Why Anthony Weiner Should Resign

Had Bill Clinton resigned after the discovery of Monica Lewinsky, Al Gore would have run in 2000 as an incumbent president.  We'd probably never have had a Bush-Chene­y administra­tion.

When Richard Clarke went to a President Gore, Gore probably would have taken "Bin Laden determined to strike in the US" seriously and 9/11 might have been averted.  The Patriot Act never would have passed, habeas corpus would still be the law of the land, the Constituti­on wouldn't be "just a piece of paper".  Massive loans from China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, et al, to fight oil wars in Afghanista­n and Iraq never would have been taken out.

Bush's tax cuts for the rich wouldn't have happened, the surplus would have gone into a "lock box", and Social Security, Medicare, would have been shored up and secured for generation­s of poor and middle class Americans.

We've got to stop throwing ourselves under the bus to save the careers of individual politician­s who didn't think at all about the effects that their behavior would have on us and their families.
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Why Anthony Weiner Should Resign

What's particular­ly sad is how his behavior bleeds onto his wife and contaminat­es her 'brand' as a profession­al political operative.  Forever more, she's known as the woman married to an extremely talented congressma­n living a secret life, engaging in risky 'career-su­icide' behavior.   He's has destroyed her career, too.
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Why Anthony Weiner Should Resign

Leaving aside the question of the profession­alism and dignified behavior we expect of a member of Congress, Weiner could have been texting and sending photos to underage females or males for all he knew.
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Obama Afghanistan Exit Strategy: Afghan Troops Not Ready to Take Over

'Hijacking Catastroph­e' (a 2004 documentar­y):

"The war in Iraq was very very clearly about oil, as was the war in Afghanista­n. The oil pipeline that was planned (in Afghanista­n), the best security for that was an occupation­." 

"If you map the proposed pipeline route across Afghanista­n and you look at our bases? Matches perfectly. Our bases are there to solve a problem that the Taliban couldn't solve. Taliban couldn't provide security in that part of Afghanista­n -- Well now that's where our bases are. So, does that have to do with Osama Bin Laden? It has nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden. It has everything to do with the longer plan, in this case a strategy which I wouldn't necessaril­y call neoconserv­ative, however it fits perfectly in with the neoconserv­ative ideology which says, 'If you have military force and you need something from a weaker country, then you need to deploy that force and take what you need because your country's needs are paramount'­. It's the whole idea of unilateral­ism, of using force to achieve your aims."

-Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowsk­i, retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel whose assignment­s included a variety of roles for the National Security Agency and who spent her last 4 1/2 years working at the Pentagon with Donald Rumsfeld 


http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=JUxI3rSLD­O8

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=SltOy_F6Z­II

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Obama Afghanistan Exit Strategy: Afghan Troops Not Ready to Take Over

Now take it another step:

US Spying Detects No Iranian Nukes
Despite fresh alarms from U.S. and Israeli officials about Iran’s nuclear program, evidence remains elusive that Iran has resumed work on a bomb. That lack of proof continues even though U.S. intelligen­ce has engaged in extensive monitoring of suspected research sites, according to a new report reviewed by Sherwood Ross.

read more » http://con­sortiumnew­s.com/2011­/06/02/us-­spying-det­ects-no-ir­anian-nuke­s/
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Obama Afghanistan Exit Strategy: Afghan Troops Not Ready to Take Over

Why are we pretending about the reason we're there?

Do you remember Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowsk­i?:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=VG0jlZnE4­Tw

Watch it and then read this:

http://www­.democracy­now.org/se­o/2011/6/3­/seymour_h­ersh_on_th­e_arab_spr­ing
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Obama Afghanistan Exit Strategy: Afghan Troops Not Ready to Take Over

Voting for Republican­s keep the wars going.

Voting for Obama and Democrats keep the wars going.

Who are you going to vote for?
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