The so called war in Afghanistan is seriously taking up a lot of U.S. resources. What`s worse is that the government still telling the U.S. citizens that it is countering terrorism. It is laughable to say such things when you still have soldiers dying. The insurgence use cheap technology to fight and yet they have been effective. While the U.S. military gets millions of dollars in funding for using sophisticated equipment and yet the so called war still goes on with casualties.

Recently, there is also a change in command. Now General Petraeus is going to be in charge of the Afghan war. Just because the Petraues has experience during Iraq war does not mean he is going to be successful in Afghan. Remember that during the Iraq war the Political cabinet was very different. If you ask me the Iraq war was a success because of Colin Powell. The questions are simple. How is it that the Afghan war going to be won when there is no proper cooperation among politicians and military officials? How are they going to win the war if they can`t even resolve their own nation issues?

Whenever the news comes on about Afghan war, we would hear some spokesman talking about how some Taliban leader was killed or Al Qaeda fleeing the region. Are there only 2 militant or terrorist groups in Afghanistan? So how many are there for real? Firstly, we need to know that Afghanistan is pretty much controlled by 100s of different factions. Each of this faction more or less preaches Islam a little differently. Unlike Taliban or Al Qaeda these groups are that very well organized. So what the U.S. government did was simply win them over by paying them. Yes, paying them with your money. The money that could be used to make people`s life better is being wasted on militants. Why they pay? To make sure that the U.S. convoy can pass through without any problems. Sometimes you got to wonder whether anything can be achieved with such leaders.

Let`s go back to the time when Russia occupied Afghanistan. Russian military did commit war crimes but their intentions were in the right place. During this the U.S. gave a lot of weapons and resources to the Afghans. Currently, the weapons that were given than is being used against the U.S. troops now. Did the U.S. learn from this? It is not easy to accept mistakes but it is wise and smart to do so. Even now Afghanistan`s government is still dependent on the U.S.. Yet President Obama says that his administration will be able to start pulling troops by July 2011.

In the first place why Afghanistan? The fact is important terrorist or militant leaders are hiding out in countries like Pakistan, Yemen or even Lebanon. Afghanistan does harbor terrorist as well as having a lucrative poppy plant production which has funded many factions. On the other hand does the U.S. government need to focus so much on Afghanistan? At the end, so many things could have been to improve the economics and the lives of many people. So think about it….

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For a person that is rarely talked about the media, I think that people might be in shock that Frank Gaffney has is being mentioned again. We stress that this is not a repeat hit at him and is something new..

A couple of days ago we commented of Frank Gaffney’s terrible television appearance on FOX News.. In that piece, he claimed that the problem is that Muslims are adhering to Sharia and it is a “virus that is far more toxic than swine flu”. Sharia to the Muslims is what the 10 commandments are to the Christians. They are forced to believe it.

So that was bad enough. But at the Take America Back Conference, he really upped the hatred. He answered a very simple and over-asked question in such a manner that really stirs trouble. The question was : “I was wondering what you considered (President) Obama’s religion was … if you considered him a Muslim…?”

So what do you think he said? Do you think he answered the manner that Senator McCain did in his Presidential campaign last year? Or did he gave the perfect answer General Colin Powell gave in that same campaign? No.

“If Bill Clinton … was properly called the first Black American President, on that same basis (President) Barack Obama should be called a Muslim American President. I am not saying that he is a Muslim any more than saying Bill Clinton was Black but there is evidence that a lot of Muslims think that he is a Muslim…. he (President Obama) (is) pursuing an agenda that is indistinguishable in important respects from that of the Muslim brotherhood whose mission is… ‘to destroy Western civilization from within….”

Firstly, Muslim brotherhood out to destroy America? Talk about equating all Muslims with Al Qaeda members and terrorists! Aren’t there Christians that think that the Bible and laws of Christianity should be running our country? Aren’t there crazy generals who think that they are fighting for Christ in the Middle East? Can we, because of such people, generalize all Christians as radicals? No! There are crazies in all religions. I would agree that there is a higher concentration of it in the Islamic world, but majority of Muslims are just normal people.

Didn’t he say that President Obama is “pursuing the same agenda” which he stated later as to be “ to destroy Western Civilization from within”. In effect, he is saying that President Obama’s goal is to destroy America and western culture by coming from it. This joker from a think tanks is essentially mentioning an American intentionally becoming President so that he can burn it to the ground!

How in the world is he getting away with this? When will humanity learn to detect hate speech and its danger? We ignored Hitler’s hatred for the Jews and 6 million died. We ignored Hutu hate radio speeches and at least 500 000 died. What Frank Gaffeny said is definitely hate speech in those categories. I even go as far as to say that his loathe for Muslims is as much as Al Qaeda’s hate for America. He is poison and we got to stop it before it escalates.

Republicans have been rubbishing claims of hate speech and said that it is just opposition. Michael Steele even went to call people who see these threats as nut-jobs. It is not opposition when people are claiming that the President is an enemy of the state, not born in the US, inhuman, racist, portrayed as a monkey or a “n****r from Africa”. It is a problem when there are suggestions of a religion out there to destroy America (think Hitler and Judaism), or when coups are suggested. There are also problems if you dream up scenarios of President Obama being assassinated even if you claim not to be violent.

The hate is there and we need to get to the bottom of this. Else America would burn. We, and not the Muslims, would be “destroying America from within.”

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Wow. This is something that you do not really hear so often. The right wing is livid at the fact that there was a lesson plan that asked the question “How can I help the President?”

Are you freaking serious? That is such the huge controversy? Why is President Obama asking them to do, bow before his statue? They say that this is what North Koreans do to their kids. So asking how you can help President Obama is the same as forcing people to dance in synchronization in his honor? Give me a break!

Is this how far down the Republican party has fallen? They have to resort to these kind of nonsenses to make arguments… What has happened to the party of President Eisenhower and Senator John McCain? Have the nuts led by Rush Limbaugh taken over the capable people like Senator McCain, Colin Powell and Chuck Hagel?

It is now obvious that President Obama is being attacked by the Right just for being the President. It is not the policy that they are attacking. There may be a little chance that I may be wrong in this. If I am wrong, then it would be a tragedy for America when one of their two parties has stooped this low.

What makes it worse is that the Democrats are not good either. They still have no backbones despite being gifted with a huge mandate by the people at every branch of government. They are doing absolutely nothing with it. Do not just take my words for it.

Immediately after the elections, there were slightly more Democrats than they were Independents and the Republicans were languishing in the abyss. Current poll figures for the Republicans are still terribly low, with the Democrats too have been losing a lot to the Independents. In fact I make a prediction; Democrats would lost their seats in droves in the House and the Senate. Sadly, this is something I agree with crazy-right-wing-lady Ann Coulter.

Now you guys must be thinking that as an Independent, I should be happy that there are now much more people coming into my camp. But that is not the case so. I would love it when people become Independent because that is what America needs; When they realize that partisan politics has gone way too far and it is time to heal. Not when one side is screwing up while in power, the other jumping and screaming secession as though it is on crack ( Van Jones me Republicans!), and a President that is as quiet as a librarian when he needs to be leading.

Don’t people realize that this is our country that they are talking about? Don’t they realize that Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Keith Olbermann are just a bunch of clowns pandering for their bases? When are we going to have a prim and proper debate in this country? Only for Larry King?

This is particularly true for the Republicans. Lets look at the recent health care debate as a classic example. I have put down so much crap from the Republicans that it often seems that I am for the bill rather than against it. I am against this bill because it is rather fluid and a lot of the details are not set in stone, giving too much power to the Health and Human Services Secretary.

But what is the stuff coming from “my” side of the argument : Death panels, pulling the plug out of grandma, rationing health care, socialism, Hitler care; All of which are nonsense brought up in such bad taste. It is a catastrophe when I have to quote “crazy-left-wing-politician” Barney Frank and ask these people : What freaking planet are they from?

America, we need to solve problems! We have a lot of debt. Our economy has barely turned the corner. Health care is a crisis. Education needs to be looked into. We have got a huge environmental problem. And our teens and kids are not educated enough. We do not need to worry about what the President is telling the kids in a day!

WAKE UP AMERICA, FILTER THE PROPAGANDA!

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While most of the attention is being placed in President Obama threatening a veto on 7 F22 fighter planes, there is the issue about “don’t ask don’t tell” which is inserted into the bill. That is what we intend to discuss today.

General Colin Powell is one of the most adored human beings on the face of this Earth. While President Obama is more popular everywhere, but he does not come close to the amount of respect that General Powell can. However, I think that his policy of “Don’t ask ,don’t tell” was not a good one.

I just do not see why a person that is willing to die for the country should not be a part of the military. What makes gays so different from the rest of America? Just because a man would like a man, does that mean that that man is not be able to shoot,guard, etc.

There are some people that claim that gays would be disruptive. You know, soldiers that can face thousands of Taliban militants shooting them in their face, but would fear that there is some gay dude wanting to ride them from behind. Come on!

If gays make men uncomfortable because they are sexually attracted to men, then how about women? Does it mean that there should not be women in the military as they can be harassed? The military does deal with cases of sexual discrimination; it is a fact of life for them. There would always be bad seeds that the military has to deal with.

Yes, with gays in the army, there would be cases of gays hitting on other men inappropriately and cases of straight men inappropriately disturbing gay men. But that is not something that the Army cannot deal with. The Military Police have handled much more tougher situations than this.

Some claim that having gays would disrupt order and discipline. I think that this is ridiculous. Have the gays follow the same law. If the break it, throw the book at them. It is that simple! This point is utterly nonsense.

Some claim that gays in the military would affect morale and unit cohesion. This is yet another point that does not make sense. There are so many countries like Israel, Singapore and Great Britain where gays serve in their military. Do they have poor morale and cohesion? Area all countries wrong in their judgments?

I think it is time that America grows up to this. More than half the military have served with a homosexual and they do not mind it. Lets have people that is willing to take a bullet for the country and not bother about their sexual orientation.

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Governor Sarah Palin has just resigned from her position as Governor of Alaska. Reasons are brewing up so fast and reactions are so mixed. Is she going to be a Senator? Is she going because she has to? Should the Democrats be celebrating? Should the Republicans be awaiting her as a 2012 nominee?


Governor Palin said that “…I choose for my state and for my family, more freedom to progress all the way around so that Alaska can progress. I would not seek re-election as Governor…” Yes, her English is very damn difficult to decipher.

From that weird statement, I am making a wild assumption that it is her kids that cannot take her spot-light shining on them. From fighting with David Letterman to Senator John Kerry joking that the wrong politician went missing, all this could have impacted her younger kids.

Many believe that she could run as a Senator or Representative in 2010 and there are more that want her to run for President in 2012. I think that she would be one of the forerunners amongst the Republicans should that happen.

Democrats official response is : what a bizarre reaction? They are trying to make her up to me a person that is full of bizarre actions. I got one thing to say to them: Under-estimate her again and you would pay the price! I think she can beat half of the Democrats in Congress easily.

There are aides though that claim that she was forced out of office. Not only does she have enemies within her own party in Alaska, it was the Democrats plan to out and out plan to take her out by any means necessary that pushed it. There were more and more inquiries on her and it could incriminate her in the future.

I am not a fan of her at all. For one, her lack of knowledge is appalling. She has no idea what the meaning of socialism is. She insinuated that President Obama was “palling around with terrorists, I would have replied that she was married to a separatist!

I would never want to see an American leader that winks her way through a Vice Presidential debate and make no sense in it. She would be a huge embarrassment for America. She became the butt of all jokes all over the world. It was not that the respected Senator McCain that received that treatment, it was her.

Saying that, I hope that she stays away from politics and never return. Leave the Republican Party to capable people like General Colin Powell, Senator Chuck Hagel and Senator John McCain and be gone!

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