Get out of Libya. That is what Secretary of Defense Gates meant when he addressed the Congressional committee. Let’s face it, Obama made a mistake and he should be big enough and bold enough to realize it, confess it but above all, he needs to get out of Libya. We can all help in this. Our President is very inexperienced and naive about most things and especially about international affairs. In the case of Libya he made a very big mistake and when the election comes he will be judged, but in the meantime, he is the President and has committed our forces to pursue the wrong policy and engage in the wrong war. Libya is minimally a rebellion of dissent former army officers and maximally a civil war. In both cases, the USA has nothing to do with it. This is even more true when we consider our lack of involvement in the Ivory Coast where there are thousands of genocidal deaths. In Libya almost none and definitely none genocidal. So, what to do? We need to cut the President some slack, and for now let him off the hook he so foolishly got all Americans onto when he arrogantly pronounced that Gaddafi must go. The President must totally disengage from Libya immediately. This course of action is in our national self interest. Additionally, we can encourage Obama to take diplomatic initiatives to impress upon Gaddafi our help if he takes immediate actions to democratize his government. President Obama’s ideological doggedness should not involve our nation in pursuit of the wrong cause for the wrong reasons no matter how nice a guy we think our smiling President to be. Rather, in the use of lethal force, we need to encourage our President to stop immediately his ill advised foray into an adventure which is really a third war.
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Will Libyan Rebels Kill Civilian Gaddafi Supporters?
As the USA continues it massive bombing, strafing and missile attacks against Gaddafi, the question rises, “Will the rebels just leave the thousands of Gaddafi supporters alone, or will they attack and kill them? This is a real problem because we already know that fighting has happened between the rebels and civilians supporters of Gaddafi. So, when the genocide begins and the rebels start rounding up the tribe of Gaddafi, (please remember that this is a tribal society) imprisoning them and or just slaughtering them, what will the USA do? This issue was raised in the TV news reports today March 31st, and the response of the administration was that then we would attack the rebels! Really! How do we excuse that? Add to this the ridiculous statement made on March 31st by Sec. Gates that any future Sec. Defense that advised in favor of a land war in Africa or Asia should have his head examined. Really! I seem to remember that Gates was 100 % in favor of the invasion (air) and war against (missiles) in Libya. Is this his honesty showing up, a day late and a dollar short?
OReilly Reveals his Obama Side
In the telecast March 31 Bill O Reilly revealed that he is fulfilling a question he asked when he interviewed President Obama. In that Interview he asked the President, “What can I do to help you, Mr. President?” Since that time O Reilly has done a good job of covering up his new-found admiration for the President. Mostly, O Reilly acts as though he is being fair and balanced, but the nuance of his comments is decidedly pro Obama. Tonight with the use of one word, O Reilly revealed his inner convictions. In discussing the difference between Obama and Bush as regards the Mid East, O Reilly said that Bush was a “cowboy” in Iraq while Obama revealed a deliberate cautious and careful approach to Libya. He said that Bush was a cowboy in his go it alone approach to leadership while Obama’s broad coalition with NATO is proof of Obama’s leadership. The use of the negative word “cowboy” as regards President Bush shows that O Reilly is no longer even pretending to be fair and balanced and has become a Obama defender, just like MSNBC and CNN and the other media sycophants. Too bad, because now there is only Mark Levin and Sean Hannity to trust for fair and balanced and Glenn Beck for thorough investigative reporting. O Reilly is really a democrat advocate and it would be better for him to admit his true Pro Obama position rather than to continue to pretend otherwise.
Libyans Have the Right of Free Speech.
The rebels are in retreat again. Take away foreign intervention and the so-called popular uprising is easily defeated. Where are the five million civilians who are supposed to be rebels? Obviously, if even a majority of the people wanted Gaddafi out, they would shelter, feed, fund and join the rebels. But the people do not! Is it possible that this is actually a minor rebellion of radical former military people who are themselves, like Gaddafi , seeking to seize control of Libya? And the so-called leadership of the rebellion. USA acknowledges it knows next to nothing about them, and our Sec. State has meetings with well dressed, expatriats who fled to France and lived in luxury while ordinary Libyans slogged through their daily life under the regime. Do we remember Chalabi in Iraq? He was a cheat and a phony expatriate who we thought was the answer to Iraq’s problems. Yesterday I read news that the people in Gaddafi’s hometown were bombed, strafed and obviously, killed. They are civilians but of his tribe. So, it seems that the people who are civilians but who support Gaddafi are not allowed have free speech, free politics and freedom of assembly. Why? because a foreign President of the USA ( The land of the free and the home of the brave) tells them they are not allowed that freedom. The need to believe as he does and as do French and British colonial imperialists. I really do not agree with most of what Louis Farrakhan says, but he is right to ask President Obama who the hell he thinks he is? Indeed as President of the USA he is one of the most important world leaders. But he is not President of the world? And Lindsey Graham made the association of the Minutemen with the Libyan rebels. Please Senator, do not liken the Libyan rebels to the citizen soldiers of Bunker hill and Concord, and Valley Forge. Last word for this post. Did any of us realize that we had such war mongers in the Congress. Amazing to hear Senator Mc Cain and Liebermann endorse foreign interventionism. America is not the policeman nor the savior of the world. And for those who will quote Gaddafi about “…showing no mercy..” Arabs are noted for exaggeration. Remember Saddam with his Mother of all Battles speech?
Mc Cain Libermann Warmongering?
The drums of war beat loud and fast for some leaders. It is amazing to hear Senators Libermann and Mc Cain in full support of the illegal bombing of Libya. Today I read that Nato, ( that means American) fighters bombs Gadhafi’s home town. Now aren’t these people innocent of any crime? The article said that the bombs were dropped on his home town because the people there supported him. That is just plain immoral. The people there are free to have their political opinions. If they want to back Gadhafi that is their “constitutional” right. I mean, let’s be honest, we say we are for freedom of speech and freedom of political opinion but we bomb Libyan people BECAUSE they exercise their freedom to support whomever political leader they want to support. But it is not the leader that Obama says they are allowed to support. So, we are bombing them. Likewise, I read that we strafed and bombed Gadhafi’s troops, tanks and armored personnel for the purpose of allowing the rebels to gain control of a city and to regain control of another. A few days ago the President and his spokespeople said that it was unfair for Gadhafi to have tanks and troops and armored personnel carriers and we were going to ” level the playing field.” But now the rebels have our planes and bombs in limitless supply while we force Gadhafi forces to have no planes and we wantonly destroy his tanks and helicopters. So now, I ask, who has the unfair advantage and that unfair advantage is not even Libyan it is foreign. And even worse, it is the colonialist imperialist forces of France and England and shamefully, American. Now, on Meet the Press we even hear a Senator say that we should support the internal unrest in Syria, seek to over throw the Syrian government and if needed bomb Syria and put boots on the ground in both Syria and Libya. This writer wants to know if the good Senator thinks we should pour down bombs upon Mecca in Saudi Arabia, a tyranical monarchy and and should we also bomb Palestine a home to Hamas and while we are at it, maybe a few cruise missiles should be shot at Lebanon and Hezbollah? The warmongering of President Obama is amazingly brazen. These are American planes paid for with American dollars and American pilots on the US military payroll and Congress which is the ONLY part of the US government under the Constitution which is allowed to declare war is not even consulted!! Instead the warmongers consult NATO in Brussels, (the new world order headquarters) and the Arab league, (who the hell are they?) and the United Nations, (the historic new world order headquarters.) And what did we seek from them? We asked their permission. And once the US President got their permission our overly aggressive President told us lie and lie as he pursued a bellicose war path of wanton destruction upon the five million people of Libya, all the while denying an attempt to kill Gadahfi and declaring that our effort is humanitarian. Well, what is humanitarian about a war waged against the sovereign state of Libya? Should the USA be cavorting with the ugly colonialist imperialist regimes of England and France against an Arab nation? Well, enough said on that. Now to the outflanking of the Congress as the President takes to the public broadcasting system to force the Congress to approve his constitutionally illegal action by appealing directly to the public. I hope the people will reject the President’s facile manipulation of his power to dictate another war and one which is plainly raw aggression.
Libya really is our third war.
Today’s news reported on TV that the new estimate for the war in Libya is three months. Wow what happened to the Presidents idea of narrow objective, limited in scope and of short duration. General Franks told President Bush that the Shock and Awe campaign would be so effective that we would be out of Iraq in three months. Well, we are still there. It really stretches one’s belief to think that we are in Libya, supporting a very small group of former Libyan soldiers in an armed rebellion against the central government for what the administration calls humanitarian reasons. Let me ask you a simple question, especially all of you in support of this new aggression. If the President asked you for one thousand dollars to be sent voluntarily to support this war, would you send it or would you rather send your thousand to Japan in support of humanitarian relief to the Tsunami victims? Be honest.
American Agression in Libya
American is an aggressor nation which has attacked another country . The President hooked up with two colonial powers to attack the sovereign state of Libya. All of this is illegal, no matter what the United Nations says and it indicates that the United States is now willing to invade and continue to invade another nation in order to destroy the forty-year old functional government and replace it with something else. The United States is the aggressor because Libya did not attack the USA nor did Libya attack citizens of the USA , nor the embassy of the USA. Instead, the USA bombed Libya with aircraft bombs and missiles. This unprovoked attack of three nations of advanced military power against one small Arab nation is an action of aggression pure and simple. Libya was not and is not a threat to the peace, stability or sovereignty of the USA or its citizens. Yet, the USA attacks not only the army, but the nation of Libya itself. What else do you call bombing airfields, attacking administration building, destroying government centers and political party buildings, the compound of the dictatorial ruler and strafing tanks, shooting down heliocopters and preventing its government from quelling an armed rebellion. Last time I thought of it, I remember that armed rebellion against the USA is illegal and considered an act of treason punishable by death. Now some would argue that he is a dictator and therefore not worthy of respect. Did he not address the UN in the USA a few years ago? Did we arrest this man and throw him into prison? Did he not sign legally binding contracts with international companies and a PR firm in the USA? How did he get the weapons that he has? He bought them and the vendors, including many national governments, accepted his money as being the legal tender of the ruler of Libya. The position of many commentators in the USA is to be rejected. Sean Hannity, Bill O Reilly and the boys at CNN and MSNBC are cheering this new WAR. If it is a righteous war, where is the declaration of war from the Congress of the USA? No, this is unprovoked aggression and the criminal is the USA and stop harping that the UN said it was okay to bomb Libya in order to destroy the Libyan government, kill that government’s soldiers and the like…I cannot list all the crimes because it is sickening. And let’s not be two faced about our intentions. We say we want to defend the people but on the news we see that the rebels are not the people but a small band of former libyan soldiers and political activists and organizers who themselves say that they do not have enough fighers to defeat the government of Libya. And the spokeman for the USA State Deptment said Thursday March 24 that our government is in constant daily contact with the rebels for the purpose of finding out who they are, what they stand for, and what they intend to do if we help them to win. So we are fighting a war of aggression against the internationally recognized dictatorship of Libya in favor of a group of somebodies about whom we know nothing. Imagine that our CIA and military intelligence knows nothing about the leaders of this rebel group nor about its goals and aims! ABSURD. We should get out of Libya immediately and unilaterally. Forget this Coalition bull. The nations attacking are merely former imperialist colonial tyrants who seem to want to reclaim some kind of lost military glory. Shame.
Is Syria Next to Fall?
The Obama administration is either oblivious to the north Africia revolution’s potential to create a Muslim Arab Caliphate or it is assisting in the creation of such a thing! Granted, the area could use new leadership but the destruction of Libya and the destabilization of all of North Africa is not the way to do it. Rather, this observer is amazed at the organized consistency of the so call spontaneous uprising of the peoples. There is just too much sameness and too much regularity in the process, which is consistently starting with peaceful citizen protests and rallies, then followed by shooting and then a regularly correographed progression of increasingly radicalized demonstrations. All of them are aimed at overthrowing the regimes of each of the countries. None of them seeks reform or renewal and none is open compromise and negotiation. They want power. They want control of each national government. They want legitimacy so that each new revolutionary government will have access to all the resources, money and power of each nation. They want to immediately be recognized as the legal government of that nation, so as to enjoy the sovereign rights and protections that they deny to the present governments. It is not beyond this writers sense of the possible to see in this amazingly well organized and in the amazing sameness of each nations revolutions- it is possible to see a pattern that tells us that someone else or some other group is calling the shots and pulling the strings. Al Qaida? The muslim brotherhood? Some othr nefarious group of “New World Order” zealots? Is the liberal Western Press and media being “played the fool?” by a cynical and vicious group of international corporate criminals? Are the Western governments and especially President Obama being duped by terrorist groups that play to his ideological zealotry? Fearfully, our war planes and bombs may be aiding our ideological enemies and paving the way for them to seize control over the assets that they need to carry out a program of destabilization in Europe with the goal of weakening and eventually, (say twenty five years from now. (Hey they think long term!) of eventually defeating the USA?
Ohio Law Second in a Popular Revolt Against Tyranical Unions
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The Ohio statue for limiting the negotiation privileges of Public Employee Unions is the second in a popular and publicly supported wave for Responsible Government. The problem with having Unions for government employees is that the Unions apply their money to the support of candidates that favor them. This results in a closed and circular system. The Unions automatically support Democrat candidates who in turn are obligated to support Unions. This means that an agency of government is obligated to support a fraction of the population ad versus the rest of the non unionized population. The result is a prejudice against the non unionized in favor of the unionized. This prejudice uses favorable actions of the Executive and legislative branch to singularly favor unions and thereby exclude the majority population which is non union. This prejudice of the government in favor of the unionized means that the majority population, which is non union, is required by the law to pay for the wages, benefits and pensions of the minority. As President Obama is fond of saying, he wants to spread the wealth around. However, he is reaching into the pockets of lower paid non union workers in order to pay the higher wages, pensions and benefits that the unionized workers receive. This is unfair, since the non unionized have not voluntarily agreed to do this but are forced to pay for the unionized by legislation and the tax code. The preferential treatment of one category of people against the interests of another category of persons is coercive and it seems to this writer to be a civil rights issue. How does this play as a civil rights issue. Simply! A citizens should not be required to pay for the higher wages, higher benefits and higher pensions of another group of citizens.
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Wisconsin Governor Doing a Courageous Job.
Governing is not a popularity contest. The Governor and the Government of a State should not be treated like an American Idol Game show. The Governor is doing his job as best he sees it. He wants to end the brutal downward spiral of the State’s economy, to stop the interest payments bleed which will eventually kill Wisconsin, and to bring honest accountability to government. It is amazing that there is no outcry from the media concerning the democrat representatives who have run away from their jobs. At the federal level, the last Congress of the USA faced an unprecedented show of force by President Obama. He offered legislators money, kickbacks, perks and political promises including campaign money, resources and his appearance at their rallies. Obama delivered on his promises for pork barrel spending to the Senators he purchased and he used Air Force One, the nation’s Jet to fly to dozens of rallies, (five alone in NJ) to support those he owned. The cost of the jet for one use is minimally $180,000 per one way flight. So to support NJ democrat candidates cost the US Treasury $1,800,000 taxpayer dollars! You do the math for all the Obama Campaign trips. I think he could give Wisconsin that money and solve their money problem. Oh, I forgot, we are talking about “do as I say and not as I do” Obama! Is this man ever going to stop scolding the citizens of USA? I think not until 2012 when he’s let go. By the way, during the onslaught of Obama/Reid/Pelosi, the Republicans did not run away from their jobs. Although they were totally ignored by the majority democrats, the republicans stayed, spoke out, proposed viable alternatives and valiantly tried to use the art of persuasion and sound reasoning to win the fight. Obama, Reid, Pelosi, the Unions and the bribes were too much and the democrats won the battle but as evidenced by the 2010 election, they may have lost the war.
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