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Richard Viguerie calls GOP litmus tests "Well intentioned," but urges replacement of Republican establishment leaders

Manassas, VA - Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, has written a blog on his Web site stating that conservative litmus tests for Republican candidates are "well intentioned," but "would do little to solve the two fundamental problems within the Republican Party: bad leadership and conservative acquiescence to bad leadership."

The article, at http://conservativehq.com/blog_post/show/470, states that liberal Republicans "are merely an annoyance."

Rather, Viguerie writes that the "current Republican leadership has consistently supported our national slide to socialism."

He cites Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader John Boehner, and former Bush White House political advisor Karl Rove as Republicans who "have consistently abandoned constitutional principles of limited government in favor of socialist-statist programs, all in the name of 'winning.'"

Columbus Free Press editors Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman speak out against sending more US troops to Afghanistan

“Why are we in Afghanistan? It is for the oil to the north in the former Soviet republics…We are in Afghanistan because President Barry Obama did not have enough guts to say no to the military industrial complex and to the big oil companies…” ---Bob Fitrakis View Video

“ What Barack Obama has done tonight is certify the power of the corporations and the military in this country. This war is a huge diversion--once again--from the Great Society, from the New Deal, from the New Frontier, from all the opportunities we’ve had to remake this country.” ---Harvey Wasserman View Video

Craziest Obavietghanistan speech moments

Deficit reduction:

Our new approach in Afghanistan is likely to cost us roughly 30 billion dollars for the military this year, and I will work closely with Congress to address these costs as we work to bring down our deficit.

Why we must save some crumbs for domestic needs:

But as we end the war in Iraq and transition to Afghan responsibility, we must rebuild our strength here at home. Our prosperity provides a foundation for our power. It pays for our military.

The other really good reason to invest in peace:

We have to invest in our homeland security, because we cannot capture or kill every violent extremist abroad.

Testifying to the character of our men and women:

We will remove our combat brigades from Iraq by the end of next summer, and all of our troops by the end of 2011. That we are doing so is a testament to the character of our men and women in uniform.

Risking a line that any non-military audience would cheer inappropriately for (while claiming Taliban-Al Qaeda links and threats the White House had previously rejected):

The Afghan Rag

Yo, wake up texters, listen in,
Uncle Sam's after more boogeymen;
Dubya left Barack in a terrible jam
Way over in Afghanistan.
So put down your iPhone and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Not freedom or our fellow man,
Next stop's Afghanistan;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no need to wonder why,
For peak oil, we're all gonna die.

Well come on, McChrystal, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta kill all those towel heads —
Though Muslims ain't who we should dread.
Our robber barons, they're the ones
Who blew the Towers to kingdom come.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?
Not freedom or our fellow man,
Next stop's Afghanistan;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no need to wonder why,
For peak oil, we're all gonna die.


Huh!

Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,

Obama, another rook on the Grand Chessboard

There can be no greater gift that you can give your loved ones, or the world, this holiday season than Robert Greenwald's documentary "Rethink Afghanistan."
While President Barry Obama was busy resuscitating Lyndon Johnson's "bright and shiny" Vietnam lies in his national address Tuesday night, the American people should instead have been given a more sober assessment by Greenwald as we forge into the valley of fallen empires.

Obama is President primarily because, as a state senator in Illinois, he made a speech opposing the folly of occupying Iraq after 9/11. During his presidential campaign, famed Afghan hawk Zbignew Brzezinski emerged as a key advisor on central Asia. In his book, The Grand Chessboard (1997), Jimmy Carter's former national security advisor makes it clear that controlling the oil and gas fields of central Asia and the pipeline that runs through Afghanistan and Pakistan are the keys to dominating the 21st century.

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New civil resistance coalition formed to end the war

In response to President Obama's pending announcement of a major troop escalation in Afghanistan, Peace Activist, Cindy Sheehan, and other major anti-war groups and activists are announcing the formation of a new Peace Coalition that will seek to actively obstruct "business as usual" in Washington, DC, until Congress and the administration announce troop withdrawals from Iraq/Af-Pak.

"We've marched, we've signed letters and petitions, helped get candidates elected and called Congress and the White House, until we're literally blue in the face, and peace is even more elusive now then it was when Bush was president. I believe so strongly in peace and justice for all that I am, once again, uprooting my life, this time to move to our nation's capital until true change occurs. I am calling on people who love humanity and peace to join me in Peace of the Action, " Sheehan said from her California home.

The Coalition's demands are simple:

Troops, drone bombers, and mercenary contractors out of Iraq/Af-Pak and close permanent bases and give the people of Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan any reparations/help rebuilding their nations that they need.

Afghanistan: Our 177th Colony

During a televised football game on Sunday, an announcer welcomed the members of the U.S. military viewing the game in 177 nations around the world. When the news came on, the topic was the same one it's been for weeks, speculation as to whether and how much a single individual will escalate war by sending tens of thousands of additional troops to nation number 177, Afghanistan.

Somehow it remains eternally controversial to mention the imperial presidency. Yet the positions on Afghanistan in the United States are limited to "The President should escalate the war," "The President should not escalate the war," and "The President should do whatever he wants." Some people have other things to say on the topic, but almost nobody refuses to hold one of those three positions.

Barry Rubin and Leonard Asper rewrite history (and current events)

Canwest Global Communications Inc. is owned by the Asper family, with Leonard Asper its current CEO. The corporation is decidedly pro-Israel and frequently has news articles on television or in the daily newspapers that give strong support to Israel. A current article in the Vancouver Sun follows the tired and true formula of blaming the Palestinians for the problems that afflict the Palestinian people, the old victim as perpetrator rhetoric that is so prevalent with all occupying powers.

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