President Cheney ....

LMAO! In these dark times, a little humor is a good remedy, for short lived relief. This little sketch on Saturday Night Live is a real case of a "truthful word being uttered in jest".

President Cheney indeed. The man who held Dubya's hand when the 9/11 "Commission" asked a couple of prescreened, softball "questions". The man who lied about his movements and whereabouts to the 9/11 "Commission", on the morning on 9/11/2001. The man who ordered the EPA to censor the dangers posed by the toxic dust from the World Trade Center. The man who ordered the alteration of the FAA-NORAD-USAF scramble-intercept protocol (June 1, 2001), to make sure that the hijacked planes were not challenged by US air defenses on 9/11 (the original protocol was restored on 9/12/2001). The man who refused to serve in the US military in Vietnam FOUR TIMES, because Cheney, the privileged chickenhawk, had "other priorities".

Cheney is the worst traitor the US has seen since Prescott Bush (President George W. Bush's granddad) - who was busted twice under the Trading with the Enemy Act for doing big business with his buddies in Nazi Germany.

Nugent explodes!

What a shame that the interviewer Jeff Glor failed to mention Nugent's inglorious past:

Ted Nugent has displayed cowardice of the worst order. He is one of those filthy traitors and hypocrites who advocate sending people to war, as long as his neck isn't on the line. 

He weaseled out of serving his country in Vietnam by pooping his pants, pretending to have a medical problem. Nugent is a First Order Chicken Hawk, complete with "Distinguished Fleeing Cross", and joins the Hall of Shame - alongside Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Jeb Bush, Paul Wolfowitz and a large roster of well placed influential, wealthy, privileged, yellowlivered cowards who actively avoided serving their country. Many in the Chicken Hawk Hall of Shame were the architects of, and the most prominent supporters of, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for corporate welfare.

Nugent should keep his anti-American trap shut and play his guitar. On seconds thoughts, don't bother with the guitar either.

Ayn Rand and Chicken Hawks. Cowards and hypocrites.

Hardly surprising that invoking Ayn Rand is avoided by conservatives - her non-credibility as the promoter of the hard-assed "rugged individual" has been firmly established. Rand was a fervent skeptic of welfare for the poor and the elderly. However, when it came to walking the walk, she was not that great at it... she gladly accepted government provided welfare while castigating others who did.

Ayn Rand's terminal duplicity is reminiscent of the Chicken Hawk brigade: those privileged, well connected cowards who advocate sending others to war, while demonstrating their own yellow-livered hypocrisy by deliberately avoiding military service, or dodging the draft. In their mindset, its right and proper to order others to front line, as long as their own butts are not on the line. 

Oddly, the majority of blatant chickenhawks are those who pretend to be so "pro national security". Indeed, the list in the ChickenHawk Hall of Shame covers most of the Bush Administration's Iraq and Afghanistan neoconservative war hawks... Many in the war-hungry corporate media and even some the "entertainment" (?!) industry also qualify. Recipients of the "Distinguished Fleeing Cross" include such folks as... here's a random list:

Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Pat Robertson, Doug Feith, David Koch, Roger Ailes (Fox News), Ted Olson, Michael Ledeen, Trent Lott, Joe Lieberman, Richard Perle, Newt Gingrich, Wolf Blitzer, Andy Card, Elliott Abrams, Clarence Thomas, John Bolton, Frank Gaffney, William Kristol, Rush Limbaugh, Ted Nugent, Britney Spears, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Robert Kagan, Max Boot, Brit Hume, Antonin Scalia, Gary Bauer and Rudy Giuliani....   and Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Skeletons rattle the closet, and the public remain selectively deaf. Ayn Rand is a liability is any argument posed by conservatives in this area.

Iran's next in line... when will the rain of terror start?

.... most likely courtesy of the US and/or UK. The terrorist group Jundulluh has claimed responsibility for the attack which killed some 30 people including 6 senior Iranian military personnel. 

What is Jundullah anyway? Even the sanitized wikipedia entry lists alleged international support and funding, from countries including the US, UK, Saudi Arabia, Sweden and Pakistan. Iran is already accusing the US and UK of involvement in this latest bombing, and this history of US/UK etc involvement appears solid. The degree of US funding appears to be around $400,000,000. Even the very establishment-friendly Daily Telegraph national newspaper published an article in 2007 in which links between CIA and Jundullah, as well as black operations to destablize Iran's government were approved and sanctioned by the Bush Administration. Significantly, this group is not included in the State Department's FTO (foreign terrorist organization) list, even though it is far more active in bombing outrages and other incidents of terrorism than most of the other organizations listed. 



Then there is this article in the UK Daily Telegraph. A quote extracted:

Quote:

The operations are controversial because they involve dealing with movements that resort to terrorist methods in pursuit of their grievances against the Iranian regime. In the past year there has been a wave of unrest in ethnic minority border areas of Iran, with bombing and assassination campaigns against soldiers and government officials.

So, what is the difference between the activities attributed to "al Qaida' and those associated with Jundullah? Bombings and assassinations are all terrorist acts, regardless of the identity of the perps are. But is "al Qaida" any less involved with the US government than Jundullah? Maybe not. Osama bin Laden is (was?) is alleged to be the leader of "al Qaida", but the sworn testimony of whistleblower and former FBI Turkish-American translator Sibel Edmonds alleges that Osama bin Laden was working for the US Government right up until 9/11. Ms Edmonds' direct quote:

Quote:

“I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.”

Of course the mainstream US media has not reported on this story, presumably because it makes the "boogeyman out to get us" which they have been promoting 24/7 for 8 years appears more like the "boogeyman who is fighting for certain interests within the US government".

So, there is a welter of evidence that the US (UK and others) supports and funds terrorist groups, on the tax payer...(that makes us all guilty of funding terrorism). It's yet one more in thousands of similar pieces of evidence that the "war on terrorism" is nothing of the kind, and should be viewed with the utmost skepticism. It appears that the previous administration were controlled by thugs, and by default, so is the current one, in that the groups we accuse of doing terrible things are doing it on our dollar.... and we're being fed the usual pack of lies to justify the continuation of state-sponsored thuggery.

I have to add that despite the fact that the Iranian government under Ahmadinejad and the fundamentalist clerics is not exactly a paragon of decency (!!), it remains inappropriate that the nation of Iran remains singled out as the target for the next Israeli/Neocon demand for a war of aggression. As with Iraq and Afghanistan , it will not be the *government* of that country which will face a rain of terror from the skies.... it will be the blameless Iranian people.