With a national debt of 9.5 trillion, you can't afford to stay in Iraq for another decade, let alone a century. The best that could happen is that the Iraqi parliament openly requests the removal of us forces before October. Failing that, they request the removal of forces before bush nukes Iran.

Now we all know that John McCain did not say he would spend 100 years in Iraq. That was figurative language that means we won't abandon the cause, we stay until the job is done. That's honorable, not cowardly. The liberal media wants to put words in John McCain's mouth. If we had stayed in Vietnam, it would have ended in a win-win situation for everyone. John McCain learned the lessons of Vietnam while in captivity so we should listen to him.

Let me know when you want to buy my oceanfront property in Phoenix, annieoungmn !

THE GREAT SHATTERING:
I have certainly locked in on one single outrage. It was nothing less than a life altering revelation, and has shattered everything I have ever believed my country to be about. As I share the revelation, my notions about my family and fellow Americans have been shattered as well. The single outrage that has not left me unhaunted for any single hour since I woke up to it, is the awareness that 9/11 was a "false flag" event planned and executed by the US Military, the Bush Administration and many untold others within the united ruling class. It had nothing to do with what we have been told in the "official story," a drum beat repeated over and over again. Yes, "terrorists" do exist, but they are (mostly) white men in suits, standing in front of American flags and actively working to bring about WWIII in the guise of the GWOT.
I will not debate the science behind Controlled Demolitions, but it is obvisious to anyone who understands basic scientific principles and is not under the influence of the Corporate Media mind control that the way in which the three buildings collapsed was impossible under natural conditions.
Indeed, the media's role has been to brainwash a population, or at least to stupify them with enough conflicting mish-mash as to become worthless apathetics, self hobbled and righteous.
Americans, as I see them are terrified to know the truth, they don't want to be inconvenienced, or are too proud of logos and symbols (flags and nationalism) to understand there is even a possibility of foul play.
9/11 remains so important, because it has become the justification for every other crime, the wars of aggression, rampant military expansion/spending, the destruction of the constitution and the installation of the permanent police/surveillance state. It is ALL based on lies. The greatest originating lie being those of 9/11.
Even more subtle is the channeling of all our planetary resources into war making industries, Fatherland Security, and the lie that we as a people are not all brothers, but strangers and enemies. In the paradigm of the GWOT, we are all terrorists. We are all dispensible. The war will never end, not in one year, not in 100. (Of course, unless we blow ourselves up first) The future has literally been stolen from humanity to become a more and more desperate struggle over resources. Me, Me, Me is the chant of American prejudice and entitlement as lead by the elitist cheerleaders. The GWOT guarantees the continued and ever expanding use of fossil fuels burnt to make war, murder, dominate and destroy. Every one of those expensive weapons, from tanks to jets to satelites are all fossil fuel burning monstrosities. Those weapons must remain at a premium, all world industries subservient to that. Operation Irrelevant Liberation... OIL.
Those in power, the ruling class, will not relinquish their strangle hold over the rest of us. Their grip is tighter and tighter until we are all squeezed into slavery of one form or another. The last oil on earth will be spent fighting over the last oil on earth.
Obama is no savior, and we are fools to be distracted by
the rigged stage show. Already, the liars are planting in our minds what racists we all are, setting the stage for another stollen election, justified this time by "race." America just couldn't vote for a black man. Bull! American votes don't mean a thing, only illusions mean anything anymore. Any illusion will do to keep us dazed on the couch and sleeping through what should be rioting in the streets. There will be none of that uproar, and if there is, it won't be televised, and all the stupid generations of Americans, from Greatest to Dumbest, X,Y and Zeeee will never know what they missed.
Unfortunately I can never go back to being so confused that "it'a almost impossible to lock in on one outrage." I don't really care if any of you believe that the twin towers were brought down by controlled demolition or not, it is past the point of simply trying to convince anyone of anything. You have to earn your knowledge these days, part of it, slowing down enough to observe nature first hand, and discover the truth for yourself.
In terms of having illusions shattered, 9/11 busted everything for me, and it reveals the depths of the dangerous EMERGENCY that we find ourselves in today. As a sort of North Star to navigate by, it is a "corrective lens" which makes every crime since, both unsurprising and predictable. What I didn't predict was the extent to which people have become intrenched in corporate spin and how much they have continued to fight to stay comfortable and numb. Astoundingly, at my last family gathering, my smug Repulican father-in-law argued with great satisfaction that global warming was a liberal myth. That profound ignorance haunts me everyday as well.

If it is any comfort to you, the 9 trillion dollar debt is just a transfer of federal tax money to Halliburton, Exxon, Blackwater etc. It's all good.

And the war will continue for 100 years under either mainstream candidate, or at least the concept that we need to have continual war to protect corporate interests, I mean protect national security.

Mainsteam america is responsible for this sad state of affairs, from the newspapers, to the politicans, to mainstream society. They all tacitly supported the war, and even now they do (we need to stay the course).

True justice would require immediate planned withdrawal (turning temporary peace efforts to the UN), issue of an apology, and truly rebuild Iraq (Halliburton need not apply).

Unfortunately, We are not going to get it with McCain or Obama, and that is why the unjust status quo will continue.

American people have long ago accepted eating whatever bullshit was offered to them. Maybe the republicans spread it on a little thicker, but the democrats are offering the same ingredients.

Subvert the dominant paradigm.

annieyoungmn......tell me what john mccain did that makes him "honorable"...vietnam is over ..... what is he going to do for america ? not iraq,not the war on terror,and not cutting taxes for businesses and inacting tax credits....what is he going to do for the avergae american ?

annieyoungmn.................

http://www.wcltam.com/news/special/articledetail.cfm?articleid=23261

annieyoungmn

lets see. russia turned out win-win with out yall invading and conquering. ditto (red?) china. ditto east germany. ditto...well you get the picture. they're all win-win "friends" now aren't they?

vietnam would have been win-win without the bombings, millions of gallons of A-O, 50,000 dead 'mericans, etc. VietNam is finally starting to recover and get some of that "win". But it would have been win-win alot sooner though if yall would have kept your nose out of it.

To annieyoungmn who said:
"If we had stayed in Vietnam, it would have ended in a win-win situation for everyone. John McCain learned the lessons of Vietnam while in captivity so we should listen to him."

Thank you for so clearly stating exactly why John McCain needs to be defeated in November.

And just what was it he learned about Iraq and Iran while in prison in North Vietnam for bombing farms and villages in Laos? How in the world does that make him the foreign friggin' policy expert?
He deserves credit for surviving a terrible ordeal 40 years ago; but it in no way translates into any kind of expertise in 2008.

annieyoungmn June 11th, 2008 1:44 pm
Now we all know that John McCain did not say he would spend 100 years in Iraq. That was figurative language that means we won't abandon the cause, we stay until the job is done. That's honorable, not cowardly. The liberal media wants to put words in John McCain's mouth. If we had stayed in Vietnam, it would have ended in a win-win situation for everyone. John McCain learned the lessons of Vietnam while in captivity so we should listen to him.

You are on the wrong site, please go away. McInsane drooped 20 ton bombs on women and children, crashed his plane due to his lack of knowledge and was captured by the Vietcong for 5 years, end of his HEROIC service.
He now suffers from an incurable form of PTSD as all have witnessed by his anger, untrue statements re; sects of those that follow al-Islam, saying that it doesn't matter if our heroic Troops come home now, provoking WWIII along with the provocateurs in the liars and murderers of the Executive Branch, ignoring the Veterans home now by voting Nay 5 times for the G.I. Bill, voting 95% with the Psychopath in Chief on all issues that would end anillegal occupation, Impeachment, Veterans Healthcare which includes the way to allow their families survival and every other thing to make this once great Nation begin to heal. You are shameful and are willing to sacrifice young lives and wage an illegal war that is an absolute Occupation and kill Iraqi women and children. Have you one ounce of empathy?

Fearing torture, Johnny Bomb Bomb McFossil for three years provided the North Vietnamese information about US ship locations, where planes had been shot down, and other sensitive and vital information, instead of following military protocol when one gets captured. The media portrays him as a war hero. It makes me want to vomit. He is a (self-admitted) womanizer who cheated on and dumped his first wife who had been horribly disfigured in a car accident for a beer distribution heiress eighteen years junior to his age, and sang like a choir boy to the North Vietnamese. All of this needs to come out in the media to expose this piece of **** for what he really is.

I am not voting for Obomba either.

Tiberius Bond - excellent post! Couldn't have said it all better myself. 9/11 was the HUGE awakening for me, too. And I guess that would be the one and only thing I would add to your piece: 9/11 has served one good purpose - more and more people are beginning to awaken from their slumber and see through the illusions propagated by the ruling elite. I only hope it will be in time.