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Since becoming President, we have seen no “hope” whatsoever coming from Obama, and the elitist, insider-club, corrupt beltway policies that he happily advances.
But we have seen the audacity of a lot of Bombs, and SEVEN WARS!
That’s right:
- 1. We’ve been at War in Afghanistan for almost a full decade.
- 2. We’ve been at War in Iraq for nearly as long.
- 3. We’re at War in Pakistan.
- 4. We’re at War in Yemen.
- 5. We have ongoing CIA and Naval destablization War Games staged in Iran.
- 6. We have ongoing CIA hostilities, in coordination with Columbia, against Venezuela.
- 7. We’re at War, and dropping bombs in Libya.
That’s SEVEN…count ‘em…SEVEN frickkin Wars, folks!
All of them are undeclared Wars, in violation of the War Powers Act, and are Unconstitutional. Three years into Obama’s presidency, we have approximately double the number of Unconsitutional Wars going on than we did during the Bush-Cheney years. And that’s twice as bad.
More innocent people slaughtered. More wasteful Military spending. More circular logic (we can’t leave because otherwise…) as we plunge our Country into incalculable National Debt, and destroy the purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar for Americans.
The United States has over 800 Military Bases, in over 130 Countries around the planet. And we Americans are forced to pay for all of that (we don’t get to have any choice) — and then must give up our Social Security to keep it all going on.
For many decades now, Presidents have started and committed acts of War without a formal declaration of War. Ever since the Federal Reserve Central Bank Monopoly came into existence in 1913 (designed after the corrupt Rothschilds Bank of England), our longstanding, foresworn enemy The British, suddenly became “our friend“, and The United States started going overseas and fighting all of Europe’s dirty Imperial Wars for them — beginning with WWI — with American citizens paying the bills, coffins coming home, and seeing the purchasing power of their U.S. Dollar destroyed.
I don’t know why so many Americans put up with it. War after War after War after War. Lies after Lies after Lies after Lies. Trillions of dollars wasted, and Millions of innocent people slaughtered.
Obama may claim to have “taught” Constitutional Law somewhere, but everyday of his life he proves over and over that this so-called “teacher” was, in fact, an F student.
If it was wrong, and was an Impeachable offense for George W. Bush to commit our Nation into illegal, Unconstitutional Wars, then the same principle must apply to Barack Insane Obama.
This madness must stop.
“Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. In war, the public treasuries are to be unlocked. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. No Nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual Warfare.”
–James Madison
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We have a Criminal Government that answers only to the Crowned Heads of Europe (Blue Bloods), the U.N., and the International Banking Cartel and The Multinational Corporations. They use The U.S. Military run by the CIA and Pentagon. The MSM Media is their mouth piece.
It’s time to Impeach Obama, and Impeach this insane U.S. Foreign Policy!
The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.
–Sen. Barack Obama, December 20, 2007
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Oh…the irony!
It would be nice if we had a President who acted like that.
Many ‘progressive’ propagandists have become surprisingly adept at supporting Obama’s wars. Practice makes perfect.
Many people agree and that is a great quote from Madison. What’s it from? One of the Federalist Papers? Do you have a source for that? I’d like to use it.
Eh, that quote isn’t exactly right. It’s from his letters.
Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (1865), Vol. IV, p. 491
Incidentally, it’s practically a prescient quote with the bit the OP left out in the middle. It explains exactly what is going on now. I wonder why he left it out, seeing as how the entire quote is really, really spot on.
I just abridged the quote a little to keep it from being so long. I did mangle the last line though, but the meaning of the words remained the same…. (now corrected anyway).
This is just a giveaway that they’re not progressive at all.
If it talks like a Neocon, walks like a Neocon, and acts like a Neocon — it’s a Neocon.
Woodrow Wilson was quite a monster wasn’t he. Funny how my school text books made Mr “Making the world safe for Democracy” out as being a great president.
We need an exit plan, the current policies are immoral, self destructive and entirely unsustainable.
Very good observation.
Woodrow Wilson was our Nation’s very worst fascist President. Yes, even worse than George W. Bush. Why?
Because he did many big, horrible things that completely ruined our Country:
1. He allowed the private Central Bank Monopolists (Morgan-Rockefeller-Chase, etc.) to completely take over the money supply of The United States, when he permitted the Federal Reserve Act to be created. It was then that we become the subservient puppets of International Bankers, Globalists, Wall Street, Foreign Interests, and gleeful War Profiteers — and lost our Independence as a Country.
2. He got us unnecessarily involved in World War I, which began the horrible precedent of The United States being drawn into fighting all the Wars of Europe, and also the Middle-East — at incalulable cost to American citizens. (World War I also directly led to the events that resulted in World War II).
3. As bad as The Patriot Act is, Wilson reached even farther to curtain Civil Liberties, with his Sedition Act, which made it actually illegal to criticize the government (we sort of have that back today anyway as peaceful protesters routinely get arrested).
4. He started the Federal Income-Tax. Many people don’t realize that before our Country was controlled by a Debt-based Central Bank Monopoly, and before we acted as Policeman-Mafia-Henchman all over the World — we didn’t even require a Federal Income Tax at all. Our Country prospered for 130 years (and even more than that if you also count the pre-King-George-III Colonial period) without a Federal Income Tax, and it grew to become a great Industrial Powerhouse in the 1800s. While it could be argued that some additional forms of taxation may have eventually been necessary, a tax on WAGES is akin to economic slavery, is in violation of the U.S. Constitution, and is the most easy corruptible.
5. Wilson also created the first official propaganda department called the “Committee On Public Information”.
6. He rejected the principles of “separation of powers” and “checks and balances” that are the foundation of American government: “Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand….” wrote Wilson in The State.
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Harry Truman was also a fascist horror show. He unnecessily dropped Nuclear Bombs on Japan — killing Millions, even though Japan was in retreat anyway, and the outcome of the War was never in doubt.
Truman bought into this whole hyped-up “Soviets are going to take over the World” Cold War propaganda, created the Arms Race with them, and then Institutionalized The National Security State, with the formation of a permanent, clandestine, criminal CIA apparatus with unlimted funds and power. We became then a Country no longer organized around FDR’s “Four Freedoms”, but instead a Country now condemned to permanent, perpetual covert and overt Global Warfare. Our Republic was totally destroyed then.
Truman then started an undeclared, Unconstitutional War with Korea — which set the precedent for Vietnam, and a whole series of endless proxy-Wars fought far away all over the Globe for reasons that have nothing to do with the security of Americans — and actually motivates hatreds & hostilites toward Americans.
Yeah, Wilson also brought segregation to the offices of our federal government.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_african.html
Regarding civil liberties, montanamaven wrote an interesting diary on police state conditions in Montana during the Wilson era.
http://my.firedoglake.com/montanamaven/2010/12/30/montanas-inquisition-and-wikileaks/
As for Truman, he seemed to have been in way over his head. Much like Wilson, Truman also made a big mistake w/respect to central banks. FDR’s admin had scheduled the nazi infested Bank of International Settlements(BIS) to be shut down. But FDR died soon after and Truman reversed the order upon request from the British.
What I don’t understand is how nearly 100% of elected Democrats support the atrocities.
I must reassert what I’ve said for the past year. He’s a crook, but he’s not our crook. We don’t have to keep him in office.
Where would we have been during Watergate if 100% of the Republicans had been dishonest? Nixon would have gotten away with Federal Crimes!
The Democratic Party has sold out the United States, and its own voters.
I am so sick of hearing “the Republicans are worse,” because I don’t think that is possible.
“McCain would have been worse,” on the other hand, is obviously incorrect: Because if McCain had been elected and tried to continue Bush’s “Fascist Reforms” as Obama has, the Democrats would have opposed him on it just like they opposed Bush. It shows that all Democrats are dishonest, otherwise at least one of them would have called for Impeaching Obama over the public torture & murders of peaceful Democracy advocates in Yemen & Bahrain.
What a disgrace the Democratic Party is!
Spot on!
Had FDR lived another 3 or 4 years, our Country would be so very different today: No National Security State, no Cold War, no Nuclear Arms race, and a renewed focus on the “Four Freedoms“, which FDR considered completely attainable, and which now seem like some sort of far away utopian fantasy from a children’s book.
The destiny of our Country was robbed away from us, when FDR died, and his useless stool pigeon Truman was elevated to President (and in way over his head).
But I never understood why FDR got rid of his original Vice president: Henry Wallace. Henry Wallace was a good guy, who was known for his speech: “Century of the Common Man”. Wallace supported maintaining diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Had Wallace remained in place to succeed FDR, everything would have also been much, much different.
But FDR was pressured to “replace” Wallace, by the Democratic Party leaders. I don’t know why FDR ever listened to them.
Obama destroyed the Democratic Party.
The very first thing that he did as President was to dismantle Howard Dean’s great 50-State DNC organization, and put in a corporate-hack to make it voiceless, and shrink the whole base of support that had swept the Democrats into Congress in 2006, and again in 2008 by record numbers in half. He didn’t want that to ever happen ever again.
I’m convinced that Obama always really wanted to have a Republican Congress from the outset. That way he could sit back and enact his corrupt, right-wing, Wall Street, Neocon policies to his hearts content, and still claim that he was “doing all that he could”. In fact, he governed like that even with, and in-spite-of record Democratic Majorities.
From day one, with historic Democratic Majorities, Obama silenced all the voices of true reform within his own Party, and he and Rahm Emanuel then set upon a course of governing by advancing decidely GOP policy positions up and down the line — without any serious fight whatsoever for anything even remotely “progressive”. He intentionally wasted that unique moment in history, and threw away his Democratic Majorities — because his goal was never to govern as a progressive under any circumstances.
Obama openly hates the Left, and must be seen clearly for who he really is. This is a man who should quit the Democratic Party, and go challenge Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for the Republican Nomination.
He does not speak for us, or represent us.
Obama Must Be Primaried to Restore the Democratic Party!
And while we’re at it, IMPEACH him too, as he easily deserves it now as much as George W. and Dick Cheney.
mind if I quote you?
That’s been my theory since the primaries. Hostile takeover of the Democratic Party with intent to dismantle.
Be my guest
Oh, it’s cool bro. It’s a long quote. I didn’t think for a second that you had gotten it “wrong”.
Well done FDL diary freesociety –
I concur with your POV(s) and the style of your presentation above — a nicely done weave of American history,politics,fiscal affairs and the two really big American Monsters — American Militarism and it’s avarice hearted twin — American Corporatism.
Where did you find that spot on graphic of Barack Obama imposed on the Rising Sun flag with American Militarism imagery filling in the field?
Seeing how the U.S. has now entered Libya to meddle/interfere in Libyan politics it now has become a roll of the dice matter as to how this American meddling ( with clever screensaver application of UN and European approval and participation ) gets to any Moment of Victory and Triumph. Past/current episodes of American meddling in Vietnam,Iraq,Afghanistan and American War On Drug Merchants do not suggest the Moment of Victory and Triumph will be here anytime soon.
Which more and more seems to be a intended feature and not a bug.
The real “turn the table” test here is how would WashingtonDC have voted if China had put the UN in play on a joint Chinese/European intrusion into Libyan politics and civil fighting?
Would WashingtonDC voted for the Chinese doing what Americans are now doing to Libya?
Or is this another application of American Exceptionalism?
Vietnam,Iraq and Afghanistan have shown very well how this American Exceptionalism impales itself on ignorance,false pride and the dubious notion of killing innocents to protect same innocents. American Exceptionalism is some very maliced aforethoughted political malpractice/brutal militarism driven death dealing and blow it up destruction delivering.
Evidence of more (unending?) American perfidy in Afghanistan was revealed by the German political press over the past few days — that incident of War Trophy Photos with Dead Afghanis. When added to the one where nine Afghan boys were killed by American soldiers. When added to the One Way/No Evidence/No Trial Killer Drone attacks Americans are doing across Afghanistan and Pakistan on this D Party POTUS Obama’s order. When added to what Americans did to Iraq during the 1990′s while a D Party POTUS sat in the Oval Office. Or starting in 2003 under a R Party POTUS/VPOTUS regime that could not wait to bomb Baghdad and lay ruin and death across Iraq.
Now here in March 2011 some Americans — despite all this evidence that the Americans were not/are not the good guys — now are fervently suggesting that Americans get into Libya and do good.
This denial of American history of past three years,five years,ten years or now nearly twenty years is quite the feat of self deception.
Again — a well done diary freesociety. Stay with it.
Yeah, I don’t know the party politics behind the Wallace-Truman switch either. But I agree, losing FDR and his policy direction at that critical moment in time was and still is a disaster.
Anyone else notice about ten years after the”war to end all wars”the country fell into a deep depression ?
The punishment for cutting “War Industries Profits”, the inflation rate was 77% the year after the war was ended.
Now is about ten years after the start of our latest nonstop aggression .