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https://www.theepochtimes.com/why-is-our-military-choosing-new-enemies_3743178.html?utm_source=morningbrief&utm_medium=email&email= [login to see] &utm_campaign=mb-2021-03-22
Valid questions. Those who dismiss them because of their source, are missing a great opportunity to think about issues that matter, especially to those of us who serve/served...
Valid questions. Those who dismiss them because of their source, are missing a great opportunity to think about issues that matter, especially to those of us who serve/served...
Why Is Our Military Choosing New Enemies?
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You're so on target, Jack. Our liberal/progressive comrades love to sneer about our sources, but people who think CNN, NPR, MSNBC and the MSM are "good" sources need to guess again. . . .
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CW3 Dick McManus
Resolution regarding the behavior of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr.
Whereas we believe members of the Democratic Party have a duty to insure the law is faithfully executed,
Whereas on March 12, 2013, after telling under oath US Senator Ron Wyden that the National Security Agency (NSA) (did, not) does not collect data on millions of Americans, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper Jr., …answered the question about classified information in the “least untruthful” manner possible,”
Whereas Clapper replied, “No.” “Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly,” yet without a warrant, NSA did in fact violate the US Constitution,
Whereas Clapper told Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein that his statement was "clearly erroneous,"
Whereas Sen. Wyden, a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, “One of the most important responsibilities a Senator has is oversight of the intelligence community. This job cannot be done responsibly if Senators aren’t getting straight answers to direct questions,”
Whereas US Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-CA) did not call for the removal of and/or persecution of then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr. for lying under oath to Congress and they only declined to comment,
Whereas as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said, “This (Obama) administration views Edward]Snowden as the problem, not Gen. Clapper, and and the president’s pursuit of Snowden rather than the defense of the Bill of Rights, is perhaps part of the reason Clapper will get off scot-free”,
Whereas US Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) wrote in an op-ed, “If the Constitution is to continue to apply, citizens must maintain their close watch on the eyes of government whose sleight of hand is making our rights no more than an illusion… there is no reason that Americans should sit idly by while their federal representatives let Clapper skate.,”
Whereas Clapper said, “We were shocked. … The trucks we had identified as “mobile production facilities for biological agents” were in fact used to pasteurize and transport milk,”
Whereas Clapper was in charge of the Directorate of CIA’s National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) which is responsible for analyzing imagery collected by satellites and hid the truth about the Iraqi threat in order not to impede the planned attack on Iraq,
Whereas Clapper wrote in his book, …“the administration members who were pushing a narrative of a rogue WMD program in Iraq and on the intelligence officers, including me, who were so eager to help that, we found what wasn’t really there!”
Therefore Be It Resolved, the members of the WA State Democratic Party are troubled that Congress and the Obama administration did not hold James Clapper accountable.
Resolution for another Congressional investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy
WHEREAS researchers have been investigation the JFK assassination and cover up for over 50 years,
WHEREAS it appears from the evidence uncovered the CIA, the Secret Service and the Joint Chiefs of Staff plotted to kill JFK and engaged in a cover up lasting years afterwards,
WHEREAS it appears the trigger pullers who shot JFK they were most likely anti-Castro Cubans with their North American mafia associates,
WHEREAS Lee Oswald’s good name has been destroyed within US History and negatively affect his wife and children,
WHEREAS the assassination was a coup and it is important for future US generations to understand the truth,
WHEREAS prior Congressional investigations conclude that the evidence was pointing to an organized criminal conspiracy,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED we demand a new Congressional investigation of the JFK assassination.
MY COMMENT: I think most Democrats do not understand that we all have a duty to insure that the law if faithfully executed and it does not matter JFK was murdered some 57 years ago and some of our government agencies covered up this crime.
Whereas we believe members of the Democratic Party have a duty to insure the law is faithfully executed,
Whereas on March 12, 2013, after telling under oath US Senator Ron Wyden that the National Security Agency (NSA) (did, not) does not collect data on millions of Americans, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper Jr., …answered the question about classified information in the “least untruthful” manner possible,”
Whereas Clapper replied, “No.” “Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly,” yet without a warrant, NSA did in fact violate the US Constitution,
Whereas Clapper told Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein that his statement was "clearly erroneous,"
Whereas Sen. Wyden, a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, “One of the most important responsibilities a Senator has is oversight of the intelligence community. This job cannot be done responsibly if Senators aren’t getting straight answers to direct questions,”
Whereas US Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-CA) did not call for the removal of and/or persecution of then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr. for lying under oath to Congress and they only declined to comment,
Whereas as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said, “This (Obama) administration views Edward]Snowden as the problem, not Gen. Clapper, and and the president’s pursuit of Snowden rather than the defense of the Bill of Rights, is perhaps part of the reason Clapper will get off scot-free”,
Whereas US Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) wrote in an op-ed, “If the Constitution is to continue to apply, citizens must maintain their close watch on the eyes of government whose sleight of hand is making our rights no more than an illusion… there is no reason that Americans should sit idly by while their federal representatives let Clapper skate.,”
Whereas Clapper said, “We were shocked. … The trucks we had identified as “mobile production facilities for biological agents” were in fact used to pasteurize and transport milk,”
Whereas Clapper was in charge of the Directorate of CIA’s National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) which is responsible for analyzing imagery collected by satellites and hid the truth about the Iraqi threat in order not to impede the planned attack on Iraq,
Whereas Clapper wrote in his book, …“the administration members who were pushing a narrative of a rogue WMD program in Iraq and on the intelligence officers, including me, who were so eager to help that, we found what wasn’t really there!”
Therefore Be It Resolved, the members of the WA State Democratic Party are troubled that Congress and the Obama administration did not hold James Clapper accountable.
Resolution for another Congressional investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy
WHEREAS researchers have been investigation the JFK assassination and cover up for over 50 years,
WHEREAS it appears from the evidence uncovered the CIA, the Secret Service and the Joint Chiefs of Staff plotted to kill JFK and engaged in a cover up lasting years afterwards,
WHEREAS it appears the trigger pullers who shot JFK they were most likely anti-Castro Cubans with their North American mafia associates,
WHEREAS Lee Oswald’s good name has been destroyed within US History and negatively affect his wife and children,
WHEREAS the assassination was a coup and it is important for future US generations to understand the truth,
WHEREAS prior Congressional investigations conclude that the evidence was pointing to an organized criminal conspiracy,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED we demand a new Congressional investigation of the JFK assassination.
MY COMMENT: I think most Democrats do not understand that we all have a duty to insure that the law if faithfully executed and it does not matter JFK was murdered some 57 years ago and some of our government agencies covered up this crime.
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I DID read the article. So I am not "just reacting to the headline." But... I am still going to react to the headline.
The military is not choosing new enemies. The military did not SEEK OUT Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson sought out the military. And when a bully pops you in the mouth, you don't just smile and walk away, you pop him back. ESPECIALLY IF you are... I don't know... a MILITARY FORCE.
The Pentagon is not scouring the news, looking for Sam Johansson from Funkley, MN putting an Op-Ed in the Brainerd Dispatch about what the military is doing wrong. But with arguably the biggest name on one of the biggest networks makes a very loud and clarion call against the military, and blasts basically everything the military is doing INTERNALLY, then yes, they should defend themselves. And that is ALL they did... defend themselves against a bully.
The military is not choosing new enemies. The military did not SEEK OUT Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson sought out the military. And when a bully pops you in the mouth, you don't just smile and walk away, you pop him back. ESPECIALLY IF you are... I don't know... a MILITARY FORCE.
The Pentagon is not scouring the news, looking for Sam Johansson from Funkley, MN putting an Op-Ed in the Brainerd Dispatch about what the military is doing wrong. But with arguably the biggest name on one of the biggest networks makes a very loud and clarion call against the military, and blasts basically everything the military is doing INTERNALLY, then yes, they should defend themselves. And that is ALL they did... defend themselves against a bully.
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Money. War keeps the profit flowing for defense contractors, arms and munitions manufacturers.
Can anyone name a single "enemy" we've fought in decades that we didn't previously create, train, support, arm, equip and/or fund?
Can anyone name a single "enemy" we've fought in decades that we didn't previously create, train, support, arm, equip and/or fund?
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CW3 Dick McManus
The US wasted $6.5 trillion on the unjust and undeclared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan based on lies. President Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq was part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.
http://www.truth-out.org/rumsfeld-era-propaganda-program-whitewashed-
Lying the US into Iraq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4RZO8y-R9k&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3qwOWddjedvIKm3akPygWtF3Q4IjSf-Uy4DWjgKj5QV74yUai_3nzKUYc
Prosecution of George W. Bush et. al. for War Crimes
WHEREAS there is overwhelming evidence that President George W. Bush and et. al. (his direct subordinates) committed war crimes,
WHEREAS international law requires the United States government to prosecute all war crimes committed by US persons; for example, torture, ghost prisoners, secret jails, used depleted uranium weapons that poisoned the battlefield and civilians for many years following the warfare, and making war on Iraq without a UN resolution,
WHEREAS President Bush et al, ordered the kidnapping of an estimated 150 people from foreign nations (aka “extraordinary rendition”) and delivering them for interrogation by nations having a well documented history of torture,
WHEREAS, Regarding Iraq, the last Security Council resolution essentially said, “Look, send the weapons inspectors out to Iraq, have them come back and tell us what they've found -- then we'll figure out what we're going to do.” But without permission/vote of the UN Security Council, the US invaded Iraq and in so doing the US did unprovoked or "aggressive" war, the highest crime against mankind,
WHEREAS President Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq,
WHEREAS If George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and others are not prosecuted US government leaders in the future will not fear any personal consequences for going to war without a declaration by Congress,
WHEREAS the claim that the President, as commander-in-chief, can exercise the unlimited powers of a king or dictator strikes at the very heart of our democracy and the rule of law requires a rejection of impunity for the criminal acts of government officials,
WHEREAS 6,900 and approximately 7,800 contractors were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan at the end of 2018, 52,010 wounded in action, and this number does not included are those “non-hostile injuries” and other medical problems such as heat stroke, suicide attempts, respiratory problems, and vehicle crashes,
WHEREAS 970,000 disability claims registered with the VA,
WHEREAS these wars have been paid for almost entirely by borrowing, therefore including the predicted interest payments, the total cost will be over $6 trillion by the 2050s,
WHEREAS more than 480,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and over 8.4 million Afghans, Pakistanis, and Iraqis are living as war refugees in other countries or are displaced from their homes,
WHEREAS every segment of the US electorate–including majorities of Democrats (82 percent), independents (62 percent), and Republicans (51 percent) — want to hold the Bush administration accountable for its role in the destruction of the CIA’s interrogation tapes and the use of torture by the agency,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED we demand the US Justice Department prosecute of George W. Bush et. al. for war crimes,
Resolution regarding US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
WHEREAS US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan) were briefed from 2002 to 2003 in about 30 private secret and classified briefings, about the planned use of cruel, unusual and inhuman treatment, per orders of former President George W. Bush and his subordinates and they did not go public to try to prevent this with war crimes,
WHEREAS a memo describing techniques which interrogators wanted to use: facial slap, solitary confinement, forced standing until your muscles hurt or give out (also noted as self-torture aka stress positions), sleep deprivation and sleep disruption, insects placed in a confinement, fear of dogs or other phobias, cramped confinement, subjection to extreme heat or extreme cold, restricting food or water, lighting on all the time or no views of the outside sunlight, sounds of people being tortured, loud sounds or music, 20-hour interrogations, and water-boarding them,
WHEREAS these Congress people had a Constitutional and legal duty to go public about the planned or on-going use of torture, ghost prisoners, secret jails, and kidnapping and rendition to proxy nations that torture, (all war crimes), notwithstanding that these activities were classified and criminal behavior cannot be classified for national security reasons,
WHEREAS not speaking up about the President planning to do torture, made these Congress people accessories to the war crime to torture, ghost prisoners, secret jails, and kidnapping and rendition to proxy nations that torture,
WHEREAS a crime against peace, in international law, refers to "planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing" It is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole,
WHEREAS however Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused intelligence officials of failing to brief her about the CIA’s enhanced interrogation methods that included water-boarding and that is not believable,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED we are very troubled that US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is now again the Speaker of the House of Representatives and has been so for years since her failure to speak up,
http://www.truth-out.org/rumsfeld-era-propaganda-program-whitewashed-
Lying the US into Iraq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4RZO8y-R9k&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3qwOWddjedvIKm3akPygWtF3Q4IjSf-Uy4DWjgKj5QV74yUai_3nzKUYc
Prosecution of George W. Bush et. al. for War Crimes
WHEREAS there is overwhelming evidence that President George W. Bush and et. al. (his direct subordinates) committed war crimes,
WHEREAS international law requires the United States government to prosecute all war crimes committed by US persons; for example, torture, ghost prisoners, secret jails, used depleted uranium weapons that poisoned the battlefield and civilians for many years following the warfare, and making war on Iraq without a UN resolution,
WHEREAS President Bush et al, ordered the kidnapping of an estimated 150 people from foreign nations (aka “extraordinary rendition”) and delivering them for interrogation by nations having a well documented history of torture,
WHEREAS, Regarding Iraq, the last Security Council resolution essentially said, “Look, send the weapons inspectors out to Iraq, have them come back and tell us what they've found -- then we'll figure out what we're going to do.” But without permission/vote of the UN Security Council, the US invaded Iraq and in so doing the US did unprovoked or "aggressive" war, the highest crime against mankind,
WHEREAS President Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq,
WHEREAS If George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and others are not prosecuted US government leaders in the future will not fear any personal consequences for going to war without a declaration by Congress,
WHEREAS the claim that the President, as commander-in-chief, can exercise the unlimited powers of a king or dictator strikes at the very heart of our democracy and the rule of law requires a rejection of impunity for the criminal acts of government officials,
WHEREAS 6,900 and approximately 7,800 contractors were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan at the end of 2018, 52,010 wounded in action, and this number does not included are those “non-hostile injuries” and other medical problems such as heat stroke, suicide attempts, respiratory problems, and vehicle crashes,
WHEREAS 970,000 disability claims registered with the VA,
WHEREAS these wars have been paid for almost entirely by borrowing, therefore including the predicted interest payments, the total cost will be over $6 trillion by the 2050s,
WHEREAS more than 480,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and over 8.4 million Afghans, Pakistanis, and Iraqis are living as war refugees in other countries or are displaced from their homes,
WHEREAS every segment of the US electorate–including majorities of Democrats (82 percent), independents (62 percent), and Republicans (51 percent) — want to hold the Bush administration accountable for its role in the destruction of the CIA’s interrogation tapes and the use of torture by the agency,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED we demand the US Justice Department prosecute of George W. Bush et. al. for war crimes,
Resolution regarding US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
WHEREAS US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan) were briefed from 2002 to 2003 in about 30 private secret and classified briefings, about the planned use of cruel, unusual and inhuman treatment, per orders of former President George W. Bush and his subordinates and they did not go public to try to prevent this with war crimes,
WHEREAS a memo describing techniques which interrogators wanted to use: facial slap, solitary confinement, forced standing until your muscles hurt or give out (also noted as self-torture aka stress positions), sleep deprivation and sleep disruption, insects placed in a confinement, fear of dogs or other phobias, cramped confinement, subjection to extreme heat or extreme cold, restricting food or water, lighting on all the time or no views of the outside sunlight, sounds of people being tortured, loud sounds or music, 20-hour interrogations, and water-boarding them,
WHEREAS these Congress people had a Constitutional and legal duty to go public about the planned or on-going use of torture, ghost prisoners, secret jails, and kidnapping and rendition to proxy nations that torture, (all war crimes), notwithstanding that these activities were classified and criminal behavior cannot be classified for national security reasons,
WHEREAS not speaking up about the President planning to do torture, made these Congress people accessories to the war crime to torture, ghost prisoners, secret jails, and kidnapping and rendition to proxy nations that torture,
WHEREAS a crime against peace, in international law, refers to "planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing" It is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole,
WHEREAS however Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused intelligence officials of failing to brief her about the CIA’s enhanced interrogation methods that included water-boarding and that is not believable,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED we are very troubled that US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is now again the Speaker of the House of Representatives and has been so for years since her failure to speak up,
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