The favorite right wing rhetoric to paint President Obama as a weak president with poor judgement is a complete lie. Does it matter that lies line the right wing 'talking points?' I want to know if the lies matter. As political right wing attempts to mimic liberal's truth telling, does it actually matter there is nothing but lies existing in the right wing media?
May 31, 2015
By Rod Norland
A senior United States official (click here) confirmed Sunday that negotiations were underway with Qatari officials that could possibly lead to a six-month extension of the travel ban. Late Sunday, Qatar “agreed to maintain the current restrictive conditions” on the five men while discussions continued, a State Department official in Washington said on the condition of anonymity.
May 31, 2015
By Rod Norland
A senior United States official (click here) confirmed Sunday that negotiations were underway with Qatari officials that could possibly lead to a six-month extension of the travel ban. Late Sunday, Qatar “agreed to maintain the current restrictive conditions” on the five men while discussions continued, a State Department official in Washington said on the condition of anonymity.
The prisoner swap has been controversial in Washington, with leading Republicans criticizing President Obama
for the deal, which they viewed as a violation of a law requiring
Congress to be informed in advance of Guantánamo prisoner releases.
The media can talk about political positioning as if the truth doesn't matter. Does it? Does the truth regarding political figures matter? Are the elections of 2016 going to be dominated by nonsense as so many elections have before?
When elected officials launch into baseless criticism of the Obama administration it is nothing more than bigotry. In this case it is also bigotry against a USA ally. Why would Qatar allow prisoners within their borders to simply return to a life of killing again? The entire speech about Muslims that discriminates on the side of hate is incredibly inflammatory and based in profound bigotry.
See, as long as USA prisoners, such as these four men, were in the strong Christian nation there would be no worries and validates the human rights violations of Gitmo.
This same rhetoric is very important as a reason why the USA should have a controlling interest in places such as Iraq with soldiers deployed to carry out a war that results in American values. Nation building. Nation building is supported by the hatred of other cultures. Nation building is based in bigotry. No other culture has the expertise to defeat America's enemies, but, America.
The long standing hate speech of the political right wing is completely based in power brokering in the face of facts otherwise. The right wing is completely baseless in their political speech. Yet, because it deals fear the language of hate persists for no reason at all.
The speech Senator Paul made on the Senate floor yesterday nearly didn't happen. The idea a long standing Bush program was based in wasted spending and disruption of Americans' Fourth Amendment due process was a sincere threat to the political right wing.
I believe it was Senator Barrasso, as President of the Senate, yesterday that had to interrupt Senator Rand Paul's speech four times to call the chamber to order. It was good to hear Senator Barrasso defend an important address by Senator Paul. But, the point is the majority of the Senate never bothered to hear the words so important to Americans because their political priorities were more important and already predetermined. Senator Paul's own peers didn't regard him as important. That is how hideously permanent right wing political speech has become.
The media can talk about political positioning as if the truth doesn't matter. Does it? Does the truth regarding political figures matter? Are the elections of 2016 going to be dominated by nonsense as so many elections have before?
When elected officials launch into baseless criticism of the Obama administration it is nothing more than bigotry. In this case it is also bigotry against a USA ally. Why would Qatar allow prisoners within their borders to simply return to a life of killing again? The entire speech about Muslims that discriminates on the side of hate is incredibly inflammatory and based in profound bigotry.
See, as long as USA prisoners, such as these four men, were in the strong Christian nation there would be no worries and validates the human rights violations of Gitmo.
This same rhetoric is very important as a reason why the USA should have a controlling interest in places such as Iraq with soldiers deployed to carry out a war that results in American values. Nation building. Nation building is supported by the hatred of other cultures. Nation building is based in bigotry. No other culture has the expertise to defeat America's enemies, but, America.
The long standing hate speech of the political right wing is completely based in power brokering in the face of facts otherwise. The right wing is completely baseless in their political speech. Yet, because it deals fear the language of hate persists for no reason at all.
The speech Senator Paul made on the Senate floor yesterday nearly didn't happen. The idea a long standing Bush program was based in wasted spending and disruption of Americans' Fourth Amendment due process was a sincere threat to the political right wing.
I believe it was Senator Barrasso, as President of the Senate, yesterday that had to interrupt Senator Rand Paul's speech four times to call the chamber to order. It was good to hear Senator Barrasso defend an important address by Senator Paul. But, the point is the majority of the Senate never bothered to hear the words so important to Americans because their political priorities were more important and already predetermined. Senator Paul's own peers didn't regard him as important. That is how hideously permanent right wing political speech has become.
...Criticism
of the deal to free Sergeant Bergdahl, especially in exchange for such
prominent Taliban figures, grew after the Army revealed the charges
against him. “The Obama administration put countless American troops and
civilians at risk when it chose to ignore the law and unilaterally
release five senior Taliban terrorists from Guantánamo Bay,” said
Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, in a statement issued by
his office on Friday. “Now these five will be free to travel.”
However,
United Nations officials have yet to lift their own international
travel bans on four of them, so the only place they could legally travel
to is their home country, Afghanistan, where government officials have made it clear they would promptly be taken into custody....
The hate speech will continue in right wing politics even as the facts of long standing USA allies uphold the paradigm of peace which accompanies the scrutiny of those that would disturb it; in this case Qatar and the United Nations.
The left wing never simply states, "The Republicans lie and are impossible to reason with because their politics don't accommodate the truth." I am confident our allies will use those words to end the hate speech, but, why does the call to facts and truth have to belong to allies and others outside the borders of the USA. It isn't President Obama that should experience the impact of right wing lies, it should be the right wing experiencing the impact of the truth.
The left wing never simply states, "The Republicans lie and are impossible to reason with because their politics don't accommodate the truth." I am confident our allies will use those words to end the hate speech, but, why does the call to facts and truth have to belong to allies and others outside the borders of the USA. It isn't President Obama that should experience the impact of right wing lies, it should be the right wing experiencing the impact of the truth.
...There
are abundant examples of former Guantánamo prisoners who have returned
to the Afghan battlefield, but a recent example is particularly
significant. Ghulam Rouhani, released in 2007, is now the Taliban
commander in the Khogyani District, in Ghazni. The insurgents claimed
the district center fell to their control last week, but government
officials disputed that, saying they had simply moved the government
offices to another town.
So
far, Qatari officials have kept a tight rein on the former prisoners.
Last fall, two suspected insurgent figures went to visit one of the five
former detainees in Qatar, Mohammad Nabi Omari. According to senior
security officials in Afghanistan, the Afghan intelligence agency, in
cooperation with Qatari intelligence, arrested the two men and brought
them to Kabul, where they remain in custody. The two included Anas
Haqqani, a brother of the leader of the Haqqani network, part of the
Taliban insurgency, and Qari Abdul Rashid Omari, the brother of the
former Guantánamo prisoner, Mr. Omari....
The release of Ghulam Rouhani occurred eight years ago. EIGHT YEARS AGO. And today his activities are attributed to his release. Amazing.
Let me ask one question. Is there any economy in Afghanistan that actually supports anything other than a Poppy or War economy? Murderers actually are paid for their loyalties and actions. Where is the economy in Afghanistan that will actually pay better and value life? The realities in countries occupied by American INTERESTS based in national security have no other recent history. The retaliation in Afghanistan began October of 2001 and the illegal and immoral invasion into Iraq was March of 2003. These people have known nothing but war and destruction for well over a decade. Are children actually of value and their futures nurtured when their land and society are trashed for the fears of Americans?
The USA has become ridiculous to it's own politics of fear.
The USA needs to get used to the idea that POWs are released when the war is over.
Let me ask one question. Is there any economy in Afghanistan that actually supports anything other than a Poppy or War economy? Murderers actually are paid for their loyalties and actions. Where is the economy in Afghanistan that will actually pay better and value life? The realities in countries occupied by American INTERESTS based in national security have no other recent history. The retaliation in Afghanistan began October of 2001 and the illegal and immoral invasion into Iraq was March of 2003. These people have known nothing but war and destruction for well over a decade. Are children actually of value and their futures nurtured when their land and society are trashed for the fears of Americans?
The USA has become ridiculous to it's own politics of fear.
The USA needs to get used to the idea that POWs are released when the war is over.
