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Romney’s Cold War Ponzi Scheme
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
U.S. Navy/Chief Mass Communication Specialist Keith Deviney
By Robert Scheer
Poor President Obama, as Colin Powell pointed out in endorsing him
Thursday, clearly holds what should be a winning hand in the war-on-
terror game, and yet Mitt Romney and his neocon speechwriters won’t cut
him any slack. Suddenly it’s not Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida that
matter, but rather the military threat from Red China that is killing us
with slick iPhones and cheap solar panels.
Throw in some good old Russia baiting, and if Romney has his way, the
military-industrial complex will get its beloved Cold War back despite
the fact that the communist threat is now one of conquering space on the
shelves at Wal-Mart. Obama, the naive community organizer, thinks the
foreign policy debate is about national security, but Romney, the
quintessential vulture capitalist, knows that it’s always been about
maximizing profit.
That is the problem with the war on terror that Obama inherited from
George W. Bush but has successfully reissued as his own product line;
it’s got all the patriotic bells and whistles, but as a profit center, it
sucks. You just can’t logically justify spending trillions of dollars on
building ever more sophisticated weapons to defeat a 9/11 style enemy
equipped with weapons that can be purchased at Home Depot for a couple of
hundred bucks. Another $2 billion nuclear sub, in addition to the two we
already turn out every year, isn’t very useful in hunting down potential
hijackers based in some desert outpost or even in an apartment in
Hamburg, Germany.
Bush and his neocon coterie recognized the glaring irrelevance of the
Cold War era arsenal in the fight against terrorism, and that is why they
invaded Iraq instead of focusing on al-Qaida and its supporters in
Afghanistan. As Donald Rumsfeld put it, “there aren’t any good targets in
Afghanistan and there are a lot of good targets in Iraq,” meaning that we
could pretend it was the Normandy landing all over again and count on an
embedded media to mindlessly celebrate rolling out the mothballed war
toys. There had to be another use for B-2 stealth bombers other than
flying over the Super Bowl.
Saddam Hussein at least had a recognizable army and something of an air
force, but even so, Bush had to invent a WMD scare to justify a hot war
that would be a post Cold War bonanza for defense contractors lobbying
for even more outlandish military deals. Iran now serves a similar
purpose, even though the increased regional influence of the ayatollahs
that Romney wildly inflates is a result of our putting Shiite political
refugees, formerly living in protected exile in Iran, into power in Iraq.
But, as earlier with Iraq, the threat from Iran is a poor excuse for
boosting military expenditures back to Cold War levels, and so Romney has
turned to the neocons to bring China and Russia back into the threat
inflation charts. As Powell said in endorsing Obama and rejecting his
fellow Republican, Romney: “There’s some very, very strong neoconservative
views that are presented by the governor that I have some trouble with.”
Of course, it was those same neocons who deceived Powell into sounding
the false alarm in his United Nations speech over Iraq’s nonexistent WMDs,
and he now knows just how treacherous they can be. The key advisers
around Romney are the same folks who got Bush to trick us into a war that
few Americans now defend, but their cynical appeal to Republican
politicians lives on. Although Romney has been loath to identify with the
now much discredited foreign policy of the former president, he is
reliant on the very men who led Bush astray.
The list reads like a who’s who of the neocons who beat the drums for
wasting American lives and taxpayer dollars during the Bush reign. Key
among them is John Bolton, perhaps better known for his outsized mustache
than for his outlandishly hawkish views. Another is Robert Kagan, who,
like Bolton, was a key player in the infamous Project for a New American
Century that was eagerly pushing for a massive increase in military
expenditures even before the 9/11 attacks. Another is Robert Joseph, the
Bush era National Security Council official credited with sticking the 16
words in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech making the egregiously
false claim about uranium being shipped from Niger to Iraq.
No wonder Powell is alarmed; those are the guys who fooled him once, but
not twice.
focus-romneys-cold-war-ponzi-scheme
Romney’s Cold War Ponzi Scheme
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
U.S. Navy/Chief Mass Communication Specialist Keith Deviney
By Robert Scheer
Poor President Obama, as Colin Powell pointed out in endorsing him
Thursday, clearly holds what should be a winning hand in the war-on-
terror game, and yet Mitt Romney and his neocon speechwriters won’t cut
him any slack. Suddenly it’s not Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida that
matter, but rather the military threat from Red China that is killing us
with slick iPhones and cheap solar panels.
Throw in some good old Russia baiting, and if Romney has his way, the
military-industrial complex will get its beloved Cold War back despite
the fact that the communist threat is now one of conquering space on the
shelves at Wal-Mart. Obama, the naive community organizer, thinks the
foreign policy debate is about national security, but Romney, the
quintessential vulture capitalist, knows that it’s always been about
maximizing profit.
That is the problem with the war on terror that Obama inherited from
George W. Bush but has successfully reissued as his own product line;
it’s got all the patriotic bells and whistles, but as a profit center, it
sucks. You just can’t logically justify spending trillions of dollars on
building ever more sophisticated weapons to defeat a 9/11 style enemy
equipped with weapons that can be purchased at Home Depot for a couple of
hundred bucks. Another $2 billion nuclear sub, in addition to the two we
already turn out every year, isn’t very useful in hunting down potential
hijackers based in some desert outpost or even in an apartment in
Hamburg, Germany.
Bush and his neocon coterie recognized the glaring irrelevance of the
Cold War era arsenal in the fight against terrorism, and that is why they
invaded Iraq instead of focusing on al-Qaida and its supporters in
Afghanistan. As Donald Rumsfeld put it, “there aren’t any good targets in
Afghanistan and there are a lot of good targets in Iraq,” meaning that we
could pretend it was the Normandy landing all over again and count on an
embedded media to mindlessly celebrate rolling out the mothballed war
toys. There had to be another use for B-2 stealth bombers other than
flying over the Super Bowl.
Saddam Hussein at least had a recognizable army and something of an air
force, but even so, Bush had to invent a WMD scare to justify a hot war
that would be a post Cold War bonanza for defense contractors lobbying
for even more outlandish military deals. Iran now serves a similar
purpose, even though the increased regional influence of the ayatollahs
that Romney wildly inflates is a result of our putting Shiite political
refugees, formerly living in protected exile in Iran, into power in Iraq.
But, as earlier with Iraq, the threat from Iran is a poor excuse for
boosting military expenditures back to Cold War levels, and so Romney has
turned to the neocons to bring China and Russia back into the threat
inflation charts. As Powell said in endorsing Obama and rejecting his
fellow Republican, Romney: “There’s some very, very strong neoconservative
views that are presented by the governor that I have some trouble with.”
Of course, it was those same neocons who deceived Powell into sounding
the false alarm in his United Nations speech over Iraq’s nonexistent WMDs,
and he now knows just how treacherous they can be. The key advisers
around Romney are the same folks who got Bush to trick us into a war that
few Americans now defend, but their cynical appeal to Republican
politicians lives on. Although Romney has been loath to identify with the
now much discredited foreign policy of the former president, he is
reliant on the very men who led Bush astray.
The list reads like a who’s who of the neocons who beat the drums for
wasting American lives and taxpayer dollars during the Bush reign. Key
among them is John Bolton, perhaps better known for his outsized mustache
than for his outlandishly hawkish views. Another is Robert Kagan, who,
like Bolton, was a key player in the infamous Project for a New American
Century that was eagerly pushing for a massive increase in military
expenditures even before the 9/11 attacks. Another is Robert Joseph, the
Bush era National Security Council official credited with sticking the 16
words in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech making the egregiously
false claim about uranium being shipped from Niger to Iraq.
No wonder Powell is alarmed; those are the guys who fooled him once, but
not twice.
Steve
Oct 27, 2012, 5:11:03 PM10/27/12
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:13:54 +0000 (UTC), 3216 Dead <de...@gone.com>
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>http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/143-143/13531-
>focus-romneys-cold-war-ponzi-scheme
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>Romney’s Cold War Ponzi Scheme
>
<LOL> @ readersupportednews.org propaganda
wrote:
>http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/143-143/13531-
>focus-romneys-cold-war-ponzi-scheme
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>Romney’s Cold War Ponzi Scheme
>
Lee Curtis
Oct 27, 2012, 5:42:27 PM10/27/12
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with him as long as he promises to keep their gubmint checks coming.
--
3216 Dead
Oct 27, 2012, 6:09:46 PM10/27/12
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Obama is spending less in terms of GDP than Bush.
Facts just KILL you right wing morons.
Gary DW
Oct 27, 2012, 6:48:02 PM10/27/12
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In article <k6hkg3$lkv$1...@dont-email.me>, Lee Curtis
says...
>
> Steve wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:13:54 +0000 (UTC), 3216 Dead <de...@gone.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/143-143/1353
> > > 1- focus-romneys-cold-war-ponzi-scheme
> > >
> > > Romney?s Cold War Ponzi Scheme
his supporters will stay
> with him as long as he promises to keep their gubmint checks coming.
You DO know it's the red states sucking on the
government nipple, right?
--
"[The] debt explosion has resulted not from big spending
by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party's
embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious
doctrine that deficits don't matter if they result from
tax cuts."
-Reagan budget chief David Stockman
says...
>
> Steve wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:13:54 +0000 (UTC), 3216 Dead <de...@gone.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/143-143/1353
> > > 1- focus-romneys-cold-war-ponzi-scheme
> > >
> > >
> >
> > <LOL> @ readersupportednews.org propaganda
>
> Even though Obama is bankrupting the nation,
...and having sex with all your white wives.
> >
> > <LOL> @ readersupportednews.org propaganda
>
> Even though Obama is bankrupting the nation,
his supporters will stay
> with him as long as he promises to keep their gubmint checks coming.
government nipple, right?
--
"[The] debt explosion has resulted not from big spending
by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party's
embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious
doctrine that deficits don't matter if they result from
tax cuts."
-Reagan budget chief David Stockman
Steve
Oct 27, 2012, 6:50:34 PM10/27/12
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Enraged Apostate, World Citizen
Oct 28, 2012, 2:47:08 PM10/28/12
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Steve <steven...@yahooooo.com> wrote on Sun 28 Oct 2012 01:50:34a
Are we all ready to hold hands and jump off the fiscal cliff together come 1
January???
It won't matter who's president now.
It's Dr. Strangelove and we're giving a cowboy yell as we ride the nuke down
to its target.
--
The Enraged Apostate
Formerly Winston Smith, American Patriot. (reset your killfiles)
Made possible by Slackjaw
Right-wing talking points show a popular appeal in
the same way that trainwrecks are morbidly fascinating.
But soon after the desire to be horrified at the spectacle passes,
the realization soon follows that it is all an ugly, bloody mess,
and it will only be cleaned up with leftist methods and a liberal in charge.
January???
It won't matter who's president now.
It's Dr. Strangelove and we're giving a cowboy yell as we ride the nuke down
to its target.
--
The Enraged Apostate
Formerly Winston Smith, American Patriot. (reset your killfiles)
Made possible by Slackjaw
Right-wing talking points show a popular appeal in
the same way that trainwrecks are morbidly fascinating.
But soon after the desire to be horrified at the spectacle passes,
the realization soon follows that it is all an ugly, bloody mess,
and it will only be cleaned up with leftist methods and a liberal in charge.
Steve
Oct 28, 2012, 5:23:42 PM10/28/12
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:47:08 +0000 (UTC), "Enraged Apostate, World
Citizen" <Finding...@Every.Opportunity.invalid> wrote:
>Steve <steven...@yahooooo.com> wrote on Sun 28 Oct 2012 01:50:34a
>
>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:42:27 +0000 (UTC), "Lee Curtis"
>> <k61fs5$ach$1...@dont-email.me> wrote:
>>
>>>Steve wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:13:54 +0000 (UTC), 3216 Dead <de...@gone.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/143-143/1353
>>>> > 1- focus-romneys-cold-war-ponzi-scheme
>>>> >
>>>> > Romney’s Cold War Ponzi Scheme
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> <LOL> @ readersupportednews.org propaganda
>>>
>>>Even though Obama is bankrupting the nation, his supporters will stay
>>>with him as long as he promises to keep their gubmint checks coming.
>>
>> Leftist fruitcakes only care about themselves.
>
>
>Are we all ready to hold hands and jump off the fiscal cliff together come 1
>January???
You go ahead and jump.
Citizen" <Finding...@Every.Opportunity.invalid> wrote:
>Steve <steven...@yahooooo.com> wrote on Sun 28 Oct 2012 01:50:34a
>
>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:42:27 +0000 (UTC), "Lee Curtis"
>> <k61fs5$ach$1...@dont-email.me> wrote:
>>
>>>Steve wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:13:54 +0000 (UTC), 3216 Dead <de...@gone.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/143-143/1353
>>>> > 1- focus-romneys-cold-war-ponzi-scheme
>>>> >
>>>> > Romney’s Cold War Ponzi Scheme
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> <LOL> @ readersupportednews.org propaganda
>>>
>>>Even though Obama is bankrupting the nation, his supporters will stay
>>>with him as long as he promises to keep their gubmint checks coming.
>>
>> Leftist fruitcakes only care about themselves.
>
>
>Are we all ready to hold hands and jump off the fiscal cliff together come 1
>January???
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