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Just Where are the Senate hearings on this ?
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(1)>>WE were Lied about the the Iraq War , we are always pretty much sucked into thinking that any war America gets into for for spreading Democracy. Remember that the Bush administration of using the war in Iraq to draw the nation's attention away from other problems, such as the economic recession of 2002. The meaning was later inverted to describe Bush's alleged attempts to divert attention away from the war following a drop in public support for the war. But for nearly 20 years , the longest war America was ever involved in , the war was on two fronts . Thanks to the lies of the elected Government, the Pentagon and the media, lots of brainwashing over the decades . The War in Afghanistan was a UTTER FAILURE a (2)>>huge wast of American Tax payer dollars . The Washington Post began a new series, confidential trove of 2,000 pages of government documents that revealed that senior U.S. officials repeatedly failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan. They document in detail a practice of lying, deception and whitewashing that covered up unmistakable evidence that the war had no grand plan, no end in sight and no consistent leadership. called “The Afghanistan Papers,” based on documents obtained by the newspaper of an internal military report on “lessons learned” from Afghanistan since the American invasion in 2002. The Post deliberately echoed the Pentagon Papers in the title, and the series explicitly draws parallels with the earlier scoop. This comparison might seem like hype, but the revelations in the Afghan report live up to its precursor. Like the Pentagon Papers, the Afghanistan Papers make clear that policy-makers consistently held a much more pessimistic private view of the Afghan War than they ever admitted in public. A feel-good story of progress was sold to the American people by military leaders and politicians who knew the truth was very different.What is important in these hundreds of interviews – given by key US players to a US federal agency without the expectation their words would see the light of day – is the shocking and often granular candour, (3)>>detailing how politicians, commanders and senior diplomats lied to themselves as they lied to US voters We need to stop and pause at this reality because within it is the entire reason why the war has become the disaster that it is today. The United States never cared about counting the bodies of dead Afghans caused by the war they started. (4)>>They didn’t count the dead, they didn’t count the wounded, and they didn’t count the displaced or traumatized..And while much confirms what has already been available in memoirs, reporting and testimony to Congress, what is valuable in this collection of documents is the detail – and the depiction of how the biggest lies in conflict are an accumulation of bad faith, groupthink and cowardice.
UK , Brexit , Boris and the US 2020 Election .
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| Trump and Boris . Political Twins? |
If the U.K.'s Brexit vote foreshadowed Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, yesterday's landslide for Boris Johnson (5)>>could be a warning sign for America's liberal Democrats in 2020.Donald Trump, in his telling, could have shot somebody on Fifth Avenue and won. Boris Johnson could mislead the queen. He could break his promise to get Britain out of Europe by Oct. 31. He could lie about Turks invading Britain and the cost of European Union membership. He could make up stories about building 40 new hospitals. He could double down on the phantom $460 million a week that Brexit would deliver to the National Health Service — and still win a landslide Tory electoral victory not seen since Margaret Thatcher’s triumph in 1987. The big question remains though, how should the Democrats play the campaign next year? To me, it’s “stay the course”. Improvement to our health care system, jobs, and education remain fertile ground to garner more votes from the independents, and moderate Republicans. I don’t know who the Democrats will nominate, but what really matters, as I view it, is not so much the candidate than, what they stand for and the party platform Democrats spent years pushing a bizarre conspiracy theory that Russia “stole” the election. In reality, Trump’s opponents wanted to steal the election results .As soon as Trump made his fateful phone call to Ukraine, (6)>>the resistance had a new weapon to overturn 2016. All of a sudden, Trump didn’t conspire with Moscow, but with Putin’s mortal enemy in Kyiv. Just as they promised before the president was sworn in, the Democratic House impeached Donald Trump. Soon, the GOP Senate will dispatch their desperate effort and keep him in office. But the damage remains. As in the UK, the US has witnessed a three-year temper tantrum over results that the losers didn’t like. Leaders in both nations could have spent their time improving the lives of their citizens; instead, they tried to block the people’s will.The democratic leadership is feckless and I feel it doesn't represent the majority of Many Democrats.Doubtless Donald has been mulling over the electoral results . As far as I am aware, our nomination has never, in ANY election, been set at this point except when our candidate was running as the incumbent. And for the 2016 election, the Republican nomination was completely up-in-the-air; the presumed frontrunner was Jeb Bush at this point. And it was significantly later than this that Marco Rubio hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump. I think the messages of the Democratic candidates are not really clear first of all. The election in the UK was decisive and it placed the petty-minded conservative leadership in charge. Why petty-minded? Because so much of their support came from those Brits who believe in a new "Rule Britannia", a fantasy if there ever was one. Consider it the Brit version of MAGA. History really is doomed to repeat itself. Maybe instead of marveling the swinging pendulum of the times, we should marvel both G.B. and the U.S.'s impotence in changing both their flawed voting systems that allow Minority Rule, while touting "democratic principles." That's the real story. He has even said he sees in Boris’ election “harbingers” of a successful cisatlantic or catastrophic election of 2020.
NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(1)>>WE were Lied about the the Iraq War .Washington Post reporting showed that the conflict in Afghanistan has been an operation of deception, as the war’s architects knowingly misled the public about its objectives and progress." The primary architects of the war were President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld but what's even sadder is all the Generals that went along with it not to mention all the soldiers who died or were physically and mentally maimed for life. If that's what happened in Afghanistan, what do you think happened in Iraq? Just more of the same. It's just another confirmation of the disaster President Bush and his administration were. (2)>>huge wast of American Tax payer dollars . One has to wonder how much money the military-industrial complex (Boeing, Lockheed, Colt, Raytheon, etc.) made off the Afghanistan War.And how much of that was plowed back into Washington in the form of political donations. It seems more than likely that that cycle may have had something to do with perpetuating the war for as long as it has. The original mission in Afghanistan was to capture Osama vin Ladin and al Qaeda leaders who planned the 9-11 Terror Attacks, but it morphed into a war between our political parties. Presidents know that they if they pull U.S. troops out of a conflict zone, the oppositional party will accuse then of abandoning U.S. allies. For example, Democrats accused Trump of abandoning the Kurds when pulled U.S. troop away from the Turkey-Suyrian border. If he pulls the remaining troop out of Afghanistan, he will be accused of abandoning Afghans allies to the mercy of the Taliban. Similarly, Republican criticized Obama for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq, which permitted the rise if ISIS,.(3)>>detailing how politicians, commanders and senior diplomats lied to themselves as they lied to US voters. One has to wonder how much money the military-industrial complex (Boeing, Lockheed, Colt, Raytheon, etc.) made off the Afghanistan War.And how much of that was plowed back into Washington in the form of political donations.It seems more than likely that that cycle may have had something to do with perpetuating the war for as long as it has. As for the electorate, the problem lies in our perpetual desire to look past obvious facts in order to embrace the things we wish to believe. Credulity gives propaganda its power and guarantees that we will empower leaders who will repeat our past mistakes. (4)>>They didn’t count the dead, they didn’t count the wounded, and they didn’t count the displaced or traumatized.The U.S. spends way too much money on its military. If we spent more on social programs, such as healthcare and education we would be a more humane society. As it is, the U.S. is very imperialistic and citizens who assume their government doesn't lie to them regularly are simply not thinking. The point to be made is that the same principles of deliberate manipulation of the truth that was "optimistically" employed in Afghanistan in order to steer that population in a desired direction are used in America every night to manipulate the American people. It is done on the right and the left. (5)>>could be a warning sign for America's liberal Democrats in 2020. The Democrats unified ? There are still over 10 candidates left and none of them can muster even 30% of the vote. BUT ,by following their social media posts it is clear that even Warren and Sanders supporters are tearing each other's throats out. What do you think is going to happen when the survivor of that duo goes against Biden, Buttigieg or god forbid Bloomberg in the late primaries and convention ? If Warren or Bernie are nominated it will scare moderate Democrats, including a sizable percentage of Black and Hispanic voters to Trump. Remember that Obama was able to win because he was able to make people feel good. It is also quite possible that conditions in Britain by next November will serve as a warning to American voters. In any event, it will be significantly more difficult to divide Democrats next year, either for Trump and his campaign . But we are going to continue to hear that the Russians " are planning to meddle in our election" . AS I said its a distraction to keep people from voting , yes blame the Russians , the fear monger lurking in our media to create a huge distraction . The more and more people will confused crating a paradox that no one is going to like it. (6)>> the resistance had a new weapon to overturn 2016. When Trump became President in 2017, I was convinced it was a fluke. The Electoral College was against the Democrats even though they had 3+ million more votes. So we’d just ride out the storm and in 2020 elect a Democrat ? A Trump victory will come about for significantly different reasons than why Johnson won. There is still hope. We have a very ugly year to lurch through before November 2020. Trump can disrupt in ways that we have yet to imagine and fear over 'socialism' will not be a main driver of the political storm to come.
