Extensive Research Shows...
So I wake up, feeling a little guilty about not being able to put up any articles for a couple of days...you know work calls...So last night I finally get back into town, after a bout with jet lag, and a gazillion phone messages; I was able to comment on the comments from my previous articles. You know it wasen't a pretty picture. Sometimes the irony of such things is able to make one's stomach turn for the worst, and no, it wasn't from eating at Jack in the Box either. Such strong displays of righteous anger, fueled with misguided displays of patriotism, coupled with finger pointing; equals= me being slammed from all sides. That's okay though, with disparity comes the phoenix of hope. I know there are a few of you out there scratching your heads and saying, "Okay, he has a point." And I'll take that for the time being, it's the only bone thrown at me at this time. Well lets get to it shall we...
I recently read that there was a gathering for the "Terrorism's Elite" in Pakistan. If that was the case were any of our leaders there? From England came Abu Issa al-Hindi, who is a specialist in surveillance. Next came Adnan el-Shukrijumah an accomplished bombmaker and commercial pilot. From Queens, NY came Mohammad Junaid Babar who is a Pakistani-American, who had wads of cash and equipement for their mountain bound Jihadis. The March 2004 terrorist summit in the province of Waziristan, has become a subject of obsession for authorities in both countries.
Those of you saying I'm anti-American, need to realize there are people in America who would love to destroy America from the inside out. I personally am not one of them. I feel that the greatest problem lies with people who are already in the states. Yet our government has done little in apprehending these individuals.
Now that Bush has nominated Porter Goss as the Director of the C.I.A., I know our intelligence is really going to be in shambles now. True enough on paper, Goss has all the qualifications, he was a spy during the cold war, a Yale scholar (I'm sooooo surprised at that one, someone from Yale getting a handout from a member of Skull and Bones). Goss's chances are now greater than they were six weeks ago, Democrats complained he was too partisan for the position (I'm really surprised, not!). Senate Democrats are worried that Goss is too loyal to his political masters and too close to his old agency to reform it. You know what they're right. The quagmire called the C.I.A. has been under fire for its failures, and will likely be brought up early September at Goss's confirmation hearing. I feel that the July resignation of George Tenet was a good thing, but Goss is a bad thing. Not only is Goss one of the good ole' boys, but he shows more interest in boosting intelligence funding than in reform, he also supported a proposal to give the C.I.A. director more control over the nation's 15 intelligence agencies and their combined budget, now 40 billion. In addition Goss hasn't been shy about protecting bush or attacking Kerry. Now Goss states "that the intelligence community must be overhauled". He concluded in a commitee report two months ago that the C.I.A. was in "Dysfunctional denial" about the need for reform.
This is what I'm talking about this political double-talk, hey can we please get someone who actually has their own opinion? The chances of that are NIL. I realize that but to dream is alright. Do I think the C.I.A. will be better off if Goss is confirmed? If Bush wins, Goss will have four years to prove himself, if Kerry is elected Goss will only have time to set up his desk. I really don't think much will change no matter who wins the election, I think we'll still be in Iraq.
What is the deal with Cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr? If the U.S. is so hellbent on taking Najaf what's stopping them? From comments posted on some of my blogs, why don't we just drop a nuke on this guy? Or is there more to it than that? It's obvious that talks of truce aren't going to work on this guy, this man would rather die. Should the U.S. still be in Iraq? NO! Why are more U.S. soldiers going to die, now that puppet government in Iraq is all set up? This really doesn't make any sense to me. Lets let the new formed Iraqi government deal with this guy, next thing you know our C.I.A. will be telling us Al-Sadr has weapons of mass destruction. Come on, the U.S. was supposed to be out of there a long time ago! Once again I ask, how many more Americans must die? I think part of the problem is that Al-Sadr was snubbed from the onset by the U.S.-run coalition provisional authority, when it denied him a seat on the Iraqi governing council, set up shortly after the war. Al-Sadr struck a chord with the angry, restless young men of the slum neighborhood Sadr City, with his fiery sermons. This Al-Sadr has come back to haunt the U.S., it is in my firm belief that this man will not go down easy...my concern? How much blood will this cost the United States?
In closing, the Bush war machine keeps rolling, devouring everything in its path. Where are we headed as people here in the States? Instead of worrying about the overseas threat, what about the threat here right at home? While the government looks at other countries as threats maybe our government should look within itself. I'd like to leave you with this:
A young samurai went to the holy temple of Hirokoi,there he saw an elder who was gazing lovingly at four grizzled mutts asleep under a cherry tree. The young samurai asked, "I've heard of you, Hiro and of your dogs, where are they?", the old man pointed to the four unkept mutts under the tree. The young samurai exclaimed, "Them! You cannot be serious!" The old man smiled, "They are my best works!" The young samurai asked, "Why do you say that? What good are they?" The old man replied, "Each of them guards one of the four walls at night, killing any intruder who tries to enter." The young samurai nodded his head, then pointed to a thin sick looking dog sleeping in the doorway of the temple. "What about that one?" The old man's eyes lit up, "That is my GREATEST WORK." The young samurai shocked, asked, "That? How is that your greatest work?" The old man smiled then answered, "I've trained that one to kill anyone who tries to bring down the temple of Hirokoi, because it is from the inside that you must worry about."