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Watergate committee staff boss: Hillary was fired for lies, unethical behavior
by Jerry Zeifman
Zeifman is a life-long Democrat, served for 17 years as Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, and is the author of Without Honor: Crimes of Camelot and Impeachment of President Clinton (1995) and Hillary’s Pursuit of Power (2007)
This is also his website
I have just seen Hillary Clinton and her former Yale law professor both in tears at a campaign rally here in my home state of Connecticut. Her tearful professor said how proud he was that his former student was likely to become our next President. Hillary responded in tears.
My own reaction was of regret that, when I terminated her employment on the Nixon impeachment staff, I had not reported her unethical practices to the appropriate bar associations.
Hillary as I knew her in 1974
Here is the abbreviated version of Hillary’s shenanigans when she was working for the House Judiciary Committee
Hillary Rodham gets a spot on the legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee upon the recommendation of a lawyer pal of Ted Kennedy.
* The man who hires Hillary is Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat.
* The House Judiciary Committee is investigating Richard Nixon with an eye on impeachment.
* A question arises as to whether or not Nixon is legally entitled to counsel during the investigation. If so, his council would be allowed to cross examine witnesses appearing before the panel.
* The concern about having counsel for Nixon cross examine witnesses centered on E. Howard Hunt. Democrats on the committee feared that Nixon’s counsel would elicit information from Hunt that would be very damaging to the Kennedys.
* Zeifman tells Hillary that Nixon is entitled to counsel. He cites documents in the committee’s public file referencing the fact that Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas had representation four years earlier while he was being investigated.
* Hillary removes the documents from the committees public file and places them under lock and key in her office where they are not available for media or public scrutiny.
* Hillary then prepares a brief for filing with a federal judge which falsely states that there is no precedent for an official being investigated by the committee to have legal representation during that investigation.
* Nixon resigns before Hillary has a chance to submit the brief in which she makes knowingly false claims.
* Zeifman then fires Hillary. Hillary asks for a letter of recommendation. Zeifman says no. This was only the third time in Zeifman’s 17 years with the committee that he had refused a letter of recommendation.
* Zeifman told Dan Calabrese that if Hillary had actually submitted the brief she most likely would have been disbarred.

Two decades later Bill Clinton became President. As was later to be described in the Wall Street Journal by Henry Ruth-the lead Watergate courtroom prosecutor- “The Clintons corrupted the soul of the Democratic Party.”

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Note to Jerry Zeifman. Do not get on small aircraft. Do not get near Ft Marcy Park. Ensure you have a food taster in your party.
This came out right after Clinton got elected the first time, but as usual the media ignored it. I am glad it is being brought up maybe some people will finally see that Hillary cannot become President. We need to never again see Bill or Hillary in our White House.
We are at war, right here, at home, for the very heart and soul of all that we love and cherish.
Democrat politicians, their supporters, and their operatives could not be lower or more disgusting in the opinions of honest, decent people.

Water bottles placed in a very cold refrigerator, freeze instantly when brought outside into the hot sun. The water is just regular non carbonated bottled drinking water.
Credit to user “fiedag” for the following explaination;

“Very pure H2O often will not freeze at 0C, as there are no little nuclei around which little ice crystals can form. It is known as supercooled water. If you disturb it, you accelerate the reaction. The fact it freezes from the top suggests that some microscopic crystals had already formed and risen to the surface of the water.”

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
I thought this was so neat how it does this. LOL What fun to do this.

“Once a Marine Always a Marine”

Here is proof of that. In the Chicago Sun-time March 21, 2008. Brian Troy of Rockford IL, a Marine in the 1980’s. suffered several heart attacks before receiving a new heart in 2006. He didn’t know who the donor was but felt it was a Marine.
Eventually he found out the heart was from Ricky Martinez who was shot on April 26, 2006 while driving home from a Cubs game with friends. Martinez had signed up after 9/11 and served 2 tours in Iraq.
‘His heart seems to fill my chest’
From Sgt. Grit newsletter
Chicago Sun Times
Brian Troy is constantly reminded of the fellow Marine who saved his life.
Every time his heart beats.
Troy lost 40 pounds and was in a coma for a month before he received a heart transplant in 2006.
He was not certain who the donor was, but he suspected it was a young Marine whose murder was in the headlines.
Troy, 43, sent several letters to the donor’s family through the Gift of Hope organ donor network. The network would not disclose the name of the donor or his family members.
The donor’s father finally replied in December.
And Troy — a Marine in the early 1980s — learned his hunch was right: He was carrying the heart of murder victim Ricky Martinez Jr., 23, a Marine who patriotically signed up after 9/11 and served two tours in Iraq.

“His heart seems to fill my chest,” Troy said. “When I sit in my recliner, the whole recliner twitches with his heartbeat. … I think they are happy their son’s heart went to a good person.”

Last month, Martinez’s parents trekked to visit Troy at his home in Rockford, where they cried, laughed and shared childhood photos of their son. Troy hopes to see them again Saturday in Chicago to promote organ donation and support legislation to stiffen penalties for attacks on veterans.
The tragedy that saved Troy’s life happened in a flash of gunfire April 24, 2006.
Martinez was driving from a Cubs game when one of his passengers was mistaken for a rival gang member. Steven Bryant fired a .45-caliber pistol at Martinez’s car, Cook County prosecutors say.
A bullet hit Martinez in the shoulder and traveled up his neck to the base of his skull. Bryant, a 22-year-old already convicted of a killing and on the street again, was arrested and charged with murder.
Five days after the shooting, Martinez died.
The next day, Troy received an urgent call from Loyola University Medical Center that a heart was ready for him.
Troy is an electrician who suffered through many heart surgeries between 2002 and 2006. His mother also suffered from heart disease and died in 1996 at age 51.
After surgery in February 2006, Troy was in a coma at Loyola for about a month. He returned home in April 2006 to wait for a heart.

“This was it, live or die,” Troy said of the call from Loyola to rush to the hospital to receive a new heart.

He and his wife jumped into their Hyundai, and she drove 100 mph.

“I was half praying the cops would not stop us and half praying they would,” Troy joked. “I had a motion-picture fantasy that we would get a police escort.”

After an 11-hour operation, Troy woke up in a sunny room.

“I came to the realization that I have a heart. I am alive! And I am hungry!”

His wife, Denise, said she asked a nurse about the new heart.

“I said, ‘Is there anything you can tell me about the donor?’ She said, ‘No, only that it’s a healthy 23-year-old.’ Well, from the newspapers, we were 99 percent sure it was Ricky Martinez’s heart.”

‘My son had such a big heart’
Troy sent his first letter to Martinez’s family about four months after the transplant, but there was no answer. More than a year later, he sent another letter. Then, about three months ago, just after Christmas, Troy received a letter from Martinez’s father, Ricardo Martinez Sr., confirming Martinez was the donor.
The next day, Martinez’s father called.
Troy said he stared at the caller ID and refused to pick up the phone. He wasn’t ready to talk to Martinez’s family.
But the phone rang again, and this time, he summoned the courage to answer.

“There was a lot of crying and a lot of talking,” he said.

Troy slowly began to learn about his hero. Martinez had applied to the Chicago Police Department. His father told Troy that the Police Department sent Martinez an acceptance letter. It arrived a month after his death.

“We chitchatted about what a great son Ricky was. He was kind of a mama’s boy, and he was a respectful son. His father was proud he was going to become a cop.”

Troy and Martinez’s parents grew close over the phone and decided they needed to see each other.
So on Feb. 10, Martinez’s family made the trip from Chicago to Rockford. Troy hugged Martinez’s mother at the door.

“She brought family albums of Ricky when he was small,” Troy said. “I loved his big, cheesy smiles. I was only privy to his picture as a Marine, and he’s not smiling in that one.”

Troy learned that Martinez was more than 6 feet tall and a fitness buff. “Ricardo told me that his heart needs a lot of exercise,” Troy said. “He said, ‘You need to exercise for him.’ “

Now Troy thinks of himself as part of Martinez’s family.
And Martinez’s mother, Adalila Cruz, feels the same bond.

“I love him because part of him is my son,” she said of Troy.

“He is part of my family. He seems very grateful and thankful for what my son did. It shows you what kind of a person my son was. Even after his life was gone, he kept helping.”

Wild Thing’s comment…….

I don’t know who said it, “ONCE a MARINE ALWAYS a MARINE”, I know that I will be a Marine even after the life has left this body.” said by Robert D. Hawkins Sgt of Marines 64 -69 Third Battalion Platoon 342

I saw this story in Sgt. Grit’s newsletter that I get in my email, and wanted to share it with you. This story is very special that like the top quote says….. Once a Marine Always a Marine.

CAMP STRIKER — Attack helicopters from Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division have stepped up in the fight against criminal elements south of Baghdad.
Since March 24, Apache and Kiowa helicopters have killed 36 enemy fighters in support of troops on the ground.
The recent fighting against criminals south of Baghdad and in Wasit Province has highlighted the benefit of air support to Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces, but it isn’t something new, said Col. Dan Ball, commander of 3rd CAB.
“We’ve always taken the fight to the enemy,” Ball said.
VIDEO HERE
The 3rd CAB, based out of Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga., has been deployed to Baghdad International Airport since May. The 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment Apaches and the 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment Kiowas support Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces in the area stretching across the Tigris and Euphrates rivers south of Baghdad.
Earlier in the 3rd CAB’s deployment, the fight was primarily against al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters south of Baghdad as they tried to feed sectarian violence in the capital.
When small groups of criminals began clashing with Iraqi Security Forces, Ball said, it was natural for his helicopters to support the fight.
“As opposed to Sunni extremists, al-Qaeda in Iraq for instance, we have Shi’a extremists we’re going after (as well). We don’t differentiate,” he said. “This is an ISF-led fight and many of our engagements down south have been in support of ISF.”
Since March 22, Multi-National Division – Center, the division 3rd CAB supports, has detained more than 200 criminals, killed 40 Shi’a criminal fighters, found more than 60 weapons caches – of which 20 were turned in by Iraqis – and found and cleared nearly 30 improvised explosive devices on area roads.
As the ISF takes the fight to Shi’a criminals, areas south of Baghdad continue to improve, Ball said. Schools are opening, agriculture and businesses are improving and people are working toward a better Iraq, Ball said. “Everywhere we turn, we’re making progress in MND-C.”
(3rd CAB, 3rd Inf. Div. PAO)

Troops Kill 14 Suspected Terrorists in Iraq, Capture 49 Others
DOD
Coalition and Iraqi forces killed 14 suspected terrorists, detained 49 others, and seized dozens of weapons in Iraq over the past three days, military officials said.
In Baghdad and Qayyarah today, coalition forces detained a dozen suspected terrorists during raids targeting al Qaeda in Iraq operations, including propaganda and suicide-bombing networks. In addition, troops captured two foreign fighter aides and an additional suspect in the operations.
In a separate operation in the Iraqi capital today, coalition forces captured two suspected terrorists tied to a Baghdad car-bombing network. In other raids, troops nabbed two suspected terrorists east of Taji, two in Mosul and three others in Samarra.

“Al Qaeda in Iraq is an adaptive, barbaric enemy, but they will be allowed no safe haven,” said Army Maj. Winfield Danielson, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. “Iraqi and coalition forces will continue to disrupt their networks and capture or kill their members, improving security for all Iraqis.”

During operations in Iraq yesterday:
— A Hillah special weapons and tactics unit advised by U.S. Special Forces soldiers detained 20 suspected vehicle smugglers in Basra. In addition, the Hillah unit recovered two illegal sedans, various guns and ammunition, and $262,000 in U.S. currency. The combined force also destroyed two boats used for smuggling goods in the oil-rich southern Iraq city.
— Iraqi security forces and U.S. Special Forces soldiers detained a suspected improvised-explosive-device-cell leader allegedly responsible for IED and indirect-fire attacks against Logistics Support Area Anaconda.
— The Mosul Iraqi special weapons and tactics unit and U.S. Special Forces soldiers in Mosul detained a suspected terrorist allegedly involved in kidnapping, torturing and murdering local Iraqi security force members.
— Members of the “Sons of Iraq” citizens security group stopped a suicide bomber from detonating his explosive device in Kirkuk province. A military official said their actions prevented “a possible tragedy” from occurring on Hawijah’s Market Street.
— Iraqi army and coalition soldiers discovered 15 weapons caches in Diyala and Salah ad Din provinces, and an IED factory in Ninewah. The caches contained more than 60 mortar rounds, 14 107 mm rockets, small-arms munitions, and more than 60 pounds of bomb-making material. The IED factory contained more than 3,500 pounds of additional explosives.
Iraqi special operation forces, advised by their U.S. counterparts, killed 14 criminals March 31 during operations in Basra. The Iraqi-led mission aimed to capture the criminals in an abandoned school that lawbreakers were using to mount operations and store weapons and munitions, military officials said.
Iraqi forces received small-arms fire throughout the operation. Both Iraqi and U.S. forces returned fire, while a coalition aircraft provided close-air support requested by ground forces. The combined forces killed 14 armed individuals and rescued six Iraqi security force members who were being held at the compound.
Elsewhere in Iraq March 31, Iraqi national police members detained three suspected insurgents in the New Baghdad district of the Iraqi capital. The suspects were attempting to smuggle weapons in their vehicle, military officials said. Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, reported Iraqi national police confiscated five rockets, two mortar rounds, two hand grenades, three blasting caps and a 9 mm pistol. The detainees are being held for further questioning.

Ann Coulter: OBAMA’S DIMESTORE ‘MEIN KAMPF’
Ann Coulter
If characters from “The Hills” were to emote about race, I imagine it would sound like B. Hussein Obama’s autobiography, “Dreams From My Father.”
Has anybody read this book? Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama to be a flabbergasting lunatic, I gather the answer is no. Obama is about to be our next president: You might want to take a peek. If only people had read “Mein Kampf” …
Nearly every page — save the ones dedicated to cataloguing the mundane details of his life — is bristling with anger at some imputed racist incident. The last time I heard this much race-baiting invective I was … in my usual front-row pew, as I am every Sunday morning, at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Obama tells a story about taking two white friends from the high school basketball team to a “black party.” Despite their deep-seated, unconscious hatred of blacks, the friends readily accepted. At the party, they managed not to scream the N-word, but instead “made some small talk, took a couple of the girls out on the dance floor.”
But with his racial hair-trigger, Obama sensed the whites were not comfortable because “they kept smiling a lot.” And then, in an incident reminiscent of the darkest days of the Jim Crow South … they asked to leave after spending only about an hour at the party! It was practically an etiquette lynching!
So either they hated black people with the hot, hot hate of a thousand suns, or they were athletes who had come to a party late, after a Saturday night basketball game.
In the car on the way home, one of the friends empathizes with Obama, saying: “You know, man, that really taught me something. I mean, I can see how it must be tough for you and Ray sometimes, at school parties … being the only black guys and all.”
And thus Obama felt the cruel lash of racism! He actually writes that his response to his friend’s perfectly lovely remark was: “A part of me wanted to punch him right there.”
Listen, I don’t want anybody telling Obama about Bill Clinton’s “I feel your pain” line.
Wanting to punch his white friend in the stomach was the introductory anecdote to a full-page psychotic rant about living by “the white man’s rules.” (One rule he missed was: “Never punch out your empathetic white friend after dragging him to a crappy all-black party.”)
Obama’s gaseous disquisition on the “white man’s rules” leads to this charming crescendo: “Should you refuse this defeat and lash out at your captors, they would have a name for that, too, a name that could cage you just as good. Paranoid. Militant. Violent. Nigger.”
For those of you in the “When is Obama gonna play the ‘N-word’ card?” pool, the winner is … Page 85! Congratulations!
When his mother expresses concern about Obama’s high school friend being busted for drugs, Obama says he patted his mother’s hand and told her not to worry.
This, too, prompted Obama to share with his readers a life lesson on how to handle white people: “It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved — such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.”
First of all, I note that this technique seems to be the basis of Obama’s entire presidential campaign. But moreover — he was talking about his own mother! As Obama says: “Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning.” Say, do you think a white person who said that about blacks would be a leading presidential candidate?
The man is stark bonkersville.
He says the reason black people keep to themselves is that it’s “easier than spending all your time mad or trying to guess whatever it was that white folks were thinking about you.”
Here’s a little inside scoop about white people: We’re not thinking about you. Especially WASPs. We think everybody is inferior, and we are perfectly charming about it.
In college, Obama explains to a girl why he was reading Joseph Conrad’s 1902 classic, “Heart of Darkness”: “I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. I helps me understand how people learn to hate.”
By contrast, Malcolm X’s autobiography “spoke” to Obama. One line in particular “stayed with me,” he says. “He spoke of a wish he’d once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged.”
Forget Rev. Jeremiah Wright — Wright is Booker T. Washington compared to this guy.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
I applaud Ann for this. Well done!
Obama is a paranoid man, totally enthralled with grouping all white people in a neat little racist bucket. The world needs to know: this man is DANGEROUS!!!!!
By contrast, Malcolm X’s autobiography “spoke” to Obama. One line in particular “stayed with me,” he says. “He spoke of a wish he’d once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged.”
Now that is just plain creepy. If this man believes the words he writes, he’s got serious psychological issues!!

Another Phony War Hero Convicted
Prosecutor Argued Moneymaker’s Supposed Battle Scars Match Those From Liposuction Procedure
abc news
A North Carolina man, who claimed he saw years of combat and earned medals, including the Purple Heart, was found guilty this week of peddling a false military record in order to collect thousands in soldier disability payments.
Randall Moneymaker, of Clayton, N.C., claimed he had served as an Army Ranger on tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Panama and Grenada and had earned medals and badges of honor.
But, according to federal investigators, Moneymaker was a fraud who spent only a short time in the Army, was given a less than honorable discharge and never saw any combat.

“This defendant attempted to defraud the men and women who serve and protect our freedom,” U.S. Attorney John Brownlee said, following the guilty verdict. Moneymaker was found guilty of making false statements, submitting false documents and theft of government funds.

Moneymaker’s claims to collect more than $18,000 in disability payments were numerous. In a Veterans Affairs compensation and pension medical exam, he claimed he “had been involved in numerous combat situations, including RPG attacks and firefights,” according to the federal indictment against him.
Moneymaker also said “he had sustained various service-connected injuries and illnesses, including shell fragment wound and post traumatic stress syndrome,” according to his indictment.
Topping his claims, Moneymaker said he had the scars from combat service, but federal authorities say the scars match a liposuction procedure he had done.

“We hope this case will send a message,” Brownlee told ABC News. “Through deceit and fraud, he took away money needed for our true American heroes.”

Moneymaker faces a maximum sentence of 35 years in prison and a fine of $1,505,000.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Thank God for the the “Stolen Valor Act” so people like this can be prosecuted in Federal courts. This is so horrible how a person could do such a thing.
I think they should go to jail for LIFE. They have preteneded to be a HERO, some have never even served that have done this kind of thing.

….Thank you Tom so much for sending this to me.

LA Times
Fonda was eating out last night and exited the restaurant, ignoring as celebrities often do the assembled press contingent.
But a video camera was rolling as she approached the street and someone, perhaps just trying to get her to turn around for a picture, shouted out at her back, “Who are you going to vote for?”
There was a moment of silence. Then, the actress did turn around toward the cameras, paused and with a smile said simply, “Obama!” Then she got into a car and drove away.

Wild Thing’s comment……
And here I thought she would back Hillary.
Let’s see Hillary said she was getting shot at. Hanoi Jane rode a tank in Vietnam and pretended to shoot down American pilots.
What wonderful people these are….NOT!
Jane was busy cavorting with the North Vietnamese Communists in Hanoi around the same time Obama was studying the koran with the Mullahs in Indonesia.

We have seen Hillary’s 3:00 a.m. call
We have seen B.Hussein Obama’s 3:00 a.m. call
And now McCain has his 3:00 a.m. call

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Every time I see one of them all I can think of is this great song sung by Frank Sinatra.

One for My Baby
Lyric by Johnny Mercer, Music by Harold Arlen, 1943)
from the motion picture The Sky’s the Limit
It’s quarter to three, there’s no one in the place
Except you and me,
So, set ’em’ up Joe, I’ve got a little story
You oughta know.
We’re drinking my friend, to the end
Of a brief episode
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road
I got the routine, so drop another nickel
In the machine,
I’m feelin’ so bad, I wish you’d make the music
Dreamy and sad,
Could tell you a lot, But you’ve got to be
True to your code,
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road.
You’d never know it, but buddy I’m a kind of poet
And I’ve gotta lot of things to say,
And when I’m gloomy, you simply gotta listen to me
Until it’s talked away.
Well, that’s how it goes, and Joe I know you’re getting
Anxious to close,
So, thanks for the cheer,
I hope you didn’t mind
My bending your ear
This torch that I’ve found, must be drowned
Or it might explode,
Make it one for my baby
And one more for the road,
That long, long road.

Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
newsbusters
Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose’s PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don’t die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don’t like us because we’ve invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we’d be doing the same thing.” On not taking drastic action to correct global warming:
TED TURNER: :

Not doing it will be catastrophic. We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Turner ridiculed the need for a big U.S. military, insisting “China just wants to sell us shoes. They’re not building landing craft to attack the United States,” and “even with our $500 billion military budget, we can’t win in Iraq. We’re being beaten by insurgents who don’t even have any tanks.” After Rose pointed out the Iraqi insurgents “have a lot of roadside bombs that kill a lot of Americans” and wondered “where do you think they come from?”, Turner answered:

TED TURNER:

I think that they’re patriots and that they don’t like us because we’ve invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we’d be doing the same thing: we’d be bombing them too. Nobody wants to be invaded.

A couple of excerpts from Turner on the Tuesday, April 1 Charlie Rose on PBS, all apparently not April Fool’s comments but what he really believes:
On what will happen if global warming is not addressed immediately:
TED TURNER: Not doing it will be catastrophic. We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions will be intolerable. The droughts will be so bad there’ll be no more corn grown. Not doing it is suicide. Just like dropping bombs on each other, nuclear weapons is suicide. We’ve got to stop doing the suicidal two things, which are hanging on to our nuclear weapons and after that we’ve got to stabilize the population. When I was born-
CHARLIE ROSE: So what’s wrong with the population?
TURNER: We’re too many people. That’s why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff. If there were less people, they’d be using less stuff.
On what he told the UN in a speech Tuesday:
TED TURNER: I also said war doesn’t make any sense anymore. And we need to cut the military budgets back.
ROSE: How much do you want to cut the military budgets back?
TURNER: Right now the U.S. is spending $500 billion a year on the military which is more than all 190 countries in the world put together. The two countries that the military-industrial complex and some of the politicians would like to demonize and make enemies are Russia and China. China just wants to sell us shoes. They’re not building landing craft to attack the United States. And Russia wants to be our friends, too.
ROSE: Well, wait a minute. No, no, no.
TURNER: Well I know that because I spent time with the Chinese and Russians.
ROSE: You’re telling me the Chinese military budget is not increasing? Is that what you’re saying?
TURNER: It might increase, but you know how big it is compared to ours? It’s one 20th what ours is and so is the Russian military budget. Those are not credible expenditures. However, even with our $500 billion military budget, we can’t win in Iraq. We’re being beaten by insurgents who don’t even have any tanks, they don’t have a headquarters, they don’t have a Pentagon. We don’t even know if they have any Generals.
ROSE: They have a lot of roadside bombs that kill a lot of Americans.
TURNER: Well, that’s right. That’s exactly right.
ROSE: And where do you think they come from?
TURNER: I think that they’re patriots and that they don’t like us because we’ve invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we’d be doing the same thing: we’d be bombing them too. Nobody wants to be invaded.
ROSE: Nobody likes an occupying force, or to be occupied.
TURNER: That’s right. It’s gotten to be — it’s passe. You know, it’s time to move on. I mean, all we have to do is look at Vietnam. In Vietnam, we killed three million Vietnamese. They never attacked us, we attacked them. It was another one of these preemptive wars like the war in Iraq. And we lost 50,000. They lost three million. That’s like 60 for one. But at the end of 18 years we left and the Vietnamese were there.
I’m just so glad, because I think about it a lot, that the Vietnamese, the North Vietnamese, didn’t give us an ultimatum that we couldn’t leave Vietnam until we signed a decoration of surrender, you know, so they could get that on tape just like the Japanese surrendered on the Missouri.
ROSE: We made them sign a declaration of surrender.
TURNER: Yeah, but we surrendered and then we could go home. We couldn’t go home. What if the Iraqis, the insurgents say that: we’re not going to let you leave until you sign a surrender document, we just want the mighty United States. I mean, that’s how ridiculous the whole situation is.
ROSE: But where does this, where did this idea come from?
TURNER: I think a lot. I spend a lot of time thinking. And I hope that’s not a sin. And let me tell you another one, another story: We’re not the only superpower that’s being beaten by a third world country that doesn’t have a single airplane. The Russians got beat, too.
ROSE: In Afghanistan.
TURNER: That’s exactly right.
ROSE: With whose help?
TURNER: Well, we were helping Osma bin Laden, we were backing him that time.
ROSE: The Mujahidin.
TURNER: Right.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
I think something has been eating Ted’s brains for years now. Holy cow this guy has always been nuts but I think he has totally lost his mind. And he calls the terrorists PATRIOTS oh my gawd!

Obama Would Consider Gore for Major Post
Breitbart.com
WALLINGFORD, Pa. (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama says as president he would consider putting Al Gore in a Cabinet-level position—or higher.
A woman at a town hall asked the Illinois senator if elected president would he consider tapping the former vice president for his Cabinet, or an even higher level office, to address global warming.

“I would,” Obama said. “Not only will I, but I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He’s somebody I talk to on a regular basis. I’m already consulting with him in terms of these issues but climate change is real.”

Gore, who’s work on climate change earned him a Nobel Prize, he is popular among Democrats.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Gore invented the internet ….ya know.LOL
The only improvement Al Gore could see would be a cave with energy efficient dead people.