Iraq! GIVE ME OIL NOW! :By The Mental Pugilist

With the Presidential election looming just three months away, the nightly news coverage has been dominated by the various issues that America faces and the candidates stances on them. Energy is a huge problem that every American feels with four dollar a gallon gasoline. The economy and the U.S. dollar are second to none in importance to what we must overcome. One issue that effects all of the above topics that most politicians do not talk about is how much money we have spent in Iraq and how it contributes to the gutting of the U.S. dollar.

Let me tell you a little secret, You might think that all the wallstreet bailouts, government programs, or stimulus packages contribute the most to our national debt and the erosion of the dollar but you would be wrong! politicians can talk all day long about taxing oil companies on windfall profits or giving out more stimulus checks as a remedy to our economy. Do not listen, this all B.S. The single biggest drain on our economy is not the home mortgage mess either! The biggest drain is how much we have been spending for a war in Iraq! Ask your friends this questions and I bet no one would say the war.
We have been in Iraq for nearly fives years. The tax payers are spending 12.3 billion dollars a month to help the Iraq's construct and rebuild their country. One could argue the necessity of the invasion and spending for the future security of America. But, one can not argue with the newly released U.S. government Audit of Iraq's revenue!

Currently Iraq is racking in more oil revenue than you can shake a stick at! They are estimated to have an 80 billion dollar surplus! Whats that? We are footing the bill while they are swimming in a surplus of money. Whats that? We are reconstituting their economy for free while we at home pay $4 per gallon gasoline. Whats that? Inflation is on the rise in my country because we are growing our national debt while Iraq has been swimming in petro dollars! Is there something wrong here?
After reading the audit report , I think it is time to introduce a real energy plan. Candidates, feel free to use my plan. This plan would help solve many problems on many fronts and this plan does not involve inflating tires or drilling of the coast of California. America should demand that Iraq repay roughly one third of our monthly expenditures with barrels of oil. This would alleviate high energy prices that are killing the middle class. Dumping these barrels of oil into the U.S. market would dramatically reduce the price of gas in the short term. Why has no Presidential candidate talked about the reason we are paying another country to rebuild when they have government surpluses? It is Insane!

This is a great idea that we should implement for our cost of being in Iraq for five years! Besides wasn't it Ryan Crocker who said "Iraq's oil revenue will pay for rebuilding"!

Obama, Why hasn't he hit a walk off homer yet? : By The Mental Pugilist

Well, the whirlwind world tour has finally come to an end. The oversees trip saw Barrack Obama in the middle east as well as stops in Germany and France. All leave the talking heads to dissect what he did and did not do right. One thing that stuck out to me was while I watched him on stage and meeting with different leaders, he really looked very presidential! Every time he speaks he reminds me of old footage of John F Kennedy. That said, why has he not translated his stardom to a double digit lead against the old war horse? With the Republican name in the toilet, he should be crossing home plate after hitting a grand slam homer to win it in the ninth!

Recent Gallop and Wall street journal polls only have him with a five or six point lead. So what is the reason for this? John McCain hasn't exactly ran a brilliant campaign. I think there are many factors to consider. First of all, one of the worst things a presidential candidate can talk about during an economic down turn is raising taxes. No matter what your strip is politically, no one likes to here talk about raising taxes across the board. Obama has stated the need to raise taxes which many think will stifle growth. His friends in congress are not giving him any help. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have continually blocked a vote in the senate on off shore drilling. The problem with this is most Americans favor drilling and some kind of plan for relieving high gas prices. Only the leaders of the Democratic party could manage to blow such a sure win in the White House. Did you notice how crappy Nancy Pelosi's new book is doing on Amazon? I think one book ahead of hers is "why Samone Spawn"! That should give you a clue.

If I where Barrack Obama, I would distance myself from the leaders of the Democratic party. I would make and effort to sharpen the substance of my views on relevant issues. Every American loves the idea of a candidate of change but, the message of change can only carry you so long. Especially a campaign that is almost two years long.
This Sunday I herd Lindsey Graham on the Fox news Sunday show. He was going on and on about how Barrack Obama is using the race card from the bottom of the deck. He talked about the comment Obama made about how the Republicans would tell you that his name was funny in order to scare you. Mr. Graham commented that no of these things where happening. I wonder if Lindsey has been living on earth for the last few months. Every right wing radio show I listen to from Laura Ingram, Glenn Beck on down the line have called the candidate Barrack Hussein Obama at every turn. It is funny to listen to these guys because you can hear it in their voices, the frustration setting in that they are not going to be able to stop Obama and that their candidate sucks. With so much going on in the world, it amazes me that every one of them, every day, talk of the same subject, Barrack Obama!! It gets old! I am a big fan of the above mentioned hosts but it, is getting really repetitive and stupid.
I voted for Barrack Obama in my states primary. I love his message of hope and like the Idea of new blood in the White House. I just wish he wasn't so liberal! One prediction that you can take to the bank and cash it in for Euros is that Obama will win in a landslide. Like Ben Stein said " many white voters will end up voting for Obama because of liberal white guilt. Guilt for the sins of our fathers". I wish the Republicans had a better alternative but Their candidate John SYDNEY McCain has been in congress for 100 years and has done nothing. He is part of the reason where are in a mess today.

Terrorist threat? Fact or Fiction? By The Mental Pugilist

For the past several months, the media has been speculating about an attack on Iran and its nuclear installations. In these conversations they have also mentioned the various surrogate terrorist organizations that they sponsor throughout the middle east. I recently read the book "Atomic Iran" by Jerome Corsi. It is a great book if you are interested in the history of Iran and its relationship to the U.S. All of this got me to thinking how big of a threat are terrorist to strike the United States.

I took a practical approach to the problem by looking at the rhetoric coming out of our government and compared it to the actions taken to see if they matched the threat. What I found was disturbing! All will use a scenario to demonstrate what I mean. Lets say I own a donut shop in south Dallas. In the last year my shop has been burglarized several times and my clerks have been robbed at gunpoint. One was even murdered on a night shift while closing up shop. Dallas police have beefed up patrols and I have installed security cameras and an alarm. Every night when I leave work I wave to the patrolman who drives by. I close the front doors and lock them up. Then I turn on the cameras and set the alarm. When I walk out the back door I leave it open until I return the next day!

Does this make sense? This is what we are doing right know with our borders. Something does not ad up! Why on god's green earth would you develop homeland security, wiretaps, and renditions all in the name of terrorism and not secure the border? It makes no sense. If I were a Terrorist and wanted to get a cell into the U.S. , wouldn't the easiest way to accomplish this would be to cross our southern border. This is what thousands of illegals do every year. So what really is going on.

I remember right after 9/11 , they announced Bin Laden as the chief suspect. I remember thinking I had never herd of this guy until know. Recently, I looked uped Osama Bin Laden on the FBI's most wanted list. Under the description of what he was wanted for, there is no mention of 911!!! Then, this last week I read about Seymour Hersh and how he reported that Cheney and Bush had a brainstorming meeting about what to do about Iran. One of the suggestions was to dress up navy seals in an Iranian fast boats and attack American war ships in the straits of Hormuz! Why hasn't the main stream media reported this? Mr. Hersh is not a wack job. He is a highly respected semi famous journalist.

I voted for President Bush twice but this all feels like a manipulation to me. Do you every feel as an American citizen, there is another agenda the congress and the President are following? They seem to do or not do things because they are servants to someone or something else and not the American People! It makes me question 9/11 and the whole terror threat. Then I ask myself, what motivation would people in government have to perform false flag operations that killed 3,000 Americans. The only conclusion i come up with is The Rise OF The Fourth Reich!

Something to research! Did yo know that World Trade Center 7 housed The Security and Exchange Commission. It admitted that on 9/11 more than seven thousand prosecution files where lost. It is rumored that Prescott Bush's 1942 prosecution transcript for his connection with the Nazi's was lost!!!!!!

CAN YOU SAY AMERO!!! By The Mental Pugilist.

Why has not one politician , running for the President of the United States, ever talk about the value of the U.S. dollar? Why does the hedge fund market have very little regulation? Why where the majority of the risky home mortgage loans, that are currently killing our financial markets , packaged as securities backed by these loans , sold threw these hedge funds? Why Where banks able to loan people extravagant amounts of money with very little or no income verification? Why Is the Federal Reserve able to print money out of thin air and manipulate the amount of currency in circulation when it is a privately owned company? Why does the Federal Reserve keep lowering interest rates , in the name of helping out with home loans, but never mention that they are creating a run away from the investment in the U.S. dollar?
WHY WHY WHY? Why won't anyone ever talk about these issues in the main stream media?
Most people watching news about the state of our economy are hopelessly blind to the real threat that is developing into a perfect storm. The crash of the U.S. Dollar! Forget about the media's reports on Fannie May and Freddie mac. Forget about how the talking heads on TV tell you how we cant let these institutions fail. These things are all nonsense and lies!! These reports are misleading and half truths because they will never tell you what it means to the American dollar and us as citizens, so I will tell you. Bailing out Fannie and Freddie will double are national debt! This has ramifications because as our debt increases , more foreign investors will invest in other countries? With the interest rates so low, you will see more investors running away and looking for more lucrative returns in Europe and elsewhere. Are credit rating will suffer because of the doubling of debt. In the last four years, our dollar has lost sixty percent of its value! As far as we can let the people who where greety loose their homes, or investment firms ,who didn't manage risk , go under, B.S. What the hell is a Capital market for???

Lets pause reality for a second. Lets say you wanted to create a North American Union, a merger between the U.S. , Mexico, and Canada. Would it be possible if one of these countries was the only supper power??? NO!! So how to make your conspiracy dreams come true? Well lets see. I would first want to bring the super power to its needs and have them beg for a new currency backed by gold. How to go about that? Let the mortgage banks and hedge fund managers( Goldman Sachs) play fast and loose with home loans. Play on peoples greed and have them buy houses they can't afford. This creates the housing crisis and allows you to manipulate the money supply to bring down the U.S. dollar to virtually worthless! Someone would notice right! Wrong ! People are to focused on bailouts and government stimulus checks to even fathom what it means to the value of the U.S. dollar!
I hope we wake up soon! Oh wait , This is just a crazy conspiracy! or is it?

Israel's Red Line! By The Mental Pugilist

Sometimes ,in this day and age, its is hard to distinguish between rhetoric and truth. Especially dealing with the back and forth that between Iran, Israel, and the U.S. . So how do you distinguish saber rattling from a possible strike on Iran? I will give you some keys to look for.
I would watch , in the upcoming months, how Iran reacts to the IAEA's nuclear inspectors. What I mean is this, There is a big myth that weapons grade uranium enrichment is hard to detect and easy to hide. This is not exactly true. If a country decides to enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb, a tell tale sign is on the floor of the facility. Nuclear inspectors would be able to see signs of this on the facilities floors. The only problem the inspectors would have is at sights that they do not have access too. Clandestine facilities in the country out of reach of the inspectors. In the coming months, if you see Iran kick out the inspectors, this would be a tell tale sign that a strike on Iran , from Israel, is imminent! Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons period.
There is a little discussed fact about the IAEA that you will never here. In the history of the organization, they have never once made a finding that a country as diverted uranium for military purposes! Think about that. Hundreds of countries they have inspected, not one!
If you seek the signs , they will show you the future.

Bush's Nightmare! By the Mental Pugilist.

For the past four years we have heard the constant drum beats of war with Iran. Weather the beats are coming from Tel Aviv or Washington, They seem to be getting louder every week. Why, in this point in time , have the calls to attack Iran's nuclear installations accelerated? The reasons the media throws out are all B.S. . For the most part you can ignore them.
Let me inform you the real reasons why a possible strike on Iran is almost a certainty by the end of the year. Iran's influence on Iraq! Why is this so important to the current regime in the U.S. ? There are many reasons. The greatest fear inside the beltway is seeing an Iranian crescent stretch from Baghdad to Syria. Bush I , said , during the first gulf war, that he could not allow a dictator like Saddam to control so much oil , when he invaded Kuwait. Recent estimates have stated that Iraq holds the second largest oil reserves in the world. Do you really think Bush II is going to allow this to happen? Let a theocracy hell bent on the destruction of Israel, to control so much oil? You might say , how can this happen with all our troops in Iraq? Have you seen the latest SFOA? One of our goals ,not stated, as to why we went into Iraq was to build permanent military bases on Iraq soil in order to blunt Iranian influence. Nouri Maliki has completely rejected the U.S. having permanent bases! In June, the Iraq president assured Tehran that he would not allow permanent bases and they would not allow any attack on Iran from any bases inside Iraq.
Looks like the wheels are coming of the strategy we hoped to employ in the middle east. Our hope was that our presents would stabilize the middle east. These new developments leads me to believe that we are closer than ever to a dangerous war. In fact, the U.K. times just had an article today stating Bush has given his blessing to Israel to strike Iran. Not because they are so close to an Islamic bomb, but because things going down in Iraq!

"Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran" The Mental Pugilist

Did you notice what happened in Israel, last week, involving the U.S. navy? For those of you asleep at the wheel, let me inform you. Chairmen of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen paid a visit to our buddies in Israel. Why is this significant? In the last ten years , no U.S. Joint Chief of Staff has made such a visit! Is this a sign to come? Are we closer to war in the middle east than ever before? Look at the signs, there are so many. Vice-Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, head of the fifth fleet, stated last week that The U.S. wont allow Iran to block the straight of Hormuz. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a trip to the U.S. in May. He left stating that him and President Bush see eye to eye on Iran.
If you pay attention and look around you can see the build up that will eventually lead to war in the Middle east. By the end of the Year! People from the likes of John Bolton to Pat Buchanan have weight in on the likely hood of confrontation.
Oh, Did you her last month what Dr. No (Ron Paul) has said in regards to our congress and their view of the upcoming confrontation with Iran. He has publicly spoke out that we our on a dangerous course in the United states. He stated something big is about to happen. He also stated that congress is already in the bag on attacking Iran! Very disturbing.
Did you catch Israel's last war game over Greece? The exercise and the range was an exact replica of what would take to attack Iran. Yesterday, Iran had its own war games in which they demonstrated missiles that are capable of reaching Tel Aviv. And another sign. Condi Rice was in the Czech Republic yesterday, where she signed the missile shield agreement. Russia intern, stated the missile shield would be met with a military response!! wow.
All these signs seem to peaking into a perfect storm that is predicted in the bible. What does this all mean?

My Analysis:
First of all, the threat posed from Iran , that the main stream media seems to gloss over, is not them getting the Islam bomb and nuking Israel. They are to close regionally and both would be practically destroyed. The real threat is Iran proliferateing these nukes to terrorist and we wake up one day with a couple of cities gone! I believe President Bush will not leave office without attacking Iran. All the chest peaces are in Place. We have all the hard assets in place in Iraq to go into Iran. I am afraid it won't be a cake walk gentlemen. Do you remember Israel's last war with Hammas? They sunk an Israeli war ship with a Iranian silk worm missile. Like I said real men go to Tehran!