Let us take a delightful trip back in time to the fall of 1989 and recall the wonderful feelings around the world as the old USSR was falling apart. The cold war was over! Finally peace after continuous war since 1940.

The peace dividend was the talk of all the TV talking heads. We were going to stop spending 1/2 Trillion or more on war each year. Maybe we would buy the homeless vets a sandwich before we squandered the money on well connected people. Perhaps we could even let working men and women keep some of their own money. (I wrote perhaps!) The only losers would be the merchants of death that provided trillions of dollars worth of weapons. Surely the people would be more powerful that this small group. Surely.

Then something big happened in the summer of 1990. The USA went to war with one of our old allies, Iraq. How did that happen? How could we care about one desert dictatorship in a squabble with another dictatorship? Seems our Ambassador to Iraq may even have given the green light:

In July 1990, however, it all changed. After the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, indicated to Hussein that the Bush Administration would not object to an invasion of Kuwait, the Iraqis took the U.S. at its word and sent its armies over the border, meeting almost no resistance. (At the time, there was a legitimate dispute at the Iraq-Kuwait border involving the Kuwaiti practice of drilling sideways under the border to extract oil from pools in Iraq. No one seems to have remembered that this was Hussein’s main gripe, although Iraqis never have regarded Kuwait, which once was part of Iraq, as a legitimate state in the first place.)

We heard a lot of noise that Saddam would be in control of a lot of oil if he was able to keep this land that was always part of Iraq (Mesopotamia) anyway. But what good is oil if you do not sell it? Had we not been "allies" for a long time? Did we not (CIA) help Saddam into power in the first place?

Why the war?

Who was the biggest financial winner?

And finally, who was the most upset by US troops stationed in Saudi Arabia?

Kitt: ... Fuck you and your "if I disagree with you it must be my 'hate'" bullshit. Just fuck you. ...full of shit ... sucks ... disingenuous dick. ... Then Kitt says: "Could it be possible to be more full of yourself? like I said, bucky, fuck you. ...Must be nice thinking of yourself as above everyone. In this one post you don't settle for trying to insult me. ...

Kitt now says: Cram it, Buck ...

... as if he did not start it!

Then the little liar tries this tactic!! --- "...if you can ever explain why it would be the case that the plenty and constant stream of insults you have dumped on me ..."

Jebus H. Christ the little one seems to think any objective observer would not see that the little hate monger has been the very spring-head of hate-mongering and insult. He comes back day after day to try to convince himself that he can blame others for his SOP of vile insult and ad hominem.

Then he claims, 'Also, I don't know whom you are addressing when you speak of my "cabal" ...' as if it was not explained on countless occasions. Oh well, those who choose to be blind will not see.

Dance for you hommies little one; it is fun to watch.

The House of Representatives voted 411-2 for a resolution which stated Iran "has aggressively pursued a clandestine effort to arm itself with nuclear weapons". Now if Bush bombs Iran and we later learn they actually were not trying to make nukes, we will all hear "But everyone thought they were making nukes!"

Two people voted against the House resolution, Kucinich and Ron Paul.

I could have sworn that the Democrats made some gains in the 2006 election cycle. I guess not.

much more at:

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/06/
empire-of-clowns-continues-on-its.

Indeed, he did not. I just watched a youtube of a lecture-length video of Murray Rothbard speaking on The Death of Communism/Socialism early in the Bush I administration. He covers the reasons for the fall of the soviets and made a few predictions on what the military-industrial complex would do next.

It is long, 45 minutes, but amazing. I was a reader of the RRR back when Rothbard was giving Reagan hell, and I recall the predictions of the weakness of the soviets even as the CIA continued to claim they were damn neat invincible. It is an educational 45 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwz0BYqOhMI