Forgetful Elephants/Obama Nation Files: Something In Common Between Huckabee And Current President?

Now here's quite an odd election time video of Huckabee defending the current President over his handling of his twenty-year sum former pastor. Really, with all of the President's pro-nanny state policies such as on smoking and soda, it's no wonder why Huckabee went to rush to defend him.

Public Health File: Workers' World Party Agrees With CAIR And LoonWatch.com

Yeah, it seems the Workers' World Party openly agrees with the Council on American-Islamic Relations and LoonWatch.com that "widespread Islamophobia" was the "culprit" to why the gunman went on a rampage on Fort Hood. It had nothing to do with what the fella to the left of the blog has to suggest what Islam should be interpretated to do to the rest of the world. No, no, no, you're an "Islamophobe" on the "level" of Pat Robertson if you "literally" believe in Pat's words which can be attached to your "beliefs" on what average Muslims are "acting" and "behaving" in this "obvious" manner. How is it so ironic here that the cry wolf, chicken little of Islamophobia was the real culprit in allowing this gunman to go on a rampage without getting to him before the warning signs were exposed six months before the shootings?

Here's more on the Workers' World Party agreeing with CAIR and LoonWatch.com's words on "widespread Islamophobia" being the problem. Oh, wonder what a certain Charles Johnson, a.k.a. Darth Libel think of himself literally being a Useful Idiot of some obvious Communists and Leftists who believe how the USA was engaged in an "Islamophobic" campaign against Muslims after 9/11? I guess we can forget the kind words Dubya made this current President is continuing to make over Islam too:

WORKERS WORLD STATEMENT
Fort Hood deaths on Pentagon’s hands
Published Nov 9, 2009 8:46 PM

The Pentagon brass and corporate media’s reports and interpretations of the stunning attack at the massive U.S. Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, have omitted the most telling point. Far from an aberration, these deaths of ordinary soldiers and officers are an integral part of the last eight years of brutal wars of conquest and occupation that the U.S. imperialist war machine has waged against the populations of Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan.

The Nov. 6 NATO air strike that killed seven Afghan troops and police through “friendly fire,” the helicopter crashes that killed 10 U.S. troops a week earlier, the U.S. air strike called in by German officers that killed 100 mostly civilian Afghans in early September, bombings in Baghdad neighborhoods and Peshiwar market places—all are part of the daily atrocities U.S. aggression has brought to that region.

The big difference is that this latest shooting brought the war home.

Responsibility for these deaths lies with the U.S. military and civilian leadership who conspired to wage aggression following 9/11 and now continue the carnage. The conclusion is both simple and obvious: Get the U.S. troops out of all three countries as quickly as possible.

First, a caution: When examining such a tumultuous event, progressive forces should maintain their skepticism, seek their own independent sources and be willing to confront head-on any big lies spread by those in power. The Pentagon and the corporate media use their monopoly to distort and “spin” events to achieve political ends. These can range from scapegoating the Muslim community to mobilizing for an invasion.

Remember, an anti-Muslim campaign followed the 9/11 attack, which the Bush administration also used as a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

As of Nov. 8, the official story is that an army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, pulled out hand-held weapons and shot 40 people at Fort Hood’s “Soldier Readiness Center,” a terminal sending and receiving troops to and from the war zones. Thirteen have died. A dozen others, including Hasan, who was shot by a civilian police officer, are still in intensive care.

According to various background stories, including interviews with Hasan’s relatives, the major was distraught because he was recently ordered to deploy to Afghanistan. Born in the U.S. in 1970, Hasan volunteered for the Army out of patriotism and later experienced harassment for being a Muslim, especially after 9/11. Hasan’s parents are from the West Bank in Palestine. His relatives have all expressed sympathy with those killed and wounded in the attack.

An article by one excellent independent reporter, Dahr Jamail, who had reported directly from Iraq in the first few years of the occupation and recently wrote a book about dissidence in the U.S. military, expressed no serious contradictions with the official facts. Jamail also reported an almost universal disillusionment with the Afghan war among the GIs at Fort Hood, even those who had supported the U.S. war in general. (commondreams.org, Nov. 5)

As of Nov. 8, the Pentagon is still calling the slaughter the act of an individual and probably due to a “mental breakdown.” Without speculating on the alleged shooter’s motives, it is clear that the shooting took place within a political context. It occurred at a nerve center of a bloody and increasingly unpopular war. It occurred as Palestinian desires for their own nation have again been crushed. It occurred within a week of the FBI’s unwarranted execution of a Muslim religious leader in Michigan.

What impact the shooting will have on the war and the planned escalation in Afghanistan is hard to predict, but it continues to be a lead story and the focus of discussion.

U.S. soldiers, most of whom joined up because there were no reasonable civilian jobs available—these days there are no jobs available at all—are themselves looking for a way out of the war even as they are ordered back two, three and more times into ugly combat. The progressive movement should find a way to unite the fight for jobs at decent pay with the struggle against these wars of aggression, so that U.S. youth have a greater chance to avoid being a tool of world-wide oppression.

Even more urgent at this time is to resist in every way any attempt to scapegoat the Muslim community in the U.S. This community needs every sign of solidarity in its defense.

It should also be apparent to everyone that if a U.S. army officer, born in this country, can become so alienated from these wars of aggression that he strikes out against a cross-section of his fellow soldiers and officers, then it would be foolish to expect Afghans or Pakistanis or Iraqis to welcome Washington’s occupation. They will resist until the U.S. is driven out.

And within the U.S. military, what manifests now as a “mental breakdown” has the potential of turning into a generalized resistance.

End the wars now! Get U.S. troops out of the Middle East and Central Asia!

Articles copyright 1995-2009 Workers World. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is preserved.

Source: Workers' World Party

Red Terror: Hamas Giving Up Its "Anti"-Fatah Stance; Embraces Yasser Arafat

It seems that the two terrorist groups Hamas and Fatah are likely going to form a coalition government that'll certainly threaten Israel. Despite the images of the so-called Fatah-Hamas "conflict" of a Hamas terrorist walking all over the pictures of Soviet-trained terrorists Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas has praised Arafat as a "symbol of struggle". Now really, why is Hamas obviously doing this? How is it that our tax dollars continue to go to these "moderate" terrorists whose pictures have been smashed and the Nobel Prize been taken away by a Hamas terrorist? Really what's going on here is that Fatah is promoting a possible Third Intifada as a way to prevent Israel from trying to strike Islamo-Nazi Iran, something which I'm sure leaders within the Iranian government desire.

Here's more on Hamas recounciling their "differences" with their Fatah counterparts:

Hamas: Arafat a symbol of struggle

Gaza – Ma’an – Hamas hailed late President Yasser Arafat as an icon of struggle on the fifth anniversary of his death Wednesday, despite the ongoing bitter feud with the current leaders of Arafat's party, the Fatah movement.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said, "for Fatah, Arafat's death meant [the party's] decision-making process was thrown off track, but to the Palestinian people, his death meant losing a symbolic leader committed to the Palestinian cause whether we agreed with him or not.”

In his speech, Barhoum also referred to the widely-held belief that Arafat was poisoned as Israel kept him under virtual house arrest in his Ramallah compound during the Ramallah siege in 2004. Barhoum said the death showed that leaders who defend Palestinian rights and principles must eventually “pay the price.”

Referring to the declaration of the second intifada in 2000, Barhoum said Arafat made the ultimate sacrifice because he returned to “resistance” after long years of negotiations, a call that Hamas is currently directing toward President Mahmoud Abbas and the leaders in the Palestinian Authority.

Arafat in Gaza, a unifying figure

In Gaza, Arafat is remembered as a leader who, whatever his flaws, managed to maintain national unity.

Leaders of several Palestinian factions in Gaza praised Arafat as a symbol of unity and struggle on the anniversary of his death.

A Fatah-affiliated lawmaker, and member of the movement’s Revolutionary Council Faysal Abu Shahla commented, “The symbolic leader and founder Yasser Arafat devoted his life to liberating Palestinian lands and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. He never deviated from his principles, and he gave his life for that.”

A senior leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) Saleh Zeidan described Arafat as a historic Palestinian leader whom the Palestinians remember during hardships. “He was the man for hardships, and his name became a part of Arab and Palestinian history,” he added.

Khalid Al-Batsh, a leader of Islamic Jihad, said his movement would continue with resistance, which he said was Arafat’s own strategy. He also said the Islamic Jihad would adhere to national unity as did Arafat, Islamic Jihad founder Fathi Shiqaqi, and Hamas founder Ahmad Yasin.

Source: Maan News Agency

Obvious Traitor File: How The Lewrockwell.com Crowd Celebrates Veterans' Day...

...by suggesting how the U.S. military "attracts" terrorists like the D.C. sniper or the Fort Hood shooter into the military. It's obviously "nothing" to do with an Islamist ideology or how the D.C. Sniper was once part of the Islamo-Marxist Nation of Islam's security force for the Million Man March.

The Lewrockwell.com crowd shamefully try to find a day to bash the troops here. Funny, and sick how they pretend to care about the troops on the battlefield whom happen to disagree with the wars. Isn't this an obvious sick game? The only sort of troops these Obvious Traitors here would probably embrace would be those on the side of the enemy.

Useful Idiot: Faux Rightist Pat Robertson, A Useful Tool For Those To Cry Wolf Over Islamophobia

It's always quite convieneint for Leftists at LoonWatch.com to paint any critic of radical Islam to be an "Islamophobe". In this case, they have purposely done the work for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) by going after the founder of JihadWatch.org into lying on how Robert Spencer wishes for an anti-Muslim backlash after the massacre at Fort Hood. But here's the problem, Spencer hasn't really called for such a backlash against Muslims whatsoever.

He's just simply been pointing out that CAIR has been crying wolf, and it seems their Leftist tools certainly have been following through. Now comes a certain Pat Robertson, which is a mockery of the cartoon of the Islamic Prophet to the right of the blog of Robertson making absurd statements. The most recent absurd statement was equaling ALL Muslims to be on the level of the gunman who was responsible for the Fort Hood massacre.

Here's the obvious problem LoonWatch.com is trying to link Spencer with an obvious Islamophobe like Robertson. Spencer has never ever made such statements about average Muslims. Instead, Spencer has consistently pointed out that terrorists whom happen to be Muslim, also are engaged in murdering fellow Muslims as well as many non-Muslims in a number of serious terrorist attacks since 9/11. Robertson has equaled every Muslim, even ones whom are not extremists on the same level as the extremists.

That's the obvious view Americans took toward legal, naturalized Japanese Americans during World War II. Their property and Constitutional rights were violated, to the point where they ended up as being literal slaves. Has that ever happen to every Muslim American? When people like Robertson spew such nonsense like this, it makes Leftists view Robertson as their obvious Useful Idiot.

Obama Nation File/Useful Idiot: Comrade Gorby Demands Comrade Barry To Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan

Now isn't this interesting here? Comrade Barry could indeed follow Comrade Gorby's call to have the USA surrender in Afghanistan? Gee, what makes one really think about the White House leadership's decision on not to send the recommended amount of troops to Afghanistan? The fact that Barry continues the same policies as Dubya when it comes to creating a pseudo-counter insurgency force that'll really be against U.S.-led forces? Really? That would work? Not only will it seem like the allege Soviet Manchurian candidate here could follow Comrade Gorby's marching orders in withdrawing U.S.-led forces from Afghanistan, but also likely from Iraq as well. Even when it helps neo-Soviet ally the Islamo-Nazi Republic of Iran.

Here's more on Comrade Gorby's call to the Soviet Manchurian puppet. Pictured to the left of the blog is a cartoon of Gorby reading a book titled "Restructuring" to Barry:

Gorbachev Says Obama Should Start Afghan Withdrawal (Update2)

By Chris Burns and Patrick Donahue

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, drawing on his experience of military failure in Afghanistan in the 1980s, said the U.S. can’t win the conflict there and should begin pulling out its soldiers.

Afghanistan, where U.S. and NATO forces are battling a Taliban-led insurgency, is too fragmented between clans to be controlled militarily, Gorbachev, 78, said in an interview today in Berlin. While he said President Barack Obama would be unlikely to take his advice, Gorbachev said he saw no chance of success even with more U.S. troops.

“I believe that there is no prospect of a military solution,” Gorbachev said in Russian through a translator. “What we need is the reconciliation of Afghan society -- and they should be preparing the ground for withdrawal rather than additional troops.”

Gorbachev, who became general secretary of the ruling Communist Party in 1985, at age 54, initiated a restructuring program known as perestroika that eventually led to the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. He spoke a day after he joined Chancellor Angela Merkel and current world leaders in the German capital to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.

As Soviet leader, Gorbachev pursued a policy of detente with the U.S. while overseeing the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in 1989 after grappling with an unsuccessful decade- long presence in the country.

Disputed Election

Obama is considering a military request to send as many as 40,000 more U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan, on top of the 68,000 due to be stationed there by the end of the year. Other North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces, comprising personnel from 42 countries, number about 36,000.

The U.S. troop review has been complicated by increased Taliban attacks and by a disputed victory for the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, in this year’s presidential election.

Speaking in Berlin yesterday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded that Karzai step up efforts to tackle corruption. Karzai was re-appointed president by Afghanistan’s electoral commissioners Nov. 2 following former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah’s decision to pull out of a runoff election.

In response to an Oct. 28 attack on United Nations staff by Taliban militants that killed five of the agency’s workers in a Kabul guesthouse, the UN last week announced it would move about 600 of its international staff members and remove some from the country.

Brezhnev’s Gamble

Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev sent tanks into Afghanistan to support a Marxist regime in 1979, betting superior firepower from the ground and air would keep the country within Moscow’s fold. Soviet aims were thwarted by an Islamist mujahedeen movement supported by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the U.S.

While there was support in the Moscow establishment, Gorbachev as the general secretary of the Communist Party concluded that Soviet objectives couldn’t be achieved.

“We thought that that would lead nowhere,” Gorbachev said. “So we started to disengage our troops from any kind of hostilities in Afghanistan.”

The pullout began in 1988 and ended in February of 1989, nine months before the Berlin Wall fell.

The Taliban, an outcrop of the mujahedeen that dominated Afghanistan in the 1990s, took control of most of the country in 1996. The U.S.-led invasion five years later, following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was meant to displace the Taliban, accused of harboring the terrorist group al-Qaeda.

American ‘Perestroika’

Gorbachev said that relations between Russia and the U.S. are improving as America undergoes its own perestroika, or rebuilding, which he said had begun with the election of Obama as president last year.

“America should implement perestroika in the context of American society,” Gorbachev said. “I believe that people of America, most of them who voted in these elections -- and most of them voted for Obama -- did vote for change.”

Asked whether Obama could trust Russia’s current leadership, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the former Soviet leader said it would have to be a process. He cited his first meeting with former President Ronald Reagan in Geneva in 1985; after the two leaders met one-on-one, they shared their thoughts on each other with their delegations.

“He’s a real dinosaur, a man from the past,” Gorbachev remembered saying. “Do you think that Reagan had a better view of me? He said: ‘Gorbachev is a die-hard Bolshevik.’ So that was the beginning.”

Source: Bloomberg

Feature File: 2000 Immigrants Held In Libya In Detention Camps; Where's The Workers' World Party?

How is it appropriate that we help subsidize the Islamo-Marxist/socialist state controlling Libya? Aside from that, reports have stated and admitted from government officials that they are holding 2000 illegal immigrants in detention camps such as the one pictured to the right. Members of the Workers' World Party and other pro-Open Border ilk always like to suggest how the USA "horribly" treats its illegals. Even though they are able to get away in sanctuary cities like Los Angeles, and get on welfare. Whereas illegals in Libya are likely to be tortured to death.

Where's their protests against the Libya consulate? Where's Mexico's protests? Got hypocrisy? Here's more on Libya's human rights abuses:

Less than 2,000 migrants held in Libya: official

SABRATHA, Libya — The number of illegal immigrants being held by Libya has fallen to under 2,000 thanks to the country's policy of repatriation, a senior official said on Tuesday.

"Fewer than 2,000 immigrants are being held in 12 detention centres across the country," Colonel Mohammed Beshir, a senior passport office official, told AFP on the sidelines of a workshop on illegal immigration.

A Western expert who attended the forum in the city of Sabratha, west of Tripoli, told AFP on condition of anonymity that two years ago Libya was holding more than 6,000 illegal immigrants.

"Over the past few months Libya has massively repatriated illegal immigrants and this explains the decrease in the numbers of those in detention," the expert said.

Libya is a major transit nation for Africans -- many recently from the Horn of Africa -- risking their lives in rickety boats to make the Mediterranean crossing.

Last year, some 35,000 illegal immigrants arrived on Italian shores. Of them, 75 percent sought political or humanitarian asylum, half of whom obtained it, according to the UN refugee agency.

In May, Rome and Tripoli reached a controversial agreement that allows the Italian navy to intercept illegal migrants at sea and return them to Libya, triggering sharp criticism from the UNHCR and rights groups.

"Libya does not have the conditions needed to provide a solution with adequate protection for refugees or asylum seekers at the moment," UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres, said in September.

"There are detention circumstances that are appalling and there is an effect that people that deserve and need protection will be sent back to their countries of origin," he told reporters in Brussels.

But the Libyan official insists his country does not impose repatriation.

Libya "cannot repatriate migrants against their will," Beshir said, while adding that "there are problems with the Somalis (migrants)" because their country is torn up by civil war since 1991.

Meanwhile, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni and Libyan counterpart Abdelfattah Laabidi met in Tripoli on Tuesday for follow-up talks on the May agreement, state-run JANA news agency reported.

Maroni pledged that Rome would continue to provide Libya with financial and technical support to monitor its coastline, the agency said.

And Laabidi stressed that the number of migrants trying to reach Italy from Libya dropped by 90 percent since the deal was struck on May 7, JANA added.

Source: AFP

CFR File: Does The Ukraine Caving To Neo-Soviet Russia's Gas Deal Have To Do With The New Swine Flu?

Now here's indeed a suspicious question to ask. Does the Ukraine caving to be dependent upon neo-Soviet Russia for gas, have anything possibly to do with the recent outbreak of the new deadly swine flu virus there? Most recently, the Ukranian government has issued a national emergency over the situation in the Ukraine. This by "coindence" signals neo-Soviet Russian military leaders to suggest that NATO has ended its eastward "expansion" against the Kremlin. Not only that with this odd comment during the Ukraine's swine flu pandemic, the Ukraine gas deal with neo-Soviet Russia managed to go through, making the Ukraine dependent on the Kremlin again.

"Coincidence"? Here's more on the Ukraine allowing the deal to go through, as which neo-Soviet Russia might possibly be using the swine flu pandemic as the perfect ruse:

Ukraine 'pays Russian gas bill'

Ukraine has said it has settled an outstanding gas bill with Russia, calming fears Europe may suffer any further disruptions to gas supplies.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko blamed President Viktor Yushchenko for blocking payment, causing the delay.

Last week, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin raised concerns that Ukraine had not paid for its gas.

In January, many countries in Europe were left short of gas due to a payment dispute between Moscow and Kiev.

"Today we paid Russia the next $500m (£301m)," said a statement from the Ukrainian prime minister's office.

It added that the payment had been "extremely difficult".

Mrs Tymoshenko has blamed Mr Yushchenko for blocking payments from Ukraine's central bank to the Russian gas giant Gazprom.

The two central political figures in Ukraine are standing against each other in next year's presidential elections.

Russia provides about a quarter of the gas consumed in the EU and 80% of that is piped through Ukraine.

Source: BBC News

Obvious Traitor File: Huffington Post Rushes To Condemn Congress For Condemning Goldstone Report

How is it for the Huggington Post to be this obviously delusional in condeming Congress for condemning the Goldstone Report? The person who wrote this delutional analysis of Congress' conemndation is National Lawyers Guild card carrying member Noura Erakat. She has a long history of hating Israel, and going up against Israel for trying to defend itself.

Here's something else what Ms. Erakat's not telling her readers, is that another terrorist group known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a member of the PLO coalition have also endorsed the U.N.-backed misinformation campaign against Israel, via the Goldstone Report. The Goldstone Report was drafted by South African Leftist Richard Goldstone who has worked closely with members of the Soviet-trained African National Congress to draft South Africa's Constitution after the end of Afrikaner rule.

There's no bias in the report against Israel? How is it that someone who worked with ANC terrorists get to be involved in leading a kangaroo-style tribunal against Israel? Perhaps it's quite obvious these same terrorists whom happen to be Palestinian terrorists are obviously using the same tactics their African counterparts have been using? To be engaged in an obvious massive misinformation war against their foes is the obvious case here.

They want to implicate Israel to be an "apartheid" state, condemn Zionism equaling it on the level to what the white Afrikaner's did with their black South African citizens. But oh wait, here's something odd. The Israel's treat their Arab neighbors with respect, giving them the right chance to vote in one of the few democratic nations in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Palestinian refugees in Arab countries like Jordan, Iraq, and others have no property rights. How is it Israel gets to be picked on as the apartheid state while Arab mistreatment of other Arab minorities goes unheard in the U.N.?

What does Ms. Erakat think about that hypocrisy? Don't tell her fellow card carrying Communists at the National Lawyers Guild of their hypocrisy either.

Obama Nation File: White House Administration Finishes Up Long Decade Of Treason Against Israel; Gives Jerusalem To Terrorists

Who says Jews control the USA? Anti-Semites? It's quite official, as it seems a certain PLO terror chief Mahmoud Abbas may likely not resign from his post, but instead accept the "peace process" as it is. But why the sudden change of heart here? Perhaps it has to do with the White House surrendering Jerusalem to the terrorists?

How odd here that the Netanyahu administration which has many "former" Kahanists supporting the current Israeli government from the National Union oddly stay silent too, and also have Israel be shackled to the European Union?

Hat tip Infidel Bloggers Alliance.

CFR File/Useful Idiot: Noam Chomsky Embraces Turkey's Entrance Into The EU; Refers Anti-Turkey Opponents To Be "Racist"

Isn't it quite the obvious here of how hypocritical a certain Noam Chomsky really is? He always loves to be criticial of the West for "genocidal" goals. But whenever it seems to Turkey's history of genocide against the Kurds and Armenians. Well, Chomsky doesn't say a word about them, when he decries opponents of Turkey's entrance into the European Union to be "racist". So typical here of Chomsky's outright hypocrisy? Not only that, but Turkey has sided with the genocidal Islamo-Nazi government of Sudan, and also embracing the terrorist group Hamas.

Gee, why does it seem like Chomsky can get away with being a hypocrite? Here's more on Chomsky's embracement of Turkey's entry into the EU:

Chomsky lauds Turkey should Recognize that Europeans are so Racist to Let it In

American intellectual Noam Chomsky praised Turkey’s progress toward becoming a “significant independent actor” and urged the country to make crucial decisions that will direct the course of its diplomacy, The Palestinian Chronicle reported Tuesday.

During two lectures organized by the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, he also blamed Israel for the conflict that erupted in the Gaza Strip earlier this year, accusing the Israelis of resorting to military force before “exhausting peaceful means.”

Chomsky said that Turkey could become a "significant independent actor,” if it chooses to.

"Turkey has to make some internal decisions: Is it going to face West and try to get accepted by the European Union, or is it going to face reality and recognize that Europeans are so racist that they are never going to allow it in?" Chomsky said.

The Europeans "keep raising the barrier on Turkish entry to the EU," he explained.

But Chomsky said Turkey did become an independent actor in March 2003 when it followed its public opinion and did not take part in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Turkey took notice of the wishes of the overwhelming majority of its population, which opposed the invasion.

But “New Europe” was led by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, who rejected the views of their populations – which strongly objected to the Iraq war – and preferred to follow former U.S. President George W. Bush, Chomsky said.

In that sense, Turkey was more democratic than countries that took part in the war, which in turn infuriated the United States.

Today, Chomsky added, Turkey is also acting independently by refusing to take part in U.S.-Israeli military exercises.

Goldstone report

In his speech, Chomsky also appeared to have agreed with Israel that the Goldstone report on the Gaza war was biased, only he saw it as biased in favor of Israel.

Named after former South African judge Richard Goldstone, who headed the inquiry committee, the U.N. report accuses Israel and Hamas militants of war crimes during the 22-day conflict that ended in January, killing some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. The report acknowledges Israel's right to self-defense, although it denounces the method this was conducted.

Chomsky said that the right to self-defense does not mean resorting to military force before "exhausting peaceful means," something Israel did not even contemplate doing.

On Tuesday, Agence France-Presse reported that Arab delegates to the United Nations were floating a draft resolution that would require UN chief Ban Ki-moon to bring the report on the Gaza war before the Security Council.

The United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to take up the Goldstone report on Wednesday, a day after the U.S. House of Representatives is slated to vote on a resolution calling on President Barack Obama to reject its findings.

The draft resolution circulated Monday by Arab delegates, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, said the 192-nation assembly calls on Israel and the Palestinians to undertake investigations "that are independent, credible and in conformity with international standards" into the alleged war crimes.

It also requests that Ban monitor the implementation of the draft resolution and report back to the General Assembly within three months.

Source: Champress.net

Obvious Traitor File: Faux Rightist Alex Jones Referred As An "Investigative Journalist" By Iranian State Television

Why does it seem like he likes to rush toward an obviously state-run operation like this? On top of that, Jones also suggest the shooter was "under stress" as the reason why he went on a rampage. It had "nothing" to do with his obvious Islamist ideological behavior during his chaotic, murderous firefight.

Red Terror: Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine (PFLP) Threatens USA With Terrorism; Endorse The Goldstone Report

Those "moderate" Palestinian terrorists are at it again. Usually promoting threatening not just Israel but the USA. In this case, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has openly embraced terrorism against the USA. Instead of accepting the USA as a peace partner for Israel, PFLP terrorists obviously see the USA as an enemy of the Palestinians. Really, why are our tax dollars going to them if that's the case? It's for peace, right?

In addition to this, PFLP terrorists are also praising the harassment of Israeli leaders. Even outright embracing the terrorist group Hamas. The fact these hypocrites use American tax dollars to attack an ally of the USA is quite appauling. Besides being typically involved in supporting Israel's enemies, the PFLP terrorists also endorsed the Goldstone Report which was drafted by a South African Leftist judge whom is well affiliated with the African National Congress.

It's quite evident the latest developments here, the PFLP now instead of simply attacking Israel. Will likely soon target the USA. What does the PFLP think of the Fort Hood massacre? I'm sure these Islamo-Marxist terrorists would certainly praise the massacre in question.

Forgetful Elephants File: Who'd Endorse A Soda Tax?

Forget Huckabee's Theist views, how about whining more about his obvious pro-nanny state views? When he was governor of Arkansas he openly banned soda in public schools, along with being quite the pro-taxaphile too. Funny he's now criticizing how current President of doing just that.

Red Terror: Chandra Levy Murdered By MS-13 Gang Members?

Now isn't this a "coincidence" in the entire Chandra Levy murder case. It turns out the sole illegal immigrant responsible for her murders ended up being a member of MS-13. Aside from that, the same MS-13 thug is accused of threatening any potential witnesses in her murder trial too. In addition to MS-13's connections with illegals from Latin America, they have now threaten the life of an ICE agent whom helped the Federal government for cracking down on an MS-13 member.

Here's more on the MS-13 connection:

Levy slaying suspect, MS-13 threatened witness, prosecutors say
By MICHAEL DOYLE
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON -- Prosecutors said Friday that Salvadoran gang members and the man accused of killing former intern Chandra Levy threatened to murder a potential witness in the case.

The jailhouse informant remains unidentified and in protective custody. But in a court hearing Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor said accused killer Ingmar Guandique and his alleged gang associates made their warnings abundantly clear.

"The witness received a letter from MS-13, reminding him that if he were to testify at the trial, they knew where his family is," Campoamor said.

The threatening letter sent in September from the Salvadoran gang also known as Mara Salvatrucha followed an earlier threat that Campoamor said was conveyed directly by Guandique.

The potential witness, one of several jailhouse informants upon whom prosecutors are relying, was subsequently moved out of the Washington jail to an undisclosed location. He has refused multiple interview requests from Guandique's defense attorneys and their investigators.

Heavily tattooed and a self-proclaimed member of MS-13, Guandique is charged with first-degree murder and attempted sexual assault. Prosecutors say he stalked and killed Levy while the former Bureau of Prisons intern was jogging in Washington's Rock Creek Park.

Raised in Modesto, Calif., where her parents still live, Levy had recently finished her graduate studies when she disappeared on May 1, 2001. Her skeletal remains were found a year later. During the intervening months, intensive media scrutiny had brought to light her relationship with married congressman Gary Condit.

Though never named as a suspect in Levy's death, Condit lost his House seat as a result of the case and his handling of it. Last week, defense attorneys Santha Sonenberg and Maria Hawilo failed in their effort to obtain Condit's saliva samples and material taken from his D.C. condominium for potential independent DNA testing.

"I don't fault Ms. Sonenberg and Ms. Hawilo in any way for vigorously defending their client," Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Alprin said Friday.

Guandique's attorneys also want to secure a handwriting sample from the allegedly threatened witness, to compare to other writing obtained as evidence. The occasionally testy hearing Friday was convened to discuss defense requests that some court orders related to the defense investigation be kept private.

"We're entitled to conduct our investigation the way we want," said Sonenberg, who works for the D.C. Public Defender Service. "We don't have to follow the government's suggestion on how to investigate our cases."

Alprin said he was uncomfortable with issuing any more secret - or "ex parte" - orders, but he agreed to order that the potential witness provide a handwriting sample.

The prosecution case against Guandique is essentially circumstantial, based in part on confessions he allegedly made to several fellow inmates. He has been incarcerated since 2002 on charges that he attacked two other women in Rock Creek Park.

Source: MiamiHerald

Obvious Traitor File: Alex Jones Spews Leftist Propaganda Over Fort Hood Massacre; Suggest Shooter Was Under Drug Influence

Once again, a certain Alex Jones has struck over the the Fort Hood massacre. Instead of trying to understand really why the shooter went on a rampage. Such as the shooter shouting some Islamist battle commands before the shootings (i.e. Allah Akbar), passed out Korans prior to his shooting or was involved in subversive Muslim Brotherhood front groups whom were penetrating advisory panels for the White House on matters for security for the homeland. Jones instead spewed Leftist propaganda over the shooter's intent and also Jones seems to be recycling propaganda of "widespread", "Islamophobia" prior to the shooter's rampage which the shooter himself complained about it:

"The corporate media, owned as it is by the U.S. military-industrial complex, will continue to gratuitously and shamelessly exploit yesterday’s tragedy by characterizing Hasan’s religious and political beliefs as the main motivation behind the massacre, without even investigating whether or not he was taking psychotropic drugs and what role these played in why he suddenly snapped, a character trait completely at odds with how Hasan’s own family described his personality."

Really, if there were reports that the gunman used drugs, why isn't it coming out if that were the case? Why ignore the obvious that this man was brainwashed into believing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were "harming" Muslims world wide? Wonder if the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) might be watching Jones' site? Hey, I'm just asking questions here.