tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post756127066206338054..comments2024-01-19T07:30:41.591-08:00Comments on An Average American Patriot: Palin's future, according to Garrison Keillor, Why I won’t vote for John McCain by Retired General and McCain's last Gasp by the Relentless Liberal!jmsjoinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-81666033687118851412008-10-15T14:27:00.000-07:002008-10-15T14:27:00.000-07:00Dave It friggen pisses me off! I may have showed...Dave<BR/> It friggen pisses me off! I may have showed you this before but I couldn't find the link but held on to this because it amazes me!<BR/> Who is Randy Scheunemann? <BR/><BR/>He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States. <BR/><BR/>But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role. <BR/><BR/>He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man. <BR/><BR/>From January 2007 to March 2008, the McCain campaign paid Scheunemann $70,000 pocket change compared to the $290,000 his Orion Strategies banked in those same 15 months from the Georgian regime of Mikheil Saakashvili. <BR/><BR/>What were Mikheil's marching orders to Tbilisi's man in Washington? Get Georgia a NATO war guarantee. Get America committed to fight Russia, if necessary, on behalf of Georgia. <BR/><BR/>Scheunemann came close to succeeding. <BR/><BR/>Had he done so, U.S. soldiers and Marines from Idaho and West Virginia would be killing Russians in the Caucasus, and dying to protect Scheunemann's client, who launched this idiotic war the night of Aug. 7. That people like Scheunemann hire themselves out to put American lives on the line for their clients is a classic corruption of American democracy. <BR/><BR/>U.S. backing for his campaign to retrieve his lost provinces is what Saakashvili paid Scheunemann to produce. But why should Americans fight Russians to force 70,000 South Ossetians back into the custody of a regime they detest? Why not let the South Ossetians decide their own future in free elections? <BR/><BR/>Not only is the folly of the Bush interventionist policy on display in the Caucasus, so, too, is its manifest incoherence. <BR/><BR/>Defense Secretary Robert Gates says we have sought for 45 years to stay out of a shooting war with Russia and we are not going to get into one now. President Bush assured us there will be no U.S. military response to the Russian move into Georgia. <BR/><BR/>That is a recognition of, and a bowing to, reality namely, that Russia's control of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and occupation of a strip of Georgia cannot be a casus belli for the United States. We may deplore it, but it cannot justify war with Russia. <BR/><BR/>If that be true, and it transparently is, what are McCain, Barack Obama, Bush, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel doing committing the United States and Germany to bringing Georgia into NATO? For that would commit us to war for a cause we have already conceded, by our paralysis, does not justify a war. <BR/><BR/>Not only did Scheunemann's two-man lobbying firm receive $730,000 since 2001 to get Georgia a NATO war guarantee, he was paid by Romania and Latvia to do the same. And he succeeded. <BR/><BR/>Latvia, a tiny Baltic republic annexed by Joseph Stalin in June 1940 during his pact with Adolf Hitler, was set free at the end of the Cold War. Yet hundreds of thousands of Russians had been moved into Latvia by Stalin, and as Riga served as a base of the Baltic Sea fleet, many Russian naval officers retired there. <BR/><BR/>The children and grandchildren of these Russians are Latvian citizens. They are a cause of constant tension with ethnic Letts and of strife with Moscow, which has assumed the role of protector of Russians left behind in the "near abroad" when the Soviet Union broke apart. <BR/><BR/>Thanks to the lobbying of Scheunemann and friends, Latvia has been brought into NATO and given a U.S. war guarantee. If Russia intervenes to halt some nasty ethnic violence in Riga, the United States is committed to come in and drive the Russians out. <BR/><BR/>This is the situation in which the interventionists have placed our country: committed to go to war for countries and causes that do not justify war, against a Russia that is re-emerging as a great power only to find NATO squatting on her doorstep. <BR/><BR/>Scheunemann's resume as a War Party apparatchik is lengthy. He signed the PNAC (Project for the New American Century) letter to President Clinton urging war on Iraq, four years before 9/11. He signed the PNAC ultimatum to Bush, nine days after 9/11, threatening him with political reprisal if he did not go to war against Iraq. He was executive director of the "Committee for the Liberation of Iraq," a propaganda front for Ahmad Chalabi and his pack of liars who deceived us into war. <BR/><BR/>Now Scheunemann is the neocon agent in place in McCain's camp. <BR/><BR/>The neocons got their war with Iraq. They are pushing for war on Iran. And they are now baiting the Russian Bear. <BR/><BR/>Is this what McCain has on offer? Endless war? <BR/><BR/>Why would McCain seek foreign policy counsel from the same discredited crowd that has all but destroyed the presidency of George Bush? <BR/><BR/>"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ... a free people ought to be constantly awake," Washington warned in his Farewell Address. Our Founding Father was warning against the Randy Scheunemanns among us, agents hired by foreign powers to deceive Americans into fighting their wars. And none dare call it treason. <BR/><BR/>How the hell do they get away with this shit?jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-74147085714727439232008-10-15T14:17:00.000-07:002008-10-15T14:17:00.000-07:00Snave Thanks! I have been walking arouind showin...Snave<BR/> Thanks! I have been walking arouind showing the house and property to the new owners sorry I took so long! I absolutely want to hope for the best but I absoloutely 100% expect this election stolen too! There is no way in hell the right is going to let their abusive power in our hands or their Fascist agenda to end they have gone too far but we can hope! Bush has about 97 days to do his worst. If somehow Obama does get in Bush has until January 20th to impliment Executive order 51!jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-67300547451053168472008-10-15T13:20:00.000-07:002008-10-15T13:20:00.000-07:00It really is simple.Just take McCain's two top adv...It really is simple.<BR/><BR/>Just take McCain's two top advisors.<BR/><BR/>Phil(Enron Loophole)Gramm is an engineer of the economic collapse.<BR/><BR/>Randy Scheunemann is a Cheney/Rumsfeld war-mongering neocon crony.<BR/><BR/>How the hell can that crew be any kind of change?<BR/><BR/>Oops. I forgot. McDoofus is a straight-talking war hero.<BR/><BR/>Never mind.Dave Dubyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-91780902498969566312008-10-15T12:29:00.000-07:002008-10-15T12:29:00.000-07:00Great articles, AAP!In "The Great Unraveling", Pau...Great articles, AAP!<BR/><BR/>In "The Great Unraveling", Paul Krugman suggests that the crazy people among us are the ones who DON'T think in terms of conspiracy when it comes to what the GOP is trying to pull. Have you read that book? I'm listening to the audiobook version now, and it's fantastic stuff. <BR/><BR/>The McCain campaign doomed? We can sure hope so! If Obama wins, happy days won't necessarily be here again, but the agenda of the creepy people may suffer a setback. As I see it, an Obama win will buy America some time. How much of the Bush power grab can Obama roll back in four years in office? <BR/><BR/>Then again, Obama has to be able to take the Oath in January.Snavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13763424943041003098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-45635507062448108212008-10-15T06:58:00.000-07:002008-10-15T06:58:00.000-07:00Hey Wally You are right on saying Farm Boy! It is...Hey Wally<BR/> You are right on saying Farm Boy! It is funny about Trice because we have been together for 13 years now and are so different but totally compatible it is funny! I will be by to see what you did! I sure wish I knew what those letters meant can you give me a hint?<BR/> The electrician called to tell us he would be able to convert the new House in a couple of days. I just gathered all the yard stuff and went out front. There was a copy of the P&S and the sign said dale pending so things are moving quickly!jmsjoinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631105639275375922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-69304847930954110232008-10-15T06:12:00.000-07:002008-10-15T06:12:00.000-07:00Hahahahaha I was wondering why blogger didn't acc...Hahahahaha I was wondering why blogger didn't accept my word verification. I see it in the comment. Doh! -- Dumb WeaselWally da Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09107351942861353816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15216381.post-89048184734696937462008-10-15T06:09:00.000-07:002008-10-15T06:09:00.000-07:00Hey Farm Boy--It's stuff like that that makes me p...Hey Farm Boy--<BR/>It's stuff like that that makes me pissed they won't let weasels vote.<BR/><BR/>I just finished putting up a post that's right up your alley.<BR/><BR/>Good luck with the little woman! If I were you, I'd crawl into a hole where she couldn't find me.;)nfgmkgWally da Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09107351942861353816noreply@blogger.com