Unfortunately the republican party seems to excel at convincing a huge percentage of their membership to vote against their best interests. The less educated republican voters you refer to have been manipulated to benefit the 'club' that Beau talks about in the video.

This holds for education, but also for plenty of other subjects, like universal healthcare, taxation, and even foreign military policy.

No, he doesn't think we need more government. In fact, he always proned "less government". He really doesn't care about labels and defends no agenda. He has a lot of to say about capitalism and US military policies. You might enjoy reading some of his books.

>> ^StukaFox:
See -- the blue aliens are Iraqis and the rocks are oil and the Marines are the US combat troops and their mindset is an extrapolation of the US military policy . . . but it's very very subtle and hard to see.
Also, the blue aliens did FUTURE 9/11!!!


Dammit, how many times do we have to tell you? The blue-green aliens on a backwater planet on the other side of that star system (mostly *from* one of our trade-partner planets) did future 9/11.

See -- the blue aliens are Iraqis and the rocks are oil and the Marines are the US combat troops and their mindset is an extrapolation of the US military policy . . . but it's very very subtle and hard to see.

Also, the blue aliens did FUTURE 9/11!!!

I'm very confused by this. I understand his anger regarding the military policy of shooting civilians and lengthened tours, but he keeps bringing it back to 9/11. What does the Iraq war currently have to do with 9/11, other than it being used by Bush and others as a vague justification when they were trying to sell it back in '03? And what does being a darker skinned white person have to do with anything? He keeps repeating "believing 9/11 was a lie." In what way? That it was a government setup/coverup or the use of it as a justification for war? Can someone explain what the hell he's talking about?

Also, it should be "breaks it down" in the description, not brake.

Why? To go to war.

To prepare the ground for the PNAC-like ideas that were circulating in the HardRight, various wealthy individuals and corporations helped set up far-right think-tanks, and bought up various media outlets -- newspapers, magazines, TV networks, radio talk shows, cable channels, etc. -- in support of that day when all the political tumblers would click into place and the PNAC cabal and their supporters could assume control.

This happened with the Supreme Court's selection of George W. Bush in 2000. The "outsiders" from PNAC were now powerful "insiders," placed in important positions from which they could exert maximum pressure on U.S. policy: Cheney is Vice President, Rumsfeld is Defense Secretary, Wolfowitz is Deputy Defense Secretary, I. Lewis Libby is Cheney's Chief of Staff, Elliot Abrams is in charge of Middle East policy at the National Security Council, Dov Zakheim is comptroller for the Defense Department, John Bolton is Undersecretary of State, Richard Perle is chair of the Defense Policy advisory board at the Pentagon, former CIA director James Woolsey is on that panel as well, etc. etc. (PNAC's chairman, Bill Kristol, is the editor of The Weekly Standard.) In short, PNAC had a lock on military policy-creation in the Bush Administration.

But, in order to unleash their foreign/military campaigns without taking all sorts of flak from the traditional wing of the conservative GOP -- which was more isolationist, more opposed to expanding the role of the federal government, more opposed to military adventurism abroad -- they needed a context that would permit them free rein. The events of 9/11 rode to their rescue. (In one of their major reports, written in 2000, they noted that "the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor.")

Regarding Iran.. these protest are real and are not sponsored by the CIA (though they certainly may have their fingers in the pie).

To me this is the key. It comes down to this very simple fact:
a) the CIA isn't at all involved in this, in which case the CIA is failing to do its job.
b) the CIA is involved in this to some degree, and there you go there is western influence.

I have the exact same ideas as honkeytonk (and this whole month I've been thinking of the Georgian case, which honkeytonk brought up).

a)I think the level of news coverage in Iran is suspiciously too much.
b)There is no doubt that large chunks of the population are rioting, but to think the CIA doesn't have a hand in inciting/promoting it to the levels it has reached would be naive.
c)This reminds me of so much of the media/government war drums before the Iraq invasion. The main objective gets left behind (WMD) and it becomes a show of it's own.

I think time reveals all, and we need to step back. Just like WMD there isn't really definite proof that there was vote rigging. Even if there was, is getting the votes counted for a presidential election where the president doesn't have any real powers (military, policy etc) that important to people that they would give their lives? I think it's just like the WMD case, it isn't about the votes, the flames are being fanned by the CIA and the media to get a regime change, regardless of whether the iranians really want it or not.

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Lets say it was deliberately razed by explosives... Who ordered this? Why as no document ever been leaked about the plans for these demolition charges in the blueprints or wherever? Things just don't stay secret forever, i'm sorry to break it to you. ...”

Is that true? We have knowledge of all the secrets of history, of all facets of society? More documents may show up 30-40 years later when the freedom of information act declassifies that time-period of administrative documents. Evidence can also be destroyed can it not? With this in mind one cannot say for certain that all secrets come to light of public scrutiny. This combined with the efforts of individuals more than ready to quicky refute the notion of corruption and intimidation of military and political personnel (if you've been in the military then you know what I mean) enables the suppression of secret information.
The military and politician conjecture (and for some good reasons I might add) on classified and secret documents is that it's not "in the interest of the public" (need to know). These are some of the complexities of public and military policy intertwined at the executive level which must be adhered to however also allow the manipulation by upper echelon powers. Our forefathers vehemently warned us of corruption and deception by the powers that come into be in government.

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How can it be thought a government as incompetant as the current, be capable of keeping a secret as big as this? Given how much we now know about their ignorance of the danger of Al'Qaeda prior to Sept. 11th, the hastiness to believe any heresay for WMDs in Iraq, the poorness of planning in the invasion and so on...”

Is there an intelligence behind our government you ask? People are not necessarily stupid yet can be manipulated can they not? This administration may seem incompetent however I believe they are masterminds of deception and persuasion. Only time will tell. Unfortunately if they do succeed in completing their full-scale terror campaign, we may lose ALL of our civil liberties and our Constitutional rights. While that would be a worse-case scenario and something I know we all would never want to have happen then pray with me on this note that I am wrong. I hope for all of us that I am.

fedquip... I am in support of the publication of this post and would be pleased to add it to my playlists, however, I feel I must take issue with the title and request that you please change it to better reflect the content of the video. 'Army Ethics' implies a much broader, centralized plan of training, which is also suggested by the article you've linking this post to... and although this vid could be evidence that enhances said article, I do not feel it encompasses the entire theme, as the title would suggest to the viewer... this video clearly reflects no centralized military policy and is the opinions and actions of a few individuals. So, essentially, I agree with Farhad's concerns and would ask that you change the title to accurately reflect the content of the video, rather than using it to push your own agenda. I've already changed the tags, and further request that if you are going to publish videos here, you at least spend the time necessary to tag them for efficient filing.

Thank you,
Raven- anal-retentive sift librarian

so long as you don't invoke the spaghetti monster when formulating political/social/military policy

Reln, it's too much a generalization to just say that everyone should agree with US military policy and just understand that this is the way the world works. When you are oppressed and attacked by Israel forces using US military technology who do you think they are going to blame exactly?

The reason that radical Islam has reached the point of active violent attack is becuase obviously no other form of dialogue seems to bring the US into the discussion of resolving the Palestine/Israel issue. Which needs to happen for this situation to resolve. Your kind of thinking would only clarify to most people that in reality is this a colonization and oppression of the arab people via Israel with Palestine and the US forces in Iraq. And make no mistake that there are many people willing to misguide their people into advocating violence.

It doesn't help at the same time when the US president so vividly uses hostile words towards the regime in Iran. But then again a perpetual war at the cost of an all volunteer army and declining morale, with the large $$$ to be made from military goverment contracts is just too much of lucrative business to disengage in. Surely we must find more reasons to implement the billion dollar military technologies the Pentagon, DOD and DARPA push at you.

Seriously you people seem to have no soul when it comes to what is actually going on in Israel when it comes to the issue of Palestine. Too brainwashed by the filtered coverage you receive via so called "FREE PRESS" administrated and analyzed by various Israel
interests.

People don't just reach the point of suicide bombings overnight. It shows that these people feel they have no other way out. But clearly that flies over you, clearly it's easier to label people psychologically deranged.

Wow QM, that's a nice way of picking historical events to benefit your arguement isn't it? I mean why not throw in 9/11 there as well and call everyone of Islamic stripe evil or perhaps the Crusades? What are you trying to do exactly? Justify why there should be a continued war of misunderstanding lead against the Eastern civilizations of this world? Would it satiate your need if force directives are continuously used by those who claim to be superpowers?

A thorough and unbiased criticism of American military policy post world war 2 would reveal that the goverment ceaselessly exposes itself to risk of blow back due to military and economic intervention. The price to pay is the worldwide indignation and hatred felt by people who feel that there is no way out. And now those who think there is no other way clearly have taken arms, Reagen said himself that one mans terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Such is the black and white thinking the world degrades to with use of force to achieve objectives. What's even funnier is that to you that would seem like some pinko liberal bullshit, when in reality most of the world backed the US post 9/11 and intervention in Afghanistan, support waned only after a policy of military imperialism was carried out with regards to Iraq with power point slides to convince the world that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

And mentioning the evils of communism in this day and age when America has actively economic ties with China seems highly hypocritical of your narrow world view. Had we been living in the McCarthy era you would probably support his communist witch hunts as well? Or maybe suggest full scale atomic warfare with USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis? I mean oh my god they are evil communists!!!

You way of thinking leads only to the destruction of the very ideals you claim to so fervently protect. Maybe it's time to reexamine your thinking. But of course that won't happen. Your commentary is hit and run at best. Totally stupid at worst.