To Call a Spade a Spade, One Must Call That Spade a Spade!

To be sure, I don’t have any love at this particular moment in my life for any damn politician. As far as I am concerned they're now all about themselves and NOT for us, the people!!

But to understand why we are where we are today with Terrorism, we need to understand what happened yesterday.

To also understand the beginning of modern Terrorism, one only has to go back to Jimmy Carter’s Presidency. However, today we want to understand how we got where we are in recent history so let’s start with….

William Jefferson Clinton who becomes President January 21, 1993. He claims during his Administration, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. Of course, in hindsight, we now know most of the economic well being was the internet bubble. We also now know from history that while peace was enjoyed in country, there was far from peace elsewhere in the world as depicted below. And, worst of all, from Clinton's inaction to do the “hard work”, 9/11 which did not happen on his watch had certainly occurred because OF his watch. Let’s examine the facts.

CIA
Upon taking power in 1993, the Clinton administration "began slashing the intelligence budget in search of a peace dividend, and Bill Clinton showed almost no interest in intelligence matters." One statement made "Thanks to Vice President Al Gore, for example, the CIA briefly made the global environment one of is priorities." (And I am sure Gore’s Movie “An Inconvenient Truth” is much more important than today’s geopolitical nightmare. Truthfully though, finding Gore’s name attached to a movie with the word “truth” in it, is almost too funny to bear considering he flies around in his personal jet for appearances while claiming global warming is the worst threat the world is facing.)

WORLD TRADE CENTER
But I digress. In February 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed by Muslim fanatics, killing five people and injuring hundreds. Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke (National Security Council Terrorism Czar), did nothing.

SOMALIA
In October 1993, 18 American troops were killed in a savage firefight in Somalia. The body of one American was dragged through the streets of Mogadishu as the Somalian hordes cheered. US Defense Secretary Les Aspin denies requests for armored reinforcements, despite support for Montgomery's request from General Colin Powell. It’s a military disaster that sets the course for 9/11 as Osama states that at this moment he realized America was a paper tiger.

NORTH KOREA
In 1994 Carter visits, Kim Il-Sung of North Korea at the behest of Clinton to propose the North freeze its nuclear program on condition that it receive lightwater reactors which could be monitored more easily by the outside world. This proposal eventually led to a landmark agreement in October 1994 in Geneva, under which North Korea agreed to freeze its nuclear program in exchange for two light-water reactors and fuel from the West. President Clinton agrees. Carter returned to Seoul from Pyongyang with a proposal from Kim Il-Sung to hold an inter-Korean summit, but the summit was cancelled by the sudden death of Kim Il-Sung from a heart attack on July 8, 1994. Kim Il-Sung was succeeded by his eldest son, Kim Jong-Il and today, this whacko who is a daffy duck fan (no kidding) has nuclear weapons in part due to the light water reactors given to them by the United States.

SAUDI ARABIA
In November 1995, five Americans were killed and 30 wounded by a car bomb in Saudi Arabia set by Muslim extremists. After the attack, Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.

DECLARATION OF WAR
In 1996, Osama Bin Laden holds a press conference convienently missed by the West’s media and he declares war on the United States.

SAUDIA ARABIA
In June 1996, a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia was bombed by Muslim extremists. After the attack, Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.

IRAQ
In November 1997, Iraq refused to allow U.N. weapons inspections to do their jobs and threatened to shoot down a U.S. U-2 spy plane. Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.

SUDAN
Mansoor Ijaz, who negotiated with Sudan on behalf of Clinton from 1996 to 1998, paints a portrait of a White House plagued by incompetence, focused on appearances rather than action, and heedless of profound threats to national security. Ijaz also claims Clinton passed on an opportunity to have Osama bin Laden arrested.

Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, hoping to have terrorism sanctions lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of bin Laden and "detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas,” Ijaz writes in the Los Angeles Times.

These networks included the two hijackers who would later pilot jetliners into the World Trade Center. But Clinton, National Security Adviser Samuel "Sandy” Berger and Madeline Albright, Secretary of State, failed to act.

Back then Clinton said in a Feb. 2002 speech to a New York business group, "We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America."

Today the Clintonites claim this is false information proliferated by the Conservatives. Really? And this is the crux of Clinton and why he was impeached. He is a liar.

The Sudan Government DID offer Osama Bin Laden to Clinton. Hear it in Clinton's own words!!! And then scratch your head and wonder.

Tim Carny, the last U.S. Ambassador to Sudan, whose posting ended in 1997, stated the Sudanese Government were opening the doors, and we weren't taking them up on it. Letters and memorandums that document approaches made by Sudanese intelligence officials and other emissaries to members of the Clinton administration to share information about many of the 22 terrorists on the government's most-wanted list, including Osama bin Laden go unheeded. Madam Albright, Secretary of State, will not allow the acceptance of this information.

In Tim's own words, "The U.S. failed to reciprocate Sudan's willingness to engage us on some serious questions of terrorism. We can speculate that this failure had serious implications at least for what happened at the U.S. Embassies in 1998. In any case, the U.S. lost access to a mine of material on bin Laden and his organization." Carney stated, “It was worse than a crime. It was a fuckup."

IRAQ BUT CLINTON CAPITULATES TO THE U.N.
In February 1998, Clinton threatened to bomb Iraq, but called it off when the United Nations said no.

AMERICAN EMBASSIES (KENYA AND TANZANIA)
On Aug. 7, 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim extremists. If we had taken custody of the documents offered by the Sudanese Government earlier, strong evidence sugggests this could have been avoided. After the attack, Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.

AFGHANISTAN
On Aug. 20, 1998 Monica Lewinsky appeared for the second time to testify before the grand jury. Clinton responded by bombing Afghanistan and Sudan, severely damaging a camel and an aspirin factory. Not reported at the time, but now realized, this becomes a draw for recruitment into Al Qaida.

IRAQ
On Dec. 16, 1998 the House of Representatives prepared to impeach Clinton the next day. Clinton retaliated by ordering major air strikes against Iraq, described by the New York Times as "by far the largest military action in Iraq since the end of the Gulf War in 1991." I wonder why The Times did not reveal Clinton's plans prior to this attack? Under the Bush Administration, The Times prints it all! Could it be their politics and agenda are above honor and America?

KOSOVO
The only time Clinton decided to go to war with anyone in the vicinity of Muslim fanatics was in 1999 – when Clinton attacked Serbians who were fighting Islamic fanatics. The problem is, Clinton is on the wrong side. He supported the fanatics. He puts no boots on the ground but rather uses airstrikes only. Thousands of civilians die, hundreds of thousands displaced and not reported by the American Press. However, it is reported by the Canadian Press.

An Example of Living in Kosovo Today
Chased from her apartment in Pristina, Maria would not have had a life except that she looked Albanian. Her nephew, an interpretor for the UN, was savagely murdered. Silvana's husband was kidnapped, and she hasn't had any news about him for two years. Stanimir's home was burned down. What do they have in common? They are Serbs and live, or rather survive, in Kosovo. Why doesn't the media talk more about this region occupied by NATO and created by Clinton's bombing?

IRAN
Beginning in February 2000, the CIA recruited a Russian scientist who had defected to the US years earlier. His mission: Take the nuclear blueprints to Vienna to sell them - or simply give them - to the Iranian representatives for the International Atomic Energy Agency. Dubbed "Operation Merlin," the plan was supposed to steer Iranian physicists off track by incorporating design flaws in the blueprints that would render the information worthless.

But in what may turn out to be one of the greatest foreign policy blunders of all time, Operation Merlin backfired when the Russian scientist spotted the design flaws immediately - and even offered to help Iran fix the problems for the right price which he did.

The Clinton-approved plan ended up handing Tehran "one of the greatest engineering secrets in the world", providing the solution to one of a handful of problems that separated nuclear powers such as the United States and Russia from rogue countries such as Iran that were desperate to join the nuclear club but had so far fallen short.

USS COLE
In October 2000, our warship, the USS Cole, was attacked by Muslim extremists. Seventeen dead and 30 wounded. After the attack, Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing.

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
What of William Cohen, the Secretary of Defense, during all of this? As the Secretary of Defense in President Clinton's administration, William S. Cohen led the Defense Department efforts to counter terrorism. During Cohen's tenure, the United States was targeted by Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network in the bombing of U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and the attempt to destroy the U.S.S. Cole. Cohen was a key player on the national security team that decided to send a one million dollara missile up the ass of a camel in Afghanistan and and to bomb an Aspirin plant in Sudan. I think my stock in Bayer went up after that brilliant military action.


ESCHELON AND NSA
Oh yeah, the Media has you all worked up. Bush and Cheney are kicked back on the couch listening to every American's conversation on the telephone. Damn, they can multi-task!

Truth is, during the 1990s, President Bill Clinton ordered the National Security Agency to use its super-secret Echelon surveillance program to monitor the personal telephone calls and private email of employees who worked for foreign companies in a bid to boost U.S. trade.

In 2000, former Clinton CIA director James Woolsey set off a firestorm of protest in Europe when he told the French newspaper Le Figaro that he was ordered by Clinton in 1993 to transform Echelon into a tool for gathering economic intelligence. Of course, this was never reported by the American Press. Cannot have the American citizens understand that a super secret tool to spy on conversations of enemies is to be converted into an economic tool for ... whose benefit?

Former Clinton administration State Department official Harold Hongju Koh, who is now Dean of Yale Law School, told Specter’s committee that the NSA spying was “as blatantly illegal a program as I’ve seen.” I must be missing something. Hmmmm, ok for Bill. Illegal for George. Nope…still don’t see it. Can it be the hypocrisy is so thick from these Clintonites, I cannot see the common sense here?

DESTROY THAT EVIDENCE
Sandy Berger, Clinton’s National Security Advisor, (remember him?) destroyed top secret terrorism documents in a bid to obstruct the 9/11 Commission investigation. Brokaw asked President Clinton about it and this is what Clinton said:

"And he (Sandy) told me just what he said to the public." He said, "You know, I just messed this up." Aw Shucks, Sandy...stealing Top Secret documents is just a mess up, I know. No problem. Better luck next time.

Clinton then told Brokaw, “And this — apparently this document in question was an after review of our efforts to thwart terrorist attacks in the millennium, which were extremely successful. So there doesn't seem to be anything suspect to me about it.” OH MY GOD! Please! Pass the aspirin now that the factory is rebuilt!! Okay order me a cake of ‘I am a dumb ass public’!!!! If this document proved how successful you were (which I have shown you were not), then WHY IS BERGER STEALING IT??????

In June, two months after Berger pled guilty to what some say is the most serious crime ever committed by a senior White House official , can anyone tell me what punishment he got? Anything in newspapers? TV? Anywhere? Nope. Rather, the American Press tells us the worst crime ever was the outting of Valerie “Whomever” who wasn’t really even an undercover CIA agent!!


Now we know about yesterday’s 12 years under Clinton which brings us to today and should now be pretty clear why we are where we are:

September 11, 2001, under a new watch, The Bush Administration, nine months into its reign, America is attacked and close to 3000 Americans die. Since 1993, the Muslim fanatics had been escalating their attacks, had declared war on the United States, had bombed U.S. Embassies (an act of war), had bombed a U.S. Navy Ship (also a certain act of war) had planned the 9/11 attack and Clinton did....well, nothing really.

But hey, Bill wrote a book and made millions. Hillary wrote a book and made millions. Dick Clarke testifies before Congress and blames Bush for 9/11, writes a book, sells the rights to Hollywood for an upcoming movie and makes millions. So, hell, they did do something after all, didn't they?

One more thought before I go. After reading this, don't ever, ever, ever let anyone tell you your vote is not important.

-hashmark

BUSH SECRET GOVERNMENT?

On a day when the UN is debating whether or not the U.S. has the right to bear arms under our Constitutution and wants our guns banned, I learn this:

BUSH SETS UP A GOVT WITHIN OUR GOVT

Now I know why no politician cares to secure our borders. Has any of this been reported in any U.S. Newspaper? Any TV Station? Does Congress know what the Bush administration has been creating here?

PARTICIPANTS IN THESE MEETINGS FOR THE PAST YEAR

Carlos Gutierrez
Michael Chertoff
Condoleezza Rice
Fernando Canales
Carlos Abascal
Luis Ernesto Derbéz and others

To make North America secure for the future, we need integrated, coordinated and seamless measures in place at, within, and beyond our borders to provide our people and our infrastructure with the highest possible common level of protection from terrorists and other criminal elements, as well as from the common threats of nature.

To make North America prosperous for the future, we need to improve the efficiency of the movement of people, goods and services crossing our borders. We must remove barriers to trade, investment, research and education. (What barriers I ask?)

Liberalization of Rules of Origin . We have completed the implementation of modifications of rules of origin, covering goods such as household appliances, precious metals, and various machinery and equipment parts. Liberalizing rules of origin reduces administrative burdens by making it easier for exporters to qualify for duty-free treatment under NAFTA. These changes will affect US$20 billion of annual trilateral trade.
(Say goodbye to yet more American Jobs!!!)

Temporary Work Entry . The three countries have forwarded a trilateral document setting out each country's domestic procedures to modify NAFTA's temporary entry appendix on professionals to the NAFTA Free Trade Commission for approval. This will clarify procedures in each country, thereby providing a mechanism for more North American professionals to be given temporary entry.

Public Safety along the U.S.-Mexico Border. The United States and Mexico recently agreed to, over the course of three weeks, identify and target key procedures and guidelines to establish a standardized Alien Smuggler Prosecutions Program along the Southwest border, built upon previous U.S. – Mexico efforts in the Guide Identification Prosecution Program (GIPP), a collaborative effort between CBP and Mexico's Attorney General Office--Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) - to identify and prosecute local guides and alien smugglers who endanger the lives of migrants.
(That’s nice but what about the part that states STOPPING THE ILLEGAL FLOW. It isn’t just smugglers. So this is just typical government feel good do nothing bureaucratic chatter.)

Securing North America from External and Internal Threats and further Streamlining the Secure Movement of Low-Risk Traffic across our Shared Borders.

Key Themes and Initiatives
President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin committed our countries on March 23, 2005, to:

“establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North American, and to further streamline the secure and efficient movement of legitimate, low risk traffic across our shared border.”

(WHAT?????? How about PROTECTING AMERICAN BORDERS??? Where is that? And what is LOW RISK TRAFFIC??? Me thinks this be Illegal Aliens or in today’s speech Immigrants who pay taxes. Illegal doesn't exist in our government's parlance.)

What bothers me is I did not read anywhere at the http://www.spp.gov any statement about AMERICA or AMERICAN. It was ALL NORTH AMERICA.

I am buying a gun tomorrow!!! I may need it in the not so far future especially since the UN, the most anti-American establishment in the world (and surprisingly still on our soil) somehow gets to debate our constitution and whether or not I should be allowed to own a handgun. In good old Navy terms...Man, if something ain't done soon, we are in a world of shit!!!

MYSTICAL MUSING AND WMDs AGAIN

Been awhile since I posted. Damn, time flies.

FIRST, GOOD NEWS for ZARQAWI…he is dead and now a Martyr. BAD NEWS is the virgins are not real virgins…they are Lesbians!! Damnit!!! I also heard it’s hot as hell where he is right now.

I HAVE been wondering lately about the “We found no WMD’s in Iraq” ad naseum statements made by Democrats. And I wondered this: How could that be? We knew for a fact he had Chemical WMDs and used them on Iranians during his war with them. Hell, we supplied it to him!! We knew for a fact he used it on the Kurds. So with four months prior to the runup of the war he knew was coming, when Bagdad falls, NONE are found!!? Again, it is a FACT he had Chemical weapons. Where did they go? So if they disappeared, what else did? Does anyone remember the truck convoys at night going from Iraq to Syria?

LATELY I have also been thinking about mystical stuff. For example, in every movie about demons and exorcism, the hero goes to the Catholic Church. So I did some research and checked on real paranormal “experts” and a new field called “demonology” and discovered that after these people go to a “haunted” house and cannot help the inflicted, they then compile evidence via recordings and video and guess where they go? To the Catholic Church for permission to get a Priest to perform an exorcism!! They don’t go to Bennie Hine, Pat Robertson or any evangelists. Why is that?

I WAS also reading about NDE’s (Near Death Experiences) and those people keep talking about how they saw a white light…a tunnel that led to a white light and how it felt ok…peaceful. And then I remembered a passage from the Bible where Jesus said, “"I am the light of the world, he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” The point is he was talking about himself as being the “light”. So those people who had NDE’s what was the white light?

THEN Sunni Arabs stopped a bus in Iraq recently, separated the Sunni’s from the Shiites and executed the Shiites who were nothing more than kids going to school. Those Sunni’s said “In the name of Islam, we will dig you a mass grave.” And I thought how very thoughtful and kind this religion is. I then went to the New Testament and looked for any time where Jesus said he would kill you and dig you a grave or anything like that. Not there. I wonder why?