United States Awarded the Medal of "Oops"

Obama's "New Beginning"

'Go America Go'

A Pakistani Muslim wear two slogans saying 'Go Taliban Go' and 'Go America Go' during a pro-Taliban and anti-US protest rally in Islamabad on 4 May 2009. Tensions are soaring between the Pakistani government, which is under US pressure to extend an offensive to crush the Taliban.A Pakistani Muslim wears a cap bearing the slogan 'Go Taliban Go' during a Pro-Taliban and anti-US protest rally in Islamabad on 4 May 2009.

While the above picture of just 'Go Taliban Go' appeared splashed all over the US media propaganda as an anti-Taliban rally was not so, but to the contrary; what has became much more prominent in Pakistan and across the globe is the ever increasing feeling of anti-US or just plain anti-America due to most people having had enough of oppressive mistreatment and outright cruelty by the US government.

Even now, after the US lied to the American public and assured across the globe with their media propaganda on this situation it stands to define of how far the US will go in their barbaric pressure and heavy hammer upon the whole of the world; that nothing is below of what they will proceed to do against the feelings of the countries they continue to attack.

Neither country, home nor family is safe globally; from the American arrogance, to even go so far as to destroy the US itself in every facet possible, with ill-regard or full destruction of their own country including the welfare of all American citizens to do so.

Further goes to show, even with the recent US attack and continued genocide of Iraqi civilians which occurred very recently; which is being once again high condemned, by the Iraqi government or the US bombing that just occurred as of yesterday evening, that has murdered upward to 120 Afghan civilians.

Which with the very recent US media propaganda that the US is on a mission from "God" to commit murder, especially with the recent attack in Afghanistan; it should be understood that Allah (Hashem, God) does not condone homicidal murder of other's, for any reason or has the US forgotten where Allah (Hashem, God) specified saying, "You shall not kill (Exodus 20:13)."

As a response, " (US) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration "deeply, deeply" regrets the loss of innocent life apparently as the result of a U.S. bombing in Afghanistan and will undertake a full review of the incident;" the sentiment while it is not believed, it will not bring back the over whelming amount of Jewish and Muslim martyrs the US has created in the last hundred and nine years or even yesterday caused by their hands alone.

As the US media propaganda dictates their view’s in the media, one can always be assured that it is better not to listen or read; but look towards the real truth of the matter.-HRM Deborah

Obama‘s Foreign Policy: US Troops from Iraq to Afghanistan

US President Barack Obama pledges 4,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, for his self-imposed Islamophobic genocidal, global domination war.

The Japanese Protest Iraq’s Sixth Anniversary with Respect to Palestine

Japanese activists hold the State of Palestine flag in respect of the genuine inhabitants of Palestine, with further appreciation of the people of Palestine during a peace protest march in Tokyo, Japan (Nippon) on 20 March 2009; to mark the 6th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.

Iraq on 20 March marks the sixth anniversary of the US-led imposed war that toppled US executed Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein; but triggered an Iraqi resistance to occupation, with the US murderous Islamophobic rage with such atrocious atrocities as US genocide, occupation and oppression, to virtual type of slavery towards the Iraqi people and further violence of the same nature in Afghanistan.

The Justified Shoe Throwing Heard Around the World

Iraq shoe thrower jailed for three years

Muntazer al-Zeidi, a 30-year-old Al-Baghdadiya television reporter who threw his shoes at former US president George W. Bush, making him a hero across the Arab world, was on Thursday sentenced unjustly to three years in jail; after the US government forced the Iraqi judicial system to find al-Zeidi guilty of assault.

Al-Zeidi, threw the shoes in anguish of not just Bush; but the devastation, illegal occupation and genocide that has been continuously being done to his country, by the US.

Which it has been almost six years, since the US illegally invaded Iraq; while the invasion had nothing to do with what occurred as the result of 9/11, but to the contrary; what Bush did was tell a very huge lie to not just the American populace to rally around him; but towards the global community and what actually was the true reason was nothing more then Islamophobia.

With the forgoing same conclusion, occurring also in Afghanistan and not what keeps being the broadcasted bombardment across the whole US media propaganda dung heap.

Since US President Barack Obama has taken office, regardless of what is being awkwardly published in the media propaganda; he too continues this madness not just towards these two countries; but the whole of the Islamic and Jewish world, at the cost of not just devastating the US economy into implosion, but further attempts to devastate towards the global economy as well; with even his continued obstinacy of trying to express to the global community of the stability of the US, as it plunges deeper into a sphere of a fourth world economically.

Off the Record: The California Dream

Come to California
There are jobs of plenty
And land is cheap.
Every working man can have his own house and inside every house a happy all-American family.
You can have all this and who knows…you may even be discovered…become a movie star or at least see one.
Life is good in California...It is paradise on earth…that is what they tell you, anyway. Because they are selling and image…they’re selling it through movies, radio and television.

You think California was the Garden of Eden, but the underbelly always has had its serpent, with felony crime, corruption, prostitution and drugs.

Just as the clean fresh face Mid-Western girl’s who got of the bus in plenty, with star’s glittering in their eye’s with the hope of becoming that next big movie star and as far as she ever got on a Hollywood lot of fame and fortune; is some director’s office sofa or ending up along prostitution row, only to die from a drug over-dose, other unmentionables; to ending up on some vacant lot dead, all cut up like Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia) and this was her only walk to fame’s headlines of the butchering, with no solid lead of the killer.

A mug shot of Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia) by Santa Barbara police, after her arrest for underage drinking, on 23 September 1943; prior to her murder.

Or those fresh faced young men stepping of the bus from who knows where, with the same star twinkles in their eyes and end up a slap boy for some up and coming politician or lawyer; slapped and tickled homosexual play toy. To later, be tossed away on some trumped-up charge like a ‘kiddy rapper beef;’ heading for (San) Quentin or the “Q;” with yet, just the possibility of just getting their throat sliced from ear to ear.

But less we forget, it was all done with champagne luxury style…which in reality until the economic bust, California became one of the most expensive states to live in; other then New York City….so let’s keep this on the GT and very Hush-Hush with the same old tabloid rag.

Places called “Hoovervilles,” named after former US President Herbert Hoover sprang up during the Great Depression as people lost their jobs and homes; besides the shanty towns, there where an overwhelming amount of what was called “transit camp’s,” which many consisted of nothing more then tent cities. In 2009, American’s are living in what is now being termed as “Obamavilles;” after current US President Barack Obama.

Obamaville: The tents and other makeshift homes have sprung up in the shadow of Sacramento's skyscrapers

Today, tents are once again springing up in the city of Sacramento. But this time it is for people with no hope and no prospects.

Obamaville: The tent city is already home to dozens of people, many left without jobs because of the credit crunch

Those who have lost their jobs and homes and have nowhere else to go are constructing makeshift shelters on the site, which covers several acres.

As many as 50 people a week are turning up and the authorities estimate that the tent city is now home to more than 1,200 people.

In a state more known for its fantastic wealth and the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, the images have shocked many Americans.

Conditions are primitive, with no water supply or proper sanitation.

Many residents have to walk up to three miles to buy bottled water from petrol stations or convenience stores.

Obamaville: Ben Cardwell, carries supplies to his tent at a homeless settlement

Obamaville: Tammy Day, a homeless woman, cooks potatoes on a campfire at the site

At other times, charity workers arrive to hand out free food and other supplies.

Joan Burke, who campaigns on behalf of the homeless, said the images of Americans living in tents would shock many.

'It should be an eye- opener for everybody,' she said. 'But we shouldn't just be shocked, we should take action to change things, because it's unacceptable.

'It is unacceptable that in this day and age we have gone back to a situation like we had during the Great Depression.'

Obamaville: Keith and Tammy Day cook dinner

Authorities in Sacramento, where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's family in Austria where of the Nazi Party at Adolph Hitler’s height of in fame; at his office, admit the sight of families living in such poverty is not pretty.

The city's mayor Kevin Johnson said: 'I can't say tent cities are the answer to the homeless population in Sacramento, but I think it's one of the many things that should be considered and looked at.'

Foreclosure rates last year rocketed by 327 per cent, with up to 500 people a day losing their home.

Coupled with massive job cuts that have seen one in ten workers laid off, many people who once enjoyed a middle class existence are now forced into third world conditions.

Former car salesman Corvin and his wife Tena are among the newest residents of the tent city.

Obamaville: Tent city residents queue up to receive supplies handed out by a local charity

The couple, who are in their fifties, lost their home and jobs around the same time.

With homeless shelters full in Sacramento, they had little choice but to use what savings they had left to buy a tent.

The couple admit they have yet to tell their grown-up children about their hand-to-mouth existence.

Tena said: 'I have a 35-year-old son, and he doesn't know. I call him, about once a month and on holidays, to let him know that I'm well and healthy.

Many of those who have found themselves homeless worked in the building trade.

But with no new home builds and as many as 80,000 people losing their job every month, there is little chance of employment.

'He would love me anyway, but I don't want to worry him.'

US President Barack Obama jaunts jubilantly on stage as he arrives to speak about education at the 19th Annual Legislative Conference of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington, 10 March 2009. The song under the photograph above was called. “Where in the Money,” which came out in 1933 as a propaganda tune in retrospect as a mockery of how dire the condition’s actually where during the Great Depression. The song was first featured in the film called; “The Gold Digger’s of 1933” and was presented by a chorus line of scanty dressed women.

As these tent cities will continue to grow in the weeks, months and years ahead with no prosperity in sight. US President Barack Obama’s previous stimulus package fund’s finding its way out of the country for such thing’s as there terrorism genocide increase and troop build-up in Afghanistan or to fund various military contracts for their global initiatives on they’re domination projects for example or for such pet projects as $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management research in Iowa, $2 million to promote astronomy in Hawaii and $381,000 for music programs at New York City’s Lincoln Center.

But yet, the American people have to stand and wait and wonder what sorrows will still becoming there way, as the poverty problem continues to balloon somewhere out past the stratosphere.

Update:

13 March 2009

As to the Obamaville’s in Sacramento which are seen in the above photograph's, it has been reported while these camps are acquiring 50 to 100 people a day with no other place to live or no other foreseeable place to go; that US President Barack Obama’s solution for these particular camps was to order the city of Sacramento to evict all these tent resident’s from their present location.

As to the present living conditions which are deployable and unsafe health hazard with no sanitation or water for instance and having to in most instances to cook over dug holes made into a type of grill to cook what ever a person can"hope to find," instead of Obama helping these American’s; he has found a way to increase their misery.

These camps are also being considered worse, than any fourth world country.

Nevertheless, as to the US commenting of being a safe investment in the world, is nothing but arrogance; as the country plummet’s further into despair.

New US soldiers Arrive in Afghanistan Learning How to Be Terrorists as they Expand Within the Country

Newly arrived US soldiers attend a mandatory class on "How to be" terrorists and the use of explosive devices, on 3 March 2009 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.

Following U.S. President Barack Obama`s executive order allegedly closing the Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp, Bagram Air Base is slated for a $60 million expansion, nearly doubling the size of the Concentration Camp at Bagram.

As to the issue of these Concentration Camp‘s, with the US clouding that only Muslim’s are being held with the use of every form of maltreatment and outright murder; what is not in the forefront and should be, is these camp’s are also holding innocent people of the Jewish religion.

Currently the base north of the Afghan capital Kabul holds over 600 prisoners classified by the US as enemy combatants, with their imposed aggressive war on Judaism and Islam.
U.S. Army soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division take inventory of weapons before an alleged mission at Bagram Air Base, 0n 2 March 2009 in Bagram, Afghanistan.

A C-130 cargo plane lifts off on 3 March 2009 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.

A US soldier assists in parking an Army Humvee at Bagram Air Base, on 2 March 2009; in Bagram, Afghanistan.

A bus passes a security fence at Bagram Air Base on 2 March 2009 in Bagram, Afghanistan; Bagram Air Base to undergo $60 million expansion.

Afghanistan: A Child’s Terror of US Occupation

A child looks up in what appears to be the front of a Masjid (Mosque) at a member of the U.S. Army 1-6 Field Artillery division on patrol 24 February 2009 in Tupak, Afghanistan.

Investigation: Army charity hoards millions

19 February 2008

Fort Bliss, Texas - As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the U.S. military has been stockpiling tens of millions of dollars meant to help put returning fighters back on their feet, an Associated Press investigation shows.

Between 2003 and 2007 — as many military families dealt with long war deployments and increased numbers of home foreclosures — Army Emergency Relief grew into a $345 million behemoth. During those years, the charity packed away $117 million into its own reserves while spending just $64 million on direct aid, according to an AP analysis of its tax records.

Tax-exempt and legally separate from the military, AER projects a facade of independence but really operates under close Army control. The massive nonprofit — funded predominantly by troops — allows superiors to squeeze soldiers for contributions; forces struggling soldiers to repay loans — sometimes delaying transfers and promotions; and too often violates its own rules by rewarding donors, such as giving free passes from physical training, the AP found.

Founded in 1942, AER eases cash emergencies of active-duty soldiers and retirees and provides college scholarships for their families. Its emergency aid covers mortgage payments and food, car repairs, medical bills, travel to family funerals, and the like.

Instead of giving money away, though, the Army charity lent out 91 percent of its emergency aid during the period 2003-2007. For accounting purposes, the loans, dispensed interest-free, are counted as expenses only when they are not paid back.

During that same five-year period, the smaller Navy and Air Force charities both put far more of their own resources into aid than reserves. The Air Force charity kept $24 million in reserves while dispensing $56 million in total aid, which includes grants, scholarships and loans not repaid. The Navy charity put $32 million into reserves and gave out $49 million in total aid.

AER executives defend their operation, insisting they need to keep sizable reserves to be ready for future catastrophes.

‘‘Look at the stock market,’’ said retired Col. Dennis Spiegel, AER’s deputy director for administration. Without the large reserve, he added, ‘‘We’d be in very serious trouble.’’

But smaller civilian charities for service members and veterans say they are swamped by the desperate needs of recent years, with requests far outstripping ability to respond.

While independent on paper, Army Emergency Relief is housed, staffed and controlled by the U.S. Army.

That’s not illegal per se. Eric Smith, a spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service, said the agency can’t offer an opinion on a particular charity’s activities. But Marcus Owens, former head of IRS charity oversight, said charities like AER can legally partner closely with a government agency.

However, he said, problems sometimes arise when their missions diverge. ‘‘There’s a bit of a tension when a government organization is operating closely with a charity,’’ he said.

Most charity watchdogs view 1-to-3 years of reserves as prudent, with more than that considered hoarding. Yet the American Institute of Philanthropy says AER holds enough reserves to last about 12 years at its current level of aid.

Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy, said that AER collects money ‘‘very efficiently. What the shame is, is they’re not doing more with it.’’

National administrators say they’ve tried to loosen the purse strings. The most recent yearly figures do show a tilt by AER toward increased giving.

Still, Borochoff’s organization, which grades charities, gives the Army charity an ‘‘F’’ because of the hoarding.

The AP findings include:

— Superior officers come calling when AER loans aren’t repaid on time. Soldiers can be fined or demoted for missing loan payments. They must clear their loans before transferring or leaving the service.

— Promotions can be delayed or canceled if loans are not repaid.

— Despite strict rules against coercion, the Army uses pushy tactics to extract supposedly voluntary contributions, with superiors using language like: ‘‘How much can we count on from you?’’

— The Army sometimes offers rewards for contributions, though incentives are banned by program rules. It sometimes excuses contributors from physical training — another clear violation.

— AER screens every request for aid, peering into the personal finances of its troops, essentially making the Army a soldier’s boss and loan officer.

‘‘If I ask a private for something ... chances are everyone’s going to do it. Why? Because I’m a lieutenant,’’ says Iraq war veteran Tom Tarantino, otherwise an AER backer. ‘‘It can almost be construed as mandatory.’’

Neither the Army nor Sgt. Major of the Army Kenneth Preston, an AER board member, responded to repeated requests for comment on the military’s relationship with AER.

AER pays just 21 staffers, all working at its headquarters at Army Human Resources Command in Alexandria, Va. AER’s other 300 or so employees at 90 Army sites worldwide are civilians paid by the Army. Also, the Army gives AER office space for free.

AER’s treasurer, Ret. Col. Andrew Cohen, acknowledged in an interview that ‘‘the Army runs the program in the field.’’ Army officers dominate its corporate board too.

Charities linked to other services operate along more traditional nonprofit lines. The Air Force Aid Society sprinkles its board with members from outside the military to foster broad views.

The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society pays 225 employees and, instead of relying on Navy personnel for other chores, deploys a corps of about 3,400 volunteers, including some from outside the military.

Army regulations say AER ‘‘is, in effect, the U.S. Army’s own emergency financial assistance organization.’’ Under Army regulations, officers must recommend whether their soldiers deserve aid. Company commanders and first sergeants can approve up to $1,000 in loans on their own say-so. Officers also are charged with making sure their troops repay AER loans.

‘‘If you have an outstanding bill, you’re warned about paying that off just to finish your tour of duty ... because it will be brought to your leadership and it will be dealt with,’’ says Jon Nakaishi, of Tracy, Calif., an Army National Guard veteran of the Iraq war who took out a $900 AER loan to help feed his wife and children between paychecks.

In his case, he was sent home with an injury and never fully repaid his loan.

The Army also exercises its leverage in raising contributions from soldiers. It reaches out only to troops and veterans in annual campaigns organized by Army personnel.

For those on active duty, AER organizes appeals along the chain of command. Low-ranking personnel are typically solicited by a superior who knows them personally.

Spiegel, the AER administrator, said he’s unaware of specific violations but added: ‘‘I spent 29 years in the Army, I know how ... first sergeants operate. Some of them do strong-arm.’’

Army regulations ban base passes, training holidays, relief from guard duty, award plaques and ‘‘all other incentives or rewards’’ for contributions to AER. But the AP uncovered evidence of many violations.

Before leaving active duty in 2006, Philip Aubart, who then went to Reserve Officer Training Corps at Dartmouth College, admits he gave to AER partly to be excused from push-ups, sit-ups and running the next day. For those who didn’t contribute the minimum monthly allotment, the calisthenics became, in effect, a punishment.

‘‘That enticed lots and lots of guys to give,’’ he noted. He says he gave in two annual campaigns and was allowed to skip physical training the following days.

Others spoke of prizes like pizza parties and honorary flags given to top cooperating units.

Make no mistake: AER, a normally uncontroversial fixture of Army life, has helped millions of soldiers and families. Last year alone, AER handed out about $5.5 million in emergency grants, $65 million in loans, and $12 million in scholarships. Despite the extra demands for soldiers busy fighting two wars, AER’s management says it hasn’t felt a need to boost giving in recent years.

But the AP encountered considerable criticism about AER’s hoarding of its treasure chest.

Jack Tilley, a retired sergeant major of the Army on AER’s board from 2000 to 2004, said he was surprised by AP’s findings, especially during wartime.

‘‘I think they could give more. In fact, that’s why that’s there,’’ said Tilley, who co-founded another charity that helps families of Mideast war veterans, the American Freedom Foundation.

What does AER do with its retained wealth? Mostly, it accumulates stocks and bonds. AER ended 2007 with a $296 million portfolio; last year’s tanking market cut that to $214 million, by the estimate of its treasurer.

Sylvia Kidd, an AER board member in the 1990s, says she feels that the charity does much good work but guards its relief funds too jealously. ‘‘You hear things, and you think, ‘‘‘They got all this money, and they should certainly be able to take care of this,’’’ she said. She now works for a smaller independent charity, the Association of the United States Army, providing emergency aid to some military families that AER won’t help.

Though AER keeps a $25 million line of bank credit to respond to a world economic crisis, its board has decided to lop off a third of its scholarship money this year. ‘‘We’re not happy about it,’’ Spiegel says.

Afghanistan: The War without Merit

A US Army soldier with the 2nd Squad 1st Platoon 527 Military Company walks past villagers who have turned their backs in defiance on 17 February 2009 in the village of Baba Kala, eastern Afghanistan. As the security situation continues to challenge the unwanted coalition forces in this war torn improvised occupation.
Staff Sgt. Eric Charqois of Simi Valley, California with U.S. Army 1-6 Field Artillery division takes illegally the finger prints of an Afghan teenager while patrolling an area where there has been allegedly reported Taliban presence 18 February 2009 in Gandalabog, Afghanistan.

US President Barack Obama has committed an additional 17,000 troops towards the occupational war in Afghanistan, adding to the 36,000 currently there; on the United States self-imposed aggressive war against the Islamic world.
A man was forcibly removed from his van and is questioned by the U.S. Army in a remote valley while the US military was allegedly searching for the Taliban, 18 February 2009 in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.

As to the Taliban being accused of terrorist activities, it is more along the line of the US attempting to destroy the world of Islam; by attacking those known as well-educated Islamic scholars.

US Forces Still Murdering Afghan Civilians

An Afghan man gestures to media representatives during an anti-US and Afghan government protest in Mehtarlam city, capital of Laghman province, on 24 January 2009.

While US-led coalition forces said they killed 15 ‘armed militants’ in eastern Afghanistan, but local legislators say the casualties were civilians including women and children.

Meanwhile, President Hamid Karzai condemned a U.S. operation he said killed 16 Afghan civilians, while the hundreds of villagers denounced the American military during the angry demonstration on Sunday.

As the US media propaganda, exaggerates claims of what is going on in Afghanistan to justify there contention and to reinforce there allegations of more troops within the country.

The death toll towards civilians not just in Afghanistan, but also neighboring Pakistan by the same means is staggering.

This goes along with the US self-imposed, instigated war not just against the Islamic Ummah; but the Jewish community as well, which can be seen by activities perpetrated against these two religious groups.

Bush Operation Iraq Occupation

Bush: Work in Iraq has been hard; needed for peace

U.S. President George W. Bush walks with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani during an arrival ceremony at Salam Palace in Baghdad, on 14 December 2008.

14 December 2008
By JENNIFER LOVEN

BAGHDAD – On a farewell trip to Iraq, President George W. Bush said Sunday the war has been hard, but was necessary to protect the U.S. and give Iraqis hope for a peaceful future.

Bush visited the Iraqi capital just 37 days before he hands the war off to President-elect Barack Obama, who has pledged to end it. At the end of nearly two hours of meetings at an ornate, marble-floored palace along the shores of the Tigris River, Bush defended the war, now in its sixth year.

"The work hasn't been easy, but it has been necessary for American security, Iraqi hope and world peace," the president said. "I'm just so grateful I had the chance to come back to Iraq before my presidency ends."

But in many ways, the unannounced trip was a victory lap without a victory. Nearly 150,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq fighting a war that is remarkably unpopular in the United States and across the globe. More than 4,209 members of the U.S. military have died and the war has cost U.S. taxpayers $576 billion since it began five years and nine months ago.

After an arrival ceremony, Bush began a rapid-fire series of meetings with top Iraqi leaders. The president wanted to highlight a drop in violence in a nation still riven by ethnic strife and to celebrate a recent U.S.-Iraq security agreement, which calls for U.S. troops to withdraw by the end of 2011.

Air Force One, the president's distinctive powder blue-and-white jetliner, landed at Baghdad International Airport in the afternoon local time after a secretive Saturday night departure from Washington. In a sign of modest security gains in this war zone, Bush received a formal arrival ceremony — a flourish absent in his three earlier trips.

Referring to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, seated beside him, and the country's two vice presidents, Bush said: "I've known these men for a long time and I've come to admire them for their courage and their determination to succeed."

Bush's meetings at the palace were held as the sun set outside and darkness fell over Baghdad. Talabani called Bush "our great friend," who "helped to liberate" Iraq. "Thanks to him and his courageous leadership, we are here," Talabani said in heavily accented English.

Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki planned a ceremonial signing of the security agreement — a "remarkable document," according to Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley. He said the pact was unique in the Arab world because it was publicly debated, discussed and adopted by an elected parliament.

Hadley said the trip proved that the U.S.-Iraq relationship was changing "with Iraqis rightfully exercising greater sovereignty" and the U.S. "in an increasingly subordinate role."

The Bush administration and even White House critics credit last year's military buildup with the security gains in Iraq. Last month, attacks fell to the lowest monthly level since the war began in 2003. Still, it's unclear what will happen when the U.S. troops leave. While violence has slowed in Iraq, attacks continue, especially in the north. At least 55 people were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing in a restaurant near Kirkuk.

For Bush, the war is the issue around which both he and the country defined his two terms in office. He saw the invasion and continuing fight — even after weapons of mass destruction, the initial justification for invading Iraq, were not found — as a necessary action to protect Americans and fight terrorism. Though his decision won support at first, the public now has largely decided that the U.S. needs to get out of Iraq.

It was Bush's last trip to the war zone before Obama takes office Jan. 20. Obama won an election largely viewed as a referendum on Bush, who has endured low approval ratings because of the war and more recently, the U.S. recession.

Obama has promised he will bring all U.S. combat troops back home from Iraq a little over a year into his term, as long as commanders agree a withdrawal would not endanger American personnel or Iraq's security. Obama has said that on his first day as president, he will summon the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the White House and give them a new mission: responsibly ending the war.

Obama has said the drawdown in Iraq would allow him to shift troops and bolster the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. Commanders there want at least 20,000 more forces, but cannot get them unless some leave Iraq.

After a 10 1/2 hour fight, Bush was met at the airport by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and the top U.S. commander Gen. Raymond Odierno. The president then climbed aboard a helicopter for a five-minute flight to the presidential palace.

The trip was conducted under heavy security and a strict cloak of secrecy. People traveling with the president agreed to tell almost no one about the plans, and the White House released false schedules detailing activities planned for Bush in Washington on Sunday.

Bush's visit came after Defense Secretary Robert Gates' unannounced stop in Iraq on Saturday, at a sprawling military base in the central part of the country. Gates will be the lone Republican holdover from the Bush Cabinet in the Obama administration.

The new U.S.-Iraqi security pact goes into effect next month. It replaces a U.N. mandate that gives the U.S.-led coalition broad powers to conduct military operations and detain people without charge if they were believed to pose a security threat. The bilateral agreement changes some of those terms and calls for all American troops to be withdrawn by the end of 2011, in two stages.

The first stage begins next year, when U.S. troops pull back from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities by the end of June.

Odierno said Saturday that even after that summer deadline, some U.S. troops will remain in Iraqi cities. They will serve in local security stations as training and mentoring teams, and so will not violate the mandate for American combat forces to leave urban areas, he said.

Iraq's Defense Ministry said Sunday that U.S. commanders would have to get Baghdad's permission for keep the troops there.

Video

Raw Video: Bush Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq

Update:

An Iraqi journalist is taken to the ground after throwing his shoes at US President George W. Bush during a joint press conference and signing ceremony with Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at Maliki's private office during an unannounced visit to Baghdad, Iraq, on 14 December 2008.

Angry Iraqi throws shoes at President Bush in Baghdad

In this image from an APTN video, of one of the flying shoes thrown at US President George W. Bush during a news conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, 0n 14 December 2008.

Another image from the APTN video, of the Iraqi journalist (center) preparing to throw his size 10 shoe at US President George W Bush; which is actually a very unusual occurrence in Iraq, let alone the Middle East.

Which some people’s opinion globally, this was due to the horrendous conditions of occupation and genocide that has been occurring since the US invasion of Iraq; in 2003.

It is an enormous consensus in Iraq, that the Iraqi people wish the US military out of Iraq forthwith and full freedom for the people of Iraq; without the conditions that has been plaguing them since the US invasion.

Further Reading:

US President Bush Meets with Iraq President Talabani in Iraq

Bush Makes Stop in Afghanistan to Rally Troops

US President George W. Bush arrived in Afghanistan before dawn, five and a half hours after leaving Iraq, the details of the trip shrouded in even greater secrecy than the first leg; to Iraq.

HRM Deborah of Palestine at the History Cafe

Visiting the History Café, is HRM Deborah of Palestine appearing as lady liberty with truth VS the US afraid that history has caught up with there lies, to shaking in fear by former US President George W. Bush as Uncle Sam; who doesn’t know how apologize to lady liberty nor confess Bush lost the country in International Court.

Too furthermore, lady liberty was given the country with the blessing’s of the American people and courtesy of the global community.

Nevertheless, by International law the current US elections are illegal; as of now, the US as no Presidency nor is the US a Democracy.

All US military will immediately leave Iraq and Afghanistan, both these wars to be declared as over and the closing of Guantanamo Bay.

Update:
At this time, Barack Obama is in violation of International Law as to my understanding, as well as Joe Biden.

It was reported to me yesterday, International Courts decision regarding the holder and forfeiture of the USA, because of noncompliance and criminal action on the part of US President George W. Bush and the forgoing actions required for US noncompliance by the global community and myself.

Obama and McCain Believe in Warmongering with Bait?

Both McCain and Obama call for rebuilding U.S. ground forces

Barack Obama and John McCain

26 October 2008
By NANCY A. YOUSSEF

WASHINGTON-Barack Obama and John McCain each promise that as president they would continue to transform the U.S. military into a bigger, more agile force that can tackle insurgencies and help allies thwart terrorism.

However, the candidates differ on what role the military should play in global affairs.

"The Department of Defense has been the pre-emptive force of the last eight years," said Col. Michael Meese, a professor and the head of the department of social sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Whether Defense continues in that role - or the State Department, with the U.S. Agency for International Development, picks it up - is a question for the next administration, Meese said.

While there may be big differences in how the presidential candidates would use the military, they generally agree on what kind of force the U.S. needs.

"Temperamentally, Senators Obama and McCain are very different on defense. But when you read the details of their defense positions, they are remarkably similar," said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute, a conservative public policy organization. "They both want to bolster intelligence, focus on counter-terrorism, reduce big-ticket weapons systems and crack down on defense contracts."

Both men call for rebuilding U.S. ground forces, whose troops and equipment have been exhausted by seven years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The next president will find a military that's still struggling to balance training for counter-insurgency and maintaining its ability to fight conventional wars.

McCain would like to increase the size of U.S. ground forces - the Army and Marines - by 150,000 troops to roughly 900,000.

Obama supports a Pentagon plan to expand the Army by 65,000 and the Marines by 27,000 in the next decade.

Obama and McCain also have said that they're concerned about the shortage of non-commissioned officers in the Army because so many mid-career senior enlisted men and women are leaving the military, exhausted by multiple tours in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Both candidates want to add more military civil-affairs units, which are battalion-size units of roughly 600 troops designed to work with local governments in the wake of conflicts. Such units could help the U.S. rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, but neither candidate offers specifics on how large a military civil-affairs force should be.

Obama says the National Guard needs better equipment and health care and has called for it to have a greater role.

McCain has made veterans issues a priority, promising to get veterans better health care. He also has supported increasing the monthly veterans' education benefit to $1,500 from $1,200.

They both support missile defense, although Obama has called for more testing of the systems, while McCain has said he wants to deploy them as quickly as possible.

Both candidates have called for more transparency in how the Pentagon doles out defense contracts. McCain, who led the fight against a huge Air Force tanker contract, has promised to review defense contracts and opposes emergency bills to supplement the defense budget.

Obama has said he would trim supplemental bills for defense spending and that overall defense spending would remain steady.

"Whether we get Obama or McCain, we will get a bigger military. They will have different attitudes on how it is used," Thompson said.

McCain, a former Navy pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam, has suggested that the military can be the face of U.S. engagement around the world.

He's called for U.S. troops to remain in Iraq until victory is assured. His campaign has said the surge was such a success in Iraq that the U.S. military should apply the "surge principles" in Afghanistan, suggesting that he'd send more troops there. He's also called for more training of allies that are combating terrorism within their borders.

McCain also has said that the U.S. can't allow Iran to develop its nuclear arsenal, suggesting that he'd use force if necessary to prevent that.

"There is only one thing worse than a military solution," McCain said in July 2007. "And that ... is a nuclear-armed Iran."

Obama also has said that a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, but he's put more emphasis on trying to reach a negotiated settlement with Tehran. In fact, Obama has made it clear that he thinks robust U.S. diplomacy could substitute, at least in part, for the Bush administration's reliance on the military to carry out America's will in the world.

The Democratic presidential nominee has vowed to end the war in Iraq and to bring U.S. combat forces home over 16 months. He'd shift some U.S. forces from Iraq into Afghanistan, which he calls the real front line in the war on terror, and it's where the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were planned.

Obama also has pushed for the U.S. military to enter Pakistan, unilaterally if necessary, to go after Osama bin Laden. McCain has criticized Obama's stand, saying he's announcing his plan to the enemy and inviting Pakistani resistance rather than cooperation, but McCain's also called Pakistan "a failed state."

"Both have an appreciation for the limits of military power. But they must decide: Does the United States want to be involved in nation building?" said Jake Kipp, the deputy director of the School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

For all their plans, the next president cannot fully predict how he'd use the military.

"There are things that cannot be controlled by the new president. A lot of times, he will be responding to events," Kipp said. "As they say in the military: The enemy has a vote."

Commentary:

The only comment's I am going to make is this article is laced with the old US President George W Bush lies, which propagated the global war of unrest within the Bush administration that has destroyed countless of lives from the US to global, genocide, slavery, occupation, poverty, to a big chunk of helping to collapse the US's economy, naming just a few examples and apparently; Obama and McCain plan on following in Bush’s sweat, odor, stained shoes.

Their only difference is to entice people to murder and die with bait inducements.

Endangered Persian Leopard Cub Presented for First Time to Media

A four-week-old Persian leopard cub looks into the camera at the Budapest Zoo, 0n 21 October 2008. The cub and its twin were presented to the media for the first time last Tuesday.

The Persian leopard is said to be the largest of all the subspecies of leopards in the world. It can grow to up to 1.5 to 2.7 feet tall at the shoulder, and weigh as much as 155 lbs.

These particular leopard’s are on the endangered list for several reasons and protected by International law, which they are also one of the animal’s being subjected to extreme suffering at this time from warfare; in there mountain habitat, particularly in Afghanistan with the US occupation and genocide of the human inhabitants of the country.

A Beautiful sleek full grown Persian Leopard, just imagine there grace and nimbleness of foot.

While many people may think a war is just an armed conflict between two groups of people or countries, what most people tend to not take into account is the enormous ramifications that effects every fiber of existence which wars actually cause; this little Persian Leopard cub is just one of them.

Nevertheless, what people also may not take into account, is every living thing on the earth has a purpose or Allah (God) wouldn’t have put them there; as in this particular case of these leopard's, to maintain the balance of the earth.

Bushonomics: America Tell Bush How You Feel

Lafayette Park, also known as Presidents Park
16th & Pennsylvania Ave., NW (across from the White House), Washington, DC.

Park Description: The seven-acre park provides a prominent arena for public protests, ranger programs and special events. It was named to honor the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution. An equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson is located in the center and in the four corners are statues of Revolutionary War heroes: France's General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette and Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau; Poland's General Thaddeus Kosciuszko; Prussia's Major General Baron Frederich Wilhelm von Steuben. Buildings surrounding the park include the White House, the Old Executive Office Building, the Department of the Treasury, Decatur House, Renwick Gallery, The White House Historical Association, Hay-Adams Hotel and The Department of Veterans Affairs.

Open: Every day
Admission: Free
Hours: 24 Hours a day
Park Website

American’s are you feeling depressed because of Bushonomics due to you having lost your home, job, health care, retirement, loss business or the ever increasing rise in the cost of living and you just can not seem to make it on a daily basis to just your feelings against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the proposals of new ones against your tax dollar, lost loved ones, to these global human rights violations; I came up with an idea of how to let US President George W. Bush know, how you feel.

Go to Washington and set up a tent in the park across the street from the White House and every time Bush appears, tell him exactly what is in your heart about the ever increasing economic collapse; as others have done in the same park throughout American history before you, most notably the old Hooverville’s from the 1930’s Depression or the 1960’s Peace protests; you may even wish to wear that flower in your hair or preference to your religious affiliations, such as thoughs who wear the Islamic hijab, Kippah, for example.

By getting together, you will have a camaraderie with other’s like yourself; to achieving united, for a common stance to make yourself heard in Washington.

Stand up for Your Human Right’s, for You can make the difference!

Updates:

Bushonomics: Bush Run's from Economic Protestors

Bushonomics: Bush Gestures to Growing Numbers of Economic Protestors

Iraq : A Right to Freedom

Iraqi followers of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr hold up copies of the Quran during a protest, on 18 October 2008; in Baghdad against the US occupation of Iraq.

Followers of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched through the Iraqi capital shouting anti-US slogans to protest the American occupation and the planned security deal between the two countries.

This came at a time, when Washington and Baghdad are negotiating a security deal that is not being accepted apparently, by the majority of Iraqi people and is also under much scrutiny for illegalities towards the US.

Since Iraq is being considered in an illegal war with occupation by a foreign country namely the US, it stands to reason that the US foreign presence would never be acceptable under any circumstance; let alone the continuous genocide of numerous innocent Iraqi’s, which include men, women, children and the elderly.

The Martyr’s of Iraq and Afghanistan

Furthermore what is substantially so hideous in this occupation, is the wanton genocide of whole villages; numerous times in the middle of the night or late evening when the Iraqi people would appear more helpless, by US military personnel.

It is also understood, one can hear the people in the village’s blood curdling screaming for a long distance, as they are being murdered one by one as though they are nothing; by the US military and to further understand, it is not just Shia but also Sunni Muslims.

Nevertheless, it is being found that Afghanistan is also going through the same horror and it is a further wonder, how the US can feel justified to be in two illegal wars propagated by lies; let alone commit such senseless wholesale murder, to even wish to initiate more of these type of atrocities around the globe.

Iran: Supreme Leader: Rule of money in West over

13 October 2008

Tehran-Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that the rule of money in the western world has come to an end and their outcries are heard.

Highlighting the current status of liberal democracy in the West, the Supreme Leader said as the school of Marxism has collapsed, sounds of the decline of the West's liberal democracy are now heard.

The Islamic movement is spreading day by day and the Islamic Revolution as the driving force of such a great ideological movement should strengthen the factors behind its progress, the Supreme Leader said in a meeting with Friday prayer leaders from throughout the country.

The secret of the Islamic Revolutions lies in its spirit of resistance, underlined Ayatollah Khamenei.

The Iranian nation has renewed its allegiance to Islam, the Islamic Revolution and late Imam Khomeini, said the Supreme Leader, adding that the Iranian people have kept their promises to this effect resulting in the supremacy of religious power in Iran.

The Islamic Revolution became victorious at a time when the world was dominated by two schools of thought namely Marxism and Liberalism, said Ayatollah Khamenei.

"Iran strongly stood up to the plots masterminded by global arrogance and by relying on the Almighty God overcame all difficulties. Now there is no sign of Marxism in the world and even Liberalism is on the decline," pointed out the Supreme Leader.

Referring to scandalous collapse of Marxism, the Supreme Leader said they lost their strongholds one by one and finally turned into a spider web and were wiped up completely.

After fall of Marxism, liberalism was tempted to promote the idea of unipolar world, assuming that the whole world was under its influence it had no rival, pointed out Ayatollah Khamenei.

Highlighting the current status of liberalism in the western democracy, the Supreme Leader said that "Political claims and fabricated mottos of this school about human rights and democracy were revealed in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib prison, invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, and bombardment of various parts of the world. And today, the rule of money in the West has been broken and their outcries are heard."

The current problems facing the West show to what extent the economic claims of Liberal Democracy was false, said the Supreme Leader, adding that the western analysts have now confessed to inefficiency of their economic theories.

They themselves claim that the era of America's absolute domination of the world is now over, underlined the Supreme Leader.

Ayatollah Khamenei said that some people try to resort to any means to disappoint the Iranian people and deviate them from their right path.

The Islamic Revolution will continue treading its path vigorously despite some minor shortcomings, the Supreme Leader made it clear.

Foreign presence adds to insecurity in Afghanistan: Larijani

12 October 2008

Tehran-Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said the foreign presence in Afghanistan has intensified insecurity and increased production of narcotics and killing the innocent people.

According to the report of Majlis Media Department on Saturday, Larijani in a meeting with former Afghanistan President Burhanuddin Rabbani said, "The situation in Afghanistan is sorrowful and regrettable."

Referring to the importance of parliaments' role in politics, determination of people fate and maintaining countries' independence, Larijani underlined Majlis readiness for continuation and expansion of parliamentary ties with Afghanistan.

Rabbani, by appreciating Iran's support for Afghan people, especially hosting millions of Afghan refugees for many years in Iran, called for continuation of Tehran's help for establishment of security and stability as well as uprooting terrorism and narcotics from Afghanistan.

Referring to the strong resentment of Afghans for continuation of presence of alien forces in Afghanistan, Rabbani said, "At first, they entered into Afghanistan with the slogan on establishment of security and fight against terrorism and drugs, but now, Afghans witness expansion of terrorism and increased production of narcotics." He went on to say, "The only solution to Afghanistan crisis is creation of unity among all national and jihadi forces in the country and establishment of national reconciliation among all tribes without ethnic, tribal and religious prejudice."

Walking in Silhouette

Afghan girls walking in the silhouette of Islam in the Bagh-e-Babur park in Kabul, Afghanistan; on 10 October 2008.

I must admit this is one of those photograph’s that seems to tell a great story, which some has been written and more yet to come.
-HRM Deborah