Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein was executed recently and the right wing news sites and blogs are having cyber orgasms over the hanging video being circulated around the internet. Saddam Hussein did not have anything to do with the Sept. 11 attacks yet the cretins who vote Republican still believe that he organized the attacks. There's no proof that Saddam gassed the Kurds yet the propaganda masters of the corporate media want you to think that he did do these horrible acts against his neighbors.

There are 100s of horrible dictators and leaders around the globe yet you do not see Bush and his global democratic revolution advocates yearning to go into the heart of Africa or Central Asia to free those people. The Iraq war was the beginning of the resource wars. America needs the oil that Iraq sits on and since Saddam wouldn't give in to America, he had to be taken out. There won't be a democracy in Iraq. Another strongman dictator will get his chance to rule Iraq and this time he will probably be a Shi'ite. What most people do not understand is that you cannot free a people unless they want to be free. The people that depend on another nation to free them will wind up being dependent on the nation that freed them.

How do we know that the guy that was executed is the real Saddam? This is one of the questions the corporate media will never ask and they are hoping that the American public never asks that question.

Mrs Saddam says Saddam is not Saddam

Someone Else Doesn't Like Obama

And she's not from the right-wing:

Indiana's junior senator, Democrat Evan Bayh, recently visited New Hampshire to weigh his prospects for a 2008 presidential run. He was flattened by crowds running to see Obama, and dropped out.

What was Obama saying that other centrists would not have? Absolutely nothing.

Obama talked about ending the nastiness in Washington and taking personal responsibility, and that government can't solve all problems -- platitudes emptied of all controversy. If anything, his colleagues from Indiana would surely have offered more exciting commentary.

Obama's appeal comes not from the things he says, but from who is saying them. He scores as an exotic who talks of barbershops and church socials in the flat tones you'd expect from any son of the prairie.

Had Bayh been half-Kenyan and raised in Hawaii by white grandparents from Kansas, he too would have become a political star, at least for the month of December. But he is a conventional white man. When Bayh speaks in the quiet Midwestern way, he gets tarred as lackluster.

Obama is a DLC Democrat disguised as a liberal populist. Hopefully Democrat voters will see through this facade and vote for someone else in the 2008 primaries.

O-Bomb-a

From Antiwar.com:

Like most congressional Democrats, he bowed before the Israeli war machine and praised the IDF's brazen aggression in Lebanon, going so far as to visit northern Israel during the war in a show of support. He opposed a cease-fire – "I don't fault Israel for wanting to rid their border with Lebanon from those Katyusha missiles that can fire in and harm Israeli citizens, so I think that any cease-fire would have to be premised on the removal of those missiles" – and absurdly averred:

"I don't think there is any nation that would not have reacted the way Israel did after two soldiers had been snatched. I support Israel's response to take some action in protecting themselves."

According to this logic, the U.S. should have invaded Iran when the Iranians took hostages at our embassy – and, come to think of it, he does endorse an attack on Tehran, as reported by the Chicago Tribune:

"U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama suggested Friday that the United States one day might have to launch surgical missile strikes into Iran and Pakistan to keep extremists from getting control of nuclear bombs."

He stresses that military action is a "last resort," and that we ought to squeeze them with sanctions first:

"But if those measures fall short, the United States should not rule out military strikes to destroy nuclear production sites in Iran, Obama said.

"'The big question is going to be, if Iran is resistant to these pressures, including economic sanctions, which I hope will be imposed if they do not cooperate, at what point are we going to, if any, are we going to take military action?' Obama asked.

"Given the continuing war in Iraq, the United States is not in a position to invade Iran, but missile strikes might be a viable option, he said. Obama conceded that such strikes might further strain relations between the U.S. and the Arab world. 'On the other hand, having a radical Muslim theocracy in possession of nuclear weapons is worse. So I guess my instinct would be to err on not having those weapons in the possession of the ruling clerics of Iran. … And I hope it doesn't get to that point. But realistically, as I watch how this thing has evolved, I'd be surprised if Iran blinked at this point.'"

The United States, in Obama's reckoning , is the ultimate arbiter of who shall join the nuclear club and who is barred from that exclusive group: he makes no mention, naturally, of Israel's nukes. There's only the demagogic assertion that anything is better than Muslims with nukes. Are there any Muslims who aren't "radical," in his eyes?

Never mind that Iran is pursuing nuclear power while asserting only its right to nuclear weapons (and, at the same time, disdaining any ambitions to actually acquire them). And it doesn't matter, one assumes, that our own CIA has estimated it will be a good 10 years before the Iranians develop such a capacity. All they have to do, in Obama's view, is maintain their right to do so – and we slap them with sanctions. Which, of course, means war…

The pretty-boy face and the accomplished actor's polished technique aside, Barack Obama is just another shill for the War Party. And the sooner antiwar Democrats realize that, the better.

I agree with Raimondo. Obama is just more of the same. He is a creation of the media and when the media sees that he cannot win, they will destroy him just as quickly as they created him.

Blood Diamond

This is the best movie I've seen all year. The performances by Leonardo Dicaprio and Djimon Hounsou are outstanding. Everything in this movie is done well and it should get nominated for a few Oscars. Djimon Hounsou put everything he had into his character and if you see this movie, you will get choked up during his intense emotional dialogue with other characters.

Jennifer Connelly has a small role in this movie and she gives a better than average performance but the surprise of the movie is Dicaprio. Dicaprio is growing as an actor and I wouldn't be surprised if he won an Oscar in the future. Djimon Hounsou should get an Oscar this year for his brilliant performance in Blood Diamond. This movie is violent and very intense so leave the children at home if you decide to see Blood Diamond.

Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq

Here are the five biggest lies Bush told us about the Iraq war according to a book written by Lakshmi Chaudhry, Christopher Scheer, and Robert Scheer:

1. Al-Qaida Ties To Iraq
2. Iraq's Chemical And Biological Weapons
3. Iraq's Nuclear Weapons
4. The Iraq War Will Be A Cakewalk
5. Iraq As A Democratic Model For The Middle East

The Al-Qaida/Osama Bin Ladin ties to Iraq were heavily pushed by right wing talking heads and leaders of the Republican Party prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. This is the one lie that probably convinced a large segment of America to support regime change in Iraq.

These lies have led to 2,929 American military deaths and over 500,000 Iraqis being killed. Bush misled the public and Congress and he deserves to be impeached. I doubt if the newly elected Democratic Party leaders of Congress will have the balls to go after George W. Bush.

The people of America put the Democratic Party back into power because they wanted a change in the way America does business but it looks like the Democratic Party is more concerned about maintaining power than doing what is right.

Funny Bush Screws The Nation Video

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