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Gordon Wagner

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Friday, December 5, 2008 08:19 AM

Did you mean "President Hussein"?

What is up with referring to the deposed, murdered former President of Iraq as "Saddam"..? I've never understood that. It seems blatantly disrespectful. Or was it because Bush41 liked to pronounce the name as "Sadam", which I gather was supposed to remind people of "Sodom" as in "Gomorrah".

So we have an HBO historical miniseries? Wow, is THIS going to be painted with the heavy-Zionist paintbrush or what?

Check this out: Iraqis were free to own and publicly carry fully automatic weapons. People would carry automatic weapons to public appearances by President Hussein. Now -- can you IMAGINE attending a public appearance (if there were such a thing) by Bush43 while toting your legal automatic weapon?

Does the HBO fictional series cover Hussein's nationalization of Iraq's oil industry and how badly that pissed off British and US oil interests, who liked getting oil @ $0.50 a barrel?

When do we see the HBO miniseries on Israel's founders committing acts of terrorism against the indigenous people of their stolen country? Or a touching portrait of an eastern European women who emigrated to Israel only to find herself essentially held as a sex slave in Israel? When does the Palestinian genocide get a loving Hollywood portrayal?

Hoo boy I am sick of mainstream media.

Friday, December 5, 2008 10:45 AM

Let's see the real birth certificate

You know, birth weight, length, hospital -- a birth certificate that resembles a birth certificate.

Put up or shut up. Just an image of a certified birth certificate, not some curious never-seen-one-like-that facsimile.

Let's see the real birth certificate. No need to one more word. Let's see the real birth certificate.

Friday, December 5, 2008 12:19 PM

@LeftieLefty: going to get a copy of the video those Mossad agents were shooting

on 9/11 for Christmas, too?

>(though I'm sure I'll get all the details from my "The Jews Planned 9/11" uncle at Christmas. Got to love the big family get-together)

The five Mossad agents arrested on 9/11/01 after being witnessed celebrating and videotaping the WTC collapse. They admitted their job was "to document the event." What was on their videotape? The first impact?

If you get a copy of their videotape, let me know what's on it.

Monday, December 8, 2008 12:42 PM

Sorry, boys, Blackwater enjoyed full immunity

You're expecting mercenaries operating with full immunity in a fucking war zone to be prosecuted? You folks are obviously smoking much, much stronger dope than I can get my claws on.

What's the difference between some goons from Blackwater slaughter a few dozen Iraqi citizens and the USAF dropping an aerial bomb that kills several dozen Iraqi citizens?

I mean, the stark atrocity of what the US has chosen to do on behalf of PNAC and AIPAC is not a question of how many innocents are killed. Bush43 and his henchmen worked to avoid any war crime prosecution prior to the invasion. Maybe they'll slam some lowly grunt a la Graner or Granger from Abu Ghraib.

Blackwater is Bush43's Praetorian Guard! Secret prisons, secret private army... it all meshes together beautifully, like some kind of evil Swiss watch.

Ask Nancy Pelosi if Blackwater prosecutions are "on the table." She'll undoubtedly reply that she's unaware of any prosecutable offenses committed by Blackwater. Like any good accomplice would.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 08:17 AM

Why is this "on the table" but impeachment is not "on the table"?

Txt msg to Harry Reid: if you'd impeached Bush43 we wouldn't have soldiers in Iraq accidentally shooting one another. Since you and Pelosi have chosen to ignore the mountains of evidence of Bush43's wrongdoings, you are both accomplices.

Since the lot of you refuse to accept that we have successfully raped Iraq and that we somehow refuse to withdraw (dripping semen and blood) until Israel says "OK" ... get used to "friendly fire" incidents. Say, what ARE the remaining achievable military objectives in Iraq? None left?

Maybe we ought to ship ALL of our politicians to Baghdad where they could set up operations right on the street and not in our fortified "Green Zone" or our fortress-like Embassy, and LEAVE them there. Think they'd get the message that way? The US has no business is Iraq. Move everything inside the Beltway to Baghdad to keep them focused.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 11:10 AM

Haved the Treasury Dept. take over the operations @ the Fed

Educate yourself. The Federal Reserve prints money backed by NOTHING and then LOANS it to the Treasury Department. Amazing! A central bank is a BAD IDEA, and the current gang of parasites has reduced the value of the US Dollar by 95%.

Kennedy's Executive Order authorizing printing of silver certificates is still in effect. Money backed by something other than evaporating confidence.

The Federal Reserve deserves to be undone. That would be a massive step towards putting the US economy back on an even keel.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 09:23 AM

One day after suspending all state dealings with Bank of America...

Just a coincidence.

"We noted that the timing of the arrest came only one day after the Illinois Governor announced that he has suspended all state dealings with Bank of America until the bank reissues credit to the Chicago based company Republic Windows & Doors, a factory which had to lay off 250 workers. The move was a bold show of support for workers by the Illinois Governor."

Try this: http://tinyurl.com/5ru9kk

Didn't Spitzer have the rug pulled out from under him when he mentioned Bush43's involvement/foreknowledge of high-risk mortgage loans being a house of cards?

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