On the sixteenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, as the US government threatens punitive action against International Criminal Court investigators for attempting to look into US war crimes, former George W Bush administration Press Secretary Ari Fleischer has decided to publish a Twitter thread claiming that Bush did not lie to the world about Iraq.
Here is a transcript of the full thread by Fleischer:
The Iraq war began sixteen years ago tomorrow. There is a myth about the war that I have been meaning to set straight for years. After no WMDs were found, the left claimed “Bush lied. People died.” This accusation itself is a lie. It’s time to put it to rest.
The fact is that President Bush (and I as press secretary) faithfully and accurately reported to the public what the intelligence community concluded. The CIA, along with the intelligence services of Egypt, France, Israel and others concluded that Saddam had WMD. We all turned out to be wrong. That is very different from lying.
After the war, a bipartisan group was created to determine what went wrong, particularly why the intelligence community’s conclusions about Iraq were so different from what was found on the ground after the war. The group of experts was named the Robb-Silberman commission. It’s report was issued in March 2005. It can be found in full here. Its key finding was that that a “major intelligence failure” took place. It also stated that no intelligence service was pressured by the Bush Administration to conclude that Saddam had WMDs.
Here are the key quotes from their report:
“Overall Commission Finding: The Intelligence Community’s performance in assessing Iraq’s pre-war weapons of mass destruction programs was a major intelligence failure.
Nuclear Weapons Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community seriously misjudged the status of Iraq’s alleged nuclear weapons program in the 2002 NIE and other pre-Iraq war intelligence products. This misjudgment stemmed chiefly from the Community’s failure to analyze correctly Iraq’s reasons for attempting to procure high-strength aluminum tubes.
Biological Warfare Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community seriously misjudged the status of Iraq’s biological weapons program in the 2002 NIE and other pre-war intelligence products. The primary reason for this misjudgment was the Intelligence Community’s heavy reliance on a human source–codenamed ‘Curveball’–whose information later proved to be unreliable.
Chemical Warfare Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community erred in its 2002 NIE assessment of Iraq’s alleged chemical warfare program. The Community’s substantial overestimation of Iraq’s chemical warfare program was due chiefly to flaws in analysis and the paucity of quality information collected. In the case of Iraq, collectors of intelligence absorbed the prevailing analytic consensus and tended to reject or ignore contrary information. The result was ‘tunnel vision’ focusing on the Intelligence Community’s existing assumptions. The Intelligence Community did not make or change any analytic judgments in response to political pressure to reach a particular conclusion, but the pervasive conventional wisdom that Saddam retained WMD affected the analytic process. The CIA took too long to admit error in Iraq, and its Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center actively discouraged analysts from investigating errors.
Finally, we closely examined the possibility that intelligence analysts were pressured by policymakers to change their judgments about Iraq’s nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs. The analysts who worked Iraqi weapons issues universally agreed that in no instance did political pressure cause them to skew or alter any of their analytical judgments.”
That is what the investigators reported, after been given full access to people throughout the intelligence community. Which leads me to conclude that there was a liar and his name was Saddam Hussein. He created an elaborate system of lies to fool western intelligence services and he succeeded. He wanted us to believe he had WMDs.
The allegaton that “Bush lied. People died” is a liberal myth created to politically target President Bush. I understand the anger that was felt after no WMDs were found. But that doesn’t justify calling the President a liar. I can only hope that serious historians and other experts do their homework and resist falling for this myth.
The Iraq war began sixteen years ago tomorrow. There is a myth about the war that I have been meaning to set straight for years. After no WMDs were found, the left claimed “Bush lied. People died.” This accusation itself is a lie. It’s time to put it to rest.
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) March 20, 2019
Ari Fleischer is lying. It is an absolute proven fact that George W Bush and his administration lied extensively about the degree of certainty in intelligence regarding Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction, having ties to Al Qaeda, and seeking nuclear weapons, all of which (along with Vice President Cheney’s claim that the US invaders would be “greeted as liberators“) proved false. The Bush administration did not know the things they claimed to know with any degree of certainty, but they claimed that they were certain in order to manufacture support for war. Claiming to know something you do not know is lying, especially when it’s to advance an ulterior motive.
“Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda,” Bush claimed in January 2003. “Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.”
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,” Cheney claimed in August 2002. “There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”
“The United States knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction,” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in December 2002. “Any country on the face of the earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.”
“We are absolutely sure they have continued to develop weapons of mass destruction, and we are sure they have in their possession weapons of mass destruction,” Secretary of State Colin Powell said in December 2002.
“My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources,” Powell told the United Nations Security Council in his infamous Iraq presentation in February 2003. “These are not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.”
“People will continue to debate this issue, but there is no doubt in my mind,” Powell said in the same presentation. “These illicit procurement efforts show that Saddam Hussein is very much focused on putting in place the key missing piece from his nuclear weapons program, the ability to produce fissile material.”
Powell was not nearly as certain as he claimed to be. None of them were. Facts revealed after the invasion prove that for all their public claims of complete and total certainty that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, was aiding and abetting Al Qaida, and was developing nuclear weapons, behind the veil of government secrecy there was nothing like certainty at all.
For starters, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who was cited in Powell’s presentation and who Fleischer refers to by the code name “Curveball” in the above thread, was known to have been lying about bioweapons long before the invasion. Despite the confident assertions made by the Bush administration about Janabi’s claims to the public, no American personnel were present when he made those claims, and he told the Guardian in 2011 that the BND (the German intelligence agency who interrogated him) had known he was lying all along.
“The BND [German intelligence] knew in 2000 that I was lying after they talked to my former boss, Dr Bassil Latif, who told them there were no mobile bioweapons factories,” Janabi said. “For 18 months after that they left me alone because they knew I was telling lies even though I never admitted it. Believe me, back then, I thought the whole thing was over for me. Then all of a sudden [in the run up to the 2003 invasion] they came back to me and started asking for more details about what I had told them. I still don’t know why the BND then passed on my information to the CIA and it ended up in Powell’s speech.”
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson was Powell’s chief of staff and helped him prepare his UN presentation on Iraq. When asked on MSNBC if he believed he was lied to about Janabi following the 2011 revelation, Wilkerson told Cenk Uygur that “I cannot come to any other conclusion, especially when I have discovered that no US personnel were present when Curveball was interrogated by the BND, the German intelligence service. That we accepted that, that we even had a head of the European division for the CIA, Tyler Drumheller, who at the last minute during Powell’s preparation, during my preparation of the secretary, had told both Tenet and McLaughlin that Curveball might not be reliable. That information was never relayed to the Secretary of State, or to me. I have some serious doubts about it now. I think there was some manipulation of this material, and there was some outright lying.”
When asked by Uygur who he thought lied to him, Wilkerson said one of WINPAC’s two WMD experts at the time may have been answering directly to Dick Cheney’s office.
A declassified report from 2002 titled Iraq: Status of WMD Programs reveals that while the Bush administration was making its claims of absolute certainty regarding the dangers posed by the Iraqi government, behind the scenes it was damn near the opposite. Some choice excerpts:
“Our assessments rely heavily on analytic assumptions and judgment rather than hard evidence. The evidentiary base is particularly sparse for Iraqi nuclear programs.”
“We range from 0% to about 75% knowledge on various aspects of their program.”
“Our knowledge of the Iraqi (nuclear) weapons program is based largely—perhaps 90%—on analysis of imprecise intelligence.”
“We cannot confirm the identity of any Iraqi facilities that produce, test, fill, or store biological weapons.”
“Our knowledge of what biological weapons the Iraqis are able to produce is nearly complete. Our knowledge of how and where they are produced is nearly 90% incomplete.”
“We do not know the status of enrichment capabilities. We do not know with confidence the location of any nuclear-weapon-related facilities.”
“Please take a look at this material as to what we don’t know about WMD. It is big.” (That one was from Rumsfeld.)
“We don’t know with any precision how much we don’t know.”
This is not the language of certainty. Yet certainty was presented to the public to manufacture support for a war which murdered a million Iraqis.
The 2002 Downing Street memo, made public in 2005, reveals a secret meeting between senior officials of the British government, intelligence and defense agencies discussing what they knew about America’s plans for war. The text of the document contains an assertion by the head of MI6 that Bush had already determined that the invasion of Iraq would take place, and it was only a matter of fixing bits of intelligence around a narrative to make the case.
“Military action was now seen as inevitable,” the document reads. “Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime’s record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.”
“It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided,” the document quotes Foreign Secretary Jack Straw as saying. “But the case was thin.”
In a 2008 hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, attorney and author Vincent Bugliosi pointed out that the fact that Bush lied about Iraq could be proven by the difference between the classified 2002 National Intelligence Estimate and its declassified white paper which was made available to the public. The classified version contained dissents from the consensus and language which made it clear that the reader was reading assessments and opinions by the CIA and other intelligence agencies, whereas the unclassified version saw these things deleted, presenting the assessments as absolute fact.
“The evidence that he lied about weapons of mass destruction, by the way, which is not the basis for this book, are right in front of me,” Bugliosi said. “I have it right here. Here is the evidence. This document here is the National Intelligence Estimate. I didn’t name it before. I talked about a classified report. This is it right here. October 1st, 2002, classified NIE report. It is called Iraq’s Continuing Programs of Weapons of Mass Destruction. In this document right here, the CIA and 15 other U.S. intelligence agencies use words like this, ‘we assess that’ or ‘we judge that’ Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. This document here is the white paper that was given to you folks here in Congress and the American people. And the words ‘we assess that’ or ‘we judge that’ were removed, meaning that you folks here heard a fact, and in fact, it was only an opinion.
“Number two, on nuclear weapons, this document right here, the classified report has several important dissents. This document right here, the white paper that you folks were given and the American people, all of those dissents were deleted.”
Over and over and over again we saw the same thing: uncertainty presented as certainty. Guesses presented as fact. Opinions presented as proof. That’s a lie. Bush lied. We know this with as much certainty as his administration was pretending to have in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion. There was a pre-existing agenda to invade Iraq, and justifications were advanced to provide an excuse for that invasion with such extreme aggression that now-National Security Advisor John Bolton literally threatened to murder an international official’s children for making diplomacy work with Saddam.
Here are a few more courtesy of Vox:
In October 2002, Bush said that Saddam Hussein had a “massive stockpile” of biological weapons. But as CIA Director George Tenet noted in early 2004, the CIA had informed policymakers it had “no specific information on the types or quantities of weapons agent or stockpiles at Baghdad’s disposal.” The “massive stockpile” was just literally made up.
In December 2002, Bush declared, “We do not know whether or not [Iraq] has a nuclear weapon.” That was not what the National Intelligence Estimate said. As Tenet would later testify, “We said that Saddam did not have a nuclear weapon and probably would have been unable to make one until 2007 to 2009.” Bush did know whether or not Iraq had a nuclear weapon — and lied and said he didn’t know to hype the threat.
On CNN in September 2002, Condoleezza Rice claimed that aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq were “only really suited for nuclear weapons programs.” This was precisely the opposite of what nuclear experts at the Energy Department were saying; they argue that not only was it very possible the tubes were for nonnuclear purposes but that it was very likely they were too. Even more dire assessments about the tubes from other agencies were exaggerated by administration officials — and in any case, the claim that they’re “only really suited” for nuclear weapons is just false.
On numerous occasions, Dick Cheney cited a report that 9/11 conspirator Mohammed Atta had met in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence officer. He said this after the CIA and FBI concluded that this meeting never took place.
More generally on the question of Iraq and al-Qaeda, on September 18, 2001, Rice received a memo summarizing intelligence on the relationship, which concluded there was little evidence of links. Nonetheless Bush continued to claim that Hussein was “a threat because he’s dealing with al-Qaeda” more than a year later.
In August 2002, Dick Cheney declared, “Simply stated, there’s no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” But as Corn notes, at that time there was “no confirmed intelligence at this point establishing that Saddam had revived a major WMD operation.” Gen. Anthony Zinni, who had heard the same intelligence and attended Cheney’s speech, would later say in a documentary, “It was a total shock. I couldn’t believe the vice president was saying this, you know? In doing work with the CIA on Iraq WMD, through all the briefings I heard at Langley, I never saw one piece of credible evidence that there was an ongoing program.”
In 2007 General Wesley Clark told Democracy Now that he’d actually been informed of the decision to invade Iraq immediately after 9/11, while the crosshairs were turning on Afghanistan and well before the public narrative was being amped up in demand of an invasion of Iraq. His comments read as follows:
About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in.
He said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.” I said, “Well, you’re too busy.” He said, “No, no.” He says, “We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq.” This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, “We’re going to war with Iraq? Why?” He said, “I don’t know.” He said, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.” So I said, “Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?” He said, “No, no.” He says, “There’s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” He said, “I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments.” And he said, “I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.”
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just got this down from upstairs” — meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office — “today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, “You remember that?” He said, “Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!”
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. If you’ve been following the behaviors of the US war machine, Iraq won’t be the only painfully familiar name on that list.
It remains important to learn what we’ve attacked and where. How widespread?
In addition to military targets, I hope we targeted Assad’s palace in Damascus. Leave him alive but destroy his prestige. Leave him without a home, as Assad has left millions of Syrians w/o theirs.— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) April 14, 2018
“In the last few months of 2018, Iran officially entered a deep recession.” Time to step up the sanctions… https://t.co/LyfHSGL4NU
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) January 10, 2019
Ari Fleischer is a liar. He was in the thick of the Bush administration’s campaign to sell the Iraq war to the American public, and to this day he continues trying to sell them on new acts of depraved US interventionism. He’s just as much a warmongering neocon inside as he was when he was behind a podium defending Bush’s wars in the press room, so it’s no wonder he wants to preserve the image of his insatiable death cult. Fleischer wants to preserve his legacy, yes, but he also wants to preserve support for the war machine whose feet he worships at, hence his ham-fisted attempt at narrative manipulation regarding the unforgivable Iraq invasion.
The responses to Fleischer’s Twitter thread have been overwhelmingly negative, though, so it doesn’t look like anyone’s buying it. In our new political landscape, where the image of George W Bush is being continually rehabilitated, that gives me a bit of hope.
These monsters lied to start a war which snuffed out a million human lives and destabilized an entire region, and they did it right in front of our faces. The fact that they’re now trying to lie about the thing we all watched them do is as insulting as it is infuriating. Never let them pull the wool over your eyes, and never forget what they did. Forgiveness is highly overrated.
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Cloggie on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 3:26 pm
OT – provincial elections in the Netherlands:
New populist party “Forum for Democracy” the largest party OUT OF THE BLUE.
Things are really going to change here.
Leader Thierry Baudet interview in the US:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hXVTX-Rg8s
Cloggie on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 3:40 pm
https://nos.nl/artikel/2208499-baudet-sprak-vijf-uur-met-amerikaanse-racist-jared-taylor.html
“‘Baudet sprak vijf uur met Amerikaanse racist Jared Taylor'”
(Baudet spoke five hours with American racist Jared Taylor)
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/thierry-baudet-nederland-bestaat-over-vijftig-jaar-niet-meer~a03f93df/
“Thierry Baudet: Nederland bestaat over vijftig jaar niet meer”
Baudet: The Netherlands won’t exist anymore in 50 years.
(unless we act NOW of course).
I voted for Baudet, despite the fact that he is against the energy transition and in favor of Nexit.
What is required is a TOTAL MOBILIZATION of society against a take-over by the stinking third world. We need a right-wing reaction that would make Hitler blush. And we need to get rid of the Anglos at the first opportunity and team up with countries who wouldn’t dream of pissing their countries away on the alter of globalism: Russia and China.
shortonoil on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 3:54 pm
Bush, Cheney, and Bolton were a pack of sick, lying, psychopaths that should be put on trial for crimes against humanity, and then staked out on an ant hill. Where is Bolton today? In the White House; what’s wrong Donald, couldn’t find Jack the Ripper?
Anonymouse on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 3:58 pm
Amerikans are consummate liars, that is true statement. But the problem with habitual liars, and lying, is that truth eventually catches up with them. Adding more lies to the piles of (previous) lies might delay things for a time, but that is all. Which is what this guy is doing here. Trying to justify (old) lies, with new(er) lies.
Like this line here, is lie itself
“The fact is that President Bush (and I as press secretary) faithfully and accurately reported to the public what the intelligence community concluded. The CIA, along with the intelligence services of Egypt, France, Israel and others concluded that Saddam had WMD. We all turned out to be wrong. That is very different from lying.”
Actually there is no difference at all. ALL of those agencies were lying. Interestingly, this professional liar never raises the question of how, or why, ALL of the agencies mentioned somehow all got their facts on the matter so spectacularly wrong. Every single one. Not even one dissenting agency had a differing analysis?
Apparently not. Plausible deniability (aka covering your ass with a lie) – very important to amerikunts.
Cloggie on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 3:59 pm
Thierry Baudet in Oxford:
https://youtu.be/eLsSA8osEcQ
Shortend on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 4:30 pm
Repeat the BIG LIE…My co workers brother unit was part of invasion force. They were headed to a WMD supposed location. Ordered to turn and protect oil infrastructure instead.
We all knew beforehand that there were none and Bush set up a reason to go in there?
Just like Trump is setting up to invade another nation…
Cloggie on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 5:04 pm
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/regionalwahlen-niederlande-macht-den-rechtspopulismus-stark-16100296.html
“Dutch populist right getting stronger”
Cloggie on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 5:35 pm
Brexit madness: latest poll say that a staggering 61-39 the British would vote Remain over The Deal.
Remains vs no-deal would score still 57-43:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-second-referendum-deal-opinion-poll-theresa-may-a8831241.html
Cloggie on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 5:48 pm
What Britain needs is a strong… em …democrat.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 6:16 pm
Whites will be the minority in the US and Europe by 2045!
In all countries of the world the minority race is always bullied and treated like shit..
HAHA!
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 8:36 pm
Italy: African bus driver abducts 51 children, sets vehicle on fire. Says it is revenge for refugees dying at sea.
https://www.apnews.com/65fe3ca2e5a64583be4ca281ca25d7bb
TurningPoint on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 8:57 pm
Okay Ari Fleischer, how did the Office of Special Plans fit into all of this? As I recall, the Administration forced the Intelligence Community to play ball, when they were reluctant to go their absolutes, the Administration created the Office of Special Plans.
My theory? We didn’t want to steel Iraqi oil, we wanted to LIBERATE it! It was under an oil embargo. This was before the fracking miracle and this country was headed down a very bad road in terms of energy production. With Iraqi oil liberated, and production higher, that would help the economy.
There was also a lot of talk and political pressure to finish the job that Bush 41 failed to complete. Bush 41 was smarter than his son. He knew better to invade. The worse part about the whole thing was the way we occupied the country. Usually when you invade a country, you take out the King and Queen and leave the Bishops, Rooks, and Knights to run the country. They take orders from the new boss but they are administrators. They run the country, get the trash out, and keep things running smoothly after the invasion. Instead of doing the normal thing, the Bush (43) Administration decided the best move would be total debaathification. So, they removed the King, Queen, Bishops, Knights and Rooks and left the pawns to take over the country. Only, pawns are not in government. What do they know about running a country? That took decades. In the meantime, the out of work Bishops, Knights and Rooks joined the insurgency (they were the lesser of two evils from their perspective) to drive the invaders out. That should have been very predictable.
I never saw Iraq as a threat because WMD degrades in time. If they are no longer manufacturing because of UNSCOM, then they were effectively defanged prior to the invasion. For that reason, I was apposed to the war prior to our invasion. I couldn’t convince family members of the folly of the Administration’s position at the time. But, I turned out to be right, and most of them were wrong.
“The Intelligence Community seriously misjudged the status of Iraq’s biological weapons program in the 2002 NIE and other pre-war intelligence products. The primary reason for this misjudgment was the Intelligence Community’s heavy reliance on a human source–codenamed ‘Curveball’–whose information later proved to be unreliable.”
Who are we relying on for our stupid intelligence regarding Russia? Christopher Steele? Who’s the modern-day curveball? I read some of that garbage and had a very low opinion of it before I found out some of it came from a CNN website.
We not necessarily the benign hegemon we pretend to be.
makati1 on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 9:20 pm
Anon, yep, they are! It starts with: “My dog ate my homework”, works up to: “I have the flu and won’t be in today”, to “Maduro has nukes aimed at America”. The American way! Lies piled on lies piled on lies. Going down!
GO TRUMP!
Anonymouse on Wed, 20th Mar 2019 9:34 pm
Cloggtard, why do you feel this compelling need to spam your OT brexit updates here? Are the 100s, if not 1000s of other OT comments you keep dropping here on the subject doing something for you? Has it still not registered in that pea-brain of yours (yet), that no one here, even your boyfriend the delusional turd, cares?
When your best and only fried on the internet tells you to give it a rest, and he normally hangs on every word that falls out your yid piehole, is telling.
You must be the saddest sack of offal on the kibbutz cloggraham. You literally, have no other life, or purpose do you?
Cloggie on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 1:18 am
What Antius has been saying all along about the political reality in Britain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHYdZilssR4
The story of activist Jayda Fransen
Sum on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 3:33 am
My Dear Friend Davy:
Subject: Reactionary Readers and Commentators
I must return from self-imposed exile to defend my dear friend and most esteemed colleague, Mr. Davy.
I am mystified and dismayed by the unprovoked and withering assaults on Mr. Davy. I believe the cause of this bellicosity is due to other posters harboring feelings of inadequacy and jealousy.
Mr. Davy, rest assured my dear friend, you posses the overwhelming support of the silent majority. Never ever surrender to the forces of JuanP, Clogged, Mitch, Truth Buster, Boney Joe, The Truth Shall Set You Free, Hello, MOB, Anonymouse, MadKat, and all other reactionary forces.
Although a very crazy man, fmr-paultard is friend.
Happy days shall arrive when these reactionary forces are purged from this site.
More Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 3:43 am
Sum Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 3:33 am
Theedrich on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 4:42 am
The recent goings-on in NZ are instructive. The government demigods are making it abundantly clear that they intend to achieve the extinction of the White race. The masses are told that the recent events there are a matter of “evil” which has to be suppressed by the goodie-goodie overlords. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. The issue is not one of “good” versus “evil.” It is one of White existence versus White extinction. The mentally diseased authorities of the island country long ago decided to obey the Yankee-Yid command to annihilate White civilization. That is why they are importing paranthropoids from outhouse lands everywhere. Ironic that the hullabaloo happened in a town named after a church prefixed with the name of the founder of the religion which preaches genosuicide for postmortem “salvation.”
Cloggie on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 4:55 am
May will not get three months extension unless she gets her deal through parliament NOW. France will veto:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6833951/Macron-warns-VETO-Prime-Ministers-Brexit-delay-plan-detrimental-EU.html
The breakup of the f* West/empire is near.
JuanO nonsense on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 5:06 am
More Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 3:43 am
Sum Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 3:33 am
BTW, late night for JuanO (3:33) I imagine it is drinking and drugs at the beach. What a fucknut
More Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 5:25 am
JuanO nonsense on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 5:06 am
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 5:39 am
With cloggo salivating on Brexit his own cherished euroland parliament is balkanizing in a CW2 much like DC’s swamp.
“European Parliamentary Bloc Suspends Fidesz As Hungary’s Feud With Brussels Deepens”
https://tinyurl.com/y4at358m zero hedge
“With polls projecting large gains for eurosceptic parties from Italy to Central and Eastern Europe (most notably Hungary and Poland) in the upcoming European Parliamentary Election, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party on Wednesday were officially suspended from the largest center-right group in the EU Parliament – setting the stage for a complete break between the center-right and the anti-establishment eurosceptics. The suspension is the culmination of a long-running feud between Orban and Manfred Weber, the group’s candidate to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as the head of the European Commission. Participating MEPs voted almost unanimously in favor of a suspension. #Fidesz will be suspended with immediate effect and until further notice following today’s vote of EPP members (190 in favour, 3 against). The suspension entails: ▪No attendance at any party meeting ▪No voting rights ▪No right to propose candidates for posts”
“Orban had threatened to quit the group if his party were suspended. While no decision has yet been made on that front, it’s looking increasingly likely that Fidesz and other eurosceptics will band together to form a coalition of their own after the May parliamentary elections. Meanwhile, Europe’s efforts to shun Orban over his efforts to build a nationalistic “illiberal democracy” will almost certainly continue.”
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 5:48 am
An alternative to the cloggo Dunkirk 1940 version of Brexit. Gosh cloggo this is a far different view.
“Forget ‘Project Fear’, This Is What A “Hard Brexit” Could Mean For The UK”
https://tinyurl.com/y6qp2x9d Authored by Patrick Barron via The Mises Institute,
“The Effect on Imports The current government has been exploring the possibility of dropping all import tariffs to zero except on “sensitive industries”. This would be very good for consumers, because the EU imposes tariffs on almost all imports from nations not in the EU itself. Most notably in its attempt to insulate inefficient European farms from worldwide competition, the EU imposes onerous tariffs on non-EU agricultural products via the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Eliminating these and many other tariffs would significantly lower the cost of living for the British people.”
“The Effect on British Exports Exports are another matter entirely. No longer in the tariff free customs union, it is assumed that the EU would impose tariffs on British products as it does on any other non-EU country, raising their cost to EU buyers, which one must assume would result in fewer British sales. The real harm would not fall on British exporters but on Britain’s EU customers, who now are forcibly prohibited from buying British goods at the previously advantageous price. On the other hand since it no longer must meet onerous EU manufacturing regulations, British industry might enjoy lower manufacturing costs which would enable it to sell more to non-EU countries.”
“The Effect on the City of London The City of London is a massive global hub. Its banking and insurance companies are dominant in the EU and likely to remain so for reasons of depth of market knowledge and a high reputation for honesty and fair dealing. Although some companies have moved some operations to Frankfurt, it is unclear if these moves are significant in number and may be simply part of normal market flux. The same fears about the fate of the City were raised when Britain secured an opt-out from the 1992 Maastricht Treaty which formally created the euro. Unless the EU imposes some special tax or regulation prohibiting EU members from utilizing London firms, it is unlikely that the City will be much affected by a “hard Brexit”.”
“The Effect on Controlling borders A “hard Brexit” would remove the requirement that Britain accept more refugees than it believes it can assimilate. Uncontrolled border crossings would end as modest checkpoints are reinstated.”
“A Positive Conclusion In conclusion the effect of a “hard Brexit” on Britain itself should be overwhelmingly positive, especially if Britain does in fact remove all tariffs and conclude free trade pacts with the rest of the world fairly quickly. Naturally my advice to Britain is to unilaterally remove all tariffs on all goods, including “sensitive industries.” Free trade deals then become irrelevant. Britain could lead the way in showing the world the benefits of unilateral free trade, just as it did in the nineteenth century with the abolition of the Corn Laws. Perhaps this outcome is what the EU fears the most, because it would call into question the benefit of belonging to a closed customs union and would spell the end of the EU itself.”
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 5:59 am
Cloggo’s “PB” no “M” CW2 in action as he salivates on Brexit. Generally a Euro quagmire is in the offing.
“France To Deploy Military Against Next Round Of Yellow Vest Protests”
https://tinyurl.com/yydc2uxn zero hedge
“If the black smoke over the Paris skyline and charred cars and buildings along the Champs-Elysees which have become characteristic of France’s increasingly violent Yellow Vest protests over the past months weren’t alarming enough, things look to get much worse as the government prepares to escalate. In an effort to clamp down on the unraveling security situation, which has lately seen banks and residential buildings torched, and luxury stores and restaurants vandalized and destroyed, the French authorities have announced the deployment of anti-terrorism military forces in order to protect and secure public buildings.”
“According to Bloomberg, French authorities have sought to calm the obvious and immediate fears raised that the move constitutes the government taking a full martial law approach of sending the military against its own people. Opération Sentinelle forces Following a weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux pointed to the “new forms of violence” Saturday which he said justifies deploying the counter-terror forces.”
“Regular police forces will still “concentrate on crowd control, along with maintaining law and order,” Griveaux said, which presumably means the Sentinelle could respond to more extreme situations that unfold like acts of rioting, burning, and vandalism. Macron’s government has lately appeared powerless as shocking and embarrassing (for security forces) images of the iconic Champs-Elysees looking like a bombed out war zone have been beamed around the world.”
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:01 am
“America’s Generals Have Learned Nothing From Our Failed Wars“
http://tinyurl.com/y572mtjt zero hedge
“Talk of such future wars — of, that is, more of the same — reminded me of the sixth Star Trek movie, The Undiscovered Country. In that space opera, which appeared in 1991 just as the Soviet Union was imploding, peace finally breaks out between the quasi-democratic Federation (think: the USA) and the warmongering Klingon Empire (think: the USSR). Even the Federation’s implacable warrior-captain, James T. Kirk, grudgingly learns to bury the phaser with the Klingon “bastards” who murdered his son.”
“Back then, I was a young captain in the U.S. Air Force and, with the apparent end of the Cold War, my colleagues and I dared talk about, if not eternal peace, at least “peace” as our own — and not just Star Trek’s — undiscovered country. Like many at the time, even we in the military were looking forward to what was then called a “peace dividend.””
“But that unknown land, which Americans then glimpsed ever so briefly, remains unexplored to this day. The reason why is simple enough. As Andrew Bacevich put it in his book Breach of Trust, “For the Pentagon [in 1991], peace posed a concrete and imminent threat” — which meant that new threats, “rogue states” of every sort, had to be found. And found they were.”
“It comes as no surprise, then, that America’s generals have learned so little of real value from their twenty-first-century losses. They continue to see a state of “infinite war” as necessary and are blind to the ways in which endless war and the ever-developing war state in Washington are the enemies of democracy.”
“The question isn’t why they think the way they do. The question is why so many Americans share their vision. The future is now. Isn’t it time that the U.S. sought to invade and occupy a different “land” entirely: an undiscovered country — a future — defined by peace?”
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:06 am
“Empire Of Chaos Crumbles As Iran Outflanks US In Iraq & Beyond“
http://tinyurl.com/y2bo4k2z zero hedge
“Iran has successfully navigated the first phase of its resistance to U.S. sanctions pressure. The U.S. State Department has admitted it’s goal of reducing Iran’s oil exports to zero is not feasible.”
“The goal now is a 25% drop to 800,000 barrel per day. And that is no joke. It’s a big drop from where Iran was looking to produce in the coming years under the auspice of the JCPOA.”
“The U.S. will not stop until all avenues have been exhausted or Trump fires his current cabinet.”
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:11 am
“China’s New Silk Road To Extend To Russia’s Crimea“
http://tinyurl.com/y3ysdlwf zero hedge
“Russian state sources and officials have confirmed closer cooperation between Beijing and the Crimean peninsula on major Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects, citing Chinese diplomats, which represents a continued significant shift in Moscow’s priorities which have historically pit Russia in economic competition with China. Any future BRI projects involving Crimea would further solidify and fully integrate the peninsula into Russia’s hold after its annexation from Ukraine following the 2014 referendum.”
“During a ceremony at the Russian Embassy in Beijing on Monday, the head of the association of Chinese compatriots on the peninsula, Ge Zhili, made the following formal statements: “Our organization is bolstering cooperation ties, exchanges and friendly contacts with the Crimean society.” Not incidentally the event marked the “fifth anniversary of Crimea’s reunification with Russia.””
“Concerning warming ties with Beijing, Putin had stressed at the time the BRI held the potential as “a significant step for further eliminating restrictions on economic development and cooperation.”
“Any major future cooperation in Crimea itself will be sure to raise eyebrows in Kiev and among Ukraine’s western allies, especially after last November’s dangerous incident in the Kerch Strait and subsequent threats of military escalation”
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:13 am
“The Navy Wants to Shrink Its Aircraft Carrier Fleet”
https://tinyurl.com/y55hoglp bloomberg
“The Defense Department is seeking to—at least for now—shrink the carrier fleet, proposing that the USS Harry Truman be effectively decommissioned in 2024. This would mean that a multibillion-dollar, nuclear-powered super-carrier deployed in 2000 would be mothballed two decades before the end of its service life. The USS Harry S. Truman transits the Strait of Hormuz on Dec. 26, 2015.Photographer: Mass Communication Specialist 2n/U.S. Navy The Pentagon plan would skip the vessel’s $6.5 billion midlife nuclear refueling and overhaul to save funds for other military priorities. The Ford alone costs $13 billion. The proposal—which already faces congressional headwinds—would for a time leave the Navy with 10 carriers, one fewer than the congressionally mandated fleet size”
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I am fine with a contribution too bad juanO does identity theft.
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“Why The Fed Keeps Propping Up The Market”
http://tinyurl.com/y26wsnca zero hedge
“The bull market of the past decade since the Great Recession has been an unusual one: despite all of the economic damage that occurred during the global financial crisis and rising risks (including global debt rising by $75 trillion), it has been the longest bull market in history. The explanation for this paradox is simple: it’s not an organic bull marketbecause the Fed and other central banks keep stepping in to prop up the market every time it stumbles. Though the Fed has two official mandates (maintaining stable consumer prices and maximizing employment), it has taken on the unofficial third mandate of supporting and boosting the stock market since the Great Recession.“
“n turn, household wealth is a major variable that affects U.S. consumer spending. When household wealth is growing, consumers feel more confident and have more buying power, which means that they are more willing to spend money – a phenomenon known as a wealth effect. Wealth effects can also run in reverse, as it did in the early-2000s and during the Great Recession. Because the U.S. economy has been in such a precarious situation in the last ten years and the federal government has little ammunition left to fight a recession, the Fed has been doing everything it can to prop up stocks and household wealth in order to prevent a reverse wealth effect from occurring. “
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:19 am
“Hydrogen, Wind, & Solar Powered Yacht “Energy Observer” Calls On Antwerp”
https://tinyurl.com/y2z2ufzs clean technical
“The Energy Observer is powered by electric motors running on 100% renewable energy thanks to solar panels mounted on its deck, two vertical wind turbines mounted near the stern, and hydrogen made onboard from desalinated seawater. The hydrogen fuel will be used at night or whenever there is not sufficient energy available from the solar panels, wind turbines, or kite to power the vessel. The vessel is also equipped with a kite sail that assists in navigation and also generates power. The sail will be used during long voyages, like crossing the Atlantic Ocean, or when there’s wind at high altitude. While it is pulling the boat through the water, the ship’s propeller turns an electric motor to create electricity. Think of it as a version of regenerative braking. The system can make between 2 and 4 kilowatts of power.”
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Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:26 am
THE BLOODBATH IN U.S. SHALE STOCKS CONTINUES: Worst Is Yet To Come“
http://tinyurl.com/y5jclmyy zero hedge
“Have you noticed the absolute carnage taking place in the U.S. shale oil stocks? It seems as if Wall Street and investors are finally growing weary of an industry that hasn’t made money in the past decade. Unfortunately, it took a longer than I expected, but the shale stocks have significantly underperformed the price action by the major oil companies. Now, when I say, “underperformed,” wait until you see the numbers.”
“Unfortunately, I believe the worst is yet to come for the shale companies because once the markets finally start to correct lower, their share prices are currently at a much lower level than the majors. As I mentioned, the majors are nearly back to their October highs, while the average shale company is down 43%.”
“While I would be a nervous wreck holding any shale oil company stock, those with much higher share prices, such as Pioneer and Concho, have much farther to fall. Thus, those who are wise and decide to place shorts or purchase puts on these companies will likely be handsomely rewarded as the U.S. Shale Oil Ponzi collapses.”
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:26 am
“Cyclone Idai lays bare the fundamental injustice of climate change”
https://tinyurl.com/y4euth9a faster than expected
“The World Meteorological Organization said Idai, which made landfall five days ago, could become the worst tropical cyclone on record in the Southern Hemisphere. Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi fears that 1,000 people may have died in his country alone. The U.N.’s World Food Program called it “a major humanitarian emergency that is getting bigger by the hour.” Nearly 3 million people have been affected across the region, one of the poorest in the world.”
“There are at least three major ways that the Mozambique floods are related to climate change: First, a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, which makes rainfall more intense. Idai produced more than two feet of rainfall in parts of the region — nearly a year’s worth in just a few days. Second, the region had been suffering from a severe drought in recent years in line with climate projections of overall drying in the region, hardening the soil and enhancing runoff. Third, sea levels are about a foot higher than a century ago, which worsens the effect of coastal flooding farther inland.”
These are JuanO's postings on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:28 am
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“EIA: Renewables double U.S. generation over 10 years; gas still reigns”
https://tinyurl.com/y5xwwq6c renewable energy world
“Renewable energy generation has almost doubled in the past 10 years thanks to a major build-up of wind and solar, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. A new report by EIA shows that renewables achieved a new record of 742 million MWh of electricity generated in 2018. This is compared to the 382 million MWh produced in 2008. Wind and solar combined to make up 90 percent of that renewables increase, the report shows. Hydro increased about 2 percent over the last decade. Hydroelectricity is still the biggest piece of the renewables mix, records show, totaling 292 million MWh generated last year. Wind is catching up, rising 55 million MWh in 10 years to 275 million MWh for 2018, according to the EIA. U.S. solar generation has jumped exponentially in the decade, from 2 million to 55 million MWh. Solar now generates 2.3 percent of the U.S. electricity mix, compared with hydro and wind at 6.9 and 6.5 percent, respectively. Utility-scale wind is helping fuel the renewable rise. New offshore and onshore wind projects pushed its capacity to 94 GW, nearly four times what it was in 2008. Solar has multiplied more than 50 times to 51 GW of installed capacity, according to the EIA. Renewables-including biomass and other resources-accounted for 17.6 percent of electricity generation in the U.S. last year. Natural gas prices, however, will continue to dictate the overall direction of the U.S. power generation market. If reserves continue to rise and prices stay low, gas could fuel up to 54 percent of the electricity mix by 2050, the EIA previously projected.”
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:34 am
“Countdown To America’s “Full Spectrum Dominance”
http://tinyurl.com/y2kkqops zero hedge
“The US is formally committed to dominating the world by the year 2020. With President Trump’s new Space Directive-4, the production of laser-armed fighter jets as possible precursors to space weapons, and the possibility of nuclear warheads being put into orbit, the clock is ticking…”
“Full spectrum dominance” is not only a danger to the world, it is a danger to US citizens who would also suffer the consequences, if and when something goes wrong with their leaders’ complicated space weapons.”
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Recap of JuanO’s morning identity theft on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:39 am
JuanO not Davy
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“Sucking Liberals Into A New Cold War”
http://tinyurl.com/y28b4ehp zero hedge
“Out of fury against President Trump, many liberals have enlisted in the ranks of the New Cold War against Russia, seeming to have forgotten the costs to rationality and lives from the first Cold War…”
“Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity.”
“Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just as stupid.”
JuanP admissions two days ago on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:40 am
JuanP on Tue, 19th Mar 2019 8:44 pm
Davy, you require constant neutering and moderation. I committed to this herculean effort last summer and I am a man of my word. Otherwise, you will overrun this forum with right-wing conspiracy theories and all things Trump. At least I had the guts to recognize the error of my Trumptardian ways with one caveat. I applaud President Trump for destroying the American empire from within. Thanks to President Trump, the empire’s international reputation has been permanently fractured.
The mentally ill JuanO on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:41 am
JuanP on Thu, 30th Jun 2016 4:56 pm
I think I could use my antisocial, psychopathic, sociopathic skills to convince people to vote for Trump. I can be very convincing when I want and I am excellent at manipulating people.
JuanP on Sun, 30th Aug 2015 5:40 am
…then you simply have a higher opinion of humans than I do. But what can I do? I am after all an admitted antisocial misanthrope. I just think most people suck!
JuanP on Fri, 12th Aug 2016 10:58 am
I stopped caring about humanity’s future a long time ago once I realized it was a waste of my time and energy. Now I think that it would be best for life on Earth if we ceased to exist as a species.
JuanP on Wed, 14th Sep 2016 9:59 pm
I struggle with the fact that I belong to the same species; I find myself emotionally and intellectually incapable of accepting the fact. That is why I consider myself a sui generis individual rather than a human animal.
JuanP on Sun, 26th Jun 2016 12:22 am
As far as I am concerned human beings are a bunch of arrogant and retarded ignorant fools and they deserve what’s coming. Call me selfish if you want, I don’t give a fuck!
JuanP on Fri, 15th May 2015 11:21 am
I did therapy for over a decade and most of it was a waste, but I had one therapist for a year who understood my issues and that helped, though I am still thoroughly screwed up.
JuanP on Tue, 22nd Dec 2015 6:57 am
They make me smile and happy and give me a brief respite from my cronic and acute depression.
JuanP on Sun, 17th Aug 2014 8:19 pm
I have suffered from cronic and acute clinical depression for most of my life, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
JuanP on Mon, 23rd May 2016 8:53 am
I was just telling my wife yesterday that I would very willingly give my arms, legs, tongue, eyes, ears, nuts, and dick to experience life like normal people do for just one hour to know what it feels like. I have been a seriously depressed realist since I have a memory. My first memory of my life is of leaning against a tree alone in my kindergarten’s playground looking at all the other kids playing, thinking how stupid their behavior was, and wondering why I wasn’t like them. I basically don’t interact with normal people anymore. They have nothing to offer me and I don’t want to give them anything.
I am back, bitches! I just got back from a surfing vacation in Costa Rica. I am recharged and refreshed, and ready to continue fucking with the Exceptionalist and his multiple personalities for the foreseeable future.
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VICTORY on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:51 am
Thank you juanO for showing just how beaten you are now. I have complete control over you. You stalk me every hour. You even post in the middle of the night. I own the mornings and there is nothing you can do. LOL
Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:52 am
“America’s Venezuela Strategy: Coup By Sheer Narrative Control“
http://tinyurl.com/y2pzplz4 zero hedge
“The Trump administration is working to overthrow the government of Venezuela. They are not at this time doing this by military invasion, nor by funneling thousands of armed militants into the country, nor even solely with starvation sanctions and CIA ops. The first and foremost means of overthrowing Venezuela’s government currently being utilized by the United States government is the low-risk, low-cost plan to simply control the stories that everyone tells themselves about who is in charge in Venezuela”
“They will keep referring to Juan the guy as “President Guaido”, despite the admitted fact that he does not actually have any of the powers or recognition that an actual president has, and despite the fact that there is currently a guy in Caracas who does have all those things. They will keep advancing this narrative control war until it either succeeds or fails, and in the case of the latter they’ll change tactics and try something else.”
“The battle for power is the battle to control as many humans as possible, and the battle to control as many humans as possible is the battle to control the stories those humans are telling each other. Humans are storytelling animals, so if you can control the stories you can control the humans. Understand this and you’ll understand the behaviors of governments and media around the world.”
More Davy Sock Puppetry on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 6:54 am
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Davy on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 7:03 am
“The Neutered Fed Is Politically Trapped”
http://tinyurl.com/yyq3tapj Zero hedge
“The purpose of the Fed chiefs’ dog-and-pony show was to promote the notion that the Fed really really really (try not to laugh out loud) “cares” about the average American, even though 85% of the $30 trillion in gains generated by the Fed’s policies flowed to the top 10% and roughly two-thirds of the gains flowed to the top few percent.”
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The bottom 80% got essentially nothing except a drastic reduction in the purchasing power of their stagnating wages. If this is how the Fed “cares” about average Americans, I wonder what they’d do if they chose to impoverish average Americans. Oh wait a minute, they already did.”
“Any questions about why the Fed is politically trapped? How much more of this will the American public be able to stomach before a populist from the left or right or heck, even the center, publicly call out the Fed’s backstopping of the stock market as the driver of soaring wealth-income inequality and demands the Fed be stripped of its power to protect and reward the banks, financiers and the super-wealthy?”
Sissyfuss on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 9:05 am
” The key finding in the report was that a major intelligence failure took place.” And its name was George W. But don’t be too harsh with the Shrub for he was just a puppet of Darth Cheney who had his arm up Shrubs ass to the elbow. The damage done to the US by this cadre of connivers is still being felt and is still being fought against but with a paucity of success. There is a civil war already being fought but on an intellectual footing that may transpire into a shooting one. A conflict is inevitable as resource depletion ramps up.
joe on Thu, 21st Mar 2019 9:22 am
The stated aims of the neoconservatives movement to shift the American public permanently to the right. That policy was achieved in full in March 2003. The so called centre left have become full blown Bush fan boys as they try to rehabilitating Bush 1 and 2. Fact is these guys were murderous and bloody men but as bloody as the true giant of a blood thirsty war machine promoting president namely Kennedy/Johnson. Their wars make Iraq look like nothing and not until the draft man came looking for the sons of the rich did the campuses erupt. The US left is nothing more than another countries sympathetic right wing wealthy consciousness. The left in say the UK is being true left but is being maligned because it contains muslims who dislike Israel for obvious reasons. Ilam Omar in the US going to find it hard to push back against the Israelis but as more muslims get elected in the US then the Zionist project will have its worst time.