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20100731

Father, Pastors Arrested In Molestation Case
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Newt Gingrich Rejects Religious Freedom and the Golden Rule

whoopee. same could be said of us. read history. there''s rarely been a year, let alone a decade, that we haven't invaded somewhere or occupied somewhere to serve our 'national interests.'

this is just more fearmongering. and we helped cause a lot of the Muslim violence with our own actions.
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Jersey Shore-Themed Attack: RNC Says Obama Should Talk Economy, Not Snooki (VIDEO)

i could be mistaken, but i'm beginning to suspect that the right isn't entirely pleased with the President. . .
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Newt Gingrich Suggests Attacking Rest Of 'Axis Of Evil' (VIDEO)

that's it.

there was a time, during the Clinton Administration, when i had a grudging respect for this man, because it appeared to me that, at that time, he was willing to work with a Democratic President.

i was even willing to like him, in some respects, after he left office.

no more.

it's apparent now that he has irrevocably gone senile.

he's lost all rational thought.

he might as well join the Teabaggers.

it's so sad. . .
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"Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?" - First Sergeant Dan Daly, US Marine Corps, (June 6, 1918)

Four More Years Of War -- Just For Starters

(continued part 3)

global warming is reducing the amount of fresh water worldwide, and it's being felt deeply in India and Pakistan. they've come close to war over it. and they're both nuclear armed states. the US is supposedly an ally of both countries. this gives us the opportunity to defuse any aggressions before they lead to war.

our presence in Afghanistan also gives us unparalleled opportunites for espionage against China and Russia. the Chinese PLA (People's Liberation Army) has been modernizing at a fantastic rate, although it is still no match for us. on the other hand, they are years--maybe more--ahead of us at cyberwarfare.

the US and NATO announced last year that perceived cyberattacks might be met with conventional force, which implies they don't have the cybersavvy necessary to deal with them.

it's believed that many of the cyberattacks on the government or military of this country originate in either China or Russia.

Afghanistan makes a fairly good staging platform for espionage into either Russia or China.

other resources--oil, natural gas, etc--exist in the nations of Central Asia. both Russia and China are interested in them, as well as us.

the United States is by far the greatest consumer of energy, and our needs--as well as those of the world--are increasing with the population.

. . .'course, this is just my opinion; ah don' know nothin'. . .

peace out, yo.
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Four More Years Of War -- Just For Starters

(continued)

the so-called 'revelation' of the discovery of precious metals, etc in Afghanistan is a basic political lever, in the sense that it's a further rationalization for our being there. . .we "have to help" the Afghans develop this wealth. . .

but it had been known to be there since, at least, the Soviet invasion decades earlier.

our supposed purpose for going to Afghanistan was to hunt down bin Laden and al Qaeda, and remove the Taliban as a source of power. bin Laden was allowed to escape, al Qaeda was allowed to scatter across the world and form or inspire splinter groups, and the Taliban was allowed to regroup and regain the strength and power it had lost.

so, like all the lies the American people believed about Iraq, we have now, basically, in Afghanistan.

yet there are other reasons, less obvious and less visible.

one is the continuing fear/rivalry of the nations in the region. for instance, Afghanistan is afraid of Pakistan. Pakistan is afraid of India. India is afraid of China. China is afraid of Russia.

similar fears exist, in differing amounts, among the Central Asian nations recently formed from the breakup of the former Soviet Union.

Pakistan and Bangladesh (former East Pakistan) were parts of India prior to 1947. since then Pakistan and India have been involved in several wars and smaller conflicts, as well as suffering from terrorist groups supported by their opposite numbers.

(to be continued)
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Four More Years Of War -- Just For Starters

all you guys are partly correct, in that oil is the number one reason.

i had suspicions about the convenient 'discovery' of oil in Afghanistan around the time Obama took office. Just prior to 911, Congress had been about to subpoena Cheney for his secret energy meetings with big oil, which makes me suspect they knew about it then.

after all, the bordering Pakistani province of Baluchistan has a very great amount of oil; there had been plans to lay a pipeline across the province. the people there almost went into full rebellion against the Pakistani government, because they felt they weren't getting a fair share of the profits.

this is a nice little monograph from the US Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute, downloadable as a PDF:

Baloch Nationalism and the Geopolitics of Energy Resources: The Changing Context of Separatism in Pakistan, authored by Dr. Robert J. Wirsing.

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=853

we all need to remember that, upon our initial invasion of Iraq in 2003, troops were ordered to guard refineries and pipelines.

not the government buildings and their documents, which could have proved the case for crimes against humanity, WMD programs, and more.

not the weapons caches, which had been largely located prior to the invasion by civilian groups.

not the museums and archaeological sites, documenting 7000 years of history, in the area where civilization first rose.

. . .and we all know how THAT turned out. . .

(to be continued)
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