Attacking Syria

Let me start this one off by saying, I disagree with President Obama 100% about the use of military force in Syria. I’m not going to support him just because I voted for him. He is on my team but he is wrong on this one. When I think he is wrong I have no problem saying so. If I didn’t I would be doing what I say Republicans did when President Bush was in office.

I have to wonder what is it about the White House that make Presidents want to kill people. When President Obama was a Senator he was against President Bush using military force in the Middle East. Now he is doing the EXACT SAME THING. He would argue that there is a difference but there is none. It was WRONG when Bush did it and it is WRONG for Obama to do it.  

What would make the man that won the Nobel Peace Prize want to go to war? Why would he do the same thing that President Bush did? Since this blog is all about what I think, I will tell you. I believe the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) and those that supply them has some SERIOUS INFLUENCE over the White House. That is the only thing that makes sense to me. 

Think about what has happened. This war has been going on for a while with over 100,000 people killed with conventional weapons and there was no call for military intervention by President Obama. Not until Chemical Weapons were used, where just over 400 were killed, that Military intervention was called for. For me personally that doesn’t make sense. What does make sense is that MIC doesn’t approve of Chemical Weapons use because there is no profit in it for them. Anyone can mix up chemicals. Okay, not anyone, but anyone with knowledge of chemistry and the right ingredients. MIC wants them to use conventional weapons because they profit off of every round that is fired, bullets, rockets, grenades all conventional weapons they profit off them. When Assad started killing and cutting into their profits they had to bring in their enforcer, The United States of America.  

Our Government is already training the rebels and now they are asking to strike. The President says that the world is on his side. The thing is the U.N. is not on his side. The rest of world, except France, is not offering money or troops. The President says we as a civilized society decided long ago that Chemical Weapons could not be used and we cannot allow it to go unchecked. He said if we do nothing then Assad or someone else will do it again. His argument doesn’t hold water because the rules the President is talking about have been broken many, many times by us and our friends. We used Chemical Weapons in Vietnam and aided Saddam using them against Iran. Torture and indefinite detention is also against international law but that didn’t stop us.  Maybe those rules only apply to other countries. 

President Obama says we are not going to war but will be using targeted strikes. I would bet the people on the other end of those targeted strikes say it feels like war. This feels the same as the lead up to Bush’s wars. A whole lot of saying, we have proof and very little proof being shown. 

Poll after poll says that the American people as a whole want nothing to do with another war. The thing is it doesn’t matter what the American people want. The only thing that matters is what MIC wants and I believe they are putting lots and lots of pressure on the White House. The only way to combat them is to let our voices be heard and put our own pressure on the White House. I want to support the President but I need proof that Assad was behind this. I’m not going to just take his word. Also if he wants to take us into another war or whatever Washington wants to call this one, how are they going to pay for it? The credit card is about maxed out.

Where's The Outrage

Let me start this off by saying, like most of the people on the left, I believe that Ted Cruz is a U.S. citizen. I have not heard anyone on the left speaking out in opposition to the legitimacy of his citizenship. The few people that I have heard say anything about it are saying the same type of things like I am about to say. Where is the OUTRAGE from those on the right?

When President Obama was first elected, the Tea Party Republicans were almost foaming at the mouth about his birth certificate. They were saying “He was not born in this country, he was born in Kenya.” They said he was not a citizen because he was not born in this country. They argued that even though his mother was a citizen he was not because he was not born here. They demanded to see President Obama’s birth certificate because it would PROVE that he was not born here. Once the President posted his birth certificate online they said that wasn’t the right form. They wanted to see the long form version not the short one. After he posted the long form version they then said it was a fake. Fox (NOT) News even had experts on showing how the documents could have been forged. There were so many of them and they were so loud that they were given a nick name, The Birthers.

It is funny how things come back to bite you in the ass. The Birthers would pretend to be upset when anyone said that the REAL reason they were against President Obama was because of his race. They would accuse the left of race baiting. Now they have one of their own gearing up to run for President in 2016, Senator Ted Cruz. Senator Cruz is an outspoken Tea Party favorite who was born in Calgary, Canada. He also produced his short form birth certificate but there was no OUTRAGE. Like President Obama Senator Cruz’s father was foreign born. Unlike President Obama, Senator Cruz really WAS born in another country as stated on his short form birth certificate.

If it was not about race then where is the OUTRAGE from the Birthers. The number 1 problem they pretended to have with President Obama was that he was not born in America (even though he really was). Senator Cruz is unable to pass the bar the Tea Party set for President Obama but they support him anyway. If it was not about race then why not hold Senator Cruz to the same standard they held President Obama to. I’ll give you one guess. They kept saying they were not racist but the rest of America knew the truth. If it was not about race then what was it about? They don’t want to be called racist but they act like racist. If it was not about race then why was the guy born in America (Hawaii) considered foreign and the guy born in another country (Canada) considered American.

Where is the OUTRAGE from the Tea Party and the Birthers? You don’t hear it because Senator Cruz looks like them. It was never about anything other than race. I know people that tried to defend the Tea Party and Birthers, saying that it wasn’t about race and that Obama should just show his birth certificate and school records and get it over with. I wrote a blog post called “Obama’s Papers” where I said he should not show anything. I’m not going to put anyone one the spot but I wonder if those people that defended the Birthers before still think it was not about race. I wonder if they still think the Birthers are not racist. They should just fly the confederate flag and be proud of who they are. Stop trying to hiding who you are. We can clearly see you.