Obama May Release Detainee Photos, Holder Politicizes the ‘Truth Commission’
We may see the new Gitmo set up in Montana – wonder how the citizens of the state will like that?
On another note, Obama has stated that he may release detainee “abuse” photos. Obama continues to kowtow to his far left fringe base who want this prosecution persecution to go forward. He has started to politicize this monstrosity along with his Attorney General, Holder, the same guy who helped enable the 9/11 attacks in the first place. This entire charade will most likely come back to haunt Obama and bite him on the ass in the long run.
Holder, much like Obama, is playing the “I don’t know” card by stating that he hasn’t seen or read the memos and doesn’t know about the sections Cheney discusses, which provided us invaluable information about future attacks on our soil. This is becoming a political show trial just like O’Reilly has said. I find it amusing that Obama and Holder both say they don’t know. Read more
Why Does Obama Smile When Speaking With Dictators?
I found this write-up very interesting and it made for a good read ~ enjoy!
The picture of the president of the United States smiling broadly as he met President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela startled me. Our president is a nice guy. Chavez is anything but.
The State Department maintains that Chávez has attacked democratic traditions and has put Venezuelan democracy on life support with unchecked concentration of power, political persecution, and intimidation. Foreign Affairs magazine says that Chávez is a power-hungry dictator with autocratic and megalomaniacal tendencies whose authoritarian vision and policies are a serious threat to his people. In testimony before the US Senate, the South American project director for the Center for Strategic International Studies said that Chavez’s government engages in “arresting opposition leaders, torturing some members of the opposition (according to human rights organizations) and encouraging, if not directing, its squads of Bolivarian Circles to beat up members of Congress and intimidate voters-all with impunity.”
In spite of a presidential term limit of six years, Chávez has suggested that he would like to remain in power for 25 years. Hmmm. An autocratic dictator who abuses human rights and undermines democracy being warmly embraced by the American president. There’s something wrong with that picture.
Then there was the incident of President Barack Obama seeming to bow before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the G-20 summit in London. The president’s people denied it was a bow, but it certainly was a sign of great deference from the American president to the dictator of a country who just six weeks ago sentenced a 75-year-old woman to 40 lashes for having been secluded with her nephew after he delivered bread to her home. This is the same Abdullah whom, when asked why Saudi Arabia prohibits the public practice of religions other than Islam, said, “It is absurd to impose on an individual or a society rights that are alien to its beliefs or principles.”
Obama is also pursuing a renewed relationship with Cuba, a country which engages in systemic human rights abuses, including torture, arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials and extrajudicial executions. Censorship is so extensive that Cubans face five-year prison sentences for connecting to the Internet illegally. And not only is emigration illegal, but even discussing it carries a six-month prison sentence.
Not only do we have this latest exchange with Hugo Chavez, and Obama taking a beating by Ortega and other Latin American leaders, but Fidel Castro is now calling Obama a liar in a round-about way and Iran’s Ahmadinejad is insulted and upset that Obama skipped the racism summit at the U.N.
Is it sinking in that dictators will yank your chain and use you as they have used everyone else, including their own, for their power, control and gain? These men have a history of abuse, hate, violence, you name it – it’s not going to change overnight for one man because his ego makes him believe it’s so.
Nothing anyone does will ever please these guys… They will always find an excuse to hate.
Russia Moves In On Georgia…Again!
Russia seems ready to make another move on Georgia and may also be instigating the unrest in Georgia to oppose and oust the current President and administration that is “Western-leaning” and more conservative.
Russia has stationed its forces just 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Georgian capital, in violation of the EU-brokered cease-fire that ended last year’s brief war. And in recent weeks, it has sent even more troops and armored vehicles to within striking distance of the city ahead of street protests against Georgia’s president.
The ongoing protests, which began April 9, drew about 10,000 people Tuesday, and opposition leaders said they would continue daily until President Mikhail Saakashvili resigned.
The demonstrations have been fed by public anger over Georgia’s humiliating defeat in the August war, which left Russian troops on previously Georgian-controlled territory and drove tens of thousands of Georgians from their homes.
By reinforcing its military presence at a time of potential political instability, Russia appears determined to maintain pressure on Saakashvili, whom Moscow has openly said must be replaced before relations can be repaired.
Georgia’s Western-leaning government, meanwhile, has accused the Kremlin of hoping to capitalize on political unrest to restore its influence over the former Soviet republic, which for almost 200 years was ruled by Moscow.
The presence of the Russian troops poses a dilemma for Washington as it aims to improve relations with Moscow. Georgia worries that the Obama administration will be reluctant to pressure Russia to comply with the cease-fire while seeking its cooperation on priority issues such as the war in Afghanistan and North Korea’s nuclear program.
Tensions over Georgia also complicate efforts to restore ties between Russia and NATO, which broke off contacts following the war. Russia has strongly objected to NATO military exercises scheduled to begin May 6 in Georgia and has warned the United States against helping Georgia to rebuild its army.
The military checkpoint near Akhmaji enforces a new boundary between Georgia and South Ossetia, the Russian-supported region that was at the center of the fighting. After routing the Georgian army, Russian troops took over entire districts of South Ossetia that had long been under Georgian control.
The question is how will The United States react? We already know that the United Nations and NATO are weak and will most likely only send a “strongly worded letter,” to Russia.
I fear that the United States may also be taking lessons from the U.N. and NATO with its recent “Blame America Tour,” and universal appeasement.
But Wait a minute. Didn’t Gov. Tim Kaine say Obama had solved this problem last August? Here’s what he said back then: “It was a bad crisis for the world. It required tough words but also a smart approach to call on the international community to step in. And I’m very, very happy that the Senator’s request for a ceasefire has been complied with by President Medvedev.”
Sadly, nothing was done about this last summer either. Russia stopped because they wanted to stop not because they were pushed into a corner or were forced. I personally feel that Russia is pleased that Obama is president because they have a real window of opportunity to take back Georgia and begin their conquest of becoming the great USSR again. This has been long planned by Russia and it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
If NATO would let Ukraine in, which it won’t, much of this probably could have been resolved.
The United States and Russia are also wrong in how they use Moldovaas a pawn in this political game.
Unfortunately, many also see Georgia as toast at this point. NATO won’t do anything, the U.S. won’t do anything, and Georgia has nowhere near the artillery or military to defeat Russia. Moscow is now issuing requests to NATO to stop Georgia’s military exercises. Many would wonder why? I think the answer is obvious and as stated above, without Ukraine in NATO, Georgia doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Iran and Ahmadinejad Condemn Jews at U.N. Racism Summit…On Holocaust Remembrance Day
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Israel of being the ‘most cruel and racist regime,’ sparking a walkout by angry Western diplomats at a U.N. racism conference.
Ahmadinejad – I feel as though this would be a prime example of projection…
In a rambling speech, Ahmadinejad today pointed the finger at the United States, Europe and Israel and said they were destabilising the entire world.
Right, because the islamofascist groups, which Ahmadinejad, himself, is a part of, have not damaged or instilled chaos and destruction in various countries around the world. Read more
Israel Just Wants Middle East to Recognize Their State
The Palestinian Authorityand Hamas rejected over the weekend Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people as a precondition for resuming the stalled peace talks between the two sides.
Netanyahu made the demand during a meeting last Thursday with US special Middle East envoy George Mitchell.
Mitchell met on Friday in Ramallah with PA President Mahmoud Abbas and other top PA officials, who urged him to pressure the new Israeli government to accept the two-state solution and honor all agreements signed with Israel as a precondition for resuming the peace talks.
Chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state was “an admission by the Israeli prime minister that he cannot deliver on peace.” Erekat pointed out that the PLO had already recognized Israel’s right to exist when it signed the Oslo Accords, while Netanyahu was refusing to mention a Palestinian state.
Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior Fatah official closely associated with Abbas, said on Saturday that the Palestinians would not return to the negotiating table until Netanyahu publicly accepted the two-state solution.
“We reject Netanyahu’s demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state,” he said. “This demand illustrates the racist nature of Israel and the extremist policies of its government. It also shows that Israel is not serious about making peace with its neighbors.”
So let me get this straight, Palestine wants to be recognized as a state which would mean a two-state resolution, however, it refused to recognize the second part of that resolution which would be Israel? Read more
