and we wonder why Muslims hate us..

great video on evolution of Iran-USA relationship over 20th century…also brings up thee old inconvenient point of USA supporting Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran…

bush’s war to stop satan

here’s an excerpt from an article about how bush explained the justification for going to war in iraq. nothing like bible-thumpers going wit their gut:

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5

interesting insight into middle east policy/strategy

“military missionaries”

clip from bill mahre on h0w many military GIs and generals are pushing an evangelical christian message throughout our middle east occupations…isn’t this why they hate us?…this isn’t rocket science….

more on our idiot crusaders…

ron paul on gaza

i’m betting on OIL in 2009

based on the fact that the gov’t is printing TONs of money + the fact that the world economy hit bottom this fall, I am throwing my hat into the commodities speculation game. Bought a few lots of USO, or the fund that tracks the price of OIL.

Since the world oil market does ALL its trading in US Dollars….the more US dollars there are in the world……the more expensive oil becomes….lets see what happens 12 months from now…Oil could be $150 a barrel again easily…

world leaders get last laugh

1st positive effect of obama presidency

Excerpt:

Barack Obama may have been elected only three days ago, but his victory is already beginning to shift the political ground in Iraq and the region.

Iraqi Shiite politicians are indicating that they will move faster toward a new security agreement about American troops, and a Bush administration official said he believed that Iraqis could ratify the agreement as early as the middle of this month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/world/middleeast/07iraq.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

wassup budweiser commercial dudes 8 years later

thanks for link evan!

bob woodward on real time

if this doesn’t scare the sh$t out of you and re-affirm everything the press/media assumes about george bush then you’re not listening.

why bomb iran? because ahmadinejad is an “asshole”.