tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post3296424854739203531..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: With drone strikes, the whole point of the policy is supposed to be to prevent terrorism. If the policy is in fact contributing to terrorism, that's a pretty strong argument against it; they've probably made this kind of terrorism--home-grown terrorism, committed by longtime residents of America--more likely. Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75832815050360242092013-04-22T11:39:02.136-04:002013-04-22T11:39:02.136-04:00Have you ever hear of something called 'blowba...Have you ever hear of something called 'blowback'? I'm talking about a price, sooner or later, that will make 9/11 look like a local news. We were fed the line that the Chechens were all innocent victims of Russian aggression - yet their brand of militant Islam leads them to kill and maim even innocent people in the US, with whom they have no argument. Similarly, Kosovan Albanians have deliberately set out to murder US soldiers. Islamist terrorists, of the kind that the west wishes to see prevail over the legitimate government of Syria, hate the US and everything the US stands for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12634923174253052242013-04-22T11:30:22.143-04:002013-04-22T11:30:22.143-04:00Ergogan disregards Kerry request to postpone Gaza ...<b>Ergogan disregards Kerry request to postpone Gaza visit</b><br />April 22, 2013<br /><br />(JTA) -- Turkey's prime minister will go ahead with a planned visit next month to Gaza, despite a request from US Secretary of State John Kerry to postpone.<br /><br />Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly refused Kerry's request Sunday to postpone the visit, during a meeting between the two leaders in Istanbul. Erdogan had previously postponed his visit from this month until next, to take place after a scheduled meeting in Washington in mid-May.<br /> <br /><br />Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also asked Erdogan to delay the visit during a meeting between the two men in Istanbul, saying it could harm relations between the West Bank and Gaza.<br /><br />Erdogan reportedly plans to visit Gaza on or around May 31, the three-year anniversary of the Mavi Marmara incident, in which nine Turkish citizens were killed when Israeli naval commandoes raided the ship attempting to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza.<br /><br />Israeli negotiators on Monday met in Ankara with Turkish officials to discuss paying compensation to the families of the victims of the 2010 raid.<br /><br />The negotiations are part of the process of restoring diplomatic ties between Israel and Turkey which were severed following the raid and which began the process of being repaired following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's apology last month to Erdogan. Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58380044176033395832013-04-22T10:46:43.086-04:002013-04-22T10:46:43.086-04:00Maliki and his gang are slowly assassinating Tariq...<b>Maliki and his gang are slowly assassinating Tariq Aziz. Please take action<br /><br />Statement of the BRussells Tribunal</b><i>Dear Sir,<br /><br />It has been almost 10 years since my father had been taken into custody by the American forces, it is also the anniversary of the assassination attempt he survived in 1980. This attempt on his life, which led to the death of civilian bystanders, was planned and executed by the same people who are ruling Iraq today, and who are planning to execute him again, slowly and this time with nobody to see.<br /><br />On the most recent visit to the prison he is being held at in Baghdad, my mother and sisters found out that he had suffered his fourth stroke since 2003, he fell on the floor in the middle of the night and was left in his cell for the whole time until morning. He has not been visited by a doctor, nor was he taken to the hospital, nor was he offered any medical attention of any kind since he had the stroke. Was it not for his cell mate who tried to take care of him to his best ability, and for the grace of God, I cannot think what might have happened.<br /><br />His ability to speak coherently is basically diminished, my mother and sisters can barely make out what he was saying to them. there were also inflammations and diabetic ulcers on his feet and legs, which could lead to gangrene and, if no immediate treatment and care were to be provided , amputation.<br /><br />He never had these ulcers before, and he is only having them now because of the neglect he has been treated with.<br /><br />As I said above, the same people who tried to assassinate him in 1980, are trying to assassinate him now. They claim to be the beacon of human rights and democracy for the region, but they lack any compassion or humanity whatsoever. They have a specific agenda, they are not interested in justice, they only want revenge.<br /><br />My family and I urge you to inform the international community and world press through your channels, of my father's situation. My father's situation is deteriorating by the day and I am truly afraid of what the future might hold if he is not provided with the proper care and treatment he desperately needs immediately.<br /><br />I thank you in advance for any help you can provide, I trust you will try your best.<br /><br />I thank you for lending a sympathetic ear and warm heart.<br /><br />I wish you happy Easter, and i pray that god bless you and yours.<br /><br />Yours Sincerely,<br /><br />Ziad Tariq Aziz</i>Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44121973890619222882013-04-22T10:42:19.436-04:002013-04-22T10:42:19.436-04:00(Reuters) - Russia warned the European Union on Mo...<b>(Reuters) - Russia warned the European Union on Monday not to lift an arms embargo that has prevented weapons supplies to Syrian rebels, despite British and French lobbying.</b><br /><br />British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday that EU foreign ministers, who last month rejected a Franco-British proposal to ease the ban, would in coming weeks discuss the question again.<br /><br />Russia, which says it is continuing to implement weapons contracts with Syria but is no longer delivering arms that could be used in the civil conflict, has vehemently opposed any supplies of weapons to President Bashar al-Assad's opponents.<br /><br />Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said an embargo was unnecessary in the first place because such supplies were prohibited by international law.<br /><br />If the embargo is removed, "the international obligations of the EU countries, which prohibit supplies of arms and ammunition to non-government actors, are not going anywhere", he said at a news briefing after talks with his Guinean counterpart.<br /><br />Russia has used its U.N. Security Council veto power to shield Assad from Western efforts to push him from power or increase pressure upon him to end violence in a conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people since March 2011.<br /><br />Moscow has for months been calling for implementation of an declaration agreed by world powers including Russia and the United States in Geneva last June that called for a transitional government. However, Washington disagrees with Moscow's assertion that the agreement requires Assad to step down.<br /><br />Lavrov said he and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry would discuss ways to promote a peace process in Syria at talks on the sidelines of a NATO gathering and a Russia-NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.<br /><br />"We will discuss what we, Russia and the United States, can do to convince those who ... are resisting the peace process to step onto the path of implementing the Geneva agreements," Lavrov said.<br /><br />Russian and U.S. diplomats have held several meetings for that purpose since late last year, to little effect.<br /><br />Lavrov said that in a telephone conversation with Kerry on Saturday, "I sensed confirmation of the intention ... to seek as swift as possible a political solution".<br /><br />But he said the West had not done enough to encourage all Assad's foes to show readiness for dialogue with the government: "So far there is clearly not enough movement on this."Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19671640014611522172013-04-22T10:25:16.383-04:002013-04-22T10:25:16.383-04:00Guess he's good as a goner then.
The Iraqi we...Guess he's good as a goner then.<br /><br />The Iraqi we empowered ...<br />They always were who they are today.<br /><br />No doubt that ...<br /><i><b> “They have a specific agenda.”</b></i><br /><br />Amazing how the US misspent a trillion dollars, pissed away in the sand. While there are those who want US to take another go at it, against a larger foe. Who, the last time a US proxy attacked them, spent a million lives in their self-defense.<br /><br />As boobie the anon said the other day ...<br /><br />Choose Life.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10289273639106670872013-04-22T10:07:21.969-04:002013-04-22T10:07:21.969-04:00Deuce, I sent this in an email. I hope you got it ...Deuce, I sent this in an email. I hope you got it and would appreciate you doing a post on this. No one else will touch it.<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Bob N.<br /><br /><b>On April 3, The Brussells Tribunal issued the following statement:</b><br /><br />“Maliki and his gang are slowing assassinating Tariq Aziz.” He’s imprisoned in Iraq. He’s treated inhumanely. Doing so constitutes torture.<br /><br />“The whole Western political class and human rights bodies should be held responsible if he dies in custody, because of their inaction and negligence.”<br /><br />His son Ziad wrote to the BRussells Tribunal. “We urge politicians, Human Rights Organisations and the media to finally take some decisive action for the release of Tareq Aziz and all other political prisoners,” he said. “Human rights should be defended.”<br /><br />Former Iraq humanitarian aid coordinators, Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, said so earlier. They addressed Aziz’s deplorable situation. <br /><br />Ziad said in part:<br />“It has been almost 10 years since my father had been taken into custody by the American forces.”<br />“It is also the anniversary of the assassination attempt he survived in 1980.”<br /><br />It killed civilian bystanders. It “was planned and executed by the same people who are ruling Iraq today, and who are planning to execute him again, slowly and this time with nobody to see.”<br />He’s imprisoned in Baghdad. He suffered his fourth stroke. He “fell on the floor in the middle of the night and was left in his cell for the whole time until morning.”<br /><br />“He has not been visited by a doctor, nor was he taken to the hospital, nor was he offered any medical attention of any kind since he had the stroke.”<br /><br />“His ability to speak coherently is basically diminished. My mother and sisters can barely make out what he” says.<br /><br />He has “inflammations and diabetic ulcers on his feet and legs.” Without immediate treatment, gangrene and amputations could follow.<br /><br />Medical neglect bears full responsibility. Authorities lack compassion. “They have a specific agenda.” They want revenge.<br /><br />Ziad wants the international community to know. “My father’s situation is deteriorating by the day, and I am truly afraid of what the future might hold if he is not provided with the proper care and treatment he desperately needs immediately.”<br /><br />Tariq Aziz is also a Chaldean Catholic. Christians in Iraq were driven out or killed. Now the same is being planned for Syria.another Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79455411732518830932013-04-22T09:52:33.672-04:002013-04-22T09:52:33.672-04:00Thanks Rev for a thoughtful post. It is refreshing...Thanks Rev for a thoughtful post. It is refreshing compared to the inanity we get from the paranoid. Don’t be a stranger.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78632943730226521012013-04-22T09:51:47.968-04:002013-04-22T09:51:47.968-04:00I'd certainly not put any third party life at ...I'd certainly not put any third party life at risk to stop a suicide.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gO7uemm6Yo" rel="nofollow">Suicide is painless</a>.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23736663443333840092013-04-22T09:46:39.762-04:002013-04-22T09:46:39.762-04:00Hear ,hear or ...
here, here ...
Never was quite...Hear ,hear or ...<br /><br />here, here ...<br /><br />Never was quite sure which hare those Brits were referring to.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87343204515714273122013-04-22T09:33:01.270-04:002013-04-22T09:33:01.270-04:00While many who read in this space are choosing sid...While many who read in this space are choosing sides (or just wishing a plague on all their houses) in that “reality show” titled “What’s Happening In Syria And All Those Little Countries in Oilland,” and the Great Gamers skim high above in “command and control” mode while enunciating their Grand Strategies and moving little markers around on their Game Boards and trying, like the bit players in the stock market, to “pick winners,” it might be illuminating to look occasionally at what is happening to fellow humans “on the ground” there. <br />link to joshualandis.com<br /><br />The “Great Policy” crotch seems once again to be “give or withhold ‘aid’ to this or that group if we can figure out who is who and where they are on the arcs of violence and “loyalty” from day to day, whether guns or not-guns,” $124 million of this or that, with not a lot of thought, other than “countering Russia” and “protecting our strategic presence” and “retaining freedom of operation” or making more Great Game same-old moves, going into what’s beyond the Now.” I would doubt that, given the Experienced Players and institutional momentums and the ancient alluvial channels that money flows in, floating weapons that tote up to a quarter of the planet’s wealth, anything different might eventuate that might eventually “work better” for the ordinary people who create the wealth the warlords and other rulers and their militaries suck up, that hallmark of the “genius” of Mesopotamian-rooted “civilization,” might reduce the rush to tribal flags and the recursion of vengeance.<br />We label the warrior groups as Fundie, Shia, Sunni, Alawi, “government,” whatever. Our brains render one or the other “good guys” or “bad,” or “who cares, they’re just a bunch of Muslims,” irrespective of their actions or the horror and misery they cause. Seems to me the actual category is maybe “gunmen-fighters,” which describes all of them and hints at what draws mostly males into the FUN thing called “war” or “battle.” Churchill said the exhilaration comes from being shot at and missed. There’s a lot more fun to be had in “victory” in the form of KILLING – warriors would much rather kill for their tribe than die for it, and if you spend any time looking through the videos in Landis’s link to: syriavideo.net growing collection, you get a little sense of the fear-excitement-rage-exultation chemistry that impels these dudes to attack, and to murder captives and non-combatants, behind a pasteboard front of “religion:” “Allahu Akbar! God is Great!” How’s that again?<br /><br />Add some video time in youtube looking at “helmetcam” and “hellfire” selections, to see the universality of it all. And maybe feel some revulsion, and get some hints about how us humans might find some path or other out of that reptile-brain set of behaviors? Or not — “we” don’t seem capable of controlling the behaviors that are killing the planet and ourselves…<br />Rev. Rightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71474518939434024572013-04-22T08:57:35.582-04:002013-04-22T08:57:35.582-04:00ah the FINAL solution...
just allow israel to com...ah the FINAL solution...<br /><br />just allow israel to commit suicide and we will have peace in our time..<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68556653634499624572013-04-22T08:31:23.516-04:002013-04-22T08:31:23.516-04:00Not a Jew mentioned in Deuce's post about Hage...Not a Jew mentioned in Deuce's post about Hagel.<br /><br />Just the war mongering Israeli policies.<br />Jews and Israel cannot be conflated.<br /><br />Those Jews in the Caucasus Mountains, they are peace loving Russians, not war mongering Israelis, not at all.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51281356343363715322013-04-22T08:29:17.840-04:002013-04-22T08:29:17.840-04:00The broader them, since I have to spell it out for...The broader them, since I have to spell it out for you, is why the US makes itself vulnerable to terrorism from the Middle East. We create more terrorists than we kill. Why is that happening?<br /><br /><br /><i>Israel has the right to decide for itself whether to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told reporters on Sunday.<br /><br />Hagel’s statement echoed the position US President Barack Obama expressed during his March visit.<br /><br />“Iran presents a threat in its nuclear program and Israel will make the decisions that Israel must make to protect itself and defend itself,” Hagel told American reporters on his plane before touching down in Israel.</i>Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65290132007071847542013-04-22T08:26:23.456-04:002013-04-22T08:26:23.456-04:00I thought we were talking about Chechen terrorism ...I thought we were talking about Chechen terrorism being caused by our drone policy which has nothing to do with Israel. That is the title of the post.<br /><br />All of a sudden we are being dragged into war with Iran by 'Israel and her flunkies in the US Congress'.<br /><br />CAIR flunkies all over the Obama Administration are never mentioned.<br /><br />I am going back to bed. Out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71410365582752428632013-04-22T08:24:53.834-04:002013-04-22T08:24:53.834-04:00Read the reports on Hagel’s visits to Israel and ...Read the reports on Hagel’s visits to Israel and his list of gifts. You will get your war against Iran.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2575242933123031652013-04-22T08:23:23.750-04:002013-04-22T08:23:23.750-04:00You are both welcome to start your own blog if you...You are both welcome to start your own blog if you think anyone will be interested in your thoughts.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72340110407986106992013-04-22T08:22:14.793-04:002013-04-22T08:22:14.793-04:00WIO will be deleted for his single note racial obs...WIO will be deleted for his single note racial obsessions.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27574968001593826872013-04-22T08:19:57.179-04:002013-04-22T08:19:57.179-04:00We are being dragged into a war with Iran by Israe...We are being dragged into a war with Iran by Israel and the her flunkies in the US Congress. That is Israeli State policy. If you do not think that is important then you can say so. Flashing your victim card is not an argument.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81887036055514110192013-04-22T08:19:08.170-04:002013-04-22T08:19:08.170-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46352303956831384642013-04-22T08:19:01.245-04:002013-04-22T08:19:01.245-04:00And you totally disappeared WiO's legitimate c...And you totally disappeared WiO's legitimate comment.<br /><br />Some believer in free speech.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81988784441292830852013-04-22T08:17:14.347-04:002013-04-22T08:17:14.347-04:00Coward. That was a perfectly appropriate comment.
...Coward. That was a perfectly appropriate comment.<br /><br />I compared Deuce to Ahab, who didn't realize all he talked about was the white whale.<br /><br />You don't take criticism well. It is a defect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36759317339329526102013-04-22T08:16:01.491-04:002013-04-22T08:16:01.491-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65667315308107048942013-04-22T08:14:13.326-04:002013-04-22T08:14:13.326-04:00Someday all the Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindu, ...Someday all the Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindu, Buddahist, et al, will all be gone. The planet can then be in peace allowing its children to live without the fear of their disgusting gods.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82954733631250015722013-04-22T08:13:02.663-04:002013-04-22T08:13:02.663-04:00I immediately noticed it too, WiO.
I think Deuce ...I immediately noticed it too, WiO.<br /><br />I think Deuce is actually unaware of how often he injects stuff like that. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31512574640768657472013-04-22T08:11:44.832-04:002013-04-22T08:11:44.832-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com