On “Morning Joe” Dylan Ratigan pounds a huge wedge into the fear-mongering. He discusses what our Middle East wars are about and who is profiting from them. Yes, we shouldn’t start wars over the angry signs people display. He gets into it at about the 2:40 minute mark:
The "Rant" rings true. Except for the claim of silence from the "Muslim leadership".
Throughout the middle east, there has been considerable vocal opposition to terrorism. They are not silent in any way.
However, we are not allowed to hear them.
Good stuff that'll never be heard by the FNC/Rush audiences.
The Saudis are left out of every conversation on conflict in the Middle East (except perhaps as victims?), while being named to the top lists of oppressive governments year after year, and while being the nationality of Public Suspect #1 and most of the perpetrators of 9/11.
Former Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton says that, during the Bush administration, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, and other Pentagon officials pushed to go to war with Iraq "almost to the point of insubordination."
"There was a very strong push in those days for us to go into Iraq, and there was absolutely no intelligence, zero, that pointed toward the Iraqis.," he told Christiane Amanpour on ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/24/hugh-she…
Congress is set to send the Saudi's 60B in new military weaponry. I wonder how many of these weapons will find homes in the hands of the Wahhabi terrorists that Ratigan refers too.
http://www.hizb-america.org/culture/news-watch/13…
My understanding is that the overt military support goes to the recognized government who use it to oppress their citizens.
The Wahibis, use improvised or black market weapons. (think of the fuel-laden jets on 9-11 as improvised cruise missiles, or consider the IED ..improvised explosive device.. often detonated by a cell phone with a blasting cap wired to its ringer. Their funding is well hidden, but some suspect that some of the money may be coming from multinational banks