Voting for Victory

According to the book “Blowback The Costs and Consequences of American Empire” by Chalmers Johnson, President Carter signed a directive ordering secret aid to the forces who were against the Soviet controlled government in Kabul, the Mujahadeen, on July 3 1979. The National Security advisor to Carter states he wrote a note to the president “in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention” and “we now have the opportunity of giving the USSR its Vietnam War.”

Robert Gates present Secretary of Defense corroborated this early aid in his 1996 memoirs where he stated that the US started supplying aid to the mujahadeen six months prior to the Soviet invasion on December 24, 1979.

We goaded the Soviets into Afghanistan to defeat the Russians and win the Cold War. Today we are faced with another Vietnam with Bin Laden doing to us what we did to the Soviets.

Bruce Riedel states in his book “The Search for Al Qaeda” that Bin Laden calls 9-11 the “Manhattan Raid” and wants Afghanistan to collapse the American empire just like it collapsed the Soviet empire.

Many think it was the Bush administration and their torture tactics which has prevented another attack: perhaps we haven’t been attacked because Bin Laden has us right where he wants us; his trail of breadcrumbs led us right to Afghanistan, where many parts of the country are still in the Fourth Century. And we’re going to bring them democracy and the vote? Like hell we are.

The scary part is that the US military said the measure of victory will be counted with the number of people who voted in Afghanistan’s recent elections.

There was voting in South Vietnam during the Vietnam war and we saw how well that voting for victory worked out. Now we are repeating history in Afghanistan with massive voter fraud to “re-elect” another American puppet. The result will be a combination of Viet Nam/ and Russia’s Afghanistan experience. No one wins in Afghanistan, ever, just ask Alexander the great & the Russians. Scientifically speaking, Afghanistan is a Black Hole. It swallows everything, and has absolutely no value…except to Big Oil, the Defense Contractors, Halliburton, KBR and Blackwater Security.

Mandating Millions

In his speech of September 9^th, the President said citizens without health insurance are being irresponsible, and he is going to end that practice.

Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts said at a Town Meeting that taxpayers are paying millions for people without health insurance.

Not only is the federal government going to mandate that we all have health insurance, they’re laying the blame for the high cost of insurance on the uninsured.

A few days after the president’s speech on health care, insurance companies’ stocks were up. If everyone is so worried about health insurance reform putting insurance companies out of business, why have their stocks risen? And please explain how a ‘for profit’ industry can morally control expensive life or death medical treatments?

The insurance companies control the industry and Washington by buying votes. They gave Senator Grassley over one million dollars; Olympia Snowe received a life time take of over nine hundred thousand, and Senator Max Baucus over three million dollars, Baucus himself is obliging them, as his bill includes the insurance mandate that all citizens must have health insurance.

In Massachusetts, health insurance premiums are due to rise ten percent next year, with a five to seven percent increase across the rest of the country. No wonder their stocks are up, they’ll be getting all those new billions in premiums paid to the insurance companies from the 30 million or so that presently cannot afford the high cost of health insurance premiums, millions of new customers they can cheat by cutting their medical coverage while overcharging them with outrageous premiums.

We are not witnessing health insurance reform, we’re witnessing a give away of our money to the health insurance companies.

To say this is Health Care Reform is another subterfuge being played out on the American people, the war cry instead should be Health Insurance Reform!

Corporate Clowns Speakin' Out

We shouldn’t trust the propaganda coming out of the corporate mouthpieces on TV. When sixty percent of media coverage was spent on the outrageous orchestrated antics at Town Hall meetings, and not the real content in health insurance reform, they’re not reporting on the real issues. We react to the propaganda thrown out by the TV media and repeat it as our own thoughts no matter how outlandish it may be. For some, the more outlandish the better. It’s a dog and pony show to get us to react with emotions first, and think second. By the time we have a chance to think it’ll be too late.

Citizens repeat ludicrous concerns, such as fearing a redistribution of wealth lurking behind the health insurance reform bill. The transference of wealth has already occurred, it’s been transferred from our pockets to the pockets of the insurance companies. Where do the insurance companies get this money? From us in the outrageous and ever increasing premiums and sky rocketing deductibles we’re forced to pay.

Insurance companies are in control. If the Democrats control the House and Senate why can’t they pass this bill? Because Blue Dog Democrats are blocking it, due to the enormous amounts of money flowing from the insurance companies lobbyists into the their campaign coffers.

The size of one health insurance reform bill is over one thousand pages so lots of people are up in arms. These same people forget that during the Bush administration Treasury Secretary Paulson sent a three page memo to Congress with no time for Town Hall meetings to transfer 700 billion dollars from us to the banks, no questions asked. We didn’t mind giving away three quarters of a trillion in less than a year, but when it‘s one trillion over ten years and a thousand pages, look at the orchestrated outrage.

Another repeated mantra is the cap and trade tax, oh it’s gonna destroy thousands of jobs in this country. Take a look at the health insurance monopoly UnitedHealth Care. They outsource their call center to India, which takes away thousands of jobs, but that’s just doing business in a global economy so that‘s acceptable. Where is the political outrage over that loss of American jobs? There isn’t any.

We’re told health insurance reform has to include tort reform so doctors won’t have to practice defensive medicine. On the one hand we trust the doctors so much we believe malpractice insurance is too high and a great burden. But then on the other hand insurance companies dictate to these same doctors which procedures, tests, and medicines may be prescribed for us. Insurance companies trust doctors enough to lower their malpractice insurance, but don’t trust them as treating physicians to diagnose our illnesses and cure our sickness.

Don’t listen to these circus clowns who along with compliant politicians dispense with the facts to frame all politics as emotional issues. We deserve better than that.