The $63 Billion Sham
by Derrick Jackson
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States wants to send $63 billion in military aid and weapons to the Middle East to "bolster forces of moderation and support a broader strategy to counter the negative influences of Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran."
Talk about wriggling in quicksand. Having destroyed Iraq to save us from horrors that did not exist, Rice now wants to save us from Iran's future nukes by selling American weapons of mass destruction. Over the next decade, the Bush administration wants to give Israel $30 billion in military aid, a nearly 43 percent increase over what that nation received over the last 10 years, according to The New York Times. We want to give $20 billion to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. We want to give Egypt $13 billion.
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Today's Quotes:
"We have made the Reich by propaganda."
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Joseph Paul Goebbels
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
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Adolf Hitler
"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."
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Douglas MacArthur
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in... to kind of catapult the propaganda.."
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GW Bush, 5/24/2005
"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."
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Eric Hoffer
Editor's Notes & Rants:
Devil purchases Wall St. Journal, hopes to turn it into a cheezy supermarket tabloid that will rival the National Enquirer. What a perfect metaphor what what has happened to journalism in the USofA.
Um, no, Dick.
When Bush dies, America will party like it's 1999.
Why Rummy ordered the "hit" on Pat Tillman. He was about to become an antiwar icon, which would have destroyed recruiting.
Iraq
war to cost over $1 TRILLION dollars. But that's nothing compared to what war on Iran is going to cost. The war profiteering Merchants of Death are drooling in anticipation.
Nominee for head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff suggests Iran must be attacked. So, now you know why Bush/Halliburton nominated him.
Gov't spying much worse than anyone imagined.
Yet
another corruption investigation of Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK).
Why is this crook still on the Appropriations committee?
No shame. Stevens says he
will block the ethics reform bill that
just passed the House. Because there is nothing he hates more than ethics.
HomeDepot pulls its head out of its ass, and announces that
they will no longer sponsor the terrorist network, BillOreilly.com
UPS pulls its head out of its ass, and announces that it
will provide the same benefits to gays, that they give to straights.
It's time to ban heterosexual adoption!
US to pump oil from Iraq, to Israel. Now you know why we invaded, and thousands of American soldiers died. Our Israeli overlords demanded it.
So, why the hell does the Iraqi parliament get to take a month off, if our troops don't? The idea that they will be playing on the French Riviera, while our soldiers are dying for them, pisses me off to no end. If we didn't have a
shitforbrains president, he'd tell them that if they leave in August, so will we. Then what happens afterwards would be on them, not us.
