7 posts tagged “president bush”
I find it fascinating that the US Senate Intelligence Committee denounced President Bush as misrepresenting the Intel given him that he used to convince Congress to invade Iraq.
Here is the fascinating thing: All the Left Democrats and two RINO Republicans (RINO = Center Left to Fringe Left) put their name on the Senatorial condemnation and the rest of the Republicans (including the ranking Republican on the Committee) denounced the Senate Intelligence Committee denunciation of President Bush.
Yes friends it is a pure ploy by the Cut-n-Run Party to give ammunition to their Democratic nominee to sway the public to NOT look at Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s bona fide connection to Marxism. O YES: The kind of Marxism that wishes to over turn the American Way of life!
President Bush’s invasion of Iraq may have used Intelligence meant to make him look bad; nonetheless the tyrant Saddam HUSSEIN was a supporter of terrorism even if that support could not be directly linked to al Qaeda. Let’s see, let me count the ways: HUSSEIN was a genocidal butcher of Sunni enemies, Shiite faithful and Kurds. He used chemical WMD on his own citizens and attempted to build a weapons grade nuclear site that only the Israelis had the cajones to prevent.
So if HUSSEIN did not have WMD, pick another reason. He had to go! If only the West would wake up about the rogue nations supporting or allowing Islamist terrorists to function in their reign of terror for whatever chauvinistic Islamic reason that can be come with.
Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s solution is to talk with Islamists who are noted for lying to stall for time to accomplish an agenda. O yes, this is where I bring up the much Leftist denounced Hitler/Nazi card. It may be cliché by now however it is cliché because it is true. Appeasement brings war, it does not prevent it. Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler and the Munich Agreement AGAIN are the historical proof.
So I say to the Senate Intelligence Committee: Pull up your pants legs for there is a load of horse manure being politicized to aid Barack HUSSEIN Obama and by association with President Bush, make Senator John McCain appear to have rolled out the manure.
I pray that McCain is wise enough to demonstrate just how much manure is plastered Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
Experts in the field of terrorism have been warning for years that a homeland terrorist attack on a big scale will be attempted and if successful could be devastating to the political-social-economic infrastructure of the current most powerful nation on planet Earth – The United States of America.
The Left and particularly the leadership of the Democratic Party have become incredibly dull to this threat due to the only idea they have for America; i.e. to eradicate the George Bush Administration and the Christian Conservative impetus America has floated on since the Reagan years.
Did I mention the word “eradicate”?”
That is the only true idea and agenda of the Democratic Party: Eradicate Bush policies and reimpliment failed utopian socialistic ideas of the Democratic Party past. Certainly some of those utopian concepts are based on the altruistic benevolence toward the general good of humanity; nonetheless the burden of extra taxation and the dumbing down of the American Military simultaneously will come back to bite the butts of the Democrats and Americans who do not have a vision for security for America.
Now I have just been implying transnational terrorists such as al Qaeda; however there is another rogue on the global street that espouses the traditional structure of sovereign Statehood – Iran.
There have been scenarios as to how a two-bit nation can inflict serious damage on the BEST nation the world has ever seen: America.
Fred Kagan writes about the significance of President Bush arriving in Iraq on America’s Labor Day Holiday. Kagan notes the American dignitaries that the President brought with him and Iraq dignitaries that joined him. And most importantly Kagan writes of the significance of the location within Iraq of this coalition of high government dignitaries of America and Iraq – Anbar Province.
And thus Kagan is comparing the Presidential visit to Anbar as a historical Presidential visit to Gettysburg: a point in time when the fortunes of war are turning to the favor of the legitimate representatives of Government as opposed to the representatives of rebellion and illegitimate authority.
JRH 9/4/07
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The Gettysburg of This War
This Bush visit could well mark a key turning point in the war in Iraq and the war on terror.
By Frederick W. Kagan
September 3, 2007 5:00 PM
National Review Online
President Bush’s Labor Day visit to Iraq should have surprised no one who was paying attention. At such a critical point in the debate over Iraq policy, it was almost inconceivable that he would fly to and from Australia without stopping in Iraq. What was surprising was the precise location and nature of the visit. Instead of flying into Baghdad and surrounding himself with his generals and the Iraqi government, Bush flew to al Asad airfield, west of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province. He brought with him his secretaries of State and Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the commander of U.S. Central Command. He was met at al Asad by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, as well as Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kemal al Maliki, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and Vice Presidents Adel Abdul Mehdi and Tariq al Hashemi. In other words, Bush called together all of the leading political and military figures in his administration and the Iraqi government in the heart of Anbar Province. If ever there was a sign that we have turned a corner in the fight against both al Qaeda in Iraq and the Sunni insurgency, this was it.
Anbar, as everyone knows, has been one of the hotbeds and the most important base for both the Sunni rejectionist insurgency and al Qaeda in Iraq since 2003. It has been one of the most violent provinces in Iraq, and one of the most dangerous for American soldiers and Marines, until recently. Now it is one of the safest
— safe enough for the war cabinet of the United States of America to meet there with the senior leadership of the government of Iraq to discuss strategy. Instead of talking about how to convince the Anbaris that the Sunni will not retake power in Iraq any time soon, Bush, Maliki, Petraeus, Talabani, and Crocker talked about how to get American and Iraqi aid and reconstruction money flowing more rapidly to the province as a reward for its dramatic and decisive turn against AQI and against the Sunni rejectionist insurgency. In any other war, with any other president, this event would be recognized for what it is: the sign of a crucial victory over two challenges that had seemed both unconquerable and fatal. It should be recognized as at least the Gettysburg of this war, to the extent that ... More at SlantRight
In part one sources report that the Bush Administration denies a concept of a “North American Union;” i.e. some notion of a federated union of Canada, America and Mexico. The notion as far as the United States is concerned is extra-Constitutional if it goes forward without an Amendment to the Constitution.
If there are proponents lurking in the shadows promoting geopolitical transformation, they are probably thinking of accomplishing such a Union via a Treaty ratified by the Senate. The problem is such a Union extends beyond treaty agreements between sovereign nations. Such a Union would affect Constitutional Law in America. I am saying a Union transformation would or could change traditional interpretations of American Liberty, Civil Rights, and Free Speech and so on.
I personally did not buy into the notion of a “North American Union” when I first read about it about a year ago. Yet there are things that have occurred that could have justified President Bush’s entrance into Iraq. Intelligence data widely implied the existence of WMD in Iraq prior to the invasion; however neither the radioactive nor the chemical cache of WMD was located. Bush made poor efforts to explain this phenomenon when there was credible evidence that explained the WMD disappearance.
There is a huge appearance that the CIA and Richard Armitage set up Plamegate and the conviction I. Scooter Libby. There is evidence that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald was full aware that Armitage was the person that leaked Valerie Plame’s name to discredit the WMD reason to invade Iraq.
Now here are some names that are preparing a report for the Bush White House and the Democratic controlled Congress on “… the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc.”: “A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger”.
Is it Conspiracy Theory or transforming geopolitics in the shadows?
This is for those of you that have a problem with WorldNetDaily as a rag legitimate source of information. This news is probably the second most liberal rag (considered Mainstream Media) in America.
Unlike WorldNetDaily (hint: WND Search Page), the Washington Post has not published the actual documents that have not seen the evidence chain. Of course NO ONE has the evidence on the mysterious Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Report that went missing or never existed as exposed by WorldNetDaily.
JRH
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Support Swells for Agents Who Shot Drug Smuggler:
Conservatives Lead Movement to Free Ex-Border Patrolmen
By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 17, 2007; Page A02
Early this week, the Bush administration urged angry conservatives to remain calm over the convictions of two former Border Patrol agents who shot an unarmed Mexican drug smuggler, but petitions for their release continued to flood the White House.
It did not help that one the lawmen, Ignacio Ramos, was attacked by Latino gang members in his cell at the Yazoo City Federal Correctional Complex in Mississippi and beaten bloody. Days after prison officials confirmed the beating on Feb. 8, Department of Homeland Security officials admitted that an inspector general's report erroneously quoted Border Patrol agents as saying Ramos and his partner, Jose Compean, intended to kill Mexicans.
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), founder of the House Immigration Reform Caucus and a presidential candidate, visited Ramos in prison and told him of the movement against his incarceration, including candlelight vigils, rallies, and a storm of criticism on conservative talk radio and television. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) threatened to call for impeachment proceedings against President Bush if the agents were harmed in prison, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) promised to look into the matter.
John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said that the 700 people who will attend the organization's annual convention in Washington on Feb. 25 will "speak with one voice" against the prosecution and conviction of the agents. The union, which represents Border Patrol agents and other federal workers, implored Bush in a letter this month to pardon Ramos and Compean.
"We think this thing has been mishandled from the start," Gage said. "We're meeting . . . with the head of the Bureau of Prisons. I'm going to raise some hell there to find out why these guys are in that particular institution."
According to a report by the DHS inspector general's office, the incident that landed the agents in trouble started on Feb. 17, 2005, when Asvaldo Aldrete-Davila, an admitted Mexican drug smuggler, drove across the border into Texas with 740 pounds of marijuana. He saw Border Patrol agents trailing him, panicked, and drove into a ditch.
During the chase that followed, Aldrete-Davila scuffled with Compean after the agent tried to smack him with the butt of a shotgun. The agents said they saw something in the suspect's hand and feared for their lives, according to the report and court testimony.
A fusillade of bullets from Compean and Ramos missed. Finally, Ramos took careful aim as Aldrete-Davila neared the border and hit him in the buttocks.
After the shooting, the agents collected all shell casings at the scene, threw them away and did not mention the shooting to superiors, a violation of Border Patrol procedures that call for an oral report after a weapon is discharged, according to the report and court records.
Investigators granted immunity to Aldrete-Davila to lure him back across the border. The story he told was corroborated by other officers at the scene, the report said.
In March last year, Ramos and Compean were found guilty of multiple charges, including assault with a dangerous weapon, discharge of a firearm in commission of a crime, and tampering with a crime scene. Judge Kathleen Cardone issued an 11-year prison sentence to Ramos and a 12-year sentence to Compean in October. The agents appealed to a higher court, and their conservative supporters started to pressure Bush to release them.
Since the convictions, a group called Grassfire.org has collected 40,000 signatures on a "Pardon the Agents" petition. Angry congressional Republicans -- including Rep. Ted Poe (Tex.), Rep. Phil Gingrey (Ga.) and Rep. Walter B. Jones (N.C.) -- also wrote Bush to say they are flummoxed over why the government accepted the word of an illegal-immigrant drug dealer over that of government agents.
"There's clearly a lot of interest in this issue," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. She said the Bush administration has a policy against revealing the number of letters, petitions and requests it receives on any given matter.
"The president has urged everyone to look at the facts of the case, as they were convicted by a jury of their peers," Perino said. "There is a legal process that every defendant is entitled to, and we should let that play out."
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UPDATE: Ramos Lawyers call for a mistrial because Johnny Sutton withheld evidence.
UPDATE: Senate Judiciary Committee postpones Ramos/Compean Hearings originally scheduled for February 27 because of conflicts.
JRH
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Since Donald Rumsfeld has left the Bush Administration, there is the appearance that President Bush has been overwhelmed in a vigorous Foreign Policy. The President seems to have taken the 2006 election results as an opportunity to abandon being tough on rogue nations such as North Korea.
The President has made a deal that nearly mirrors President Clinton’s deal in the 90’s. The deal is based on trust and I am not talking about America’s trustworthiness. Just as the Clinton Administration made a deal trusting Kim Jong Il, so has President Bush.
America’s trust led to an insane nuclear micro-nation that utilizes WMD as blackmail to extort the Capitalist Western style nations into providing the necessities of life for North Korea. This is ridiculous for we all know that it is not the North Korean people that enjoy the largesse of Kim Jong Il.
So here is America again with a decision that will bite her butt made by a Republican NeoConservative President of all people.
I have some good old fashion conspiracy thinking as to why President Bush has made such a horrendous deal: the North Korean deal is all about Machiavellian politics. Strike a deal to put off North Korea until another day, and then strike Iran.
This will free up a military already hindered by a cut-n-run Democratic Party controlled Congress.
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Will Iran get the North Korea deal?
Lt. General David Patraeus has been assigned the task of executing the “new strategy” in Iraq.
Retiring General John Abizaid’s strategy for Iraq is criticized by Thomas Donnelly writing for the American Enterprise Institute. Donnelly says that Abizaid directed “… that our military “footprint” should be as light and small as possible, that it should be the U.S. mission to train Iraqi security forces while waiting for the Iraqis to achieve a post-Saddam political consensus.”
Frankly this is a namby pamby strategy that portrayed weakness to radical Mohammedans. The kind of Western thinking was due to fail where strength by violence is held in honor in the Middle Eastern mind.
I join Donnelly in praying that the new strategy implemented by Patraeus is one aimed at decimating radical insurgents whether they are Sunni or Shi’ite.
