Friday, May 30, 2008

Hillary's Hubris of Hypocrisy Culminates

Ah the man Hillary says has "passed the commander in chief test" ..
perhaps she could be on the GOP ticket, (she mentions in the same breath that she is not so sure about Obama). For someone who wants to be President, or Vice, she certainly knows how to self detonate, then blame it on someone else (just like the GOP/Bush modus operendi)

i.e. Analysis: Hillary's nightmare week
Published: May 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM
By MARTIN SIEFF
WASHINGTON, May 30 (UPI) --

It's been a nightmare week for Sen. Hillary Clinton and her sinking presidential campaign. First, Clinton, D-N.Y., personally and single-handedly torpedoed what had been excellent prospects for becoming Sen. Barack Obama's running mate on a Democratic dream ticket by her bizarre, and even appalling, allusions to the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy 40 years ago. Critics angrily pointed out that her remarks could be taken as incitement for extremists to try to shoot Sen. Obama, D-Ill., the clear front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in Denver this August.

Second, a new Field Poll shows Clinton falling well behind Obama even in California, a state where she handily beat him in the Democratic primary and which had been regarded as a secure base for her. Clinton won California by 9 points on Feb. 5. But the new poll, conducted among 914 Democrats May 16-27, shows Obama with 51 percent to her 38 percent, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.

Third, two superdelegates from the giant state of Texas -- where, again, Clinton won the primary contest, have come out for Obama. Texas Democratic State Party Chairman Boyd Ritchie and his wife, Betty, a member of the Democratic National Committee, have both declared for Obama.Since the superdelegates were expressly given a key decision-making role in the Democratic presidential nominee selection process, this is especially ominous for Clinton.



Fourth, the two top Democrats in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, both weighed in this week saying that the party had to fall in behind its choice quickly. Reid said that the campaign had to end within the next two weeks. That has to mean unifying behind Obama, who is now more than 200 delegates ahead of Clinton, a gap she cannot hope to close.
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I used to like both Bill and Hillary Clinton and said I would be delighted to see either Hillary or Obama on the ticket. After the disastrous campaign both Clintons have run, I now care for neither and consider them to be if anything part of the vast right wing conspiracy.
From Hillary voting for the war to hinting at the removal of abortion rights, she has cuddled up to the fascist right wing group called "The Family" or "The Fellowship" which do NOT believe in democracy but rather a religious dominion with the leaders chosen by God (and likely Douglas Coe and the likes of Hagee).

Her affiliation with this shadowy group has been hushed up by mainstream media, just as they play down the fact that Puerta Rico doesn't vote in the general election.





Replacing class with crass seems to have been the Clinton strategy for campaigning against Obama. First they issue a racist insult then they accuse the Obama campaign of
race baiting if they respond. Hel-lo...we are ALL really, really tired of this manipulative, lying, cheating style...we've lived through sixty years of Bush occupation. We need someone who represents real change, not cosmetic surgery.

Bill Clinton presided over the negotiation of NAFTA which has destroyed the working class of America. He also presided over the "war on drugs" which is basically a war on the poor, and under his regime more Americans were incarcerated then ever before in history - most of them people of color. There is now 1 in 100 Americans in jail with more human beings incarcerated in America than anywhere in the world. (The soldiers torturing in Iraq came from the American prison system).

Please run your own searches - all this information is available on the web frequently linked to Mother Jones and other well researched magazines that are not embedded corporate mimes.

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Monday, May 26, 2008

Brainwashed Bush Broadcasting - Sixty Years of Lies

From Samuel Bush and the Merchants of Death in WWI, to Prescott Bush funding Hitler and profiting from Auschwitz, to Poppy terrorizing the Philippines, South America and Iraq to today's mafia don, Dubya - we have the absolute criminals of America - the Bush crime family. (Please run your own search nearly 13 million links are available for your perusal). Clearly above the law they murder with impunity, and simply direct an owned corporate media to say otherwise.










These are psychopaths. They operate above the law and commit the most heinous crimes against their own countrymen. They have funded both sides of every conflict and twisted, bribed and murdered to cover it up.

Americas' brainwashed beyond belief Bush league TV channels support them. Men and women devoid of conscience, integrity or seemingly curiosity sit and watch these cowards of commerce, destroy the last vestiges of American democracy. Such stalwarts of freedom the news media is eh? Your pedophile patriarchy brought to you by Diebold and the Supreme Court of Opus Dei fundamentalists covered up by a criminally complicit corporate news media.





While this THUG, tells anyone elected by the people to
"fuck off," and directs contracts funded by the public to Halliburton to the tune of billions. No conflict of interest here, you have to have a conscience, integrity and character to address those issues something of which mr. cheney is devoid and there is no legal system to hold him accountable....only the right wing plants on the Supreme Court.


This is how successful the media cover up of this criminal administration has been. WE SEE YOU and the crooks you are covering for...
and you will be brought to justice.







While Hillary Clinton proves she is Bush in drag, gawd I wonder what crass treasure will spew from her mouth this week.

Perhaps she will drive by the Obama campaign with a noose hanging from her pick up truck, so she can identify with her voters. Then of course she will accuse the Obama campaign of race baiting. Isn't that the narcissistic disorder m.o. of America, accuse everyone else of doing what you started and continue doing.
Watch Clinton. Watch Bush. They accuse Iran "interfering" in Iraq. Excuse me but if Iran is interfering WHAT THE HELL IS THE USA doing?

Geraldine Ferraro makes a racist comment and instead of owning up to her own internalized racism and making a horrible error, she attacks the Obama campaign for noticing.

Lou Dobbs attacks illegal immigrants instead of the companies hiring them and putting the heat where it belongs. Billions spent on law enforcement and fence borders do NOT address the problem. Quit hiring ILLEGAL immigrants and the problem goes away.

The USA does a worldwide report on human rights abuses and does not include the USA in it!
In fact watch both the BBC and any American TV channel and they rarely take responsibility for their own terrorism, and abuses around the world. THAT is why the USA does not want to belong to an International Court, Bush and this entire administration would be in jail!

Indeed the world would discover that the military in Burma is supported by Chevron and the French oil company Total. They hired the military to suppress the people and cut a swath through the jungle for their pipeline kicking locals off their land.

Look under the surface anywhere in the world and you will find CIA terrorism, attacks against other countries for their national resources and a general raping and pillaging of the world by American, French, Canadian and Australian resources with the USA leading the charge.

We will never have world peace until we take over the news media in the USA and have the reporting consistent with a democracy. The USA has no habeas corpus, and the elections are
highly suspect with Supreme Court interference and Diebold deciding the results.

The media chose NOT to carry the truth about the New Hampshire primary apparently "won" by Hillary Clinton, where the results showed Obama winning in hand counted districts and Clinton in Diebold districts where clearly they decide. While the blogosphere was rife with stories of Clinton/Diebold voter fraud the mainstream media just tip toed around it like the general election of 2001, bought, paid-off and brainwashed blind.

America is in such a sorry state of denial these days that one wonders if anyone has the capacity for integrity, honor or empathy that is required to save a country.

One thing we do know for certain - the USA is not a free country and it has been under the rule of a gang of criminal thugs and dead enders for some time, but don't worry "the most trusted name in news"...CNN, will keep you filled with distractions from sun up until sun down.
Time Warner, GE, all the owners of the corporate creed media are making a killing and devoid of conscience - who knows when they will be done? Is there ever enough alcohol for an alcoholic, enough death for a psychopath, enough greed for and in the name of God?

Musings In America Under Mugabe Bush


Ah here is Herr Bush now, ...he hasn't played mr dress-up in his
military style jacket for some time , nor do we get a word of truth about Iraq on the news, which sounds more like an Orwellian chant for the totalitarian "elite" of the global corporate gulag.

















Indeed every corporate owned TV channel has been complicit in the cover-up of the Bush crime family and their exploits to destroy America over the past sixty years.

FOX - Fascist Orthodox Xenophobia from a station owned by Rupert Murdoch, an Australian fascist largely controlling American TV for the Bush crime family.

While CNN, ABC and CBS are equally as lame acting as FOX lite with all the guile that causes the bile to rise in one's throat at the patronizing, distracting, deliberate obstruction of justice and truth.








It is high time women of America (and the world) stood up to the misogyny of the Bush crime family reflected all around the world. WHY is it that every Republican right wing hack wants to attack womens reproductive rights? Who wants the likes of
of a crime family with control over your body?















Ah the Bush protection racket, disaster planning made at home, the last manufacturing jobs left in America - creating terror.

Sixty years of experience with never any fear of being subject to the law - join the Bush gang today and be part of the lawless larceny in office - it is never reported so expect a smooth ride.

I am visualizing Lady Justice whipping off her Ashcroft cloak of political piety and, breasts to the wind, sweeping down (sword in hand) to grab these thugs by the scruff of their respective scraggily necks. and after a few good shakes depositing them all in Gitmo for life. There they will be treated to the same first class service they claim to be providing for the illegally captured, tortured and held prisoners of some seven years. They will receive some TV: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and any show Rosie is on for starters, followed by continual broadcasting of all of Falwell, Hagee and Douglas Coe's fascist fantasies and future plans for American dominion.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Reality Shows We Would Most Like To See

How about Larry King having this interview...






From the Christian "Democratic" party of Germany in 1938 to today, the Bush family are Christian fascists.



Directed by the Council for National Policy which is laced with right wing "Christian" fundamentalists and a Supreme Court of fundamentalist Opus Dei, the Bush administration is not a secular govt.











The Pope T-Shirts ...CNN's "In the Money" could have done a special on the money making projects around Pope Benedict's regular pre-election visit. How much money did they tally in Pope memorabilia. How did that compare to former Popes?
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All the while we stumble along, no habeas corpus, a criminally complicit congress and news media, and in Canada government after government is given a free pass as they sell our country further down the drain to a global gulag of mulinationals, gradually enslaving the world. This is not free enterprise, it is a global gulag of prisons using the cheapest labor from the around the world and deliberately creating strife within local markets. We used to break up monopolies and
monster companies who used predatory action on the public.
It is time we took back Canada and the USA before we are numbers in a faceless, nameless gulag of self-appointed greedy bastards who call themselves "elite."

We can start by hosting some national polls seeing how many people want to nationalize oil?

How many want to nationalize banks?

When both of these markets have turned on their own countries and behaved like thugs and dead enders, they need to be regulated. Further these are national resources and should never have been privatized for the benefit of the few over the many.

If we are to be free we must live free, regulate business and keep large firms from becoming
these predatory, devoid of conscience entities. It would be something to have national media expose the criminals in the White House. Now, however there is U-Tube and national media can either keep up or get lost.

The media that has kept the promise that TV once offered and sadly never did deliver, is U-Tube, where the news is fresh, real and often accompanied by video or some well researched links, all more than what we get on any given day from the tired, treasonous distraction
American TV has become.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

The Bush Occupation of America - Media Urged to Expose Crime Family

An excellent article...


Summary Of The Bush Crime Family History

For any civilized endeavor to maintain its civility, there must be enforceable laws and/or rules; without which, there is anarchy. So, before we find ourselves struggling to regain our lost freedoms, like those tragic heros in Burma/Myanmar, perhaps we should take a strategic review of how we arrived at this alarming state, honestly apprise our current status, and as we approach another major election, cast about for viable options for now as well as the foreseeable future.
Any objective observer with the barest awareness of contemporary history should be able to readily trace the rise of this powerful movement that has taken control of the reins of power in the United States. The most blatant initial historical record is when Grandpa Prescott Bush and some of his cronies tried to entice General Smedley Butler to muster enough World War I veterans to take over the Presidency of The United States in 1933. Then again, in 1942 (a year after World War II was declared), Prescott Bush and this same cabal -- in their drive toward fascism -- were finally forced by the "Trading With the Enemy Act" to terminate their extensive business dealings with Hitler.
After WWII, this American branch of the Nazis didn't lose the war, they just transformed the battleground. They expanded their "connections" with Hitler's intelligence networks from The War into the formation of our own CIA. It is also this same group that President Eisenhower opaquely identified as the "Military Industrial Complex," in his dark farewell speech to us. Later, it was Poppy George H.W. Bush who sat on a boat (named Barbara) off-shore and directed the Cuban Bay Of Pigs fiasco. As a direct consequence of that largely unsolicited action, John Kennedy banished him and his CIA brothers from his administration, albeit only temporarily, as George H.W. Bush, then an active CIA agent, was later photographed in Dealey Plaza that sunny November day in 1963.


(Some Iraqi "insurgents", just two of the million + slaughtered in Iraq, never mentioned in the
American "free press." )


...article contines..


From FDR to today, the Bush Crime Family and their fixated core of corporate fascists have been tightening their grip on the throats of the American political, legal, economic and media systems -- as the following excerpt from the Democratic Underground so well outlines:


"A Pocket History of the Bush Organized Crime Family Crime Line


Hitler's "Angel" -- Prescott Bush and his Wall Street cronies helped finance and arm the Third Reich.* Some continued trading with the enemy even after Germany declared war on America.
Bay of Pigs -- Bush the Oilman and his Cuban and Mafia friends raise hell in Miami, New Orleans and Houston.
Nice fellahs. LBJ called their organization "A regular Murder Inc in the Caribbean."

November 1963, Dallas* -- George DeMohrenschildt the "White Russian geologist" is friends with both Lee Harvey Oswald and George Herbert Walker Bush. Small world, as the coincidences get bigger. Almost 40 years later, FBI memos surface that detail how George Herbert Walker Bush fingered a young conservative the day of the assassination and "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" cleared the anti-Castro Cubans in Miami days later.


Vietnam -- OK for poor kids to fight an illegal war started over the phony Gulf of Tonkin Incident, just as long as "W," the drunken coke-whore dim son, "destined" to become preznit some day, or the rest of his rich frat brothers don't have to go. Meanwhile Poppy's rich friends became very, very, very rich.


Watergate -- Nixon was willing to throw anyone and everyone to the wolves -- except George Herbert Walker Bush and "The Texans" because "They'll do anything for our side." Gee. Would "murder" qualify as "anything." Think so, especially seeing how Nixon got the ziggy and Bush ended up in the clear.


October Surprise -- Carter probably would've beat Reagan, but Bush and his buddies in INTEL and the military-industrial complex cut a deal with the Ayatollah to hold the hostages clear through the election. On inauguration day, they got to leave Tehran. A couple of weeks later, Israel starts sending US-supplied weapons. It proves so "profitable," that Ollie North cuts out the Israelis and decides to sell them US-direct.


Reagan survives assassination attempt --Just a couple of months after Reagan is sworn in, Reagan is ALMOST taken out and Bush stood ready to take charge. His son Neil was ready to have dinner that night with John Hinckley's brother, Scott. Odd how these "One Degree of Separation" coincidences always happen to Poppy.
INSLAW/Promis
-- The turd Ed Meese and cronies stole software that enabled the Justice Department to track criminal prosecutions, had their INTEL buddies add a trap door, and then sold it around the world, making it possible to track what every BFEE-connected dictator or friend from Saddam to d'Aubission is up to -- in Freedom's name.


Iraq-gate / Banca Nazionale del Lavoro arms -- Just how do you think Iraq managed to run its war against Iran for all those years? Saddam had to be getting juice from somebody, so they found a low-level banker in Miami to take the fall. US taxpayers floated Saddam $5 billion in loans. Meanwhile the Iran-Iraq war is prolonged by years and several hundreds of thousands of lives are lost.
BCCI International Money Laundering for Terrorists & Intelligence Community -- The terrorists' favorite bank, used by among others Abu Nidhal, Osama bin Laden, Ollie North, CIA, SIS and KGB. The Reagan and Bush administrations and friends on both sides of the aisle in Congress did all they could to keep it open. John Kerry got it shut down. \


Savings & Loan Scandal -- Legalized robbery in the form of "loans" made to the politically connected, Mafia and INTEL-huggers

Odd how even Neil Bush, who made millions while Silverado, the S&L he helped direct, lost billions in bad loans to Bush cronies, never spent a day in jail. Kid from Detroit steals a pair of shoes from the mall and it's OK to shoot him dead. Meanwhile, after the bailout "fixes" everything, Poppy's very, very, very rich friends become ultra-rich.


Iran-Contra -- Neo-con Michael Ledeen, Munacher Ghorbanifar and Adnan Khashoggi bend over backward to sell arms the Ayatollah and use the profits to arm the terrorist Contras. Most of the players should be in prison, but, thanks to Poppy's pardon, remain free to roam the streets, let alone corridors of power, and continue the terror.


Arbusto, HARKEN, Spectrum-7, Aloha -- Every company the crazy monkey's ever touched, he's run into the ground. Yet Poppy's family and friends, including James R Bath, the bin Mahfouz and bin Ladens, always help him out. No wonder the dim bulb went off thinking of ENRON, Kenny Boy and all the possibilities.


Gulf War I -- Poppy Bush gives April Glaspie the signal to greenlight Saddam's "border dispute" and push into Kuwait. No wonder Saddam felt betrayed when Cheney ordered the extermination of tens of thousands of fleeing Iraqi conscripts heading north on the "Highway of Death." Meanwhile, Poppy's ultra-rich friends become ultra-ultra-ultra rich.


Selection 2000 Shreds US Constitution -- After fixing things up so that 70,000 likely Democratic votes and voters are turned away or disenfranchised, the 2000 Florida Presidential "election" results in a "tie." Associate Justice Antonin Scalia gets the idea that maybe the GOP-packed Supreme Court should grant petitioner George W Bush's request for taking the Oval Office, anyway. Someone on DU wrote: "You don't steal elections to do good things." Prophetic words, those.



ENRON Energy Policy -- Sneering Dick Cheney meets with Kenny Boy Lay to discuss ways of helping ENRON rip-off California and the rest of America. There were others there, like Chevron and EXXON, because they need oil, too. Besides, the ultra-, ultra-, ultra-rich can never have enough.


9-11 -- After ignoring the warnings of outgoing President Bill Clinton, former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, anti-Terror Chief Richard Clarke, and Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, George W Bush ignores a report titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S." A month later, 3,000 innocent people are murdered. Two ways of looking at this one:

1.) Criminal Negligence, at best;

2.) Treason, most likely.


Gulf War II -- George W Bush, Sneer, and most of "the bureaucracy" make a case for going to war in Iraq, stating there are clear-cut connections between 9-11* and Saddam Hussein, who planned to use his arsenal of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on America. (So far, the only bioweapon used on America was Anthrax that came from a US Army lab grown from a batch of the University of Iowa Strain.) Anwyay, it's not really odd to see how attacking Iraq was the Administration's number 1 priority, according to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and anti-Terror Chief Richard Clarke, from January 2001. The reason? There's money to be made there and power to be gained at home."(end of excerpt); * links added
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So much for a historical perspective; where do we currently stand? Well, our political, legal, governmental, military and medical systems as well as our unions have all been thoroughly compromised. Financially, since we are deeply in debt (mostly to Japan and China) "they" are selling off our corporate and country assets, our tax system and the Federal Reserve Banking system are beyond any controls, the demoralized and frightened middle class is being rapidly dissolved, our worldwide reputation is sullied more than at any time in our history and the value of the dollar continues to fall. Our infrastructure and environment are deteriorating while corporate and political corruption are rampant, bigotry and racism abound, our traditional news sources have become cheering profit centers for the administration and our voting processes are, at best, unreliable. Not the healthy picture of progress and hope that used to be the norm, prior to the sixties -- before someone started killing off the Kennedy brothers and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This may sound like a broken record, but the next election is truly going to be critical to the survival of our democratic way of life -- and thus the world. Perhaps we should begin to think of these individuals that support this administration as bloated, self-absorbed and out-of-control addicts, in need of intervention. Now, in an intervention, the first thing that has to happen is that the addict must be subjected to the facts of reality until their wall of denial is first exposed and then accepted. The initial indication that that has occurred is when the addict admits that there is a problem and then becomes actively motivated to do something about it. It appears that the 2006 midterm elections demonstrated that a growing majority of Americans think things are broken and want a change. Now, is the time to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to seek out and regain their lost sense of morality.

Article in its entirety is at: http://www.sonic.net/~taryfast/destruction.html

The article is by Tarry Faster, and most appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to express your views complete with links to historical sources.

Friday, May 09, 2008

Pentagon, Piety and Press Pour Poison Into Nation's Ear


It is quite interesting to watch the twisted coverage of Burma on American TV. While Canadian and British news indicate that International aid agencies were on the ground in Burma and assisting with the distribution of aid, American channels are still insisting that no aid is getting through and without American (Naval) teams co-ordinating the operation it is doomed to failure. Meanwhile those who have landed and are distributing aid claim to be working well together without the overlord status of the U. S. military.






Actually both the CBC and the BBC had been reporting the disaster and leading with the story for over a day when the American networks finally stopped the narcissistic navel gazing of the endless presidential election to report that over 100,000 people had died in the latest world disaster.







This article is particularly profound in regard to the dastardly state of American media.




NEW YORK TIMES PARROTS BUSH ADMINISTRATION SPIN:
Death's Factotum: Michael Gordon and the Times Pour Pentagon Poison into Nation's Ear
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by Chris Floyd
Monday, 5 May 2008 -->

Although Michael Gordon is probably not paid directly by the Bush Regime to peddle their propaganda, he serves precisely the same function as the military brass that the Administration embedded as "independent analysts" on the network news shows.

-->Judith Miller might have been the poster child for the corporate media's collaboration with the Bush Administration's war of aggression against Iraq -- but her New York Times colleague and co-writer, Michael Gordon, was every bit as culpable and complicit, happily playing stovepipe to the bloodthirsty bullshit gurgling up from the White House and Pentagon cesspits.
Miller is gone from the mainstream heights, but Gordon soldiers on at the Times -- literally. Although he is probably not paid directly by the Bush Regime to peddle their propaganda, he serves precisely the same function as the military brass that the Administration embedded as "independent analysts" on the network news shows -- a nefarious practice most recently exposed in great detail by...the New York Times.


But the Times, like most of our great institutions, piously follows the scriptural injunction, and lets not the right hand know what its left hand is doing. And so while it exposes television's willing collusion with White House warmongering, the paper continues its own collaboration with fomenting aggression -- this time, the conflict with Iran.
Gordon's latest is a classic of this sinister genre. He dutifully stovepipes claims by the usual unnamed "American officials" who tell him that Iranian agents have revealed that Hezbollah is training anti-American Iraqi Shiites inside Iran. This information, we are told, comes from "interrogations" of four Shiite militia members who were captured by American forces last year.
In other words, four Shiites who have been subjected to George W. Bush's beloved (and personally approved) "harsh interrogation techniques" for an entire year have -- surprise, surprise! -- told American officials exactly what they want to hear: that Iran is training Iraqi insurgents to kill Americans. Or to speak plainly and with no addition: four men have been tortured into confessions that serve the Bush Faction's militarist agenda.
But let us be absurd, and entertain for a moment the notion that Gordon's story is true; or rather, that the information tortured out of Iraqis held in indefinite detention and subjected to "strenuous interrogation" for a year is actually true, that Iran is actually using Hezbollah as a proxy to train Iraqi Shiites. The only sensible reply to such an assertion is: So what?

...experts such as Juan Cole and Nir Rosen have noted over and over, Iran's closest allies in Iraq are the same extremist factions that Bush himself now maintains in power in Baghdad, at an immense cost of American blood and treasure (not to mention the cost of a million Iraqi lives). Here's Rosen:

"The truth is, most allegations about Iran's role in Iraq and the region are unfounded or dishonest. Iran was responsible for ending the recent fighting in Basra and calming the situation after Iraqi parliamentarians who backed Prime Minister Maliki approached it. The Iranians, never close to Muqtada or his family, were so annoyed with Muqtada and his presence that they reportedly ordered him out of Iran where he had been living in virtual house arrest anyway since arriving six months earlier. Iranian officials and the state media clearly supported Prime Minister Maliki and the Iraqi government against what they described as "illegal armed groups" in the recent conflict in Basra, which is not surprising given that their main proxy in Iraq, the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council dominates the Iraqi state and is Maliki's main backer.
The Supreme Council is of course also the main proxy for the US in Iraq and somehow in the Senate testimony it was forgotten that its large Badr militia was established in Iran and is actually the only Iraqi opposition group to have fought on the Iranian side against Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. Moreover, the Badr militia was a branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that is so demonized today, and Badr dominates the ministry of interior, if not most of Iraq at the higher echelons. But none of this openly available information made its way to the Post's editorial writers or the dominant discourse in the US.
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All the while the U. S. "news" media chases Barack Obama's former minister, shadowy figures like Douglas Coe and Hagee - both of whom believe in in christian fascism under a centrist figure like Bush with no habeas corpus, and a jihad against Islam receive hardly a mention.

While the news media distracts from the greatest criminal cyclone of this century, the death of over a million civilians in Iraq from the illegal invasion and relentless bombing of their country goes on and on and on, while they are called insurgents for even resisting an invading an army.

The Bush crime family has operated above the law in the USA for over sixty years, aided and abetted by a criminally complicit "news" service that now more closely resembles the National Inquirer, a sad travesty where once there was at least some dialogue representing different opinions. Now right wing "think" (an oxymoron at best) tanks have replaced any real dialogue, while minions like Bill Bennett wax on about "liberals" sounding more like a
McCarthy redux, old, tired, paranoid and done. The press is guarding a rotting carcass of
poisoned piety, and the people are coming down the street with a very large garbage truck all set to clean up the fetid, rotting mess left by years of neglect - Godspeed.