Hollywood
moonbats are right to be disturbed by recent revelations of the abuse of
privacy by the NSA and the spying on American citizens. I support this video
and the ideas communicated, but it does not go far enough. It is, however worth
a peek.
How the producers
of this slick important piece had the nerve to use video of Richard Nixon (as
opposed to Obama) is simply jaw-dropping.
Obama has
declared in public that the U. S. Constitution is no longer valid.
Obama up a
system of government “Czars” in order to bypass congressional authority.
Forced churches
to accept objectionable practices at their medical institutions.
Has increased US
government debt at unsustainable rates and wasted stimulus funds.
Smuggled
thousands illegal firearms to Mexican drug cartels, resulting in murder of
200 Mexican citizens and at least 2 American citizens.
Keeps an
unpublished enemies list and has used drone strikes to kill three American
citizens (one of them 16- years- old) without due process.
Waged war in
Libya without Congressional input or approval. Aided Al-Qaeda and Muslim
Brotherhood with weapons and money in order to overthrow governments of
multiple sovereign Middle East nations.
Dictates
new law via abuse of executive orders (examples with immigration dream act
and gun control laws) bypassing congress, and uses executive departments
to enforce laws selectively.
Deserted the
American Ambassador to Libya and other Americans while they were under
attack and conducted cover-up of said action, failing to pursue perpetrators.
Enlisted IRS to
punish political enemies punitively with audits and other abuses.
Implemented
Obamacare which affixes a financial penalty on Americans who fail to
purchase health insurance in order to regulate behavior – regulatory
powers not granted in the Constitution.
"The fatwa Obama cited in his address before the U.N. . . . suddenly was never issued. It's a lie. It was propaganda and has no basis [in fact] whatsoever," said Glick.
“I bring peace and
friendship from Iranians to Americans.”
- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
The American left is
delighted with Obama’s outreach to the newly- elected President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani. But
the reality is that Rouhani is a very intelligent, sophisticated and highly skilled diplomat. Make
no mistake; he is no moderate.
Born in Sorkheh, Iran in 1948, his family opposed the Shah
of Iran. Rouhani attended religious seminaries studying under prominent Shia
Scholars. As a young adult he attended the University of Iran earning a
bachelors and masters in law and later a PHD at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Rouhani aligned with Ayatollah Khomeini early on and even fled
Iran in 1977 with Khomeini who was exiled to Paris. They returned to Iran
together and Rouhani embarked on a career of important government and military positions: secretary
and representative of the Supreme Defense Council (1983-88), commander of the
Iranian air defenses (1985-91), deputy commander of Iran's armed forces
(1988-89), national security adviser to the president (1989-97) and secretary
of the Supreme National Security Council (1989-2005). He has been the lead negotiator
of Iran’s nuclear armaments with the United States and other Western Nations.
Rouhani has stayed close to the centralized powers in Iran
and at the same time, assuaged the fears of the religious traditionalists. He was
an outspoken critic of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, focusing
on themes of mismanagement and economic issues, promising reform to a country that
has been hurt by western sanctions and a decade of repression, torture and executions
led by Ahmadinejad.
Rouhani’s clever
campaign slogan was campaign "moderation and wisdom." Despite this, he
was originally thought to be a long shot to win especially with a more conservative
candidate favored by Supreme Leader Khamenei.
Rouhani also has to balance the creeping political power of The
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). They answer directly to Supreme
Leader Ali Khamenei (NOT the president) and as their ranks have aged and
retired, many of the IRGC veterans have found second careers in parliament.
Rouhani has carefully avoided the bombastic rhetoric favored
by Ahmadinejad and instead skillfully played Obama, avoiding him during his
trip to New York to speak at the UN, forcing Obama to make overtures first. After Rouhani's availability games that were an embarrassment to any sitting U.S. President, Obama went on to give Rouhani a million dollar gift - a 2,700 year old Persian artifact.
Speaking to CNN, Rouhani acknowledged the Holocaust, but took
a swipe at Israel in a clever juxtaposition of the Holocaust and Israel’s
alleged “occupation” of Palestine.
"But in general I can tell you that any crime that
happens in history against humanity, including the crime the Nazis created
towards the Jews, is reprehensible and condemnable. Whatever criminality they
committed against the Jews we condemn. The taking of human life is
contemptible. It makes no difference if that life is Jewish life, Christian or
Muslim. For us it is the same. This does not mean that on the other hand you
can say 'Nazis committed crimes against a group, now therefore they must usurp
the land of another group and occupy it.’ This too is an act that should be
condemned. There should be an evenhanded discussion."
Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has warned the world to
avoid being taken in by Rouhani’s softer stance and charming delivery saying, "One
should not be taken in by Rouhani’s deceptive words.” Netanyahu fully
understands the sophisticated negotiation techniques and duplicitous nature of
President Rouhani – a weakness for President Obama who prefers a more direct
approach.
Rouhani continues to claim the Iran is not in pursuit of the
development of nuclear weapons, meanwhile intelligence gathering services
worldwide have evidence that does not support his claim. Rouhani also knows
that time is on his side. Delaying with diplomacy will
continue to be his strategy... all the while developing nuclear capabilities. Hopefully the 2,700 year old Persian artifact (a "Trojan Griffin") was bugged.
An Iranian with
Belgian citizenship was reportedly detained by Israeli security at Ben-Gurion International Airport on
September 11. It is believed that the man detained is an agent for Iran’s Revolutionary
named Ali Mansouri who was sent to spy on American interests inside Israel.
The agent
used an alias “Alex Mans” and he was photographing the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. A
search discovered that Mansouri was found with photographs of the US embassy
and other sites. Mansouri indicated he was promised $1 million in to spy and
described how he was recruited by the special operations unit of the
Revolutionary Guards. It was not his first trip to Israel.
A member of the prime
minister’s delegation to New York said Sunday that the arrest was proof that
Iranian attempts at detente with the West had not changed its actions on the
ground.
“At a time when Iran is
trying to get closer to the US, it sent an agent to try to gather intelligence
in order to carry out a terror attack against the American Embassy in Israel,”
the official said. “This is just one further example of Iran’s policy of
doublespeak and further proof that Iran’s words do not match its actions.”
Meanwhile Iran is playing Obama like a fiddle with overtures
of friendship and promises to negotiate with an attitude of "peace through
flexibility" whatever that means. While Kerry and Obama fumble around,
trying to get the Iranian President's attention, the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard is planning a terrorist attack on our embassy in Israel.
JOHN KERRY: "I believe that uh...that the...uh the aftermath of the Iraq experience and Afghanistan left a lot of people saying, we don’t want to...youknow...uh... see our young people coming back in a body bag and so forth. But that’s not what we are talking about and what we have to do is make clear to people that this is were not talking about war (hits podium with hand). We are not going to war. We will not have people at risk in that way. We will be able to hold Bashar Assad accountable without engaging in troops on the ground or any other prolonged effort. In a very limited, very targeted, very short-term effort, that degrades his capacity to deliver chemical weapons without assuming responsibility for Syria’s civil war. That is exactly what were talking about doing. Unbelievably small, limited kind of effort. Now you know that has been engaged in previously on many different occasions."
This will merely be an itty bitty tiny little limited minute diminutive petite military action. Think midgets on shetland ponies with teacup poodles. Small. Really small.
Obama October 12, 2007 Campaign
Speech in Des Moines, Iowa
EXERPTS FROM OBAMA'S SPEECH:
They don't want leaders who will
bog us down in unnecessary wars; they don't want leaders who allow America to
lose its standing; and they don't want leaders who tell the American people
anything less than the full truth about where they stand and what they'll do.
I think the problem isn't just
how we've fought the war -- it's that we fought the war in the first place…
It was based on exaggerated fears and unconvincing intelligence. And it has
left America less safe, and less respected around the world.
I was convinced that a war would
distract us from Afghanistan and al Qaeda, and fan the flames of extremism and
terrorism.
But the conventional thinking in
Washington lined up for war. We were counseled by some of the most experienced
voices in Washington that the only way for Democrats to look tough was to talk,
act, and vote like Republicans.
But the American people weren't
just failed by the President -- they were failed by the Congress. Too many
members of Congress failed to ask hard questions. Too many members of Congress,
including some of my opponents in this race, failed to read the National
Intelligence Estimate for themselves -- an intelligence report that was so
unconvincing, and so filled with qualifications, that the chairman of the
Senate Intelligence Committee decided to vote against the war when he read it
for himself.
I don't want to give this
President any excuse, or any opening for war…when you give this President a
blank check, you can't be surprised when he cashes it.
Five years after that vote for
war, we should all have learned the lesson that the cowboy diplomacy of not
talking to people we don't like doesn't work.
I don't see how we can rally the
world unless we have a President who is willing to lead. I'm not afraid that
America will lose a propaganda battle with a petty tyrant -- we need to go
before the world and win those battles. And as President, I will.
I think the American people have
had enough of politicians who go out of their way to look tough, who say one
thing in a caucus and another in a general election. We've had enough of
Presidents who put tough talk ahead of real diplomacy.
That's how we're going to restore
our security and renew our standing in the world. Not by shifting with the
political winds, but by standing strong in any storm, and standing up for what
we believe.
In a striking admission (pun intended) Israel said it carried out a joint missile test with
the U.S. in the Mediterranean Sea .Israel’s Defense Ministry that with the U.S. Defense
Department, they had carried out a "successful test" in the
Mediterranean and on an air force base in central Israel.
Israel originally denied the test until Russian state-owned
news agencies reported that the Russian early warning radar systems had
detected two "ballistic objects" fired from the central Mediterranean
toward the east.
The strike comes on the heels of growing tensions as the
U.S. contemplates military action against Syria and Iran’s repeated warnings
that if Syria is attacked by the U.S., Israel will be destroyed in retaliation.
The United States continues to lead from behind and
contradict its own actions. Obama has promised military action against Syria once
congress returns from vacation and with enough strength so that the Obama administration
will “not be mocked" - a far cry from Reagan's peace through strength mantra.
Elizabeth Palmer: " In U.S. terms, it was as if all the candidates for the presidency came from the Tea Party."
CBS compares new Iranian President to the Tea Party. Sure, I remember the Tea Party calling for the annihaltion of all jews, stoning women to death for adultery, murdering gays and those who try to escape from the religion of peace.
Fun
facts about Islam. The Islamic prophet Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six
when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage:
In
Aisha’s Words: “The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). …and
my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my
girl friends. ..Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the
marriage). Unexpectedly Allah’s Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my
mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of
age.” (from Bukhari 5.58.234)
Muhammad
was at this time fifty-four years old.
Modern
Islam draws no distinctions between practices of ancient times – because
Muhammad is the perfect example of behavior for followers to emulate (cf.
Qur’an 33:21), Muhammad’s, marriage to a 9- year- old is considered exemplary today.
Muslims
of several nations refuse to outlaw child marriage.
Afghanistan's
parliament has recently rejected a measure that would have barred men from
marrying girls younger than 16, based on the fact that the ban ran defies Islamic
ideology.
In
Iran, Muhammad’s example is the basis of their laws - girls can be engaged
before the age of nine, and married at nine. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini himself
married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight.
Joseph Curl of The Washington Times wrote an article
entitled “Watch out for Petraeus in Benghazi
Scandal.” I second that.
Friday of this
week, Obama’s Boy Wonder and Press Secretary, Jay Carney, squarely threw the
CIA under the bus. Carney claimed that the CIA “always” leads in these
situations, alleging that, in the aftermath of the deaths of four Americans including
U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, the CIA was solely responsible for
developing talking points to be used during the White House Sunday morning
media blitz on February 16, 2012. This blitz was the day when U.N. Ambassador
Susan Rice appeared on the political news shows attempting to link the Benghazi
attacks to a video and to ignore the al -Qaeda links to the pre-planned attack
which the administration claimed was “spontaneous.” These talking points proved
to be an election-driven desperate White House attempt to cover -up the causes of
what really happened in Benghazi the fateful night September 11, 2012. At the
time of the Benghazi attack and writing of the talking points, former General
David Petraeus was the acting Director of the CIA.
The source of the fake assessments
found in the talking points is still in question. Of course knowledge of who
was directing the talking points will likely lead straight to the architects of
the cover- up. ABC News’ Jon Karl told Bill O’Reilly on Friday night
that while the CIA supposedly signed off on the final draft of the Benghazi
talking points (a CIA Deputy actually signed off on the points), Director
Petraeus said this of the final talking points in an email dated February 15th
obtained by ABC: "I would just as soon as not use
them." According to Karl, Petraeus even labeled the talking
points “useless.” Hardly sounds as if
Petraeus signed off on these points. The question is WHO overruled Petraeus on
the talking points (despite the fact that the White House asserts the CIA was
in charge) and forced the CIA Deputy to “sign off” without Petraeus’ consent?
Curl’s article said
this about former Director of the CIA, David Petraeus, who later resigned from
his position as Director just SIX days before he testified on the Benghazi
attack:
With the White
House putting all blame on the agency, expect push back this week — nuclear
push back. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the former director forced to resign after a
sex scandal, is a dangerous man to the Obama administration. Mad and intent on
getting even, he’s already talking, telling one reporter the talking points
were “useless” and that he preferred not to use them at all. The floodgates
will open this week, and by the end of business Friday, the scandal will be
full blown.
A warning to
those West Wing sycophants suffering from acute OOCS: Don’t walk down any dark
alleys.-from Joseph Curl/The Washington Times article entitled “Watch out for Petraeus in Benghazi Scandal.”
Petraeus’ sudden resignation after picking a fight with the White
House over the Benghazi scandal seems highly suspicious, even to the most
cynical world-weary political watchers. After all, the Obama
White House has been known to play dirty
politics, using Axelrod tricks to get him elected and keeping enemies’ lists.
BRIEF HISTORY OF PETRAEUS
In January 2007, Petraeus was
named by President Bush to be the
commanding general of MNF-I to lead all U.S. troops in Iraq. Petraeus was a
proponent of a surge strategy. At that time, Petraeus was viewed by the Robert Gates
at the White House as one who "played a historic role" and created
the "translation of a great strategy into a great success in very
difficult circumstances". Gates also told Petraeus he believed
"history will regard you as one of our nation's greatest battle captains.”
After Iraq, Petraeus was
then named commander of CENTCOM.
Petraeus was next tapped to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top commander
in Afghanistan in June 2010 (despite his opposition to Obama’s positions on
Iraq that came to a head in 2008).Petraeus replaced McChrystal after McChrystal
was the subject of a hit piece in Rolling
Stone Magazine that reported McChrystal’s belief that Obama appeared
detached about the war and uncomfortable with top military brass.
Petraeus’ star was on the rise by
2010. Enter Paula Broadwell, Petraeus’ buddy, biographer, mentee and Potomac
River running partner since early 2008 whenBroadwell
began her Ph.D. thesis on Petraeus' leadership skills.
TIMELINE OF THE PETRAEUS /BROADWELL AFFAIR
June, 2010
Petraeus takes
command in Afghanistan. Paula Broadwell decides to turn her thesis research
into a book and visits Afghanistan multiple times. "We had a relationship
before I went there as far as this dissertation was concerned, so it just took
it to another level," Broadwell told CNN's Brooke Baldwin in February
2012.
August
31, 2011
Petraeus retires from the U.S. Army
and is awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal.
September
6, 2011
Petraeus is sworn in as new director
of the Central Intelligence Agency. Broadwell keeps in contact with Petraeus
and is later invited to his office for events.
October/November,
2011
Petraeus and Broadwell begin their
affair about two months after he takes over at the CIA, according to CNN who
cites a source as an unnamed “friend.”
January,
2012
Blogger Milo Wendt and Jon Stewart both
reported innuendo about the nature of Broadwell’s relationship with Petraeus.
May/June,
2012
Jill Kelley reports jealous,
threatening emails from Broadwell. FBI investigator Humphries is said to have
continued the investigation without his supervisors’ consent. Humphries in
frustration, reported his findings to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor who
then contacted Director Mueller of the FBI.
Summer,
2012
Eric Holder and the DOJ knew of
Petraeus affair since late summer, the Justice Department did not loop in
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper -- who then told the White
House -- until November.
September
11, 2012
Ambassador Stevens and three other
state department and CIA personnel killed during terrorist attack on U.S.
Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
September
14, 2012
Petraeus briefs congress on Benghazi. Congress
not informed of FBU investigation on Broadwell affair.
October
26, 2012
Broadwell talks to students at the
University of Denver, and says: "The CIA annex (in Benghazi, Libya, during
the attack on September 11, 2012) had actually had taken a couple of Libyan
militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an
effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that's still being vetted."
End
of October, 2012
FBI met with Petraeus.
November
2
The FBI wraps up its case after
interviewing Paula Broadwell for the second time.
November
8, 2012
Obama briefed on Petraeus affair.
November
9, 2012
Petraeus tendered his resignation to
President Obama over the phone.
CIA reported the extramarital affair
between Petraeus and Paula Broadwell. House and Senate Intelligence Committees
informed the same day.
November
15
Petraeus Testimony on Benghazi
THE CLINTON
CONNECTION
Petraeus and
Hillary Clinton have a curious history. By September 10, 2007 Moveon.org (an
organization funded by George Soros) had taken out a full –age ad in The
New York Times against Petraeus calling him "General Betray-us." Interestingly,
Petraeus had been bandied about in the media as a possible candidate for President
in 2008. Clinton was sure she had the nomination sewn up and was most likely
doing what Clintons do best- eliminating potential opponents.Moveon.org had a long history
supporting the Clintons: the organization was started as a response against President
Clinton’s impeachment process. Petraeus
delivered an Iraq War progress report that week. On September 11, 2007 then Senator Hillary Clinton
(and candidate for president) told General Petraeus at a public hearing on the
Iraq War effort, in the harshest terms
possible that his progress report on
Iraq required "a willing suspension of disbelief."
CONCLUSION
No doubt there
was a massive orchestrated cover -up involving Benghazi – a scandal that not
only could have turned the second term election against Obama but could potentially
derail Hillary Clinton’s chances at the presidency in 2016.
There is also
no doubt that former General Petraeus, Director of the CIA, disagreed with the
Obama administration over the talking points (the blueprint for the cover up).
Petraeus was probably also dismayed about the loss of CIA personnel ex -SEALS Tyrone
Woods and Glen Doherty who were in country as part of a mission to locate and
collect the 20,000 shoulder-held missiles
known as MANPADS (missing since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi).
The question
is what will Petraeus do now?
Petraeus
dutifully kept his mouth shut, sort of … despite the fact that NY
Representative Peter King noted differences in Petraeus briefing testimony of
September 14 and closed door testimony on November 15 – after his resignation
and after the presidential election.
The fact is
that Petraeus has been a political animal for years - part of the political military
brass. Petraeus, like most high-profile Generals, spent his career as part of a
system that promotes using the theory of “unnatural selection.” In the private
sector, individualism and bucking the system can get you rewarded. In the armed
forces, this will get you demoted or worse. Petraeus was paid to agree, to take
the proverbial bullet and fall on the sword. He gained notoriety based on a
carefully -cultivated image equivalent to that of Generals Colin Powell or
Wesley Clark. Petraeus was certainly more
polished than the popular General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. or General Tommy Franks. Generals like
Petraeus spent their careers not as whistleblowers, but as those who actively
removed whistleblowers from their ranks.
And, Petraeus
had a secret: an extra-marital affair with Paula Broadwell. It is simply too
convenient to believe that Petraeus’ affair with Broadwell started AFTER his stint
as the Director of the CIA .Plus, the source for this dubious timing is unnamed
and was given to CNN AFTER the Benghazi attack.
Harvard
University kicked Broadwell out of the PH.D program and she suddenly decided to
turn her thesis on Petraeus into a book? And she immediately made “several
trips” to Afghanistan in 2010 which, by her own admission, took their
relationship to “another level.”
Just as
obvious as the timing of the start of the affair, is the timing of its ending. Frankly
there is no question their affair was over PRIOR to May/June of 2012 when
Broadwell, acting like a woman scorned, began her anonymous email attacks
against Jill Kelley. Broadwell was obviously hurt, jealous and a little crazy.
It should
also be obvious that General Petraeus was being considered to be CIA Director
months before his appointment in September of 2011. That means he was being
vetted all along. Once Petraeus effectively resigned from the U.S. Army, the
Uniform Code of Military Justice no longer applied to his career or clearance
standards. As the pending Director of the CIA, Petraeus could have done almost
anything, provided he did not lie about it during the interview process.
Petraeus’ clearance standards changed. The FBI did the background check; the President
of the United States grants the clearance to the future Director of the CIA. The
CIA counter -intelligence would certainly have known of the happy couples’ joint
runs along the Potomac River and Broadwell’s visits to Afghanistan. Chances
are, Petraeus owned up to the affair, ended it and it became a paragraph in his
deep background file – known to President Obama and most likely Hillary
Clinton. So much for CNN’s anonymous
friend source who claimed otherwise.
Why is this important?
Because Petraeus had a weakness. A squelched affair.
Fast forward
to the Benghazi attack. Petraeus was obviously suffering from a bout of hubris,
and had the poor judgment to go up against the Obama administration (and by
default Hillary) in their blue print for cover -up after Benghazi – the talking
points. And to make matters worse, Petraeus had a negative 5-year long history
of being on the Clinton’s radar. He then became the patsy for removal of truth
from the talking points. This truth made him a convenient scapegoat for Hillary
and Obama. Once Petraeus resigned in shame, his Benghazi testimony would be
forever tarnished and no one would listen if he came forward. That is until the
whistleblower hearings Wednesday of last week. It is a new day.
Petraeus has
a golden opportunity here. He has nothing to lose and still has credibility
despite Obama and Hillary’s acts to tarnish him with Broadwell. His wife knows
about the affair; his children know. Broadwell was probably more of a predator
than a victim and he owes her nothing. He can sacrifice his pension for some
uncomfortable media attention and literally millions of dollars. He can save
the world, take down the corrupt Obama administration and avenge the deaths of
four innocent Americans. He can maybe even help catch the bastards who
masterminded the plot to take down the Benghazi Libyan consulate. All he has to
do is get mad – and do the right thing.
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