Freedom From Fear

When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot,

Then we found we could live at peace with ourselves

And show others who still suffered the same fears

That they could get over them, too.

We found that

Freedom from fear was more important than freedom

From want.
~Bill W~

Islamofascism vs Christofascism

Lately, many of our hawkish leaders, as well as presidential candidates, have been referring to our mid eastern enemies as Islamofascist. They are Taliban and al Qaeda, not entire Islamic nations painted with a broad brush of Islamofascism. This kind of rhetorical prejudice will cause us to invade yet another country over propaganda instead of intelligence. We invaded Iraq, a sovereign nation, without just cause, killed hundreds of thousands, bombed their infrastructure, imprisoned and tortured their citizens. I believe we are the Christofascist. Oddly enough our people have been mislead and ill-served by our leadership, much the same as the Iranian people by theirs.
~NED~

CORRECTION

Las Cruces not Las Crses.


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The Great Oil War Strategy

If the US had purchased Oil with the 480 billion we have squandered on the Iraq war we could have purchased 13 billion barrels in 2003 and our entire consumption of oil would have been free for two years. Talk about a great government giveaway program. Instead, we have squandered the money, spent over twice that much for two years worth of oil and our country is less secure. If we begin to extract our troops today, the final bill will still be over 1 trillion by the time we rebuild our military.
The cost of the Iraq war is $231,000 per minute and our consumption of foreign oil is $197,000 per minute.
For an oil war this really isn't going very well unless you are in the oil binness like a Bush or work for Halliburton like Big Dick.
~Ned~

What's a B,ill,ill,ion?

If you spend $40,000 a week, it will take you 6 months to spend a million
Dollars.
Using the same schedule, $40k, 52 weeks a year, it will take you 480
Years to spend one billion dollars.
The war in Iraq costs 16 B,ill,ill,ion / month.
~Ned~

More Simply Stated

We are going to give Turkey war ships so they can destroy the PKK Kurds in Northern Iraq, cause they are bad, cause they fight the Turks our friends and we will give WMDs to the PJAK Kurds in Sothern Iraq, cause they are good, to use on the Iranians, cause they are bad and Nancy Pelosi is going to pass a resolution condemning the Turks of trying to exterminate the Armenians in WWI, cause they were good and that's bad, cause the Turks helped US get Saddam Hussein for trying to kill the Kurds in the North who we said were good.
We invaded Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein cause he used the WMDs we gave him to use on the bad Iranians, on the Northern Kurds who were good and now bad, cause they fight the Turks, but that wasn't good. This was the reason given after we found out that we were attacked by Arab al-Qaeda living with the Taliban in Afghanistan and not al-Qaeda from Iraq, who we thought had yellow cake, but it was the Iranians all along who had their cake and ate it too. Now, Joe Wilson knew this in the beginning, so we told everyone about his wife Valerie Plame to shut him up and Scooter had to take the Plame blame, but he wasn't the one and the Democrats blamed several people including VP Dick. Sounds a lot like the old Plame game.
Makes you Proud to be a Merican, don't it? Pass this on to everyone you know and support our boys at the CIA.
~Ned~