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Bring home troops from around the world

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:12:57 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Former special assistant to Reagan argues US troops in Japan and S. Korea should be phased out.

Clip Source: www.atimes.com

A reason to bring US troops home

It seems that old military commitments also never die

- they live on forever.

That's certainly the case with America's security guarantee for South Korea

The North became an international pariah while the South became one of the world's 12 largest economic powers

US presence in Japan, currently at 33,200 troops, makes even less sense

Japan long ago enjoyed an economic miracle that turned it into the world's second-ranking economic power

the prospect of renewed Japanese aggression is about as likely as an invasion from Mars.

Yet nothing's really changed in America's military role

the idea that the United States should step back and turn over regional security duties has occurred to almost no one in Washington

Washington's insistence that its allies remain subordinate belongs in the wastebasket of history

disappearance of any need to defend countries that have grown wealthy while their potential enemies have dissipated

let America's Cold War commitments

fade away

Tags: military, politics

Are You Ready for Martial Law?

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:19:17 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: See, I wasn't just making it up. Get ready for the neocon surprise, people.

Clip Source: tpzoo.wordpress.com

Coming to a community near us October 1. Makes you wonder if they’re not getting ready to steal another election.

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Bush sends the States’ National Guard Units to Iraq, and puts Regular Army in to fill the role of the National Guard.

2+2=5

This foretells a Federalization of Homeland Security. No longer will a State be able to care for its own citizens, nor prevent a Federal takeover of … everything.

Read this, it relates to HD51:

http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=545

Ok, I am officially freaking out now.

Palin's American Exception

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:25:58 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Sarah Palin loves the word “exceptional.”

But exceptionalism has taken an ugly twist of late. It’s become the angry refuge of the America that wants to deny the real state of the world.

Behind Palinism lies anger. It’s been growing as America’s relative decline has become more manifest in falling incomes, imploding markets, massive debt and rising new centers of wealth and power from Shanghai to Dubai.

Enough is enough.

If I were Obama, I’d put it this way: “Senator McCain, the world you claim to understand is the world of yesterday. A new century demands new thinking. Our country cannot be made fundamentally secure by a man who thought our economy was fundamentally sound.”

To persist with a philosophy grounded in America’s separateness, rather than its connectedness, would be devastating at a time when the country faces two wars, a financial collapse unseen since 1929, commodity inflation, a huge transfer of resources to the Middle East, and the imperative to develop new sources of energy.

Incredibly Intricate and Beautiful Body Art

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:59:54 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

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"Fascism Should Rghtly Be Called Corporatism

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:14:55 GMT

clipped by: LoPhatt

Clip Source: www.letstalksense.com

"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power--Benito Mussolini "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
--Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906

Is this why McCain canceled the debates?

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:48:38 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08

Clip Source: www.americablog.com

This is why McCain canceled the debates. Watch Sarah Palin on CBS tonight. Utter disaster.

For starters, we now have the first look at Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric. Palin is in so far over her head, it isn't even funny. Watch especially at 4 minutes 30 seconds into the interview

(video is below)

Couric: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?

Palin: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie - that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.

Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.

Palin: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.

Tags: sarah palin, vp, republican, cbs, couric, debate

Factcheck: New McCain ad "simply not true"

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:41:14 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: More lying. Say it loud.

Clip Source: www.factcheck.org

A new McCain-Palin ad says that "McCain and his congressional allies led" on the financial crisis while Obama was "mum." That's simply not true:

Obama has in fact made several statements about the crisis on Wall Street in recent days, delivering his most specific remarks on how government regulations should be changed on Sept. 22, a day before this ad was released.

McCain gave his most detailed speech on a response to the crisis on Sept. 19, a few days before Obama did. Obama, however, had been pushing for what he called a

“21st century regulatory system” back in March.

The "mum" quote is from a Sept. 20 Washington Times story, which went on to say Obama did "not to divulge details of his recovery plan ... fearing it would stir Wall Street jitters." The ad falsely says that Obama stayed quiet because "

no one knows what to do."

The ad ends by saying: "More taxes. No leadership. A risk your family can’t afford." Actually, most "families" would pay less taxes under Obama's tax plan

Tags: mccain, lies, palin