I decided to check up on William Casey and Iran Contra. First of all I suspect the biography of Casey
had been scrubbed anticeptically clean.
There is virtually nothing about Bill Casey’s capacity as Ronald Reagan’s
campaign chief in 1980. There was
absolutely nothing I could find about any deal with Iran about delaying the
hostage release. And contrary to what
Thom Hartman says- - the whole motive for Iran Contra was hostages held by Hez
Ballah. They should call it the
Iran-Israel scandal, because there are more persistent references to Israel
being knee deep in it- - as opposed to Saudi Arabia. And they don’t refer to it as “money
laundering” but merely ‘replacement of funds”.
There was nothing at all about flooding the Los Angeles area with crack
cocaine. That was just an unhappy
coincidence. Also the release of the
Iranian hostages twenty minutes before Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President,
this too was just a strange coincidence.
That Bill Casey suffered a major stroke or something just a couple days
before he testified- - and because Casey did NOT testify- - he’s role wasn’t
even looked into by the Tower Comission.
All this too is just a strange coincidence. Casey died in May of 1987, which is sooner
than I had believed. So he was already
dead for months when Bob Woodward’s book “Veil’ came out. There was a lot talk about this Mc Farlane guy
who resigned in late 1985. But as to the
sale of the weapons themselves- - this was not just a one time thing. These occurred in an almost regular stream
from late 1985 up through October of 1986 just weeks before the scandal broke
in November. People who write about
these things see nothing suspicious at all about Ronald Reagan’s continual vagueness
about what he knew or his involvement in it.
They one and all are quite willing to give him a pass because he was
going senile or something at the time.
It started off as an Arms for Hostage thing of seven US prisoners held
by Hez Ballah. Ronald Reagan made
overatures to the “Moderte Iranians”.
So where were John Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham back then? None of the activities back then were
subjected to a fraction of the microscopic scrutiny that they would be
today. The strangest thing is of course
that Israel was a supporter of Iran in those days. So maybe Israel should just shut their pie
hole now. Just like we should shut our
pie hole up about this whole ISIS thing, because the US funded these right wing
Islamic groups in Afghanistan- - to combat- - at first not the Russians but
rather a left leaning Afghani government that we didn’t like. It would seem that both the US and Israel
have this nasty habit of making bad foreign policy decisions and then it when
it blows up in our face, we just point and accuse our political foes of
disloyalty or something. It gets really
old after a while. If Neil Savedra
wants to give a morning treaties on the subject of “Integrety” he should start
with United States foreign policy.
Because you know, Neil is absolutely right. Integrety is not just some garment that you can
take on and off at will, whenever it’s convienient. If there were anything TO the claims
Christianity makes about a personal transformation- - it would give you integrity
ALL the time, because this indeed is kind of implied in the meaning of the
word. You wouldn’t have a car “made with
integrity” and someone asks you “So, does the motor start right up and run good”,
and you respond “some of the time”.
You know - - I was just wondering this morning - - with some
whispers from Stewart Sutcliffe from the other side- - just who we are
kidding. We seem great at pronouncing problems
as “solved” just like the song , “Only Yesterday” by the Carpenters. Did you know for instance that Israel now
has “solved” the problem of enemy nation aggression because they’ve cleaned out
all those tunnels in Gaza and bombed may inhabitents thereof to Kingdom
Come. I’m wondering whatever happened
to Iran and those Nukes- - and the one plus Billion believers in Allah out
there in the world. If Iran or Hez
Ballah is funneling those weapons to Gaza to you think they’re now just going
to say “OK Israel, you won the battle fair and square”. It’s like on Days of our Lives, you’d think
Stephano Di Mira’s vast world wide empire has crumbled overnight, and now
little kids are getting their sticky singers all over E J’s vintage race cars,
as vast segments of the Empire are being sold off. All of Stephano's network of contacts, spies and moles- - are gone. Stephano has gone from being a new supernatural genius to a bumbling fool - overnight. It's like Gaza, you're suddenly completely wiped out- - totally vanquished. And somehow you’d not going to hear a peep
about it. No repercussions - no nothing. Or maybe Satan is really
defeated just as Christianity states- - and that all the sin we see in the
world is some vast illusion or probably “a lapse in Faith” or something. Or if we can just squeeze that last bunch or
coal or natural gas from the earth, all of our economic and energy problems
would be solved, and never fear about ground pollution or climate change or acid
oceans or any of that other hysterical leftist alarmist stuff. And of course the demographic “Timebomb” we
have discussed for the Republicans- - that’s just a lot of alarmist
pessimism. Right?
This whole thing with “giving continual wars of aggression” a pass,
which Christians do, gets really old after a while. Someone pointed out “There are no empires in
the world today- except of course for America” where PAX Romana reigns supreme,
except , of course, that there is no “Peace”.
And so many wars are fought over Theology. Indeed it can be argued- - and Neil of KFI
has almost stated this- - that you are not justified before God by your works,
neither are you by your Faith- - but rather you are justified by your
Theology. So all of the wars are fought
over having a different “brand’ of theology like Protestent and Catholic. They even did a thing on the Simpsons
mocking this about “Worship of the Bart Man”.
It just seems to me that if I were God I’d be getting pretty sick of all
of this over the past thousand years.
And I imagine I’d be a little hurt and offended. After all it’s always said that “When Jesus
walked this earth it was the Total and Complete Regelation of God’s
Nature. And in fact it is to utterly
Complete and Sufficient for the needs of mankind for (an eternity?) that no
future revelations will EVER be needed.
And what the Jewish Priests did with making it hard to offer sacrifices
to God at the temple without a Kosher tag on your gift you pay dearly to
obtain, so that we have as it were “licensed” or if you will “copy protected
God”. But as Leo points out “When you
copy protect something the only people you end up hurting are the honest people
because the true pirates know how to easily get around it”. So you can not approach God “any old time
you want” or dare to envoke his name or claim to have gotten a message from
him. No, no. If you are coming off of alcohol you can’t
just say you believe in “God, as you understand him to be”. Neil Savedra won’t let you and he’s Jesus
and scripture says nobody comes to the father except by Jesus, and Neil Savedra
is Jesus now. Of course - - it’s been
such a long time since I’ve had a real debate with any hard core Born Again
Christian, maybe some might say “You conplain an awful lot about religion, but
maybe your information and input on the subject is alarmingly out of date”. This very thought has passed through my mind
once or twice. But then I get these
reminders and little indicators of just how “in bed” Christianity and the tea
party are with each other. How I’d
dearly love to roll the clock back to the day before Sarah Palin was picked to
be Mc Cain’s vice presidential nominee.
That’s when so many of my troubles all started. (Selah)
(typed earlier today) Let’s start with Chris Matthew’s this
morning. I guess I caught most of Friday’s
show and some of Thursday’s, though the segments appeared to be a bit out of
order. There was a segment on Lies of
George Bush that got us into the Iraq War.
And there was also a John Dean segment, now looking quite bald, where a
new book has a few facts we didn’t know about Nixon and Watergate. Chris Matthews’ opening remarks Thursday
were more compelling than Friday’s show, but both talk about the blatant
disfunctionality and moral hypocracy of Boehner and the Republicans. All I can say is that the democratic
candidates for congress have just been handed a lot of tailor made issues on a
silver plate to campaign on this fall. We are told there are people who are "waiting around for the stock market to crash". That seems like a pretty depressing pasttime if they could have been making money all this time- and weren't. Of course money managers make THEIR money by CHARGING you- - regardless of their own qualifications. Once they've got your money, THEY'VE already won. What should they care whether you win or lose? If the market, as I say it will, enters another upturn in the weeks before the election it will be harder and harder for the republicans to sell their "doom and gloom" scenario. This guy on KNX said this morning "Yes I know you voters are unhappy- - but on election day you have an opportunity to do something about that by holding President Obama accountable". They're still going with that tired play-book but this year it won't work. They are hoping that we're all trained to respond like Pavlovian dogs- - and they have this arsenol of a dozen or so catch phrases guarenteed to "trigger the right response in the subject". Suddenly if we see an R by any name, we'll select that candidate. Everything is a crusade. Everything is a Holy War to them. They say "Values" and we think searching over the memory banks of our brains "What did FOX news tell me about this?" They've gotten away with it for four years. But eventually the gravity of reality is going to get to them and fortunes that soared in 2009 will no longer 'soar" when you gave the same stimulus.
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