The rally for what could be World War III is in full swing.
In what amounts to a grotesque instance of outright pandering, Department of Defense head Leon Panetta recently spoke at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference and assured the audience that “we will keep all options – including military action – on the table to prevent (Iran) from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” You know you live in a kleptocracy when one of the heads of the federal government openly appeases perhaps the most influential and financially flush lobbying groups in the country.
Panetta’s assurance confirmed what the majority of Americans have long feared- that their government stands ready and willing to involve itself in another war despite public opinion being in opposition of such an excursion.
If the Republican presidential primary has proven anything, besides the propensity for politicians to offer only vague pronouncements and crowd pleasing sound bites on complex issues, it’s that the bloodthirsty urges of the GOP are incapable of being quenched. For years, the neoconservatives who make up the Republican establishment have been pounding the war drums over Iran. About 33,000 American military deaths in Iraq and over 1 million Iraqi casualties have done nothing to dissuade the warmongering rhetoric of the candidates (with the exception of Ron Paul).
On the same day as Panetta’s address to AIPAC, presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out a “comprehensive” plan to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon in a Washington Post editorial. What does this “comprehensive” plan entail the reader may ask? Simple; just throw more money at a defense department already blowing through its coffers at a sum higher than the top 14 military spenders in the world combined. Armed with political theorist Frederic Bastiat’s invaluable concept of the “unseen,” one can only begin to imagine the technological breakthroughs and consumer satisfying goods such money could have been invested towards if not being pilfered into nation building, military contractor boondoggles, and supporting imperial aggression abroad.
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It appears his American death toll number is incorrect. The source lists the 33,000# as injured, not death.
I agree. His whole argument is obviously well left of center. I know of no disagreement by a majority of the American people for supporting Israel against a potentially nuclear armed Iran so where he came up with that one – I have a pretty good idea – like from whence the sun never shines. Whatever Romney says about anything, especially with regard to national security issues, I take with a grain of salt. I wouldn’t trust anything that man said about anything. Obama and Romney? Two peas in a pod.
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Fellow Americans, we are paying for the inept and incompetent Obama administration, this administration never take responsibility for the lack of leadership. Mr. T Boone Pickens invested millions of Dollars to get our country in the path of energy independence, but Obama and the democrats in congress fail to approve the energy tax credits to encourage more wind power investments and shifting to natural gas as a transportation fuel for the trucking industry. Now they are keeping the Canadian oil out of the US market. When Obama took office, the price of Gas was $1.81 today it’s $4.10; we are paying $2.29 more per gallon, and because transportation cost is up, we are paying more for every thing, from food, clothing and every thing we use to support our families, inflation is up 16%, but the mainstream media and our Federal government lie to us; their report indicated only 2%. Their explanation to justified the price increase on oil, is the typical supply and demand BS; the real truth of this inflation is the devaluation of the Dollar, this huge national debt is destroying the wealth of the middle class and making millions of Americans economic slaves. The entire U.S. Economy is predicate on our ability to use our resources to produce oil and energy, to decrease the price of energy; we can not continue importing our oil and paying these high prices; the best energy policy that will be in the best interest of our country; it is not to steal other countries oil, but producing our own energy, we must work to be energy independent. The production of food and other goods and transportation without cheap energy price, will skyrocket; food prices that are already at an all-time high, will continue to increase, hunger will be the number one killer in our country.
Fellow Americans, the wars and the so call Free Trade are the results of this economic catastrophe. The main objective to invade Iraq ,Afghanistan, Libya and overthrow the governments in the Middle-East, was to have control of the oil; to be manage by the elite of the oil corporatism. Bush and the CIA fabricated the motives for justification of the invasion, that cost us $4.5 trillions Dollars. If the 4.5 trillions dollars was use to the development of our own energy; today we could be energy independent and more prosperous.
Free trade and globalization, cost our country millions of jobs and the demise of our manufacturing, farming and the closing of thousands of small business; the average American worker lost and the big U.S multinational corporations, China, Mexico and all the other foreign countries that we have this treaty win. When are we going to learn? are we that stupid that we can not see, what our future is going to be if we don’t change our policies?. Obama with the help of the CIA and the US special forces are building motives to invade Iran to steal their oil, just like we done with Iraq and Libya. This corrupt system of government that expended trillions of Dollars to protect the multinational corporations interest must be throw out. This nation is a Nation by the corporation for the corporations. Shame on the SOBS that betray our trust.
Fellow Americans the invasion will be forward if we do not take action, we must stop this military intervention, it is immoral to steal other countries natural resources, it is a fact that the CIA and this corrupt government for years under the pretense of national security and national interest had lied and betray our trust, we are being invade by illegal aliens and we do nothing because this invasion benefit business, but we are ready to start wars with people that are thousand of miles away from us declaring them a threat to our national security, this is nothing but a propaganda to brainwash the American people.
Fellow Americans the only way that we should enter a war, is by a war declaration by congress, we must refuse to invade any country and put our soldiers in arms-way to be kill and expend trillions to help and protect the multinational corporations that exploit the natural resources and the people of other countries for their self interest and the greed of money and power. Most countries in South American and Europe hate our government for what they are economic predators that take advantage of under-develop nations and get them into debt to force them to sell their resources cheap or bribe their officials so they can have free hand on the exploitation of what ever they want.
Fellow Americans, this ideology of one world order and the exploitation of people and natural resources to control the world’s economic is immoral and wrong. This concentration of wealth is destroying our middle class and impoverishing more the American working class. The future of our country depends on us; this November we must vote all the corrupt politicians out of Washington, do your own work do not believe on the mainstream news media, they are bias and corrupt .
The entire global economy will be better if we adopt a better Global economy model like the John Kennedy’s “Alianza for Progress”, in Latin America; Helping other nations to be productive and help their own people. This US economic model of exploitation and overthrowing governments in the name of national security and best interest of American, must end, people will retaliate against us and will kill thousands of Americans. Our country is not secure we had created a multicultural society that refuse to be abuse, we have millions of people from the middle east that do not like the Taliban, but they will retaliate and create an unstable American under US tyranny. Obama’s policies, are of great concern to Americans that love this country and know the Constitution and the rule of law. Obama a teacher of our Constitution should know better. Trashing our Constitution will destroy his political future; he will not be able to BS and lie to the American people any more.
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Gas inflation – http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx
The real cost of the wars. – http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/true-cost-of-wars-in-afghanistan-iraq-is-anyone-s-guess-1.152268
U.S Military – CIA intervention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions
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