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“For Obama every word is an empty promise just like every word was when the same White House staff served Bill Clinton and bowed before the Taliban. Bush added to our shame pretending that they hate our freedoms so that's why they fight us. But in truth, our freedoms have consisted of self-indulgent invasion, avarice, hubris and blind brutality. We have no credibility to a miserable Afhgan pauper while the Taliban willingly dies for his faith killing "monsterous infidels" that invaded his country. How are you going to convince these people to listen to you when they only know you as an American? They may be illiterate but they're not amnesics. They heard Obama's hollow speeches after 8 years of actions that speak far louder than his words at Stokholm. See how your words sound to Afghnas:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n13/rory-stewart/the-irresistible-illusion/print
"American" soundslike an Okie rainman making empty noises in language they can't understand about a rain that never comes. It is you that's crazy in their eyes, suspect no matter how valid your advice because they know that with your language comes horrid killing from the sky. Put yourself in their shoes and realizre that you look just like the guys who shot up their homes and who never delivered the generator and medicines they promised. America has made a fool of itself in Afghnaistan for 8 years. Reach for last drop of dignity and go home quietly.”

“When will we we Americans ever come to understand that we are not the Roman Empire in its heyday? We're as slefish short sighted as any banana republic. Iran is defensively, not aggressively, seeking a nuclear bomb for reasons of its own. It lives in a world that we helpled create, making out like bandits on the natural resources of others, splashing our hollow dollars all over the world. All those Iranians, like a lot of the of the Iraqis we misled, are ready to cease and decist from their dissent in order to fight the "evil Empire" should we try anything. Every Iranian I ever knew reproached us for our support of the Shah as well as for dethroning him. We're in everyway part of world's mysery, leaving when things seemed too inconvenient and expensive to stay. The whole planet knows our history since WWII, as 6% of population using 60% of world's resources. We always felt we could interfere in affairs of weak countries only to abandon them when the blood we shed stained our shoes. So let's not pretend moral purpose-- admit the issue was always convenience. We are too weak now to impose ourselves any more and too self-centered to be convincing or helpful. We must deal humbly with the world and above all stop threatening because Iraq made clear how helpless we can be against determined Muslims.”

“Mr. Churcher your column is a Christmas gift of realism and experience. Thank you. As American by choice not chance I never wanted this my nation defeated. But they keep getting smashed and never learn, deliberately forgetting bloody lessons! This arrogant amnesia is more important to them than the lives of their own kids. They also can't escape reductum ad absurdum. There's this insolent notion: IF IT AIN'T AS SIMPLE AS I SAY, DAMNIT, I"LL MAKE IT AS SIMPLE AS I SAY. That's when the hustlers careerists and corporate thieves takeover policy. I recall NY Times commentator, Tony Lewis, writing that as an American he found yourself rooting for Hanoi. I was outraged, but talking it through with him I came to understand. He loves America and thought that when cut down to size it learns, once it learns it will be better, showing its kind and good side. Yet it deliberately forgets rather than learn humility. What Petraeus did in Iraq was total fraud. Iraqis
still hate us for the mess we made. So do Afghans. Yet we insist they hate Taliban and love us. So I ask you: couldn't we just walk out and leave the Taliban to the SHANGHAI ACCORD? No neighbors want Taliban and there would be a REGIONAL solution, like what really ended Iraq (Sunni-Shia-Kurds guided by Turks again). The same people feeding factions we fight would conjure-up regional solutions. We must learn or we're just irrelevant global thugs.”

“Mr. Zelinsky, feel free to celebrate Hanuckha as a major religious holiday but try to consider the feelings of others. Recall that after 9/11 Americans attacked Afghnaistan in fear. But neocons insisted that we must focus on Iraq, claiming that we owe it to Israel and we must stop Saddam from building WMDs. The WMD myth, according to Israeli ex-Mossad Chief Brohm, was an Israel intelligence deception and DCI Tenet admitted that our error was in depending too much on foreign intelligence. So we dropped the Afghan ball and moved to attacked Iraq. Now Obama is stuck trying to pick up that ball after 8 years or dangerous neglect. It will make this Holiday Season very sad for a lot of Christian families. I think it seems like mere chutzpah to compare our dire situation after 8 years misled to the Maccabee myth that you can choose to believe but don't let it be a point of insolence. It reminds me of how Synagogue Youth Organization chapers were sending Gen. Westmoreland eye patches after the 1967 Six Day War as if to say that had he been more like Dayan Vietnam would not have dragged on so long. Given that the neocons had insisted on what they called "World War IV" against Islam from their Ziponist perspective, your imposing myth on reality will only feed resentment you'd rather not feed.”

“Like Powell trying to influence Bush through unquestioning loyalty, Obama’s trying to gain acceptance from the military through compliance with their requests. None of this would have led to demise of either’s public esteem had Obama/Powell relied on OPENESS AND TRUTH. There is a pair of traits that characterize Bushies and generals alike: LYING AND SECRECY, covering-up Bush-like traits of media-obsessed generals: deceptive self-promoting and “classified” cover-up of real incompetence. Today our soldiers are "volunteers." I put the word in quotes because many complex motives force them to enlist. Enlistment hitch didn't seem so long until war-evader Bush commanded "stop-loss" to prevented soldiers from leaving combat once term-of-commitment is up. Many soldiers want to quit because they see that public doesn’t appreciates their sacrifice, given how little concern people show for what is done to soldiers in service, and how little is done for them as veterans. Americans are as despicable and rotten as were the Roman citizens distracted from duty as citizens with imperial circuses. Every society’s decline is marked by frequent use of its soldiers in illusions of power in service of self-promoting generals hiding their mistakes. If Obama were brave he would order de-classification of Pentagon's documents showing what Petraeus/McChrystal are all about. Instead he keeps their dark side secret so they can outshine him and intimidate him. Truman,in dealing with these McArthurs, Obama ain't!”

“It's hopeless, Mr Annan, as we're a nation determined to repeat the DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. As for the Chinese, they've done themselves in with extremies over and over again throughout their history. That's why all their philosophers so desperately seek that elusive happy middle of moderation. You are talking to the "ME-IST" Americans of the 1970s who knew that cocaine was bad for them who now, as blithering geriatrics, figure that if they somehow survived to become old people they might as well go for broke seeking highs in every waking moment left, shopping until they drop. Africans are too busy fertilizing the soil with eachother's blood using weapons we sell them in exchange for jems and rare minerals. Of course, when younger we all got scared by the global climate issue. But now some pompous British scientists who couldn't punch their way out of a paper bag decided to talk to eachother in e-mails like Mafia thugs and all thecorporate-owned media is hyping that as proof that all is well and global warming is a hoax. No one will ever kill this species but this species. As a student of neurosciences, I see in in our circuits. But anyway, we can't pretend we din't know. and still, I really feel sory for the kids we all put on this planet, we all raped it in our youth and now try to suck the life out of it in our old age.”

“Bravo Oderb, When I found out that I had a form of Leukemia so I naturallt read up on it. A Trukish medical center treating rickets with VitD also found that it helped differentiate my aberrant cell line. So I took a lot of it along with chemo and soon stopped chemo and ever since never had an abnormal blood count though the bad guys are still in my marrow. I don't know what to make of it, but truth is that Vit D was always underestimated in medicine and only now is appreciated as part of the renin-Angiotensin receptor genetic link. Our sunless periods are not just winter for sun-block also stops Vit D manufacturing by the body so keep taking those Vit D suppliments whatever the length of day because it is trully a wonder to the nucleus of your cells. Of course, before taking anything ask your doctor. and if he sais "NO" because he's ignorant do as he sais because he's in charge. But these days most MDs know all about that thanks to the drug company salesgirls in mini-skirts who say: coooomoooon Doc, presecribe it for me plllleeeeeeeaaaasssssseee!" It never fails!”

“Ah my dear Dr. Oz, I watch you on Opra-- couldn't help it, you're terrific! You remind me of my profs in MedSchool. Everything seemed so clear, so hopeful...all that was needed was focus to imbibe and once imbied I too would pull-off clinical miracles. But we both know it ain't so. Sure, the odds are in our favor for a long time. But time is what kills our odds as the odds eventually kill our patients. Man is indeed a miracle. But we are statring to get clues in molecular biology that muight make us miraculous too. Ah, but will that translate into molecular medicine without needing the idiot's version of gene product: the ever sought qualitative "MARKER" in the blood? Doctors and patients need to learn a lot of chemistry, biology and molecular science that if they had learned they forgot as useless or never though important enough to ever bother. But now we will have a NEW healthcare system. Will it be based on algorithms-- medicine a la 1950s-- or will it learn to treat the patient molecularly so you never have to treat the disease? I ask you because I'm out now, retired, I just read biomed to keep up. I'm just patient now. As a patient, therefore, I ask you: do you read a lot and them make it sound simple or do you just swallow the simple myths that makes medicine a business like auto repair?”

“Yes Arianna, you're right there is no Santa Claus in politics. McChrystal and his peanut gallery of agitprop "military experts" who never heard a gun go off have intimidated Obama into wasting $33 billion of his budget for CHANGE into his Bish II Afghan budget. Imagine what a stimulus that money would have been to our Green Revolution after so much was wasted saving banks. But Obama was stuck with that Gates' mistake of recommending McChrystal to replace McKiernam because the latter asked for more troops and the former insisted that he "can do more with less" then demanding more troops too. Lesson: President is no stronger than the White House team he puts together. They enclose the president in an opaque globe and decide what PowePoint data he'll be exposed to. He can ask any question he wants but eventually he has to relly on his Cabinet for answers. Still, please don't lose hope. Obama is begining to see that in the end HE ALONE IS PRESIDENT and he decides. Right now it is our duty as believers in him to penetrate through the Pentagon's Join Chiefs mafia's paper bag over his head and make clear to him the facts. The real enemy is not the military but the careerist mediocrities that command our mom and dad soldiers. We must protect them as they protect us.”

“Most Americans must have swallowed hook-line-and-sinker Bush's explanation for 9/11: "because they hate our freedoms." But in fact, they REACTED to our imposing on the Muslim world Kafir regimes that steal, steal, and steal. Then, to protect these regimes we desecrate their Holy land with our presence. Per Former DNI McConnell, access to cheap oil is a security right we demand. Imagine that, Bush Caesar!

But most importantly, Osama binLaden WAS NOT out to kill Americans. His goal on 9/11 and after was to BANKRUPT us so that we’d have to withdraw from Muslim World. Of course he failed. But had he not died of peritonitis, he would really be laughing now at how our Wall Street brokers did more damage than he would have ever dared hope to do. The question now is: ARE WE GOING TO FINISH THE JOB OF KILLING AMERICA BY WASTING OUR VOLUNTEER MOMS AND DAD SOLDIERS AND ANOTHER $33 BILLION A YEAR ON ESCALTION IN AFGHANISTAN? FOR WHAT?
By the time we leave nothing will have changed except that next time we decide to go to war we'll have to again ask China for permission because it owns our Treasury. So, Mr. Kuttner, did you ask Obama when we'll get to use the $33billion for economic stimulus rather than to bring mom and dad soldiers home in aluminum boxes?”

“Arianna: "Absolutely we must do that." What do you mean? Who are we to control what the Pakistani do with their nukes? Are you suggesting that any nation that who nukes or wants nukes has to subject itself to the Americaqn Emipire? We must take a chance with sovereignty because that's what we've been holding up since 1776. We can REACT but we can't PRE-ACT. That's Bush-it!”

“Bravo Vlahos! But one wonders whether it is rising Rome or falling Rome which we resemble. More and more victory is a fraudulent illusion. Now the general of fraud, McChrystal, who brought you the fakes of Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman-- not as grandiose myth but as cover-up for incompetent military snafus of friendly-fire killing of our own troops—raises to mind the question of what lies behind the perpetual "secret" or “leak” markings on documents of history in the making? Did he thus impose his will on the President? Web sites and literature galore mushroom on our computers where military men expound their expertise in acronyms galore. But in comparing Vietnam War generals with current lot I feel great unease. Petraeus parades his peanut gallery of plump and slim "military affairs experts" civilians, singing like bards glowing agitprop baloney, a privilege denied to field commanders in past wars, the latter having to filter their
self-adulation through media scrutiny. There's no longer "MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE" debate, just the endless chatter of a Pentagon Command monologue whose self-serving rationales reverberate as affirming feedback from lower ranks, as is the prerogative of rank-- the self-deception thus carries-on like madness. In the end, errors demand cover-up and, like the French Army of old, we begin too look like Roman hubris of decline as the barbarians scratch at the gates of a deteriorating empire.”

“Bravo Vlahos! But one wonders whether it is rising Rome or falling Rome which we resemble. More and more victory is a fraudulent illusion. Now the general of deception, McChrystal, who brought you the fake stories of Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman-- not as grandiose myth but as cover-up for incompetent military snafus of friendly-fire killing of our own troops—raises to mind the question of what lies behind the perpetual "secret" or “leak” markings on documents of history in the making? Did he thus impose his will on the President? Web sites and literature galore mushroom on our computers where military men expound their expertise in acronyms galore. But in comparing Vietnam War generals with current lot I feel great unease. Petraeus parades his peanut gallery of plump and slim "military affairs experts" civilians, singing like bards glowing agitprop baloney, a privilege denied to field commanders in past wars, the latter having to filter their
self-adulation through media scrutiny. There's no longer "MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE" debate, just the endless chatter of a Pentagon Command monologue whose self-serving rationales reverberate as affirming feedback from lower ranks, as is the prerogative of rank-- the self-deception thus carries-on like madness. In the end, errors demand cover-up and, like the French Army of old, we begin too look like Roman hubris of decline as the barbarians scratch at the gates of a deteriorating empire.”

“Obama's COVER-UP of Bush record by delaying de-classification, assures Afghan cancer metastasis on his watch. Republicans won’t reward Obama for that cover-up and public will soon see Afghanistan as “Obama’s War,” unaware of how Rumsfeld/Cheney/Bush recklessly got us into a bait-and-switch mess in Afghanistan so they could have war in Iraq. McChrystal once again duped and politically blackmailed Obama into sending more troops
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121063974
to cover-up his strategic blunder in Helman Province since June with the last 20,000 Marines he demanded and got from Obama. According to Andrea Mitchell, McChrystal is asking for 500,000 men, which don’t exist, so he can always excuse losing because Obama refused to give him troops he asked for. Obama should have had the courage to do what Truman did with McArthur. Now has to take blame for a war where the Karzai Gov has in it adherents to every Afghan faction, Taliban included, while McChrystal tries to polarize Afghan villagers with bombs. In the end Afghan villagers will always choose the “home-boys.” They may not like Taliban but they’re family, not foreign infidel invaders who are leaving by July 2011 anyway. Trying again to be all things to all political factions at home, Obama in one speech was a dove/hawk and will pay dearly for it.”

“Mr. Willis, as a 9/11 survivor I can tell you that two things are a living nightmare to me: (1) in 1970s frequent skyjackings led to two decisions--a) to make pilot's cabin on all airliners impenetrable in flight and b) to put two skymarshals on every flight. However, profit conscious airlines did no such thing. So in the course of flying East to West coast First Class Atta saw the pilot's cabin always open, thus he devised his diabolic plan by which four airliners skyjacked in ten minutes each. Without the open cabins 9/11 would never have happened. (2) CIA had binLaden surrounded in ToraBora; but, according to Senate study, asked for troops to get him SecDef Rumsfeld said no. He preferred cannibalize Afghan force for neocon war on Iraq thus forcing Congress to vote funds for Iraq War. As a result binLaden got away, per Senate study:

http://foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Tora_Bora_Report.pdf

The "Spirit of 9/11" is all politicalBS, much as is McCain's berating of Obama's SecDef Gates now though he kissed up to same Gates when Republican SecDef. America is doomed land of cheap politics. That's our Spirit of 9/11-- Bush-it. I cry for the soldiers.”

“Obama was victim of his own political rhetoric. But never did he discuss: WHAT IF WE JUST PULL OUT? It is something an American Commander-and-Chief is never allowed to discuss because in even the most menial American breast lies a nationalist hubris that knows no bounds. We are not allowed to discuss whether our troops are up to the task, whether they proved their inabilities indiscriminately creating enemies in Iraq that are willing to die killing in revenge while we are only willing to kill to stay alive. That's an unbalanced equation in which drip, drip, drip we lose. Obama not only lived up to Einstein's definition of insanity-- trying more of the same and hoping it will end differently-- but he also gave it a time limit. And then, in a moment of lucidity he said, come that day we'll "re-evaluate" my promise (of course, after the Congressional election of 2010). I thought Bush was stupid thinking that if he lies, his lies will come true. So what can I say of Obama thinking that he can have it both ways? If we pull out, the nations around Afghanistan will do what did the nations around Iraq: prevent one side taking over. But no, Obama can't afford to admit that the world will go on without the USA. So we stay on supporting Karzai’s Government already has all sides in it, each ruling on its local turf. For that Americans should die until July 2011?”

“FASCISM is conglomeration of corporations that create or are beholding to dictator. The media game is designed so that people who talk per a teleprompter should be making $5 millions a year. Everyone else in this madhouse industry has also got to be making out like a bandit. This can only be done by mega-media or PBS, both pots of gold for the manipulators of public mind. Now we are in an era where communications requires a fortune for access. That's why GOV is for sale, even honest ones. People will only look at them on the tube and to get your message on the tube costs a fortune. Since only volume translates into gold, media programming is directed to lowest common denominator. more and more American culture is dragged down to level of superstition and ignorance. You can't be a unipolar power on Hip-hop. The media is no longer a means of attracting attention to inform but of de-cerebrating so viewer will stick around for the idiotic zero-information-content commercials. That's why most Americans are functionally illiterate and obsessed with their right to simplicity. We are not a democracy but a pack of willing lemmings waiting for marching orders from the TV. That makes us global pests, not leaders.”

“Sorry Mr. Soltz but I'm afraid Obama is like everyone else in the final analysis. Two assumptions have been bullied into our media: a) never question the strategy of our commanders and b) never question the tactics of our soldiers. In return for compliment "you're the best," they'll be out there getting themselves mauled and/or driven mad without complaining. But if you really cared; if you really felt that every soldier is MY son, then you wouldn't want them commanded by incompetents nor doing things beyond their ability because, either way, it could mean death or disability for the soldiers we love. The issue of "dwell time" and re-up times are all based on how stressed, frustrated and at risk they are in the field. Ego is fuel to a soldier. Confidence is like blood sugar. Yet survival is the prime issue and McChrystal's avowed willingness to lose people, per his report, raises the issue of whether he can account for their ability to do well (ie. safely) what they are assigned to do. Our troops are sent in inel blind, language deaf and culture dumb. Then with no reinforcing tail they are sent to the badlands, as in Vietnam, to bait enemy fire. This time, there isn't a fire structure that can quickly come to the rescue. It hasn't been mentioned that ex-VC are training Taliban fighters in tactics. Obama ought to think FIRST: are my soldiers up to the task and my generals capable enough?”

“Firstly, Mr. Mills, most Afghan “translators” barely speak English and most "translate" what people say into what our military wish to hear. And yet, a PBS FRONTLINE documentary showed that EIGHT YEARS INTO THE WAR our troops are still INTELLIGENCE BLIND, LANGUAGE DEAF AND CULTURE DUMB. It's not fair to stick our troops-- moms and dads all-- into such an impossible insurgency burden. Obama has refused to declassify the documents that show what a mindless catastrophe was our policy over the last 8yrs. You can't screw up an operation because you're an incompetent surgeon and then insist that patient lucky enough to survive has to let you back in because your reputation as a surgeon is at stake. McChrystal, who brought us the cover-up of military errors with lies of the Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman myths, wrote an appalling report that in no way examines how it is that Taliban is just about victorious and we are so hated by Afghans for killing so many as "collateral damage." He hits all the hot-button words but is skimpy on specifics. He got 20,000 men in June and screwed up tactically in Helman Province. Now he wants more to cover his incompetence. We owe better to our moms and dads in combat. Taliban are willing to die killing us but we are willing to kill only to live. That's not a recipe for victory. Bring'em home now!”

“Since 9/11 we lived with Bush-it that alQaeda’s diabolic brilliance when it was airlines violating laws established in 1970s during a spade of skyjacking to make the pilot's cabin impenetrable that made it possible. Now we learn from London-- can't from WashDC because Obama just rescinded his own order that all documents on Iraq be made public—that WMD was also a fraud. In promising to get us out of Iraq, Obama's getting us deeper in Afghanistan, like the boy who steps in manure with one foot and then steps in with other trying to get first one out. McChrystal lied to the American people twice: Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman stories. When he screwed up in Afghan Helman Province with 20,000 troops Obama gave him, he immediately asked for more to cover up. Don't send OUR volunteer soldier kids to do what you wouldn't send your biologic kids to do. Read McChrystal's superficial report offering no analysis and no real solutions:
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/Assessment_Redacted_092109.pdf
Then read report about how it’s too late, wasting our heroic soldier moms and dads:
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/fixing_failed_strategy.pdf
It's time to stop sacrificing heroes for lousy generals' careers on phony "surges."”

“PeterBright, I share your tears. Alas, when there was a draft THE PEOPLE called our kids home. Now the crapiest Americans ever-- the 1970s "me-ists" stoned on pot and coke are old farts who just don't care that they are allowing to be done with some of America's kids what they'd never allow be done with their biologic kids. Bring the mom and dad soldeirs home before we make more orphans and widows on the homefront or rinstall the draf so EVERYONE can feel the 60s and share our tears.”

“Israel WON’T attack Iran because it CAN’T. China and Russia will not allow UN resolutions with teeth because they’ve secretly offered nuclear technology to Third World since the end of the Cold War. Sino-Russian can't catch up to US nuclear-tipped missiles lethality, only diffuse it. Third World doesn't need much convincing that nuclear power is a better and CHEAPER deterrent that standing armies that can also become coup-threats. Third World nukes will pop-up like mushrooms soon. Iran doesn’t want A-bombs on its soil to invite sabotage. So it wants parts of nuclear-tipped missiles for immediate assembly if needed. POTENTIAL=DETERRENCE! Iran know that Israel's problem: EMIGRATION IS GREATER THAN IMMIGRATION. A recent poll shows that 30% of Israelis would leave if Iran had the bomb. But real issue is, as was with Iraq, DETERRENCE; not stock of A-bombs but threat of ability to put them together immediately. That's what Israel doesn't want because it knows that its GREATER ISRAEL is untenable unless it can bully its neighbors. Israel can become nuclear deterrent for Arabs in return for full integration. Then, its sci/tech superiority will make it leader in Arab modernization as family, not imperialist like West.”

“Sarah Palin is just an "Avarage Jane" catapulted into an intrusion into American homes by TV via a media that is desperate to survive through the current economic depression with its high salaries and perks. To do that it needs advertizers and for that it needs big audiences. Out there there is an assumption that Americans are morons who only want to see her in shorts (numerous Conservative "shock-jocks" already commented on the "tise" the get out of her). And so there you have it, all based on a theory that national leadership policy is based on glitz, errections and make-up on the part of an aging America. Come on, please give the citizens a little more credit. What are you media guys going to do when nobody cares anymore? The nation is going to the dogs and all you can do to "earn" your salaries is hype about her make-up? How about some news about all the moms and dads stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq on repeated tour because of "stop loss" only because they joined the Reserves in order to defend the homefornt?”

“For 16 years I watched my mother take care of my hemiplegic stroke-victim dad. He was in rage over his fate, helpless and very difficult. But he had medical sons and all their wives to OCCAISIONALLY give a hand and to always show affection. The most common injury in the Iraq/Afghan wars are brain concussion related from IEDs, like strokes in how they disable the brain. The victims, moms/dad soldiers, are young people whose mates must single-handedly care for kids, support family and care 24/7 for disabled vet. It is my mother's plight squared, longer and far harder. So next time you come on a vet and want to shake his/her hand and say: "thanks for your service" DON'T! Unless you are willing to drop what you're doing to amuse yourself, to get ahead and to acquire security, and focus on getting these brain-injured vets the FULL HELP they need. Don't be like most people who just pretend, whispering under their breath: "No way you'll get favorable treatment for what I want for myself.” Americans uncaringly sent all these moms and dads to fight the "ain't my kid going there" wars. The "disconnect syndrome” was so obvious that media mentioned it for the first two years of Iraq. Afterwards, media folks got busy getting attention with Palin stories so not to lose their jobs. The vets killed for YOU, don't you now kill their families slowly abandoning them to an impossible task.”

“MSNBC and CNN—like FOXNEWS-- are full of Sarah Palin as if there were no real news out there. Why? By now everyone knows that for her there is no substance, just making money while it lasts and "MAYBE" a shot at national politics (????) if she gets away with it. She said nothing of worth or consistency. Her words are like water flow, taking the shape of the occasion and she doesn't even remember her story from one spontaneous version to the next. This woman reflects undereducated Americans driven to fear by ignorance and enraged at how complex is reality, seek to stick it to supposed "experts" by cheering one of their own in the spotlight. Normally all this would simmer down and the "masses" would return to passive TV watching. But the media keeps flashing Palin at them as some sort of UFO phenomenon. Worst of all is motor-mouth Cris Matthews who highlights midgets to make him look like a giant. Alas "NEWS" TV has become like the commercials that
sustain it: absurdly devoid of info content, seeking to dazzle small minds with sensory overload by theory that viewers are like moths, attracted to fire by its glow and oblivious to the fact that they're being cooked by the heat. MEDIA, YOU MADE PALIN AND YOU WON'T LET HER GO BECAUSE IT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE OVERHEATING YOUR SMALL BRAINS. So, Matthews say it: WE HAVE MET THE DUMMY AND IT IS US, the media.”