Former Bush Official: CIA Censored Op-Ed Because It Was Forced To ‘Bow To The White House’
Former Bush Official: CIA Censored Op-Ed Because It Was Forced To ‘Bow To The White House’
Middle East analyst Flynt Leverett, who served under President Bush on the National Security Council and is now a fellow at the New America Foundation, revealed last week that the White House has been blocking the publication of an op-ed he wrote for the New York Times. The column is critical of the administration’s refusal to engage Iran.
Leverett’s op-ed had been cleared by the CIA, where he had been a senior analyst. Today in an op-ed for the New York Times, Levrett explains more:
[The] Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, [was] blacked out by the Central Intelligence Agency’s Publication Review Board after the White House intervened in the normal prepublication review process and demanded substantial deletions. Agency officials told us that they had concluded on their own that the original draft included no classified material, but that they had to bow to the White House.
The redacted version of Leverett’s original op-ed is here (and pictured above). He has provided his original citations “to demonstrate that all of the material the White House objected to is already in the public domain.” All of the citations Leverett provides are available online from newspapers, think tanks, and government websites.
Last week at the Center for American Progress, Leverett noted that this incident “just how low people like Elliot Abrams at the NSC [National Security Council] will stoop to try and limit the dissemination of arguments critical of the administration’s policy.” (Hear his remarks here.)
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The most secretive administration ever. As well as the worst ever.
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:49 amOh the propaganda is unbelievable! This sounds vaguely familiar….like the Joe Wilson Op Ed and the treasonous outing of a covert CIA operative who just “happened to be” Joe Wilson’s wife….yessiree! It sounds sooooo amazingly familiar….It’s the same old song but with a different meaning….trallalalalal!
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:51 amThere is no “Nadir” in terms of how low this GOP and corrupt administration will stoop…..how do you say “truth about 911???”
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:51 amsame shit, different day…
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:54 am[Comment deleted by admin]
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:54 amGDumbya and the Keystone Kops are busily doing “damage control” on multiple fronts. Their primary task is not to win in Iraq, blah-de-blah-de-blah but to cover up their monumental incompetence.
They are not winning that battle, either. But they keep trying.
GDumbya’s legacy will never get polished up. He is and ever will be the worst president this country has ever had.
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:55 amSo much secrecy.
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:55 amBush doesn’t just wish he were the Dictator - he thinks he actually is.
What will it take to impeach this tyrant?
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:55 amThe Decider knows more than the CIA. Cool.
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:56 amThe Stalin Presidency. All Hail The Decider!
-GSD
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:56 amI think Griffen has other books “From the wilderness” and “Crossing the Rubicon”. I have not read them though. I get too weirded out and yes my skin crawls.
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:59 am[Comment deleted by admin]
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:00 amGeorge W. Bush and his criminal co-conspirators are on the verge of “CREATING MORE REALITY”…
…they are setting the stage for war with Iran…
…because that is what their masters- the Saudi royal cabal- summoned L’il Dick for…
…the Saudis despise the Iranians and don’twant to see Iran become the region’s superpower…
…unless we the people DEMAND that our elected officials in Congress:
INVESTIGATE
IMPEACH
INCARCERATE
IMPOUND (all personal assets of the war profiteering criminals in our
government and corporate community)
…we’re headed to certain disaster…
…for us and the Iranian people…
THINK! of what the world will think (and eventually DO) about us opening another deadly can of worms…
…to appease the interests of the HAVES…
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:03 amThis holiday season, I am feeling more hatred than ever for this administration and its continued malfeasance than I thought imaginable in myself, an otherwise calm caring human.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:05 amImagine the largest thing you can think of in the universe. My hatred for these foul creatures is immeasurably larger. George W. Bush is the first great mass murderer of the 21st century.
A link to the original report is here: http://thinkprogress.org/ 2006/ 12/ 19/ thinkfast-december-19-2006/ #comments
Post #22.
I heartily recommend you read the original, then compare it to the redacted op-ed based on the report. You’ll quickly grasp the reason why certain passages were deemed “classified” by the White House.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:08 amI always like Big Papa’s posts. Good ones. I am paraniod of any possible inbreeding in my family since I am a cracker. :)
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:10 am[Comment deleted by admin]
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:15 amI still can’t find post #22, ahhhh.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:15 amThanks BearCountry,
That’s what I meant to say.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:17 amTripmaster’s 9/11 stuff got sacked. Eh.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:20 amAmanda,
Veritas and TripMasterMonkey have been deleted on this thread for whatever reason. Fine.
Meanwhile, on the ThinkFast thread at #19 & #22, there is filth just sitting there. I’m sure Veritas and TripMasterMonkey didn’t put up anything remotely similar to those comments.
Why?
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:20 amRe: #13
…they are setting the stage for war with Iran…
Agreed.
http://www.cbsnews.com/ stories/ 2006/ 12/ 19/ world/ main2280067.shtml
RIGHT. SURE. Strictly a deterent. A deterent to someone trying to prevent the warmongers from starting the war.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:22 amTo late admin. The links to the expose the 911 lies was already followed by people … me included… keep censoring the truth though you are doing a good job at it.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:22 amSeems like the U.S, invading Iran, is doing the dirty work for the zionist murderer.But the Chimperor does not want to tell his own people what his real plans are.Why bring forward the costs of such probable invasion?
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:24 amZooey - The user junking up the TF thread has been banned - thanks for letting us know.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:27 amNice to see that censorship is still alive and well on ThinkProgress…
Zooey sez:
That’s right, Zooey, we didn’t. We committed the cardinal sin of mentioning nine-eleven on ThinkProgress. We weren’t debating anything, mind you, and veritas even posted a link to another discussion board that is specifically for nine-eleven discussion, so interested parties could take the discussion there instead of derailing the discussion here. But it was deleted just the same.
If the stated goal of disallowing nine-eleven discussion here (because it tends to take over every thread) was true, you’d think they’d welcome a link to a site where they can take the discussion, so it doesn’t disrupt things here. Bu they clearly don’t. Go figure.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:30 amZooey’s
Throwing her wieght around here again, polishin’ apples. :)
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:30 amThe Bush administration is ever-lowering the standing of the nation and limiting it’s capabilities, warping it’s influence and diminishing it’s it’s values.
When I think about what could be done with the power and the resources of the nation compared to what is being done - it sickens me.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:32 amZooey - The user junking up the TF thread has been banned - thanks for letting us know.
Comment by Admin
Thank you!
I’ll send you a nice basket of polished apples…
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:34 amComment by TripMaster Monkey
I agree with you. Sometimes the 9/11 stuff gets out of hand, but isolated references shouldn’t disappear.
I find 9/11 comments to be far less disruptive than the troll traffic the last several days, and yet it was allowed to go on.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:37 am#26,Sorry, just an insight: censorship on a thread about censorship, ironic. No offense to TP
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:38 amAdministrator, why did you delete my comments? All I did was answer #11. I did not use vulgar language nor did I disparage anyone. I did mention another blog which #11 mistakenly did not mention, but the owner of that blog is the author about whom #11 is commenting.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:39 amBearCountry sez:
Why indeed?
And I think you have your answer.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:46 amI find 9/11 comments to be far less disruptive than the troll traffic the last several days, and yet it was allowed to go on.
Comment by Zooey
Amen to that. In most of my travels around the internets, I often find dicussions about Iraq having comparisons or at least fragments of topics seeming to lead back to 9/11. Not that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11, but because the administration constantly strains to relate the two, it is kind of part and parcel of any talk of the situation we find ourselves in today. I guess as long as the discussion doesn’t veer too far off the path, it can be helpful as a lesson in perspective.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:48 amFTA: “all of the material the White House objected to is already in the public domain.â€
And that’s why another reason why *Co continues to remove damaging information from the public domain.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:48 amDer Furher (Darth Cheney) and his sockpuppet Dubya are just running hard to keep as much under cover as they can before the Dems bust into their bunker under Halliburton HQ in January.
How’s all this working out for you guyz, anyway? Got the Swastika ornaments mounted on the XMAS tree yet?
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:48 amTM at #33, thanks. I guess that I haven’t read this blog assiduously enough to realize that it is one of those (along with several others) that censors certain references, but not the egregiously vulgar. I guess that it hurts freedom of speech to restrict the vulgarity, but not certain other references.
It would seem to me that redirecting the “other references” would be a smarter and non-censorial way to go, but I don’t own the blog.
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:56 amHow’s all this working out for you guyz, anyway? Got the Swastika ornaments mounted on the XMAS tree yet?
Comment by upside00
No, but I am watching lots of ‘Hogans Heroes’ re-runs :).
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:58 amBearCountry sez:
You’d think that, wouldn’t you? Perhaps the true motives of ThinkProgress are other than what they claim…
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:00 pm#38 Tom -
Would Cheney be Sgt. Schultz?
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:06 pmOver at the Mahablog.com, one insightful comment noted that W now resembled Captain Queeg mumbling about strawberries.
This has got to brought to an end. This Caine Mutiny line sums it up.
“Are you a fool or a mutineer?
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:09 pmThere’s no third possibility.â€
Would Cheney be Sgt. Schultz?
Comment by upside00
Very good. You may be right. Neither one of them could shoot straight.
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:10 pmUnlike Schultzie, Dick knows sumpting, not nussing!
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:16 pmLong story short:
Iran was immensely helpful to the U.S. immediately following [the day after September 10th] in trying to get rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan and set up a successor government there. Karzai asked Iran to keep the Taliban commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in their country so he could stay informed of his activities. They complied. But, then in Jan. 2002, Bush called Iran a member of the “Axis of Evil” for harboring terrorists. So, Iran decided to let Hekmatyar go.
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:18 pmI’m not banned,so see,it’s not me.
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:18 pmThese chickenhawk Klowns would be so funny to watch…. if they weren’t totally f*cking up our country and the planet.
Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert can’t make this shit up!!!
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:35 pm[…] Hear Remarks […]
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:45 pmWhen will the people storm the gates of the MonkeyPalace and remove the stupid Boy Who Would be King?
[from: http://www.dailykos.com/ storyonly/ 2006/ 12/ 22/ 62327/ 856 ]
Bush Wouldn’t Pull the Trigger on Bin Laden
by Devilstower
Fri Dec 22, 2006 at 09:37:44 AM PST
Remember when front and center of every wingnut screed was a requisite section claiming that Bill Clinton let Bin Laden get away? Remember the ABC Path to 9/11 fantasyland “documentary” and it’s suggestion that American troops had Bin Laden in their sights, only to have Sandy Berger hang up the phone? Those accusations all turned out to have less truth than a Dick Cheney press conference.
But here’s betting the same right wing accusers don’t line up to talk about this one.
A documentary says French special forces had Osama bin Laden in their sights twice about three years ago but their U.S. superiors never ordered them to fire… “In 2003 and 2004 we had bin Laden in our sights. The sniper said ‘I have bin Laden’,” an anonymous French soldier is quoted as saying.
We already know that Bush let Bin Laden slip away at Tora Bora, and that he nixed going after al-Zawahiri in 2002, lest it dent the justification for going into Iraq…
When will we have had enough of this fool Emperor???
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:47 pmMighty Aphrodite?? Exley??? Trolls??? Where art thou??
It’s great, although at times a little less amusing, to have threads that point out how insane this regime is that are bullet-proof to the apologists.
Where are you little trollies? What do you have to say about the continued abuse of the 1st amendment by this craven pack on thieves???
HermArphrodite!!! Answer me!!!
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:48 pmWill someone feed Tweedster to the trolls?
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:22 pmWhy does the Bush administration hate democracy?
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:25 pmWill someone feed Tweedster to the trolls?
Comment by [B!]
He can be the troll bait.
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:26 pmThere’s a vicious rumor going round that everyone at CIA HQ has to bow down in the direction of the White House, five times each day, while repeating Praise be to W, W is great!
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:36 pmWhy can’t you liberals get that when the media reports on how incompetant and criminal the President is, it hurts national security and emboldens the terrorists?
/troll
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:38 pmI mean; Who is Tweedster?
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:44 pmI’ve never seen that name before,yet they are calling out trolls like they are old buddies or something.
The saying goes,’Don’t feed the trolls’;so maybe after they consume Tweedster,they will be satiated.
AkaDad:
We could solve that by getting rid of this’ incompet[e]nt and criminal’ President.
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:51 pmResembles the Hitler approach.
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:05 pmSoon they will be redacting blogs.
I was impersonating a troll so I used improper spelling on purpose. Umm yeah that’s it. I swear.
“We could” but will “we”.
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:16 pmAkaDad:
Good deal.
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:27 pmMost people here will use the term-sarcasm/off.
AkaDad:
Good deal.
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:41 pmI miss interpreted what ‘/troll’ meant.
Most people here use the term–sarcasm/off.
OOPS!
‘misinterpreted’.
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:55 pm[…] Here’s what Leverett (the author of the op-ed) had to say at the Center for American Progress last week: [this shows]“just how low people like Elliot Abrams at the NSC [National Security Council] will stoop to try and limit the dissemination of arguments critical of the administration’s policy.†[…]
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:11 pmThis is sure typical for this administration and their shoot the messager attitude. They attack anyone who dares tell the truth about the failures they have brought on themselves by doing whatever it takes to stiffle decent. I’ve not seen nor heard about anything like this since Hilter’s administration in pre world war Germany and the Soviet Union under numerous communist leaders. For a party that supposedly stands for the Constitution, they don’t like to let anyone exercises the rights granted therein.
I agree completely with Sen Smith R-South Dakota, when he said that some of the actions taken by these guys might be criminal. The United States Constitution is just a piece of paper or a inconvience to these guys at best. Not in American history has there been an administration which sought to undermine the Constitution and wrap itself it selected parts of it at the same time. They completely use the sections which define Presidential power, and ignor the rest as if it doesn’t apply to them.
I have argued that the are trying to install a dictatorship disguised as a democracy. If their power hadn’t been checked by the intelligent portion of the ameircan public who voted for democrats, we might have become that which we have fought and shed blood fighting against. Thats right a dictatorship! This President and Vice President intened to rip up the Constitution on 9-11-01 and fortunatley we stopped them in November’s elections. That is if the Democrats have the guts to do it. I’ve seen some distrubing statements coming from them since they took power. It seems as if they have power and are afraid to challenge the President. God help us all if Nancy and Harry give in a become toothless tigers for the next two years.
What makes me say that, is the fact that quite often people who have been beaten are afraid to strike back when they have the opportunity. The Democrats are a beaten party and they must find the courage to stand up for what we put them in to accomplish.
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:27 pmGee aren’t you guys trolls on the rapture right blogs? If you know anything about the bible you can shoot them down right and left with their own beliefs. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Think about it who would Jesus kill?
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:29 pmSharon - Uh, moneychangers in temples?? Would that include the mega church mongers??
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:36 pmRight . Everything Bush is doing flies right in the face of what Jesus taught. Blessed are the peacemakers?
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:41 pmI thought Jesus was his favorite philosopher.
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:49 pmI’m not a christian but I love the sermon on the mount.
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:50 pmIf he said God spoke to him through his hairdryer he’d be in a rubber room. What difference does a hairdryer make?
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:53 pmAlot or people think Bush gave a good ’sermon on the rubble’ on 9/14/01.
December 22nd, 2006 at 3:59 pmAlot [of]……..sorry.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:03 pmJust saying sometimes your just preaching to the choir.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:08 pmEuro Decision To Take Effect
TEHRAN, Dec. 22-Secretariat of the Government Information Dissemination Council announced Friday that following the cabinet’s decision to replace the US dollar with the euro, grounds for implementing changes to the hard currency basket have been paved.
The International Finance Institute (IFI), representing 355 private banks throughout the world, has announced that the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf are also in the process of converting parts of their hard currency reserves into the euro.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:13 pmThis is tyranny - this is not freedom of speech!
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:55 pmThe american dollar is tanking right before our very eyes. What’s this dope doing about it? Digging us deeper in debt with an illegal war and tanking the economy of this country until he drives it into the ground. Besides, who owns this country at this point anyway with over 50% of our national debt owned by foreign countries? It’s over, folks and this country is going the way of the USSR and it will happen very quickly.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:57 pmThis has been a dictatorship and, as Orwell prophesied in his book : “1984″ every definition would be reversed and hypocrisy would reign supreme. Absolute power would corrupt absolutely and anything build on shaky ground (911, war in Iraq, NSA wiretapping, destruction of our constitutional rights) would not survive. The greater the building on “false ground”, the greater is the ruin. What we are seeing right now in this country is precisely that….the Fall of this once-great democracy called the USA. We can thank Bush and his demented cadre of neocon-artists for all of it.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:59 pmIn January, the people must press their representatives for the following agenda - because it means the longevity or the self-destruction of this democracy…..investigate…..indict…..impeach…..& imprison…..This is our mandate!
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:00 pmWe must make it clear that we will not compromise until justice is accomplished. We must demand that this tyrant (dictator) is stopped in his tracks, that his misdeeds be investigated and appropriate punishment doled out or there is no hope for the future of this country.
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:02 pmYou people are all too cynical. Name one world leader in history who fabricated an excuse for invading another country in order to put his country in a state of war so that he could protect that country by establishing a brutal dictatorship.
Go ahead, name one.
(Hint: He said, “An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.†And he created the Gestapo.)
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:12 pmYou people are all too cynical. Name one world leader in history who fabricated an excuse for invading another country in order to put his country in a state of war so that he could protect that country by establishing a brutal dictatorship.
Name one.
(Hint: He said, “An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.†And he created the Gestapo.)
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:13 pmRichard - Oooh, Oooh, I know - Hirohito!
December 22nd, 2006 at 5:34 pmfunny how all of the paid trolls must be on Christmas leave, isn’t it? Or perhaps they’ve just run out of bullcrap to spew on our threads?? Good riddance to bad rubbish.
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:47 pmTo consider, as Flynt Leverett does, that the Bush administration should start negotiations with Iran, is to show that one has hoisted his mental anchor from the moorings of realpolitik. To paraphrase Karl Marx, that whomever one seeks to negotiate with, one acknowledges as master of the situation.
See:”Delegitimize States that Sponsor Terror”–
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:54 pmGen.:
With all due respect to your rank–STFU..
December 23rd, 2006 at 1:45 amWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the Islamic Republic of Iran to pay $254 million to the family of 17 U.S. servicemen killed in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers residence at a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia.
WHEN YOU PAY FOR THE DEMOLITION IN IRAQ THEN YOU CAN HAVE YOUR MONEY ……… WE NO LONGER LISTEN TO YOU
December 23rd, 2006 at 8:04 amComment by Gen.William Gunnison USMC ret. — December 23, 2006 @
If you are who you say you are - you a disgrace to your rank, the US Army and this country for talking to the people you are supposed to serve in this manner.
December 23rd, 2006 at 9:12 amPerson of the Year: Ahmadinejad
Eighteen months ago, Ahmadinejad was the unknown mayor of Tehran. Today, he is the visible face of anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism, both a cause of and the personification of our failures. He has defied Bush’s demand that he give up the enrichment of uranium, split the Security Council, mocked the Holocaust, called for the end of the Zionist state and the expulsion of America from the Mideast, terrified the Sunni monarchs, and united the Arab and Islamic masses behind his defiance.
His trip to the United Nations, where he ran circles around U.S. journalists, was a diplomatic triumph. And he has done it all not with military power – Iran would not last a week in an all-out war with the United States and has no defense against Israel’s nuclear weapons – but with theatrics and rhetoric.
He inspires all who hate Israel and Bush’s America. And, according to the Zogby polling today, that is a majority which, in some once-friendly nations, is approaching near unanimity.
Ahmadinejad, a man of words without real power, is the big winner of 2006, because Bush, America, and Israel were the big losers.
Why do a billion Muslims prefer Ahmadinejad to America? That is the question that needs to be addressed.
December 23rd, 2006 at 1:35 pm[…] Think Progress / December 22, 2006 […]
December 23rd, 2006 at 2:12 pmComment by Gen.William Gunnison USMC ret.
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:55 pm“I will be willing to bet you limpwristed propaganda supporters werent any good at sports either.”
As a homophobic asshole, you equate manliness with sports. All of my highschool ballplayers are now bald, and the ’smart’ but nerdy boys have taken control of the situation by owning the companies and positions of power. Just like Bruce Springsteens’ song “Glory Days”, most of them are just has-beens.
I was one of 2 starting linebackers (and I led my team in tackles) in my high schools 5-2 defense. Don’t think that makes me limpwristed and it does make me “good at sports”. General Billy Gunny can come get some if he wants some.
December 24th, 2006 at 1:36 amAnd rMAtey, I have all of my hair and am in a position of power. :) Not all jocks are assholes though.
December 24th, 2006 at 1:53 amnon profileration works when all party mutually reduce arms. You can’t say to your neighbor you cant have guns while you have few thousand machines guns
December 24th, 2006 at 2:00 amI think it’s about time to consider the fact that the U.S. of A. have become the greatest expeditor of human misery in the history of mankind. All for the benefit of the almighty weaponindustry (The Carlisle Group). No wonder US standing in the world is not only falling down, it has just seized to be…
December 25th, 2006 at 7:29 amThe ONLY reason that Bush is doing this and reclassifying previously released data is that it can be used to embarass AND convict him and his administration of criminal behavior. For example Saddam is going to be hanged for ‘war crimes’ BUT he was our ally at the time against Iran and WE (Bush Sr., Cheney, Rumsfeld) SUPPLIED THE WMD!!!!!!!!! All of the talk about Democracy, freedom and ‘right or wrong’ is JUST POLITICAL BULLSH*T. The ONLY thing that matters is absolute power and control- this is the goal of the ‘Government’. If truth and justice and feacts had ANY meaning whatsoever (aside from psychological) then these men would be on trial right along Saddam, Israel would be on the outs with the U.S. because of 9/11, and we would be negotiating peace and commerce with other countries instead of trying to install our own handpicked leaders in them. The Contitution and Bill Of Rights are dead (confirmed by our ‘Supreme Dictator Court’), we have been bankrupt for years but this can no longer be hidden- the collapse of the dolar will be used to force the Amero and the associated ‘Union upon’ us and there is nothing you can do about it. Like the Roman Empire we are dead and just don’t know it yet.
December 26th, 2006 at 1:46 pmThe future of the first world is the third world. This prophesy of liberation theology will prove true when offense is stylized as defense, redistribution from bottom to top brings exploding inequality and secret government criminalizes criticism and dissent.
December 28th, 2006 at 10:05 amThe perfect economic storm (climate change, peak oil and the melting dollar) means business as usual is over. The Great Turning (David Korten) from empire to community and profit values to people values will demand courage and sacrifice, engagement and solidarity. The future could still be open and dynamic when the myths and idolatries (riches and power as ends-in-themselves) are replaced by the truths of humility and interdependence.
Before sending more troops one question MUST BE ASKED
What are the Plans for Victory so we can leave ?
This way The Iraqis Know
And the Americans Know
And The Coalition
And the rest of the world
Without the question answered honestly there will be just more obstacles
December 31st, 2006 at 5:38 pmtime germany difference
Sounds like an idea of the month!
March 16th, 2008 at 4:55 amTravis
Attitude is the way you mentally look at the world around you. It is how you view your environment and your future. It is the focus you develop toward life itself.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:21 amJessie
I think God approves of you.
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April 5th, 2008 at 8:09 amShonna
just stand there, make it happen
April 11th, 2008 at 4:24 am