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To: bentway who wrote (18318)	4/24/2011 10:08:21 AM
From: alanrs	2 Recommendations Respond to of 119360

"Oh, c'mon now alan! Starting a war, based on really nothing but known lies, that has cost a trillion dollars already, while winning us NOTHING - is a pretty blatant screw-up, wouldn't you say?" This has been SOP for the US since Vietnam at least, probably Korea. Korea was before my time so I don't have the experience of watching that unfold like I do for the rest of it. It's clear that war is good business and in somebodies best interest. Lots of angles to that one, whether it be war with another country, or by proxy, or on behavior of our own citizens. I'd have to say that the blatant part, at least for me, started with Hank Paulson's speech about the bazooka in his pocket. It's been all down hill at a gallop, gloves off, no pretending, since then. ARS

To: bentway who wrote (18318)	4/24/2011 10:30:57 AM
From: alanrs	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 119360

I want to add that in regards to Obama specifically, our situation was known to him before he ran for president. The debt was ridiculous, we were in wars that had no point or clear objective, government had been effectively captured by the financial industry. He did run saying he would take these problems on. Hope and change and all that. He has not taken these problems on as far as I can tell, and excuses really don't matter. The dog ate my homework might work in second grade but one would think the president would be beyond that. Not that I expected any better, my take on him was (and still is) that he is just a guy enamored of the idea of being president who saw his chance. Pretty much a narcissist. Not that the alternative was any better, there really weren't any alternatives. And therein lies the problem. ARS

To: bentway who wrote (18318)	4/24/2011 2:11:47 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	2 Recommendations Respond to of 119360

>>Oh, c'mon now alan! Starting a war, based on really nothing but known lies, that has cost a trillion dollars already, while winning us NOTHING - is a pretty blatant screw-up, wouldn't you say?<< you don't support the al qaeda freedom fighters in libya? telegraph.co.uk what are you, al qaeda? (the cumptocracy won't figure out the contradiction). >>How about deregulating to the point where our banksters could collapse the global economy? Can you GET more blatant than that?<< yes, the Big Capital RINOS and Big Capital's bill clinton sure did a number with criminalizing regulation of the derivatives market, didn't they. yes, it is transparent. clinton knew the risks, which is why he waited until the very, very, very end of his administration to sign america's noose over to the private bankers.