...and then there was Iran... and then there were none!

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie ... The truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state." --Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

Here's a great article on the start of the end of the world. Have a look. If your too lazy to educate yourself because for you everything it just fine, great! Check out your local detention center to see where you'll be staying when you do get mad and they have to take you away.

Free Showers!

And the article:

You will respect our authoritae!

Anyway, here's an excerpt from the article above so you can at least know that they've been planning on invading Iraq since 1992.

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Iraq

The Iraqi war was conceived in 1992, during the first Bush administration, in a 46-page document entitled Draft Defense Planning Guidance.

The document advocated the concept of preemptive war to assure the military and diplomatic dominance of the world by the United States. It asserted the need for "… access to vital raw materials, primarily Persian Gulf oil." It warned of "… proliferation of weapons of mass destruction." And it spoke of "… threats to U.S. citizens from terrorism." It was the template for today's war in Iraq.

The Draft Defense Planning Guidance was signed by the secretary of defense, Richard Cheney. It was prepared by three top staffers: Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis "Scooter" Libby and Zalmay Khalilzad-all of whom would fill high-level positions in the administration of George W. Bush, nine years in the future.

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5 years later, PNAC was formed with some of our favorites: Richard (the Dick) Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Zalmay Khalilzad, Donald Rumsfeld and Jeb Bush.

Anyway, that's what's happening now. Read the book the New Pearl Harbor, or just go back to sleep. Who the hell cares at this point anyway. Let em lock us up for disagreeing with them Hell, maybe they're right!

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A non-political post

Ok, the end of the world is coming soon and there is nothing any one is going to do about it, so I'll just sit back and sip martini's and watch.

CNN was talking about a bomb that Israel dropped on Syria today. Syria says it didn't happen, that they flew over but dropped nothing. CNN reported that if a bomb was dropped it would have had to have been a bunker buster bomb, and if that was the case then it would have had to have come from the US.

I suppose it could have been the extra nuke that was missing from the 6 that were flown across the US. Apparently there were only 5 there when they landed. I'm sure Cheney probably loaded the extra one in his suitcase and then took it over to Israel. Just a little gift.

With that in mind, Cheney is probably now radioactive and going to go the way of The Trash Can man in Stephen King's The Stand. Where he is carrying the bomb that is supposed kill all that is good and therefore the force of evil rules the world. At the end he's got limbs falling off his body but he is still carrying on with his Dr. Evil plan.

And now George is planning on... (trumpets please)..."Staying the Course". Imagine that. Who could of guessed it? He'll leave this mess for the next president. I love how the neocons love to use their one line argument against any critics of the mess this administration has made of... well of everything, basically.

They love to ask, "How would you fix the problem in Iraq, cut and run?"

How about this for a response:

"That's pretty typical isn't it. You lie about the reasons for the war, create a quagmire and then look to the democrats and say, 'How are you going to fix it?' A responsible leader wouldn't have gotten into this mess in the first place. Our only hope now is to remove the idiots that created the mess. There is quite simply no one on the planet who could not have done a better job than President Bozo!" Then pull out a picture of George Bush with a clown nose attached and pinch the clown nose so it honks! That should shut them up.

An Epic Battle is Upon Us

September 8, 2007 - They’re drawing up sides, sharpening their swords and preparing for the epic battle of all times. A new day is upon us. What is the reason for this battle? It’s, The Petraeus Report.

The report we’ve all been waiting for, the key to our continued involvement, or to our drawdown of troops, in Iraq. The report that will finally give us the answers to the question, “Should we stay in Iraq?”

So the Bush Administration has been on their campaign for a while now. George did his famous surprise visit to Iraq. You have to wonder if the reason he shows up there unannounced is because he might be overwhelmed by all the roses the Iraqi people would be foisting on him. Certainly, too many roses could be detrimental to his health and safety.

After surveying the situation for himself from safe inside the hangar, he then headed down to Austria, (note, it was really Australia but George heard it wrong) to speak to OPEC. (Again, George blundered. He was speaking to APEC). Then miracle of miracles, after his speech, someone saved him before he walked off the edge of the stage to his certain demise. When I heard that my first thought was who benefits from saving him?

He caps off the day by telling South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun that he can’t declare peace with South Korea until North Korean President Kim Jong Il gets rid of his weapons. I think George thinks it’s really just Korea, with a Northern Korea and a Southern Korea, just like there is a Northern and Southern California. “Or as North Dakota and South Dakota are both part of Dakota!”, he would argue.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/09/08/2007-09-08_president_bush_blunders_at_apec_summit_i.html

And then there are the Democrats, armed and ready to stand up to this administration. They have their GAO report that says Iraq has only met 3 of their 18 benchmarks. With that they are now ready to stomp their feet and holler about how the war isn’t working and we should bring home the troops and if we don’t then we will have more blood on our hands for a war that we never should have been in in the first place.

This even though they voted for the war so they wouldn’t look like wimps and refused to defund the war because they wanted to appear tough, these, the same people who took impeachment off the table so they wouldn’t look partisan. The ones who voted for new wiretapping laws that legalized what the administration was doing illegally prior to the law, to show that they too are tough on terror, then letting us all know how appalled they are about the shape of our democracy, the trouncing of the constitution, the loss of privacy, civil rights, habeas corpus, and on and on and on.

And as the microphone moves on they are still talking but we just can’t hear them anymore. Sort of like parents with children. While the children run around the house screaming at the tops of their lungs, the parents are relaxing with coffee and a newspaper. The parents simply don’t hear them anymore. That is how it has become with the Democratic Party. I was asked this question once and I’ll never forget it: “If there were a sound that never changed frequency, pitch or volume, what would it sound like?” The answer is silence. Without some contrast, there is nothing to hear. Silence is what we are really hearing from the Democratic Party. Talk without action is just talk. Impeachment would be heard. Enforcing subpoenas would be heard. Defunding the war would be heard.

So, anyway, back to the battle. The battle is truly on and if I were to make a prediction, I’m not psychic mind you, so I could be wrong, but if I were to make a prediction, I’d say that it goes down something like this:
Bush will continue his blurring of reality by using 9/11/07 to discuss our progress in Iraq and how we are making great strides….Iraq…9/11 …Iraq…9/11...Iraq…9/11…

The Democrats will cry foul concerning The Petraeus Report because he didn’t write it, the Bush Administration did. Someone will start referring to it as “The Betray Us Report”. The Bush Administration will say they simply prepared the report from the information gathered from Petraeus. The Democrats will ask, “How can you use a report you wrote for your justification of continued presence in Iraq?” The Administration will respond, “The Democrats want to politicize this. They are weak on terror and cannot be trusted with the security of our nation!” The Democrats will say, “huh uh. …are not.”

Then the Democrats will throw in the towel with their final word: “Well we’ll just see what the American people think about this come November, 2008.”

Meanwhile, the Administration then finishes interpreting what they meant by their own report and “The Decider” will determine the best thing to do will be to “stay the course”. But of course he’ll change the language so as to not let Al-Qaeda onto the plan. The Democrats will continue their protests, their threats, their screams, their kicking and their hollering while they cast their votes to give Bush every penny of the additional money he’s asking for. Thereby, making sure we know that they are against this war, and that they are the real supporters of our troops.

By and for the people

Oh my. Iran next? I hope it's not true but that is what is now circulating throughout the blogosphere. (Because of that I thought it was important to post it here. I mean I'd hate to have the only blog that didn't report this possible fact. Of course I'll leave it open as a possibility, but at least it will be on my blog and I can say, you heard it here on BerkeleyPC.)

http://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/post-labor-day-product-rollout-war-with.html

I'm afraid we're doomed at this point. Our government, a government by and for the people, is now a grand experiment that has failed. Soon we'll be locking up people without trial, our congressional leadership will be a bunch of puppets, and the judicial system will only serve to protect the administration. Oh, yeah, I forgot, that’s already happening.

Well then I guess we should look at how we let this happen. Why, would a government by and for the people become what our government has today. Since our constitution is about making sure this doesn't happen, then how can it be so?

Let me tell you about my weekend. I think this could shed some light on the subject.
I was with a group of 12 friends and the conversation turned to politics. The discussion was a heated one which I felt was better than no discussion at all

I sat quietly for most of the discussion in the beginning, but I did have to impart some facts here and there. My favorites, and the ones I repeated the most, were that Iraq did not attack us, Afghanistan is a country not a terrorist organization, and that several members of the Bush administration were also members of PNAC, an organization that has been planning on invading Iraq, or a small middle eastern country, since 1992.

This would throw a monkey wrench into some peoples thinking for about 3 seconds and then they'd be right back on point like I hadn't even spoken.

So after being ignored a few more times I decided it was time to impart some additional facts. Most of the discussion seemed to be opinion based so I thought facts might shake up the discussion some. Since the conversation kept coming back to being attacked on 9/11, I thought that would be a good place to start, and because that’s the area I have the most facts about. So I asked them what they thought caused the buildings to fall.

This got their attention so I suggested that it was not the planes that caused them to fall. A once heated discussion all of a sudden had become a lot lighter and I was nearly laughed out of the room. Everyone there, except ‘partner’ who has taken time along with me to view some of the evidence against the Bush Admin's 9/11 propaganda, turned their attention to me and basically called me a conspiracy nut.
So after the laughter died down and they realized I wasn’t joking, that I was indeed serious I started asking them some additional questions.

I asked them: How do you suppose the 3rd building fell that day if it wasn't hit by a plane?
No one had heard that WTC7 had fallen also.

Did you know that no buildings in history have ever fallen due to fire?
No one knew that.

Did you know that the towers fell in 10 seconds, and WTC7 fell in 6.8 seconds, which is free-fall speed?
Didn't know that either.

Did you know that eyewitness, including building maintenance, firefighters, policemen and others, all reported hearing bombs going off and some saw flashes around the bottom of the building prior to the buildings falling?
Nope.

Did you know that the towers had lost money every year since they were first built due to occupancy issues? Did you know that the buildings had a 2 billion dollar asbestos problem and had been condemned? Did you know that there had been several applications for a permit to tear the towers down that were refused?
No one knew any of that either.

Did you know that Larry Silverstein, a successful real estate investor, bought the buildings in July of 01, 3 months before they were destroyed? Do you think buying buildings with a 2 billion dollar asbestos problem would be a wise decision knowing that that 2 billion dollars would do nothing to stem the occupancy problem? Would a smart man do this? Do you think Larry Silverstein, a successful real estate investor is a stupid man? Did you know he insured the buildings against terrorist attacks and made 7 billion dollars off the insurance settlement?

At some point some different questions started popping up. Most of the questions were around trying to figure out how they could have pulled something of that scale off. It would require a lot of careful planning and covert operations and people were in the buildings and would have noticed, etc. I stayed out of that trap. At this point how it was done is a lot less important than the fact that it was done and that what we were told happened is not what happened. In other words, it doesn't make sense to move to how something happened, until everyone agrees that it happened. Make sense?

I mean I could have told them that that they did have a power down for Labor Day weekend which also resulted in no video security for the weekend. I could have told them that several companies were moved around the building prior to this occurring. I could have told them that the bomb sniffing dogs got an extended vacation prior to the attack. But to me those are still the rumors around the how it was done and would require a lot of fact finding that we would get if we had a real investigation.

I'm amazed though, at how quick they were to dismiss me, laugh me out of the building if you will and call me a conspiracy nut, when they had no information at all. All they know is what the Bush Administration allowed to be told. Exactly what the Bushie’s wanted them to believe is what they believed. Even though no one is disputing the lies, manipulations and utter bs we have heard from this group since they were put into power, they were more willing to believe their story(fool me again), than to listen to someone they know, who has no vested interest in what story they believe.

So who's fault will it be when we become a police state, lose our civil liberties and get locked up for criticizing our leaders?

It's mine. It's yours. It's the media's. It the fault of those who know who show an unwillingness or lack of courage to speak truth to power. And it's our fault for not having the decency to allow those who do have the courage to speak, the time to make their case.

This democracy belongs to us. If we choose to allow it to slip away, fine, but we should at first educate ourselves so we can see what is happening and we should educate ourselves to see what we are giving up when it does occur. Then once we have that knowledge, if we are still ok with it, we can sit back quietly with a nice vodka martini with stuffed olives and watch our freedoms slip away as if we were watching the setting sun.

First They Came for the Jews
Pastor Martin Niemöller

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.