• 2003 -- the fighters are dead-enders, whatever those are
• 2004 -- the fighting is turning the corner
• 2005 -- the fighters are in their last throes and this year is a turning point in the fighting
• 2006 -- we are winning the battle for Iraq

Shell game with troop numbers
Officially there are still only 130,000 US troops in Iraq. But between deploying units early and keeping them longer the real number is 145,000. On top of the Cheney just said there are 300,000 trained Iraqi security troops. On the third claw 445,000 troops cannot stop the increase in the violence.

OK believe Bush and there are only 130,000 US troops. So the violence has increased from 2003 to today's level even though the number of troops working against them has increased to 330,000. As the resistance has increased to at least ten times the 2003 level the resistance has increased by roughly a factor of 30.

2006 October 14

24 days to the US elections
What will that mean for Iraq? Nothing. The majority of those standing for election, Republican and Democrat are in favor of continuing the war in Iraq. The distribution of pro and con the war in the parties is also the opposite of the electorate distribution. That means once again there is no way to vote for a difference where the war is concerned.

655,000 deaths due to the war in Iraq
Most simply this number is based upon the same methods that are used to set life insurance rates around the world. There is no magic in it and no politics in it. Back in 1998 when then Secretary of State said 500,000 excess deaths due to sanctions were "worth it" that number used the same methods.

In any event, if the Bushistas disagree, lets see their number and their methodology. Also let them answer why they use other conflicts such as the Congo using the same methods. The answer is simple. Their denial is purely political. Iraqi deaths are hostage to US politics.

Not one person in field has criticized the methodology. Only political types have attacked the study but never with specifics. They simply know it is wrong.

Despite turning the corner back in 2004
The corner was turned and around the corner was increased US deaths and injuries and increased Iraqi deaths. Two and a half years after turning the corner and meeting a speeding truck head-on we have seen exactly what course Bush is staying.

2006 October 9

Iran war
Given "State of Denial" and the facts in it not being denied and the Republican pederast ring becoming public a pre-election war with Iran is almost essential for Republicans to continue to control Congress.

2006 October 7

Condi for peace in the Middle East
What a crock. She spends six day visiting every country of interest even getting her "I was in Iraq" T-Shirt and she offers nothing new. The antique wet dream of America, to strengthen the so-called moderate Arab leaders while at the same time telling them moderation is its own reward. Unlike Bush these are mature adult men who no longer need their mommies' approval.

There are exactly two options for these countries, moderate and radical. Moderate gets nothing in return for moderation so their populations become more radical. So what is the point of continuing to stand against the growing radicalism of their citizens when they gain nothing from it.

What do their citizens want? A just solution to the Palestinian problem. That is in fact what every poll, every survey, every man in the street interview says is the problem.

Yet for decades America denies this fact while radical Islam has grown. Bin Laden gave it as one of only two reasons. The 9/11 Commission identified it as one of the two reasons for 9/11. But the fact is still officially denied.

If the moderate leaders want to gain the confidence of their citizens they have to be able to show that moderation obtains objectives. If moderation does not them radicalism is the only alternative. It may not work either but no one will know until it is tried.

What have we seen work? Hezbollah frustrating every every objective gave for its war on Lebanon. And yet is it US diplomatic policy to require every country to say Israel won. The POWs are not free. Hezbollah was not destroyed. Hezbollah was not weakened. In fact a good argument can be made Hezbollah was strengthened simply by winning against Israel. Hezbollah did what no other military force has ever done against Israel.

In the face of this, Condi reminds adult men that moderation has to be its own reward because the US is not about to stop military and political and financial support of Israel.

2006 September 30

An eventful week
First a leaked National Intelligence Estimate supports everything I have been saying and then "State of Denial" by Bob Woodward backs up everything. Remember folks, you read it here first.

2006 September 25

The longest last throes in history
That sums up Iraq and Rumsfeld's assurance from early last year that the fighting in Iraq was in its last throes. After he made this incredible statement he assured the questioner that he had looked up the word throes. He did not say if he had looked up the word last.

So today Iraq is on the brink of civil war. If this is a brink what will the real thing be like?

2006 September 24

Zarqawi the mastermind of terror in Iraq
His death was announced more than three months ago. Violence has increased. How can this be? Obviously he had nothing to do with the level of violence. But the US insists upon going after people it calls terrorists when they have nothing to do with the level of violence. What a strange thing to do.

2006 September 22

The October Surprise
The week before the election, Bush will attack Iran. Of course Iran and the rest of us have been expecting it for over a year. They are certainly prepared and have counterattack plans in place.

The neocons have been lying about Iran and threatening Iran for years. Perhaps most important, Israel demands the US attack Iran.

The surprise awaiting the US is Iran is equipped to be a real life test of the latest Chinese and Russian military technology. It is what Israel is for the US. Of course Bush will bluster and piss and moan but will never answer why the US can do what other countries cannot.

Add to this recent public admissions that 2/3 of the regular army ground troops are unprepared for combat and only 40% of the reserve units are available for additional overseas duty. Further that it will take years to replenish army materiel if the US were to leave Iraq tomorrow.

The strange fixation
The neo-crazies have the same delusion about Iran and they did about Iraq. That after the US attacks the people will overthrow their present government and replace it with a government that loves the neo-crazies. That is what they believed about Iraq. They are so crazy they might still believe it.

The problem is either they are crazy or they are lying about their reasons for attacking Iran. As we know they lied about Iraq and are telling the same lies about Iran it is most reasonable to assume they are lying.

2006 September 19

A draft is the only answer
General Abizaid announced the 147,000 troops in Iraq will be there at least until the middle of 2007. That is up 20,000 from just two months ago.

2006 September 17

Tripwire Korea, Tripwire Iraq
Back on July 6 2006 I wrote of the meaning of tripwire for the 33,000 US troops in South Korea. They are meant to die in the opening round of hostilities between the North and South.

It is no secret Bush wants to start a war with Iran regardless of the cost. He knows the cost will be thousands of dead Americans in Iraq. Bush's problem with winning a war against Iran is it will need several million ground troops and there is no way to get that many without a draft. Without some major development there is no way to re-institute the draft.

But if Bush orders an air attack on Iran there will be thousands of deaths in Iraq Bush can blame on Iran. With US troops in Iraq as a tripwire Bush can get a draft to produce the millions of soldiers he will need for his war on Iran.

2006 September 12

The fifth anniversary
The fifth anniversary of the misappropriation the events of 9/11.

I am easy to amaze
But all these people "debunking" Islamofacism or Islamic Fascism are making their contract quota writing quota doing it.

There is no point in writing a damned thing beyond noting anyone saying anything like it is an idiot. One can expand that only to say an uneducated idiot. There is nothing more to say beyond that. Bush and the Republicans are at best idiots and at worst uneducated idiots.

Conspiracy
Those who accept the official 9/11 story and reject any alternative seem to have memorized the silliest of the alternatives. At the same time they act as though they have never heard of the most credible alternatives. For example the video found in Afghanistan where bin Laden "admits" his guilt. They never admit to hearing those words are only in the English translation not in the original Arabic.

2006 September 11

Bush addresses the nation
And tells us the people in Flt. 93 recited the 23rd Psalm before rushing the cockpit. I wonder where he got that information and if it is available under an FOIA request. Why has the government been telling us they have no idea what happened in the last minutes if this is known? Bush would not make up something like this so there has to be solid information.

2006 September 9

Still waiting for the August tally
About a month ago I suggested US efforts to reduce the violence could be measured by comparing the death count between July and August. August was the beginning of a highly publicized increase in US manpower to fight the violence. Now comes the good news. The military will not release the new, reduced number.

Not only that but it was admitted that instead of all violent deaths only a few were being counted notably excluding deaths from car bombs. However they were good enough to announce the deaths were down 52% without providing the least evidence to support it. So where do we go to get real information?

The Baghdad morgue reported 1,526 dead, only 17.7% down from 1,855 in July. However Baghdad is where the US brought in 8,000 US and 3,000 Iraqi troops from other parts of Iraq. They mainly did house to house searches looking for troublemakers rather than just responding to troubles. One reasonably assumes the violence increased in the places from which they were removed.

Obviously they realized their mistake in giving the public a measure of success and when it was not all that interesting the groundrules changed.

From the article
Johnson said the numbers more accurately reflect the impact of Operation Together Forward's mission: targeting operations of shadowy sectarian death squads, who often use drive-by shootings, torture and executions as tactics for terror, rather than suicide bombings or rocket or mortar attacks.

While one may say August uses a better measure of the impact it cannot be compared to any month that did not use the same criteria. The consequence is we have no way to compare the two months and the fact is the military knows it. This is

2006 September 7

145,000 US troops in Iraq
That is up from the previous official 130,000.

2006 September 4

Fascist what?
The first thing is one has to be very ignorant of fascism to think it is anything like fundamental Islam. The second thing is it comes as part of a reference to WWII and WWII doesn't resonate with anyone under age 70 and likely even older. And the third thing is calling Hitler a fascist is a communist thing and foreign to American ears so it isn't going to resonate with anyone over 70 either. To Americans fascism is Italy and Mussolini is a cartoon figure for Americans.

So why are they doing it? Bush is 60, born in 1946. He knows it does not resonate with him. Who convinced him it would play in Peoria? My son was born in 1975 and Vietnam does not resonate with him. You folks have kids. Ever see anything that happened before they hit puberty resonate with them? Bush has kids younger than my son. He knows it does not work. What kind of insane world are they living in to think this would sell?

As it is everyone is sort of trying to take them seriously instead of laughing at them. There seems to be some sort of reluctance to ridicule big shots. Why not laugh at idiots? I do not understand.

The obvious explanation is that the neocons are openly communists while claiming to be reformed. Fascist resonates for communists. It was in all their propaganda. But their objection to fascism is that it was capitalist. They were not against the socialist or totalitarian aspects of it.

But the entire point is political. It is to declare Democrats are appeasers. Guess what? Appeasement doesn't resonate either. First off one has to have been past puberty in 1938 to care about that and that means mostly senile today. The senile are a definite Bush constituency but they tend to drool on the touchscreens and short them out.

But doesn't WWII itself resonate? Of course not. In the last twenty years all public focus and education has been about the holy holocaust with WWII in the background someplace if at all. It is all emotion and spittle. No one really cares these days about the politics of it. The Hitler (History) Channel also called the Holocaust Channel has great battle scenes, amazing German scientific cum military developments and the only negative thing is the holy holocaust. And even then, emaciated men in Dachau do not play well against emaciated children in Rwanda or Darfu or wherever today.

Even when Bush gave his speech in a VFW hall very few there were WWII vets, mostly Vietnam vets born after the war. VFW membership became majority Vietnam around 1990. And Vietnam vets are far from unanimous on foreign wars. While they did not run to Canada they were among the fraggers and the pot smokers and heroin users and all the other ways to avoid combat with faked reports of same. If they were not in that category they were in the category of those who did not report those who were.

Nor does it play to the Cold War crowd such as myself. We didn't give a damn about either Fascists or Nazis. They were history. Call the Islam communist and have half a chance that some might buy it and care. But most of us Cold War types are wondering why Washington still panders to the Cubans in Florida in dealing with Cuba. Free trade with Cuba is the best way to end communism in Cuba. Any rational person sees that. How can Castro compete with MTV? Does he moonwalk during his three hour speeches?

In any event this fascism thing is a huge fizzle. The point is they were so desperate as to try it. They have nothing left to try. Actually they do but I doubt Kaiser Wilhelm analogies by calling them Huns will get them any place. Not that I think they are bright to enough to know it will not.

2006 September 2

Supporting the Shi'ite majority
The US and Iran are supporting EXACTLY the same groups in Iraq but the US condemns Iran doing it. It looks like nothing more than a conflict over influence.

While we are at it Grand Ayatollah al Sistani, the most influential religious leader among the Iraqi Shi'ites has given up his peace making efforts saying it is no longer possible to hold off a civil war. He puts most of the blame on the failure of the political leadership to get a withdrawal date from the US. That had been his most valuable promise to maintain his influence.

Who won, Israel or Hezbollah?
Lets define victory as achieving stated objectives.

Israel's first stated objective was the release of two captured soldiers. They are still prisoners so that was a failure.

Next Israel announced the objective of the war was to destroy Hezbollah. Hezbollah is still there so that was a failure.

(Additionally Israel stated its land invasion was to claim all the land south of the Litani river. They didn't come close. They controlled about 5% of the land between Israel and the river.)

Finally Israel announced the objective was to weaken Hezbollah. But on the last day of the fighting Hezbollah first the most rockets into Israel so that was a failure.

On the other hand Hezbollah announced its objective was to free Lebanese prisoners through negotiations. That has not happened however negotiations are reported to have started. If there is a prisoner exchange Hezbollah will have achieved its stated objective. Time will tell if Israel will abandoned two soldiers to prevent Hezbollah from claiming victory. History shows they will not but it is too early to tell.

2006 August 28

Smart bombs and dumb bombs
With smart bombs Israel killed 1088 civilians and 93 fighters. With dumb ass bombs Hezbollah killed 41 civilians and 116 fighters. The obvious conclusion is Israel deliberately targeted civilians. But that is not the whole story. During the war Israel used 177,000 missiles, bombs, and artillery shells while Hezbollah fired only 4000 rockets total, no bombs, no artillery. With this ratio it appears Israel's killing was by using weapons indiscriminately.

41 total Israeli civilians dead with only 23 of them Jews because non-Jews don't get bomb shelters or even warning sirens. To see what that means there are five times more Jews than non-Jews so there should have been five times more dead if all else were equal. It shows how effective are warning signs and bomb shelters in saving Jewish lives.

And on top of that non-Jews will get less compensation for death and damages than will Jews.

2006 August 26

If were were fighting WWII
VE day would have been last month. That is Victory in Europe day for you youngsters.

2006 August 25

Israel's strategy
In the ceasefire Israel continues to make demands far beyond the scope of the ceasefire. As in the past the purpose is to increase demands until no rational country could agree and then accuse Lebanon of not honoring the ceasefire. In the meantime Israel continues its air and naval blockade in violation of the ceasefire agreement.

War on Iran
A year or more ago I pointed out how stupid that would be. Since then I have noted the same lies told about Iraq being recycled about Iran even down to the Niger yellowcake forgeries as uranium from the Congo this time. So Bush will attack Iran contrary to his authority as President. It is only a matter of time.

The main problem is Bush and Americans believe the US can dictate to Iran and failure to obey orders is a justification for war. In the meantime the same crazy fundamentalists and Zionists of the Christian and Jewish persuasions are behind the call for war.

"When did nuclear deterrence stop working?
"Iranian leaders are insane."
"Sorry I asked."

Whenever it is pointed out Iran would not attack the US "insane" or "crazy" or "fanatic" is trotted out to explain the most idiotic scenarios of Iranian behavior. The amazing thing is that they are never called on it.

Iran has held off US and Europeans demands on its nuclear program for years. Can crazy people do that? "Crazy like a fox but still crazy," you say? Fact is you are the stupid one to believe the propaganda. It is the same sort of thing that was said about Saddam Hussein -- but this time it is really, really true

Anyone supporting a US attack on Iran is a traitor to the US. It is completely contrary to US interests in the world as well as in the middle east.

The middle east has learned from the war on Lebanon
Israel can be defeated. Doing what the UN says does not guarantee peace. Israel can be defeated. Behaving peacefully does not guarantee peace. And of course, Israel can be defeated.

2006 August 21

State of war continues
Israel's air and naval blockade of Lebanon continues it war against Lebanon. If that is too hard for the braindead Izziehuggers to grasp, Israel continues to violation Lebanon's airspace as it has for the last 23 years. Each of those is an act of war. This is why any UN peacekeeping force must have surface to air missiles capable of shooting them down.

Back on the home front
Bush says unambiguously that Iraq had no connection with 9/11. So what was the conquest of Iraq all about?

2006 August 20

Ceasefire violations
So far they have all been by Israel. It is not clear what Israel is up to. Obviously Israel wants to continue the war but its military has not had time to learn what it did wrong and regroup. It did not have enough equipment to arm is reserves and what they did have was outdated, i.e. Hezbollah had better. It didn't even have enough water for them. These things cannot be overcome in a week or a month. It will take more like a year.

As Israel is in violation of dozens of UN Security Counsel resolutions there is no reason to expect Israel will honor this one. Counting both Security Council and General Assembly resolutions Israel is in violations of 321 total.

For the record Israel claimed the raid in the Bakaa Valley was to interdict an arms shipment from Syria to Hezbollah. There is no evidence of this. It is rather foolish to think Israel would risk losing a dozen or so men in a ground operation when an air strike would suffice.

Israel refuses UN troops
Seems if the country does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, Israel refuses to let them join the UN troops in Lebanon. Color me curious. How is it Israel gets a say in which troops are placed in Lebanon? I would have thought that to be Lebanon's business.

2006 August 19

Was this really all about war on Iran?
The conspiracy theorists are convinced. Given the US is telling the same lies about Iran as Iraq everyone expects a war on Iran regardless of what Bush says rather perhaps it is a near certainty because Bush denies it.

Iran and Syria have a mutual defense pact. Israeli newspapers (there is nothing really secret in Israel) say the US was encouraging an attack on Syria to bring Iran into it.

Remember the Cheney/Rumsfeld Office of Special Plans used to invent lies about a threat from Iraq? They have set up another one to invent lies about Iran.

Repairing Israel's carnage is an act of terrorism
Hezbollah was on site day one working to clean up the mess caused by Israel. Bush immediately declared that an act of terrorism.

A survey of New Orleans residents indicates they want to invite Hezbollah to help them.

Israel declares its intent to murder Hassan Nasrallah
I'm not here to take sides or anything but does this not mean Hezbollah has a lawful right to murder the Prime Minister of Israel? If no, why not?

And as Israel is constantly touting its murders of high ranking Hezbollah members does this not mean Hezbollah has the reciprocal right to murder high ranking members of Israel's government? Again, if not, why not?

It has been an unwritten rule for millenia that one does not assassinate opposition leaders mainly because it is stupid to do so. Their replacement is unpredictable and his tactics are therefore unknown and therefore surprising on the battlefield.

But as Israel has announced it as a policy it seems only reasonable that Hezbollah has every rational right to kill any and all members of the government of Israel.

2006 August 18

A test
1700 people in Baghdad were murdered in July. The US has moved thousands of troops to Baghdad to control the violence. In early September we will know if they did any good by comparing the number dead.

Just in case it was 3300 in all of Iraq. So if it goes down in Baghdad and up for the rest of the country the redeployment to Baghdad worked but didn't do a thing for Iraq.

Bush has been staying the course for months and it has only gotten worse. Anyone willing to bet on the August numbers?

Uranium ore scam
The neocons who were stupid enough to believe Iraq was buying uranium ore from Niger have now fallen for another stupid story. They are so stupid they believe believe Iran, which has uranium mines, was trying to buy uranium ore from a mine in the Congo that was shut down 45 years ago.

Neocons never lie. They really are stupid enough to believe these things.

2006 August 15

I can't make this stuff up
Bush declares Israel won against Hezbollah. Assad of Syria declares Hezbollah won and both French and German foreign ministers cancel visits because of his "reprehensible and irresponsible" statement.

Meanwhile back in Israel, the commentators are nearly unanimous that Israel lost. Israel's leaders are claiming they achieved victory by "weakening" Hezbollah in place the promised destruction. None have tried to reconcile a weakened Hezbollah with the greatest number of rockets on the last day.

What does one call it when 2000 Hezbollah hold off 30,000 IDF troops using the finest Israeli and US weapons? What does one call it when Lebanon holds out longer than entire armies in previous wars? What does one call it when Hezbollah and its leader have become popular all over the Middle East?

What will it be called in the next election when Hezbollah sweeps the election? What will it be called when Syria copies Hezbollah in preparation for the next Israeli attack? What will it be called when the antitank weapons Hezbollah used go into mass production?

As in the past so also the future
Israel's worth to the US and in fact its acceptance by a majority of Jews developed after it won the 1967 war. What happens after this loss?

What of the US?
US weapons lost. The US worked to give Israel all the time it needed until Israel started getting its ass kicked on the ground. Then the US and Israel agreed to ceasefire terms both had totally rejected from the beginning.

Whether or not you believe it that is how the entire Arab world sees it. It holds both Israel and the US responsible for the destruction of Lebanon. Back when it was only seen as the US holding off a ceasefire Rice was told to cancel her scheduled visits to Lebanon and Jordan. Now that what little prestige the US had left is gone how long before any official visit is possible? Even Israelis are starting to blame Bush for encouraging the war.

The US had influence in Lebanon
Lebanon did everything the US wanted prior to this including getting Syria to leave the country. It will be a miracle if this does not all completely reverse.

The bad news
Israel needs a military victory now. It can destroy a conventional army. The nearest one is in Syria. So a war on Syria is on the table before Syria can adopt Hezbollah tactics.

2006 August 13

A possible ceasefire in Israel's war on Lebanon
It is supposed to go into effect early tomorrow. Israel will claim Hezbollah was defeated even though on its last day it sent 250 rockets into Israel, the most ever in a single day. Israel will blame the current government. The government will blame Bush for encouraging the war. AIPAC will pull support for Bush and the US media will turn on him. So much for predictions.

After Israel failed to be the first country to successfully fight a guerrilla war it quickly decided making claims of victory was a better route than actually destroying Hezbollah. Hezbollah has claimed the right to attack any Israelis in Lebanon and the IDF is demanding a retreat as quickly as possible.

Cheap as dirt 1980s antitank weapons easily took out every Israeli tank they hit. Israel is saying everything short of "Hezbollah didn't fight fair."

The ceasefire terms changed in the last two weeks from being a total victory for Israel when it appeared to be winning to a total defeat for Israel when it was clear it had no chance at any meaningful accomplishment. Lebanon can be in full compliance with the ceasefire by recruiting Hezbollah into a reserve army. That would leave them not only armed but lawfully permit them to be rearmed.

Hezbollah played by the rules. It did not send rockets into Israel until Israel bombed Lebanon. It can be expected to do the same in the future. So what if it means the Lebanese government is involved? Israel has already said it would hold the government responsible for any future actions. So it might as well have a say at the table.

Israel will do as it has always done. Tell the people they are in danger and denounce the proponents of peace. Israel's atheist rulers have only one use for Jews and that is cannon fodder.

2006 August 12

David 1, Goliath 0
If 2000 fighters can do this, what can 10,000 do?

Long live the fighters!

I have often asked why Israel's actions are deliberately designed to create hatred of Israel. I found the answer right from an Israeli government source. In a nutshell, it does not put Israel at risk and it gives political cover for future Israeli atrocities.

2006 August 8

How many Hezbollah fighters?
Hezbollah does not publish its membership numbers so Israel makes propaganda guesses. In the beginning it was only 1000. After a week Israel raised the estimate to 2000. Now it is hawking 3000. Considering it has claimed to have killed over 300, one third of 1000, it is wise to increase the to total number to explain why that has had no observable effect.

2006 August 7

It is clear the US backs Israel's war
Unfortunately for Americans it also backs Israel's coming wars with Syria and Iran. Israel is trying to provoke Syria into responding as it did in 1967. Washington is Israeli occupied territory.

Ceasefire in Lebanon?
Can't happen. The current UN draft resolution has no enforcement. It leaves Israeli troops in Lebanon making them lawful military targets for all Lebanese. And as it is an occupying army attacks on Israel are lawful. It gives Hezbollah and Lebanon nothing, Israel everything. It can't work. The deal is impossible for Lebanon or Hezbollah to accept which is what the US wants so it can blame them for not wanting peace.

The order of events was a follows

1. Two Israeli soldiers captured
2. Israel bombs Lebanon
3. Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel

Why would Hezbollah agree to anything against its interests? One to two thousand people holding off Israel for 26 days with Israel left blustering "you just wait" until we take the gloves off or some such. With the slaughter Israel has perpetrated Hezbollah could reconstitute itself in a week and be ten times stronger in a month.

All of Lebanon has seen the worst that Israel can do. They have seen Israelis for the animals they are. All of Lebanon wants nothing but Israeli blood.

Yet the UN resolution is difficult to distinguish from a total surrender of national sovereignty by Lebanon. Why would any country agree to that?

Why must Hezbollah be disarmed?
Because Hezbollah is the only credible defense Lebanon has against Israel. Zionists have planned to control or destroy Lebanon since the late 1930s.

Compare Nasrallah to Olmert, Peretz and Halutz
Nasrallah is the calm and rational speaker. The others studied at the Adolf Hitler School of Public Speaking. They shout, they pound tables, they make grandiose statements, they sound very silly.

What about the ten thousand Lebanese?
Never heard of them? They are held in Israeli concentration camps without charges. Hezbollah is the only organization trying to get them released. Only Hezbollah cares about them.

2006 August 6

Fallout from Israel's rape of Lebanon
Not much yet but as their targets are mainly Shi'ites and Shi'ites are 60% of Iraq and 80% of Iran and US troops are caught between that rock and that hard place in Iraq, Americans would appear to be the most likely target.

Why? All the bombs uses to murder Lebanese are made in America. And not just happen to come from there but it is well known Bush is rushing replacements for what Israel has used so far to assure the slaughter can continue. It matters where the weapons come from because it matters to the US and Israel where Hezbollah's weapons come from.

America is complicit in the murder of Lebanese and in fact appears to encourage it. Way to go George! Gotta love ya for your murderous ways.

Israel needs an exit strategy
Unfortunately it doesn't have one and no prospect of getting one from the US. Neither Lebanon nor Hezbollah agree to the best compromise of the UNSCR on the issue so there is no hope. It permits Israel to stay in Lebanon and that is the entire reason for the existence of Hezbollah.

Israel needs an early exit for the economic cost of the war on Israel itself. This has been the greatest economic impact of any war it has fought save for the first in 1948 where it had no economy of interest to begin with. It is spending money hand over fist with no benefit or end in sight.

1/6th of the country is living in bomb shelters and producing no revenues. The gov insisted upon paying those government employees (52% of the workers) as though they were working. The others are on welfare. 30,000 civilian IDF reserve have been called up and converted from tax payers to salaried employees. There is no end in sight because the UN resolution does not call for Israel to leave Lebanon.

Of course Israel will not collapse as the US Congress will pay for all the losses. But it comes at an awkward time during the summer recess and after that a two week perfunctory session before adjourning to campaign for re-election. It can be December before Israel gets a penny to cover the costs of its aggression. That is a long time in terms of economic collapse.

Obviously tourism has collapsed. As Nazareth and Bethlehem have both been rocket targets the Christmas season tourism is not going to happen. About 1/5th of Israel's economy is Christian tourists. It could make that up by letting in Muslim tourists but it hates them so much more than Christians.

Predictions
I hate trying predictions as even when they are correct they don't often make the news even when correct. The Shekel is going to devalue. Israel's deficit is going to increase significantly. Israeli public opinion is going to turn against the war for all the wrong reasons -- not that it kills Gentiles but that it hurts the Jewish economy.

Peacekeeping force in South Lebanon
How dumb can you get? Lebanese will lawfully kill them. They will not be capable of dealing with Israeli acts of war. Why bother? Besides all parties, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Israel and the IDF have said there will be no cease fire. Only Bush and Blair are stupid enough to send troops into that situation.

2006 August 3
International force on the border?
It needs a license to shoot at both sides, Hezbollah and Israel, and the means to do it. That means SAMs capable of downing Israeli F-16s to protect Lebanon's airspace. That means artillery sufficient to match Israel's. That means twice as many, top of the line tanks as Israel.

Daring Israeli raid captures Hassan Nasrallah
Commandos with heavy air support captured Hassan Nasrallah in a Baalbeck hospital. Unfortunately for the Keystone Kommandos this one runs a toystore for a living. Way to go, Keystones!

Israel's target in Lebanon
From all the objective evidence, from considering what is being done and ignoring what is being said, Israel's target is all Lebanese in general and its one third Shia population in particular -- all of it justified by two POWs. The Kosher Hotdogs in the skies are indiscriminate in their bloodlust and slaughter.

The so called political leadership of Israel follows the common wisdom of Nazi Germany.

"Why, of course the people don't want war but, after all, it is the leaders ... of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship ... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering at Nuremberg

The leadership declares it is protecting the country from rocket attacks and denounces anyone who speaks the truth that the rockets started after Israel started bombing Lebanon. The defense from rocket attacks is simple. Stop bombing Lebanon.

TIMEOUT!
The thousands of you who have been reading this file have noticed I judge by what people do not by what they say. I was doing it long before House on TV. It usually takes a lot of time to collect what is being done to make sense of what is happening. In this Israeli war on Lebanon it took no time at all. It was obvious from the first day. POWs are taken. Israel bombs Lebanon. Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel. Israel claims the rockets are its justification.

This is the classic no-brainer. It took no time or effort at all to see the actions and to ignore all words about the actions.

Now back to the regularly scheduled nonsense.

What is Bush doing?
America has no national interest in the existence or continuation of Israel. Israel is of no interest or value to the US. Europe has a greater interest for its supply out out of season produce, its Mexico, than does the US to which it sells nothing at all. If Israel were to vanish tomorrow it would simply disappear from the news and no one would notice anything missing. There are plenty of wars in the world to replace Israel's entertainment value.

So why is Bush or any American backing this useless, worthless country? Screw ideology. Ideology is for communists. Why waste a penny on Israel? Show me what it is worth. And after that we can price what it is worth.

Spreading democracy is a political sham that the US does not support spreading democracy. Palestine voted democratically and Israel destroyed its elected government with the approval of Bush. Screw self-determination! That is only a lie for the stupid voters so they think they are doing something good.

The US openly promotes democracy. Democracy is a winner take all system. The US NEVER promotes a constitutionally limited republican form of government. Do not blame people for believing what the US says it promotes.

And what is worse for these sanctimonious warmongers is they do not mean the US in 1789 but the US today. It can't be a "democracy" unless it is the US today not the US in 1789. A country cannot be a democracy unless women have complete equal rights and the entire culture of the country short circuits two centuries of the American experience which is impossible. The American culture was behind the rest of the western world on women's rights and abolishing slavery. Should Europe have waged war on America to impose its ideas? Not hardly. The Texans fought Santa Ana to keep slavery. How very Iranian.

This is not to make for fighting words. This is to point out people have to do their own thing in their own time and it is not business of anyone else what they are doing or why unless there is a military threat.

Bringing this back to Bush and his sucking Israeli genitalia why in hell does he enable Israel to make war on Lebanon? Israel is of no value to the US. Israel is only worth out of season supermarket produce to Europe. Israel is a great place to dump stupid Jews. What else is it good for?

US sends humanitarian relief to Lebanon
Would it not make more sense to stop sending bombs to Israel so there would be no need for humanitarian relief?

And why is it Israel's air force is only good at bombing civilians? They are trained better than that are they not? They have to be doing this deliberately. In fact in you read Ha'aretz there are regular quotes which say they are doing it deliberately. Ten multistory buildings destroyed per rocket into Israel for example. Buildings are not Hezbollah assets. The massacre in Qana shows it was not an idle threat.

Israel's wars

• 1967 == 6 days against three countries
• 1973 == 20 days against three countries
• 2006 == 23 days with no end in sight against 1000 men in one country

2006 August 2
Israel in a war of survival with Hezbollah
So Israel has said and so the stupid repeat. It is nothing but a foolish attempt to excuse Israel's war crimes in Lebanon. Of course if you do not believe it you hate Jews. Not me. I hate all stupid people even if they are Jews. Hezbollah is a threat to the existence of Israel? How stupid does one have to be to believe that? The average IQ of the Diaspora increases every time one of them emigrates to Israel.

Israel's success has been so great that a number of 215 rockets fell on Israel. Anyone want to bet Hezbollah is in its last throes?

So Israel sends 10,000 troops into Lebanon to deal with 2000 Hezbollah. That leaves 30,000 preparing to enter. How is it possible so many are needed if Syria is not the target?

Israel joined the Red Cross in June
Israel has been bombing Lebanese Red Cross ambulances since it began the war. Looks to me as though Israel should be kicked out ASAP.

Americans are slow-witted
Very few of them have realized there is no legitimate US interest in the survival of Israel. Moreover there is a modest US interest in the eradication of Israel.

I know the rednecks will scream about their bible mythology and the Jews disloyal to America will shout antisemite but these are facts.

Kosher Hotdogs in the skies of Lebanon
Hotdog pilots are emptying their weapons load on anything that moves and apparently for fun if it does not move. If it is in Lebanon play your video game of wanton destruction. Hope for more bloody babies for the home folk to slaver over.

Last minute goodies for the Zionists
15 of the 37 kids you slaughtered in Qana were disabled and could not travel any further north. That makes their blood smell sweeter.

PM Olmert says Hezbollah infrastructure totally destroy just before a record 215 rockets fall on Israel. This guy is a laugh a minute.

And Hezbollah is recruiting from the refugees in Syria. And Israel is whine about it. Israel knew its aggression was a godsend for Hezbollah recruiting. So why do they always whine when they get what they wanted?

2006 August 1

No rockets fired from Qana
Now that Israel has admitted it are they double double sorry for the massacre?

Who is an ally?
An ally is a nation which has signed a treaty of alliance with the US. There is no other legal meaning of the word. Israel has not. Israel is not an ally of the US.

Israel calls up another 15,000 reserve troops
Until now those reserve troops were hiding among the civilian population of Israel. Now they are preparing not to attack Syria.

Propagandists for Israel

• Talk as though there have been missile attacks by Hezbollah for years even though there were none before Israel bombed Lebanon. Most people don't know or care about the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah.
• Never mention Israel's violation of Lebanon's borders nearly every day for the last six years.

The US has no ability to respond to a military need
The Iraq war has reduced readiness to zero. No US troops are combat ready.

and Syria?
If the world wants Syria's help in bringing peace to Lebanon Israel will have to return the Golan without conditions.

and Israel?
Its murderous population is in a blood rage and will not be satisfied without massive Lebanese deaths, the younger the better. Baby blood is so much more satisfying.

2006 July 31

Israel's two day ceasefire
It lasted two hours and was broken by Israel. Hezbollah kept the ceasefire. There are no Hezbollah in Qana yet Qana is being attacked. Israel continues to refuse to let food and water into southern Lebanon where it is needed. Israel continues to tell everyone to leave southern Lebanon while continuing to destroy road and bridges and continuing to attack refugees on the road.

In Lebanon the majority of the dead are civilians. In Israel the majority of the dead are soldiers.

Meanwhile back in Israeli controlled territory
The White House and Congress remain solidly behind Israel. They agree Israel needs more time to slaughter more Lebanese to no benefit towards no defined goal.

Hard to believe but
When Israel's attack on Hezbollah began most of the Arab world and most of Lebanon hoped Hezbollah's ass would be kicked. Israel managed to turn to that into a victory for Hezbollah making it a hero for the Arab world and all of Lebanon. Israel even managed to unite Shia and Sunni. As the saying goes, Israel never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

The difference of perception
In the west the Mideast news focused on the attack on the UN in Beirut and Gaza. In the Mideast it was real time coverage of pulling bodies from the Qana massacre. Real time coverage of children, even infants, mangled and covered in blood and cement dust. And all courtesy of Israel and US smart bombs.

Maybe this is the war too far that collapses Israel and the Neocon traitors to America. Yes, any American supporting any foreign country is a traitor to America. There is no question of that. The US has had many traitors over the generations but most of them have been traitors in favor of Israel.

2006 July 30

Israel attacks Syria/Lebanon border crossing
Israel repeats it does not want war with Syria.

Syria shoots down Israeli drone spying on Syria
Israel repeats it does not want war with Syria.

Israel repeats 1996 Qana massacre
Israel repeats its regret at the unfortunate accident.

Israel needs more time in Lebanon
Every few days Israel announces it will needs an increasing amount of time. It started at one week, then ten days, now it is up two weeks.

Almost forgot
There was another Israeli massacre in Qana.

And final note
Washington still sucks Zionist genitalia on command.

2006 July 29

Israel can't get a win in Lebanon
It is about time it declares victory and starts negotiating with Hezbollah. Governments like Saudi Arabia and Egypt who at first kept arm's length from the war have come out against Israel and for Hezbollah for fear of revolts to remove them from power and from this world.

Israel has itself in a protracted war which is exactly what they have always avoided. The north of the country is out of the economy. 30,000 taxpayers have been put on the government's military payroll. There is no end in sight. All Hezbollah has to do to win is not to lose. The longer the war the better for Hezbollah.

In the meantime Israel's slaughter of civilians is indiscriminate. What Israel describes as surgical strikes is destroying city blocks. The images reinforce the negative opinions and are turning public opinion against Israel in the usually sympathetic west. In the US its only supporters left are neocons, Jews and stupid Christians expecting the end of the world real soon. And for the last the only reason they support Israel is so the Jews of the world will either convert or die.

Turkey attacks Kurds in Iraq
It is just another preemptive war now that they are approved by the US for its own wars and for Israel's.

2006 July 27

Occupied Syria
Israel is readying its military bases in southern Syria preparing for an all out attack on Syria. Of course they deny that is the intention. A faked attack from Syria will be needed to force Israel to attack Syria with much regret, a heavy heart and American weapons.

Israel's war on Lebanon
I wonder if they are considering just how many new members of Hezbollah they are creating. Same with new members of Hamas in Gaza. Every new member is morally justified in killing Israelis.

Any way there are two possible outcomes. Israel will have to call it off without ending Hezbollah or it will be the first modern army to win a guerrilla war. Anyone want to put money on which it will be?

Meanwhile two major items of out Israel. The first is calling up 30,000 army reserves. The second is announcing it has no plans to attack Syria. This sort of matches last month's US announcement that it will begin decreasing troops in Iraq and this week's announcement of a troop increase. Ya gotta love how predictable they are.

Bush planning to send US troops to defend Israel
It has been reported and may or may not be true but it is expected from what he has said about defending Israel. Defending Israel's criminal aggression? Again, an impeachable offense and without the color of law to protect his actions and thus liable to personal retribution.

2006 July 26

Israel has lost the public relations war
Despite the unfair and unbalanced coverage in the US Israel the rest of the world is seeing Lebanon unfiltered by Zionist sympathies. The entire war on Lebanon is seen by the world for what it is. Israel claimed its purpose was to destroy Hezbollah quickly and now it is down to weakening Hezbollah in weeks. Given the progress so far the weeks will stretch into months.

The worst loss of the propaganda war is Hezbollah will be able to claim victory over the never-mighty Israel Defense Force. It will prove driving the IDF out of southern Lebanon was not a fluke but a natural result of jihadist resistance to Israel. For jihadist read patriotic if you want to come close to understanding it.

Everyone has seen by now the IDF cannot deal with resistance on the ground. Its propaganda is cheap. It claimed first to control a Hezbollah stronghold town and later in the day had to report the deaths of 12 IDF still trying to take control of the town. This is the PR disaster Israel has always sought to avoid, the impotence of the IDF against the will of the people.

Air strikes have NEVER done anything but to increase resistance to aggression. Israel knows this. Yet Israel does everything it can to increase the hatred against Israel. The fire bombing of Dresden increased German resistance in WWII. So did the fire bombing of Tokyo. Why does Israel want to increase the resistance against itself?

2006 July 25

UN Observers killed
If a mistake can be made with using a precision guided weapon and if a clearly marked building can be painted with a laser to make certain the bomb hits then it could be considered an accident. It was located near the Lebanese border with Syria. If on the other hand Israel claims Syria attacked them in sight of this observation post then it was clearly removing witnesses to contradict the claim that Syria attacked or was resupplying Hezbollah or whatever excuse is needed to start war with Syria.

Besides the dead contacted Israeli forces ten times in six hours warning that the attacks were getting too close. So maybe Israel did not know for certain which was the UN observation post and had to use the calls to help identify it.

Kofi Annan described it as apparently deliberate. Israel shocked, shocked I tell you Monsieur Rick, to suggest Israel would deliberately attack the UN.

It is difficult to avoid the conclusion Israelis love war and get some sort of autoerotic thrill over atrocities. I can imagine the furious genital stimulation while viewing these pictures. Their last orgy was in 1982.

Ten to thirty thousand US troops to Lebanon
At least that is what Bush wants. Hezbollah will attack them. Bush will claim Syria ordered the attacks. Bush will order an attack on Syria. That is a Neocon dream leading to war on Iran.

Where will the troops come from without a draft?

2006 July 24

Notice the slant on Lebanon
All the news and commentary talks about Israel's right to defend itself. They imply from the missiles. But the missiles did not start flying until after Israel started bombing Lebanon. If Israel had not attacked then there would be no missiles falling on Israel. Israel started the shooting. The soldiers used as an excuse for the shooting were captured inside Lebanon.

Chemical weapons anyone?
Many injured in Lebanon have wounds clearly caused by phosphorus. Doctors report the wounds smell of phosphorus. From Israel with love.

Back in Iraq
Things are going so well in Iraq, Bush is sending even more troops.

And the Prime Minister of Iraq is in the US. He has voiced his support of Hezbollah against Israel. Now comes the test of how independent Iraq really is.

2006 July 21

Lebanese to love Israel in the future
Despite any claims of justification by Israel, real or fictitious, in the future all Lebanese have every moral right to attack Israel.

410 to 8, the House of Congress supports Israel
"We, the Jewish people control America and Americans know it." Ariel Sharon

2006 July 20

Rockets fall on Bethlehem
And we learned that Israeli bomb shelters are for Jews only. The government built none in Bethlehem because it is a predominantly Muslim city. No warning sirens either. Racism run rampant.

US rushes weapons to Israel
Whatever for? Why did Israel start this war without sufficient stockpiles? If it is going to be over soon, what is the rush? But it is good to know if Iran resupplies Hezbollah there is no reasonable objection to it.

Syria needs to tell Hezbollah to stop this shit
Sayeth the flaming Bush. What shit is that? Firing rockets into Israel? That did not start until after Israel began attacking civilian targets in Lebanon. Is it not proper to first tell Israel to stop this shit?

Israel warns civilians to leave southern Lebanon
And then Israeli jets attack people leaving followed by tanks destroying their homes, abandoned or not. That is certainly the way to win the hearts of the Lebanese people. Israel demands these same people disarm Hezbollah. Israel is only interested in murder.

Israel 8, Canadians 0
Israel slaughtered eight Canadians in Lebanon this week. About time for Canada to take a little payback from Israel.

2006 July 18

A bunch of Europeans went to Palestine to pick a fight
And we got Israel.

2006 July 17

WWIII for idiots
The war chant goes something like, "There have been terrorist attacks all over the world." That satisfies the first W, the world part. Now a war is when there is so much war news from around the world that the media has to find the few major incidents worth covering at the expense of hundreds of other incidents not as important. The current rate is less than two worth covering each a year. That does not match the second W, the war part.

The magnitude of an attack is not measured by the press coverage it gets. It is measured only in deaths, injuries and the cost of things destroyed. A missile exploding in an empty field is a page ten one-liner. It is not measured in national pride or violated sovereignty or anything else.

Back in Iraq
The UN finds 14,000 Iraqis killed in violence in the first half of the year. Percentagewise that is between 170,000 and 210,000 Americans. Would we call it a civil war with those numbers?

Scrolling back to 2 and 5 July the number of deaths increased between sources over three days. This report puts death rate at nearly 2500 per month in May and June.

In case you thought all the screw-ups had been accounted for, US supported Iraqi Kurds have been infiltrating Turkey. Turkey is considering entering Iraq to attack the Kurds on their own territory. Does the US attack Turkey? rein in the Kurds? do nothing? Your guess is as good as mine.

The goal in Lebanon
The goal in Lebanon was set by Israel in 1956, fifty six. That is install a Christian dictator friendly to Israel.

The method this time as in the last invasion is the indiscriminate bombing of civilians and the civilian infrastructure of no possible value to Hezbollah. Hospitals, schools, bridges are all targets. The number dead rises by the hour being well over 200 now including a vacationing Canadian family. There are no claimed Hezbollah dead as yet. After Israel remedies this by making the claim it is of no value until the claim is confirmed as Israel has no way of knowing who it is killing.

Israel has said it all the fault of the dead for living in Hezbollah neighborhoods. What Israel has not pointed out is that it considers all of southern Lebanon to be a Hezbollah neighborhood.

2006 July 16

Israel's coming attack on Iran
Maybe not this week but soon. It has to get a war going with Syria and depend upon the mutual defense agreement between Syria and Iran to bring Iran into the fighting. And the US? Bush has said he will defend Israel if it is attacked.

There is no treaty between the US and Israel which calls it as there is between Iran and Syria. Israel is not a legal ally of the US. Allies exist only as a consequence of ratified treaties. Bush has no authority as president to defend Israel either in the Constitution or in law pursuant to a ratified treaty.

It has been well established from the original debates in the constitutional convention the president has no such right and that the constitution was written specifically to prohibit the president from doing such a thing. Defending Israel will be an impeachable offense but Congress will not have the balls to do anything about it. No rationale can create a power which does not exist no matter how persuasive.

2006 July 15

Israel bombs targets in Syria
Where would be get our horrible examples were it not for little Israel? This is opening a third front at a time when one would expect them to keep the fighting as localized as possible. And of course attacks an Egyptian ship hauling cement 45 miles off of Lebanon.

Israel has given Syria 72 hours to stop all Hezbollah activity and release the two soldiers else be attacked. Even IF at one time Syria had been completely responsible that would be impossible in these circumstances.

There can be no question at this point. Israel it trying to provoke a regional war. It will keep expanding the fighting until it gets it. There is no point to it unless the US in planning to join in.

True or not Israel keeps saying the missiles fired at it were made in Iran. Every missile and bomb it uses was made in America. There is more than enough culpability to go around.

Speaking of provocations
25,000 Americans are trapped in Lebanon and the US is showing no urgency in getting them out. Nor has it been explained to Israel that it will be held responsible for their safety. Bush has abandoned them. What happened to his duty to protect Americans? He was bushitting you.

Israel is a master of the false flag operation so any deaths are as likely murders by Israel as by anyone else.

2006 July 13

When the US fights another of Israel's wars
The next one is going to appear a "what else can we do" war. The answer is stop Israel now before it gets that bad. AIPAC will not permit that so get ready for more dead Americans fighting another of Israel's wars.

The captured two
It finally comes out they were in Lebanon when captured. Why did Israel choose to send them into Lebanon to be captured?

2006 July 12

Two IDF captured by Hezbollah
Israel declares it an act of war. At least Israel admits they are prisoners of war? No. It will not say that. Rather it will say they were abducted.

Lebanon responsible for Hezbollah act of war
Every time Lebanon explains it has a treaty with Israel which prohibits any significant military forces near the border with Israel the west ignores it. So when Israel says it hold Lebanon responsible for Hezbollah activities on that border while refusing to let Lebanese troops into the border region the west naturally blames Lebanon instead of Israel.

But no sooner than Israel declared the capture of two Israeli members of the IDF than it declared they were hostages not prisoners of war. It first attacked Hezbollah positions across the border. It then proceeded to attack civilian targets such as the international airport and to kill civilians.

What is going on?
It is not clear. At the moment it appears Israel is trying to provoke a regional war.

Back in the US
Bush declares Syria and Iran are responsible. It appears he is showing some independence from Israel at the moment. Do not expect it to last. But Bush has a problem in that it blamed Syria for the assassination of Hariri even though Israel had the most to gain from it. So how does he reconcile the two? He does another Yosemite Sam imitation.

And how can he demand Syria control Hezbollah in Lebanon when he was Neocon in Chief demanding Syria leave Lebanon so it could possibly do what he demands?

2006 July 8

Israel in Gaza
Why? The lie is to pressure the people to turn against their government. This is a lie as every time in all recorded history this has been tried it has increased the people's support for their government. It has never decreased support. As this is a trivial observation, Israel is in Gaza to increase popular support for Hamas and the Hamas government. As the basic pretext of this is Hamas won a fair election Israel is intentionally increasing support for Hamas.

2006 July 7

Now we know about the lies
A more credible report says the North Korean long range missile was in flight for seven minutes. That long make it credible to have found the down range impact point.

There are problems with the seven minute report. I would have cleared Japan and fallen east of it if this were true. So we are left with the rock and the hard place of two incredible reports.

Speaking of lies
The officially designated successor to Zarqawi in Iraq has been in prison in Egypt for the last seven years and is still there. Not that this is a simple matter of a mistake by the US. The was a tape of bin Laden designating a man in prison in Egypt as the successor to Zarqawi is also a fake. Therefore we know the US fakes tapes of bin Laden. OK, we do not really know who fakes them but we know they are all suspect as fakes because of this tape.

But US was so stupid (or behind the fraud) that it put a $5 million bounty on him. So can the warden of the Egyptian prison claim it? If not, why not? A bounty has no escape clause for errors.

For the record the US knew so much about him BEFORE the tape appeared that it knew he was in Afghanistan in 2002, his third year in prison. The US revealed a modest and obviously totally fabricated biography of him.

This is nothing new. Seven of the 9/11 hijackers were dead before 9/11 or are still alive and have been interviewed on TV in the middle east. No US source has picked up the interviews. The FBI says it will not change its webpage naming them as the dead terrorists.

If a government lies to voters democracy is impossible.

And the attack on the Holland Tunnel?
A conspiracy requires not just talk but one overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy under US law. There is no mention of any overt act in the news reports. So the most we have are silly people trying to out-brag each other. Furtherance means an act specific to the planned crime not a map of New York. From many previous arrests such as of the president of the Jewish Defense League it would mean procuring explosives.

If this is the greatest threat we face then the police can handle it.

2006 July 6

Korea and the obvious
Obvious to those of us who have spent time in Washington around the upper level military at least. Sometimes we take these things as so self-evident its takes a 2x4 to realize everyone does not know it.

In the matter of Korea we have 33,000 troops there. Their purpose is to die. With their deaths the American public can be rallied to support another useless war in Korea. They are a tripwire to American support of the war.

You will find the word tripwire but you will not find what it means explained in public nor in any classified document I know of. But when you regularly talk to military people who have been there, who know, who can evaluate what 33,000 can do against North Korea you quickly learn the meaning of tripwire. It is to trip American support for war.

There is some good news from South Korea. They are more willing to deal with North Korea than the US. Not that what they want counts for a hill of beans to their American masters but in time they might get some control over their own destiny.

Fear North Korea
We are told the missile was in the air forty two seconds, was not functioning properly, and also that it was aimed at waters "off of" Hawaii. First that is barely enough flight time to figure it destination if working correctly. And equal case can be made that it was destroyed because the malfunction was sending it too close to Hawaii. Who is BSing who?

2006 July 5

Making it look better than it is in Iraq
Go back to July 2 and find over a thousand a month which is the official number of dead from insurgent attacks. That referenced the official total for all of Iraq was 1006. Today a report on the Baghdad morgue reports 1595 in June. That being just Baghdad how do we reconcile the official claim of 1006 for all of Iraq for June? We assume the official figures are deliberately understated. If you can't find any good news understate the bad news. This is an aberration as there were 1155 in April and 1375 in May. The understatement has been going on for a long time.

2006 July 4

The coming 2006 election
65% of Americans are against the war on Iraq. Therefore we would expect 65% of the candidates who are running to express the will of the electorate would be against the war and campaign on that platform.

For those not familiar with America not one of the candidates for 468 congressional offices open to vote will come out against the war. I do not mean fringe candidates but from the only two parties that matter. This is because the American political system is such that it never permits the voters a choice on anything related to foreign policy. It is by design.

What is the use of voting if there is no choice to make?

What are the other issues? Please tell me flag burning and gay marriage are not the only substantive issues in 2006. And if they are where can I find a country not living in fantasy land? Flags can be burned or another thousand or two Americans can die in Iraq before the 2008 election? Burned flags or dead Americans. So hard to decide which is most important.

I am not the one to decide which is the most important. The two parties will decide that by not letting anyone campaign on preventing the death of Americans by leaving Iraq ASAP. Americans a not permitted to vote on any important issue. That is the way the parties want it.

Excuse me but when did peace become a populist issue?

Since when did realizing democracy cannot be spread at gunpoint become unavailable to citizens to choose?

The since when is since the parties agreed to eliminate foreign policy including war from the political process. In practice that means there is retroactive approval of the fifty plus thousand dead Americans in Korea because Truman said so to absolutely no purpose. No American died in Korea to keep us free any more than any American has ever died in any foreign war to keep us free.

No American has died in Iraq to keep us free. If they were alive today would we be less free? Can Iraqis drive car bombs from Baghdad to Los Angeles? Does Bush have two functioning neurons?

Speaking of political parties
Why is it we hold conspiracies by corporations to be criminal but do not consider conspiracies among elected representatives to be criminal? A political party is a cartel. The parties colluding to manipulate elections as in preventing anti-war candidates is a criminal conspiracy outside of politics.

Principles are principles. The US system of political parties is a criminal conspiracy.

2006 July 3

Afghanistan war heats up
It was never won. It never ended. The government simply lied about it as it lied about Mission Accomplished? Now it is returning in force financed by four years of drug profits and a record harvest this year. Can the US win? Russia lost. Russian troops are traditionally much more ruthless than Americans. Russia announced it had won too. Amazing how stupid people can be.

2006 July 2

Zarqawi dead, no change in violence
For all the hoopla Zarqawi's contribution to the violence was so little no difference can be seen without him. It is still running over 1000 per month.

Israel in Gaza, Krystalnacht exonerated
If this is a legitimate response to the capture of one soldier, Krystalnacht was a legitimate response to the murder of one ambassador. Being captured is an occupational hazard for soldiers. Being murdered is not considered an occupational hazard for an ambassador.

2006 July 1

Bush is officially a war criminal
The US Supreme Court found Bush's actions in violation of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners. He is now officially a war criminal. If the US does not prosecute him then any nation in the world is authorized to arrest and prosecute him.

Little Israel heard from again
For a week now Israel has been doing everything possible to increase Palestinian support for Hamas. Although it claims to be doing the opposite there is not one case in all history where this has worked.

2006 June 27

What Americans missed
On Tuesday last week the Prime Minister of China arrived unannounced at Dulles International Airport and landed without prior clearance. He was escorted from Dulles to the Chinese embassy in DC by private security guards hired by the Embassy. Upon arrival he summoned President Bush to the embassy giving him five minutes to arrive for the photo op and state level meeting.

That did not happen but that is what Bush did in Iraq to the Prime Minister of the not sovereign state of Iraq. Imagine American reaction to the above. Imagine Iraqi reaction to what did happen.

Meanwhile Chinese troops and mercenaries patrol America
They are only in America to restore peace after removing Bush from power in a lawful regime change and imposing a communist Chinese constitution upon the US. The American ability to protect the Chinese has been poor as all military and police have been fired and former politicians have been banned from participation in public affairs. It is unclear when Americans will be able to stand up to anti-Chinese forces so the Chinese can stand down.

Meanwhile in Atlanta terrorists have bombed an office filled with people applying to join the Chinese organized police to support the new Chinese created government of America.

Car bombs the favorite weapons of Americans
Indiscriminate bombings continue in America. Most of the victims are their fellow Americans. The Atlanta bombing is typical of the terrorist Americans. They attack the very people trying to bring stability to the new communist America. These people have only hatred in their hearts, hatred for all things Chinese. The Americans hate us because we are free.

2006 June 26

Palestinians guilty again
In the two weeks before Palestinians from Gaza destroyed an Israeli tank, killing two, injuring one, kidnapping a fourth, had murdered 18 civilians in Gaza including women, children and paramedics. But it is Palestinians who are guilty for fighting back. It is always the same. Zionists can do no wrong.

But they kidnapped a member of the Israeli army!!! The day before Israeli troops entered Gaza and kidnapped two Palestinians who have since disappeared. The government press release said they were terrorists but they have not been charged. They have not been heard of since. Ever wonder who sold Bush on the idea of a prison in Guantanamo?

The real screw up in this was the failure of IDF policy to kill their own rather than let them be taken prisoner. If Palestinians kill him it will be murder. Looks to me like they will be doing the IDF's job for them.

Shocked?
Yes the IDF does have this policy and it is well known in Israel. The reason is the voters get hysterical when it happens and demand the government make all the concessions demanded. When it happens near elections the government has been forced to do just that. The policy to kill their own is to avoid having to make concessions to the occupied people.

And the world goes along with it
The IDF is enforcing a criminal occupation of Gaza. Why is the death of the criminals more important than the deaths of the victims of occupation? Does Israel control the news in the West? I have no answer to that question. I do know the press behaves as though it is controlled by Israel.

Why does not the government of Palestine stop it?
The government does not have the arms needed because Israel does not want them to have weapons. The government does not have money to pay men to make peace because Israel does not want them to have money to pay salaries. The government in the West Bank does not have access to Gaza because Israel does not want them to have access to Gaza.

So first making it impossible for the Palestinian government to do anything about it Israel then holds the government responsible for not stopping it. Where is even a casual mention of the in the news? If Israel controlled the news it is not clear how the coverage could better promote Israeli propaganda.

Iraq
Democrats who call for getting our troops out of Iraq are attacked by the administration which regularly reveals plans to do the same thing.

2006 June 25

16 GIs killed in Iraq last week
Stay this course you idiot! That will be 832 more dead in the next year. Some course to stay. This has not been the worst week so lets not be optimistic at so few deaths for nothing. The fighting is at the gates of the Green Zone.

They did not die for our freedom. They did not die to protect America. They did not die to make the world a safer place.

The best that can be said is they died failing to clean up the mess Bush created.

Am I being negative?
I read the news just before the fall of Saigon. It was positive. It was hopeful. It was the government line. The fall came as a surprise over a matter of a few days. The fighting was in Saigon itself. The fighting is now in Baghdad itself. The Saigon embassy was not fortified. The Green Zone is fortified.

The worst of it is if the Green Zone falls whoever takes over Iraq, even if the democratically elected Prime Minister, he will be demonized and Iraq will return to enemy status.

It happened in Iran when they kicked out dictator supported by the US. Iran did not turn communist. The animosity had nothing to do with the Cold War. What Iranians did wrong was to invade the embassy and take captive people who were actively trying to overturn the revolution and return the Shah to power.

Excuse me but if an embassy in the US were actively trying to overthrow the US government would not Americans have done the same thing?

The Saigon comparison fails
It fails because actual fighting is Saigon was the last stage to losing utterly. In the case of Iraq, Baghdad has never been secure. Never has the US had control of the five miles of highway connecting the Green Zone to the airport. That is a big never. The most important connection between US headquarters and the way in and out has never been under control. Five miles, 26,400 feet. One GI per hundred feet is hardly any at all. One per ten feet is almost nothing. Why has there been never been control of the most important part of Baghdad to the US?

2006 June 24

State of emergency in Baghdad
And the evening news ignored it for three days. The "last throes" of the insurgency are fighting just outside the Green Zone. This reminds one of nothing more than the fight just outside the US embassy in Saigon in the last days of that war. After a year of the official "last throes" the fighting is at the gates.

You call this progress, dick?

Political needs of 2006 elections
The neo-cons need terror threats going into the elections. But there are so few that they are starting to arrest the most laughable like the ninjas in Miami. Expect more and sillier in the coming months.

Test the press
Watch the news tomorrow and see if the Iraqi reconciliation plan is reported. It will call for

• a timetable for troop withdrawal
• amnesty for insurgents who attacked only military targets both US and Iraqi
• a halt to all "anti-terrorist" operations for foreign military forces
• release of all security detainees from all prisons both US and Iraqi
• compensation for all victims of US military operations

2006 June 15

2500 dead troops in Iraq
So what prize does the family get?

Amnesty for all Iraqis who killed Americans
But not for those who killed Iraqis.

This is perfectly legitimate but the aide who reported the Prime Minister of Iraq was considering was forced to resign. Iraq is a sovereign country is it not? Apparently not.

It is a perfectly reasonable reconciliation offer. If the worst was killing the foreign invaders why should Iraq care? It was not criminal, simply a matter of war.

2006 June 12

State secrets
The US government has claimed the right to have state secrets which is not granted to it by the constitution. Does not every state have the right to keep secrets? Secrecy is a crime against democracy. It makes it impossible for democracy to function. This is nothing new for this administration. Lying is also a crime against democracy.

For the purists they are also crimes against a constitutionally limited republic. The absolute requirement for self-rule is an informed electorate. Secrets and lies make it impossible to have an informed electorate.

To introduce a mundane aspect to it the government is using this claim in court to prevent the administration of justice. Not just preventing cases from going to trial but to exclude defense attorneys from hearing evidence, preventing the elementary right of the accused to know the charges against them.

So now we can add secrecy as a crime against justice.

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