MIKE LUPICA the NY Daily News IDIOT!

According to: “Lupica: President Obama needs to take the lead and 'man up' against Russia and Putin over MH17 tragedy … Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the one to tell Putin to 'man up' over Russia's involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but it's really Obama who should be stepping up given the evidence the government has.”

Get the headline and blurb, then read the story: Seems “…

the people to whom this President listens look like kids who have taken over the principal’s office, ones who apparently think they can treat the rest of us like suckers.”

Well maybe they are suckers – question is, is Lupica one of them or is he playing to an audience he knows to be suckers and idiots?

Consider this: Comparing current events to Cheney-Bush and “… their mission to take out another regional thug, Saddam Hussein, one who in retrospect looks no more unhinged or dangerous than Putin is presently.”

HUM, so Putin is equated to Saddam Hussein, and Hussein was attacked because he was holding down oil prices (which the Saudis didn’t like – and, in exchange for his Desert Storm debacle, after his term expired, paid Bush Sr. lots of no-show money through their Canadian operation).  Saddam was also holding the line against al-Qaeda, the other emerging terrorist groups and Iran – so George Jr put an end to that and we had twelve years of war, a doubling of the National Debt, excessive oil prices (again making Saudis happy) and Iran was free to explore the Nuclear Option.

Funny thing about the Saudis involvement with oil and the Bushes, the whole WAR ON TERROR was begun when Bush gave visas to 19 Saudis who then destroyed the World Trade Center, attacked the Pentagon, tried to attack the White House (funny how that was the plane that didn’t make it) and killed about 4,000 Americans.

Saudis pay Bush Sr., destroy WTC, amazingly fail in their alleged attempt to attack Bush Jr. and suddenly all the Saudis oil competitors are out of business – especially the one that was making sure oil prices stayed low.

Anyway, Lupica equates Putin to Hussein – and asserts “This doesn’t mean that Barack Obama should have threatened to start a war with Russia. He wasn’t about to do that any more than the sainted Ronald Reagan was going to do that when Russia shot a Korean Air commercial jet out of the sky 30 years ago.”

Lupica simply infers direct Russian involvement in the downing of a Dutch commercial airliner stupidly flown over a Civil War zone in the Ukraine.   Of course, Lupica fails to mention other Ukrainian war planes which were downed in the weeks prior to the event – or to establish that the airliner did all in its power to inform those in the ground that it was foreign, commercial and civilian – and not a high altitude Ukrainian bomber.

Hey – we need to beat-up on Russia in the same way we have for six decades, and exercise any excuse to hamper or otherwise diminish Obama’s ability to conduct foreign diplomacy is right in keeping with Right-wing political motives ultimately aimed at the destruction of America.

How do we accomplish the destruction of America?  Try destroy Europe!  Or any region upon which our economy depends.  Lupica would achieve this through this suggestion: “if the evidence is as good as we have been told, the President and his chief European allies must deliver the message that they are quite willing to bring down the Russian economy — and the billionaires it has produced, if necessary — if that’s what it takes to remove Russia’s president from power.”

Let’s see, we bring down the Russian economy, that removes Russia as a necessary allied power in ongoing Middle Eastern talks/negotiations with Iran.  If those talks fail, then we could see additional violence in the Middle East – compounding the Jihadist military actions in Syria and Gaza, while strengthening the ISIS takeover of Iraq.

HUM – so the Middle Eastern powder Keg explodes … and then, as Russia folds, so does 30% of the energy it supplies to Europe … GEE and the European economy goes where?

Compounding that energy stoppage with the stoppage of oil from Iraq, Iran, and  closing of the pipelines through Syria … how much of Europe’s energy vanishes?

And what of the Saudis?  Maybe the looming sectarian civil war that they have, to date, successfully prevented can finally be fought – the royal family can then flee to some ‘safe’ location and all of the world’s major oil supplies are suddenly in the hands of anti-American terrorist groups.

YEP Lupica is dead on in the wisdom of his suggestion and criticism of Obama’s handling of Putin – as Putin sits and watches developments in the Ukraine and takes the very threatening step of  authorizing a new Gambling District in the Crimea vacation resort area which has recently decided it prefers to be Russian rather than Ukrainian … and basically recognizes that it was Russian until Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev decided he didn’t want it.

So basically, Lupica is complaining because Obama isn’t forcing a continuation of a Communist Territorial decision that was made around the time Obama was born.

For that, Lupica, and apparently the New York Daily News as well, would like to see the world economy destroyed and the Jihadists move closer to fulfillment of the Koran mandate to kill all the “Bad Christians”.

Ah the fun.  

 

YO! Right-wing! Continue Iraq until 2012

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Date Line May 6, 2007

“WHEN a pretension to free the world from evil ends only in a new proof of the danger of a fanatic to the commonweal, then it is not to be marveled at that a distrust is aroused in the observer which makes sympathy impossible.” Thus, with the words of Sigmund Freud, did NY Times Op-Ed Contributor George Prochnik begin his article.

“I do not know how to avoid the conclusion that a man who is capable of taking the illusions of religion so literally and is so sure of a special personal intimacy with the Almighty is unfitted for relations with ordinary children of men. As everyone knows, the hostile camp during the war also sheltered a chosen darling of Providence: the German kaiser. It was most regrettable that later on the other side a second appeared. No one gained thereby: respect for God was not increased.”

As Prochnik, Freud warned that we should “Be afraid of the leader who refuses to look in the mirror.” Which, of course, means, be afraid of any leader who will not take an honest look at his own actions.

As a Jew, Freud would have known the story of Solomon, who found the Laws of Moses in the palace library and realized he had been doing things wrong. Solomon, noted for his wisdom, immediately reviewed his own decisions, and had them reviewed by his wisest advisors.

It is from that we have the “Rule of Solomon”: Do what you believe to be right and you are not liable for any wrong made from ignorance of the true law; but once you learn the law you bare full responsibility for your actions.

OH IF ONLY we had leaders who understood the Rule of Solomon and could look themselves in the mirror. Instead what we have is people who should listen to the words of John Prine’s song, “Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore.”

Pine remind the Right-wing that Heaven is “already overcrowded
From your dirty little war. Now Jesus don't like killin' No matter what the reason's for, And your flag decal won't get you Into Heaven any more.”

Not that it matters, as we have seen in previous blogs, the Right-wing evangelicals could not care less for what the supposed king thinks of their actions. Given the opportunity, they will do everything that they are told not to do, and will refuse to do that which they are told to do.

About the only thing to be happy about: The will never be a Right-wing evangelical, never be a Christian or Muslim fundamentalist, who can gain entry into whatever heaven might really exist.

Thus, if we wish to be free of them for all eternity, it becomes our obligation to do, and support, that which well get us where they are not.

To go where they will not be, we must oppose anything which leads to the death of innocents; we must oppose the use of military force when peaceful means are available; we must take care of the sick and the hungry; and most important, while ensuring we never engage in actions which kill another person, we must also make sure never engage in an action which renders others sick, hungry, or homeless.

Of course, if we know and judge them by their actions, and not their proven hypocritical words, we can all see that the Right-wing has no idea what I am talking about.

At this moment, Congress is reviewing the presidential veto which serves to make the current conflict perpetually open ended. Right now many are sitting quietly and allowing the murders to continue in their names. Say goodbye to them, for their eternal rest shall be oblivion.

But hey! That assumes that this is not all there is, was, and will be. So choose your sides and the way you want to live.

Decide if you well-being, and that of your descendants, is less important than borrowing more Billions to murder Iraqi women and children.

Decide if you can “win” when nobody can decide where the finish line is, or if it even exists at all.

There is no fence to sit upon. All those who do not oppose the administration actions become part of a famed Nixon “silent majority” who supposedly supported the War in Vietnam.

Those who are silent now support the wounding or killing of American military sons and daughters. They support the killing of 600,000 Iraqis and freedom for Osama Bin Laden. The silent, like those in the Administration who yell there is something to win, define winning as the economic and social destruction of America.

Which side are you on? Tell you Congress person - Deadline, or no.
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Rats in a cage

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Date Line April 21, 2007

Virginia Tech, 33 dead, but not an isolated instance. More important, it was predicted.

Turn back to Scientific American circa 1960 and you will discover a study on rat populations which lead the author to predict, as city populations increased, there would be increased crime and violence.

I don’t recall the details, but the study has, obviously, stuck with me for more than forty years.

As the world population continues to increase, so too will the number of wars, genocidal conflicts, and seemingly random shooting of the kind which just occurred at Virginia Tech.

Psychologists talk of mob psychology. That groups of people have a tendency to behave in a manner independent of the behavior of any single individual.

The typical example is a lynch mob. There will be a rope; but who will bring it? There will be a stone or other item tossed; but who will toss it? In each instance the specific who is unknown; but there will be one person who responds in the manner which ends in a lynching.

We no longer have a system conducive to a mob hanging. Which is not to say it is not ever going to happen. If events are right, there will be a time when people storm into the streets and violence results.

We can think times when it happens; times which we do not equate to the old fashioned lynching. No matter. The emotional forces are at play, they are inherent in humanity; especially in humanity of a given emotional bent.

There will be more “Virginia Tech”, or “Columbine”, or Texas University Watch Tower, style massacres. They will occur because, like the rats in the Scientific American report, we have reached the point of ultimate stress.

We are facing overpopulation, a shortage of food, rising sea levels, general climate change, disease (natural and as a result of our own actions), and most important, we have people who are corrupting the things we turn to force solace ... making them a cause for anger.

Ignorance and intolerance are generally associated with the lynch mob mentality. We push our neighbor to the breaking point; and wonder why they break; and then expound on the violence released.

It is as if we play at triggering an atomic explosion; and then fain amazement at the hole created and destruction done.

We know of PTSD. We associate it with combat stress. We then deny treatment to our combat veterans returning from a conflict in which every step, every person, every place or sound, meant the possibility of death. When will Iraq cause its killings here?

Will you be surprised, and cry for the victims, who need not have been created but for the failure to give psychological treatment to the returning troops? Will you take responsibility for what you denied?

The rats are in a crowded cage, the population and pressures are increasing, we are intentionally aggravating and agitating them; we teach them to kill and then act in amazement as they turn on and devour each other.

We have knowingly redefined the environment for our lynch mob; and they are coming after us. Are you having fun yet?
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This aint Vietnam

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Date Line April 19, 2007

Bush justifies perpetual occupation of Iraq: “After Vietnam, after we left, millions of people lost their life. My concern is there would be a parallel there. This time around, the enemy wouldn't just be content to stay in the Middle East, they'd follow us here."

Bush lied to create this conflict. He lied because it was what Bin Laden wanted.

Bin Laden said he wanted Saddam Hussein dead.

Bin Laden said he wanted a training ground for al-Qaeda.

Bin Laden said he wanted America to run a Trillion Dollar deficit, to go into debt, to go bankrupt; and he made no secrete of wanting our military crippled.

Well, George W Bush has achieved all that and more. The deficit is in the current budget and in off budget continuing funding resolutions; it is in the direct medical costs to those brave men and woman who went there whole and have returned in physical, or mental, pieces.

Now Bush has made an ultimatum: fund a perpetual conflict, a conflict without end, or I will block any funding at all and allow our troops to rot in the field.

The “war” was lost the day Bush initiated the lies. The “war” was lost the day Bush stopped pursuit of Bin Laden, and initiated his invasion to destabilize the Middle East and bring down the only the nation his father had crippled (at Saudi direction).

America is the surrogate army for Saudi Islamic sectarian forces. We are to die so the sheiks can get rich selling us fuel for our tanks and trucks.

How much has the Bush family been paid by these arab potentates? How many Billions will they pocket at the cost of American freedom and lives?

It really doesn’t matter. You know it. I know it. The world knows it.

The goal is to create a global religious war. The rich and richer will stand to the sidelines and rake in their profits. You children will die.

There is a parallel to Vietnam. It is a conflict which never should have been, and which was started by Republicans. And YES! They will bring it to our shores – when and where they wish.

We have no National Guard to protect us. They are all locked into perpetual service in Iraq. Worse, during Vietnam, as Bush knows, but prefers to ignore, Vietnam just wanted freedom of choice – in Iraq the matter is one of religious and cultural warfare. Worse, they have the oil Bush insists we must burn in abundance; at least until the climate changes and our cities flood and our population is rendered homeless.
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Suicide Killer -- 33 dead -- where was Homeland Security?

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Date Line April 16, 2007

OK where is Homeland Security?

Where is the real security from terrorism and murder?

Virginia Tech? Thirty-three dead!

"We had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur," Steger said of the first shooting.

Hello! “Incident” A planed murder spree is an “incident”? Oh that is so cute. The body count in the average Bagdad suicide attack is less than that which happened in Blackburg – and it is only a first followed by a second “incident.”

When are Americans going to awaken to reality? We have sent – George Bush has sent our children to Iraq to die in his “war on terrorism” and the terrorists we need to be concerned of are here; they are home grown and deadly.

More American have been murdered by Bush’s incompetence and outright lies than died in the World Trade Center – or in all the 9/11 events.

In theory, Homeland Security is supposed to protect us from mass killings. But reality has a way of destroying theories. Homeland Security is a joke. Any time someone wants to commit mass murder – any time someone wants to become a suicide terrorist – they can.

The difference between the Blackville Suicide Shooter and Iraq? The people of Iraq never intended us any harm – yet we caused the situation which resulted in the murder of 600,000 Iraqis.

Bush is the real world terrorist – he has murdered more people than all the al-Qaeda and Hamas style groups combined..

The kid in Blackburg was a suicide terrorist. He killed and killed himself. Where was Homeland Security? If they cannot stop this one, will they stop the next – or the one that follows that one?

This was, and is, the season for terrorism on our shores. I wrote that well before the last election. Is Homeland Security going to stop the next one?

Will they even be near at hand when the next one comes down?

Will they be around when the next hurricane strikes? Will FEMA? Will the government turn from its tax breaks for the rich, or cease depriving soldiers of medical care, long enough?

Will the Bush Administration and the Right-wing take even a moments time to concern itself with real homeland security issues?

It is the season of death – before the years of death. Are you feeling all safe and secure?

The one to fear sits in the Whitehouse. The one to fear struts with their bible in one hand and their tax shelter papers in the other. The one to fear is the one who order our National Guard to their death on foreign soil.

It is the season of death – before the years of death. Are you feeling all safe and secure? Do you even have enough brains to be scared?
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Blackburg, Va -- Virginia Tech campus
Thirty-three dead. Thirty two victims and the killer – all at the hands of the killer. A suicide attack in the terrorist style so evident in Bagdad over the past years since Bush lied to justify the invasion.

In an article posted here (http://shreknangst.blogspot.com/ Friday, January 21, 2005) I mentioned expecting nothing approaching terrorist actions in America until after the 2006 election, made a few statements, then added, “and a terrorist attack on our shores before July 2007. DUH.”

If this one doesn’t count – we still have some 75 days. Care to yield a good prediction? Or would you want a better example? Your call.
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No matter, come 2008, you're screwed.

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Date Line April 14, 2007

I understand they want someone to takeover as overseer of the Iraq - Afghanistan conflicts. OK, since nobody has actually been in charge, “takeover” is the wrong term.

Still – I would like the job.

The first thing I would do, as policy, is point out that “you cannot shoot fish in a barrel, if you are in the barrel.” So we need to pull the troops out and not extend their tours.

Let Iraqis and Afghanistani determine who controls their countries and sets their policies toward the west.

We can allow them to establish their leadership, their meeting places, their governmental structure. Once they have, if the model is based upon al-Qaeda, or any terrorist model, we simply carpet bomb the capital while their government is in session.

If those forces are antagonistic to us, we kill them – one shot with all the shock and awe that comes from having rockets, airplanes and an arsenal of bombs capable of erasing geography.

The one thing we should not be doing, which the Bushites love to call “support for the troops”, is have our ground forces standing between opposing domestic forces in a foreign land.

What rational justification is there for our military being worn down acting like police in a nation where not only don’t they know any of the various languages, they don’t know the customs of religious practices?

Of course, knowledge of the religious practices is very important. As we all know, the two dominant sects in Iraq target each other on Holy Days. Neither side evidences any respect for the Islamic faith.

The Sunni are apparently the most egregious violators and so are the equivalent of our Right-wing evangelical Christians.

You know them – they are the people who gave us Bush and who McCain is working so hard to get into his camp.

You know them – they are the people who support family values by practicing adultery and having multiple divorces. This is, of course, consistent with their opposition to loving couples getting married. It is, of course, consistent with their opposition to loving couples adopting homeless, parentless, children.

It is very important that we keep in mind that this is a Right-wing Christian nation, we are a puritanical Christian nation.

Which reminds me: How of you know that the Puritans practiced pre-marital “Bundling”? HUH! OK. “Bundling” was a practice whereby two people who were considering marriage would share the same bed – they would sleep together – before they made the final decision to actually marry.

The idea was basic, they should know their partners sleeping habits. The practice involved a “bundling board” which divided the bed and supposedly kept the couple from engaging in anything “intimate.”

However, many socialists have studied Puritan birth and marriage records – and for some reason Puritan gestation periods appear to be six months or less from the date of marriage.

Hypocritical behavior has always been a Right-wing indulgence. It is the paramount characteristic of the Right-wing – it is also a real life example of the behavior specifically denounced by Jesus.

If you don’t recall Jesus’ definition of hypocrite – it was the people who go to church and make a big show of their religious fervor, who he contrasted with the proper behavior for his followers: have a closet (room) in your house where you go to pray, and keep your communing with the Lord private and away from the eyes or ears of others.

Face it – there isn’t a Christian in the nation who will get salvation; not if they make it a point to run to Church and show off their ‘faith.”

And this is a Christian nation – so don’t be surprised if you’re screwed following the 2008 election.
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Where Does WAR lead?

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"We are at War." It is a simple enough phrase; but one with a wealth of connotation and meaning.

I have made no secrete of the fact I do not believe we are at war; given that our invasion of Iraq has caused the death of 600,000 innocent Iraqis, most certainly we are not involved in a war on terror – we are the cause of death for all those Iraqis who would, if not for our actions, otherwise be alive.

Now that’s a hell of a guilt trip. As we all know, there are many among us who would rather await Judgment Day – and suffer the consequences – than admit they must atone now for their support of the Bush invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent "martyrs" death of Saddam Hussein.

OK. WE don’t see Saddam Hussein as a martyr; but who – when, in 1958, we were supporting Fidel Castro against Fulgencio Batiste – was asserting that the middle class would select to abandon their homes, assets or heritage, and exit the Cuban Nation rather than live under the man who removed a dictator?

Isn’t it funny how, when we place ourselves above the natural order of civilization – when we interfere in the internal nature of nations, and the right of the subject people to express themselves, either through ballot or civil war – we get results that our leaders deny could occur.

In the case Cuba, the problems with Batiste would have passed with his death on August 6th 1973 – instead, 35 years later, the Castro family remains in charge; the Cuban which was favorable to American economic interests has been subject to an economic boycott for more than 45 years; and, we narrowly averted a nuclear Third World War when, on October 14, 1962, we learned that the Soviet Union had followed our European example, and was moving nuclear missiles within striking distance of its perceived enemy – US!

Now we find ourselves two generations removed from that past era. The children of those who were born after those dark "Duck and Cover" days, when nuclear war was seen as assured universal destruction, are now being asked to fight and die. They are being shown that, if they are merely wounded, if they suffer mental or physical trauma, as the natural result of being placed in harms way, for no real reason, these who chose to make them that way will deny any real responsibility.

Our political structure only cares about placating the wealthy donors and big business interests. It has no interest in voters, or their children. It has no interest in the common folk who provide the cannon fodder for their "wars" of choice. But as I said, this is not a "WAR". It is not even a police action, or quest for justice, or even revenge.

On 9/11 a terrorist, a criminal, destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon. As a result, thousands of Americans died on our soils at the hands of 19 Saudi Islamist renegade terrorists following the orders of a man our Government recruited and trained to be a terrorist for us.

In response, we brought down a government in Afghanistan, freed their farmers to produce bumper crops of opium to be sold to our children, or those of our European allies. As they closed in on the billionaire Saudi who had caused the destruction on our soil, we called off our soldiers – sending them, instead, to invade the nation of a ruler who had served our interest against a nation which had destroyed our Embassy and held our people hostage for 440 days.

What, like Cuban under the Batiste dictatorship, had been a nation friendly to our interests – a nation with a thriving middle class and highly educated population – was thrown into Sectarian Civil War. And the nation which held our people hostages in the 1970's was now free to take British hostages a few weeks ago.

By declaring we were at WAR with terrorists, we raised the acts of terror from those of a criminal to those of a patriot – and so strengthened the organization, Al Qaeda. Those who were common murders on 9/11 are now held to be military operative, soldiers at war, exempt from civil law.

On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson declared, "The world must be made safe for democracy." Ninety years later, the United States is elevating murders to the status of patriotic warriors and destroying nations which are noted for their educated middle class – in favor of backward, ignorant, theocracies.

Words notwithstanding, America has demonstrated that its politics is built on the creation of enemies and threads; it is build on the conversion of criminals into nationalist leaders; it is built on a desire to impose theocratic rules to all who wish peace, justice and freedom – those who believe they not only have the right to pursue happiness, they have the absolute right to have what will bring them personal happiness.

We are abandoning our Constitutional objectives. For two generations, we have been abandoning our interests in

Democracy – the right of a subject people to determine for themselves the laws and authorities to under which they would live, and to whom they would answer.

With an approaching Presidential Election, a paraphrase of an old public service TV ad comes to mind: "You know what you are doing to their Nation, their rights, their freedoms, their lives; are you aware of what you are ultimately doing to yours?"
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Winning -- the ultimate example of Bush Bullshit

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Date Line March 23, 2007

What is “WINNING?” When it comes Iraq, we hear a lot about “winning” be nothing which defines exactly what that means.

The term “winning” is usually assumed to be understood. However this is a conflict in which people’s lives are at stake and we had best know what we are killing over.

Who is the enemy? Who is our opponent – the one against whom we are expected to be victorious in order to bring about the cessation of our involvement in the sectarian hostilities?

Idiots will immediately say “terrorists”. OK – does that means the Timothy McVey’s of the world will cease to exist? Does that mean an end to suicide bombers?

Those who believe there can be a victory are idiots. Plain and simple, they are total, complete, irresponsible idiots.

Look to the reality of Iraq:
1. The government is on our side.
2. The people want us gone and violence ended – so on our side.
3. There is nobody with whom peace can be made.


You cannot make peace with suicide bombers – they do their work and are dead.

How do you make peace with the dead? How do you “win” against the dead?

Can you stop people from killing themselves in order to kill others?

Can Bush and his idiot backers – those lame brained “support the troops” idiots who believe support means send them to their death – or make them living corpses; basket cases; wounded who are denied medical care; denied psychological care.

Yes those “rocking chair patriots” are willing to fight to the death of the last child – no matter if it is an American soldier, or an Islamic civilian; the battle will be to the last taxpayer dollar and the last child.

Who, under those conditions can win? Who but Al Qaeda? Bin Laden can win from the grave

Al Qaeda is at war with Islam far more than it is at war with us. In the

Al Qaeda game, this is a battle between Sunni and Shia; only after that is resolved does the infidel west come into play. But, as I have pointed out before, Bush is the tool of Al Qaeda – doing, and achieving, all the objective set down by Bin Laden.

Bush has managed to fulfill Bin Laden objectives – he has killed Saddam, provided a training and tactic exploration territory (Iraq) for Al Qaeda, and has weakened both the American economy and military in the process.

George Bush has proved to be the very best of Al Qaeda assets. He has, by being “a decision maker”, made every decisions Bin Laden wanted made.

Define winning. Tell us what the benchmarks are. Let us know the steps and landmarks which mean we have won. Winning? If it is really a “war on terror” would mean we could dismantle all the extra security at airports – we could return to air travel of the 60's and 70's.

More, given “hijackers”, winning the war on terror would mean we could return to air travel of the 50's – no security, no scanners, no metal detectors ... none of that.

Who is so stupid as to believe such a time would ever come again? Who? Only those who are stupid enough to believe there is a “war on terror” which can be won; and worse, believe that it can be won through any American sponsored outcome in Iraq.

There is no war, because there is no enemy who can declare and affirm peace. There is no winning, because there will always be those who understand that terrorism works – it is the ultimate example of Bush’s “Shock and Awe” inducing action.
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