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Quote of the Day
Kelsey D. Atherton, responding to news the Dept. of State is about to strike the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MeK, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations:
The enemy of my enemy isn't really a terrorist if his lobbying is really, really good.
Shameful move by the Dept. of State.
Update: Former Obama Administration State official Tamara Cofman Wittes says I should be blaming the Congress, not the Dept. of State.
Well, that's how Gaddafi got
Well, that's how Gaddafi got off the official state terrorism list in 2003, too - with lots of assistance from the Bush Administration and the U.S.-Libya Business Association, the London School of Economics (which accepted $2.4 million donation from a charity run by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi). In exchange for cutting top British and American corporations into his oilfields, Gaddafi was given 'terrorist-free' status and even allowed to hang on to large elements of his nuclear weapons and chemical weapons programs (well more advanced than the non-existent Iraqi WMD program hyped up by the Bush Administration).
Anyone who is honest will admit that if Saddam had cut the same deal Gaddafi did, he too would have been certified as 'terrorist-free' and a 'good guy', just like Gaddafi was. However, when Cheney took a look at that list of "Foreign Suitors of Iraqi Oil", it was obvious that Saddam was locking out Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell, etc., in favor of Chinese and Russian outfits. That's why he had to go, right?
The people in the State Department cut such deals largely to benefit the corporations that will give them cushy board positions after their 'government service' is over - but it works the same way with the generals at the Pentagon and the politicians in Congress, doesn't it?
That's why this country is in the shithole, just like the old Soviet Union was in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A major reorganization is needed, and soon - but first, the complex has to admit that the Cold War is over and accept downsizing.
MeK is the enemy of our enemy
MeK is the enemy of our enemy and hence our friend. Also their "terrorist" activities would be called guerrilla warfare if practiced by say ...Hezbollah. Ahem.
If we could and did support the USSR and Stalin - and Progressives and America did - we can support MeK.
For SOX's sake I should also
For SOX's sake I should also include the activities of the United Irishmen, IRB, and IRA from 1918 to the Good Friday Agreement.....
The MeK doesn't want the world, just Iran.
Blame Congress? Sounds a
Blame Congress? Sounds a little mutual to me. Cofman should know better. After all Clinton has ownership until she says no. A "No" flies in the face of everything "the three B's" spun on Libya to get America to engage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR6B1pAhUrw (that was a year ago, that is a lot of "important considerations and reviews" more like dragging feet. Didn't take Clinton that long to drag the US into Libya and drop a Billion bucks. We know she can do a lot of "important considerations and reviews" when she wants to )
Sounds like someone is now trolling for public opinion.
Personally, I think that the US over uses US citizenship and other perks as intelligence bait, sort of cheapens the experience. If foreign people want freedom coming to the US is really selling out their own country. Still US military enlistment has been a short cut to US citizenship for a very long time. Who changes the world if everyone is in the US?
My question is where are the residence of the camp being relocated to? Seems to me that one needs to make a call on the status of terrorist identity before giving a new address.
You know the more I look at
You know the more I look at this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR6B1pAhUrw
The more I realize that all Congress and the Court System is guilty of is asking Hillary Clinton and her minions to do their job.
When the worm turns, there going to be a lot of "do nothing" bureaucrats without champions to cover their butts.
Hillary and her minions are a heck of a lot more well off than the majority of other taxpayers they are trying to dupe into believing Congress and rich people are to blame.
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