Maybe the media would pay more attention. This is big news: even bigger than Spitzer. It points to Bush's intolerance of any views other than his own. Generals should not be yes-men. And a "commander-in-chief" should encourage subordinates to speak their mind, and even to express dissent. This is reminding me of the Shinseki case, the Army general who knew the Iraq occupation would take about 250K men (or more). Guess what? Including "contractors" (mercenaries), we have about 350K men and women in Iraq. And for being right, Shinseki was fired.

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Look at his recent antics, tap dancing and singing little ditties about his fucked up buddies while the country is sinking under the financial burdens created by his administration.

HE DOESN"T GIVE A FLYING FUCK !

He wants to hand McCain a new war as a political tool to use against democrats and to keep republicans in power as he slithers back to crawford.
If the commanders don't defy him, we will all be in a world of shit for the next fifty years.
But don't fret for george and laura..... they'll be just fine.

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"Armies usually aren’t interested in wars. They like preparation for war. But they have an understandable reluctance to fight a war. So I think if you look at, at least the history that I know, it’s usually the civilian leadership who is pushing the military to do something. It was the case in the early days of the Vietnam War" - Chomsky

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about the right, the worst is that they cannot civily disagree. Anyone with any ojection to their narrative must be quicky and utterly destroyed. Competance has never been a requirement-it's more about who has muscled their way to the front of the piggy trough. These people who lust for endless war are the very ones that CHARGED to the back of the line when it was their turn. They will not send their children. A man who has succeeded at absolutely nothing but the basest of gutter politics will not stand for competance from a man who knows what he is talking about. We are reaping a whirlwind over there. We are not being made safer. We are creating an overwhelming desire to do to us what we have let an incompetant lead us into doing to them. A few people are hauling money away by the truckloads, literally. A large number of people are suffering and dying. This evil that we are doing will come back on us.

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At least as far as the audio-visual media is concerned, this story was utterly and completely drowned by the "Spitzer Affair". by far, this development has much more impact and significance for the US citizenry than Spitzer's travails. Coincidence or design? Conscious or Unconscious?

Awareness is needful; lest we find ourselves embroiled 'suddenly' and 'out of nowhere' in an utterly desired and proposed conflict with Iran. The most important developments are no longer found in the Headlines and on the Front Page necessarily. With the election year upon us, things have uncannily moved towards happenings on the domestic side of the coin, and Iraq has been pushed onto the peripheries of attention. We can't let that happen!

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I believe the Bush/Cheney administration is planning on attacking Iran very soon. This will not only further Mr. Cheney's hidden agenda of strategic world domination, it will take everyone's focus of the now failing surge in Iraq, our blunders in Afghanistan, and almost guarantee a new round of war fever and hysteria enough to get Senator McCain elected and carry on this madness. I believe this President, and even more this Vice President, in their shredding of our Constitution, their lies to the American people, and their purposeful and repeated authorization of torture, have both proven themselves to be war criminals deserving at the very least immediate trials of impeachment. I believe they know in their hearts they need another war and a President McCain to prevent their being tried for war crimes.

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Just before the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the extermination of Custers entire force, to the man, old 'Goldielocks' started the rumor that "there's gold in them thar hills" of the Dakotas which had just been set aside as yet another Reservation for thousands of Indians (which had few buffalo to sustain them) which caused a stampede of gold miners whose presence violated the Treaty set up by the US Government. The Indians reacted violently to the 'invasion' of their Land which gave the Calvery and Custer the False Flag justification to wipe out thousands of the Lacota Sioux tribe.

As a student of History, Fallon did not want to be remembered as another "Custer". Whether he was "fired" or "resigned" will be argued for years. He certainly did not fall on his sword for his cowardly, criminal bosses.

Alas, war is the extention of politics and this makes all of the men and women in the military expendable assets, just like bullets, bombs, planes and submarines.

"For the Fatherland", the "flag", the "country" or homeland security, it matters not to the bankers, brokers, oilmen and those who still have "lebens raum" in their blood and the Fed in their pockets.

How long will Russian and China put up with this new-world-order "Custer"?

When will the rest of America wake to the fact that 911 was a false flag operation that provided the excuse for the preemptive invasions of Aghanistan and Iraq in violation of war crimes statutes/treaties like the ones we broke against the Indian Nations?
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It is very apparent that the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove regime had an agenda going into office to go after Iraq, irregardless of the facts. If necessary they would do whatever it took to find “reasons” to attack that country. As we all now know they manufactured evidence and destroyed anyone who challenged them. And then they cover it all up and the e-mail files showing their misdeeds disappear into cyberspace and cannot be retrieved… yeah right!

And now McCain is taking up the cause and has the endorsement of Kenneth Hagin who is advocating that we attack Iran to bring about World War III and Armageddon for his misguided religious agenda. I was in Mexico working on a project in 2003 when Bush/Cheney were deceiving the American people into going into the Iraq War and was fortunate to get mostly BBC and other International News perspective on the whole thing, but remember a friend there quoting Kenneth Hagin in support of the Iraq War also as a “holy war”. Ironic isn’t it that we condemn Islamic extremist for waging a holy war against us for our corrupting the world with our social values, but this Administration is guilty of the same exact thing at the beckoning of right wing religious zealots. The same zealots who are endorsing McCain. (And I say this as someone who has a degree in Christian Theology from an “evangelical college”.) These right wing religious kooks who believe that Tel Aviv should be dictating our foreign policy have no understanding of Biblical history or principles. They are simply misguided warmongers.

But the reality is that John McCain will continue this idiotic course in foreign policy. How do we know? He has Kenneth Hagin and Joe Lieberman's endorsement. Rather than take a neutral stand on Middle Eastern issues they take a definite pro-semetic agenda to our nations demise. And Hillary Clinton will be no different. She takes the same biased stand. I am not anti-semetic, but I am also not anti-islamic or anti-arab. We need a drastically different foreign policy regarding this whole Middle Eastern Region.

And we need to speak out now against allowing the Bush/Cheney ill advised agression against Iran and any other Middle Eastern country. Pre-emptive strikes/war against another sovereign nation that has not attacked us simply because we do not agree with their politics/religion/policies is asinine.

And as for the Nuclear or Weapons of Mass Destruction argument.... In less than two hour drive from my house I can see with my own eyes our nuclear weapons fiasco (Hanford) and biological warfare storage bunkers (Umatilla). We do not come to that table with clean hands... this President has a do as I say not do as I do policy... he needs to clean up his own back yard...

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The war issue has now passed reasoning and blame; we simply cannot afford it. During the Bush presidency we have suffered a burst internet boom in the stock market, 2001-2; a burst in the housing market boom (2006-?) and a collapse of trust in the financial markets (2008-?). The federal reserve system cannot rescue capitalism by simply reflating the banking system (as we did in 2002); it's now more serious and foreign financial institutions are involved. The US government has to strengthen its finances and the dollar and concentrate on retoring confidence by behaving financially responsible itself. We cannot afford expensive foreign adventures while running a huge deficit in the federal budget and the balance of payments and the domestic financial system is in crisis.

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where, because the Elephants have no viable candidate for the presidential election, they choose to begin a bombing campaign against Iran. I see the most advantageous time for them would be August... say, oh I don't know... about the time of the Democratic Convention. It would take the free publicity away from the Democrats, and it would set McCain up to be the only one "capable" of dealing with such a horrendous situation. (That's how they would spin it)

Can't you just see them thinking this one up? Rubbing their blood-soaked hands together and cackling as they formed the "perfect" strategy for this election?

I'm afraid that is exactly what they will do. That's my prediction (for whatever it is or isn't worth!)

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A McCain presidency could be the best thing for the world. Rough for the Iranians, of course, and for anyone not rich and white back in the homeland. But the world needs another conservative president in America, particularly at this time (the oil crisis, the coming depression), to discredit conservatism for generations to come.

Pity about all the bodies, but there you go.

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