Comments on: Gates: U.S. Not In Mideast To Provoke Iran

Defense Chief, Secretary Of State On High-Stakes Diplomacy Mission

[condumism]

6/5/07: Fed Chairman and Republicon Bernanke said he believes some of the forces that figured in the slow growth of the US economy in the 1st quarter of 2007 were due to weak federal defense spending that "seemed likely to be at least partially reversed in the near term."

Here we are folks, smack in the middle of the military industrial complex that is now the number one wheel behind the US economy. Our Fascist, paranoid Republicons fear machine continues to throw money at the needless US Military.

Want to talk about government waste? The US National Labs are a perfect example of throwing money at worthless causes. Los Alamos has a staff of about 9,000 people, most of whom have absolutley nothing to do with the defense of America. PhD's all over the place creating useless models of hypothetical future events, mostly for salaries well above $100,000 per year. And many of these PhD. schleps are running private businesses on the side from Los Alamos, with virtually no oversight from the "for profit" corporate entity known as LANS that now skims $59 million per year from this epicenter of fraud, waste, and massive abuse of US tax $$$.

WAKE UP AMERICA, YOU'RE BEING ROBBED EVERYDAY BY THE CORPORATE US MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, WHO HAVE BOUGHT AND PAYED FOR EVERY RETHUGLICON in ELECTED OFFICE!

[williamfold]

why try and spread peace through diplomacy when you can sell the future enemy some weapons and weapons technology for a cool couple billion?

[tuckerndfw]

Why is Israel considered an ally?

Why are US taxpayers borrowing money from China, Saudi Arabia and others so we can turn around and hand it over to other nations?

Why aren't they using their own credit cards to buy toys for their governments?

[tuckerndfw]

In 2005, the Bush administration claimed that Venezuela buying 100,000 AK-47's from Russia would "destabilize the region."

Maybe Russia should follow the US example and sell Venezuela nukes.

[tuckerndfw]

It appears Iran better hurry with those nukes they are allegedly developing.

It also appears the "peace dividend" Ronnie Raygun earned with his alleged defeat of those evil communists is being squandered by the Bush administration.

[hungry1968]

I guess Bush figures that if you keep adding more fuel to the fire, that it might just burn itself out.

Maybe we should pull our troops out of Iraq and start selling nukes in the region?

[brianbwb-2009]

Who would the Arab nations be worried about their fellow Arab nations disrupting the security in the region?
Posted by radiob

What is even sicker is that the arms used by the "disruptors" exists because "Bush administration announced Monday a proposed U.S. arms package to Arab nations worth more than $20 billion. The sophisticated weaponry, according to U.S. officials, would strengthen relatively moderate Persian Gulf regimes against extremist regimes and ideologies, chief among them Iran."

These weapons will soon be used against American soldiers, thus furthering Bush's reasoning for invading sovereign states

[brianbwb-2009]

to MCVet,

Bush never cared about the Taliban, he just wanted to install a puppet who would OK his pipeline. So what if they were a "brutal" regime? Their brutality pales in comparison with what Bush visited upon them, and now that all his reasons have been exposed for the lies that they are, his sycophants want to turn it into an anti' Islam war, now the innocents should die for their choice of religion. Bush has killed, kidnapped, tortured, and otherwise harmed far more people than the Taliban ever did.

As for Al Qaeda, they began as a construct for the CIA, as proxy against Russia during that war, they are now serving Bush as the "Boogieman", to scare a misinformed US into acceding to Bush's crimes. The leaders know it, even if their recruits don't, so rather than say "rebuilt" it would be more accurate to say "redeployed". As long as their existence can be used by Bush to circumvent law, they will exist, and when Bush and Cheney's puppet masters have no more use for them, they will magically disappear....

[mcvet]

"Iran has close ties to Iraq's Shiite government, and Shiite militias, whereas Saudi Arabia, a Sunni-ruled country, has an affinity for Iraq's Sunni tribes. Each country has reportedly provided funding and support, and in some cases arms to their chosen group," explains Dozier.

Now didn't that LYING piece of C-r-a-p that a few still call a President tell us just last week that Al Quada was the problem in Iraq? LMAO What a bunch of LOSERS!! Sieg Heil Bush

[mcvet]

If this wasn't so sad it would be funny. Here we are, over FIVE years into this thing, and FINALLY the Reich has figured out they need the help of MODERATE Middle Eastern Countries... AFTER Al Qaeda has completely rebuilt and the Taliban is back. Wow! Talk about INCOMPETENT. Now what's the chances that a government run by a man most of the world conciders the second coming of Hitler is going to get MODERATE help? LMAO. We need new leadership and people who ACTUALLY know what the word Statesmanship means more than anything right now. The problem? We are 18 months away from that being possible. Sieg Heil Bush.