The Naive Left

by Scott Creighton

It has recently been revealed that Scott McClellan’s new book was reviewed and vetted by the administration, well before its publication. And yet the liberal left, for the most part, is still acting as if Scott should be given some kind of prize for coming forward with this “new” information; as if he were some sort of whistle-blower, rather than the co-conspirator that he really is. Are we really that naive, that they can toss out an obvious red-herring like this and we will jump at the bait, just because some neo-cons and administration officials profess to be outraged by McClellan’s book?

According to an MSNBC investigation, McClellan’s new book was reviewed by the White House more than a month ago. The investigation goes on to note that what is interesting about this, is that for the most part, all of the White House insiders that have commented publicly about the book recently have expressed outrage and “shock” over it’s contents.

Pretty amazing when you consider that they read it long ago.

One Possible Outcome; There Are Many

Flobots Stand Up

 

and this one, Handlebars, won’t let you embed it, but it is worth going to the site to see it. Unbelievable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuK2A1ZqoWs 

Gingrich Says Bush Should Have Allowed Some “Terrorists Attacks”, “Just to remind us.”

David Edwards and Muriel Kane from Prison Planet, here.

During an appearance at a Long Island bookstore last month, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was asked by a member of the audience why the United States has not been hit again since 9/11.

Goodbye Harvey. You Will Be Missed.

Tim Conway and Harvey Corman. What a wonderful life.

KBR Killing Soldiers, In the Shower

(The best part of this story is: records show that KBR found the problem several months before Staff Sgt. Maseth died, but because they didn’t have fixing the problem in their “cost-plus” contract, they didn’t. Fixing the ground on the system, might have taken an hour or so… then, believe it or not, to cover for the contractor, or KBR,, the Army tried to tell his mother he had gone into the shower “with a corded appliance” and that is what killed him. He was still being electrocuted when his fellow soldiers tried to save him. One of them was severely electrocuted in the process. It’s a good thing KBR is so close to Vice President Cheney, or they might have lost a contract or two because of this.)

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) – A highly decorated Green Beret, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth died a painful death in Iraq this year. He died not on the battlefield. He died in what should have been one of the safest spots in Iraq: on a U.S. base, in his bathroom.

The water pump was not properly grounded, and when he turned on the shower, a jolt of electricity shot through his body and electrocuted him January 2.

Iraq’s main Sunni bloc suspends government talks

(Weren’t we just arming the Sunni’s during the Anbar Awakening to fight al Qaeda? The same Sunni’s who had been planting IEDs just months before that killed and maimed U.S. soldiers? Didn’t we give them weapons and cash to help “clean up” the Anbar Province (translation: they “cleansed” the Shi’ite population from the area sending them straight into the waiting arms of Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army in Sadr City, swelling the Mahdi Army ranks)? And now, they are pulling out of the Shi’ite-led puppet government Cheney and his oil tycoons created?)

from Wire Dispatch, here.

BAGHDAD, May 28 (Reuters) - Iraq’s main Sunni Arab political bloc said on Wednesday it had suspended talks to rejoin the Shi’ite-led government after a disagreement with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki over a cabinet post.

What “Our Interests in the Region” Did This Week: They Burned Bibles

(That’s right. According to this CNN story, they piled up a bunch of “Messianic propaganda” (ie. Bibles) for no apparent reason, and then when thier backs were turned, 3 “teenagers” lit ‘em up. Those darn teenager pyromaniacs. I wonder how John Hagee will spin this story to his congragation. I wonder if the president of Iran made them do it.)

JERUSALEM (CNN) — Police in Israel are investigating the burning of hundreds of New Testaments in a city near Tel Aviv, an incident that has alarmed advocates of religious freedom.

Investigators plan to review photographs and footage showing “a fairly large” number of New Testaments being torched this month in the city of Or-Yehuda, a police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said Wednesday.

Is Obama Turning (Further) Right?

by Greg Kafoury from Counter Punch, here.

This week, Senator Barak Obama traveled to Florida and spoke to Jewish and Cuban-American audiences. In those speeches, he embraced the right-wing policy positions of the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) and the hard-line program of the most reactionary elements of the Cuban exile community.

The Clear and Present Danger of their lies.

 by Scott Creighton (published 1st on Sept 5th, 2007)

  In the mid 70s an organization was re-formed from the ashes of an old 50’s group, The Committee on the Present Danger; and now they are back. They were the lobbying and PR off-shoot of the now infamous, “Team B“. “Team B” was formed around 1974 in order to “re-evaluate” the known intelligence from the CIA about the threat the Soviet Union posed to our way of life. Much like the Office of Special Plans did in the run-up to the Iraq invasion; Team B took facts collected by the CIA at great risk and expense, and distorted them to suit the needs of military industrialists and war mongers. Is it just a coincidence that they were formed by one George H. W. Bush or that on the team were Richard Pipes, Thomas Wolf, and one Paul Wolfowitz?The Committee’s purpose was to sell Team B’s lies to the congress and the country to inch us closer and closer to a global conflict with the USSR.

The Committee’s real key players are for the most part still around today. In those days, George P. Shultz, William Casey, and Richard Perle called the shots. Today, it is the likes of John Liebermann, Jon Kyl, James Woolsey, and of course George P. Shultz.

The Sickness

I caught a glimpse of the future today, of all places, on CNN. It’s a stump speech video of John McCain, in front of a small crowd, somewhere.

It starts off with him mispronouncing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s name, then goes steadily downhill from there.