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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1055135)	2/17/2018 9:02:55 AM
From: Sdgla	1 Recommendation Recommended By RetiredNow Respond to of 1573921

Look at the numbers.. americanthinker.com Russian Investigation Offers a Ludicrous Indictment By E. Jeffrey Ludwig The malicious but ludicrous Russian collusion investigation is now winding down. The Democrats and the Justice Department are trying to exit with face-saving grace despite colossal failure to prove their assertion against Trump and his team, which assertion was in fact bogus from the beginning. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced with tepid fanfare that thirteen Russians are being indicted for attempting to interfere with the U.S. presidential election. It was a ho-hum moment intended to suggest that the magnificent obsession of the left with election meddling has somehow born fruit. Rosenstein noted that the Russians had posted 176,000 tweets in ten weeks, and that 50,258 accounts had been created and tweeted a million times. The tweets presumably were slanted with anti-Hillary bias. The “interference” began during the nomination season, and the Russians, according to Rosenstein (the reader will please excuse my skepticism) preferred Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump. To put this tweet threat in perspective, the reader should know that there are 500 million tweets on average generated every day on Twitter. If the total number of Russian tweets were concentrated on one day that would still only come to .00352% of all the tweets on that day. If it were one million tweets over a five-month period, that would come to .0000235% of all tweets over that period. What an impact those tweets must have had! Rosenstein also informed us that the massive Russian interference generated 129 real world events that drew 340,000 Facebook users. If we look at the number of mobile active Facebook users for December 2016, we see that there were 1.74 billion. Thus, the Russians commandeered .000195402% of the Facebook users for that one month. Again, we can see how incredibly destructive such a program must have been. The figures are so ludicrous that one can only wonder why the Russians ever believed that they could have a significant impact. And, looking at the stats, we must be drawn to the conclusion that the Democrats have not only been making a mountain out of a mole hill, but have been making a veritable Mt. Everest out of an ant hill. In order to come up with these picayune charges, the Mueller investigation spent $6.7 million dollars of our money during his first 4.5 months. Further, the indictment against the Russky-13 (Vladimir Putin will, we are certain, put those 13 individuals on the first plane out of Moscow with Washington DC as its destination) states, “Defendants conspired to obstruct the lawful functions of the United States government through fraud and deceit, including by making expenditures in connection with the 2016 U.S. presidential election without proper regulatory disclosure….” However, as noted by The New American, “America is no stranger to spending money to interfere with foreign elections. In the last Israeli election, the Obama State Department funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to the opposition of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that the State Department and a group called One Voice coordinated political activities — including the building of a voter database, the training of activists, and the hiring of a political consulting firm tied to President Obama himself.” Further, as all informed students of history know, the U.S. had a significant role in installing the former Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi. Further, under President Ronald Reagan, we made significant deals with the Contras in Nicaragua, and President Bill Clinton arranged for $10 billion from the International Monetary fund to be put in the hands of Boris Yeltsin. How indignant can we be when our hands have become dirtied in the same trough? The intent of the indictments is clearly to save face and to justify an unjustifiable attempt to impugn the integrity and lawfulness of the Trump presidency. But the mockers and the malicious ones will never give up, even as these indictments are, it seems to this writer, the climax of the ridiculous and disgusting play we have witnessed since November 2016. Now we are moving into the denouement phase of the play as all the players appraise the extent of their justification of this investigation, and try to capture some face-saving elements from their obvious failure. Rep. Adam Schiff has his feet firmly planted in the malice of his intentions. He has stated that whether or not Mueller determines that President Trump’s collusion reaches the level of being a crime beyond a reasonable doubt, there was sufficient collusion to warrant Trump’s being called “unpatriotic” or “immoral.” Obviously, the name-calling will not end. But the creepy labeling is an exercise in futility. We the people now see through the travesty of these accusations and this investigation, and desire to move on to make America great again.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1055135)	2/17/2018 3:47:39 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573921

He certainly should. With all the evidence finally coming to light, he probably should go ahead with the sanctions enforcement action. Having said all that, do you remember what happened in Ukraine? The US basically fomented a soft coup in Ukraine and the Obama Admin and CIA meddled like crazy in Ukraine. It caused a civil war, which killed thousands of people. Do you think any of this Russian meddling in the US may be payback for our meddling? That's what Putin says. But Putin lies. RUSSIA was actually meddling in Ukraine as always and invaded after Putin's puppet lost power. We overthrew a Democratically elected President and propped up the Shah, who was a brutal dictator, I've been busting that false narrative on SI for years. Message 30026553 Once more: Mossadegh wasn't elected, he was appointed by the Shah. This is what bentway posted: They had a legal, upright democratic election, which our CIA now ADMITS we overthrew and had our puppet Shah put in in 1953. Everything liberals say is a lie. "..Mossadegh was a wealthy aristocratic prince of the deposed Qajar dynasty. He was not elected by the people, he was appointed by the Shah." Bill Ayers is a Historical Illiterate By Manda Zand Ervin ................. And oh -- the 1953 "coup" story that the left has made up and that the British have allowed to continue was actually the work of MI6 to guarantee British ownership of Iran’s oil, It was not the CIA -- the U.S. had no interests in Iran. Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh was a wealthy aristocratic prince of the deposed Qajar dynasty. He was not elected by the people, he was appointed by the Shah. Iranian and CIA documents are declassified, but the British government has refused to do the same. My homeland Iran was divided between the Russians and British imperialists for over a hundred years and had no sovereignty. Professor Bill Ayers should learn that it was only America that stood by the abused little country called Iran and secured her sovereignty after WWII. Yes, America helped Iranians to continue making the dreams of their 1906 constitutional revolution in hopes of modernity, prosperity, and sovereignty that became reality in the 1970s. Yes, we had problems with the jihadism of radical Shi’a clergy and the KGB supported communist Tudeh party, but Iranians were moving in the right direction as a member of the international community, with equal rights for women, free education K through PhD, a secular justice system, a vibrant economy, and a self-confident society. Professor Ayers does not understand that the ruling Islamic clergies are anti-American not because of the military power, but because America represents the power of the people. This is how America loses friends. Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/bill_ayers_is_a_historical_illiterate.html#ixzz3OzmI33L3 Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter \| AmericanThinker on Facebook More: ccording to Ervand Abrahamian: "Realizing that the opposition would take the vast majority of the provincial seats, Mosaddegh stopped the voting as soon as 79 deputies – just enough to form a parliamentary quorum — had been elected." ..... On 16 July 1952, during the royal approval of his new cabinet, Mosaddegh insisted on the constitutional prerogative of the Prime Minister to name a Minister of War and the Chief of Staff, something the Shah had done up to that point. The Shah refused seeing it as a means for Mosaddegh to consolidate his power over the government at the expense of the monarchy. In response, Mosaddegh announced his resignation appealing directly to the public for support, pronouncing that "in the present situation, the struggle started by the Iranian people cannot be brought to a victorious conclusion". ............. Veteran politician Ahmad Qavam (also known as Ghavam os-Saltaneh) was appointed as Iran's new Prime Minister. On the day of his appointment, he announced his intention to resume negotiations with the British to end the oil dispute, a reversal of Mosaddegh's policy. The National Front—along with various Nationalist, Islamist, and socialist parties and groups [38]—including Tudeh—responded by calling for protests, assassinations of the Shah and other royalists, strikes and mass demonstrations in favor of Mosaddegh. Major strikes broke out in all of Iran's major towns, with the Bazaar closing down in Tehran. Over 250 demonstrators in Tehran, Hamadan, Ahvaz, Isfahan, and Kermanshah were killed or suffered serious injuries. [39]After five days of mass demonstrations on Siyeh-i Tir (the 30th of Tir on the Iranian calendar), military commanders ordered their troops back to barracks, fearful of overstraining the enlisted men's loyalty and left Tehran in the hands of the protesters. [40] Frightened by the unrest, Shah dismissed Qavam and re-appointed Mosaddegh, granting him the full control of the military he had previously demanded. Reinstatement and emergency powersMore popular than ever, a greatly strengthened Mosaddegh convinced parliament to grant him emergency powers for six months to "decree any law he felt necessary for obtaining not only financial solvency, but also electoral, judicial, and educational reforms". ............. In January 1953, Mosaddegh successfully pressed Parliament to extend his emergency powers for another 12 months. ............. Wikipedia