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Total number of comments: 3 (since 2013-11-28 16:53:50)

John Phipps

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  • Obama should Resist the Clintons & Europe on Syria
    • John Phipps 06/14/2013 at 1:06 pm

      Yes. It's a pity the Brits and French didn't do the right thing and act to stop the American Civil War. Freedom loving Confederates fighting for their rights against a brutal war machine.

      Clinton sanctions killed 100,000 Iraqi children but that was ok since Sadaam deserved it.

      The opposition in Syria swore allegiance to Al Qaeda and killed and tortured a 15 year old in front of his parents for insulting the Prophet. Just because Afghanistan, Iraq, Lybia, and Egypt have become Wahabist doesn't mean that the Saudi Wahabists backing the Syrians aren't going to do the same in Syria.

      The Freedom Loving Democracy loving Iranian students used to have a radio show in DC way back when denouncing they Tyrant Shah. They were the cute liberal western face of Khomeni's revolution that set up an Islamic dictatorship and seized the American Embassy.

  • Israelis Jettison Peace Talks in Favor of Massive Land Theft; Brazil, Argentina Recognize Palestinian State
    • John Phipps 12/08/2010 at 11:06 am with 1 replies

      Another option is George Bush started the destruction of the American Imperium. We are heading to the collapse of the dollar and oil purchased with a basket of currencies including the Yuan, Euro, and Yen. With a Soviet style collapse, Israel loses it's protector and without the economic and military support it receives its position become increasingly untenable. If Iran had the bomb many Israelis say they would decamp to their native countries. Russia has a better economy now and if the Israeli economy goes down with the US then it looks like a better option. Israel would probably do something militarily stupid that would turn it into a pariah state without US cover which would make thing far worse.

      Their only long term hope is to make an honorable peace with their neighbors and the Palestinians. But they keep thinking the US is going to always be there as the dumb giant muscle behind the bully. It probably won't end nicely for the Zionist at that point but then again Castro is still there without the Soviet Empire. North Korea may be in the same boat once the Chinese tell the Generals it's time to shoot the Kim family and unify Korea once they have forced the US out of the Chinese regional sphere of influence.

  • Swanson: "'Freedom Watch' Threw a War and Nobody Came"
    • John Phipps 11/26/2010 at 8:20 pm

      These people go back to Woodrow Wilson who was leading the Christian Crusade to bring truth justice and the American way to Europe while creating a Constitution free state controlled America where dissenters were imprisoned and the economy run for the benefit of banks and war profiteers. Both parties were on board so nothing different there. McKinley fought a war to "free" the Philippines and then kept it as it had to be Christianized. Free it from the pagan Catholics except where we slaughtered the Muslims. Before that we had to save ourselves from the Indian savages that kept attacking our peace loving citizens who were stealing their land. It wasn't until late in the game that they began to say we were doing it for their own good. This country is based on a culture of lies and slaughter and militarism.

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