[SOC] Friday post

[Todd Butler]

Don't give up!  I know certain members of the list are hell bent in 
their politically motivated bias in their message to the entire list,
but that small crowd (with their big mouth) echo things of extremists
like Limbaugh, Robertson, and the "Georgie W"  and his
mis-administration that make me fight all that much harder to make sure
the truth gets told.

I know how "military intelligence" works.  I was deeply involved in it
for nearly all of my US Navy service while serving on Atlantic Fleet
submarines, and in the communication radio rooms of an aircraft carrier
during the Cold War.  Further, I know that facts are manipulated by the
administration to make a "case" for war, which has now caused about 200
unnecessary deaths for the "coalition" and countless lives of Iraqi
citizens.  If we had such excellent intelligence on weapons of mass
destruction, where did they go?   Who hid them so effectively?  Why
wouldn't Saddam Hussein using them as his Republican Guard was being
killed in an attempt to remove his largest (natural) asset (Iraqi Oil)
away from his control?

Remember:
Watergate was a botched burglary, but no one died because of it.
Iran-Contra was a war supported covertly (until they were caught) where
real people died.
Monica may have gagged, but no one died as a result of a multi-million
dollar, multi-year "independent" investigation of a real estate
transaction.
But the second war in the Middle East is to satisfy a Texan's passion
for death and revenge.
King George (the first) failed to conquer Saddam Hussein, and remove
him from power.  (1991)
What he did do was piss the guy off, like moving Castro to a cold "No
Smoking" hotel in Canada.
King George (the second) couldn't get elected by the popular vote of the
people, so he begged and pleaded (all the while blaming Democrats who
were respondents in the cases) all they way to the Supreme Court,
thereby invalidating the entire election process to get himself
appointed to be president.
He marched into the White House declaring economic failure, which has
happened while giving the upper crust two tax breaks he has taken away
over three million jobs from America since he took office.   Of course
his "tax breaks" were supposed to buck that trend, but have not done so
either time.
He championed selective intelligence.  Took the worst case scenario,
mixing in a little rhetoric, waving the flag around, and then lying many
times, to the American people, to our Congressional leaders, to the
United Nations, and now the international community.   What started out
as a grab for control of oil, and a search for weapons of mass
destruction, has become a series of lies and finger pointing.   It has
gone from failed British intelligence, failure on CIA action, failure of
George Tenet, strangely, oddly enough, never himself!

Where is Osama bin Laden?
Where is Saddam Hussein and his brothers?
Where are the stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction?

If President Clinton got a blow job and still managed to run America
with a robust peacetime economy.
No wonder a cocaine user, known alcoholic, silver spoon fed, kid with
marginal grades in college can't!

73,      Todd      N0NCL    SOC # 533
Urbandale, Iowa