NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The car bomb scare in London and the attack Saturday at the Glasgow airport underscore the need for a strong immigration policy in the United States, Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Saturday.
Border security is critical to knowing who is entering the United States and who is at the borders, said Giuliani, who was mayor of New York at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Filed under Neocons, Politics, Rudy Giuliani
Mitt “Double Guantanamo” Romney thinks that torture is okay for people. But apparently he also is okay with torturing animals as well: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1638065,00.html
Filed under Mitt Romney
One of the senior architects and senior cheerleaders of the Iraq War, John Bolton, now says that we have no other option than to bomb Iran…
After encouraging one disasterous foreign policy move after another, and presiding over a failed tenure as ambassador at the UN, Bolton now advocates attacking another country in the interests of another country, Israel… Sounds like a great plan! Not only is he an incompetent, but a traitor too…
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409649665&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Filed under Neocons
An embarrassing new low for Bush? Or just another day in the White House…
To look at Fred Thompson, the actor-cum-senator who now appears to be moving to the front of the GOP presidential pack, one would think that what you see is what you get – but, no. Peel back the pretty ordinary red-state Republican opinions – the war is a righteous one, free Scooter Libby – and we get to the hollow core at the center of his political being. That is, his prior career as a professional lobbyist – perhaps the one profession that is rated lower in the public’s esteem than being a member of Congress.
I have to admit being shocked – and somewhat baffled – by his lobbying efforts on behalf of Jean Bertrand Aristide, the former president of Haiti, a committed leftist and anti-American demagogue of the sort currently represented by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.
Aristide, a former Roman Catholic priest with radical socialist beliefs, was elected president of Haiti in 1990 after a campaign marred by violence on the part of his supporters and featuring promises by Aristide that he would redistribute the nation’s wealth to his constituency, i.e., the poorest of the poor. Early on, Aristide was characterizing the U.S. as “the great Satan.” In September 1991, Aristide incited his followers to “necklace” his political opponents: “necklacing” is the practice of tying a tire around the victim’s neck, filling it with gasoline, and then lighting it.
Death squads acting under the supervision of Aristide’s top security aides roamed the streets of Haiti’s cities and villages, murdering and beating anyone who dared speak out against the red terror. Aristide and his Lavalas Party tried to rig parliamentary elections, and when the Organization of American States called him on it, the Clinton administration, which had been sponsoring, supporting, and subsidizing him, suffered a major embarrassment.
This is the regime Thompson lobbied for.
Filed under Fred Thompson, Neocons
The End of Dissent?
A recent congressional resolution on Iran underscores the War Party’s lock on the foreign policy ‘debate’
by Justin Raimondo
Congress recently passed a resolution calling on the UN to bring charges of “genocide” against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Now, I hold no brief for the Iranian ranter – whose jeremiads against the West are in the category of Borat-like humor – but this seems like yet another example of political pandering and congressional grandstanding that bears little, if any, relationship to reality.
To begin with, the resolution is motivated by a mistranslation of a speech given by Senor Ahmadinejad, in which he cited the Ayatollah Khomeini and seemed to call for Israel to be “wiped off the map.” Yet, as this piece by Jonathan Steele, and this comment by Farsi-speaker and Middle East expert Prof. Juan Cole make very clear, that is not what the Iranian President said, or intended to say. Ahmadinejad didn’t say Israel must be “wiped off the map,” he said the current regime in Tel Aviv will be “wiped off the page of time.” It was a call for “regime change” not genocide – but, never mind.
Like most war propaganda, which is almost never related to reality except in the most tenuous sense, the point is not to tell the truth but to characterize the Enemy in a particular way. With Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Washington to ramp up the Lobby’s ferocious campaign to get the US to attack Iran – or at least credibly threaten to – the pro-Israel forces on Capitol Hill were out in full force, herding their congressional supporters into a massive display of obedience with a whopping 411-2 vote in the House.
The complete hypocrisy of our “antiwar” Democratic congresscritters, who warble that we need to “end the war” in Iraq, even as they whoop it up for war with Iran, is so brazen that it doesn’t require much comment.
Read on: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11176?
(CNN) – Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney said Friday the Bush administration is wrong for looking at ways to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, calling the idea “the wrong course to take”.
Romney told reporters in Helena, Montana, “Guantanamo Bay plays an important role in protecting our nation from violent, heinous terrorists.”
The former Massachusetts governor said, “I hope the administration does not take the course which is being contemplated.” And singling out John McCain supporting shutting down the facility, Romney said, “I think Guantanamo is a symbol of our resolve.”
Romney said detainees should not have access to lawyers or to U.S. constitutional rights, saying “they are terrorists.”
“I do not want to see those prisoners transferred to United States soil,” he said. “I do not want to see the legal system in this country potentially opened up to terrorists and feel we’re better keeping Guantanamo in place. And if we need additional space, why, we should be expanding Guantanamo.”
At a presidential debate in May, Romney said, “My view is, we ought to double Guantanamo.”
Filed under Iraq War, Mitt Romney, Neocons
Even in an adminstration chock full of yes-men, syncophants, and political operatives, vice president Dick Cheney still finds it necessary to place himself above and beyond the reach of the most basic oversight… claiming whatever legal loophole or nonsense rhetoric best serves him at the moment…
The OVP also, we hear, attempted to abolish the office that tried to do it’s job of overseeing the information security within his office… Blah, blah, blah, blah…
I’m sure Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez is going to prosecute these obvious abuses… Nope. No he isn’t…
Just wake me up when it’s time to tar and feather these SOBs…
That’s not what this post is about… No, we have more important matters to attend to, the disturbing, rapid erosion of our civil liberties and legal rights as Americans.
“At one time, the Statue of Liberty symbolized our commitment to fairness and liberty. Today, our military commissions and secret military detention camps represent America’s hypocrisy.”
Read on: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/whitehead3.html
[If you think that you’re safe from The War Against Terror (TWAT) because you’re not of Arab decent you better think again… TWAT is coming to a suburb near you… and one wrong move could get you 4 years in GITMO. Just reading this blog will probably put you on a watch list…]
Filed under Neocons
Fred Thompson Marches to a Different Drummer: The Veep
by Christopher Manion
In October 1979, as I drove him towards O’Hare Airport, Paul Weyrich did his best to cool my ardor for Ronald Reagan. “Don’t get your hopes up, Chris,” he said, “he’s not a real conservative.”
During the following 28 years, Weyrich has become the dean of conservative politics, and actually turned out to be quite a fan of Ronald Reagan. Now, Weyrich asks, “is Fred Thompson the second coming of Ronald Reagan?” Then he answers his own question: “Not exactly.”
You can say that again, Paul. Fred Thompson is not the second coming of Ronald Reagan. In fact, he’s the second coming of Dick Cheney, and wants to succeed Cheney in the presidency (not a misprint) by using the same tactics Cheney used to acquire it.
Filed under Bush, Fred Thompson, Neocons
… for harassing a reporter with an illegal traffic stop… http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19370373/
This kind of authoritarianism is to be expected from RudyMcRompsombots… Send that nosey reporter to Romney’s Doubled Guantanamo that will teach him!
Filed under Mitt Romney, Neocons, Police State
Ron Paul makes the rest of the presidential field look bad. All they have on him is empty name recognition… An educated voter WILL vote for Paul unless he is completely brainwashed by his respective party or has an IQ in the single digits (which is basically the same thing).
Paul’s campaign is almost completely grassroots, outside of the debates and few cable TV spots, it’s all viral which spreads more rapidly on the internet. But as we’ve seen from some GOP straw-polls it’s slowly penetrating off-line too. That momentum will only increase. He had zero name-recognition a few months ago, and still has very little compared to Rudy McRompson.
Other than the total loons who want to fight the Crusades again, Paul is appealing to Christian voters. And he damn well should be because of the candidates in the field, Paul has shown unparalleled integrity in public and private life during his 10 terms in Congress and his medical practice.
Paul speaks embarrassing truths and throws a monkey-wrench into the script… just as he did in the GOP debates… But he does this across the board. When he’s given the chance to speak he blows away political lies.
Dr. Paul cannot be bought, not by partisan shills, corrupt and lazy bureaucrats, special interests or corporate welfare recipients…
They will insult him and call him a racist, a loon, a moonbat, a 9-11 truther, a kook, an isolationist, a crank, and whatever other nonsense they can think up. But a few moments of hearing him speak, a quick read of his writings immediately prove these smears for what they are…
Don’t be fooled.
If he gets onto the mainstream media stage of America he WILL embarrass both the GOP and Dems. And if he is voted into office he WILL cut-off the corrupt SOBs who fund the mainstream of both of the parties.
He WILL reinstate the Constitution.
He WILL pull our troops out of Iraq, which is what the majority of Americans want… The Dems have failed to do this, and the GOP lives in an alternate reality.
This man NEEDS to be President. All others will only bring more of the same. Don’t throw your vote away!
After the second Republican presidential debates where Ron Paul said his piece that our messing around in the Middle East may have repercussions… Pundit Sean Hannity ran rough shod over the sage Dr. Paul with a bunch of pseudo-patriotic rhetoric. Here’s the proof that Hannity is indeed a ridiculous hypocrite with zero credibility:
http://orat.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html#1825782444233181264
Julie-Annie Kicked Off Iraq Study Group and His S.C. Finance Chairman is Arrested on Cocaine Charges…
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/06/19/a-bad-day-for-rudy/
How does Rudy respond to these incidents…?
9/11, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11… and 9/11.
Neocon Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian (Bloodlust) Alliance will host a presidential candidates forum on Saturday, June 30th in Des Moines. Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, Tommy Thompson, and Tom Tancredo will participate.
Ron Paul, however, will not participate. Why? Because he wasn’t invited.
Read on: http://ronpaul2008.typepad.com/ron_paul_2008/2007/06/ron_paul_exclud.html
These Iowan “Christians” are truly jihad-obsessed: http://www.iowachristian.com/060107.htm
As Ron Paul says the Republican party truly has lost it’s way… So called conservatives tend to agree that socialism doesn’t work, though the mainstream GOP has been turning more socialist everyday and this is especially true with regard to foreign policy.
Let’s look at the basis for the anti-socialism argument as a starting point. Part of it is that it discourages hard-work and progress, because you aren’t rewarded for working harder or smarter… why should you work harder when some other lazy jerk will get the same standard of living as you? And if you really get ahead, they’ll come along and take everything anyway.
The other reason that socialism doesn’t work is because of corruption and human error… Inevitably, the ones in charge of redistributing the wealth tend to give themselves and their friends the greater share. And when you’re trying to control every facet of life and business things have a way of going wrong. The ministry of agriculture wants corn planted here, not there… more soy beans, less lettuce… The ministry of industry wants more bicycles and less motorcycles, more hard wooden chairs and less couches etc…
The problem is that humans have this funny issue of being fallible… they make mistakes… That’s why it’s better to let the market decide how many bicycles or motorcycles should be made, the actual demand for these products, rather than arbitrary numbers. When a human tries to make this sort of decision it inevitably goes awry… and things have a domino effect which brings about disaster.
Now, Republicans generally believe these things, in theory at least, with regard to markets and economics. However, with foreign policy they become entirely emotional and delirious… For some reason they think that they can forsee the future with regard to foreign policy, they think that they pull lever A and get result B. Isn’t this exactly the sort of thinking that they’re against in regard to the duties of the state? And foreign policy is infinitely more complicated than national economics… cultural, economic, geographical, historical, religious… complications that dramatically increase the chances of error and miscalculation.
The use of military force further complicates and heightens the stakes. The more force you use the greater the consequences of the outcome.
Now, this sounds right. Right? How does it play-out in the real world… Let’s look at the history of our more forceful foreign policy efforts…
Support for the Contras in Nicaragua- Touched off a horrific civil war (40,000 dead) that this country has yet to recover from.
Support for Saddam Hussein against Iran- Saddam terrorized his own people for 20 years and was a general menace in the region.
Installation of the Shah in Iran– Set the country back 40 years and ushered in an era of anti-Western extremism that we’re dealing with today.
Vietnam War- 50,000 American soldiers dead. 100,000s wounded and lives broken. A disaster to our country and armed services. No real positive changes created in the region as a result.
The Iraq War-A complete disaster, which has discredited the US and made us look weak as well as further destablizing the Middle East and hardening Arab (and the rest of the world) opinion against us.
These are just a few of the more blatant examples, but we could go on for pages. All of this is well documented by the CIA, other government organizations, and historians. And the implications of all our overseas meddling are vast and complex… but undeniable.
The fundamental principle here is the same with regard to conservative economic and capitalistic prinicples… the state makes mistakes… efforts to control things, no matter how well intentioned overwhelmingly turn out badly.
The GOP’s foreign policy should be the same as it’s economic policy, to only regulate when you absolutely have to. Otherwise you have foreign policy socialism.
Afterall, neoconservatism originated from the extreme left wing…
When will they learn? How many enemies will we have to make? How many Vietnam and Iraq Wars will we have to fight?
Congressman Ron Paul is the ONLY presidential candidate who understands how non-interventionism works both in domestic economics AND foreign policy.
Neoconservative foreign policy socialists have been steering our country in the wrong direction for too long.
Let’s bring sanity to the White House. Ron Paul 2008!
Filed under Ron Paul
That’s the implication of what Giuliani and Romney said in the GOP debates…
“They should have a tamper-proof I.D. card. It should be in a database that allows you to figure out who they are, why they’re here, make sure they’re not illegal immigrants coming here for a bad purpose, and then to be able to throw out the ones who are not in that database,” Giuliani stated.
Mitt Romney parroted Giuliani’s remarks.
If Real ID is introduced for immigrants it won’t be long till it spreads to regular citizens, how else could they tell who’s illegal and who’s not without it being universal…?
This doesn’t sit well with the good doctor… Ron Paul denounces Real ID: http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul222.html
Filed under Neocons, Police State, Ron Paul
“In the first six years of the Bush presidency the administration’s ideological nucleus — a tribe of humorless conservative revolutionaries led by Dick Cheney and including the likes of Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Doug Feith and Elliott Abrams — racked up a startling record in matters of official policy. From their juking of the case for the Iraq War to their Jacobin-esque purges within the government’s intelligence apparatus to their paranoid and sometimes criminal fragging of political enemies great and minor, the neoconservatives working for George Bush botched virtually every important move they made in the last six years.”
NeoCon BS -- We've Had Enough 