Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Suddenly Barry hates all the crap they've been selling?

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE
 
IN HIS WILDEST AND GREEDY DREAMS EVEN GEORGE W. BUSH DID NOT TRY TO CIRCUMVENT THE CONSTITUTION BUT THAT'S WHAT BARACK OBAMA IS CURRENTLY EXPLORING.
 
 
SORRY, BARRY, YOU'RE A PUBLIC FIGURE, YOU WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT AND NOW YOU ARE MEANING YOU BELONG TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.  TOO DAMN BAD IF THE CHEESY ASS PLATES WITH YOUR PHOTO ON THEM UPSETS YOU. 
 
YOU AND YOUR LITTLE THUG DAVID AXLEROD BETTER GET USED TO THE FACTS THAT (A) YOU DON'T OWN THE COUNTRY AND (B) YOU WORK FOR THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.  START ACTING LIKE IT AND LOSE THE DIVA BEHAVIOR.
 
 
Starting with an action that begins this week in the US.  Military Families Speak Out explains:
 
Come to Washington February 6-9 to demand "The Change WE Need"  
President Elect Obama opposed the war in Iraq before it started, calling it a "dumb war."  But he and his advisors have also said that they plan to spread the return of combat troops from that "dumb war" out over sixteen months and to keep tens of thousands of other troops on the ground in Iraq indefinitely.     
So from February 6-9, MFSO will be traveling to Washgton to bring the new President and new Congress the message that it is long past time to bring all our troops home from Iraq.  The four days of events will include:
* A teach-in featuring the voices of military families, veterans, and Iraqis, explaining the need for an immediate and complete end to the war in Iraq -- and the human impacts of continuing the occupation.  Friday, February 6 from Noon - 3:00 p.m. at Mott House, 122 Maryland Avenue.   
* A solemn procession from Arlington National Cemetary to the White House beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 7.  Meet at the front gate of the cemetery right outside the exit of the Arlington Metro stop.  Please arrive early.
* A "Meet and Greet" and Legislative Briefing from 3:00 - 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 8 at the Mariott Metro Center.   
* Lobbying members of Congress to end the war in Iraq.  Meet in the cafeteria of the Rayburn House Office Building at 9:00 a.m. Monday, February 9.
 
Meanwhile A.N.S.W.E.R. explains:
 
We are organizing a Mass March on the Pentagon on Saturday, March 21, and it is important that you and your family, friends, co-workers and fellow students put on your marching shoes that day.  People are coming from all over the country.  Simultaneous demonstrations are taking place in San Francisco and Los Angeles.   
Why are we still marching even after the war criminal George W. Bush has left office?  Because the people must speak out for what is right.  More than 1 million Iraqis have died and tens of thousands of U.S. troops have been wounded or killed.   
The Iraq and Afghanistan war will drag on for years unless we act now.  The cost in lives and resources is criminal regardless of whether the Democrats or Republicans are in charge of the government. 
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If Bush's war and occupation of Iraq was an illegal action of aggression -- and it was -- how can the new government say that it can only gradually end the war over a number of years?  The Iraqis don't want foreign military forces running their country.  No one would! 
The Pentagon has employed 200,000 foreign contractors (mercenaries) and 150,000 U.S. troops to maintain the occupation of Iraq.  They have no right to be there.  A few thousand are being brought out of Iraq only to be redeployed to occupy Afghanistan, and the fools in the media proclaim "the war is winding down."  That is not true.   
President Obama decided to keep the Pentagon just as it was under Bush.  He even selected Bush appointee Robert Gates to keep his position as chief of the Pentagon.  Gates announced that the new administration would double the number of troops sent to Afghanistan.  That is certainly not the "change" most people though was coming following the end of Bush's  tenure.   
 
Meanwhile United for Peace and Justice is reportedly planning something.  Soon.  Any day now.  If not action, maybe a series of glossy pin-up photos of Barack suitable for framing in the best fan-worshipping, Tiger Beat manner.  Remember, United for Peace and Justice may be sleeping on the job but they are dreaming -- very moist and wet dreams.  Someone change the sheets already.   Cindy Sheehan (World Can't Wait) calls it like it is:

Many anti-war activists are concentrated on insuring that Obama fulfills his campaign promises to withdraw "combat" troops from Iraq without having the integrity to demand complete withdrawal of all troops and a return to total sovereignty of the country to the people of Iraq, and are not questioning Obama's determination to double troop strength to Afghanistan.I think the US MIC empire needs to be destroyed, but I would prefer that we incorporate a voluntary reduction of empire, before the weight of The Empire® collapses like a house of cards on us; or on the innocents of Afghanistan.   
 
In Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki demonstrates  a puppet can be taught a few tricks.  Among them, how to seize control of the daily news cycle.  Sinan Salaheddin (AP) repeats what al-Maliki's government is saying -- repeats instead of reporting.   Samira Ahmed Jassim has confessed! There's a video of the woman allegedly also known as Umm al-Mumineen ("the mother of all believers") stating she is the one who has recruited over "80 female suicide bombers". The first sentence tells you she "has been arrested." You have to wade through many paragraphs to discover she was arrested January 21st. So the video confession is all the more doubtful and may have been produced under torture. (And bruises hide so much better when you're wearing "an all-ecompassing black Islamic robe".) If al-Mumineen is the or a recruiter, it really makes little difference. She's not a hypnotist -- if she is, that's the only allegation AP's forgotten to present as fact. At best, she provided an avenue to those already prepared to seek violence. It goes to the gender stereotypes of women to believe that they had to be 'corrupted.' The violent response on the part of some Iraqi women is a perfectly natural response to what they are living under. ("Natural" is not the same as "legal." But we're not addressing that. We are continuing to address the pathologizing of one gender.)  Jomana Karadsheh (CNN) manages to cover the same government issued spin but manages to lower the frentic tabloid nature.  But it's only Deborah Haynes (Times of London) who can use the term "suspect" in the first sentence of a report?  Why is it only Haynes can refer to the DVD played at the press conference as an "apparent confession"?
 
To be clear, Haynes has done her job as a journalist.  In any country, it is not the job of the press to take a government's claims and present them as fact.  In a country where justice is a joke, where human rights organizations and the United Nations have documented reports of tortured confessions -- including from female prisoners -- a press that simply repeats claims of the government as fact isn't offering news.  They are offering tabloid-style entertainment.  Haynes also notes, "At least 36 female suicide bombers attempted or successfully carried out 32 suicide attacks last year, compared with eight in 2007, according to US military data."  As we've noted before, there are many, many more male 'suicide bombers' than female.  But there's something about when it's a woman that tends to make the press minds go all mushy. Maybe it's a sexual response (akin to the way some are turned up by a woman holding a gun -- on screen, in photos or in real life) or maybe it's panic that a woman would think of death.  Oh goodness, it's also troubling and frightening -- apparently. 
 
It's not impossible that Samira Ahmed Jassim has recruited women to be bombers and it's not impossible that she hasn't.  She stands accused, she's not been tried.  And those with any short term memory at all will remember last month when Iraqi officials told the press someone had expressed regret and then his family finally got to see him and, turns out, he didn't say what the Iraqi officials were telling the press.  Whether Samira Ahmed Jassim is a recruiter for female bombers or not, the bombings will continue.   And while CNN may think acknowledging that women in Iraq have "always" been part of the resistance by "helping feed militants, hiding them in their homes and helping to sneak weapons around the country," the women have been far more active.  And note how passive that last phrase is.  Women didn't sneak weapons, according to CNN, they helped to. 
 
If Nouri's smart, he'll continue to play the press via women since he has so many willing cohorts in the press.  Willing cohorts in the press?  File it under "Not since Frank Pitcairn so desperately attacked the Trotskyites out of his love for Stalin has a professional journalist so disgraced himself,"  Patrick Cockburn found himself a true love: Nouri.  At the Independent of London, Patrick writes the kind of garbage that his own father (writing under the psuedonym Frank Pitcaim) would hold his nose at.  Patrick write a valentine to Nouri and Nouri's amazing powers and . . .  Patrick leaves out the part that he was out of Iraq for most of last month as he covered the assault on Gaza.  Patty's been playing pocket pool around Nouri for months now and let's hope he's racking up an impressive score with that because he's leaving his journalist reputation in tatters. 
 
 

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