Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Meet One Of The Most Dangerous Men In The World

Do you know who he is? Not many people do, not yet. He is known as the Godfather of modern neoconservatism, who devoutly believes America has to go to war with Iran as quickly as possible. He is also Rudy Giuliani's Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, a racist and a dangerous human being. Here are a just a few of his most notorious rants.

Fretting about whether to attack Iran sends only a message of weakness to the combined Shiite and Sunni enemies in the Middle East.

If we were to bomb the Iranians as I hope and pray we will, we’ll unleash a wave of anti-Americanism all over the world that will make the anti-Americanism we’ve experienced so far look like a lovefest.

I continue to believe that what Sept 11, 2001, did was to plunge us headlong into nothing less than another world war. I call this new war World War IV.

The creation of an independent Palestinian state would now only create another terrorist state.

In short, the plain and brutal truth is that if Iran is to be prevented from developing a nuclear arsenal, there is no alternative to the actual use of military force, any more than there was an alternative to force if Hitler was to be stopped in 1938.

Negroes made one feel inadequate. But most important of all, they were tough, beautifully, enviably tough, not giving a damn for anyone or anything. This is what I envied and feared in the Negro. Then there were the effete snobs, the writers and intellectuals and artists who romanticize the Negroes, and pander to them, and all the white liberals who permit the Negroes to blackmail them into adopting a double standard of moral judgment.

On economic matters, I agree that if immigrants are not of net benefit to the country, it makes no sense for us to allow newcomers to do harm in this way.

This is who you get when you support Rudy Giuliani.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Dennis Kucinich – A Great Visionary For These Times

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

Dennis Kucinich will not be the nominee of the Democratic party in 2008. That reality will have nothing to do with his intellect, morality, or leadership capabilities. It will have everything to do with money, fame and stature. Fortunately, Dennis’s greatness and value to this country will not be measured by his winning or losing a presidential election. It will be measured by his acute reasoning, political philosophy and honest perspective on what America can truly be. On that playing field, Dennis Kucinich is already a winner. Dennis Kucinich's vision for America embodies the truest sense of America’s greatness and potential. A country where justice, fairness, humanity and the needs of working people triumph over corporate greed and international arrogance. Where telling the truth and standing up to power can mean something in America once again. Dennis says,

We need to understand the connection between peace and the environment. We know that life on our planet is threatened by the twin threats of global warring and global warming. They are linked, and we have to understand that as we cognize the world as being interconnected and interdependent, we know that resource wars are passé and that the focus on sustainability will create peace.

Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate for President who has voted against authorizing the war in Iraq and against funding its continuation.

Dennis Kucinich knows that health care in the US is too expensive and leaves 46 million Americans without insurance and millions more underinsured. He believes in a Universal, Single-Payer, Not-for-Profit health care system.

Dennis Kucinich believes in ending America's participation in NAFTA and the WTO. Huge, multi-national corporations ship American jobs overseas, turn a blind eye to human rights abuses and hide behind their lobbyists in Washington.

A champion of working families, Dennis Kucinich believes in universal health care, restoring our schools, strengthening Social Security and protections for private pensions.

Dennis knows that The USA Patriot Act and secret strategy meetings to set policy tear into the very concept of We the People. He believes in protecting individual liberties and privacy and restoring balance and fairness in America's electoral system.

We could all learn a great deal from a man with such clear vision and humanity.

The Power Of Nightmares - A Must See BBC Documentary

Watch it online here Mandatory viewing for those eager to understand the true genesis of the great divide that threatens us all today. Neocon Conservatives versus Islamic Fundamentalists. Sayyid Qutb, the father of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Muslim world and Leo Straussburst, father of Neo-Conservatism in America, were initially brothers in idealism fighting against the same enemy, albeit in different parts of the world both figuratively and literally.

They shared the same mutual disdain for modernity and the permissive culture of laissez-faire democracy. They decried the failure of the liberal vision and both shared the same belief as to which tolerant and indulgent beast caused that failure. American and Middle-Eastern governments were corrupt; the freedom of the individual and liberal thought were the cause of all societal ills.

They also correctly discerned that religion was the most efficient way to intoxicate the masses and enable their power and authority and that those who were able to rule based on fear became the most powerful. That's where it all came apart. Now their ideological decendants are enemies fighting against each other.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

And here we are . . .

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Democrats In Congress Listen Up - It's OK To Vote And Lose

Sometimes you have to be toughest on the ones you care for the most. Doesn't mean you love them any less; just that you want them to be the best that they can be.

I saw this absurd statement in an Associated Press article, regarding what an appropriate Democrat response would be to General Petraeus's congressional testimony.
Absent a new political climate, Democrats are in a tough position. Continue to insist on a hard-line position and fail, letting weeks go by without passing anti-war legislation, or soften their stance.
Nonsense, the Democrats aren't in a tough position at all and the more they continue to act like they are and seem confused as to what they should do, the angrier the American people and especially Democrats are going to get. Yes, we all know that you only have 49 seats and Bernie but so what. Do your best to lobby and cajole those on the other side of the aisle, give your best impassioned plea on the floor of the Senate. But when push comes to shove, stand up for what you believe in. Vote and lose. That’s what we want you to do, we're screaming now can you hear us?

We all know why Congressional approval ratings are so low. It's because Democrats are sick and tired of this senseless war and they want Congressional Democrats at the very least to stand together in unity and say no more.

Would you tell your kids in little league to back down against those bigger kids? No. You would tell them to go play the game and give it their best so everyone watching can see what they're made of. You would tell them it's not whether they win or lose, it's how they play the game.

We’re tired of your safe political decisions. We don’t want you to soften your stance. We don’t want legislation that reactionary traitor Joe Lieberman can agree to. Don’t you get it? We elected you for your principles, integrity, promises to do the right thing and to vote to get us out of Iraq. Not to vote that way only when you have enough votes! Get it now? We're smart, we know the math, we know you don’t have 60 votes to overturn the veto of the war criminal in the White House, but we don’t care. We don’t want calculated, pragmatic, political positioning that will result in some namby-pamby, watered down, safe bill with no benchmarks and no withdrawal date. Vote your conscience and if you lose so be it. That’s what we want.