First I have to say Iraq was lost the day Bush diverted from the war on terror to attack it to implement what he thought would be a new middle east order. Saddam's death will not stop the breakdown Bush started. It will only serve to speed it up! Sectarian violence will now get much worse and Bush is preparing to send thousand more American soldiers there to make it even worse for our losses. It will have no effect on the total collapse Bush set in motion. Post Bush is Iraq's big worry! What will the future bring?
In 2005 as I was preparing to do my New Years Eve Post I caught Bush's speech promising more of the same for 2006 and I knew we were in trouble! You know how the year went for average American's, Iraq, the middle east, and the world under Bush. we all must worry about what the future will bring post Bush because of the damage Bush has created around the world!
Tomorrow is 2007! With a promise to worsen Iraq and another year to damage the middle east, America, and the world, I have to wonder
first if the Democratic Congress can restore our America and bring justice back to the average American, do the right thing for Iraq, try to help the middle east, and repair our standing in the world as long as Bush is around. I know they have the best of intentions in doing so but I really don't see it happening as long as Bush is around to gum things up!
Knowing that Bush is going to continue to make a mess of America, Iraq, the middle east, and the world, I have to ask the crucial question! what will it all look like after Bush ? He has really dug the world and America a hole! Can we get out of it?
Bush has set in motion emotions and events that will be playing out not only in Iraq and the middle east but around the world long after he is out of office and he will not accept responsibility for any of it. Yes it is sad to say but Post Bush is Iraq's, the middle east, America's, and the worlds chief concern as we try to move successfully into the future not post Saddam!
Happy New Year and Good Luck to All!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Now that Saddam is dead Look at the hell that is getting ready to occur!
You thought it was bad before, now watch!
Saddam's attorney's we're wasting their time as they asked for U.S. intervention! They filed documents Friday afternoon asking for an emergency restraining order aimed at stopping the U.S. government from relinquishing custody of the condemned former Iraqi leader to Iraqi officials, a spokeswoman for a federal court in Washington D.C. said. That is the only thing that would have halted the total breakdown that will occur not that Saddam is dead.
You have to believe that hanging Saddam will only serve to further the hell Bush has created for Iraq. India and Russia are right to be concerned about furthering the division in Iraq. They did not want to see Saddam hanged and they felt correctly that it would obstruct the course of reconciliation and delay the restoration of peace in Iraq. Now the hell Bush created in Iraq will now be on full bore!
We hear threats every day from the Baath party that they would have retribution if Saddam was hanged. Now that he is dead despite tightened security with 31 recent dead the worsening violence is just beginning. I also saw on the news that there was a rush of volunteers to be the one to pull the lever on the Shiite side! Also that the men who led him to the gallows were hooded so they couldn't be identified. This wasn't a victory for the Iraqi people. This was merely vengeance. If they cared about a unified Iraq they would have kept him alive regardless of how distasteful.
As you know from past experience every single time Bush declares a victory for the Iraqi people the hell Bush has created in Iraq increases. The elections under gunpoint, the creation of a Government under duress, the killing of Zarqawi, have all served to bring the sectarian violence to the next level with thousands and thousands more murdered every time Bush declares a victory for the Iraqi people.
They can't survive any more of Bush's victories! With the Baathists threatening retaliation against Americans and Shiite you have to believe Hanging Saddam will make the sectarian war in Iraq unstoppable though I think it already was. Now it will get worse! This will be the trigger that sets it off full scale. The hanging of Saddam will be the final step to total chaos and breakdown of any chance for order in Iraq! All the stops will be pulled by both parties and all hell will now break out! That is a fact not a possibility!
Remember, this is at a time when this threat supposedly from Al Qaeda in Iraq was recently received. This will be bad! The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, said his fighters were now launching a new offensive. Baghdadi's speech appeared aimed at establishing the credibility of the previously declared "Islamic state" among Sunni Arabs, locked in increasing sectarian violence with Iraq’s Shiite majority. It will now get a lot worse! Sunni Arab insurgents hold sway in parts of western Anbar province and some towns and villages of Diyala province northeast of Baghdad; in some districts, they have even tried to enforce strict versions of Islamic law on residents.
With support supposedly growing for an Islamic State and Baghdadi actively recruiting former officers of Saddam's army and the fact that Bush of course will ignore warnings and is going to add more troops to his failure to be needlessly killed, this is going to scare the hell out of you! .
Addressing the United States, al-Baghdadi said: "We are announcing today our orders for you, so obey them before you regret it."We order you to withdraw your troops immediately, using troop carriers and aircraft, and taking only your personal weapons. Don't withdraw any heavy weapons. Instead you should hand over those and your military bases to the holy warriors of the Islamic State," he said.
He has extended an offer for a one month truce for the withdrawal, He said the withdrawal period should not exceed one month, and during that time "we will allow the withdrawal to proceed without being attacked by explosives or any other form." Washington had two weeks to respond to the truce offer, he said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
Just remember amidst all this there is another carrier group heading to the middle east and Bush appears to be promising to send 20,000 or 30,000 more American's into the hell he has created. It is asinine to me to hear that Bush is planning to put our troops on the street corners to keep the streets secure while in actuality all it will do is make those poor soldiers target practice for an increasing amount of snipers and increase and further the wasting of American lives on a cause that was a guaranteed failure from conception.
To top it off we are also hearing of recruiting mercenaries overseas in trade for U.S. citizenship. Bush is getting desperate but No matter what anyone says or does no one will turn around bush's Iraqi breakdown and it will spread throughout the entire middle east! Bush refuses to realize the gravity of what he has done and what he is still doing!
In closing I must say that since last night I have been seeing multitudes of posts on the issue of Saddam's hanging but I feel it necessary to post this still because what Bush has started in Iraq will not be controlled and their is no turning it around. It is not a question of whether or not the violence will in crease or be quelled. It is a question of when the chief idiot will ever realize he screwed up and we better get out of there?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Saddam's attorney's we're wasting their time as they asked for U.S. intervention! They filed documents Friday afternoon asking for an emergency restraining order aimed at stopping the U.S. government from relinquishing custody of the condemned former Iraqi leader to Iraqi officials, a spokeswoman for a federal court in Washington D.C. said. That is the only thing that would have halted the total breakdown that will occur not that Saddam is dead.
You have to believe that hanging Saddam will only serve to further the hell Bush has created for Iraq. India and Russia are right to be concerned about furthering the division in Iraq. They did not want to see Saddam hanged and they felt correctly that it would obstruct the course of reconciliation and delay the restoration of peace in Iraq. Now the hell Bush created in Iraq will now be on full bore!
We hear threats every day from the Baath party that they would have retribution if Saddam was hanged. Now that he is dead despite tightened security with 31 recent dead the worsening violence is just beginning. I also saw on the news that there was a rush of volunteers to be the one to pull the lever on the Shiite side! Also that the men who led him to the gallows were hooded so they couldn't be identified. This wasn't a victory for the Iraqi people. This was merely vengeance. If they cared about a unified Iraq they would have kept him alive regardless of how distasteful.
As you know from past experience every single time Bush declares a victory for the Iraqi people the hell Bush has created in Iraq increases. The elections under gunpoint, the creation of a Government under duress, the killing of Zarqawi, have all served to bring the sectarian violence to the next level with thousands and thousands more murdered every time Bush declares a victory for the Iraqi people.
They can't survive any more of Bush's victories! With the Baathists threatening retaliation against Americans and Shiite you have to believe Hanging Saddam will make the sectarian war in Iraq unstoppable though I think it already was. Now it will get worse! This will be the trigger that sets it off full scale. The hanging of Saddam will be the final step to total chaos and breakdown of any chance for order in Iraq! All the stops will be pulled by both parties and all hell will now break out! That is a fact not a possibility!
Remember, this is at a time when this threat supposedly from Al Qaeda in Iraq was recently received. This will be bad! The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, said his fighters were now launching a new offensive. Baghdadi's speech appeared aimed at establishing the credibility of the previously declared "Islamic state" among Sunni Arabs, locked in increasing sectarian violence with Iraq’s Shiite majority. It will now get a lot worse! Sunni Arab insurgents hold sway in parts of western Anbar province and some towns and villages of Diyala province northeast of Baghdad; in some districts, they have even tried to enforce strict versions of Islamic law on residents.
With support supposedly growing for an Islamic State and Baghdadi actively recruiting former officers of Saddam's army and the fact that Bush of course will ignore warnings and is going to add more troops to his failure to be needlessly killed, this is going to scare the hell out of you! .
Addressing the United States, al-Baghdadi said: "We are announcing today our orders for you, so obey them before you regret it."We order you to withdraw your troops immediately, using troop carriers and aircraft, and taking only your personal weapons. Don't withdraw any heavy weapons. Instead you should hand over those and your military bases to the holy warriors of the Islamic State," he said.
He has extended an offer for a one month truce for the withdrawal, He said the withdrawal period should not exceed one month, and during that time "we will allow the withdrawal to proceed without being attacked by explosives or any other form." Washington had two weeks to respond to the truce offer, he said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
Just remember amidst all this there is another carrier group heading to the middle east and Bush appears to be promising to send 20,000 or 30,000 more American's into the hell he has created. It is asinine to me to hear that Bush is planning to put our troops on the street corners to keep the streets secure while in actuality all it will do is make those poor soldiers target practice for an increasing amount of snipers and increase and further the wasting of American lives on a cause that was a guaranteed failure from conception.
To top it off we are also hearing of recruiting mercenaries overseas in trade for U.S. citizenship. Bush is getting desperate but No matter what anyone says or does no one will turn around bush's Iraqi breakdown and it will spread throughout the entire middle east! Bush refuses to realize the gravity of what he has done and what he is still doing!
In closing I must say that since last night I have been seeing multitudes of posts on the issue of Saddam's hanging but I feel it necessary to post this still because what Bush has started in Iraq will not be controlled and their is no turning it around. It is not a question of whether or not the violence will in crease or be quelled. It is a question of when the chief idiot will ever realize he screwed up and we better get out of there?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Friday, December 29, 2006
FDA declares Cloned meat Safe! Are we supposed to feel good about that with their track record?
More about the FDA shortly and I do want to know what you think about the FDA and the idea of eating cloned, unmarked, meat?
The FDA assures us after a supposed 5 year study for your safety they concluded that cloned livestock is "virtually indistinguishable" from conventional livestock. i really don't know what I think about this yet but I have learned not to trust the FDA. I have to ask how virtual is this virtually indistinguishable difference? and we don't need special labels?
I understand the verdict is out for 3 months until a final decision is made on disclosure issue . While Joseph Mendelson, legal director of the Center for Food Safety says we are going to be having a product that has potential safety issues and has a whole load of ethical issues tied to it, without any labeling.
Also the director of food policy at the Consumer Federation of America said the FDA is ignoring research that shows cloning results in
more deaths and deformed animals than other reproductive technologies. They have announced that they feel so good about this cloned meat that they will ask food companies and supermarkets to refuse to sell food from clones.
Looking at the process used in the cloning it appears to be innocent enough but i don't know? How are we supposed to believe the FDA with their track record? we're supposed to feel better because they are only going to use these manufactured animals for breeding! Where the hell is the security in that?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/28/cloned.food
I have to ask once again but who are we supposed to trust? I thought the FDA worked for the people but now I know otherwise. They have misled us many times in the past. Look at some examples of their corruption and you will know why. Then tell me how you feel about this "virtually indistinguishable meat"
First a regulating Government Body should be Governing, Regulating, and protecting us from Food and Drug Companies. We can't realistically expect this to be the case when all sides work together? This idea that the FDA tells us we don't have to know which meat is cloned is not in our interest. Personally I don't trust it and I wouldn't buy it. I believe many of you feel the same way. As they have put the pharmaceutical industry before our health many times. this idea of not letting us know which meat is cloned is not for us, it is for the industry that the FDA works for.
Also a law was quietly passed in Congress a while back to increase the FDA's dependency for funding on the very companies they are supposed to honestly regulate. Not identifying cloned meat is another example of this. Sounds like a setup to me! they can't seriously expect honesty under these conditions can they?
To be fair I wrote this about the FDA 2 years ago and the FDA being funded by the companies they were supposed to be inspecting, along with many other inequities was supposed to be regulated. However I haven't heard anything have you? Seriously, can we expect the FDA to regulate themselves or for that matter, this Congress?
Knowing the FDA's track record how safe do you feel with cloned meat out there marked or unmarked? It seems to me like this should be our decision. we know we can not trust the Government!
Do you trust the FDA?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
The FDA assures us after a supposed 5 year study for your safety they concluded that cloned livestock is "virtually indistinguishable" from conventional livestock. i really don't know what I think about this yet but I have learned not to trust the FDA. I have to ask how virtual is this virtually indistinguishable difference? and we don't need special labels?
I understand the verdict is out for 3 months until a final decision is made on disclosure issue . While Joseph Mendelson, legal director of the Center for Food Safety says we are going to be having a product that has potential safety issues and has a whole load of ethical issues tied to it, without any labeling.
Also the director of food policy at the Consumer Federation of America said the FDA is ignoring research that shows cloning results in
more deaths and deformed animals than other reproductive technologies. They have announced that they feel so good about this cloned meat that they will ask food companies and supermarkets to refuse to sell food from clones.
Looking at the process used in the cloning it appears to be innocent enough but i don't know? How are we supposed to believe the FDA with their track record? we're supposed to feel better because they are only going to use these manufactured animals for breeding! Where the hell is the security in that?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/28/cloned.food
I have to ask once again but who are we supposed to trust? I thought the FDA worked for the people but now I know otherwise. They have misled us many times in the past. Look at some examples of their corruption and you will know why. Then tell me how you feel about this "virtually indistinguishable meat"
First a regulating Government Body should be Governing, Regulating, and protecting us from Food and Drug Companies. We can't realistically expect this to be the case when all sides work together? This idea that the FDA tells us we don't have to know which meat is cloned is not in our interest. Personally I don't trust it and I wouldn't buy it. I believe many of you feel the same way. As they have put the pharmaceutical industry before our health many times. this idea of not letting us know which meat is cloned is not for us, it is for the industry that the FDA works for.
Also a law was quietly passed in Congress a while back to increase the FDA's dependency for funding on the very companies they are supposed to honestly regulate. Not identifying cloned meat is another example of this. Sounds like a setup to me! they can't seriously expect honesty under these conditions can they?
To be fair I wrote this about the FDA 2 years ago and the FDA being funded by the companies they were supposed to be inspecting, along with many other inequities was supposed to be regulated. However I haven't heard anything have you? Seriously, can we expect the FDA to regulate themselves or for that matter, this Congress?
Knowing the FDA's track record how safe do you feel with cloned meat out there marked or unmarked? It seems to me like this should be our decision. we know we can not trust the Government!
Do you trust the FDA?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Thursday, December 28, 2006
India right about hanging saddam/Bush's victory for Iraq will create more turmoil and destruction!
You have to believe that hanging Saddam will only serve to further the hell Bush has created for Iraq. India is right to be concerned about furthering the division in Iraq. They do not want to see Saddam hanged and they felt correctly that it would obstruct the course of reconciliation and delay the restoration of peace in Iraq. http://www.hindustantimes.com/...
I heard threats today from the Baath party that they would have retribution if Saddam was hanged. I also saw on the news that people would not show their face but there was a rush of volunteers to be the one to do it on the Shiite side!
With that in mind I have this article saying Saddam told Iraqi's not to be angry towards the Americans for invading Iraq and this was supposedly verified by Saddam's lawyer. saddam supposedly said this because he was told he would be able to speak and then they would not allow him.
http://www.cnn.com/...
I have to believe that he was coerced into saying that by being told that he owed it to Iraq and his Sunni party to try to bring the country together in his death like he didn't during his life in order to try and hold Iraq together after Bush's attack.It will not happen! What Bush started by attacking Iraq for what he thought would be his new order will only get worse and will be stopped by no one. I also heard on the news that Saddam was calling for death to the invaders. This must have been after he was not allowed to speak and sounds more like him. Very Confusing!
As you know from past experience every single time Bush declares a victory for the Iraqi people the hell Bush has created in Iraq increases. The elections under gunpoint, the creation of a Government under duress, the killing of Zarqawi, have all served to bring the sectarian violence to the next level with thousands and thousands more murdered every time Bush declares a victory for the Iraqi people.
They can't survive any more of Bush's victories! With the Baathists threatening retaliation against Americans and Shiite you have to believe Hanging Saddam will finish off the sectarian war in Iraq. That will be the trigger that sets it off full scale.
Remember, this is at a time when this threat supposedly from Al Qaeda in Iraq was recently received. This will be bad! The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, said his fighters were now launching a new offensive, "the offensive of the strong." He said the offensive would last until the final day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, which should finish about Jan. 3. this was part of a 20 minute audio that is yet to be verified.
Baghdadi's speech appeared aimed at establishing the credibility of the previously declared "Islamic state" among Sunni Arabs, locked in increasing sectarian violence with Iraq’s Shiite majority. Sunni Arab insurgents hold sway in parts of western Anbar province and some towns and villages of Diyala province northeast of Baghdad; in some districts, they have even tried to enforce strict versions of Islamic law on residents.
With support supposedly growing for an Islamic State and Baghdady actively recruiting former officers of Saddam's army and the fact that Bush of course will ignore warnings and is going to add more troops to his failure to be needlessly killed, this is going to scare the hell out of you! .
Addressing the United States, al-Baghdadi said: "We are announcing today our orders for you, so obey them before you regret it."We order you to withdraw your troops immediately, using troop carriers and aircraft, and taking only your personal weapons. Don’t withdraw any heavy weapons. Instead you should hand over those and your military bases to the holy warriors of the Islamic State," he said.
He has extended an offer for a one month truce for the withdrawal, He said the withdrawal period should not exceed one month, and during that time "we will allow the withdrawal to proceed without being attacked by explosives or any other form." Washington had two weeks to respond to the truce offer, he said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
Just remember amidst all this there is another carrier group heading to the middle east and Bush appears to be promising to send 30,000 more American's into the hell he has created. No matter what anyone says or does no one will turn around bush's Iraqi breakdown and it will spread throughout the entire middle east!
As far as I am concerned the only thing that could have turned Iraq and all this around would have been to reinstate Saddam, keep an eye on him, and restore order in his violent way. it would beat the horrific violence invoked by Bush's so called victories!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
I heard threats today from the Baath party that they would have retribution if Saddam was hanged. I also saw on the news that people would not show their face but there was a rush of volunteers to be the one to do it on the Shiite side!
With that in mind I have this article saying Saddam told Iraqi's not to be angry towards the Americans for invading Iraq and this was supposedly verified by Saddam's lawyer. saddam supposedly said this because he was told he would be able to speak and then they would not allow him.
http://www.cnn.com/...
I have to believe that he was coerced into saying that by being told that he owed it to Iraq and his Sunni party to try to bring the country together in his death like he didn't during his life in order to try and hold Iraq together after Bush's attack.It will not happen! What Bush started by attacking Iraq for what he thought would be his new order will only get worse and will be stopped by no one. I also heard on the news that Saddam was calling for death to the invaders. This must have been after he was not allowed to speak and sounds more like him. Very Confusing!
As you know from past experience every single time Bush declares a victory for the Iraqi people the hell Bush has created in Iraq increases. The elections under gunpoint, the creation of a Government under duress, the killing of Zarqawi, have all served to bring the sectarian violence to the next level with thousands and thousands more murdered every time Bush declares a victory for the Iraqi people.
They can't survive any more of Bush's victories! With the Baathists threatening retaliation against Americans and Shiite you have to believe Hanging Saddam will finish off the sectarian war in Iraq. That will be the trigger that sets it off full scale.
Remember, this is at a time when this threat supposedly from Al Qaeda in Iraq was recently received. This will be bad! The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, said his fighters were now launching a new offensive, "the offensive of the strong." He said the offensive would last until the final day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, which should finish about Jan. 3. this was part of a 20 minute audio that is yet to be verified.
Baghdadi's speech appeared aimed at establishing the credibility of the previously declared "Islamic state" among Sunni Arabs, locked in increasing sectarian violence with Iraq’s Shiite majority. Sunni Arab insurgents hold sway in parts of western Anbar province and some towns and villages of Diyala province northeast of Baghdad; in some districts, they have even tried to enforce strict versions of Islamic law on residents.
With support supposedly growing for an Islamic State and Baghdady actively recruiting former officers of Saddam's army and the fact that Bush of course will ignore warnings and is going to add more troops to his failure to be needlessly killed, this is going to scare the hell out of you! .
Addressing the United States, al-Baghdadi said: "We are announcing today our orders for you, so obey them before you regret it."We order you to withdraw your troops immediately, using troop carriers and aircraft, and taking only your personal weapons. Don’t withdraw any heavy weapons. Instead you should hand over those and your military bases to the holy warriors of the Islamic State," he said.
He has extended an offer for a one month truce for the withdrawal, He said the withdrawal period should not exceed one month, and during that time "we will allow the withdrawal to proceed without being attacked by explosives or any other form." Washington had two weeks to respond to the truce offer, he said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
Just remember amidst all this there is another carrier group heading to the middle east and Bush appears to be promising to send 30,000 more American's into the hell he has created. No matter what anyone says or does no one will turn around bush's Iraqi breakdown and it will spread throughout the entire middle east!
As far as I am concerned the only thing that could have turned Iraq and all this around would have been to reinstate Saddam, keep an eye on him, and restore order in his violent way. it would beat the horrific violence invoked by Bush's so called victories!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
l'm disturbed that Bushco has hidden the fact that Iran faces oil Crisis! Does Iran need nuclear power to...
Does Iran really need Nuclear power to survive as a Nation? Does Bush really just want to find an excuse to attack them to fully impliment his plan for a new middle east order? I was rather taken aback myself to find out Iran is suffering a staggering decline in revenue from its oil exports, and if the trend continues income could virtually disappear by 2015, according to an analysis published Monday by the National Academy of Sciences.
Roger Stern, an economic geographer at Johns Hopkins University, said in a report and in an interview said that Iran's economic woes could make the country unstable and vulnerable, with its oil industry crippled.
Since all we hear about is how much oil Iran has I was really caught off guard to find out that yes Iran earns about 50 Billion dollars per year in oil exports but the decline is estimated at up to 12% annually and in less than 5 years their primary income source could be halved and disappear all together by 2015.
For more than 2 decades the U.S. has deployed military forces in the region in a strategy to pre-empt emergence of a regional superpower. Of course this is far longer then the 4 years since Bush has designated Iran as part of the axis of evil.
The U.S. military exercises have not stopped Iran's drive and especially since Bush stupidly attacked Iraq it all has served to have the opposite affect as any average idiot would have known. However this report points out that the loss of oil revenues would have a disastrous affect. I am sure Bush is stupid enough to think that would work in his favor but again it would only serve to bond the people of Iran against us.
With all that said I have to admit that the report also supports U.S. and European suspicions that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons in violation of international understandings But says there could be merit to Iran's assertion that it needs nuclear power for civilian purposes "as badly as it claims.
The report goes on to say that with an explosive demand at home and poor management, the appeal of nuclear power, financed by Russia, could fill a real need for production of more electricity. With an annual shortfall of Iran's quota of 300,000 barrels to the tune of 5.5 Billion dollars a year I am really starting to question Bush's goal with Iran! http://www.chron.com/...
I am also perplexed over why if this is true, Iran has not capitalized off this and let it be known? I am also stymied that Bushco has managed to keep this hidden and instead appears interested only instigating angst with Iran who is also inexplicably doing their share in turn.
To me this is only going to culminate with Bush finding his excuse to attack Iran in order to finish his new middle east order that he started when he diverted from the war on terror to attack Iraq and destabilize the middle east to start what he thought would be a new middle east order that will end in total failure as should have been known before the chief idiot even started this!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Roger Stern, an economic geographer at Johns Hopkins University, said in a report and in an interview said that Iran's economic woes could make the country unstable and vulnerable, with its oil industry crippled.
Since all we hear about is how much oil Iran has I was really caught off guard to find out that yes Iran earns about 50 Billion dollars per year in oil exports but the decline is estimated at up to 12% annually and in less than 5 years their primary income source could be halved and disappear all together by 2015.
For more than 2 decades the U.S. has deployed military forces in the region in a strategy to pre-empt emergence of a regional superpower. Of course this is far longer then the 4 years since Bush has designated Iran as part of the axis of evil.
The U.S. military exercises have not stopped Iran's drive and especially since Bush stupidly attacked Iraq it all has served to have the opposite affect as any average idiot would have known. However this report points out that the loss of oil revenues would have a disastrous affect. I am sure Bush is stupid enough to think that would work in his favor but again it would only serve to bond the people of Iran against us.
With all that said I have to admit that the report also supports U.S. and European suspicions that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons in violation of international understandings But says there could be merit to Iran's assertion that it needs nuclear power for civilian purposes "as badly as it claims.
The report goes on to say that with an explosive demand at home and poor management, the appeal of nuclear power, financed by Russia, could fill a real need for production of more electricity. With an annual shortfall of Iran's quota of 300,000 barrels to the tune of 5.5 Billion dollars a year I am really starting to question Bush's goal with Iran! http://www.chron.com/...
I am also perplexed over why if this is true, Iran has not capitalized off this and let it be known? I am also stymied that Bushco has managed to keep this hidden and instead appears interested only instigating angst with Iran who is also inexplicably doing their share in turn.
To me this is only going to culminate with Bush finding his excuse to attack Iran in order to finish his new middle east order that he started when he diverted from the war on terror to attack Iraq and destabilize the middle east to start what he thought would be a new middle east order that will end in total failure as should have been known before the chief idiot even started this!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
With more Americans killed in Iraq than during 9/11 Bush looks at hiring Mercenaries!
With more Americans killed in Iraq than during 9/1l, Bush looks at making the deaths as diverse by hiring Mercenaries!
First I want to say that if Bush stayed in Afghanistan instead of diverting from the war on terror to attack Iraq in order to start his new middle east order, instead of American deaths surpassing those incurred during 9/11 with 2,975 killed during 9/11 and Bush having killed 2,978 in his illegal war.
American deaths would be 10% of what they are, with 295 Americans haven been killed in Afghanistan as of 12/11/06. Meanwhile, not only is Bush going to have a troop surge in Iraq of 30,000 more troops and ensuring more dead Americans in his lost Iraq war from the get go.
I awoke this morning to hear that Bush was contemplating recruiting in other Countries, hiring Mercenaries, and thus increasing and diversifying the deaths in Iraq.
It will only succeed in not only further surpassing the deaths in 9/11 but will guarantee that the countries will be equally represented.
I am just appalled at the lunacy of the chief idiot and to see the extremes he will go to in an effort to stay the course of failure in Iraq. with this still just getting underway the entire middle east is going to equal the hell on earth Bush is so proud of creating for Iraqi's.
God help us because Bush won't!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
First I want to say that if Bush stayed in Afghanistan instead of diverting from the war on terror to attack Iraq in order to start his new middle east order, instead of American deaths surpassing those incurred during 9/11 with 2,975 killed during 9/11 and Bush having killed 2,978 in his illegal war.
American deaths would be 10% of what they are, with 295 Americans haven been killed in Afghanistan as of 12/11/06. Meanwhile, not only is Bush going to have a troop surge in Iraq of 30,000 more troops and ensuring more dead Americans in his lost Iraq war from the get go.
I awoke this morning to hear that Bush was contemplating recruiting in other Countries, hiring Mercenaries, and thus increasing and diversifying the deaths in Iraq.
It will only succeed in not only further surpassing the deaths in 9/11 but will guarantee that the countries will be equally represented.
I am just appalled at the lunacy of the chief idiot and to see the extremes he will go to in an effort to stay the course of failure in Iraq. with this still just getting underway the entire middle east is going to equal the hell on earth Bush is so proud of creating for Iraqi's.
God help us because Bush won't!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Monday, December 25, 2006
Christmas Pilgrims scarce in Bethlehem, I don't like it but I can't understand the surprise!
First I just want to wish you a merry Christmas! I don't have much time today because I just finished preparing Christmas Dinner and will have to light a fire soon and play host before I lay out Christmas dinner. No politics today!
I did have something I was going to finish putting together for today but in light of something I saw last night. I thought it best to put it aside and discuss Bethlehem today with a very different, confusing to the people there, Christmas season.
West Bank (Dec. 24) - Marching bands, children dressed as Santa Claus and clergymen in magenta skullcaps gathered in the center of Bethlehem on Sunday to celebrate Christmas Eve, doing their best to dispel the gloom hovering over Jesus' traditional birthplace.
In an annual custom, townspeople enacted Christmas rituals that seem out of place in the Middle East.
Palestinian scouts marched through the streets, some wearing kilts and berets, playing drums and bagpipes. They passed inflatable Santa's looking forlorn in the sunshine.
Other acts, however, could take place nowhere else. To get to the West Bank town, Michel Sabbah, the Roman Catholic Church's highest official in the Holy Land, rode in his motorcade through a huge steel gate in the Israeli barrier that separates Jerusalem from Bethlehem.
Israel says it built the barrier to prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from reaching Israeli population centers. Palestinians view the structure, which
dips into parts of the West Bank, as a land grab. The robed was led into Palestinian controlled territory from Israeli controlled territory by an escort of Israeli policemen while armed police closed the gate behind them.
While he is right of course in saying that this Holy land is sacred to Jews, Muslims, and Christians and they should be working for peace. Our so called leaders have done nothing but worked to make war. Meanwhile Bethlehem is falling apart and it's Religious significance and core is being ignored. The world should take some time to reflect on that on this most important day. Muslims, Jews, Christians, they should all take this time to think about what is really important and what they all are doing to what they say is most important to them, their Holy land, their Holy shrines, and the people who love them.
This Christmas was the first under a Palestinian Authority controlled by the militant Islamic group Hamas. As a result even though Hamas has pledged $50,000 for decorating Manger Square. There were fewer Christmas decorations than in the past, and for the first time no Christmas carols were piped over the loudspeaker system.
First I have to say, I can't believe that people over there under these conditions can say it is safe over there, think everything should be normal, and wonder why people are staying away. Standing outside his empty souvenir shop, George Baboul said it was the "worst Christmas" he had seen in more than 30 years. His Bethlehem Star Store is in a prime location, at the side of the Church of the Nativity, but he said there is no business.
No tourists are coming," said Baboul, 72, who opened the shop in 1967. "I don't know what's the reason for that. There are no problems, Bethlehem is safe, but tourists are afraid to come. Despite this Bethlehem's Mayor said the city would celebrate Christmas despite the hardship.
I have to say I am a Christian and do not feel a special connection to Bethlehem as my beliefs are in my heart. However, I am very disappointed that Bethlehem is being disregarded while the 3 religions will only succeed in destroying their own History they claim to love so much.
Despite this and With all this oppression, this economic stress, physical stress, psychological stress, we are defying all these obstacles and we are celebrating Christmas so that we'll put joy into the faces of our children, joy to the citizens of Bethlehem," Batarseh said. "It's Christmas, it's time for joy, hope and peace, and happiness for all," he said.I wish the world, all 3 religions, would take a moment to remember this and think about what they are doing to their own heritage and future.
In the Gaza Strip, where 3,000 Palestinian Christians live among around 1.4 million Muslims, the head of the tiny Roman Catholic community canceled midnight Mass, citing recent gun battles between the Fatah and Hamas movements. Father Manuel Musallem said young Christians in Gaza were scared. "The children told me Santa Claus won't come this year because it's too dangerous," he said.
http://articles.news.aol.com/...
In closing I again Implore the world and the 3 "great" Religions on this Holy day to take a moment and reflect on what is important in this life and world. remember this is your Heritage, your past you are destroying. This is your future you are endangering. These are your children.
Merry Christmas
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
I did have something I was going to finish putting together for today but in light of something I saw last night. I thought it best to put it aside and discuss Bethlehem today with a very different, confusing to the people there, Christmas season.
West Bank (Dec. 24) - Marching bands, children dressed as Santa Claus and clergymen in magenta skullcaps gathered in the center of Bethlehem on Sunday to celebrate Christmas Eve, doing their best to dispel the gloom hovering over Jesus' traditional birthplace.
In an annual custom, townspeople enacted Christmas rituals that seem out of place in the Middle East.
Palestinian scouts marched through the streets, some wearing kilts and berets, playing drums and bagpipes. They passed inflatable Santa's looking forlorn in the sunshine.
Other acts, however, could take place nowhere else. To get to the West Bank town, Michel Sabbah, the Roman Catholic Church's highest official in the Holy Land, rode in his motorcade through a huge steel gate in the Israeli barrier that separates Jerusalem from Bethlehem.
Israel says it built the barrier to prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from reaching Israeli population centers. Palestinians view the structure, which
dips into parts of the West Bank, as a land grab. The robed was led into Palestinian controlled territory from Israeli controlled territory by an escort of Israeli policemen while armed police closed the gate behind them.
While he is right of course in saying that this Holy land is sacred to Jews, Muslims, and Christians and they should be working for peace. Our so called leaders have done nothing but worked to make war. Meanwhile Bethlehem is falling apart and it's Religious significance and core is being ignored. The world should take some time to reflect on that on this most important day. Muslims, Jews, Christians, they should all take this time to think about what is really important and what they all are doing to what they say is most important to them, their Holy land, their Holy shrines, and the people who love them.
This Christmas was the first under a Palestinian Authority controlled by the militant Islamic group Hamas. As a result even though Hamas has pledged $50,000 for decorating Manger Square. There were fewer Christmas decorations than in the past, and for the first time no Christmas carols were piped over the loudspeaker system.
First I have to say, I can't believe that people over there under these conditions can say it is safe over there, think everything should be normal, and wonder why people are staying away. Standing outside his empty souvenir shop, George Baboul said it was the "worst Christmas" he had seen in more than 30 years. His Bethlehem Star Store is in a prime location, at the side of the Church of the Nativity, but he said there is no business.
No tourists are coming," said Baboul, 72, who opened the shop in 1967. "I don't know what's the reason for that. There are no problems, Bethlehem is safe, but tourists are afraid to come. Despite this Bethlehem's Mayor said the city would celebrate Christmas despite the hardship.
I have to say I am a Christian and do not feel a special connection to Bethlehem as my beliefs are in my heart. However, I am very disappointed that Bethlehem is being disregarded while the 3 religions will only succeed in destroying their own History they claim to love so much.
Despite this and With all this oppression, this economic stress, physical stress, psychological stress, we are defying all these obstacles and we are celebrating Christmas so that we'll put joy into the faces of our children, joy to the citizens of Bethlehem," Batarseh said. "It's Christmas, it's time for joy, hope and peace, and happiness for all," he said.I wish the world, all 3 religions, would take a moment to remember this and think about what they are doing to their own heritage and future.
In the Gaza Strip, where 3,000 Palestinian Christians live among around 1.4 million Muslims, the head of the tiny Roman Catholic community canceled midnight Mass, citing recent gun battles between the Fatah and Hamas movements. Father Manuel Musallem said young Christians in Gaza were scared. "The children told me Santa Claus won't come this year because it's too dangerous," he said.
http://articles.news.aol.com/...
In closing I again Implore the world and the 3 "great" Religions on this Holy day to take a moment and reflect on what is important in this life and world. remember this is your Heritage, your past you are destroying. This is your future you are endangering. These are your children.
Merry Christmas
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Sunday, December 24, 2006
The seeds of middle east Peace and prosperity planted, they have to be kidding right?
The seeds of middle east Peace and prosperity planted, they have to be kidding, look at the days middle east's conflicting Realities!
It was an interesting start that will achieve something unbelievable so they think. The seeds of peace and Middle East peace and prosperity started in a quiet secret meeting between the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as they met at Olmert's residence in Jerusalem on Dec. 23.
http://www.indiadaily.com/...
They wrongly think this will change the world forever. This peace accord is of course supported by the west. That makes it a no go from the get go to me. They can't really think Hamas will allow this to happen. What about Hezbollah? What about Iran? what about Iraq? What about Al Qaeda's ultimatum?
Look at yesterdays contradictory events, I mean get real!
Yesterday as we hear about these great seeds of peace and prosperity we hear that the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution imposing sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, culminating two months of tough negotiations aimed at pressuring Tehran to return to negotiations and clarify its nuclear ambitions.
The resolution orders all countries to ban the supply of specified materials and technology that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. It also imposes an asset freeze on key companies and individuals in the country's nuclear and missile programs named on a U.N. list. http://www.cnn.com/...
Don't I remember that Iran said in the past it would look at this as an act of war? Didn't we hear way back that Iran was transferring money from U.S. Banks etc. in anticipation of this event? Iran has said right from the get go that they would not stop enriching Uranium and they will not. Why is it so hard to understand that? Like everything else that is unfolding over there it is out of our control and we will just have to deal with the results. Like it or not Iran is going to proceed with enrichment and as should have been expected will only push them to speed up their program.
Bush's seeds of Peace: Knowing that Bush is going to opt for the Big Push forward in Iraq putting up to 30,000 more troops there again against all threats and advice, knowing another Carrier group is heading to the middle east, knowing that he wants to enlarge the military and the Selective Service Board is going to test the Draft System "just in Case" Knowing all this it just blows me away that anyone can see Peace in the middle east with all of these counter conditions constantly cropping up in order to keep this middle east breakdown moving forward.
This last threat supposedly from Al Qaeda in Iraq has got to send chills down the spine of especially those getting to do just the opposite. This will be bad! The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, said his fighters were now launching a new offensive, "the offensive of the strong." He said the offensive would last until the final day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, which should finish about Jan. 3. this was part of a 20 minute audio that is yet to be verified.
Baghdadi's speech appeared aimed at establishing the credibility of the previously declared "Islamic state" among Sunni Arabs, locked in increasing sectarian violence with Iraq’s Shiite majority. Sunni Arab insurgents hold sway in parts of western Anbar province and some towns and villages of Diyala province northeast of Baghdad; in some districts, they have even tried to enforce strict versions of Islamic law on residents.
With support supposedly growing for an Islamic State and Baghdady actively recruiting former officers of Saddams army and the fact that Bush of course will ignore warnings and is going to add more troops to his failure to be needlessly killed, this is going to scare the hell out of you! .
Addressing the United States, al-Baghdadi said: "We are announcing today our orders for you, so obey them before you regret it."We order you to withdraw your troops immediately, using troop carriers and aircraft, and taking only your personal weapons. Don’t withdraw any heavy weapons. Instead you should hand over those and your military bases to the holy warriors of the Islamic State," he said.
He has extended an offer for a one month truce for the withdrawal, He said the withdrawal period should not exceed one month, and during that time "we will allow the withdrawal to proceed without being attacked by explosives or any other form." Washington had two weeks to respond to the truce offer, he said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
The seeds of Peace? This is all still just getting started and the two conflicting sides looking for their new middle east order, Bush and the Islamists are both doing their damnedest to ensure that this Bush created breakdown will not see the seeds of peace but a hell that will play out for years to come.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
It was an interesting start that will achieve something unbelievable so they think. The seeds of peace and Middle East peace and prosperity started in a quiet secret meeting between the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as they met at Olmert's residence in Jerusalem on Dec. 23.
http://www.indiadaily.com/...
They wrongly think this will change the world forever. This peace accord is of course supported by the west. That makes it a no go from the get go to me. They can't really think Hamas will allow this to happen. What about Hezbollah? What about Iran? what about Iraq? What about Al Qaeda's ultimatum?
Look at yesterdays contradictory events, I mean get real!
Yesterday as we hear about these great seeds of peace and prosperity we hear that the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution imposing sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, culminating two months of tough negotiations aimed at pressuring Tehran to return to negotiations and clarify its nuclear ambitions.
The resolution orders all countries to ban the supply of specified materials and technology that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. It also imposes an asset freeze on key companies and individuals in the country's nuclear and missile programs named on a U.N. list. http://www.cnn.com/...
Don't I remember that Iran said in the past it would look at this as an act of war? Didn't we hear way back that Iran was transferring money from U.S. Banks etc. in anticipation of this event? Iran has said right from the get go that they would not stop enriching Uranium and they will not. Why is it so hard to understand that? Like everything else that is unfolding over there it is out of our control and we will just have to deal with the results. Like it or not Iran is going to proceed with enrichment and as should have been expected will only push them to speed up their program.
Bush's seeds of Peace: Knowing that Bush is going to opt for the Big Push forward in Iraq putting up to 30,000 more troops there again against all threats and advice, knowing another Carrier group is heading to the middle east, knowing that he wants to enlarge the military and the Selective Service Board is going to test the Draft System "just in Case" Knowing all this it just blows me away that anyone can see Peace in the middle east with all of these counter conditions constantly cropping up in order to keep this middle east breakdown moving forward.
This last threat supposedly from Al Qaeda in Iraq has got to send chills down the spine of especially those getting to do just the opposite. This will be bad! The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, said his fighters were now launching a new offensive, "the offensive of the strong." He said the offensive would last until the final day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, which should finish about Jan. 3. this was part of a 20 minute audio that is yet to be verified.
Baghdadi's speech appeared aimed at establishing the credibility of the previously declared "Islamic state" among Sunni Arabs, locked in increasing sectarian violence with Iraq’s Shiite majority. Sunni Arab insurgents hold sway in parts of western Anbar province and some towns and villages of Diyala province northeast of Baghdad; in some districts, they have even tried to enforce strict versions of Islamic law on residents.
With support supposedly growing for an Islamic State and Baghdady actively recruiting former officers of Saddams army and the fact that Bush of course will ignore warnings and is going to add more troops to his failure to be needlessly killed, this is going to scare the hell out of you! .
Addressing the United States, al-Baghdadi said: "We are announcing today our orders for you, so obey them before you regret it."We order you to withdraw your troops immediately, using troop carriers and aircraft, and taking only your personal weapons. Don’t withdraw any heavy weapons. Instead you should hand over those and your military bases to the holy warriors of the Islamic State," he said.
He has extended an offer for a one month truce for the withdrawal, He said the withdrawal period should not exceed one month, and during that time "we will allow the withdrawal to proceed without being attacked by explosives or any other form." Washington had two weeks to respond to the truce offer, he said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
The seeds of Peace? This is all still just getting started and the two conflicting sides looking for their new middle east order, Bush and the Islamists are both doing their damnedest to ensure that this Bush created breakdown will not see the seeds of peace but a hell that will play out for years to come.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Saturday, December 23, 2006
With Russia Versus U.S. a predicted Turkmenistan Crisis will be another reality of...
Yesterday some of us had a lively discussion in regards to Turkmenistan's recent loss of leadership with no plan for a turnover of leadership. Some thought I was concerned for nothing! However, in light of recent news stressing otherwise I welcome them back for further discussion and wonder what they think now!
The death of Turkmenistan's autocratic president Niyazov set in motion a series of power struggles as exiled opposition leaders Friday clamored to return and world powers competed for influence over the Central Asian country and its vast energy resources https://www.cia.gov/...
Couple that with the fact that Turkmenistan borders Iran, was once annexed by Russia who now wants it back in the fold and is on the Caspian Sea, we have an increasingly volatile situation.
Would be successors as predicted are now maneuvering behind the scenes that they say could but I say will lead to a contest between Russia and the West over the former Soviet republic's enormous natural gas and petroleum reserves, with the Kremlin seeking to influence who would become president.
Putin said in a condolence message that "strengthening their partnership is in the true interests of the peoples of Russia and Turkmenistan And President Bush said the U.S. hopes "to expand our relations with Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan's former Central Bank chief living in exile in Sweden, told The Associated Press that he and two other opposition leaders planned to return home to compete in the presidential election.
Another expatriate a former Foreign Minister told Russia's news agency that he planned to return from Norway. "We must hurry to Turkmenistan because time is on the side of the Niyazovite group," he said.
With these competing interests we hear from an analyst with the Moscow-based Institute for Strategic Research that despite that, The Turkmen people won't face any democratic choice in the elections," he said. "A single candidate with no alternatives will be put forward for whom everybody will have to vote. That is not a good omen in light of the fact that Russia wants to influence the elections in their favor and the EU and U.S. wants to see a Democracy.
Keeping in mind that Turkmenistan's natural gas deposits are second only to Russia's among the former Soviet states. All Turkmen gas now flows through Russian pipelines, and critics accuse the Kremlin of using its control of energy supplies to exert political pressure on its neighbors.
You know they are not going to give control of this to the west or to not influence an agreement made this year by Niyazov to build a gas pipeline to China, with its growing energy needs.
For years, the U.S. has also sought transit routes for Central Asia's oil and gas that would bypass Russia. Washington has lobbied for a pipeline from Turkmenistan across the Caspian Sea to the west, skirting Russia's southern border.
http://www.chron.com/...
An important power struggle is now underway with once again the Muslims of which Turkmenistan is 89%, are caught in the middle. You can bet that with Turkmenistan being on the Iranian border they too have the incentive to turn the outcome in their favor.
In light of the fact that another carrier Group is heading to the middle east, more troops heading to Iraq, and Bush now wants a larger military, you have to be very concerned with the chief idiot at the helm. What is he going to do next?
Many of us have said for years now that Bush will find a reason to attack Iran before his term is up and Russia, China, and the 135 non aligned Nations would join in on the side of Iran you have to wonder how all of this is going to turn out?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
The death of Turkmenistan's autocratic president Niyazov set in motion a series of power struggles as exiled opposition leaders Friday clamored to return and world powers competed for influence over the Central Asian country and its vast energy resources https://www.cia.gov/...
Couple that with the fact that Turkmenistan borders Iran, was once annexed by Russia who now wants it back in the fold and is on the Caspian Sea, we have an increasingly volatile situation.
Would be successors as predicted are now maneuvering behind the scenes that they say could but I say will lead to a contest between Russia and the West over the former Soviet republic's enormous natural gas and petroleum reserves, with the Kremlin seeking to influence who would become president.
Putin said in a condolence message that "strengthening their partnership is in the true interests of the peoples of Russia and Turkmenistan And President Bush said the U.S. hopes "to expand our relations with Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan's former Central Bank chief living in exile in Sweden, told The Associated Press that he and two other opposition leaders planned to return home to compete in the presidential election.
Another expatriate a former Foreign Minister told Russia's news agency that he planned to return from Norway. "We must hurry to Turkmenistan because time is on the side of the Niyazovite group," he said.
With these competing interests we hear from an analyst with the Moscow-based Institute for Strategic Research that despite that, The Turkmen people won't face any democratic choice in the elections," he said. "A single candidate with no alternatives will be put forward for whom everybody will have to vote. That is not a good omen in light of the fact that Russia wants to influence the elections in their favor and the EU and U.S. wants to see a Democracy.
Keeping in mind that Turkmenistan's natural gas deposits are second only to Russia's among the former Soviet states. All Turkmen gas now flows through Russian pipelines, and critics accuse the Kremlin of using its control of energy supplies to exert political pressure on its neighbors.
You know they are not going to give control of this to the west or to not influence an agreement made this year by Niyazov to build a gas pipeline to China, with its growing energy needs.
For years, the U.S. has also sought transit routes for Central Asia's oil and gas that would bypass Russia. Washington has lobbied for a pipeline from Turkmenistan across the Caspian Sea to the west, skirting Russia's southern border.
http://www.chron.com/...
An important power struggle is now underway with once again the Muslims of which Turkmenistan is 89%, are caught in the middle. You can bet that with Turkmenistan being on the Iranian border they too have the incentive to turn the outcome in their favor.
In light of the fact that another carrier Group is heading to the middle east, more troops heading to Iraq, and Bush now wants a larger military, you have to be very concerned with the chief idiot at the helm. What is he going to do next?
Many of us have said for years now that Bush will find a reason to attack Iran before his term is up and Russia, China, and the 135 non aligned Nations would join in on the side of Iran you have to wonder how all of this is going to turn out?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Friday, December 22, 2006
Turkmen ruler Dies so EU calls for Democracy in another Muslim country, tell me it ain't so!
Turkmen ruler Dies so EU calls for Democracy in another Muslim country rich in oil and Gas and borders Iran and Afghanistan: tell me it aint so!
A terse report from state television said President Saparmurat Niyazov has died at the age of 66.
Niyazov had led Turkmenistan since 1985, when it was still a Soviet republic. After the 1991 Soviet collapse, he retained control and created an elaborate personality cult and turned Turkmenistan into one of the most oppressive of the ex-Soviet states.
A man after Bush's own heart he even ordered the months and days of the week named after him and his family.He was also the author of a book of the soul that was required reading in schools and children had to pledge allegiance to him every morning.Bush must have been envious!
He crushed all opposition drawing condemnation from the west and human rights groups and also encouraged the Turkmen language over Russian and banned access to Russian-language media. This is not going to be good!
He was President for life too and there was no line of succession setting up for a very volatile situation in a very critical part of the world.
http://www.thestar.co.za/...
Unbelievably to me the European Union called for the restoration of democracy in Turkmenistan on Thursday following the unexpected death of Niyavov. In a brief terse statement the EU external relations commissioner said they hope that Turkmenistan will again embark on the road towards democracy when a new leader comes to power in the country.
http://www.iht.com/...
In light of the fact that Turkmenistan Borders Iran and Afghanistan. I am blown away hearing that we can even think about wanting another Democracy over there knowing that Turkmenistan is 89% Muslim. Knowing that it is strategically set right in the middle of the action, on the Caspian Sea and bordering Iran is bad enough.
Then realizing that many feel Bush attacked Iraq and destabilizing the middle east was all about oil I learn this. Extensive hydrocarbon/natural gas reserves could prove a boon to this underdeveloped country if extraction and delivery projects were to be expanded. The Turkmenistan Government is actively seeking to develop alternative petroleum transportation routes in order to break Russia's pipeline monopoly.
Knowing that Turkmenistan was annexed by Russia between 1865 and 1885 and was part of the Soviet Republic until it dissolved in 1991. Can we possibly think that Putin will allow the west to get their mitts on something so valuable to them. Check out the Turkmenistan fact book. It's quite interesting. https://www.cia.gov/...
Yesterday I felt pretty good about the fact that Iran and U.S. citizens have voted out the warmongering conservatives. Prior to that I have always said that when all is said and done in the middle east Bush will find a reason to attack Iran and Russia and China would come in on their side. After hearing this I am again very concerned.
Couple all that with another carrier Group heading to the middle east, more troops heading to Iraq, and Bush now wants a larger military, you have to be very concerned with the chief idiot at the helm. What is he going to do next?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
A terse report from state television said President Saparmurat Niyazov has died at the age of 66.
Niyazov had led Turkmenistan since 1985, when it was still a Soviet republic. After the 1991 Soviet collapse, he retained control and created an elaborate personality cult and turned Turkmenistan into one of the most oppressive of the ex-Soviet states.
A man after Bush's own heart he even ordered the months and days of the week named after him and his family.He was also the author of a book of the soul that was required reading in schools and children had to pledge allegiance to him every morning.Bush must have been envious!
He crushed all opposition drawing condemnation from the west and human rights groups and also encouraged the Turkmen language over Russian and banned access to Russian-language media. This is not going to be good!
He was President for life too and there was no line of succession setting up for a very volatile situation in a very critical part of the world.
http://www.thestar.co.za/...
Unbelievably to me the European Union called for the restoration of democracy in Turkmenistan on Thursday following the unexpected death of Niyavov. In a brief terse statement the EU external relations commissioner said they hope that Turkmenistan will again embark on the road towards democracy when a new leader comes to power in the country.
http://www.iht.com/...
In light of the fact that Turkmenistan Borders Iran and Afghanistan. I am blown away hearing that we can even think about wanting another Democracy over there knowing that Turkmenistan is 89% Muslim. Knowing that it is strategically set right in the middle of the action, on the Caspian Sea and bordering Iran is bad enough.
Then realizing that many feel Bush attacked Iraq and destabilizing the middle east was all about oil I learn this. Extensive hydrocarbon/natural gas reserves could prove a boon to this underdeveloped country if extraction and delivery projects were to be expanded. The Turkmenistan Government is actively seeking to develop alternative petroleum transportation routes in order to break Russia's pipeline monopoly.
Knowing that Turkmenistan was annexed by Russia between 1865 and 1885 and was part of the Soviet Republic until it dissolved in 1991. Can we possibly think that Putin will allow the west to get their mitts on something so valuable to them. Check out the Turkmenistan fact book. It's quite interesting. https://www.cia.gov/...
Yesterday I felt pretty good about the fact that Iran and U.S. citizens have voted out the warmongering conservatives. Prior to that I have always said that when all is said and done in the middle east Bush will find a reason to attack Iran and Russia and China would come in on their side. After hearing this I am again very concerned.
Couple all that with another carrier Group heading to the middle east, more troops heading to Iraq, and Bush now wants a larger military, you have to be very concerned with the chief idiot at the helm. What is he going to do next?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Iran and America have shelved the war mongering conservatives, can we save the middle east now?
While Bush has expressed interest in enlarging the military I am very concerned giving him even more soldiers to abuse and misuse because the middle east is going to get much worse unless....
We the people of America have had enough of our conservative warmongering leadership and have shelved them in exchange for Democratic leadership in hopes of putting an end to the warmongering, get us out of the middle east, and start taking care of we the people. So far this has been to no avail but I still have my hopes come next month.
Knowing how tenuous the relationship between the U.S. and Iran is and that it seems likely that this relationshit could result in a confrontation and would be the completion of the middle east breakdown.
I am seeing small rays of hope that this can still be averted after seeing the results of elections in Iran.
Iran's city councils and the clerical body called the Assembly of Experts suggest that even small doses of democracy can have a good effect when it can be applied as they have recently in Iran!.
The results are an unmistakable rejection of Iran's demagogic President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his hard-line followers.Just as our elections were a rejection of America's demagogue Bush.
Ahmadinejad and his backers have tried to spin the outcome of the voting by saying that the exceptionally high overall turnout of more than 60 percent illustrates the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic, and that Ahmadinejad's government supported no particular candidates in the two elections. Sound familiar?
The high turnout reflected two factors in actuality! The determination of reformists to rectify the mistake they made when they boycotted the balloting that brought Ahmadinejad to power; and the splitting away of conservatives from the fanatics and thugs associated with Ahmadinejad.
Do you realize how much we have in common! We fucked up and look what we got, Bush, as a result of not coming out in the numbers we should have to keep our fanatic out of power. This time we did and many of the fanatics that blindly supported Bush in his endeavors to harm the average American and his warmongering are also out.
In Tehran and other cities where Ahmadinejad's supporters lost control of city councils, their association with him was public knowledge. And it was well-known that in the Assembly of Experts voting, Ahmadinejad's religious mentor -- the virulently anti democratic Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi -- was in competition with the worldly and wealthy former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani ended up with twice as many votes as the ayatollah whose influence Ahmadinejad wanted to enhance.
This is really good news to me.Can anyone tell me how Rafsanjani feels towards the United States?
He is obviously more moderate than the hard line Religious Right Ayatollah.This outcome is significant because the Assembly is empowered to choose a successor to the powerful Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is often said to be in poor health. This all sounds pretty promising to me!
Limited and manipulated as Iran's electoral exercises may be, this time they produced a healthy reaction to the hard line outlook of Ahmadinejad. again I say look at the commonality between Iranian civilians and us. .
The corruption of the clerical regime is as flagrant as ever. Billions in private assets are being sent to Dubai. And there have been angry demonstrations against the regime's financial backing of Hezbollah while the plight of poor Iranians remains unremedied. Again we could be talking about the Bush regime. I guess it is just the plight of the common man!
The election results do not promise a sudden change in Iran's nuclear policy or its regional ambitions. but hopefully Ahmadinejad's brand of extremism will come to an end. http://www.boston.com/...
It gives me hope with what we did in November and the recent results in Iran's elections. Could it be that we the people can actually influence what is happening in the middle east? you know I feel Bush guaranteed the loss of Afghanistan, Iraq, and the entire middle east when he diverted from the so called war on terror to attack Iraq and destabilize the middle east for his new order.
Now I have to wonder Will it make any difference that people in both countries are waking up and want a change or is it too late to prevent an altercation between Iran and the U. S. which would finish Bush's attempt at creating a new middle east order?
Can we the people rise up in Iran and America and be the difference that saves the middle east from total chaos!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
We the people of America have had enough of our conservative warmongering leadership and have shelved them in exchange for Democratic leadership in hopes of putting an end to the warmongering, get us out of the middle east, and start taking care of we the people. So far this has been to no avail but I still have my hopes come next month.
Knowing how tenuous the relationship between the U.S. and Iran is and that it seems likely that this relationshit could result in a confrontation and would be the completion of the middle east breakdown.
I am seeing small rays of hope that this can still be averted after seeing the results of elections in Iran.
Iran's city councils and the clerical body called the Assembly of Experts suggest that even small doses of democracy can have a good effect when it can be applied as they have recently in Iran!.
The results are an unmistakable rejection of Iran's demagogic President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his hard-line followers.Just as our elections were a rejection of America's demagogue Bush.
Ahmadinejad and his backers have tried to spin the outcome of the voting by saying that the exceptionally high overall turnout of more than 60 percent illustrates the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic, and that Ahmadinejad's government supported no particular candidates in the two elections. Sound familiar?
The high turnout reflected two factors in actuality! The determination of reformists to rectify the mistake they made when they boycotted the balloting that brought Ahmadinejad to power; and the splitting away of conservatives from the fanatics and thugs associated with Ahmadinejad.
Do you realize how much we have in common! We fucked up and look what we got, Bush, as a result of not coming out in the numbers we should have to keep our fanatic out of power. This time we did and many of the fanatics that blindly supported Bush in his endeavors to harm the average American and his warmongering are also out.
In Tehran and other cities where Ahmadinejad's supporters lost control of city councils, their association with him was public knowledge. And it was well-known that in the Assembly of Experts voting, Ahmadinejad's religious mentor -- the virulently anti democratic Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi -- was in competition with the worldly and wealthy former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani ended up with twice as many votes as the ayatollah whose influence Ahmadinejad wanted to enhance.
This is really good news to me.Can anyone tell me how Rafsanjani feels towards the United States?
He is obviously more moderate than the hard line Religious Right Ayatollah.This outcome is significant because the Assembly is empowered to choose a successor to the powerful Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is often said to be in poor health. This all sounds pretty promising to me!
Limited and manipulated as Iran's electoral exercises may be, this time they produced a healthy reaction to the hard line outlook of Ahmadinejad. again I say look at the commonality between Iranian civilians and us. .
The corruption of the clerical regime is as flagrant as ever. Billions in private assets are being sent to Dubai. And there have been angry demonstrations against the regime's financial backing of Hezbollah while the plight of poor Iranians remains unremedied. Again we could be talking about the Bush regime. I guess it is just the plight of the common man!
The election results do not promise a sudden change in Iran's nuclear policy or its regional ambitions. but hopefully Ahmadinejad's brand of extremism will come to an end. http://www.boston.com/...
It gives me hope with what we did in November and the recent results in Iran's elections. Could it be that we the people can actually influence what is happening in the middle east? you know I feel Bush guaranteed the loss of Afghanistan, Iraq, and the entire middle east when he diverted from the so called war on terror to attack Iraq and destabilize the middle east for his new order.
Now I have to wonder Will it make any difference that people in both countries are waking up and want a change or is it too late to prevent an altercation between Iran and the U. S. which would finish Bush's attempt at creating a new middle east order?
Can we the people rise up in Iran and America and be the difference that saves the middle east from total chaos!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Bush ignores Joint Chiefs as Iraq, middle east Breakdown is on the Fast track!
The Washington Post reported yesterday that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the leaders of the various branches of the American armed forces that advise the President on military policy, are unanimously opposed to a White House plan to send an extra 15,000 to 30,000 troops to Iraq for the next eight months. This morning I woke to hear he wants to enlarge the military. Under him that is a scary thought!
Mind boggling to me it that Bush will ignore even the joint chiefs. To me the Joint Chiefs have always been the guide of the military compass but the decider will screw them too to stay the course for what he mistakenly thinks will be a new middle east order.
I just hope Bush is not stupid enough to use those troops to capture or kill Al Sadr. Iraq was lost from day one sending in more troops is just a waste of American lives and if Al Sadr is killed that will spark the absolute end for America not just in Iraq but around the world.
The military officials say a small surge in US troop numbers will only exacerbate levels of violence in the country, the newspaper reported, without giving the coalition or Iraqi soldiers a decisive advantage over the sectarian militias and militant groups that are driving the fighting.
I refuse to believe that Bush can openly defy the advice from the Joint Chiefs at such a critical time caused by Bush's idiocy and he will continue on in order to stay the course for his failed from the start plan for new middle east order. What a mess and this is still just starting!
The Joint Chiefs think the White House, after a month of talks, still does not have a defined mission and is latching on to the surge idea in part because of limited alternatives, despite warnings about the potential disadvantages for the military, said the officials," the newspaper reported.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
Of course they are right but they should have mentioned the failure of this plan in Vietnam and no one is taking into account the voracity of the enemy. Nothing Bush can do will stop this total breakdown from happening. Shiite and Sunni Religious leaders do not want Bush's unified Democracy. They want to be their own leaders under their own conditions. In the end they will have their way period!
Bush ensured the breakdown of the entire middle east when he diverted from the so called war on terror to attack Iraq , destabilize the middle east, and set up his new order but with the Islamists on the other side wanting theirs it will be absolute disorder.
In Palestine Hamas has also been emboldened and empowered to continue their quest for dominance in this so called new middle east order. Supporters of the rival Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah engaged in fierce gun battles in Gaza City Tuesday, killing at least five people, injuring more than 20 others and shattering a shaky internal Palestinian truce.
Supporters of the rival Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah engaged in fierce gun battles in Gaza City Tuesday, killing at least five people, injuring more than 20 others and shattering a shaky internal Palestinian truce.
The deaths Monday evening and Tuesday brought to six the number of Palestinians killed since the truce and to at least 17 the number of people killed in more than one week of internal fighting. Dozens more have been injured and this too will get worse as it continues out of anyone's control.
As you know, there have been on and off talks over the last 6 months But they have stalled over Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist and accept past Israeli-Palestinian agreements calling for a two-state solution. I heard today that they were back on but they will fail. When all is said and done in this issue Hamas will have their way and the middle east breakdown will continue.
We are hearing warnings of world mayhem and chaos if we fail in Iraq. That should be thought of before attacking Iraq not after. Regardless, it would have and will happen. Bush just sped up the process.
Iraq is lost and the entire middle east and Afghanistan will follow thanks to Bush. The entire so called civilized world will pay the price for Bush's idiocy not just in the middle east but around the world.in closing I will say that what is going to happen would have happened in the long run. Once again Bush has taken an ongoing problem and put it on the fast track thanks to his mismanagement.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Mind boggling to me it that Bush will ignore even the joint chiefs. To me the Joint Chiefs have always been the guide of the military compass but the decider will screw them too to stay the course for what he mistakenly thinks will be a new middle east order.
I just hope Bush is not stupid enough to use those troops to capture or kill Al Sadr. Iraq was lost from day one sending in more troops is just a waste of American lives and if Al Sadr is killed that will spark the absolute end for America not just in Iraq but around the world.
The military officials say a small surge in US troop numbers will only exacerbate levels of violence in the country, the newspaper reported, without giving the coalition or Iraqi soldiers a decisive advantage over the sectarian militias and militant groups that are driving the fighting.
I refuse to believe that Bush can openly defy the advice from the Joint Chiefs at such a critical time caused by Bush's idiocy and he will continue on in order to stay the course for his failed from the start plan for new middle east order. What a mess and this is still just starting!
The Joint Chiefs think the White House, after a month of talks, still does not have a defined mission and is latching on to the surge idea in part because of limited alternatives, despite warnings about the potential disadvantages for the military, said the officials," the newspaper reported.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
Of course they are right but they should have mentioned the failure of this plan in Vietnam and no one is taking into account the voracity of the enemy. Nothing Bush can do will stop this total breakdown from happening. Shiite and Sunni Religious leaders do not want Bush's unified Democracy. They want to be their own leaders under their own conditions. In the end they will have their way period!
Bush ensured the breakdown of the entire middle east when he diverted from the so called war on terror to attack Iraq , destabilize the middle east, and set up his new order but with the Islamists on the other side wanting theirs it will be absolute disorder.
In Palestine Hamas has also been emboldened and empowered to continue their quest for dominance in this so called new middle east order. Supporters of the rival Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah engaged in fierce gun battles in Gaza City Tuesday, killing at least five people, injuring more than 20 others and shattering a shaky internal Palestinian truce.
Supporters of the rival Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah engaged in fierce gun battles in Gaza City Tuesday, killing at least five people, injuring more than 20 others and shattering a shaky internal Palestinian truce.
The deaths Monday evening and Tuesday brought to six the number of Palestinians killed since the truce and to at least 17 the number of people killed in more than one week of internal fighting. Dozens more have been injured and this too will get worse as it continues out of anyone's control.
As you know, there have been on and off talks over the last 6 months But they have stalled over Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist and accept past Israeli-Palestinian agreements calling for a two-state solution. I heard today that they were back on but they will fail. When all is said and done in this issue Hamas will have their way and the middle east breakdown will continue.
We are hearing warnings of world mayhem and chaos if we fail in Iraq. That should be thought of before attacking Iraq not after. Regardless, it would have and will happen. Bush just sped up the process.
Iraq is lost and the entire middle east and Afghanistan will follow thanks to Bush. The entire so called civilized world will pay the price for Bush's idiocy not just in the middle east but around the world.in closing I will say that what is going to happen would have happened in the long run. Once again Bush has taken an ongoing problem and put it on the fast track thanks to his mismanagement.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Bush signs nuclear deal with India while nuclear North Korea looks on and Festers!
We talked pretty extensively about the facade of Diplomacy involving North Korea and Bush. From the firing of North Korean missiles to the build up of their nuclear desires, too their actual some call successful nuclear detonation.
IMHO there was no Diplomacy and all along there has been a facade of Diplomacy so Kim Jong Il could follow his single minded nuclear ambitions and Bush could say he tried Diplomacy before he was forced to prosecute his new world order by having to take some kind of action against North Korea. You better be very concerned seeing what the idiots failed attempt at new order in Iraq is doing and that was a given from the start and will get a hell of a lot worse as will his new world order.
Now that North Korea has un bottled the nuclear genie there will be no talking with Kim Jong Il as he is now strengthened to be more obstinate than ever. with him on one side and Bush on the other you know there is going to be no resolving this one either.
Freshly armed with its nuclear bargaining chip, North Korea has set out an uncompromising stance at its first international talks since testing an atomic device in October. The Stalinist regime said it would not abandon its nuclear program until the UN dropped its sanctions and America changed its "hostile" stance and you know that will not happen.
Pyongyang confronted America, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia today with what the US called "an exhaustive list" of demands.The nuclear issues cannot be resolved until the United States takes a co-existence policy," said North Korea's chief negotiator. You know that won't happen either!
Now that North Korea has the nuclear Bargaining chip it will not give it up and they will only make demand after demand and give up nothing. Sounds like Bush doesn't it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
My whole line of thought here is that while Bush has taken a hard line with North Korea he has pissed them off and made them even more hard line by waving a nuclear sharing agreement with India in front of them.
President Bush signed legislation on Monday to let America share its nuclear know-how and fuel with India even though New Delhi refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
"By helping India expand its use of safe nuclear energy, this bill lays the foundation for a new strategic partnership between our two nations that will help ease India's demands for fossil fuels and ease pressure on global markets," Bush said in a bill-signing ceremony at the White House. Fuck U!
That is simply a bunch of shit! The agreement could spark a nuclear arms race in Asia by boosting India's atomic arsenal. The measure undermines international efforts to prevent states like Iran and North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons. In Beijing on Monday, North Korea defiantly declared itself a nuclear power at the start of the first full international arms talks since its atomic test in July and threatened to increase its arsenal if its demands were not met.
http://www.forbes.com/...
The chief idiots willingness to say anything regardless of how stupid or reduntant it is in order to do and get what he wants is mind boggling. In his little mind he really thinks it is okay to give some countries nuclear cooperation while stepping on others that don't do what he wants.
Bush is almost single handedly arming the world if only mentally against us and for a horrific future mess at a time when the planet is beyond surviving it and still be habitable.Remember an inconvenient truth? New world order my ass!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
IMHO there was no Diplomacy and all along there has been a facade of Diplomacy so Kim Jong Il could follow his single minded nuclear ambitions and Bush could say he tried Diplomacy before he was forced to prosecute his new world order by having to take some kind of action against North Korea. You better be very concerned seeing what the idiots failed attempt at new order in Iraq is doing and that was a given from the start and will get a hell of a lot worse as will his new world order.
Now that North Korea has un bottled the nuclear genie there will be no talking with Kim Jong Il as he is now strengthened to be more obstinate than ever. with him on one side and Bush on the other you know there is going to be no resolving this one either.
Freshly armed with its nuclear bargaining chip, North Korea has set out an uncompromising stance at its first international talks since testing an atomic device in October. The Stalinist regime said it would not abandon its nuclear program until the UN dropped its sanctions and America changed its "hostile" stance and you know that will not happen.
Pyongyang confronted America, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia today with what the US called "an exhaustive list" of demands.The nuclear issues cannot be resolved until the United States takes a co-existence policy," said North Korea's chief negotiator. You know that won't happen either!
Now that North Korea has the nuclear Bargaining chip it will not give it up and they will only make demand after demand and give up nothing. Sounds like Bush doesn't it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
My whole line of thought here is that while Bush has taken a hard line with North Korea he has pissed them off and made them even more hard line by waving a nuclear sharing agreement with India in front of them.
President Bush signed legislation on Monday to let America share its nuclear know-how and fuel with India even though New Delhi refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
"By helping India expand its use of safe nuclear energy, this bill lays the foundation for a new strategic partnership between our two nations that will help ease India's demands for fossil fuels and ease pressure on global markets," Bush said in a bill-signing ceremony at the White House. Fuck U!
That is simply a bunch of shit! The agreement could spark a nuclear arms race in Asia by boosting India's atomic arsenal. The measure undermines international efforts to prevent states like Iran and North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons. In Beijing on Monday, North Korea defiantly declared itself a nuclear power at the start of the first full international arms talks since its atomic test in July and threatened to increase its arsenal if its demands were not met.
http://www.forbes.com/...
The chief idiots willingness to say anything regardless of how stupid or reduntant it is in order to do and get what he wants is mind boggling. In his little mind he really thinks it is okay to give some countries nuclear cooperation while stepping on others that don't do what he wants.
Bush is almost single handedly arming the world if only mentally against us and for a horrific future mess at a time when the planet is beyond surviving it and still be habitable.Remember an inconvenient truth? New world order my ass!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Monday, December 18, 2006
After Botched attempt, execution halted in 2 States, But what about other states?
Gov. Jeb Bush suspended executions in Florida after a medical examiner said Friday that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when a convicted killer was put to death earlier this week.
Separately, a federal judge in California imposed a moratorium on executions in the nation's most populous state, declaring that the state's method of lethal injection runs the risk of violating the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
I have always had my doubts about the Death Penalty unless it is an open and shut case but I just don't know any more in light of the latest fiasco's. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel said the casein question raised the question of whether a three-drug cocktail administered by the San Quentin State Prison is so painful that it "offends" the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The judge answered in the affirmative and in light of what I am reading I am afraid he is right and I for one feel terrible.
He said the case raised the question of whether a three-drug cocktail administered by the San Quentin State Prison is so painful that it "offends" the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Fogel found substantial evidence that the last six men executed at San Quentin might have been conscious and still breathing when lethal drugs were administered. that is just horrible to me. I can understand an eye for an eye but torture is just inhumane to me especially sanctioned as I know many of you feel the same.
In response He ordered anesthesiologists to be on hand, or demanded that a licensed medical professional inject a large, fatal dose of a sedative instead of the additional paralyzing agent and heart-stopping drugs that are normally used. But no medical professional was willing to participate. man I can't really say I blame them. This just sounds too inhumane. It sounds crass but we have to find a better way to do this and only when "dead" sure!
In Florida, medical examiner Dr. William Hamilton said Wednesday's execution of Angel Nieves Diaz took 34 minutes -- twice as long as usual -- and required a rare second dose of lethal chemicals because the needles were inserted clear through his veins and into the flesh in his arms. The chemicals are supposed to go into the veins.
Later after the autopsy Dr. Hamilton refused to say whether or not he suffered and deferred answers about pain and suffering. However, Missing a vein when administering the injections would cause "both psychological and physical discomfort -- probably pretty severe," said Dr. J. Kent Garman.
http://www.cnn.com/...
Anyway, I was relieved myself when I heard 2 states were putting an end to lethal injections for now, but then I hear this. A federal judge's ruling that California's lethal injection method is unconstitutionally cruel will have little impact on most of the state's death row inmates, legal experts said Saturday.
Four times as many condemned prisoners in California have died of natural causes, suicide or murder after their cases meandered through the appeals courts for decades. Texas, by contrast, has carried out 380 executions in roughly the same period.
The leading cause of death on death row right now is old age," said Gerald Uelmen, a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law. How does that make you feel? are you supposed to feel better?
http://www.mercurynews.com/...
Then I got to wondering how many States have the death penalty and what is their methods?
In the 38 states and federal government that currently have death penalty statutes, five different methods of execution are prescribed: Lethal Injection, Electrocution, Lethal Gas, Firing Squad, and Hanging.
The vast majority of jurisdictions provide for execution by lethal injection. 20 jurisdictions provide for alternative methods of execution, contingent upon the choice of the inmate, the date of the execution or sentence, or the possibility of the method being held unconstitutional. Only one state does not have lethal injection as a primary or optional method of execution. Nebraska is the only state that provides for electrocution as the sole method of execution. No states provide for Lethal Gas, Hanging, or Firing Squad as the sole method of execution.
Please look at the link for the accepted method of execution by State.
http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/...
I am beginning to get a real bad feeling about this and wonder if there is a humane way of killing or if there is one method that is failsafe why isn't it made to be universal. Something is not right about this and something has to be done. please give me your 2 cents!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Separately, a federal judge in California imposed a moratorium on executions in the nation's most populous state, declaring that the state's method of lethal injection runs the risk of violating the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
I have always had my doubts about the Death Penalty unless it is an open and shut case but I just don't know any more in light of the latest fiasco's. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel said the casein question raised the question of whether a three-drug cocktail administered by the San Quentin State Prison is so painful that it "offends" the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The judge answered in the affirmative and in light of what I am reading I am afraid he is right and I for one feel terrible.
He said the case raised the question of whether a three-drug cocktail administered by the San Quentin State Prison is so painful that it "offends" the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Fogel found substantial evidence that the last six men executed at San Quentin might have been conscious and still breathing when lethal drugs were administered. that is just horrible to me. I can understand an eye for an eye but torture is just inhumane to me especially sanctioned as I know many of you feel the same.
In response He ordered anesthesiologists to be on hand, or demanded that a licensed medical professional inject a large, fatal dose of a sedative instead of the additional paralyzing agent and heart-stopping drugs that are normally used. But no medical professional was willing to participate. man I can't really say I blame them. This just sounds too inhumane. It sounds crass but we have to find a better way to do this and only when "dead" sure!
In Florida, medical examiner Dr. William Hamilton said Wednesday's execution of Angel Nieves Diaz took 34 minutes -- twice as long as usual -- and required a rare second dose of lethal chemicals because the needles were inserted clear through his veins and into the flesh in his arms. The chemicals are supposed to go into the veins.
Later after the autopsy Dr. Hamilton refused to say whether or not he suffered and deferred answers about pain and suffering. However, Missing a vein when administering the injections would cause "both psychological and physical discomfort -- probably pretty severe," said Dr. J. Kent Garman.
http://www.cnn.com/...
Anyway, I was relieved myself when I heard 2 states were putting an end to lethal injections for now, but then I hear this. A federal judge's ruling that California's lethal injection method is unconstitutionally cruel will have little impact on most of the state's death row inmates, legal experts said Saturday.
Four times as many condemned prisoners in California have died of natural causes, suicide or murder after their cases meandered through the appeals courts for decades. Texas, by contrast, has carried out 380 executions in roughly the same period.
The leading cause of death on death row right now is old age," said Gerald Uelmen, a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law. How does that make you feel? are you supposed to feel better?
http://www.mercurynews.com/...
Then I got to wondering how many States have the death penalty and what is their methods?
In the 38 states and federal government that currently have death penalty statutes, five different methods of execution are prescribed: Lethal Injection, Electrocution, Lethal Gas, Firing Squad, and Hanging.
The vast majority of jurisdictions provide for execution by lethal injection. 20 jurisdictions provide for alternative methods of execution, contingent upon the choice of the inmate, the date of the execution or sentence, or the possibility of the method being held unconstitutional. Only one state does not have lethal injection as a primary or optional method of execution. Nebraska is the only state that provides for electrocution as the sole method of execution. No states provide for Lethal Gas, Hanging, or Firing Squad as the sole method of execution.
Please look at the link for the accepted method of execution by State.
http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/...
I am beginning to get a real bad feeling about this and wonder if there is a humane way of killing or if there is one method that is failsafe why isn't it made to be universal. Something is not right about this and something has to be done. please give me your 2 cents!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Clinton's Defense Chief warns of quagmire as Bush ponders moves to ensure it!
Former Defense Secretary William Perry, a member of the Iraq Study Group, said Saturday that Iraq could turn into a "quagmire" if the Bush administration fails to change strategy. Could?, It is there and Bush will ignore all good advice from the study group and ensure that it gets much worse!
Referring to the Vietnam War, Perry said: "The term 'quagmire' recalls one of the saddest periods in American history, which we do not want to relive. But I believe that is likely to happen if we 'stay the course' in Iraq." Bush is going to make it much worse than that. He has repeated every single one of the Vietnam mistakes he said. But now Bush is going to add insult to injury and add even more soldiers instead of decreasing them as the so called blue ribbon Iraq study group advises. I heard yesterday that so far 3,500 troops from the 82nd were being sent to Qatar for possible use in Iraq.
Yep, it looks like the chief idiot will wrongly go Big and fail in a big way!
On the military front, there are various ways to "go big," by adding 10,000 to 20,000 troops to the approximately 135,000 U.S. forces in Iraq. Bush has gotten competing advice about how many troops to add including a suggestion of up to 35,000 by McCain and Lieberman as you know and whether to define their mission as temporary or long term and whether to add troops at all.
Some military officers doubt that the results from any increase would be worth the damage to the Army's readiness and I have to agree. Nothing, nothing will prevent the complete breakdown Bush set in motion.
Anyway another element of the "go big" idea is increasing the total size of the military. The chiefs of the Army and Marine Corps want to expand the size of their services, although departing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld opposed it. He cited an estimated cost of $1.2 billion a year for each 10,000 extra troops. The Army also wants the ability to mobilize Guard and Reserve troops more frequently than is now allowed; some in Congress are likely to resist such a change.
First I have to say is Rummy was against it, it is probably the right thing to do but I am innately leery of giving bush more soldiers to abuse and misuse.
Others advocate adding forces and launching an offensive against Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr while increasing industrial and economic aid to civilians. That my friends would be the biggest mistake yet in a plethora of big mistakes.
A competing plan would woo the Sunni elite by guaranteeing them a share of oil revenue and reversing the previous policy of "de-Baathification," which purged ex-members of Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led Baathist rule from the top layers of government institutions. This ranks right up there with going after Al Sadr. this all boils down to some pretty ludicrous desperate moves to save Bush's failed Iraq plan.
Perry reiterated the recommendations of last week's report from the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan commission led by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Rep. Lee Hamilton.
But Bush probably will reject the Iraq Study Group's recommendation to pull back most combat forces by early 2008. Proposals before him include integrating or embedding more U.S. advisers in Iraqi Army units to provide guidance on tactics and leadership. The long-term goal would be a shift away from a primarily combat role, which some advisers say consigns U.S. forces to a defensive posture as they await the next attack by insurgents. I see this as the only thing Bush will actually do as the study group advised. http://www.mercurynews.com/...
"We need to accelerate the training of Iraqi army and police forces," Perry said. "We need to begin to pull out U.S. combat brigades, with the goal of having all except rapid-reaction forces out by first quarter of 2008. ... We need to push friendly regional powers to assist. We need to put pressure on unfriendly regional powers to stop arming militias and fomenting violence. And finally, we need to invigorate the Israeli-Palestinian peace process." That is a handful of worthless and useless advice, I still can't understand how the Israeli Palestinian conflict is going to change anything in Iraq.
President Bush has been meeting over the last week with current and former military leaders -- as well as advisers from other parts of the government so he could appear like he was concerned about what they had to say before he ignored it and does what he wants.
The Iraq Study Group report was critical of just about every aspect of the administration's war policies. But when all is said and done that will not deter him and he will as usual ignore all good advice and do what he wants which is always the wrong thing!
Perry said he believed the report "will frame the debate in our country this coming year. And it will demonstrate that it is possible, even in the poisonous political climate that now exists, to address important national problems in a truly bipartisan manner." Pipe dreams, forget it! http://www.cnn.com/...
It will frame the debate but it does not matter. Regardless of which of the options he chooses, nothing will change the breakdown he set in motion when he diverted from the so called war on terror in Afghanistan to destabilize the middle east by attacking Iraq to start his new middle east order. Nothing can stop what is happening in Iraq and it will spread throughout the entire middle east.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Referring to the Vietnam War, Perry said: "The term 'quagmire' recalls one of the saddest periods in American history, which we do not want to relive. But I believe that is likely to happen if we 'stay the course' in Iraq." Bush is going to make it much worse than that. He has repeated every single one of the Vietnam mistakes he said. But now Bush is going to add insult to injury and add even more soldiers instead of decreasing them as the so called blue ribbon Iraq study group advises. I heard yesterday that so far 3,500 troops from the 82nd were being sent to Qatar for possible use in Iraq.
Yep, it looks like the chief idiot will wrongly go Big and fail in a big way!
On the military front, there are various ways to "go big," by adding 10,000 to 20,000 troops to the approximately 135,000 U.S. forces in Iraq. Bush has gotten competing advice about how many troops to add including a suggestion of up to 35,000 by McCain and Lieberman as you know and whether to define their mission as temporary or long term and whether to add troops at all.
Some military officers doubt that the results from any increase would be worth the damage to the Army's readiness and I have to agree. Nothing, nothing will prevent the complete breakdown Bush set in motion.
Anyway another element of the "go big" idea is increasing the total size of the military. The chiefs of the Army and Marine Corps want to expand the size of their services, although departing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld opposed it. He cited an estimated cost of $1.2 billion a year for each 10,000 extra troops. The Army also wants the ability to mobilize Guard and Reserve troops more frequently than is now allowed; some in Congress are likely to resist such a change.
First I have to say is Rummy was against it, it is probably the right thing to do but I am innately leery of giving bush more soldiers to abuse and misuse.
Others advocate adding forces and launching an offensive against Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr while increasing industrial and economic aid to civilians. That my friends would be the biggest mistake yet in a plethora of big mistakes.
A competing plan would woo the Sunni elite by guaranteeing them a share of oil revenue and reversing the previous policy of "de-Baathification," which purged ex-members of Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led Baathist rule from the top layers of government institutions. This ranks right up there with going after Al Sadr. this all boils down to some pretty ludicrous desperate moves to save Bush's failed Iraq plan.
Perry reiterated the recommendations of last week's report from the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan commission led by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Rep. Lee Hamilton.
But Bush probably will reject the Iraq Study Group's recommendation to pull back most combat forces by early 2008. Proposals before him include integrating or embedding more U.S. advisers in Iraqi Army units to provide guidance on tactics and leadership. The long-term goal would be a shift away from a primarily combat role, which some advisers say consigns U.S. forces to a defensive posture as they await the next attack by insurgents. I see this as the only thing Bush will actually do as the study group advised. http://www.mercurynews.com/...
"We need to accelerate the training of Iraqi army and police forces," Perry said. "We need to begin to pull out U.S. combat brigades, with the goal of having all except rapid-reaction forces out by first quarter of 2008. ... We need to push friendly regional powers to assist. We need to put pressure on unfriendly regional powers to stop arming militias and fomenting violence. And finally, we need to invigorate the Israeli-Palestinian peace process." That is a handful of worthless and useless advice, I still can't understand how the Israeli Palestinian conflict is going to change anything in Iraq.
President Bush has been meeting over the last week with current and former military leaders -- as well as advisers from other parts of the government so he could appear like he was concerned about what they had to say before he ignored it and does what he wants.
The Iraq Study Group report was critical of just about every aspect of the administration's war policies. But when all is said and done that will not deter him and he will as usual ignore all good advice and do what he wants which is always the wrong thing!
Perry said he believed the report "will frame the debate in our country this coming year. And it will demonstrate that it is possible, even in the poisonous political climate that now exists, to address important national problems in a truly bipartisan manner." Pipe dreams, forget it! http://www.cnn.com/...
It will frame the debate but it does not matter. Regardless of which of the options he chooses, nothing will change the breakdown he set in motion when he diverted from the so called war on terror in Afghanistan to destabilize the middle east by attacking Iraq to start his new middle east order. Nothing can stop what is happening in Iraq and it will spread throughout the entire middle east.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Saturday, December 16, 2006
What is happening with Islamists is not fed by Democrats but by Islamists and Bush, we are being taken for a ride!
I was stupidly chastised yesterday by a right winger for being one of the reasons Bush's failure in Iraq will be a fact. We agreed on only one thing as she said It’s very unfortunate that our president didn't know better than to go into Iraq. Then she was ignorantly wrong from there and I just can't believe these fools still believe this misinformation! Examples: What is even more unfortunate is that we have people like you who just want to pull out of Iraq and give up.
As long as there are people like you fighting for the US to lose in Iraq, we will definitely lose. I can't tell you how many times Muslim extremists have pointed me to liberal extremist writings on the Internet such as yours. Each time they read something like this from an American, it gives them that much more confidence that they will win the war.
With the liberal extremists like you, the Nazis, Muslim extremists, and the Commies all chanting the same things and, essentially, pulling together, there is no doubt that the Muslim terrorists are going to win this war. Do people like you just not realize what is going to happen if we just pull out of Iraq? Do you not realize that Iraq will become another Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Chechnya, etc, etc, etc. Do you not ever wonder why the list of these countries with Muslims fighting in them is so long? Haven't you ever asked yourselves why Muslims are involved in 20 of the 22 armed conflicts in the world?
Some Pew polls taken in the Muslim world show that almost all Muslims have taken bin Laden as their highest hero. What do you think that means? It means that almost all Muslims in the Muslim world stand behind the terrorists 100%. If we leave Iraq now, this is going to give them not only just a country to ruin and gather the extremists together, but it is giving them a country with resources to make money.
So we will have a country where the Muslim terrorists/extremists can build a huge army and have plenty of money to make this army very strong. We are doomed if this happens. The only way we can win in Iraq is if we use full force. It seems that brutal force is all these people respect, which is exactly why they always end up with dictators in the first place. But we could never use full force in Iraq because of people like you. So we are doomed!
I don't have to tell you these people are really screwed up! Following is my response to this idiocy! I have to agree with you about Bush. He ignored all advice to the contrary and diverted from the so called war on terror to attack Iraq and purposely destabilize the middle east in order to establish what he thought would be a new middle east order but in fact will be total disorder and not only in Iraq but throughout the middle east and then it will really get going.
You can apologize later for being so crass and dead wrong on the rest. I have a son in EOD in Afghanistan whose email I am looking forward to reading after this. He was extended for another 6 months then he goes to Iraq where he will run into another of his brothers that will be going back over on April 30th when his squadron takes Command on his Birthday for 6 months of flying.
I have a large stake in what is going on and why. I also know this is just starting and I wonder what war he will have my sons in next along with their 2 other brothers of military age in his quest for new world order.
I have to tell you as I already did. Bush guaranteed the loss of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the entire middle east from day 1 and no one can turn that around. That is just called unbiased reality.
You are dead wrong about me giving Islamists confidence. Bush does that all by himself as he incessantly repeats every damn Vietnam mistake. He will soon make the last one by adding more troops to be killed in his lost cause. No, he needs no help strengthening the Islamists cause.
I am not a liberal extremist but rather an unbiased common sensed American who expects a leader who is capable of engaging Brain. Bush is incapable of independent thought and that is why we are in this position and it will soon get a lot worse.
Bush guaranteed an insurgent free Iraq to be another hotbed of Islamist extremists and no one else. There was only one terrorist there called Saddam. Unseating him made it possible for extremism and sectarian violence and it will get a hell of a lot worse. It will spread throughout the entire world, will not stop and we must not stop, then despite what little Bushie says, they will be following us here regardless of when we leave.
We can not win in Iraq as I pointed out. If you look at some of my past posts and books etc. this will get a lot worse as it is still just starting. It is a war against Islam by their choice. We better wake up to that little fact and act accordingly.
Thinking you can throw your weight around without thinking like Bush does will only feed into the enemies of America. When all is said and done we have 2 staunch friends left thanks to Bush, Britain and Israel. When Bush finds his excuse to attack Iran and he will, probably through Israel, it will be us 3 against China, Russia, the non aligned Nations, the middle east, and all the other enemies Bush has pigheadedly made for America and my sons. If they survive his future wars they will be choked by his minimum 2 trillion dollars in debt, more than every President combined from 1789 until now.
No Bush needs no help. He could destroy America all on his own! Check this out!
From 9/11 he has been following a plan. Fighting terrorism was not it. It was just the reason he needed to attack Iraq and start to implement his new middle east and world order. Please read the following and you will understand everything.
As you may remember, Bush was looking for something to happen that would put the country and the world behind what he already had plans to do. 9/11 gave him that something. He has been lying and misleading right from the beginning.
He had plans right from the beginning to establish a new societal, middle east, and world order. That is why it was important to him to whip up a media and public fury which of course, he has done.
He used the excuse of 9/11 to attack Iraq and unsettle the middle east guaranteeing the loss of Afghanistan, Iraq, and the entire middle east. If fighting terrorism was his goal he would have stayed in Afghanistan. He lied to our troops and us from the beginning. He did this so he could further his idea of a new middle east and world order.
No Bush needs no help screwing things up!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
As long as there are people like you fighting for the US to lose in Iraq, we will definitely lose. I can't tell you how many times Muslim extremists have pointed me to liberal extremist writings on the Internet such as yours. Each time they read something like this from an American, it gives them that much more confidence that they will win the war.
With the liberal extremists like you, the Nazis, Muslim extremists, and the Commies all chanting the same things and, essentially, pulling together, there is no doubt that the Muslim terrorists are going to win this war. Do people like you just not realize what is going to happen if we just pull out of Iraq? Do you not realize that Iraq will become another Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Chechnya, etc, etc, etc. Do you not ever wonder why the list of these countries with Muslims fighting in them is so long? Haven't you ever asked yourselves why Muslims are involved in 20 of the 22 armed conflicts in the world?
Some Pew polls taken in the Muslim world show that almost all Muslims have taken bin Laden as their highest hero. What do you think that means? It means that almost all Muslims in the Muslim world stand behind the terrorists 100%. If we leave Iraq now, this is going to give them not only just a country to ruin and gather the extremists together, but it is giving them a country with resources to make money.
So we will have a country where the Muslim terrorists/extremists can build a huge army and have plenty of money to make this army very strong. We are doomed if this happens. The only way we can win in Iraq is if we use full force. It seems that brutal force is all these people respect, which is exactly why they always end up with dictators in the first place. But we could never use full force in Iraq because of people like you. So we are doomed!
I don't have to tell you these people are really screwed up! Following is my response to this idiocy! I have to agree with you about Bush. He ignored all advice to the contrary and diverted from the so called war on terror to attack Iraq and purposely destabilize the middle east in order to establish what he thought would be a new middle east order but in fact will be total disorder and not only in Iraq but throughout the middle east and then it will really get going.
You can apologize later for being so crass and dead wrong on the rest. I have a son in EOD in Afghanistan whose email I am looking forward to reading after this. He was extended for another 6 months then he goes to Iraq where he will run into another of his brothers that will be going back over on April 30th when his squadron takes Command on his Birthday for 6 months of flying.
I have a large stake in what is going on and why. I also know this is just starting and I wonder what war he will have my sons in next along with their 2 other brothers of military age in his quest for new world order.
I have to tell you as I already did. Bush guaranteed the loss of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the entire middle east from day 1 and no one can turn that around. That is just called unbiased reality.
You are dead wrong about me giving Islamists confidence. Bush does that all by himself as he incessantly repeats every damn Vietnam mistake. He will soon make the last one by adding more troops to be killed in his lost cause. No, he needs no help strengthening the Islamists cause.
I am not a liberal extremist but rather an unbiased common sensed American who expects a leader who is capable of engaging Brain. Bush is incapable of independent thought and that is why we are in this position and it will soon get a lot worse.
Bush guaranteed an insurgent free Iraq to be another hotbed of Islamist extremists and no one else. There was only one terrorist there called Saddam. Unseating him made it possible for extremism and sectarian violence and it will get a hell of a lot worse. It will spread throughout the entire world, will not stop and we must not stop, then despite what little Bushie says, they will be following us here regardless of when we leave.
We can not win in Iraq as I pointed out. If you look at some of my past posts and books etc. this will get a lot worse as it is still just starting. It is a war against Islam by their choice. We better wake up to that little fact and act accordingly.
Thinking you can throw your weight around without thinking like Bush does will only feed into the enemies of America. When all is said and done we have 2 staunch friends left thanks to Bush, Britain and Israel. When Bush finds his excuse to attack Iran and he will, probably through Israel, it will be us 3 against China, Russia, the non aligned Nations, the middle east, and all the other enemies Bush has pigheadedly made for America and my sons. If they survive his future wars they will be choked by his minimum 2 trillion dollars in debt, more than every President combined from 1789 until now.
No Bush needs no help. He could destroy America all on his own! Check this out!
From 9/11 he has been following a plan. Fighting terrorism was not it. It was just the reason he needed to attack Iraq and start to implement his new middle east and world order. Please read the following and you will understand everything.
As you may remember, Bush was looking for something to happen that would put the country and the world behind what he already had plans to do. 9/11 gave him that something. He has been lying and misleading right from the beginning.
He had plans right from the beginning to establish a new societal, middle east, and world order. That is why it was important to him to whip up a media and public fury which of course, he has done.
He used the excuse of 9/11 to attack Iraq and unsettle the middle east guaranteeing the loss of Afghanistan, Iraq, and the entire middle east. If fighting terrorism was his goal he would have stayed in Afghanistan. He lied to our troops and us from the beginning. He did this so he could further his idea of a new middle east and world order.
No Bush needs no help screwing things up!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Friday, December 15, 2006
Please get well Senator Johnson the future of Iraq depends on you!
President Bush said Wednesday he will not be rushed into a decision on "a new way forward in Iraq," but pledged that his new strategy will give troops there all the tools they need to "complete their mission."
In a message for the troops, Bush said, "I am listening to a lot of advice to develop a strategy to help you succeed, a lot of consultations. I will be delivering my plans after a long deliberation, after steady deliberation. I'm not going to be rushed into making a decision."
Bush said that during his consultations he had heard some "interesting" ideas, but would not specifically address them. http://www.cnn.com/...
This delay in his so called important speech on a change of direction in Iraq is very dangerous and not just to American troops in Iraq! Bush pushed back his announcement date until January in the hopes that buying more time would give him more time to hear what he wanted. McCain gave him that yesterday.
As you know,McCain wants to send 30,000 more troops potentially to their death in Bush's failed Iraq and Lieberman agrees!
Sen. John McCain said Thursday that America should to deploy 15,000 to 30,000 more troops to Iraq to control its sectarian violence, and give moderate Iraqi politicians the stability they need to take the country in the right direction. I have to tell you, I million more troops would do nothing but bring more violence.
McCain made the remarks to reporters in Baghdad, where he and five other members of Congress were meeting with U.S. and Iraqi officials. Sadly Bush will assumedly move in this wrong direction!
"The American people are disappointed and frustrated with the Iraq war, but they want us to succeed if there's any way to do that," McCain, a possible 2008 presidential candidate, said at a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq's heavily fortified Green Zone. There will be no success period!
Iraq was lost the day the chief idiot diverted from the so called war on terror in Afghanistan and attacked Iraq to destabilize the middle east in order to establish what he stupidly thought would be his new middle east order. There will be a new order but it will not be his or anyone else's. It will be total disorder and sending more troops to Iraq will do nothing but add one more Vietnam nail in the coffin. No one or nothing can turn around the Iraqi breakdown that will soon encompass the entire middle east that Bush stupidly set in motion.
I have to say though if and when the blind sheikh dies things will get worse not only there but around the world.
With Senator Leahy and others making subpoena threats i.e. The incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that he would subpoena Bush administration officials if they refused requests for documents and testimony, including two long-sought memos detailing its detention and treatment of terrorism suspects overseas.
http://www.latimes.com/...
I hate to say it but so much rests on the life of Senator Johnson. As you know, he is recovering from brain surgery and the balance of the Senate rests with his life or death. As you know, if the Republican Governor from South Dakota gets to replace his replacement it will be another Republican giving the Senate a 50, 50 split with Cheney giving the senate back to the Republicans.
http://www.marketwatch.com/...
The very future of Iraq is dependant on Senator Johnson. All our plans to help America all rests on the life of one man. Oh whoa is me! Please get better Senator Johnson. We need you here!
James Joiner
Gardner,Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
In a message for the troops, Bush said, "I am listening to a lot of advice to develop a strategy to help you succeed, a lot of consultations. I will be delivering my plans after a long deliberation, after steady deliberation. I'm not going to be rushed into making a decision."
Bush said that during his consultations he had heard some "interesting" ideas, but would not specifically address them. http://www.cnn.com/...
This delay in his so called important speech on a change of direction in Iraq is very dangerous and not just to American troops in Iraq! Bush pushed back his announcement date until January in the hopes that buying more time would give him more time to hear what he wanted. McCain gave him that yesterday.
As you know,McCain wants to send 30,000 more troops potentially to their death in Bush's failed Iraq and Lieberman agrees!
Sen. John McCain said Thursday that America should to deploy 15,000 to 30,000 more troops to Iraq to control its sectarian violence, and give moderate Iraqi politicians the stability they need to take the country in the right direction. I have to tell you, I million more troops would do nothing but bring more violence.
McCain made the remarks to reporters in Baghdad, where he and five other members of Congress were meeting with U.S. and Iraqi officials. Sadly Bush will assumedly move in this wrong direction!
"The American people are disappointed and frustrated with the Iraq war, but they want us to succeed if there's any way to do that," McCain, a possible 2008 presidential candidate, said at a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq's heavily fortified Green Zone. There will be no success period!
Iraq was lost the day the chief idiot diverted from the so called war on terror in Afghanistan and attacked Iraq to destabilize the middle east in order to establish what he stupidly thought would be his new middle east order. There will be a new order but it will not be his or anyone else's. It will be total disorder and sending more troops to Iraq will do nothing but add one more Vietnam nail in the coffin. No one or nothing can turn around the Iraqi breakdown that will soon encompass the entire middle east that Bush stupidly set in motion.
I have to say though if and when the blind sheikh dies things will get worse not only there but around the world.
With Senator Leahy and others making subpoena threats i.e. The incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that he would subpoena Bush administration officials if they refused requests for documents and testimony, including two long-sought memos detailing its detention and treatment of terrorism suspects overseas.
http://www.latimes.com/...
I hate to say it but so much rests on the life of Senator Johnson. As you know, he is recovering from brain surgery and the balance of the Senate rests with his life or death. As you know, if the Republican Governor from South Dakota gets to replace his replacement it will be another Republican giving the Senate a 50, 50 split with Cheney giving the senate back to the Republicans.
http://www.marketwatch.com/...
The very future of Iraq is dependant on Senator Johnson. All our plans to help America all rests on the life of one man. Oh whoa is me! Please get better Senator Johnson. We need you here!
James Joiner
Gardner,Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Highly recommended Diaries on How to Succeed in Iraq are a waste! We have other fish to Fry!
Highly recommended Diaries on How to Succeed in Iraq are a waste! Bush screwed up, we have other fish to fry!
The U.S. has already lost Iraq! We are also losing the war on terror around the world but we can not if we want a future! That is what we better start concerning ourselves with, not Iraq!
It is very dismaying knowing that Iraq was lost ever since Bush diverted from the so called war on terror in order to attack Iraq and start to implement his due to fail from day one, new middle east order. no one, I don't care what their credentials are, can prevent Iraq from the total chaos it is in and it will encompass the entire middle east. Then it will get worse from there. It is beyond control and I am sick of these idiots thinking they can stop anything.
Bush screwed up and no one can stop the breakdown Bush started by attacking Iraq. The hell that would happen as Bush keeps threatening, will happen anyway and as he bragged about freeing 12 million people and freeing Iraq into hell, The credit is all his and he better not forget it. No one can pull his head out of his ass and we better concentrate on the bigger picture because this is still just getting started.
I have been saying for years now, like it or not, this is a world wide war against Islam years in the making and it is by their choice as they feel now is the time for payback!
We must wake up to this fact. we must remember it is not just Iraq, Afghanistan, and the U.S. it is the entire world and it will not be quelled with so called Diplomacy.
Russia is battling Chechens fighting for Religion and The rebels make no bones about their ultimate goal of uniting the Caucasus region of southwestern Russia into an Islamic state.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
China now labels as terrorists those who are fighting for an independent state in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, which the separatists call "Eastern Turkestan." The government considers these activists part of a network of international Islamic terror, with funding from the Middle East, training in Pakistan, and combat experience in Chechnya and Afghanistan.
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/...
A government-controlled newspaper in Afghanistan has accused Pakistan's government of equipping the Taliban and sending them into the country.
http://english.aljazeera.net/...
Afghanistan's Karzai has been crying uncle! Israel's PM Olmert seemingly threatens Iran with nukes who says they are threatened and Israel will soon be wiped off the map, again. Palestinian gunmen further their cause by killing a Islamic Judge and Hamas Commander.
Somali Islamist forces and pro-government troops dug in on Wednesday on either side of a frontline in the divided Horn of Africa nation which has this week slid closer to all-out war.
Regional power Ethiopia, however, scoffed at an Islamist vow to attack Somali government lines. http://www.cnn.com/...
I wouldn't be laughing. This as we should all know, adds up to a global war between and on Islam!
England has more than its share of problems there. We know Basque separatists want their own Islamic Nation there.
This so called global war on terror whether we like it or not is in fact a world wide war on Islam. It is wanted worldwide by so called Islamist's. They want total anonymity and nothing less. I hear worthless debates all day long on every channel all night long. Look at the big picture. Iraq can not be won, neither can the middle east, and unless someone wakes up we will not win the war on terror.
One positive thing I can see out of all this is that as Islamist's step up their efforts in China, Russia, and around the world on all interests is that it might be the only thing that will keep Russia, China, and the U.S. from war amongst themselves.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
The U.S. has already lost Iraq! We are also losing the war on terror around the world but we can not if we want a future! That is what we better start concerning ourselves with, not Iraq!
It is very dismaying knowing that Iraq was lost ever since Bush diverted from the so called war on terror in order to attack Iraq and start to implement his due to fail from day one, new middle east order. no one, I don't care what their credentials are, can prevent Iraq from the total chaos it is in and it will encompass the entire middle east. Then it will get worse from there. It is beyond control and I am sick of these idiots thinking they can stop anything.
Bush screwed up and no one can stop the breakdown Bush started by attacking Iraq. The hell that would happen as Bush keeps threatening, will happen anyway and as he bragged about freeing 12 million people and freeing Iraq into hell, The credit is all his and he better not forget it. No one can pull his head out of his ass and we better concentrate on the bigger picture because this is still just getting started.
I have been saying for years now, like it or not, this is a world wide war against Islam years in the making and it is by their choice as they feel now is the time for payback!
We must wake up to this fact. we must remember it is not just Iraq, Afghanistan, and the U.S. it is the entire world and it will not be quelled with so called Diplomacy.
Russia is battling Chechens fighting for Religion and The rebels make no bones about their ultimate goal of uniting the Caucasus region of southwestern Russia into an Islamic state.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
China now labels as terrorists those who are fighting for an independent state in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, which the separatists call "Eastern Turkestan." The government considers these activists part of a network of international Islamic terror, with funding from the Middle East, training in Pakistan, and combat experience in Chechnya and Afghanistan.
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/...
A government-controlled newspaper in Afghanistan has accused Pakistan's government of equipping the Taliban and sending them into the country.
http://english.aljazeera.net/...
Afghanistan's Karzai has been crying uncle! Israel's PM Olmert seemingly threatens Iran with nukes who says they are threatened and Israel will soon be wiped off the map, again. Palestinian gunmen further their cause by killing a Islamic Judge and Hamas Commander.
Somali Islamist forces and pro-government troops dug in on Wednesday on either side of a frontline in the divided Horn of Africa nation which has this week slid closer to all-out war.
Regional power Ethiopia, however, scoffed at an Islamist vow to attack Somali government lines. http://www.cnn.com/...
I wouldn't be laughing. This as we should all know, adds up to a global war between and on Islam!
England has more than its share of problems there. We know Basque separatists want their own Islamic Nation there.
This so called global war on terror whether we like it or not is in fact a world wide war on Islam. It is wanted worldwide by so called Islamist's. They want total anonymity and nothing less. I hear worthless debates all day long on every channel all night long. Look at the big picture. Iraq can not be won, neither can the middle east, and unless someone wakes up we will not win the war on terror.
One positive thing I can see out of all this is that as Islamist's step up their efforts in China, Russia, and around the world on all interests is that it might be the only thing that will keep Russia, China, and the U.S. from war amongst themselves.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Help fix Bush's messes around the world China, float our Debt as Bush sinks the ship called America...
Help us fix Bush's messes around the world China, float our Debt as Bush sinks the ship called America, But give us what we want or your screwed!
Bush administration Monday criticized China's record on opening its markets and said the U.S. would not hesitate to seek economic sanctions if that record does not improve. Knowing this misadministration I find that really fucked up!
Calling China's record "decidedly mixed," U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab released a 100-page report that accused the Chinese of failing to live up to commitments it made five years ago when it joined the World Trade Organization. Five years ago! Why make threats now? What is the ulterior motive?
The annual report, which is required by Congress, said that stronger action was needed on the part of the Chinese government to crack down on widespread copyright piracy.
It said China should also work harder to eliminate government policies that unfairly discriminate in favor of Chinese companies...
and block U.S. exports and hinder American financial and other service companies seeking to do business in China. http://www.cnn.com/...
Gee! China is favoring their companies. Sounds like a U.S. policy used on us. I don't have to remind you but think of all the demands we are making on China just in helping to solve Bush's messes around the world and he expects them to cooperate while he is threatening them on the other hand. What the hell is up with this freaking messadministration?
At last count to me china was buying 2 Billion dollars worth of Bush's successful debt every day. They are floating while he is sinking our ship called America!
Bush is threatening China with their skyrocketing economy, sky rocketing military that now routinely holds war games with another Bush friend, Russia.
Bush is threatening China while he deflates America and China is gaining influence and prominence around the world.
Bush is threatening China while his friend Chavez and others are giving China more of the oil that was once given to us.
Bush thinks it should be a good time to threaten china while we are begging them for help out of the mess Bush has created with his misDiplomacy with North Korea.
Bush has attacked Iraq destabilizing the middle east and with Iraq's breakdown soon to embroil the entire middle east including Iran, Bush sees this as a good time to threaten China as he asks for their help in sanctioning Iran in an attempt to keep nuclear capabilities out of their hands.
I must say that China in many instances deserves to be sanctioned if it is worth anything but not only should it have been done a long time ago but is it the right time to be threatening them with sanction while Bush has put us in such a vulnerable unenviable poition around the world?
It is MHO that this is just continued stupidity and Audacity of Bush's misadministration and mispolicies. Bush due to his misadministration of the world is in no position to be making demands of anyone. However nothing stops this idiot from screwing up. What the hell?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Bush administration Monday criticized China's record on opening its markets and said the U.S. would not hesitate to seek economic sanctions if that record does not improve. Knowing this misadministration I find that really fucked up!
Calling China's record "decidedly mixed," U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab released a 100-page report that accused the Chinese of failing to live up to commitments it made five years ago when it joined the World Trade Organization. Five years ago! Why make threats now? What is the ulterior motive?
The annual report, which is required by Congress, said that stronger action was needed on the part of the Chinese government to crack down on widespread copyright piracy.
It said China should also work harder to eliminate government policies that unfairly discriminate in favor of Chinese companies...
and block U.S. exports and hinder American financial and other service companies seeking to do business in China. http://www.cnn.com/...
Gee! China is favoring their companies. Sounds like a U.S. policy used on us. I don't have to remind you but think of all the demands we are making on China just in helping to solve Bush's messes around the world and he expects them to cooperate while he is threatening them on the other hand. What the hell is up with this freaking messadministration?
At last count to me china was buying 2 Billion dollars worth of Bush's successful debt every day. They are floating while he is sinking our ship called America!
Bush is threatening China with their skyrocketing economy, sky rocketing military that now routinely holds war games with another Bush friend, Russia.
Bush is threatening China while he deflates America and China is gaining influence and prominence around the world.
Bush is threatening China while his friend Chavez and others are giving China more of the oil that was once given to us.
Bush thinks it should be a good time to threaten china while we are begging them for help out of the mess Bush has created with his misDiplomacy with North Korea.
Bush has attacked Iraq destabilizing the middle east and with Iraq's breakdown soon to embroil the entire middle east including Iran, Bush sees this as a good time to threaten China as he asks for their help in sanctioning Iran in an attempt to keep nuclear capabilities out of their hands.
I must say that China in many instances deserves to be sanctioned if it is worth anything but not only should it have been done a long time ago but is it the right time to be threatening them with sanction while Bush has put us in such a vulnerable unenviable poition around the world?
It is MHO that this is just continued stupidity and Audacity of Bush's misadministration and mispolicies. Bush due to his misadministration of the world is in no position to be making demands of anyone. However nothing stops this idiot from screwing up. What the hell?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Talibani is Right about The IS Group, It Depends on what the meaning of IS, IS!
It Depends on what the meaning of IS, IS as President Clinton famously said and how Bush will capitalize off it. Whatever you call it, Talibani I am afraid, is right. Primarily because bush will ignore everything that disagrees with what he wants, their recommendations are a failure from the get go.
The Iraqi president on Sunday sharply criticized the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war, saying it contained dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country's sovereignty and were "an insult to the people of Iraq. I really don't know about that myself but the training recommendations will fail before it even starts.
President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd and one of the staunchest U.S. supporters within the Iraqi leadership, also said U.S. training of Iraq's army and police had gone "from failure to failure. That as you know is the fault of the trainees not the trainers.
He criticized the recommendation by the Iraq Study Group calling for increasing the number of U.S. troops embedded with Iraqi units to train Iraq's forces from 3,000 to 4,000 currently to 10,000 to 20,000. I have to agree but not for the same reason.
"It is not respecting the desire of the Iraqi people to control its army and to be able to rearm and train Iraqi forces under the leadership of the Iraqi government," he said during an interview with several reporters in his office in Baghdad. http://abcnews.go.com/International/...
First I have to ask, what the hell is the desire of the Iraqi people besides peace which they are not going to get? We certainly haven't seen any real commitment to rearming and training Iraqi forces by the Talibani Government and for a reason.
Talibani is right in saying the training of Iraqi police and soldiers has gone from failure to failure but as you know, that is not our fault. about a year ago I did a post title Its one hell of a way to run an army. As you know, besides each sect killing the other when ever they can, hires come when they need the money then when they get paid they go home until they need more money then just go back with no retribution except from the so called terrorist's blowing them up.
With that in mind, the IS Group despite its focus of transferring up to 20,000 soldiers to train Iraqi defense forces to step the training effort up, continued failure will once again be the only result.
One million soldiers dedicated to train defense forces will do nothing except get more Americans killed and even murdered by those they are training. As we all know, it is not the training or the trainers it is the trainees! they don't want what Bush has been trying to ram down their throats from day one, he does.
Besides wanting us out, they want to kill each other. Sectarian dominance is their only goal and no one will change that. Iraq will continue to get worse and totally collapse before the rest of the middle east follows it and it will.
Bush should be pretty proud of himself and his democratization of the middle east he started by attacking Iraq to destabilize the middle east and he most certainly has accomplished that. His so called new middle east order will end in total disorder.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
The Iraqi president on Sunday sharply criticized the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war, saying it contained dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country's sovereignty and were "an insult to the people of Iraq. I really don't know about that myself but the training recommendations will fail before it even starts.
President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd and one of the staunchest U.S. supporters within the Iraqi leadership, also said U.S. training of Iraq's army and police had gone "from failure to failure. That as you know is the fault of the trainees not the trainers.
He criticized the recommendation by the Iraq Study Group calling for increasing the number of U.S. troops embedded with Iraqi units to train Iraq's forces from 3,000 to 4,000 currently to 10,000 to 20,000. I have to agree but not for the same reason.
"It is not respecting the desire of the Iraqi people to control its army and to be able to rearm and train Iraqi forces under the leadership of the Iraqi government," he said during an interview with several reporters in his office in Baghdad. http://abcnews.go.com/International/...
First I have to ask, what the hell is the desire of the Iraqi people besides peace which they are not going to get? We certainly haven't seen any real commitment to rearming and training Iraqi forces by the Talibani Government and for a reason.
Talibani is right in saying the training of Iraqi police and soldiers has gone from failure to failure but as you know, that is not our fault. about a year ago I did a post title Its one hell of a way to run an army. As you know, besides each sect killing the other when ever they can, hires come when they need the money then when they get paid they go home until they need more money then just go back with no retribution except from the so called terrorist's blowing them up.
With that in mind, the IS Group despite its focus of transferring up to 20,000 soldiers to train Iraqi defense forces to step the training effort up, continued failure will once again be the only result.
One million soldiers dedicated to train defense forces will do nothing except get more Americans killed and even murdered by those they are training. As we all know, it is not the training or the trainers it is the trainees! they don't want what Bush has been trying to ram down their throats from day one, he does.
Besides wanting us out, they want to kill each other. Sectarian dominance is their only goal and no one will change that. Iraq will continue to get worse and totally collapse before the rest of the middle east follows it and it will.
Bush should be pretty proud of himself and his democratization of the middle east he started by attacking Iraq to destabilize the middle east and he most certainly has accomplished that. His so called new middle east order will end in total disorder.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Monday, December 11, 2006
The Lebanese Iraq Connection: Hezbollah wants to do for Lebanon what Bush did for Iraq, Then?
The Lebanese Iraq connection! Israel’s prime minister said on Thursday that he disagreed with the Iraq Study Group’s linkage of the turmoil in Iraq to the need to resolve the conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors. There is a connection but not the way they think. We have discussed it often in the past and will again in a minute.
I might be a little slow and Friday we discussed what I saw as a connection between what Israel is doing in Lebanon and Palestine and what Bush has done in Iraq.
However, the real connection and danger just dawned on me. In Shiite dominated Iraq the problem is greatly influenced by Shiite Iran against the Sunni thanks to Bush.
In Lebanon it is Iranian backed Shiite Hezbollah seeking to remove the pro west Sunni backed Government.
If you have read my posts on this in the past you know that I think Iran is the key to the horror the middle east will experience in the future started by Bush's destabilizing the middle east by attacking Iraq. Hezzbollah is doing their share
Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving protesters flooded central Beirut on Sunday after a call by the Hezbollah-led opposition to step up their 10-day campaign to topple Lebanon's Western-backed government.
In a show of force, the chanting crowds swamped two squares in the heart of the capital and rivers of men, women and children poured through surrounding streets demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
"Siniora out," the crowds shouted. "Beirut is free," others yelled as one of the biggest rallies in Lebanon's history kicked off in bright sunshine. Giant loudspeakers blared out nationalist songs and drummers thudded a relentless beat. One student demonstrator said they would stay fore weeks, months, however long it took to topple the Government.
Siniora has blamed Hezbollah of trying to stage a coup after what the west calls their failed 34 day war with Israel that many of us saw as a success. Siniora told a conference on Sunday the future of Lebanon was at stake.
http://www.cnn.com/...
Thousands of soldiers and police tightened security in the capital before the demonstration, while at the rally site, an army of highly-organized Hezbollah volunteers checked bags in an effort to head off any potential trouble. If I remember correctly the Army divided along sectarian divisions during the 1975-1990 civil war and depite Lebanon's Army commanders efforts to prevent it.
Lebanon's army commander urged soldiers on Thursday to stay neutral in an increasingly tense Beirut and said concessions might be necessary to resolve a political crisis.
Thousands of Hezbollah-led opposition followers have been camping out near government headquarters since December 1 to try to topple Western-backed Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
The protests have sparked several sectarian clashes between Shi'ite Muslims, who back Hezbollah, and Siniora's Sunni supporters in Beirut.
http://ca.today.reuters.com/...
With Shiite dominated Iraq being helped by Shiite Iran and the U.S. asking Saudi Arabia to be a linchpin in solving their problems and Shiite Hezbollah backed by Iran and Syria wanting to topple the Sunni Government. You have to think that Saudi Arabia in some way will be trying to help the Government (would that be the so called Al Qaeda?).
Any way you look at it Bush if not causing, has certainly put on the fast track a new middle east order that no one will like and it will be dominated throughout the middle east by Sunni against Shiite whether we are there or not and no ones Diplomacy will stop anything!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
I might be a little slow and Friday we discussed what I saw as a connection between what Israel is doing in Lebanon and Palestine and what Bush has done in Iraq.
However, the real connection and danger just dawned on me. In Shiite dominated Iraq the problem is greatly influenced by Shiite Iran against the Sunni thanks to Bush.
In Lebanon it is Iranian backed Shiite Hezbollah seeking to remove the pro west Sunni backed Government.
If you have read my posts on this in the past you know that I think Iran is the key to the horror the middle east will experience in the future started by Bush's destabilizing the middle east by attacking Iraq. Hezzbollah is doing their share
Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving protesters flooded central Beirut on Sunday after a call by the Hezbollah-led opposition to step up their 10-day campaign to topple Lebanon's Western-backed government.
In a show of force, the chanting crowds swamped two squares in the heart of the capital and rivers of men, women and children poured through surrounding streets demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
"Siniora out," the crowds shouted. "Beirut is free," others yelled as one of the biggest rallies in Lebanon's history kicked off in bright sunshine. Giant loudspeakers blared out nationalist songs and drummers thudded a relentless beat. One student demonstrator said they would stay fore weeks, months, however long it took to topple the Government.
Siniora has blamed Hezbollah of trying to stage a coup after what the west calls their failed 34 day war with Israel that many of us saw as a success. Siniora told a conference on Sunday the future of Lebanon was at stake.
http://www.cnn.com/...
Thousands of soldiers and police tightened security in the capital before the demonstration, while at the rally site, an army of highly-organized Hezbollah volunteers checked bags in an effort to head off any potential trouble. If I remember correctly the Army divided along sectarian divisions during the 1975-1990 civil war and depite Lebanon's Army commanders efforts to prevent it.
Lebanon's army commander urged soldiers on Thursday to stay neutral in an increasingly tense Beirut and said concessions might be necessary to resolve a political crisis.
Thousands of Hezbollah-led opposition followers have been camping out near government headquarters since December 1 to try to topple Western-backed Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
The protests have sparked several sectarian clashes between Shi'ite Muslims, who back Hezbollah, and Siniora's Sunni supporters in Beirut.
http://ca.today.reuters.com/...
With Shiite dominated Iraq being helped by Shiite Iran and the U.S. asking Saudi Arabia to be a linchpin in solving their problems and Shiite Hezbollah backed by Iran and Syria wanting to topple the Sunni Government. You have to think that Saudi Arabia in some way will be trying to help the Government (would that be the so called Al Qaeda?).
Any way you look at it Bush if not causing, has certainly put on the fast track a new middle east order that no one will like and it will be dominated throughout the middle east by Sunni against Shiite whether we are there or not and no ones Diplomacy will stop anything!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Bush says study Group agrees with him, What? Senator Smith says it's criminal. Finally, now what?
Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, who voted in favor of the Iraq war and has supported it ever since, now says that the current U.S. war effort is "absurd" and "may even be criminal.
In a major speech on the Senate floor, the Oregon senator called for rapid pullouts of U.S. troops from Iraq and said he never would have voted for the conflict if he had known that the intelligence that President Bush gave the American people was inaccurate.
Citing the hundreds of billions of dollars spent and the nearly 3,000 U.S. deaths, Smith said he is at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs, day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal. So either we clear and hold and build, or let's go home.It doesn't matter Senator Smith who went to Washington. Nothing, nothing will turn this around. That should have been a given the day Bush decided to divert from the so called war on terror and attack Iraq in order to destabilize the middle east and start to implement his failed from inception new world order.
He said the U.S. military's "tactics have failed," adding that he "cannot support that anymore. ... We have paid a price in blood and treasure that is beyond calculation" for a war waged based on faulty intelligence.
Smith said that he is "tired of paying the price of 10 or more of our troops dying a day. So let's cut-and-run or cut-and-walk, but let us fight the war on terror more intelligently than we have, because we have fought this war in a very lamentable way.
While expressing grave doubts about the Iraq war, Smith said he does not think that the United States can retreat from the larger war on terrorism. The audacity of anyone, anyone that thinks they can influence this and turn it around. It is beyond anyone's control. It was a given failure from the beginning and I refuse to believe that the chief idiot still refuses to admit it and insist on continuing to kill and waste American Lives.
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/...
This is incredible, listen to this!
In his weekly radio address, President Bush said the bipartisan Iraq Study Group's report released this week "explicitly endorses the strategic goal we've set in Iraq," though he ignored sections of the panel's report that criticize his administration's handling of the war.
The report called the situation in Iraq grave and deteriorating. The group proposed a number of thoughtful recommendations on a way forward for our country in Iraq Bush said.
Bush said his administration is reviewing the report, and we will seriously consider every recommendation and he will before he ignores everything counter to what the all knowing Decider wants. Bush stupidly keeps talking and playing games. He said he was glad the Group did not recommend a hasty withdrawal. Isn't pulling out half the troops starting next year while turning 20,000 to trainers to get Iraq up to snuff and pulling all troops out by 2008 a pretty hasty withdrawal?
In light of the increasing tenuous situation over there that will continue to get worse unabated I would be happy with that. meanwhile of course we have the Dems calling the Iraq Study Group report a vindication of their calls for a new approach to the war and it is worth nothing but I agree. Texas Congressman Reyes said the report necessitates an immediate new direction in Iraq. It will turn nothing around but I agree!
Reyes said the report "confirms what most of us have known for some time. President Bush's policy of 'stay the course' is not working." He said the recommendations mirror what House and Senate Democrats have been advocating for months: To begin redeploying U.S. troops and to switch the mission of U.S. forces from combat to training and support.
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
It is nice to see even Republicans waking up to Bush's unnecessary lost cause, this one called Iraq, But it is too late. They are being concerned but once again it is too late, that sounds familiar doesn't it? This one will cost us more than any screw up ever made in American History. Watch!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
In a major speech on the Senate floor, the Oregon senator called for rapid pullouts of U.S. troops from Iraq and said he never would have voted for the conflict if he had known that the intelligence that President Bush gave the American people was inaccurate.
Citing the hundreds of billions of dollars spent and the nearly 3,000 U.S. deaths, Smith said he is at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs, day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal. So either we clear and hold and build, or let's go home.It doesn't matter Senator Smith who went to Washington. Nothing, nothing will turn this around. That should have been a given the day Bush decided to divert from the so called war on terror and attack Iraq in order to destabilize the middle east and start to implement his failed from inception new world order.
He said the U.S. military's "tactics have failed," adding that he "cannot support that anymore. ... We have paid a price in blood and treasure that is beyond calculation" for a war waged based on faulty intelligence.
Smith said that he is "tired of paying the price of 10 or more of our troops dying a day. So let's cut-and-run or cut-and-walk, but let us fight the war on terror more intelligently than we have, because we have fought this war in a very lamentable way.
While expressing grave doubts about the Iraq war, Smith said he does not think that the United States can retreat from the larger war on terrorism. The audacity of anyone, anyone that thinks they can influence this and turn it around. It is beyond anyone's control. It was a given failure from the beginning and I refuse to believe that the chief idiot still refuses to admit it and insist on continuing to kill and waste American Lives.
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/...
This is incredible, listen to this!
In his weekly radio address, President Bush said the bipartisan Iraq Study Group's report released this week "explicitly endorses the strategic goal we've set in Iraq," though he ignored sections of the panel's report that criticize his administration's handling of the war.
The report called the situation in Iraq grave and deteriorating. The group proposed a number of thoughtful recommendations on a way forward for our country in Iraq Bush said.
Bush said his administration is reviewing the report, and we will seriously consider every recommendation and he will before he ignores everything counter to what the all knowing Decider wants. Bush stupidly keeps talking and playing games. He said he was glad the Group did not recommend a hasty withdrawal. Isn't pulling out half the troops starting next year while turning 20,000 to trainers to get Iraq up to snuff and pulling all troops out by 2008 a pretty hasty withdrawal?
In light of the increasing tenuous situation over there that will continue to get worse unabated I would be happy with that. meanwhile of course we have the Dems calling the Iraq Study Group report a vindication of their calls for a new approach to the war and it is worth nothing but I agree. Texas Congressman Reyes said the report necessitates an immediate new direction in Iraq. It will turn nothing around but I agree!
Reyes said the report "confirms what most of us have known for some time. President Bush's policy of 'stay the course' is not working." He said the recommendations mirror what House and Senate Democrats have been advocating for months: To begin redeploying U.S. troops and to switch the mission of U.S. forces from combat to training and support.
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
It is nice to see even Republicans waking up to Bush's unnecessary lost cause, this one called Iraq, But it is too late. They are being concerned but once again it is too late, that sounds familiar doesn't it? This one will cost us more than any screw up ever made in American History. Watch!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Bush sets up Rummy who wants lawsuit dismissed, The Judge better be the Judge not History!
Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that would hold him personally responsible for torture in overseas military prisons because he says History shoud be the judge. Bull! Iraqi American, world citizens should be the Judges!
The lawsuit, filed by two civil rights groups, describes the imprisonment of nine foreigners detained in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lawsuit contends the men were beaten, suspended upside down from the ceiling by chains, urinated on, shocked, sexually humiliated, burned, locked inside boxes and subjected to mock executions.
President Bush has called the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq the biggest mistake of the war. What? That's wishful thinking!
http://www.cnn.com/...
First, I have to say haven't we heard that the order to do whatever it took to get information came right from Rummy? I read that trying someone of Rummy's position would set a troubling presence. weren't these the idiots that were fond of saying extreme times call for extreme measures. These are extreme times and created by our own misadministration.
These people should be held accountable and Rummy should just be the start. I am blown away first that Bush has the audacity to proclaim the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq the biggest mistake of the war.
He is setting up Rummy to take the hit for this as he has done for everything in this misadministration in order to appear clean once again while he isn't.
Also with the absolute mess that Iraq is and any idiot should have expected from the get go. With the living hell on earth Bush has created for Iraqi's that will continue to get much worse and spread throughout the middle east despite anyone's belated efforts. I refuse to believe that the chief idiot can be so fucked up as to say prisoner abuse was the biggest mistake of the war. Jesus did anyone keep count? Make a list? That is unbelievable!
Then we have Rummy saying the same crap! In farewell at the Pentagon Rumsfeld said Friday the worst day of his nearly six years as secretary of defense occurred when he learned of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse. I thought he gave the okay?
Speaking to a gathering of employees 10 days before he is to leave office Rumsfeld defended his record on Iraq and Afghanistan and warned of "dire consequences were we to fail" in the war. I am dumbfounded! He is concerned now? Yep, someone else wil get the blame, watch.Failure was guaranteed when they stupidly began this!
He also said he might write a book about his tenure at the Pentagon, and he predicted that his successor, Robert Gates, would do a good job. He declined to say what advice he had offered Mr. Gates, who was confirmed by the Senate this week. Hell Gates can do no worse and Rummy is certainly not the one to give advice unless it is to do everything he didn't. http://www.nysun.com/...
I will close in saying Rummy thinks History will be the Judge as to his performance in Iraq and Afghanistan. I believe the people of Iraq should be the record of measure and the Judge better be the Judge of this. It should also just be the start of accountability!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
The lawsuit, filed by two civil rights groups, describes the imprisonment of nine foreigners detained in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lawsuit contends the men were beaten, suspended upside down from the ceiling by chains, urinated on, shocked, sexually humiliated, burned, locked inside boxes and subjected to mock executions.
President Bush has called the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq the biggest mistake of the war. What? That's wishful thinking!
http://www.cnn.com/...
First, I have to say haven't we heard that the order to do whatever it took to get information came right from Rummy? I read that trying someone of Rummy's position would set a troubling presence. weren't these the idiots that were fond of saying extreme times call for extreme measures. These are extreme times and created by our own misadministration.
These people should be held accountable and Rummy should just be the start. I am blown away first that Bush has the audacity to proclaim the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq the biggest mistake of the war.
He is setting up Rummy to take the hit for this as he has done for everything in this misadministration in order to appear clean once again while he isn't.
Also with the absolute mess that Iraq is and any idiot should have expected from the get go. With the living hell on earth Bush has created for Iraqi's that will continue to get much worse and spread throughout the middle east despite anyone's belated efforts. I refuse to believe that the chief idiot can be so fucked up as to say prisoner abuse was the biggest mistake of the war. Jesus did anyone keep count? Make a list? That is unbelievable!
Then we have Rummy saying the same crap! In farewell at the Pentagon Rumsfeld said Friday the worst day of his nearly six years as secretary of defense occurred when he learned of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse. I thought he gave the okay?
Speaking to a gathering of employees 10 days before he is to leave office Rumsfeld defended his record on Iraq and Afghanistan and warned of "dire consequences were we to fail" in the war. I am dumbfounded! He is concerned now? Yep, someone else wil get the blame, watch.Failure was guaranteed when they stupidly began this!
He also said he might write a book about his tenure at the Pentagon, and he predicted that his successor, Robert Gates, would do a good job. He declined to say what advice he had offered Mr. Gates, who was confirmed by the Senate this week. Hell Gates can do no worse and Rummy is certainly not the one to give advice unless it is to do everything he didn't. http://www.nysun.com/...
I will close in saying Rummy thinks History will be the Judge as to his performance in Iraq and Afghanistan. I believe the people of Iraq should be the record of measure and the Judge better be the Judge of this. It should also just be the start of accountability!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Friday, December 08, 2006
Israel disputes connection to Iraq as Hizballah and Israel prepare to ratchet up the connection
First, Roll playing the Political way at the tip jar. This is great but do not click if you are not 18 or cannot handle sexual innuendo but this is funny!
Israel’s prime minister said on Thursday that he disagreed with the Iraq Study Group’s linkage of the turmoil in Iraq to the need to resolve the conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors. There is a connection but not the way they think. We have discussed it often in the past and will again in a minute.
He also took issue with a recommendation in the report by the bipartisan commission on Iraq that urged talks involving Israel, the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon. Man, that will never happen. These people do not want diplomacy they want, man you know what they want. They want Israel obliterated and Israel is helping Bush create what they think will be a new middle east order. No one wants to talk!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/wo...
Since their last bout ended in August, both Israel and Hizballah have been gearing up for a possible Round 2. Israeli, Arab and Lebanese sources hostile to Hizballah told TIME that the organization has been busy restocking its arsenal with help from Iran and Syria. Hizballah has taken delivery of Syrian-made Katyusha missiles with a range of almost 60 miles, able to strike the Israeli port of Haifa and maybe the northern outskirts of Tel Aviv.
The Israeli military estimates that Hizballah's arsenal now has over 20,000 short-range missiles and hundreds of medium-range ones. This arms pipeline starts in Iran, where shipments are usually loaded onto trains as disguised cargo, and wend their way across Turkey to Syria. From there, they are taken over the mountain passes to Lebanon by trucks, often smuggled under loads of vegetables. Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers, working from a military base near Damascus, direct this arms flow, these sources claim.
On both sides of the border they watch each other make preparations and eager recruits for Hizballah are going to Iran for further military training. Hizballah will do its share to drag Israel into this further. And Israel will do its share to reciprocate and hopefully draw the U.S. into this further.
http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...
From the get go I have tried to point out the connection between Bush diverting from the so called war on terror in Afghanistan in order to attack Iraq and start his share of a new middle east order while Israel was also doing her share in Lebanon and Palestine. Also Israel will be the excuse Bush will use to have to further this middle east breakdown as he will come to their rescue.
There is a connection between what Israel is doing and what Bush has done to Iraq .At this point both parties are just serving to fuel anger against them and nothing will stop that. This middle east breakdown will not be stopped by anything. It is going to happen because Bush and Israel are on one side fighting for their new order and the so called Islamists want their own.
It isn't that Israel has a direct influence on the breakdown in Iraq. It is Bush's, and Congresses fault for constantly rearming, financing, and turning a blind eye to what many view as Israeli aggression in furthering their and Bush's desire for new middle east order. It will fail and while the Iraq study group is faulting Israel, it is Bush's fault once again.
Regardless of what is done or who is blamed nothing will avert the sectarian violence and it will continue unabated. Bush's so called democratic intervention in the middle east has taken on a life of its own and will continue for many years beyond anyone's control or worst imagination.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
Israel’s prime minister said on Thursday that he disagreed with the Iraq Study Group’s linkage of the turmoil in Iraq to the need to resolve the conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors. There is a connection but not the way they think. We have discussed it often in the past and will again in a minute.
He also took issue with a recommendation in the report by the bipartisan commission on Iraq that urged talks involving Israel, the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon. Man, that will never happen. These people do not want diplomacy they want, man you know what they want. They want Israel obliterated and Israel is helping Bush create what they think will be a new middle east order. No one wants to talk!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/wo...
Since their last bout ended in August, both Israel and Hizballah have been gearing up for a possible Round 2. Israeli, Arab and Lebanese sources hostile to Hizballah told TIME that the organization has been busy restocking its arsenal with help from Iran and Syria. Hizballah has taken delivery of Syrian-made Katyusha missiles with a range of almost 60 miles, able to strike the Israeli port of Haifa and maybe the northern outskirts of Tel Aviv.
The Israeli military estimates that Hizballah's arsenal now has over 20,000 short-range missiles and hundreds of medium-range ones. This arms pipeline starts in Iran, where shipments are usually loaded onto trains as disguised cargo, and wend their way across Turkey to Syria. From there, they are taken over the mountain passes to Lebanon by trucks, often smuggled under loads of vegetables. Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers, working from a military base near Damascus, direct this arms flow, these sources claim.
On both sides of the border they watch each other make preparations and eager recruits for Hizballah are going to Iran for further military training. Hizballah will do its share to drag Israel into this further. And Israel will do its share to reciprocate and hopefully draw the U.S. into this further.
http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...
From the get go I have tried to point out the connection between Bush diverting from the so called war on terror in Afghanistan in order to attack Iraq and start his share of a new middle east order while Israel was also doing her share in Lebanon and Palestine. Also Israel will be the excuse Bush will use to have to further this middle east breakdown as he will come to their rescue.
There is a connection between what Israel is doing and what Bush has done to Iraq .At this point both parties are just serving to fuel anger against them and nothing will stop that. This middle east breakdown will not be stopped by anything. It is going to happen because Bush and Israel are on one side fighting for their new order and the so called Islamists want their own.
It isn't that Israel has a direct influence on the breakdown in Iraq. It is Bush's, and Congresses fault for constantly rearming, financing, and turning a blind eye to what many view as Israeli aggression in furthering their and Bush's desire for new middle east order. It will fail and while the Iraq study group is faulting Israel, it is Bush's fault once again.
Regardless of what is done or who is blamed nothing will avert the sectarian violence and it will continue unabated. Bush's so called democratic intervention in the middle east has taken on a life of its own and will continue for many years beyond anyone's control or worst imagination.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
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