Herman Goering: "Why, of course, the PEOPLE Don't Want War"

Why would some poor slob in America want to risk his life in a war, when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his (non-existent) job in one piece? Actually, I have to paraphrase Goering here, because we no longer have a farm culture, but one based on shipping our industrial jobs to an impoverished nation where the cost of labor is much lower than here, in the United States. Please check http://www.icasualties.org/oef/ to understand the REAL cost of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to those who joined our Armed Forces in desperation, because they could no longer find a decent job in our United States. It looks as though 2009 was the year in which our troops suffered the highest number of casualties (521), but it looks as though there is still hope for this year, since our tragic tally so far is already up to 380. Actually, our US Tally was only 244 this year -so far- since the UK came in at 77, and other countries suffered 59. Behind these numbers is a grieving family, who will no longer see the soldier whom they sent to war, yet who managed a smile before his departure, assuring them he would be 'careful'. Before I left for Vietnam, to serve as Advisory Team Leader, my father pulled me aside to a room in our house, where my mother could not hear our conversation: During his stern lecture, he reiterated his distaste for our nation's leaders that took me away from our family. Then, he advised me sternly: "When I was forced to serve in the NAZI army, I had a lot of political arguments with my officers, but they always volunteered for the most dangerous missions, saving the lives of their men by risking their own. If you can not live up to their high standards, I don't want you to return to this house." After I survived the many ambushes in the "Iron Triangle" of Vietnam, I was proud to report to my father: "Mission Accomplished, all of my men returned safely to our United States." That was the last time I saw my stern father smile, before his untimely death a few years ago!

Why Bright Colors in Your Food May be Bad for Your Health.

Virginia Sole-Smith, who is associated with Planet Green, says food manufacturers use about 15 million pounds of eight synthetic dyes, which end up in our food each year. In fact, per capita consumption of food dyes has increased fivefold since 1955, thanks mostly to 'fun' colors in breakfast cereals, fruit drinks and candies. A new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest says that synthetic food dyes pose risks of cancer, hyperactivity in children and allergies. The top offenders include: Red 40, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6, which are all contaminated with known carcinogens, says the CSPI. Red 3, which the Food and Drug Administration has banned for use in drugs and cosmetics, remains in our food supply, with 200,000 pounds per year in goods like Betty Crocker Fruit Roll-Ups and ConAgra Kid Cuisine frozen meals. Then, there is Blue 1, Red 40, and Yellow 6, which can cause rare but serious allergic reactions in some people. According to CSPI executive director, Michael F. Jacobson, these synthetics do absolutely nothing to improve the nutritional quality or safety of our foods, but often trigger behavior problems in children, and very likely, cancer in others.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich: Afghanistan won't 'end well'

During a recent visit to Iowa, the former Speaker of the House predicted our US Army's failure in Afghanistan, with the words: "our war in Afghanistan won't end well". He also advised our war hawks: "We are in enormous danger because we consistently underestimate how hard this is": Could he have been referring to the sloppy intelligence information disseminated by "our" Central Intelligence Agency? Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele recently faced a week of negative press coverage and calls for his resignation after making similar statements at a Republican fundraiser in Connecticut, but Steele's rough treatment after suggesting that the war in Afghanistan couldn't be won didn't seem to faze Gingrich, who charged ahead in arguing that the war likely won't end in victory. Gingrich asserted that the counterinsurgency doctrine created by General David Petraeus "doesn't go deep enough for a place like Afghanistan". "You're dealing with Afghan culture that is fundamentally different than us, in ways we don't understand", Gingrich said. The war "is not going to end well." At last, we finally hear some words of truth from a 'professional' politician.

My comment about our CIA has been censored by our "free" Government!

So, OUR CIA is telling us we are no longer the land of the free or the home of the brave? We should tell that to our soldiers in Afghanistan, who are told otherwise by their commanders!!

Guantanamo Prisoner Denounces "Kangaroo" Proceedings!

On Monday, July 12, Omar Khadr rejected the "kangaroo" proceedings taking place against him at Guantanamo Bay. As I would also have, Omar refused a US offered plea bargain and fired his US military "defense" team. He had been captured in July of 2002 in Afghanistan when he was only 15, and had been held at the American base at Guantanamo Bay for eight years. Like many prisoners of our Cuban base, he had been subjected to torture and abuse and denied fundamental human and legal rights: According to Omar's Canadian attorney, the plea deal he turned down would have required Omar to falsely admit that he had committed war crimes (NO, that would have been by George W Bush, whose hired guns tortured and incarcerated Omar for many years, without due process under our US Constitution). Bottom line, unlike our former "president", Omar was not guilty of any crimes. If I am not mistaken, the courts of Germany, under the same laws applicable to German NAZI war criminals, would try and incarcerate both George "W", and his former Vice President, should they set foot on German soil.
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Why Obama fired McChrystal: The Master Magician Strikes Again!

Obama's move has nothing to do with an effort to "win" in Afghanistan: He has realized long, long ago, that even the remote possibility of a "win" in that country is utterly impossible. Instead, he sees the political need to maneuver between the positions of the 'war hawks' and the 'advocates of peace' with whom he largely agrees: While the military wants to 'win', (whatever that means), the 'Right' would be ready to pounce on him as an appeaser of 'terrorists', if he acknowledges that winning is utterly impossible. The choice of Petraeus as McChrystal's replacement solved Obama's dilemma. In choosing Petraeus, he found a way to derail a serious political rival, since Petraeus looks like a possible contender in the 2012 election. By sending him to Afghanistan, Obama has made his candidacy much more difficult. At a stroke, Obama has taken Petraeus out of the 2012 presidential race. As we learned in the "godfather" movie: "Keep your friends close, and the competition closer". Petraeus could have been the Republicans' possible messiah: His impeccable military credentials, his undoubted intelligence, his mastery of personal and professional politics had led many to see in him as the candidate to take on Obama and beat him - and now he is gone, and the name of this game is: Obama wins again!!
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The Morons in our Pentagon have done it again: Total War Against China!

According to the South China Morning Post of Monday, July 5, our idiotic government has sent the USS Michigan to Pusan, North Korea, the USS Ohio into Subic Bay of the Philippines, and the USS Florida into the strategic Indian Ocean outpost of Diego Garcia, apparently as a "show of force" not seen since the end of the Cold War. The Chinese government has properly interpreted "our" action - that is, the actions of the morons in our Obama administration - as a siege of China, from whom many of our inexpensive consumer goods now flow. The Hong Kong newspaper from which this story was gleaned was entitled: "US submarines emerge in show of military might: Message unlikely to be lost on Beijing as 3 vessels turn up in Asian ports". The story was dated July 4. Between them, the three submarines can carry 462 Tomahawks, boosting by an estimated 60 per cent-plus the potential Tomahawk strike force of the entire Japanese-based Seventh Fleet - the core projection of US military power in East Asia." The author of the article further stated that 460-odd Tomahawks is a huge amount of potential firepower in anybody's language. It is another sign that the US is determined to not only maintain its military dominance in Asia, but to be seen doing so - a message for Beijing and for everyone else, whether you are a US ally, or a nation sitting on the fence."
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