Vaughn Montgomery

Iraq is our second Vietnam

2005-01-02T14:43:00.000-08:00

Bush will have morals crowd here in America. But what he has done in Iraqi and his father is on record with agreeing with Brett Scowcroft's decision to
pooh-pooh Dubya's bellicose policy on Iraq.

Americans believed the recycled myth that as a superpower we have super power--a silly, dangerous idea that has led us directly into another bloody Vietnam-type quagmire. Believing our military technology can incinerate any ragtag opponent, hubristic thinking (or the suspension of thinking) enabled us to also bury history. Our national hubris obliterated the memory that those ragtag Vietnamese defeated the world’s greatest military, our military.

With each Iraqi our military kills, more Iraqis join the insurgency. The longer our troops occupy Iraq, the better Iraqi insurgents become at killing our troops. In Iraq, violence is a great recruiter, and time is a wise teacher.

We are losing in Iraq, and next year we will be losing more. Iraq is our second Vietnam.
Vaughn Montgomery AIM: montyvaughn1
http://montyvaughn.blogspot.com/

Mission What?

2004-12-31T13:33:00.000-08:00

More than 5,000 soldiers have deserted since the war began, and "For the first time in a decade, the Army National Guard missed its recruitment target this year!

George Bush and the Republican Followers seemed completely oblivious to the fact of how they have willfully eliminated the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Commandment from their subverted, perverted and immensely watered down republican version of Christianity (not to mention being their brother’s keeper or loving their enemy). They seemed equally unconscious to how they’re completely ignoring the atrocities and war crimes against humanity that they are sanctioning and allowing to be committed in their name. Instead, remarkably - the only thing these perverters and subverters of true Christianity seemed to be concerned about this holiday season with regards to Christianity was chastising department store clerks for saying "Happy Holidays", instead of "Merry Christmas." Who gives a Fuck?

2004-12-11T19:36:00.000-08:00

Rummie the Dummie

2004-12-11T19:32:00.001-08:00

It took only a few sentences on Wednesday for Donald Rumsfeld to demonstrate why he is both morally and strategically unfit to serve as secretary of defense. In a townhall-style meeting at a staging area in Kuwait, Rumsfeld was asked by Specialist Thomas Wilson of the Tennessee National Guard why soldiers were forced "to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?" There was a short pause, and then many of the 2,300 troops in attendance erupted in cheers and applause. Faced with soldiers asking for the bare minimum from their leadership tools with which to do their jobs--Rumsfeld managed to be at once callous, self-deluding, and dishonest..

Social Security will NOT run out untill 2052

2004-12-11T11:33:00.000-08:00

More lies of the George W.Bush, who lied about why we went to war the grain of truth in claims of a Social Security crisis is that this tax increase wasn't quite big enough. Projections in a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (which are probably more realistic than the very cautious projections of the Social Security Administration) say that the trust fund will run out in 2052. The system won't become "bankrupt" at that point; even after the trust fund is gone, Social Security revenues will cover 81 percent of the promised benefits. Still, there is a long-run financing problem.

Vaughn Montgomergy AIM: montyvaughn1
http://montyvaughn.blogspot.com/

Trigger-Happy US Troops. Fire Rummie the Dummie!

2004-12-11T07:33:00.000-08:00

Checkpoint shootings, which have killed untold numbers of women and children, are simply dismissed by the US military as “tragedies.” In September, when Blackhawk helicopters fired into a crowd in a Baghdad neighborhood killing 13 and wounding 60, the military couldn’t even keep its story straight.

In reality, these spree killings occur not because of “mix-ups,” but because the US military decided 50 years ago that the most effective way to fight wars was to transform soldiers into robotic, unthinking, killing machines.

The event that will haunt America for at least a generation. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was wrong when he said that the invasion of Iraq would “create 100 bin Ladens.” In the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, perhaps he should’ve said “1,000,000 bin Ladens.”

Fun

2004-12-10T18:28:00.000-08:00

BUSH's military's Fallujah Solution

2004-12-05T07:38:00.000-08:00

I ran across this picture from Fallujah last night. I'm going to make it a thumbnail image, so those who can't bear looking at a photo of a dog dining on an Iraqi, please just don't click on it. I think everyone should look at it, though, because this is the result of the US military's Fallujah Solution.

Note the Link

http://fallujapictures.blogspot.com
Accompanying a story describing how dogs eating corpses has created a rabies threat in Fallujah, is horrifying enough, but now we have Dahr Jamail's gallery of photos from Fallujah. I'm just going to quote Helena's reaction to viewing them and ask everyone to read her post before viewing the album.

We all have blood on our hands for this! How can we explain to that majority of US citizens that seems still to support this war with the depths of depravity to which Bush who lied about why we went to war, Rummie and Condi has led?

This is only the beginning of the exposure of the Fallujah horrors.

2004-12-05T07:05:00.000-08:00

2004-12-04T14:44:00.000-08:00

There's just too much anger here, too much ruptured vanity, too much shock, too much identity crisis. And worst of all, too much patriotism. Patriotism in a country that's failing has a logical tendency to turn fascistic...

They are taking my close off!

2004-12-01T19:12:00.000-08:00

2004-04-04T19:10:00.000-07:00

With President Bush and his economic advisors continuing to insist
that sending American jobs overseas "makes sense,"

While jobs are leaving our country in record numbers, George Bush says
sending jobs overseas ‘makes sense' for America."

Bush's 2004 Economic Report of the President: Outsourcing Makes Sense.
"The report [signed by President Bush]…said that ‘when a good or
service is produced more cheaply abroad, it makes more sense to import
it than make or provide it domestically.'" [Washington Post, 2/13/04]

Powell Reassured India Bush Would Not Stop Outsourcing. "Secretary of
State Colin Powell, encountering the other side of a tempestuous
debate in the United States, sought to assure Indians on Tuesday that
the Bush administration would not try to halt the ‘outsourcing' of
high-technology jobs to their country. In a round of conversations
with Indian leaders and college students, Powell found that the issue
of the transfer of American jobs to India, known as outsourcing, by
leading technology companies was as emotional in India as in the
United States. But whereas American politicians have deplored the loss
of such jobs, it was clear that the anxiety in India focuses on
threats by some in Congress to try to stop the transfer by
legislation." [New York Times, 3/17/04]

Bush promised to catch Usama bin Laden "dead or alive"

2002-08-04T15:26:00.000-07:00

The Dead or Alive Count is the number of days since President George W. Bush promised to catch Usama bin Laden "dead or alive".

Needless to say, Usama bin Laden may or may not be dead -- but he has certainly not been captured.

The Administration would like us to forget that bin Laden is wanted dead or alive. But we will not forget. We want him dead or alive. We won't settle for Saddam Hussein's head on a platter -- we want bin Laden's head.

A Chick and me

1999-12-04T16:09:00.000-08:00

A Philly and me after a few spirits the other evening.

1999-12-04T15:19:00.000-08:00

Radio talk-show host, Don Imus has chimed in on Rush Limbaugh. According to the New York Post, Imus said, "Rush is a fat, pill-popping loser and an undisciplined slob who was turning his maid into a drug pusher, and she's the one who's gonna go to prison.

You have to give to Don Imus he tells the truth and does not play the partisan game.

1999-01-04T14:45:00.000-08:00

I know the CIA can make – and has made - murders look like suicides or heart attacks. I sometimes wonder if J.H. Hatfield, author of the explosive Bush biography, Fortunate Son, was such a victim last year. And what about Democratic Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, who was killed when his small plane crashed right before the 2000 election? What about John F. Kennedy Jr., who had intelligence, political ambitions, charisma, and the name, dying in a 1999 plane crash? Do you really think these are mere coincidences

My smack last fall

1999-01-01T13:26:00.000-08:00