Ani Ibi wrote:
“Do you believe that ‘our’ elected reps are not working for the American people? If so, then on what is your belief based?”
No, I don’t believe that “our” elected reps are working for the American people. I think that it is rather obvious that they are working for special interests. These special interests are their benefactors. They contribute to their campaigns, and take care of them when they retire from politics (or get voted out).
Do you think that our monetary situation of inflationary federal reserve notes, rather than gold and silver as specified in the Constitution is for the benefit of the American people? The fact that our politicians have made us dependent on foreign oil, when we have plenty right here at home (a two hundred years supply on the north slope of Alaska, alone) is for the benefit of the American people? Was the invasion of Iraq for our benefit? What about the lie about “Weapons of Mass Destruction”?
What about our foreign policy that has made us subject to terrorist attack, and the loss of our civil rights at the hands of our politicians? Is that for our benefit?
What about NAFTA? What about the North American Union? I don’t hear the American people clamering for these things. It is the special interests that want them. The result is cheap labor, our manufacturing jobs going to China. Hardly for “our” benefit.
“Who has forgotten OBL? What is your evidence?”
Our politicians have forgotten him, if they ever meant to catch him. The evidence is, they still haven’t been able to get him. Apparently, they allowed he and his followers to leave Tora Bora unmolested.
" Because Saddam Hussein violated the terms of the cease fire from GW1?"
Interesting. GW1, as well as GW2 both violated the US Constitution by waging war without a formal Declaration of War by the US Congress. So, how are terms of a cease fire resulting from a war that violated our own Constitution binding on another nation? Aren’t we being selective?
“Because there were other means to stop him?”
Really? Has he been stopped? I am under the impression that he is still at large.
“Apparently even the American people have forgotten about him”
I hear the a lot more about the situation in Iraq than I do about OBL. This is because the media (lap dogs of the politicians) rarely mention OBL.
“You mean the propaganda that there are no WMDs – repeated often enough that some confuse repetition with truth?”
WMDs are like UFOs. People believe in them because they want to, not because they exist. Are we to believe that they exist, we just haven’t been able to find them?
And even if they did exist, how does that justify an attack on a sovereign nation? Doesn’t China have these weapons? China has killed over 35 million of their own people. They have supplied terrorists all over the globe. How about Pakistan? How about us?
“I guess you don’t put any store into what Iranian leaders actually say and what they actually plan for. More wishful thinking?”
Iran is NOT about to attack us, as much as our politicians, and the media tell us otherwise. China, on the other hand, has threatened to send missiles at us if we persist in treating the Republic of China on Taiwan (Free China) as a sovereign nation. It makes a lot more sense for us to work to destabilize the Communist government of China than to justify an attack on Iran.
“The Congressional Resolutions are granted by Congress.”
The Constitution does not give the Congress the authority to delegate the waging of war to the Executive Branch. It says that only Congress can declare war, not give the president the authority to do whatever he wants. Why hasn’t Congress declared war since 1941?
“I think it is you who have forgotten OBL and what his stated purpose has been.”
I know what OBL has stated. I have the book THROUGH OUR ENEMIES EYS by Michael Scheuer, and I have seen OBL’s videos with English text. He has stated that it is because of our involvement in the Middle East that the terrorists have attacked us. Where he is really off the mark is where he refers to American troops as “Crusaders” trying to destroy Islam. Rather than attacking Islam, or spreading Christianity as OBL thinks, the real motive seems to be to steal the oil for the big oil companies. The proof? This Administration pressuring the Iraqi government into passing the Iraqi Oil Bill, which will turn over something like 91% of Iraq’s oil to the big oil companies. Then watch the prices rise!
“The distinction has been CLEARLY made between OBL’s teachings and what ordinary Muslims actually believe.”
Then why do our politicians and the media continue to refer to the terrorists as “Islamofascists”? If that isn’t meant to generate hatred against Muslims, I don’t what else they could do.
“Evidence please. Explain how this is so.”
If you go on the CFR’s website and look at their membership list, this truth will become self evident. The people who write our foreign policy, those who execute it, those who benefit financially from it, those who report (propagandize) the news, those who are involved in the large banks, & c. It’s not the great unwashed masses who are running this country. It’s the special interests, probably best identified as the Council on Foreign Relations that is. Can you imagine if there were over a hundred John Birch Society members in the Bush Administration? Or the major media executives were all JBS? Or the executives of the major corporations making all that money in these undeclared wars? The membership of the John Birch Society is quite a bit larger than the CFR. Why is the CFR so over represented in government, media, business, finance & C? Because they are running the show. And for THEIR benefit.
“Tell that to OBL and AQ who like to take gleeful credit for terrorist acts on behalf of Muslims.”
Politicians have always used religion as an excuse to wage war, generate hatred and maintain their power. There is nothing new under the sun.
“Untruths and half-truths spread among a largely uneducated population are inflammatory. This surprises you how?”
It certainly doesn’t surprise me. Politicians have done this for a long time. Our own politicians do it. It’s called propaganda.
