The roots of Total War

Where did the Neocons get the idea they could obliterate any who stand in their way? From the Radical Republicans, of course. A great piece by Al Benson, Jr.

U.S. Role in Iraq Threatens Security

9/11 demonstrated that intervening where you don't belong is going to blowback on you sooner or later. At least, that's what it showed most of us. To Bush's handlers, it wasn't a lesson; it was an opportunity. Though it was sold to a frightened, confused public as retaliation for the death of nearly 2,000 innocent Americans, it was later justified as a pre-emptive invasion to keep Americans safe.

But that was disproven, too:

Indeed, an April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate concluded that “the war in Iraq has become a primary recruitment vehicle for violent Islamic extremists, motivating a new generation of potential terrorists around the world whose numbers may be increasing faster than the United States and its allies can reduce the threat,” and that “the Iraq conflict has become the ‘cause célèbre’ for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement.”

In other words, instead of stopping the brutal interventions that led to 9/11, the Bushies decided to toss even more fuel on the fire.

McCain takes campaign to liberal blogs

Sounds to me like McCain has once again demonstrated his distaste for conservatives:

On yesterday's call, Mr. McCain fielded seven questions, including three from non-conservative bloggers: Kate Sheppard, political reporter for environmental Web site Grist.org; Joanne Bamberger of PunditMom (http://punditmom1. blogspot.com); and Erin Kotecki Vest, who blogs at catchall site BlogHer.com as well as liberal sites HuffingtonPost.com and MOMocrats.com.

"I give them an A for effort," Ms. Vest said in a phone interview after the conference call.

I'm sure environmentalists like Ms. Vest was impressed with McCain, seeing as how he's embraced global warming -- another bouquet from McCain to his actual constituency.

And this exchange regarding McCain's reversal on setting a timetable for pulling out of the Iraq fiasco is priceless:

She asked Mr. McCain whether the vision he laid out yesterday of U.S. troops succeeding in Iraq by 2013 didn't amount to the sort of timetable he has criticized when Democrats propose a specific date for withdrawal.

Mr. McCain shot right back: "Either you didn't read or didn't understand my speech. One of the two."

Ms. Vest said she "read it and understood it just fine, and I don't understand how 2013 isn't a date."

Sure, Johnny. Whatever you say.

Bill Kristol wants a domestic surge

I suppose Neocons have to express everything in military terms -- even reform:

What was the surge about? It was Dave Petraeus changing the way the U.S. military works, and it worked. It succeeded. Why can’t we do this for the rest of the U.S. government? Lots of the U.S. government is broken. We need, in effect, a surge, a reformist surge, for the whole U.S. government.

That's because they're hypnotized by top-down power. Here's another example, from the Weekly Standard's editor Fred Barnes, explaining that Neocons differ from real conservatives in their promotion of big government:

Sure, some conservatives are upset because he has tolerated a surge in federal spending, downplayed swollen deficits, failed to use his veto, created a vast Department of Homeland Security, and fashioned an alliance of sorts with Teddy Kennedy on education and Medicare. But the real gripe is that Bush isn't their kind of conventional conservative. Rather, he's a big government conservative. This isn't a description he or other prominent conservatives willingly embrace. It makes them sound as if they aren't conservatives at all. But they are. They simply believe in using what would normally be seen as liberal means--activist government--for conservative ends. And they're willing to spend more and increase the size of government in the process.

Alliance for the Separation of School & State

Here's a practical step you can take to monkeywrench the Empire: take your children out of the government schools. Don't have kids? Then donate to a church or private school, or to a homeschool association. By denying the government propaganda mills of victims, you pave the way for future generations to take this country back. The Alliance for the Separation of School and State is one organization providing materials for returning sovereignty to parents. Here's their website and intro:

The brightest future for education begins here.

We believe parents, and not the state, should be in charge of their children's education. That control may take many forms and levels of involvement, but the state will never be part of the picture.

If this seems like an impossible idea, consider that 8 million children already learn free of state control. We're not starting from scratch here. The snowball of educational independence is already rolling.

The coming crash

Smell that? It's the smell of fear -- and it seems to be coming from the Stupid Party:

A third-straight special election defeat in as many months left congressional Republicans reeling Wednesday, seriously concerned about what the November elections have in store for their party.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, called the defeat a "wakeup call."

"We have to show Americans that we can fix the problems here in Washington and fix the problems that they deal with every day," Boehner said.

But Congressman, DC is the SOURCE of nearly all of our problems. A wrecked economy, instability in the Middle East jacking up the price of gas, a crime wave fueled by illegal immigration -- so why do you think we look to you to fix ANYTHING?

Here's the latest Republican bellyflop that's got them worried:

Democrat Travis Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis on Tuesday in a Mississippi district that hasn't voted Democratic in more than 15 years, one where George W. Bush defeated John Kerry by 25 points in 2004.

It was a result that even Republicans admit is ominous sign of what could happen in the fall.

And they can't say they didn't give it everything they have -- including a visit from Mr. Sunshine himself, "Deadeye" Darth Cheney:

Republicans and conservative independent groups pulled out all the stops to defend the seat, pouring upwards of $2 million into the contest and dispatching party heavyweights there in the final days to drum up support, including Vice President Dick Cheney.

The American people are sickened by both sorry excuses for political parties. But there is a bright side -- with the choices narrowed down between two Open Borders globalists, the Evil Party and Stupid Party are making the idea of secession look better EVERY DAY. So, thanks, fellas -- we couldn't buy better spokesmen than you to make our case.

John McCain: Illegal immigration no longer a problem

Not only has he declared victory in Iraq, McCain has now announced that the illegal immigration problem is fixed, and that we shouldn't worry our little heads about it any more.

No, really:

Border state governors have certified and the American people recognize that after tremendous improvements to border security infrastructure and increases in the border patrol, and vigorous prosecution of companies that employ illegal aliens, our southern border is now secure. Illegal immigrants who broke our laws after they came here have been arrested and deported. Illegal immigration has been finally brought under control, and the American people accepted the practical necessity to institute a temporary worker program and deal humanely with the millions of immigrants who have been in this country illegally.

In his next surprise announcement, McCain will reveal his cure for the common cold and how to make teenagers keep their rooms clean.

McCain announces Iraq withdrawal timetable

With Democrats winning elections even in conservative districts, it's time for the Republicans to reverse their disastrous course. So McCain has taken a bold but necessary first step to end the ongoing disaster in Iraq by declaring victory and announcing a timetable for withdrawal:

In a speech he's about to give shortly at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will for the first time talk about a specific date for when he envisions direct American military involvement to be over in Iraq.

It's January, 2013. By then, he says, American combat involvement will be over and most U.S. troops back home.

McCain's surprising remarks this morning are an early indicator of a significant shift in the former fighter pilot and POW's stance on the controversial and unpopular war. ...

Maybe you remember during their most heated debate exchange of the Republican primary season, McCain going right after former Gov. Mitt Romney for even hinting at a vague timetable for U.S. troop withdrawals because the Arizona senator alleged it would be taken by the enemy as a sign of surrender and a date they need only await.

Yes, we do remember. But McCain is finally admitting to the inevitable: the Neocon project in Iraq is a dismal failure. Instead of lasting 6 weeks, it's now going on into its sixth year. Instead of paying for itself with stolen Iraqi oil, its spiralling costs are wrecking the US economy. And instead of reconstructing Iraq into a model of democracy, the war has delivered the region into the hands of the Iranians.

But will McCain's actions save face for the once swaggering, now stumbling Republican party? I doubt it. Much damage has been done to American prestige. American resources, both human and economic, have been squandered -- and the damage is far from over. McCain knows this. He will continue to play Nixon and try to back away from a bloodletting while pretending to have won it, but the public isn't going to buy it anymore. Despite Obama's many negatives, his antiwar rhetoric alone might win him the election.

Meanwhile, Clio draws a dark line through the name of yet another empire mortally wounded by imperial overstretch.

Bush sacrifices for the dead and wounded troops

I swear, I cannot tell the difference between reports from this insane administration and Onion satire. Guess what this is:

U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of Americans killed in the war in Iraq.

"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf," Bush said in an interview with Yahoo and Politico.com.

"I feel I owe it to the families to be as -- to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal," he said.

Sadly, this one's for real.

UPDATE: And then, maybe -- just maybe -- this swaggering coward lied to us again.

Can the West be saved?

If it is saved, it will first have to be saved from its leaders, as Serge Trifkovic warns us:

Topping the list is elite hostility to all forms of solidarity of the majority population based on shared historical memories, ancestors, and common culture; the consequences are predictable:

- the loss of a sense of place and history among Europeans and North Americans;
- rapid demographic decline, especially in Europe, unparalleled in history;
- rampant Third World (and in Europe, overwhelmingly Muslim) immigration;
- collapse of private and public manners, morals, and traditional commonalities;
- imposition of “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” “sensitivity”; and
- demonization and criminalization of any opposition to any of the above.

The end-result is the Westerners’ loss of the sense of propriety over their lands.

And how do they accomplish this? The government indoctrination system -- which we refer to as "public schools" -- cranks out enough brainwashed converts who welcome multiculturalism as the inevitable wave of the future -- even though the multicultural "ideal" is a fantasy of the American ruling class.

But the more insidious method is that of undermining the opposition, and that's where they're achieving their greatest success. They do that by convincing us that conservatism is a universal ideology, instead of the accumulated wisdom of generations which aims to preserve our traditional heritage. Look at the chief spokesmen of the universalists -- Bush, McCain, Lindsey Graham -- all Open Borders advocates, amnesty peddlers, and friends with La Raza.

McCain is the worst of them all. Let's not forget his blatant pandering to the Open Borders lobby during the Republican presidential debates. In response to Tom Tancredo's plea to call a "time out" in record levels of Third-World immigration, McCain dismissed the idea with, "It's beyond my realm of thinking." I suspect that for once, McCain was telling the truth. Cultural revolution is his one and only goal.

And how can we forget how McCain later mocked those of us determined to preserve our culture:

"A questioner asked Mitt Romney to explain his tough talk against illegal immigration, in light of political ads the former Massachusetts governor is airing in Spanish. This presented another moment for Tancredo to pontificate on the need to preserve the English language. When it was McCain's turn, he couldn't resist quipping, "Muchas gracias."

Cute, huh? That was a deliberate slap in the face to Americans who do not want to be colonized by Latin America. And yet, he calls himself a conservative -- at least, he does when he wants our votes. It is that bait-and-switch with genuine conservatism that enables the neoliberals and Neocons to convince us that America is not an historical nation founded on Western, Christian heritage, but the "proposition nation" that Abraham Lincoln imposed on us.

Both socialists and Neocons sneer at Pat Buchanan's defense of the traditional America as "blood and soil" conservatism. These pro-amnesty ideologues have managed to turn "blood and soil" into the worst possible insult, thanks to enforcers of political correctness such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and a compliant corporate media. They know that by slandering those who seek to preserve our "historical memories, ancestors, and common culture" as racists, they are attacking the social cohesion that makes limited, Constitutional government possible, thereby paving the way for the authoritarian, socialist government they are determined to impose on us.

And it's working.

McCain's Latino Fifth Column

The Open Borders propagandists are becoming even more brazen in their assertions. Here's the latest example -- but be warned -- it's a doozy:

I first met McCain 10 years ago when I was a working at the Arizona Republic. What I remember is that, in a political climate where so many elected officials — Republican and Democrat alike — were wearing themselves out pandering to racists who demanded action on illegal immigration, McCain was one of the few who didn't play that game.

That's right, it's just those "racists" who want action on illegal immigration. Because everyone knows only goose-stepping, cross-burning, Archie Bunker types want to enforce Federal immigration law.

In 1998, while Texas Gov. George W. Bush made headlines for earning an impressive 49 percent of the Hispanic vote in his re-election, McCain walked off with an unheard-of 65 percent in his Senate re-election bid. Six years later, he did even better, earning around 70 percent of the Hispanic vote.

Translation: You think George W. Bush was a sell-out? Wait until Presidente McCain gets his hands on the levers of power -- he'll set a new standard for selling out the American people.

Another Hispanic Republican called McCain the original compassionate conservative, someone who wore that label before there ever was a label. And, she said, as someone who has faced his share of challenges in life, McCain's compassion bleeds over to anyone picked on or preyed upon.

Except he doesn't have compassion for Americans who've lost their jobs to illegal aliens -- but then, they don't count.

And here are my favorites:

"If you look at Latino families, we've all got someone who has been in the military," said Ruben Alvarez, a McCain supporter and principal at the Molera Alvarez Group, a public affairs firm in Phoenix. "The fact that McCain is so patriotic is a draw for many Latinos." ...

But there's another factor that helps explain McCain's appeal to Hispanics — he's spent 20 years quietly recruiting them into his campaigns and building up personal relationships in that Arizona community.

McCain marked Cinco de Mayo by launching his Hispanic outreach effort, which includes a Spanish-language Web site. Those gimmicks don't hurt.

It's called character, and Hispanics — like many other Americans — may not always be able to define it. But they know it when they see it.

So if you oppose McCain, you're not patriotic. And you lack character. Because nothing proves your patriotism and character like selling out your country to illegal alien invaders.

Community colleges to bar illegal immigrants

Looks like the citizens of the Great State of North Carolina have at least one advocate in government:

The community college system will no longer admit illegal immigrants to degree programs based on an advisory letter from the Office of the Attorney General, the system announced today.

Bernie Thuersam, the State Chair of the North Carolina League of the South, had this to say about the importance of effective demonstrations:

[This] is good news. It was certainly helpful that our Chapter was represented strongly at the so-called May Day "immigrant rights day" protest rally in Raleigh. The rally was so effective that the planned "pro-illegals" march disbanded.

The turnout of those demanding that our State government secure our own borders, send illegals out of our State, and deny criminals access to our publicly supported education system, was obviously effective as seen below. As you know, the leftists who dominate our educational system wanted to allow children of illegal aliens into our community colleges, and charge them the same as North Carolina citizens.

Yay, Bernie!

The Bush Administration Politicizes Tragedy in Burma

The Bush regime, which fancies itself the ultimate arbiter of right and wrong in the world, has once again stuck its nose where it doesn't belong, harming those it claims it wants to help. Here's what Burmese have to say about Bush's ironic criticism of the Burmese junta for its failure to act after a devastating flood:

Even Burmese dissident groups criticized the timing of the administration’s rhetorical onslaught against the junta—declaring that it made getting rapid relief to the desperately needy that much more difficult. According to the Washington Post, exiled Burmese political analyst Aung Naing Oo called Laura Bush’s verbal harangue “totally and utterly inappropriate. She is trying to score political points out of people’s disaster.”

Well, it worked with 9/11 ...

Our choices for 2008

... can be summed up as "Damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

Consider Obama. Here's a smooth-talking politician who barely conceals his contempt for the majority in this country. His close association with his "mentor" Reverend Wright will provide plenty of ammunition for the Republican smear machine (a formidable weapon). The race hustlers will insist that any attack on Obama, or even failure to support him, HAS to be due to racial hatred, which will further confound those who are concerned with issues, and not race:

Pollsters have found it difficult to accurately measure racial attitudes, as some voters are unwilling to acknowledge the role that race plays in their thinking. But some are not. Susan Dzimian, a Clinton supporter who owns residential properties, said outside a polling location in Kokomo that race was a factor in how she viewed Obama. "I think if it was somebody other than him, I'd accept it," she said of a black candidate. "If Colin Powell had run, I would be willing to accept him."

And Obama's left-wing policies will most assuredly repulse most Americans...

...except for his stance on Iraq and the economy, that is. Obama is perceived as the anti-war candidate (which he is certainly not), and as the economy continues to tank, due in large part to the strain of borrowing billions to finance the democratization of the Middle East, anyone who isn't associated with the Republicans will look good.

Then there's Mad John McCain. This hotheaded, foul-mouthed globalist will continue the Bush regime's policy of "Invite the world, invade the world" that has not only weakened this country's security at home and abroad, but poisoned its reputation. Bet your bottom dollar (which shrinks in value every day) that McCain will find a way to grant amnesty to his new amigos from south of the border. Bet on it.

Add to this volatile stew an increasingly rebellious electorate that overwhelmingly feels "the country's seriously off on the wrong track."

So who knows what will happen? When the media-savvy insurgency in Iraq turns up the heat to influence the election, will Obama's fortunes rise? What happens when there's another terrorist attack on US soil? Will that help or hurt McCain?

Who knows? All we can be sure of is that things are getting stickier every day, and there's no sign things are going to get any clearer. We're in a political pea soup without a GPS. Talk about interesting times ...

Quotes from The White Rose

The White Rose was a German resistance group whose members were imprisoned and executed during Hitler's reign for creating and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Here are some select quotes from these brave young people - but these statements are so fitting for the times we're in today, it's scary. Every statement made against the Nazis applies to today's Neocons and their Beloved Leader. Take a look for yourself:

- Nothing is so unworthy of a civilised nation as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct.

- It is impossible to engage in intellectual discourse with National Socialist Philosophy, for if there were such an entity, one would have to try by means of analysis and discussion either to prove its validity or to combat it. In actuality, however, we face a totally different situation. At its very inception this movement depended on the deception and betrayal of one's fellow man; even at that time it was inwardly corrupt and could support itself only by constant lies.

- Every word that comes from Hitler's mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means war ...

- The imperialist ideology of force, from whatever side it comes, must be shattered for all time.