“General Keane responded that polls showing the strong and historically consistent non-interventionist beliefs of the American people should play no role in a U.S. president’s decision on an issue of national security. In essence, General Keane told Mr. Baier and all other Americans to be quiet, go home, eat a cookie, watch TV, and let the vaunted U.S. military and our interventionist, bipartisan governing elite do as they wish regarding war with Syria. These arrogant and self-proclaimed aristocrats always know what is best for a taxed-to-death riff-raff that is only needed every four years to elect someone running on a ‘no war’ platform that will be utterly and cynically discarded once the presidency is won.”
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Lawmakers urge Obama to allow public debate on military action against Syria

“The United States is poised to launch a military strike on Syria in coming days after determining that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime used chemical weapons during an attack outside Damascus last week which killed hundreds of civilians. Several lawmakers sought to put the brakes on what Republican congressman Scott Rigell, who drafted the letter to Obama, said could be potential abuse of presidential authority if he decides to attack Syria without a congressional green light. Rigell and others are bristling at a possible executive order of use of force without the House and Senate weighing in, as was the controversial case in Libya.”
What Really Happened during the Iran Hostage Crisis?
“Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981), after a group of Iranian students supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the American Embassy in Tehran. Gary Sick wrote both an editorial for The New York Times in April of 1990 and a book on the subject: In October 1980 officials in Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign made a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages until after the election and in return for this, the U.S. purportedly arranged for Israel to ship weapons to Iran. Sick had interviewed a witness who saw members of the Reagan election team in Paris in negotiations with the Iranian government.”
http://www.cpflorida.com/2013/08/19/what-really-happened-during-the-iran-hostage-crisis/
News Flash: Obama Doesn’t Work for You
“Politicians can’t seem to identify any ‘legitimate’ US ‘interest’ that war would serve; polls show that the public opposes the project; military leaders, when pressed to propagandize for intervention, have instead repeatedly cautioned that war would likely boost the fortunes of al Qaeda and other groups who have been designated ‘the enemy’. Nonetheless, US President Barack Obama seems to have decided that military action is the only way to get whatever it is that he thinks he wants. He’s ordered the release of a ‘report’ purporting to ‘justify’ military action, his minions are falling into line, and world media are beginning to paint war as inevitable. If all this seems confusing and counter-intuitive, here’s why.”
‘Antiwar’ Hagel Pushing for War on Syria
“Several months ago, a large chunk of the antiwar movement expended a great deal of ‘ink’ arguing that the confirmation of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense would be a great victory for ‘our side.’ Today, Hagel is a good soldier to Obama’s mad drive to war on Syria. And as I wrote earlier, his (undeserved) reputation as one who is hesitant to use force only makes stronger the administration’s arguments (‘even Hagel believes it!’). Hagel is the great enabler. He has not even made a whisper. All that time wasted defending him and demanding that the Senate confirm him to save us from Obama’s mad militarism.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/antiwar-hagel-pushing-for-war-on-syria/
The “Moral Obscenity” of Washington’s Empire

“As one State Department official smugly remarked: ‘The Serbs need some bombing, and that’s exactly what they’re going to get.’ While the Obama administration is clearly following the Kosovo model in its campaign against Syria, it made at least one significant modification by orchestrating a false flag chemical weapons attack. A report last January disclosed an email exchange between officials of a British-based military contractor discussing a Washington-approved plan to stage a chemical attack in Syria that would be blamed on the government in Damascus. That report’s credibility is buttressed by Washington’s previous use of surrogates to carry out chemical weapons attacks.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-moral-obscenity-of-washingtons-empire/
Young, Old, Democrat and Republican Agree: The Federal Government Sucks

“The Gallup organization polled Americans across the partisan divide, and ranging in age from pimply and arrogant to wrinkly and bitter, about their opinions of various sectors of American society. When it comes to the federal government, it’s probably no surprise that starry-eyed youth and White House-haunting Democrats had the most affectionate sentiments. What is surprising is that the sort of affection they show is less akin to a passionate embrace and more like, ‘it’s not you, really, it’s me. We’re just not working out.’ That’s right, even among the young and the Democratic, warm feelings for the federal government are hard to find.”
http://reason.com/blog/2013/08/23/young-old-democrat-and-republican-agree
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“Hubris”: New Documentary Reexamines the Iraq War “Hoax”

“A decade ago, on March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq that would lead to a nine-year war resulting in 4,486 dead American troops, 32,226 service members wounded, and over 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians. The tab for the war topped $3 trillion. Bush did succeed in removing Saddam Hussein, but it turned out there were no weapons of mass destruction and no significant operational ties between Saddam’s regime and Al Qaeda. That is, the two main assertions used by Bush and his crew to justify the war were not true. Our book was the first cut at an important topic: how a president had swindled the nation into war with a deliberate effort to hype the threat.”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/hubris-rachel-maddow-documentary-iraq-war-david-corn





