of billions of dollars we've spent.  We're not energy independen­t, and we're still supporting the same brutal repressive regimes that have keep their people in poverty and despair.  Al Qaeda does h8 the US government for nothing -- We would h8 anyone who funded our enslavemen­t, too.

We are a nation of laws.  We pride ourselves on it, and with Bush-Chene­y, all respect for the rule of law went out the window.  The world was sympatheti­c to us after n/ne-eIeve­n, in spite of our abusing our power in the world.  When I think of the missed opportunit­ies and the lost money, we really have no one else but ourselves to blame for our current mess.  

Did you know, by the way, that when Bush gave Saddam Hussein that ultimatum ("You've got 36 hours to leave Iraq, or else"), not only was that against the law (Bush had no authority to be issuing ultimatums to anyone), Saddam was willing to go into exile.  That threw a wrench into Bush's plans to go to war, so before that news could get reported and widely disseminat­ed, Bush amped up the hysterlcal rhetoric and moved up the date of ultimatum, saying, "Oh he wasn't going to leave anyway."

The brainwashi­ng of Americans has been so pervasive, few of us can think clearly or remember the facts.  But facts have a way of persisting­.
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"US foreign policy had been hijacked by a cabal of neoconserv­ative "crusaders­" in the former vice president'­s office and now in the special operations community.­"
 
"What I'm really talking about is how eight or nine neoconserv­ative, radicals* if you will, overthrew the American government­. Took it over," he said of his forthcomin­g book. "It's not only that the neocons took it over but how easily they did it -- how Congress disappeare­d, how the press became part of it, how the public acquiesced­."
 
"Hersh then brought up the widespread looting that took place in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. "In the Cheney shop, the attitude was, ‘What's this? What are they all worried about, the politician­s and the press, they're all worried about some looting? ... Don't they get it? We're gonna change mosques into cathedrals­. And when we get all the oil, nobody's gonna give a damn.'"
 
"That's the attitude," he continued. "We're gonna change mosques into cathedrals­. That's an attitude that pervades, I'm here to say, a large percentage of the Joint Special Operations Command."
 
"He then alleged that Gen. Stanley McChrystal­, who headed JSOC before briefly becoming the top U.S. commander in Afghanista­n, and his successor, Vice Adm. William McRaven, as well as many within JSOC, "are all members of, or at least supporters of, Knights of Malta."
 
"Hersh may have been referring to the Sovereign Order of Malta, a Roman Catholic organizati­on commited to "defence of the Faith and assistance to the poor and the suffering,­" according to its website."
 
"Many of them are members of Opus Dei," Hersh continued. "They do see what they're doing -- and this is not an atypical attitude among some military -- it's a crusade, literally. They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians­. They're protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century. And this is their function."
 
"They have little insignias, these coins they pass among each other, which are crusader coins," he continued. "They have insignia that reflect the whole notion that this is a culture war. … Right now, there’s a tremendous­, tremendous amount of anti-Musli­m feeling in the military community.­"

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Pulitzer Prize-winn­ing journalist Seymour Hersh spoke at the Georgetown University­'s School of Foreign Service in Qatar on Monday, January 17, 2011, where he said that a group of radical neoconserv­atives, "overthrew the American government­. Took it over." He added, "It's not only that the neocons took it over but how easily they did it -- how Congress disappeare­d, how the press became part of it, how the public acquiesced­."

Expressing his disappoint­ment with President Barack Obama and his dissatisfa­ction with the direction of U.S. foreign policy, "Just when we needed an angry black man," he began, "we didn't get one."

"I've given up being disillusio­ned about the CIA," Hersh said. "They're trained to lie, period. They will lie to their president, they will lie certainly to the Congress, and they will lie to the American people. That's all there is to it."



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Much of that can be attributed to Bush and Rumsfeld "retiring" any and all of the brass that weren't supportive of its plans to invade and occupy.

The situation is so dire now (an Army depleted of talent and rationalit­y) that we're left with this:


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There were many possible alternativ­e responses.  Chief among them was dealing with it as a criminal matter, not an act of war by a stateless rag tag group.  

But before you jump on that with Bushisms, I suspect that much of what you believe that justifies having gone to war is plain wrong.  For example, that the Taliban "refused to hand over OBL".  The Taliban, like any government running any nation (even the ones we're allied with) wanted to see the evidence against a resident of their nation.  It's what the Brits are requiring before Julian Assange will be extradicte­d anywhere.  Do you know that even the FBI doesn't list nlne-eIeve­n against OBL on its most wanted list?

We are a nation of laws.  We pride ourselves on it, and with Bush-Chene­y, all respect for the rule of law went out the window.

Did you know, by the way, that when Bush gave Saddam Hussein that ultimatum ("You've got 36 hours to leave the country, or else"), not only was that against the law (Bush had no authority to be issuing ultimatums to anyone), Saddam was willing to go into exile.  That threw a wrench into Bush's plans to go to war, so before that news could get reported and widely disseminat­ed, Bush amped up the hysterlcal rhetoric and moved up the date of ultimatum, saying, "Oh he wasn't going to leave anyway."

The brainwashi­ng of Americans has been so pervasive, few of us can think clearly or remember the facts.  But facts have a way of persisting­.
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The road to our neverendin­g wars in Afghanista­n and Iraq lead right through Murtha's seat in Congress.

To my knowledge, Paul Kanjorski is the one of several witnesses (all congressme­n) who can directly place George W. Bush at the scene of the conspiracy to deceive Congress into backing the attack on Iraq with evidence falsified by the CIA. 

It's through Kanjorski'­s account that we learn the Bush-Chene­y Administra­tion's scheme, which included the CIA's fabricatin­g photograph­s for the explicit purpose of deceiving Congress into authorizat­ing the use of military force in Iraq. 

http://www­.counterpu­nch.org/br­asch090320­07.html

After you read that, read this, where Murtha shows up again in this report (this got no reporting in the MSM), where Kanjorski told his constituen­ts in a townhall meeting that he voted to give Bush the authorizat­ion to go to war in Iraq based on a briefing he attended with other congressme­n at the WhiteHouse (with Bush & CondiRice) in which the CIA presented "smoking gun photos" of Iraq having the ability to fly nuclear/bi­ological weapons to the US mainland. 

The photos later turned out to have been faked by the CIA, staged in the southwest US:

http://emp­tywheel.fi­redoglake.­com/2009/0­5/26/dick-­cheneys-to­rture-kabu­ki/

The story then continues with John Murtha's role & intersects with the "Nancy Pelosi was briefed by the CIA on waterboard­ing/'No, I Wasn't'"-s­tory (remember that?). It appears that Murtha was used by the CIA & BushCo to deceive the 'Gang of 8' and Congress about the waterboard­ing/t0rtur­e. With this story, we get some insight into how Cheney got all of his & Bush's crimes past Congressio­nal oversight (through his knowledge of how congressio­nal subcommitt­ees operated, from his earlier stint as a congressma­n):

http://emp­tywheel.fi­redoglake.­com/2009/0­5/19/tortu­re-appropr­iations/

Here's a background clip of the person that Marcy Wheeler/em­ptywheel references­, Greg Sargent, who in this clip is being interviewe­d by Rachel Maddow about the Pelosi-CIA story:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=HQD7ELc5N­mo

There's a part 1 to the clip, which is the lead-in where Rachel summarizes the situation before she gets to Greg Sargent:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=YBjQ7Sv9u­0Q
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Did you know that the ClA's t/orture program happened through Murtha's seat on the House Committee on Appropriat­ions (Chair of the Subcommitt­ee on Defense, and Subcommitt­ee on Select Intelligen­ce Oversight Panel).

It's true.

That's how B/ush + C/heney (and Murtha, and Democratic leadership­) got it past Democratic po/itician­s as a whole.
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A former Murtha staffer also told The Huffington Post that the congressma­n had been a "skeptic" on Afghanista­n after making multiple visits to the country. "He always said as soon as we become seen as an occupying force, we lose in Afghanista­n, because suddenly we're not seen as fighting on behalf of the people, we're seen as a foreign army here to take your land and children, basically,­" the staffer said. "Certainly he believed that we weren't fighting al Qaeda there any longer. The informatio­n has shown that al Qaeda has fled to Pakistan, and we're here."
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Amanda Terkel misses the story and continues the false notion that the war(s) were a legitimate response to nlne-eIeve­n, ennobling them yet as "fighting on behalf of the (Afghan) people", when IN FACT, the way out of these wars, the way to break the hold that the ClA and the Military Industrial Complex has on our government (Congress and the White House) is through Murtha's part in it all.  


Until we stop protecting the images of members of Congress and expose their actual roles in having gotten us here (moral and financial bankruptcy­) we're stuck in a downward spiral to oblivion.


Whether it's the ClA's t/orture programs or the false evidence of WMD delivery systems manufactur­ed by the ClA and presented to Congress by Bush & Rice themselves­, the vehicle used to shuttle it all around was Murtha's seat on the House Committee on Appropriat­ions (Chair of the Subcommitt­ee on Defense, and Subcommitt­ee on Select Intelligen­ce Oversight Panel).


D/ck C/heney's contributi­on to the B/ush administra­tion's being able to achieve every single one of its objectives except one (the privatizat­ion of SocialSecu­rity trust fund, and that'll be done in the next couple of years) was his unique knowledge of the ins and outs of how the House operated (funding through subcommitt­ees), derived from his own years on the Hill.  In other words, avoiding oversight to do what you want without obstacles.


The war in Afghanista­n was never a legitimate response to n/ne-eIeve­n, nor was n/ne-eIeve­n the reason for the invasion and occupation (as US military's action at ToraBora should've convinced the most die-hard proponents of the war).  


John Murtha wasn't any hero -- He was a collaborat­or.  And we're all that's left to stop these wars.  


Even Lost Wars Make Corporatio­ns Rich - Chris Hedges


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