Here Come the Brownshirts, Again

http://www.counterpunch.org/

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The Brownshirt Party has chosen John "hundred year war" McCain as its presidential candidate. Except for Cheney, Norman Podhoretz, and Billy Kristol, McCain is America's greatest warmonger.

In a McCain Regime, Cheney will be back in office with another stint as Secretary of War. Norman "Bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran" Podhoretz will be Undersecretary for Nuclear War with General John "Nuke them" Shalikashvili as his deputy. Rudy Giuliani will be the Minister of Interior in charge of Halliburton's detention centers into which will be herded all critics of war and the police state. Billy kristol will be chief White House spokesliar.

The whole gang will be back--Wolfowitz, Perle, Wurmster, Feith, Libby, Bolton. America will have a second chance to bomb the world into submission.

With the majority of voters sick of war, sick of lies, sick of fraud from the Federal Reserve and Wall Street, and sick of stagnant and falling incomes, McCain is poised to capture 20 per cent of the vote--the Christian Zionists, the rapture evangelicals, and the diehard macho flag-waving thugs who believe America is done for unless "Islamofacists" are exterminated.

The accumulated lies, deceptions, war crimes, the shame of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons, Bush's police state assault on civil liberty, countless numbers of Iraqi and Afghan men, women, and children murdered for the sake of American and Israeli hegemony, and the collapsing US economy indicate a political wipeout for the Brownshirt Party. In a country with an informed and humane population, the Republican Party would be reduced to such a small minority that it could never recover.

What will happen in America? Polls show that Americans have had it with Bush, and the 2006 congressional election showed that the voters have had it with Republicans. But the Republicans have seen the message and ignored it, and the people and the Democrats have continued to tolerate and to enable that which they claim to oppose.

of this crap is a mystery to me. It's ours to lose. I can only hope our primaries don't become as contentious as that flame wars here on DU. We will need to unite to defeat these warmongers.

Mz Pip
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The greatest chance is with us (so I'm not too worried reading this), but we can't expect a waltz; we need to fight the Repugs tooth and claw.

Rockefeller Lets Slip the Spying Truth

In short, the changes legalize Room 641A the secret spying room
inside AT&T's San Francisco internet switching center that was outed by former
AT&T employee Mark Klein. That room sits at the center of a lawsuit against AT&T
for its alleged illegal participation in the government's secret, warrantless spying program.


http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/sen-rockefeller.html

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http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/05/jello-jay-advocates-illegal-spying-on-americans/





http://www.slate.com/id/2182348/nav/tap3/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3175060&mesg_id=3175060