[Rhodes22-list] Re ad CarefullyThis One! (Political) with historical perspective

Sun Jun 29 10:50:32 EDT 2008

Brad:

Good summary of situation.  Unfortunately the guy who should read it has
become so entranced with his personal agenda, that he will not give fair
evaluation regarding expenses.  

Too bad he left the list.  He could defend the Europeans creating a black
hole when they start their new accelerator.  Could it be that his
application was one of those not accepted?  See:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/29/europe/EU-FEA-SCI-Switzerland-Doomsday-Collider.php

All that being said, here are three post by Thomas Sowell that gives
historical perspective to Ron's agenda:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/the_imitators.html

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell062508.php3

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell062608.php3

There are members of this forum who deny history.  It is important to
understand what this man is saying.

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA

Same lies, same faces waiting for another turn at the helm with the "Black"
Messiah.

Brad

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LIARS' ROUND-UP

By RALPH PETERS
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*June 28, 2008* --

THE facts about *your* security are being torn to shreds by activist liars.
And they think that you're too stupid to know the difference.

Let's lay out the worst current examples of media make-believe and
election-year truth-trashing:

*Whopper No. 1: America is less **safe today than it was on Sept. **10, 2001
*. Oh, really? Where's the evidence? The Clinton years saw New York City
attacked and Americans slaughtered by terrorists around the globe.
*Nothing*was done to protect us.

And the true end of the Clinton era came on 9/11.

A record to be proud of.

Countless aspects of the Bush-Cheney administration deserve merciless
criticism. But fair is fair: Since 9/11, we haven't suffered a single
successful terrorist attack on our homeland. Not one.

Explain to me, please, how this shows we're less safe. What factual
measurement applies, other than the absence of attacks?

God knows, the terrorists desperately *wanted* to strike our homeland. And
they couldn't. Are we supposed to believe that was an accident?

*Whopper No. 2: Al Qaeda is **stronger than ever*. Al Qaeda just suffered a
strategic defeat in Iraq that may prove decisive. It can't launch attacks
beyond its regional lairs. The cowardly Osama bin Laden can't show his face
(remember his Clinton-era pep rallies?).

Yes, terrorists can still murder innocents on their home court. I personally
prefer that to them killing Americans in Manhattan and Washington. Even in
Iraq, al Qaeda's been beaten down to violent-fugitive status.

By what objective measurement is al Qaeda stronger today than it was when it
had an entire country for its base and its tentacles reached all the way to
Florida and the Midwest?

*Whopper No. 3: Success in Iraq **is an illusion - the **surge failed*.
Folks, this is something only a New York Times columnist could believe.

Every single significant indicator, from Iraqi government progress through
the performance of Iraqi security forces to the plummeting level of
violence, has changed for the better - remarkably so.

If current trend-lines continue, it may not be long before Baghdad is safer
for Iraqi citizens than the Washington-Baltimore metroplex is for US
citizens. Iraq's government is working, its economy is booming - and its
military has driven the concentrations of terrorists and militia from every
one of Iraq's major cities.

And our troops *are* coming home. Where's the failure?

*Whopper No. 4: Iran is **stronger than ever*. Tell that to the Iraqis,
who've rejected Iranian meddling in their affairs, who've smashed the
Iran-backed Shia militias and who didn't take long to figure out that
Tehran's foreign policy was imperialist and anti-Arab.

The people of Iraq don't intend to trade Saddam for Ahmadinejad. Iran has *
lost* in Iraq. At this point, all the Iranians can do is to kill a handful
of innocent Iraqis now and then. Think that wins them friends and influence?

*Whopper No. 5: **The US-European relationship is **a disaster*. In fact,
Washington and the major European capitals have built new, sturdier bridges
to replace old ones that badly needed burning.

The Europeans grudgingly figured out that they need us - as we need them.
The big break in 2003 cleared a lot of bad air (there was no break with
Europe's young democracies). Relations today are sounder than they were in
the fiddle-while-Rome-burns Clinton era.

Oh, and NATO has become a serious military alliance - fighting in
Afghanistan, patrolling the high seas and conducting special operations
against terrorists. The Germans announced this week that they're sending
another thousand troops to Afghanistan. France is re-engaging with NATO's
military side. Where's the disaster, *mon ami?*

*Whopper No. 6: As president, **Barack
Obama<http://www.nypost.com/news/p/obama_barack/obama_barack.htm>would
bring pos
**itive change to our foreign policy* *- and John McCain's too old to **get
it.*

Hmm: Take a gander at Obama's senior foreign-policy advisers: Madeleine
Albright (71), Warren Christopher (82), Anthony Lake (69), Lee Hamilton
(77), Richard Clarke (57) . . .

If you added up their ages and fed the number into a time-machine, you'd
land in Europe in the middle of the Black Death.

More important: These are the people whose watch saw the first attack on the
World Trade Center, Mogadishu, Rwanda, the Srebrenica massacre, a pass for
the Russians on Chechnya, the Khobar Towers bombing, the attacks on our
embassies in Africa, the near-sinking of the USS Cole - oh, and the US
bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Their legacy climaxed on 9/11.

You couldn't assemble a team in Washington with more strategic failures to
its credit.

*Whopper No. 7: Our troops are **all coming home as psychos vic**timized by
their participation in **military atrocities*.

Tell it to the Marines.

*Ralph Peters' new book is **"Looking For Trouble."*

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
wrote:

> Hank (and Brad)
>
> Don't you guys know, the information that the PDD's (poor duped dems)
> were basing their opinions on were bad intel. Perpetrated by Bush Sr and
> the MIC (Military Industrial Complex). Though some of those opinions
> predate President Bush, the fix was already in, and the PDD's were
> unwittingly (who could ever accuse these people of having wits?) dragged
> into it and fooled.
>
> Yep, had to be what happened...
>
> Hank wrote:
> > Brad,
> >
> > Have you seen this by the GOP?  Kinda hard for the dems to deny video
> > evidence, isn't it?
> >
> > Hank
> >
> > A Must see; think of the current impeachment efforts of the liberals
> while
> > you watch this. Also remember the video starts with clips from
> > January/February 1998 and Bush was first elected in 2000.
> >
> > The next time you hear the expression 'Bush's war' remember this----note
> > that there's no 'opinion,' just direct video which deserves wide
> > distribution.
> >
> > This may have been passed around before. While it is endorsed by the
> > Republican National Committee, it shows the comments of Democrats
> concerning
> > the reasons for war in Iraq.
> >
> > American leaders can be a fickle lot...
> >
> > THIS COUNTRY NEEDS TO RUN THIS VIDEO OVER AND OVER UNTIL ALL OF US FULLY
> > UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON!!!
> >
> > The most despicable acts of deceit ongoing in this country are the lies
> and
> > hypocrisy perpetrated by the people seen in this short video. Here's a
> video
> > compilation you definitely won't see on main stream media.
> >
> > http://www.bercasio.
> > com/movies/dems-wmd-before-iraq.wmv<
> http://www.bercasio.com/movies/dems-wmd-before-iraq.wmv>
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