I saw this at the gop facebook page:
The Blacksphere
discussion on facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/
Don't get me wrong, it's true:
Official says CIA-funded weapons have begun to reach Syrian rebels; rebels deny receipt
There's just one problem with this image, it's only half truth.
The one "Father" the GOP look to is Reagan, and they act like he's done only good, and zero evil.
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Sleeping With the Devil: How U.S. and Saudi Backing of Al Qaeda Led to 9/11
Posted on September 5, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog
Front row, from left: Major Gen. Hamid Gul, director general of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Willian Webster; Deputy Director for Operations Clair George; an ISI colonel; and senior CIA official, Milt Bearden at a Mujahideen training camp in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan in 1987. (source RAWA)
Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the White House in 1985 (Reagan Archives)
Preface: The director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom - noted:
Odom also said:
source and a whole lot more here:
http://www.washingtonsblog.
Operation Cyclone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
===== I've already covered this, so here's some source information on the so-called 'obamaphone'
The Obama Phone's Roots in Government Deregulation
ELSPETH REEVE 7,574 ViewsOCT 2, 2012
The Obama Phone lady is many things in the eyes of conservatives. To Rush Limbaugh, she is the personification of government-fostered dependency: "She may not know who George Washington is or Abraham Lincoln, but she knows how to get an Obama phone." To others, such as reader John Kane, she symbolizes a corruption of the democratic process: "When a politician starts outright handing out toys for votes, to the tune of millions in a critical swing state, that's news." To others, such as reader Judy Helton, she symbolizes self-interested greed: "The cell phone lady IS a typical Obama voter, that being welfare thieves of every color, gender, age, sexual preference, religion and culture, hoping to use a voting booth to self enrich at the uncompensated expense of the entire American working population." Or, as reader David H. Lynch Jr. wrote, she represents a half of the country financing a cushy lifestyle with the other half's tax dollars: "47 percent of people are not going to vote for Romney — because they are getting bribed by government." For reader Renee McGhee, she represents the unjust winner in a zero-sum game of government handouts: "Will OBUMMER START to STIFF those on Social Security and STEAL FROM OUR bank accounts to MAKE it right with HIS PEOPLE???"
Of course, we doubt that anyone who's been passing around the Obama Phone video is thinking too deeply about the "issue" of Obama Phones. We think it's just a cheap attempt to dabble in racist stereotypes. But let's take them at their word: if the most pressing issue in the 2012 election is government-funded cell phones, and let's even set aside the misnomer of "Obama Phone." Why would someone in 2012 think that Barack Obama gave them a phone? The Obama Phone is a perfect example of the combustible mix of deregulation, lobbyists, and clever marketers: a more efficient system that's also expensive and wasteful.
But first, you have to go way, way back. The telephone business was once a regulated monopoly, which in practice meant the government could tell the phone companies to do things — like providing discount service for poor people or pay to string wires out to remote areas — in exchange for continuing to enjoy their monopoly. But over the course of the last 30 years, starting with the 1984 break-up of the AT&T monopoly of local telephone service into Baby Bells, regulations have eased as new telecommunication providers have emerged.
The creation of the Lifeline program -- which has now been dubbed the "Obama phone" -- during the Reagan administration was one of these attempts to ensure that the new fragmented and competitive telecom industry still provided the same public goods that the old monopoly did. Far from a government cheese handout, Lifeline was funded through a "universal service charge" on phone bills, and then administered by a private non-profit. While the distinction between a surcharge and a tax may seem technical, it was specifically selected to over a proposed welfare program — a straight-up handout referred to as "phone stamps." The Universal Service Fund was created to be a lean, nimble private sector beast.
The guys who came up with the idea for Lifeline were Republican Sen. Bob Packwood and Democratic Rep. John Dingell. The Reagan administration soon got on board, as The New York Times reported on December 27, 1983, in part because of "a growing recognition that the price of telephone service could become a 1984 campaign issue." Then other Republicans got on board -- Sens. John Heinz and John Chafee urged the Federal Communications Commission to "take concrete steps to ensure that local telephone companies offer lifeline programs designed to preserve affordable phone service," according to The Washington Post on September 15, 1985.
more here:
http://www.theatlanticwire.
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so, it looks like Reagan is embodied in Obama:The one "Father" the GOP look to is Reagan, and they act like he's done only good, and zero evil.
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Sleeping With the Devil: How U.S. and Saudi Backing of Al Qaeda Led to 9/11
Posted on September 5, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog
Front row, from left: Major Gen. Hamid Gul, director general of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Willian Webster; Deputy Director for Operations Clair George; an ISI colonel; and senior CIA official, Milt Bearden at a Mujahideen training camp in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan in 1987. (source RAWA)
Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the White House in 1985 (Reagan Archives)
Preface: The director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom - noted:
Because the United States itself
has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics,
the slogans of today’s war on terrorism merely makes the United States
look hypocritical to the rest of the world.
Odom also said:
By any
measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying
to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they
produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.
source and a whole lot more here:
http://www.washingtonsblog.
Operation Cyclone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
===== I've already covered this, so here's some source information on the so-called 'obamaphone'
The Obama Phone's Roots in Government Deregulation
ELSPETH REEVE 7,574 ViewsOCT 2, 2012
The Obama Phone lady is many things in the eyes of conservatives. To Rush Limbaugh, she is the personification of government-fostered dependency: "She may not know who George Washington is or Abraham Lincoln, but she knows how to get an Obama phone." To others, such as reader John Kane, she symbolizes a corruption of the democratic process: "When a politician starts outright handing out toys for votes, to the tune of millions in a critical swing state, that's news." To others, such as reader Judy Helton, she symbolizes self-interested greed: "The cell phone lady IS a typical Obama voter, that being welfare thieves of every color, gender, age, sexual preference, religion and culture, hoping to use a voting booth to self enrich at the uncompensated expense of the entire American working population." Or, as reader David H. Lynch Jr. wrote, she represents a half of the country financing a cushy lifestyle with the other half's tax dollars: "47 percent of people are not going to vote for Romney — because they are getting bribed by government." For reader Renee McGhee, she represents the unjust winner in a zero-sum game of government handouts: "Will OBUMMER START to STIFF those on Social Security and STEAL FROM OUR bank accounts to MAKE it right with HIS PEOPLE???"
Of course, we doubt that anyone who's been passing around the Obama Phone video is thinking too deeply about the "issue" of Obama Phones. We think it's just a cheap attempt to dabble in racist stereotypes. But let's take them at their word: if the most pressing issue in the 2012 election is government-funded cell phones, and let's even set aside the misnomer of "Obama Phone." Why would someone in 2012 think that Barack Obama gave them a phone? The Obama Phone is a perfect example of the combustible mix of deregulation, lobbyists, and clever marketers: a more efficient system that's also expensive and wasteful.
But first, you have to go way, way back. The telephone business was once a regulated monopoly, which in practice meant the government could tell the phone companies to do things — like providing discount service for poor people or pay to string wires out to remote areas — in exchange for continuing to enjoy their monopoly. But over the course of the last 30 years, starting with the 1984 break-up of the AT&T monopoly of local telephone service into Baby Bells, regulations have eased as new telecommunication providers have emerged.
The creation of the Lifeline program -- which has now been dubbed the "Obama phone" -- during the Reagan administration was one of these attempts to ensure that the new fragmented and competitive telecom industry still provided the same public goods that the old monopoly did. Far from a government cheese handout, Lifeline was funded through a "universal service charge" on phone bills, and then administered by a private non-profit. While the distinction between a surcharge and a tax may seem technical, it was specifically selected to over a proposed welfare program — a straight-up handout referred to as "phone stamps." The Universal Service Fund was created to be a lean, nimble private sector beast.
The guys who came up with the idea for Lifeline were Republican Sen. Bob Packwood and Democratic Rep. John Dingell. The Reagan administration soon got on board, as The New York Times reported on December 27, 1983, in part because of "a growing recognition that the price of telephone service could become a 1984 campaign issue." Then other Republicans got on board -- Sens. John Heinz and John Chafee urged the Federal Communications Commission to "take concrete steps to ensure that local telephone companies offer lifeline programs designed to preserve affordable phone service," according to The Washington Post on September 15, 1985.
more here:
http://www.theatlanticwire.
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“The real Ronald Reagan said nothing when Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons, chemical weapons that the real Ronald Reagan actually helped him obtain.” – Lawrence O’Donnell
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O’Donnell: Reagan let Saddam buy– and use–chemical weapons
Evan Puschak
11:50 PM on 09/05/2013
“We have said as a responsible nation that the use of chemical weapons is prohibited,” Ros-Lehtinen said. ”It is against the norms of international standards and to let something like this go unanswered, I think will weaken our resolve. I know that President Reagan would have never let this happen.”
Except that Ronald Reagan let exactly that happen, repeatedly, when Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons in the 1980s. But there’s more.
“Ronald Reagan didn’t just look the other way when Saddam used chemical weapons–he sold the stuff to Saddam,” said MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell in his Rewrite segment on Thursday. “The President of the United States was Saddam Hussein’s drug dealer.”
more here:
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/
public reaction here:
https://www.facebook.com/
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