Sunday, August 07, 2005

The Evil Lurking Within

The Evil Lurking Within

Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel's Wife, Talks Again
About Military Assassin Squads, Drug Running, Illegal
Weapon Deals And Sexual Perversion Deep Within
The Highest Levels Of U.S. Military And Government

The second is the raw, unedited eight hour version, Strawcutter saying rights being obtained by a third party and available at www.kaygriggstalks.com. And the third is a two-part video, taken from Strawcutter's original interviews and edited by Eric Hufschmid located at http://www.hugequestions.com

For more informative articles, go to http://www.arcticbeacon.com

Exclusive: CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com

Exclusive: CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com

ABC News: Justice Stevens Criticizes Death Penalty

ABC News: Justice Stevens Criticizes Death Penalty

UNDERNEWS: CHERTOFF CONTINUES TO MAKE HUNDREDS OF ILLEGAL ARRESTS

UNDERNEWS: CHERTOFF CONTINUES TO MAKE HUNDREDS OF ILLEGAL ARRESTS

xymphora: CIA disinformation agents

xymphora: CIA disinformation agents

Saturday, August 06, 2005
CIA disinformation agents
I couldn't help but notice the long list of CIA disinformation agents helpfully posted on the internet by WagNews. Now when I read Riverbend (with a link which goes to a non-operating blog which isn't even the real Riverbend), I'll know she's not a young woman living in Iraq but actually a balding, overweight, 52-year-old CIA agent posting from Langley, Virginia, attempting to make the American war and occupation look bad as part of the ongoing CIA-neocon turf war in Washington. It puts 'her' blog in a whole new perspective. I actually agree with the last paragraph in the WagNews posting commenting on 9-11:
". . . it was orchestrated by the highest levels of the US Military and military-industrial complex; on behalf of the national and international politicians, corporates, and moneyed interests. It had, and still has the full support of the US Military/intelligence apparatus - who control much of the alternative media and the 9/11 movement."


But people who live in glass disinformation houses shouldn't throw stones. WagNews is big on analyzing photos of the London bombers taken from the CCTV cameras. It has made a great deal of supposed anomalies in these photos. This analysis is complete and utter nonsense. Analyzing similar allegations made at Citizens For Legitimate Government (or here), the poster Anonymoose, posting at Rantburg (not a place I'd ordinarily cite, but when you're right, you're right), wrote:
"Actually not. It's a function of a low-res camera with a transfer from videotape to a compressed video format."


another poster, 11A5S, wrote:
"I zoomed in on it and it shows nothing of the sort. It's a security photo. The definition is too low to support the kind of naked eye analysis that this site is claiming."


Wild allegations of disinformation from WagNews are trumped by clear and demonstrable disinformation published by WagNews. The photo analysis is nonsense, presumably intended to deceive the reader into following the WagNews analysis of the London bombings. You should be your own judge of where the real disinformation is being posted.

New York City - Health and Science, Homeland Security to conduct gas tests in Midtown, subways

New York City - Health and Science

Leak Investigation: An Oversight Issue? - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com

Leak Investigation: An Oversight Issue? - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com
Aug. 15, 2005 issue - The departure this week of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who has accepted the post of general counsel at Lockheed Martin, leaves a question mark in the probe into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Comey was the only official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation. With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recused, department officials say they are still trying to resolve whom Fitzgerald will now report to. Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum is "likely" to be named as acting deputy A.G., a DOJ official who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter tells NEWSWEEK. But McCallum may be seen as having his own conflicts: he is an old friend of President Bush's and a member of his Skull and Bones class at Yale. One question: how much authority Comey's successor will have over Fitzgerald. When Comey appointed Fitzgerald in 2003, the deputy granted him extraordinary powers to act however he saw fit—but noted he still had the right to revoke Fitzgerald's authority. The questions are pertinent because law-yers close to the case believe the probe is in its final stages. Fitzgerald recently called White House aide Karl Rove's secretary and his former top aide to testify before the grand jury. They were asked why there was no record of a phone call from Time reporter Matt Cooper, with whom Rove discussed the CIA agent, says a source close to Rove who requested anonymity because the FBI asked participants not to comment. The source says the call went through the White House switchboard, not directly to Rove.


News Hounds: FOX News Contributor Mike Gallagher Calls Concern For Constitutional Rights Idiotic And Absurd

News Hounds: FOX News Contributor Mike Gallagher Calls Concern For Constitutional Rights Idiotic And Absurd

BugZilla


BugZilla
Originally uploaded by Finiky.

Trapped in the sinking city


Trapped in the sinking city
Originally uploaded by *Ivan*.

The Observer | UK News | Saudis warned UK of London attacks

The Observer | UK News | Saudis warned UK of London attacks

CIA leak prosecutor takes on Chicago machine - Politics - MSNBC.com

CIA leak prosecutor takes on Chicago machine - Politics - MSNBC.com

Now Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the federal prosecutor who heads Washington’s CIA leak investigation, is also taking on City Hall.

7/7's MI6 masterminds: Loftus on Alex Jones show

TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

TOTAL 911 INFO: Feds raid LetsRoll911.org webmaster

TOTAL 911 INFO

Wired News: FCC Eases High-Speed Net Rules

Wired News: FCC Eases High-Speed Net Rules

BG: Even Wired either uses without thought AP's deceptive headline, or they are part of the propaganda machine.

Wonkette - Wonkette Sponsors Too Complicated to Have Evolved by Chance

Wonkette - Wonkette Sponsors Too Complicated to Have Evolved by Chance

BG: Wonkette Rulez!

Stephen Schwartz argues in The Weekly Standard that Ayman al-Zawahiri "should be taken even more seriously than Osama bin Laden"



BG: Horrors! Somebody more terrible that OBL? (I need my Hooey Graphic)

This is a big story: Paul Volcker reportedly will accuse Benon V. Sevan



BG: Here's another big story: Why does Josh Mashall seem to think Volcker speaks with authority?

TCS: Tech Central Station - Congress' Homeland Insecurity

TCS: Tech Central Station - Congress' Homeland Insecurity

BG: I need to use my hooey graphic.... Although there's lots to agree with, this article is so lost with respect to truth, reality or any other connection to the facts that it makes you wonder if the Authors think the Dems still control Congress.

TCS: Tech Central Station - Bush and Darwin

TCS: Tech Central Station - Bush and Darwin

BG: The limits to which Bush apologists will strain boggle the mind.

Current TV // Blog // How to win friends and influence graphics

Current TV // Blog // How to win friends and influence graphics

BG: Interesting Minor Note about Gore's Current TV Channel

LIVE on C-SPAN: 9/11 CitizensWatch Co-founder Confronts Commissioner over Omission of Pakistani Wire Transfers to Atta :: 9/11 CitizensWatch :: We are

LIVE on C-SPAN: 9/11 CitizensWatch Co-founder Confronts Commissioner over Omission of Pakistani Wire Transfers to Atta :: 9/11 CitizensWatch :: We are concerned citizens challenging the official story of 9/11

Robert Mapplethorpe - The latest attempt to domesticate the controversial photographer. By Lee Siegel

Robert Mapplethorpe - The latest attempt to domesticate the controversial photographer. By Lee Siegel

The Benefits of Ecstasy - And other news from science and technology. By William Saletan

The Benefits of Ecstasy - And other news from science and technology. By William Saletan

Why I Don't Trust Readers - I'm sad to report that their credibility has fallen to an all-time low. By Jack Shafer.

Why I Don't Trust Readers - I'm sad to report that their credibility has fallen to an all-time low. By Jack Shafer

BG: Entertaining, see what you think.

Tiny Hoverfly 1


Tiny Hoverfly 1
Originally uploaded by mommamia.

Say Again? Speakers Can Avoid Confusion For Listeners, Researchers Find

Say Again? Speakers Can Avoid Confusion For Listeners, Researchers Find

Sirotablog: The D.C. Dem Party's Disconnect on the Iraq War

Sirotablog: The D.C. Dem Party's Disconnect on the Iraq War

ProfessorBainbridge.com: A Christian Case Against the Death Penalty

ProfessorBainbridge.com: A Christian Case Against the Death Penalty

BG: Bainbridge quote explains it all: "It's not an approach that had occurred to me". Yes, it has not occurred to many other pea-brained Christians, obviously.

Pakistani admits role in Pearl murder case - police

Top News Article | Reuters.com

Judge in Miami Rejects Miranda Warning Used by Homeland Security

Judge in Miami Rejects Miranda Warning Used by Homeland Security

BG: Our crazy Homeland Security and our taxpayer dollars (or maybe it our deficit dollars financed by China) at work.

Democratic Underground - Argument over Iraq war prompts fatal shooting

Democratic Underground - Argument over Iraq war prompts fatal shooting

BG: Perhaps when Newsweek covers this story the head will be: "Anti-War advocate shot and killed", which seems to be factually correct.

The Light Of Reason » Blog Archive » MONSTERS IN OUR MIDST: DESTROYING THE WORLD FOR YOUR OWN GOOD — AUGUST 6, 1945

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MONSTERS IN OUR MIDST: DESTROYING THE WORLD FOR YOUR OWN GOOD — AUGUST 6, 1945

Because I have written about these psychological and cultural dynamics at great length, I had thought my capacity for numbed astonishment was close to exhausted. I was wrong.

A few months ago, I noted the conclusion of an Ivan Eland column. After his discussion of how the Downing Street Memo story and its many implications had largely escaped scrutiny by the American media, Eland wrote:

The British memo is only one of many pieces of evidence pointing to deliberate threat inflation by the Bush administration to justify the Iraq War. Deep down, the American public knows that President Bush and his minions were deceitful about the need for the invasion, but they don’t seem to hold him responsible. ...

Less a shaper of public opinion in a market economy with many sources of news, media coverage largely reflects what people want to see, hear and read. People choose media outlets based on their preconceived notions. And they want to see, hear and read about what the imperial president and his celebrity advisors, such as Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, are saying and doing. The U.S. presidency has become so powerful compared to what the nation’s founders had intended that the public has come to expect that the chief executive and his entourage will lie to us for our own good—even on issues as vital to the republic as war and peace.

Eland used a critical phrase in this passage—which I then expanded upon:

The key phrase is this one: “for our own good.” If some readers should ever wonder why I have spent so much time writing about the work of Alice Miller and her invaluable explanation of how the psychological dynamics instilled in earliest childhood shape the adults we become, this is why.

What can explain why so many Americans are so eagerly willing to believe—even in the face of a massive and constantly growing mountain of evidence that these lies are leading only to destruction and death—that “the chief executive and his entourage will lie to us for our own good”? They will believe it for one very simple reason: because that is what they learned in their earliest years of life—when they were infants and small children, and when this message was drilled into them by parents who abused them in countless ways, sometimes by spankings and beatings, sometimes by neglect, and sometimes by failing in other ways to acknowledge the child’s unique value as an individual human being.

The most extreme form of this kind of abuse is represented by someone like James Dobson, but abuse which is identical in principle is practiced in many other ways as well (see this essay, too).

But most significant with regard to Eland’s column is the following. Here is how I described it in one earlier essay, after I had described how the child completely internalizes the abusive parent’s methods of control….

In my essay about Dobson and his advocacy of the abuse and even torture of children, I wrote the following—which contains links to a number of other essays which provide further examples of these same mechanisms:

I have written about James Dobson at some length—but of equal if not greater importance in my view, I have written about the more general psychological dynamics involved. Tragically and dangerously, Dobson is far from being the sole exponent of these profoundly destructive views. In “The Roots of the Monsters They Became: How People Murder Their Own Souls,” I provided a number of links to my series entitled, “The Roots of Horror.” If you consult some of those entries, you will see that these same dynamics underlie many of the more general horrors of our world today—including unnecessary war, the widespread denial of the horrors in Iraq, the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, the psychology of many warhawks, in many of the revived debates about Vietnam, and in many of the horrors in the U.S. prison system itself (which system was merely transplanted to Iraq). Still more generally, these dynamics are the root of what I call “The Apocalyptic Crusader Psychology,” of which our current president is a perfect, and perfectly horrifying, embodiment. (Here is still one more essay that I admit is a favorite of mine and that addresses the major themes of my series, “When Life and Happiness Are Not Enough: The Tragedy of the Unborn Self,” and all the related entries will be found here.)

For our purposes here, it is critical that one further facet of these mechanisms be understood: because the young child is essentially helpless and completely dependent on his parental or other authority figure for life itself, he dare not question the “goodness” or the “good intentions” of that person(s). To do so would be unbearably threatening to the child, and doubts on such a profound level could literally kill him. So he must believe that the parent takes whatever actions he does for the child’s good. He must believe this even if the parent deliberately inflicts pain on him using such brutal methods as “hot saucing,” even if the parent beats him without mercy, and even if the parent engages in outright torture. The child must desperately cling to his belief that his parent “means well,” and in this way the idealization of the parent continues.

When he grows up, if these injuries are not surfaced and ultimately healed, the idealization will spread—and it can encompass political leaders (even as lackluster a president as Bush, if the adult is sufficiently frightened), military institutions and the entire military itself, and the adult’s country as a whole. For this child-as-adult, such idealization means that he must believe that—whatever his country does—it does so with “good intentions,” for the well-being of others, and with only the noblest of motives.

It is this insistence on continuing the fantasy at the expense of facts that unleashes horrors on the world. In writing about Mel Gibson and his idealization of his bigoted and rage-filled father, I wrote:

I didn’t see [Diane] Sawyer’s interview, but I heard parts of it replayed on the radio. Gibson did say a bit more about his father, and what he said, and his tone, were very revealing. Just before he said, “Gotta leave it alone, Diane,” Gibson said, several times: “Diane, he’s my father. My father. My father.”

And the way Gibson said it clearly conveyed that his father, his father’s goodness, the fact that his father was worthy of deep admiration, and—above all—his father’s authority were not to be questioned; all of these were immutable facts, absolutes beyond all debate or questioning. It is this mindset, and this refusal to allow even the smallest possibility that his father might be mistaken—even with regard to a supremely significant issue such as the Holocaust—that leads Gibson to temporize in his own statements about whether the Holocaust actually occurred. Whatever else is open to discussion, the worth, the authority and the inherent goodness of his father cannot be broached.

If you read any of the numerous personal histories laid out by Miller, you will conclude that Gibson, like the other helpless victims Miller describes, undoubtedly had a brutal and cruel upbringing, especially in view of his father’s particular beliefs. But Gibson has denied all of this—first to himself, and later to the rest of the world. And even today, when he is a fully independent adult with wealth and power beyond the dreams of almost all of us, he dares not question any of this fable he has told himself about his father, and about his own childhood. It is this first denial that makes all the others possible—as Miller sets forth in compelling detail, it is the denial of the reality of our lives in our earliest years, it is the denial of our own pain, which greatly lessens (or even completely destroys) our ability to empathize with others, and it makes possible denial of countless other facts, and even of events such as the Holocaust, which are documented to an extent which one would think would make such evasion literally impossible.

But the demands of this belief system are unending: after you have denied your authentic self, you will be prepared to believe anything. You will believe that the Holocaust never happened—if your father tells you so; you will believe that Hitler is your country’s savior—if the surrogate father and authority figure leading your nation tells you so; or you will believe that a third-rate dictatorship which can threaten no one must be invaded, and hundreds of Americans and thousands of Iraqis must die—if enough authority figures tell you so.

Whatever else can be questioned, the parent’s authority must never be doubted—regardless of consequences, regardless of the pain and destruction that must follow such denial, regardless even of the countless deaths of innocent victims.

This brings us to what so astonished me during my early morning reading a little while ago. I will have much more to say about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki within the next few days—and more particularly about how those literally world-altering events have been treated by the public and the media. The extent of the misinformation and outright lies, and the self-inflicted moral blindness that still affects almost everyone who writes on this subject, even today, is remarkable. It is also deeply disturbing—because it reveals the horrors that may still lie in our future.

As a preview of the issues I will discuss in more detail, consider the following excerpts from an article at Editor & Publisher:

On Aug. 6, 1945, President Harry S. Truman faced the task of telling the press, and the world, that America’s crusade against fascism had culminated in exploding a revolutionary new weapon of extraordinary destructive power over a Japanese city.

It was vital that this event be understood as a reflection of dominant military power and at the same time consistent with American decency and concern for human life. Everyone involved in preparing the presidential statement sensed that the stakes were high, for this marked the unveiling of both the atomic bomb and the official narrative of Hiroshima.

...

From its very first words, however, the official narrative was built on a half-truth. Hiroshima did contain an important military base, used as a staging area for Southeast Asia. But the bomb had been aimed at the very center of a city of 350,000, a continuation of the American policy of bombing civilian populations in Japan to undermine the morale of the enemy.

There was something else missing: Because the president in his statement failed to mention radiation effects, which officials knew were horrendous, the imagery of just a bigger bomb would prevail in the press. Truman described the new weapon as “revolutionary” but only in regard to the destruction it could cause, failing to mention its most lethal new feature: radiation.

...

It wasn’t until the following morning, Aug. 7, that the government’s press offensive appeared, with the first detailed account of the making of the atomic bomb, and the Hiroshima mission. Nearly every U.S. newspaper carried all or parts of 14 separate press releases distributed by the Pentagon several hours after the president’s announcement. They carried headlines such as: “Atom Bombs Made in 3 Hidden Cities” and “New Age Ushered.”

Many of them written by one man: W.L. Laurence, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, “embedded” with the atomic project. General Leslie Groves, military director of the Manhattan Project, would later reflect, with satisfaction, that “most newspapers published our releases in their entirety. This is one of the few times since government releases have become so common that this has been done.”

I interject here that I have written about the myths surrounding Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and about Laurence and his “embedded” reporting, in some detail before.

But here is the passage that caused my jaw to drop, at the end of the article:

On Aug. 7, military officials confirmed that Hiroshima had been devastated: at least 60% of the city wiped off the map. They offered no casualty estimates, emphasizing instead that the obliterated area housed major industrial targets. The Air Force provided the newspapers with an aerial photograph of Hiroshima. Significant targets were identified by name. For anyone paying close attention there was something troubling about this picture. Of the 30 targets, only four were specifically military in nature. “Industrial” sites consisted of three textile mills. (Indeed, a U.S. survey of the damage, not released to the press, found that residential areas bore the brunt of the bomb, with less than 10% of the city’s manufacturing, transportation, and storage facilities damaged.)

On Guam, weaponeer William S. Parsons and Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets calmly answered reporters’ questions, limiting their remarks to what they had observed after the bomb exploded. Asked how he felt about the people down below at the time of detonation, Parsons said that he experienced only relief that the bomb had worked and might be “worth so much in terms of shortening the war.”

Almost without exception newspaper editorials endorsed the use of the bomb against Japan. Many of them sounded the theme of revenge first raised in the Truman announcement. Most of them emphasized that using the bomb was merely the logical culmination of war. “However much we deplore the necessity,” The Washington Post observed, “a struggle to the death commits all combatants to inflicting a maximum amount of destruction on the enemy within the shortest span of time.” The Post added that it was “unreservedly glad that science put this new weapon at our disposal before the end of the war.”

Referring to American leaders, the Chicago Tribune commented: “Being merciless, they were merciful.” A drawing in the same newspaper pictured a dove of peace flying over Japan, an atomic bomb in its beak.

Make that image real to yourself: a dove of peace—with an atomic bomb in its beak. And then make real the image of a parent beating his young child over and over with a belt, and insisting all the time: “I’m doing this because I love you! I’m doing it for your own good!”

Do you see the connection now, and why there are no more important issues in the world than these? Well over 200,000 people were killed by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and almost all of them were, intentionally and by design, innocent civilians. Make no mistake: these were war crimes, if that phrase has any meaning at all.

And yet we tell ourselves, even today, that we were “merciful,” that we did it for our own good (to shorten the war)—and that we did it even for the good of the Japanese.

If the first denial is allowed to continue and is never challenged, you will be prepared to deny anything—and you will believe the most monstrous lie in the world. You will even believe that you will save the world by destroying it.

That is what our president and his most fervent advisors and supporters believe—and that is why we are all in mortal danger.

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Postman Patel: Ethics ? Isn't that what Doctors have ?

Postman Patel: Ethics ? Isn't that what Doctors have ?

The Pauley's Go to Louisville: And I forgot...summer

The Pauley's Go to Louisville: And I forgot...summer

"If anything, I think Louisville's even a bit warmer than Florida. That's just not right."

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A Rocket to Nowhere

Audio: Guns & Butter with Bonnie Faulkner Air Highlights of Capitol Hill Briefings on 9/11

Guns

Interview with Jim Hoffman (about Cynthia McKinney's Truth Meeting Last Month)

Tag: 09/11/2001 Truth

Cleric Hopes Islam Basis for Law in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Cleric Hopes Islam Basis for Law in Iraq - Yahoo! News

BG: Is this a surprise to anyone?

(you know I'm not any more anti-Islam than I am anti-Christian).

Survival of the Fittest, Indeed - by Charley Reese

Survival of the Fittest, Indeed - by Charley Reese
August 6, 2005
Survival of the Fittest, Indeed

by Charley Reese
We now have, just as my Confederate forefathers predicted, an imperial government in Washington. We are the only country in the world that has military forces permanently stationed all over the Earth.

All imperialism, even the American form, is ultimately based on social Darwinism, a belief not openly stated these days that we are a superior people and therefore must inevitably rule in one way or another the inferior others.

Earlier in the last century, this was openly admitted. Read this quote from Frederick Courtney Selous, a British colonialist who played a large role in establishing Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

"Matabeleland (a part of future Rhodesia) is doomed by what seems a law of nature to be ruled by the white man, and the black man must go, or conform to the white man's laws, or die in resisting them. ... The British colonist is but the irresponsible atom employed in carrying out a preordained law – the law which has ruled upon this planet ever since ... organic life was first evolved upon the earth – the inexorable law which Darwin has aptly termed the Survival of the Fittest."

Of course, today there is no Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe is ruled by black people, as is all of sub-Saharan Africa. The British Empire, upon which in the past the sun never set, no longer exists. What happened to the survival of the fittest?

Well, intellectuals, whether British or American, are inevitably out of touch with reality. It didn't seem to occur to them that even a person who couldn't read Latin or solve a simple equation could nevertheless wield a machete and shoot a rifle. An illiterate man can eradicate a lot of intelligence, experience and education with one 10-cent bullet. He can undo the work of years in a second. The Europeans didn't voluntarily abandon their colonies. They were driven out by people they had considered inferior.

The code word we use for superiority these days is "democracy." It is democracy that is superior to all other forms of government, and therefore we are doing people a favor to spread it while, like the British, exploiting their natural resources and cheap labor. We will eventually meet the same fate as the British. The Philippines have already kicked us out. Sooner or later, the Japanese will tell us to get out of Okinawa and other parts of Japan. Even one day the South Koreans and the Germans will say, "Go home."

And we should go home without even being asked. As long as we play the game of empire, we are both bankrupting and corrupting ourselves. No empire in the history of the world has ever lasted beyond a few centuries. While the president plays his futile fiddle tune of spreading democracy, our domestic problems multiply. The national debt piles up. Money, manpower and resources are gobbled up by the world's largest military-industrial bureaucracy.

We desperately need a president and a Congress that care to look no farther than our Pacific and Atlantic shorelines. We are neglecting our problems while trying to solve problems in other people's countries. It seems to me that the people in Washington either are so far out of touch with reality that they are ready for the booby hatch or are so corrupt that they deserve to wear orange jumpsuits. A proper foreign policy, as outlined by George Washington, deals only in state-to-state relations. It does not meddle in the internal affairs of another country. It does not take sides in its feuds and quarrels. It seeks only trade and nothing else. It avoids alliances with foreign countries. It obligates Americans to defend only themselves.

It is a national disgrace that so many thousands of Americans have died in wars that had absolutely nothing to do with the safety and security of the United States. What the imperialists in Washington are doing by abandoning the wisdom of our forefathers is proving that they are certainly not the fittest to survive.








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