CITIZEN ALERT v1.55
THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY ON TUESDAY
Tuesday started out with a bang with a military coup in Thailand. While Prime Minister Shinawatra was in New York for the UN meeting his military was busy surrounding his offices with tanks.
Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin orchestrated the coup and has taken the role of Prime Minister while remaining loyal to their monarch and is himself a Muslim. Are we saying goodbye to this nearly 75 year old democracy and replacing it with yet another theocracy? Time will tell, although early reports on the streets have the people of Bangkok supporting the coup and glad to see Shinawatra go as they were fed up with his failing approach to that country's Muslim insurgency.
Back in New York at the UN Bush rolled out his "freedom on the march" speech to the General Assembly. I only saw President Karzai of Afghanistan nodding over and over again like a sitcom audience plant. Other heads of state were seen reading their brochures while Bush rocked back and forth at the podium reading from his speech like a first year public speaking student. Man, is he boring when he's delivering a speech.
After he wrapped up, I've never seen Condi and the others run so fast as to exit the room. I guess there were a few people they were trying to miss like say, President Ahmadinejad from Iran who spoke hours later telling the room that his country was peaceful and that the US had hijacked the UNSC and Bush was trying to start a war and on and on.
All these stories buried what should have been the top story of the day which was commentary on retired U.S. Air Force colonel Sam Gardiner going on CNN on Monday and telling Wolf Blitzer that the U.S. has been on the ground in Iran for 18 months and plans are at the Whitehouse for military action against Iran. Blitzer spent most of the interview trying to spin Gardiner away from his assertion but the retired colonel laid it out in no uncertain terms:
1) The House Committee on Emerging Threats recently called on State and Defense Department officials to testify on whether U.S. forces were in Iran. The officials didn’t come to the hearing.
2) “We have learned from Time magazine today that some U.S. naval forces had been alerted for deployment. That is a major step.”
3) “The plan has gone to the White House. That’s not normal planning. When the plan goes to the White House, that means we’ve gone to a different state.”
Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin orchestrated the coup and has taken the role of Prime Minister while remaining loyal to their monarch and is himself a Muslim. Are we saying goodbye to this nearly 75 year old democracy and replacing it with yet another theocracy? Time will tell, although early reports on the streets have the people of Bangkok supporting the coup and glad to see Shinawatra go as they were fed up with his failing approach to that country's Muslim insurgency.
Back in New York at the UN Bush rolled out his "freedom on the march" speech to the General Assembly. I only saw President Karzai of Afghanistan nodding over and over again like a sitcom audience plant. Other heads of state were seen reading their brochures while Bush rocked back and forth at the podium reading from his speech like a first year public speaking student. Man, is he boring when he's delivering a speech.
After he wrapped up, I've never seen Condi and the others run so fast as to exit the room. I guess there were a few people they were trying to miss like say, President Ahmadinejad from Iran who spoke hours later telling the room that his country was peaceful and that the US had hijacked the UNSC and Bush was trying to start a war and on and on.
All these stories buried what should have been the top story of the day which was commentary on retired U.S. Air Force colonel Sam Gardiner going on CNN on Monday and telling Wolf Blitzer that the U.S. has been on the ground in Iran for 18 months and plans are at the Whitehouse for military action against Iran. Blitzer spent most of the interview trying to spin Gardiner away from his assertion but the retired colonel laid it out in no uncertain terms:
1) The House Committee on Emerging Threats recently called on State and Defense Department officials to testify on whether U.S. forces were in Iran. The officials didn’t come to the hearing.
2) “We have learned from Time magazine today that some U.S. naval forces had been alerted for deployment. That is a major step.”
3) “The plan has gone to the White House. That’s not normal planning. When the plan goes to the White House, that means we’ve gone to a different state.”
posted by Bobot Adrenaline at 12:39 AM
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"U.S. has been on the ground in Iran for 18 months"--you don't say.................
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