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BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE

DESPITE THE BITCHIEST EFFORTS OF HARRY REID AND HIS FAUX VAGINA, ALL THE ATTACKS ON G.O.P. NOMINEE MITT ROMNEY HAVE NOT REALLY ACCOMPLISHED A THING. 

A WASHINGTON POST - ABC NEWS POLL HAS JUST FOUND THAT ONLY 42% OF REGISTERED VOTERS HAVE A POSITIVE OPINION OF MITT ROMNEY.

ONLY 49% HAVE A POSITIVE VIEW OF CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O.

WITH A MARGIN OF ERROR OF +/- 4% THAT MEANS THE TWO ARE STILL TIED BUT AS BARRY O AND HIS TRANSVESTITE POSSE LED BY HARRY REID CONTINUE TO BRING OUT THE BITCHY, THEY RISK FURTHER ALIENATING AN ELECTORATE THEY DESPERATELY NEED TO TURN OUT IN NOVEMBER.



FROM THE TCI WIRE:

 

On this week's Progressive Radio, Medea Benjamin is Matthew Rothschild's guest.  Excerpt.

 

 

Matthew Rothschild:  Today I'm delighted to have back in the studio with me the co-founder of CODEPINK, Medea Benjamin who's got a crucially important new book out called Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control. Medea Benjamin, welcome back to Progressive Radio.

 

Medea Benjamin:  Thank you, Matt.  Nice to be here.

 

Matthew Rothschild:  You know, you've been what I'd like to call "a witness to empire."  "A Witness to US Empire."  You've gone to Iraq during the war.  You've gone to Afghanistan.  What's it like to be A Witness to US Empire?

 

Medea Benjamin: It's very sad because it's, uh, an empire that the rest of the world sees and that the American people don't so you feel kind of living in a surreal world when you come back to the US and realize the ignorance of the American people --

 

Matthew Rothschild:  Why don't we see it?

 

Medea Benjamin:  It's not talked about by our media.  Certainly not talked about by our elected officials except maybe [US House Rep] Ron Paul or  [US House Rep] Dennis Kucinich and we don't even have Dennis talking about it. It's kind of one of those dirty words.  You certainly don't use the word impearlism.  Sometimes, people like Ron Paul will use the word empire but it's kind of like, you know, just don't talk about that part of things and it's such a reality that effects every budget in this country, every part of our lives but people don't understand that we've got these hundreds and hundreds of bases around the world that we spend these billions of dollars on -- things that we don't want and we don't need and people don't want us to have and yet it goes on as if there's something inexorable about this.

 

Matthew Rothschild:  And to the extent that it's talked about except by you and a few others, you know, it's talked about as though it's a benign empire.  There is this whole group of academics who are saying the United States is [laughing] the first benign empire in the history of foreign policy or some such.

 

Medea Benjamin:  That's a very twisted definition of what benign means.

 

Twisted?  Like a fact checker who doesn't understand that facts are facts and either you do what you say or you don't?  Molly Moorhead writes for the creative Politifact and the two of them want to spin for Barack Obama: "In Iraq, he ended the war as he said he would, closely following the plan set out by his predecessor, President George W. Bush.  Obama even kept troops there longer than he pledged during his campaign."  Oh, Moorhead.  Oh, Moorhead.

 

PolitiFact, you can't keep a promise to end the war in 16 months and also follow Bush's plan.  PoliWhore, you can't keep your own campaign promise and "even kept troops there longer than he pledged during his campaign."   Do you get that?

 

Do you also get how offensive it is to Iraqis -- especially after they just saw July become the deadliest month in two years -- to say that Barack ended the war?  The Iraq War is not over and you really have to have your head up your ass to think that it is.

 

PolitiFact and Molly Moorhead, as they delve further, get a little more honest.

 

 

 

They quote Barack stating in October 2011, "Our troops will definitely be home for the holidays."  And that was a lie.  Even PolitiFact notes, "A small force of a few hundred Marines would remain to help train Iraqi forces, as well as a large diplomatic contingent."  And let's drop back to the June 19, 2012 snapshot, the day  the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released [PDF format warning] "The Gulf Security Architecture: Partnership With The Gulf Co-Operation Council" and where we quote from page 12 of that report:

 

 

 

Kuwait is especially keen to maintain a significant U.S. military presence. In fact, the Kuwaiti public perception of the United States is more positive than any other Gulf country, dating back to the U.S.-led liberation of Kuwait in 1991. Kuwait paid over $16 billion to compensate coalition efforts for costs incurred during Desert Shield and Desert Storm and $350 million for Operation Southern Watch. In 2004, the Bush Administration designated Kuwait a major non-NATO ally.

* U.S. Military Presence: A U.S.-Kuwaiti defense agreement signed in 1991 and extended in 2001 provides a framework that guards the legal rights of American troops and promotes military cooperation. When U.S. troops departed Iraq at the end of 2011, Kuwait welcomed a more enduring American footprint. Currently, there are approximately 15,000 U.S. forces in Kuwait, but the number is likely to decrease to 13,500. Kuwaiti bases such as Camp Arifjan, Ali Al Salem Air Field, and Camp Buehring offer the United States major staging hubs, training rages, and logistical support for regional operations. U.S. forces also operate Patriot missile batteries in Kuwait, which are vital to theater missile defense.

 

 

When U. S troops departed Iraq at the end of 2011, Kuawait welcomed a more enduring American ootprint.  Currently, there are approximately 15,000 U.S. forces in Kuwait, but the number is likely to decrease to 13,500.

 

When do those US troops come home, PolitiFact?  When do your crap-ass, faux fact checking acknowledge those?  Oh, that's right, never. 

 

Molly Moorhead and PolitiFact want you to know that, okay, yeah, it wasn't the campaign promise but Michael O'Hanlon is okay with it and he's left (centrist, right-leaning) and Jim Phillips is okay with it taking longer too and he's on the right, so, see it's okay that Barack really didn't stick to what he promised. 

 

A fact checker checks the fact.  A fact checker doesn't offer excuses.  Facts are facts.  You can pull 'em out and play with them all day and they're not going to change.  You can wrap you mouth around them and even swallow -- as the folks at PolitiFact are so prone to do -- but that doesn't change facts.  Apparently fact checking was an ambitious task for PolitiFact and they need someone to come in -- with flash cards -- and explain to them what facts are before they next attempt to fact check.

 

As ridiculous and shameless as PolitiFact is Nouri al-Maliki -- thug and prime minister of the ongoing occupation in Iraq.  Xinhua reports that thug and prime minister Nouri al-Maliki declared yesterday, "The battle with  terrorism has ended and the remaining are cells here and there looking for an opportunity or a gap." This despite the Islamic State of Iraq recorded threats released July 22nd. Since then an Iraqi military helicopter has been downed, a Taji prison has been attacked, a Baghdad counter-terrorism centre (which held a number of terrorists) have been attacked and July was the deadliest month in Iraq in two years.  In addition, Sunday saw an attempted breakout of the Abu Ghraib prison.  Of that attempt, Aseel Kami (China Daily) explains, " A spokesman for the justice ministry , Haider al-Saadi , said in a statement that 11 ' dangerous prisoners ' at Abu Ghraib dug down three meters and had tunneled along 20 meters using a frying pan and part of a ceiling fan before they were discovered . They had fashioned breathing apparatus from soft-drink cans stuck end to end . "

Nouri's claim comes as mass arrests continue in Iraq.  Ahlul Bayt News Agency reports that 13 have been arrested in Basra today.   And it comes, Al Rafidayn reports, as someone circulates rumors that Moqtada al-Sadr is attempting to re-arm the Madhi Army (Moqtada denies the rumors).  And if the terrorism is over, why is Dar Addustour reporting that Nouri has just transfered a large number of security forces from the southern provinces to Baghdad in order to beef up protection of the Green Zone?

 

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