Pardon My Politics

As Pres­i­dent Oba­ma pon­ders whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, there is mount­ing ev­i­dence the Tal­iban is sup­port­ed by the CIA. If cor­rect, the Afghan war is a cha­rade with a hid­den agen­da.

Mem­bers of the GOP pro­pa­gan­da or­gans were ec­stat­ic when Oba­ma failed to get the Olympics for Chica­go. They will howl that Oba­ma is guilty of the pre-??9/11 think­ing un­less he gets us buried in Afghanistan.

A former KGB analyst predicts the US will disintegrate into six blocs–and everyone will get their piece. “The probability that the United States of America fall apart in July 2010 is more than 50 percent,” said Igor Panarin, Professor at Moscow’s Diplomatic Academy within the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The shock that some lib­er­als dis­play in light of the Democrats’ com­plic­i­ty (or at least com­pli­ance) to the “harsh in­ter­ro­ga­tion tech­niques” is in it­self shock­ing. Are we to be­lieve Congress has nev­er tak­en the time to in­ves­ti­gate and dis­cov­er the acts in­side the in­ter­ro­ga­tion room?

Did White House representatives utilize a well-calculated campaign of fear by threatening to ruin or destroy the reputation of certain companies if they didn’t fall in line? Before providing an answer, let’s look back to an incident that occurred in October 2008 when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson gathered executives from America’s nine largest banks in a room, then gave each a one-page document and said, “No one is leaving this room until it’s signed.”