Enlightened Atheist: Who is the Real Dictator?
With more and more evidence of questionable CIA activities coming out of the woodwork, it leaves me pondering one question. Who is the real dictator? I hear my friends on the right saying Obama is grabbing more unconstitutional power than ANY president ever! That may be technically right, with the automotive and bank takeovers, but these are unprecedented times which will not continue. (By the way, with government controlling only 1% of American commerce it’s not as bad as you might think.) But are we asking the wrong question? Maybe its not about which President, but which person?
The suggestion has been made over the last week or so that the CIA may have been ordered to mislead congress on key issues. Not only is this unethical , but its illegal! Cheney may have ordered and funded a counterterrorism program without the knowledge of Congress. Now I get some things are covert, but there still is the gang of eight that are supposed to be briefed on everything!
This idea was so flawed that the day that new CIA Chief Leon Panetta heard of it he immediately scrapped it and briefed Congress the very next day! This coincides with Nancy Pelosi saying that the CIA never briefed Senators about waterboarding. Our GOP friends were quick to jump on Pelosi as a liar, but was she? The Security Act of 1947 requires the President to make sure intelligence committees are kept “fully and currently informed” of US intelligence activities. This along with the torture program, illegal wire tapping and the unnecessary Iraq war all lead me to one question. Where were all the questions from the right when we WERE without a doubt under the worst and only dictatorship the US has ever seen? Not the Obama administration, But DICK CHENEY! Was Bush merely a puppet?
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Gregg says:
July 16, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Hey Blog, Aztek is going to be gettin’ busy in the woods with that picture up!
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Like how you just slipped that in as a side statement
I was going to “slip it in there” earlier this morning, but your dog picture was still up on this thread so it wouldn’t have been as effective! Or is that affective?
The plan was never operational or acted on. Should the CIA inform Congress on every plan they are forming? Stupid.
Romney
This was how he was operating in 2007; Wash. Post
Following the lead of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Romney began his grandstanding on Iranian disinvestment by targeting the Democratic-controlled states of New York and Massachusetts. On February 22, Romney sent letters to New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton as well as state comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli urging a policy of “strategic disinvestment from companies linked to the Iranian regime.” Romney’s theatrics continued:
“With your new responsibilities overseeing one of America’s largest pension funds, you have a unique opportunity to lead an effort to isolate Iran as it pursues nuclear armament. I request that you immediately launch a policy of strategic disinvestment from companies linked to the Iranian regime. Screening pension investments and divesting from companies providing financial support to the Iranian regime or linked to Iran’s weapons programs and terrorist activities could have a powerful impact. New investments should be scrutinized as long as Iran’s regime continues its current, dangerous course.”
As it turns out, scrutiny begins at home. As the AP detailed, Romney’s former employer and the company he founded have recent links to recent Iranian business deals:
Romney joined Boston-based Bain & Co., a management consulting firm, in 1978 and worked there until 1984. He was CEO of Bain Capital, a venture capital firm, from 1984 to 1999, despite a two-year return as Bain & Co.’s chief executive officer from 1991 to 1992.
Bain & Co. Italy, described in company literature as “the Italian branch of Bain & Co.,” received a $2.3 million contract from the National Iranian Oil Co., in September 2004. Its task was to develop a master plan so NIOC — the state oil company of Iran — could become one of the world’s top oil companies, according to Iranian and U.S. news accounts of the deal.
Bain Capital, the venture capital firm that Romney started and made him a multimillionaire, teamed up with the Haier Group, a Chinese appliance maker that has a factory in Iran, in an unsuccessful 2005 buyout effort.
This is not the first time his former corporate home has proven to be the bane (pun intended) of Mitt Romney’s political existence. During his failed 1994 Senate race and successful 2002 gubernatorial run, Romney was labeled a corporate raider after revelations that a company Bain purchased in Indiana moved quickly to shed hundreds of workers and drop health care for many more.
But this time, Romney is playing dumb — and blind. The former Massachusetts governor claims his investments are in Boston-managed blind trust beyond his control. And more importantly, Romney’s declared that his new-found distrust of the Ahmadinejad regime in Tehran only applies going forward:
“This is something for now-forward. I wouldn’t begin to say that people who, in the past, have been doing business with Iran, are subject to the same scrutiny as that which is going on from a prospective basis.”
Romney will work right along with the Oligarchs, and the pressure in Africa is building, watch Obama go after China, force them out, as he sells them more bonds. Romney will do the same, the resources are the goal of both parties.
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