The danger will come from Iraq not from Afghanistan

Mr. President
I have the unfortunate mission to tell you that you have made another mistake:
You seem to be satisfied and proud that the US will stop conducting combat missions in Iraq and that we are on a path to reduce significantly our presence in Iraq.
You should not be satisfied. Iraq is still a powder keg.
It is a powder keg in part because the Iraqi government has not been able to function since the last elections as they were not able to form a coalition majority, what is left is an assembly that was able to conduct the business of the Iraqi people for less than 20 minutes during the last 6 months, a world record of inefficiency. In addition Iran is ready to wreck havoc as soon as the American troops show weakness
I am more worried about Iraq than I am worried about Afghanistan. Afghanistan is on the road to recovery because it is a much simpler problem to solve and because the right approach has been designed by the Petreaus school of military philosophy. If the President has the willpower to stay the course the progress is going to be impressive.

Iraq has many big cities where multiple bombs can create horrifying carnage.
If the Americans do not retain their ability to conduct combat missions, the whole Iraqi country will crumble into chaos again and all the successes gained after the abominably incompetent and dangerous Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Bush Junior were evicted from the chain of command are going to be lost.
There has been almost no American combat casualties in Iraq for the last twelve months. It is in my personal opinion one of the best benchmarks in defining the success of any American operation anywhere.
The Iraqi people themselves are afraid by the void that the withdrawal of the American soldiers will create knowing full well that their nation will return to Chaos with Iran flaming the fire of terrorism in Iraq.
Mister President please keep the actual combat latitude the American soldiers have in Iraq. It is your only way to Win the Iraq war ( winning means a relatively stable Iraq with less that 12 bomb attacks per year and less than 120 Iraqi civilians killed per year. -Extremely difficult to achieve-)
Hopefully the Iraqi people will ask you to give back the ability for the US soldiers to continue to assist Iraqi soldiers in Combat even if helping only with air support, artillery, intelligence and mission organization.
Respectfully yours
Eric Lafayette

Dear President Obama

Was General McChristal dismissing a crucial error.

In short: General McChristal and his aides were making fun of some people working in Foreign Affairs for the United States, and President Obama dismissed him because of his comments.

It should have been the other way around:
Dismiss Secretary of State Clinton and her protégés and keep General McChristal and his aides.

President Obama, you said that you were a great admirer of President Abraham Lincoln but I can assure you that you are not even close to measure to his standards of Leadership.
Here is what President Lincoln said when it was reported to him ( second hand reporting) that General Grant has been spotted drunk between two campaigns:"Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals" and then "I can't spare this man he fights"
These two quotations allow me to be certain that Abraham Lincoln would never had dismissed General Mc Christal guilty of a much lesser offense that Grant reported offense.

Politics have always destroyed good teams and lost wars.

Clinton protégés such as Holbrook are as incompetent as she is and what President Obama should have done is hear the message delivered by General McChristal and his aides, "Please deliver us from the interference of so many incompetent people and fire discreetly Special Envoy Holbrook, Ambassador Eikenberry and Secretary of State Clinton."

His gigantic error in the first place was to appoint Secretary of State Clinton who has been a catastrophe on all fronts in foreign affairs including China a relatively easy task where she is implementing the wrong strategy.

I wish he had nominated former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright instead, a very brilliant extremely educated mind.

From that previous error came the appointment by Clinton of Holbrook and Eikenberry who have not even the slightest idea about the special kind of warfare needed in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as being complete strangers to the mindset of Afghan tribal leaders and Pakistan‘s complex tribal-modern society.
These American officials cut their teeth in different mission in Europe not in the middle east. In addition they do not have a clue about how to support the men and women in uniform from private to general who are faced with a daunting task in this counter insurgency war made up of intelligence and special forces raids that require enormous risks.

Mr. President your personal adviser Mr. James Jones is no catch either. He was a fine Marine Corps commander, but that is the extent of his ability. He cannot handle any job that asks for great intelligence, innovation or profound brain power. Almost Each time he had to make a decision involving the use of his IQ and the fortitude to implement the decision, criteria a leader is judged by, he failed.

Most of the pundits are saying that in order to show that you are a strong President you had to take a stand and fire McChristal to prove your leadership.

By firing General McChristal Mr. President you showed the opposite. You showed that you are afraid to be perceived as a weak leader which evidently makes you a weak leader.
Faced with a choice between making the correct decision for the nation, which was keeping General McChristal and firing Clinton protégés Mr. President you fired General McChristal thus making the wrong decision for the nation but the safe decision for you. (In my opinion this is quite pathetic.)

Some pundits brought up a seemingly valid argument.

President Obama fired General McChristal because President Obama wanted to reassert the absolute dogma of military power being subordinate to civilian power and that is a rule I support fully.

However General McChristal was not criticizing President Obama but Secretary of State Clinton’s incompetent protégés such as Holbrook. The authority of the President our elected civilian representative was not questioned thus the argument falls flat.
Let' be fair to Holbrook: He is incompetent in the Middle east but could be competent and was competent in Europe but the two theaters of operations are extremely different and it is Clinton error to have hired him specifically for a mission in the Middle east

In addition Vice President Biden was mocked but in the same funny way he has been mocked by everybody in Washington for his tendency to make exagerated comments or gaffes. McChristal aides called him Vice President Biteme. It is funny and appropriate.

More importantly Mr President, you had a Dream team:

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the very experienced enormously intelligent, politically savvy man who has a little bit of a lack of combat experience because he comes from the civilian side.
General Petreaus who has all the military knowledge in the world, invented modern counter insurgency strategies and tactics, but who cannot run and climb hills under the scorching heat anymore and thus cannot be a warrior on the ground a must if you want to stimulate soldiers in combat.
General McChristal, a disciple of Petreaus, showed that he understands better than anybody modern counter insurgency. If needed he could show the bravery and physical stamina to go under intense heat day after day behind enemy lines if needed and fight hand to hand combat. Of all generals in the US army he has been by far in more combat that any other.

Mr. President you broke the best military team the USA ever had.
Your team was much better that the team that won World War II

The quality of this team resides in the fact that each member complements the other and each of them is a very brilliant, very courageous man.
They are so innovative, intelligent and experienced that they could have achieved Mission impossible; win two wars at the same time.
(Winning in the sense of extirpating the US military sent there by a President Bush Junior AKA the uber fool and leaving these countries with a moderate degree of stability

Criticizing without bringing a solution is easy, but I always bring a solution.
Here is your new dream team:

Secretary of State: (FOREIGN AFFAIRS) Robert Gates.
Secretary of War after he resigns from the Army: General Petreaus

Cent com (Central Commander) or general in charge of the region and the two wars: General Petreaus' choice.

Bring back in Afghanistan McChristal or one of his aides or disciples. (Odierno is not a good idea.)

You are continuing to fail the intelligent people in our country by accepting the political yoke the dirty politicians are imposing on us.

You were supposed to remove the yoke the dirty politicians are imposing on us, but unfortunately you are helping these unintelligent politicians fasten the yoke of servitude upon the Americans who have integrity and common sense.
More importantly on military matters you listened and bowed to the Washington Bureaucrats: Vice President Bidden, Secretary of State Clinton, Retired general James Johnes instead of listening to your extremely brilliant Secretary of defense Robert Gates who was opposed to the firing of General McChristal.

In addition, if for some reason General Petreaus becomes impaired or unavailable you have nobody who is able to lead the Afghan war. The day you chose Clinton and James Jones you built yourself a team of incompetent advisors.

After making these bad choices you are compounding them by listening to these people which is leading you to pile up one error on top of the other.

Best Regards

Eric Lafayette ericlafayette@ericlafayette.com
More about US History and politic.


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Los Angeles 22nd 2010 by Eric Lafayette
(Check a remarkable article by Sanjay Gupta Surgeon and Medical correspondant for CNN, full article at the bottom of the page)

Dear For Democracy Members,

This is the first time since President Bush was inaugurated ten years ago that the USA is at its best in operations outside the USA.

Our country is at its best, showing great generosity and great efficiency in going into a horrible disaster in Haiti and rescuing thousands of people.

This is due to President Obama who immediately sent sufficient numbers of troops on a peaceful mission that will save lives and alleviate the nightmares and pain of hundreds of thousands of desperate people.

President Obama has made mistakes but thanks to him America is at its best in Haiti, the America we love, Very generous and extremely effective and the Haitians have realized it quickly and they are now chanting their praises for the USA.

They are right, As of today January 22nd 2010 (American relief effort only)
-- U.S. spending for relief in Haiti has hit $170 million (far more than any other country)
-- More than 700,000 meals delivered
-- 1.4 million bottles of water have been delivered,
-- 22,000 pounds of medical supplies delivered,

Is it enough? absolutely not because we are talking of a population in need of 3 000 000 people in a country where all Infrastructures, medical facilities, equipment and security were already a mess before the earthquake.

I am writing this article because a bunch of repugnant, ignorant idiots from the left are on the Internet insulting the actions of the USA, using hearsay and false representation of the situation, never verifying their sources and putting out exactly the kind of biased reports that are standard for Fox News. Of course like self anointed gurus they do not even have a clue of the History of endemic violence in Haiti before the earthquake ( murderous para governemental organization" Tontons Macoutes) violence as in Murder and rape was rampant before the earth quake (According to the UN, 50 per cent of young women in the violent shantytowns of Haiti have been raped or sexually assaulted - UN figures-) These violent behaviours of part of the Haitians population have been exacerbated by the earthquake and only the presence of well organized American troops prevented this horrible catastrophy in turning into a scene of Chaos and extreme violence.

Soiling the image of your nation when your nation is at his best can only be the work of disgusting human beings who are twin brothers of the Fox News anchormen as well as fans of Fidel Castro - Cuba- and Hugo Chavez - Venezuela-

If you cannot be proud of your country when your country the USA shines at its best please emigrates to Venezuela or Cuba. They love liars there. Bashing the USA is their main activity, you will be reunited with your peers. Move to countries whose entire regimes are based on constant lies and tyrannical excess.

Eric Lafayette

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CNN article
"Hope for Haiti Now," Anderson Cooper joins Wyclef Jean and George Clooney on Friday for a global telethon to air commercial-free across multiple networks and CNN. At 8 p.m. ET/PT Friday.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Aid is reaching earthquake-torn Haiti, but getting it to the people who need it remains a challenge.

Large quantities of medications, baby formula and other relief supplies are sitting on the tarmac and in warehouses at the Port-au-Prince airport, but no one is moving it out, according to CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta.

"It's like everywhere we go, just walking through the airport, outside the airport even, people are saying, 'We need supplies,' " Gupta said.

Gupta found pallets of formula, pain medication and antibiotics standing unattended next to the runway.

U.S. military personnel in a warehouse tent at the airport gave Gupta a trash bag full of supplies to take back to a hospital he had visited earlier but couldn't explain why there seemed to be no organized system for distribution.

"There is stuff here waiting to be taken out, that's a true statement," said Air Force Col. Ben McMullen, deputy commander of the Joint Special Operations Air Component. "Is it a lot? I can't speak to it. I will tell you the reason you got it is that everyone on this side, specifically the U.S. government side, is dedicated to getting as much stuff outside as they can. ...

"It's a shame, because you would hope that everything could get out there within seconds. But that kind of infrastructure just isn't in place."

Over at the city's port, authorities pushing to clear bottlenecks hope to restore two-way traffic at the south pier sometime Friday. that rocked the impoverished nation on January 12 damaged its capital's north and south piers. Haitian authorities and the U.S. military had restored one-way traffic to the south pier, which is the smaller of the two

Port-au-Prince's north pier remains unusable.

The bottlenecks have delayed food and medical aid to the estimated 3 million Haitians who have been affected by the quake.

At least 72,000 people have been confirmed dead in the quake, according to Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.

Canadian troops, meanwhile, were working to open an airport in Jacmel on Thursday, another step that could speed delivery of relief supplies. Jacmel, a seaside town about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Port-au-Prince, is considered Haiti's cultural capital.

Delayed relief supplies have led to at least five deaths, according to the aid group Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières.

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Working under adverse conditions with limited supplies, medical teams have been forced to improvise.

Renzo Fricke, field coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, said staffers had to buy a saw in the market so surgeons could do amputations. A CNN crew loaned a medic a pocketknife for another operation.

Lacking rubbing alcohol, doctors have used vodka to sterilize equipment and instruments. Surgical patients are receiving over-the-counter pain medicine because doctors lack stronger medication. One nurse used a string of Christmas lights as a makeshift extension cord. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen saw a belt used as a tourniquet. When that broke, a garden hose was used.

U.S. officials have acknowledged that not all aid, particularly medical supplies, has been getting through fast enough. The situation is improving, however, they said.

That offered limited comfort to some Haitians.

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"I have not eaten for two days," 32-year-old Anderson Bellegarde said Thursday. "I'm only drinking water."

Bellegarde had waited more than six hours outside a money-wiring branch. Businesses such as Western Union are starting to reopen and are attracting the longest and most visible lines in Haiti's capital, as quake survivors scramble for cash.

Sidewalks were crowded with street vendors and kiosks, and many small food stores were open. Dozens of stalls sold fruits and vegetables at a dusty market along a pocked and rut-filled dirt side street.

More than 300 aid distribution sites are up and running, a senior U.S. administration official said. More than 700,000 meals and 1.4 million bottles of water have been delivered, along with 22,000 pounds of medical supplies, said Lt. Gen. Douglas Fraser of the U.S. Southern Command.

About 120 to 140 flights a day are coming into the single-runway Port-au-Prince airport, compared with 25 a day just after the quake struck last week. More than 840 have landed since the airport was reopened, but there is a waiting list of 1,400 to come in, Fraser said.

To improve air traffic, the U.S. military said Wednesday it had obtained landing rights at the Dominican Republic's air base at San Isidro, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) east of Port-au-Prince.

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International aid contributions since the quake have totaled hundreds of millions of dollars. U.S. spending for relief in Haiti has hit $170 million, the federal government announced Thursday.

About 13,100 U.S. troops are in and around Haiti -- nearly 2,700 on the ground and 10,400 more offshore. Many Marines spend time in Haiti during the day but sleep on ships at night. More U.S. troops are to arrive by this weekend, bringing the total to about 4,600 troops on the ground.

YOUR NUMBER IS UP Mr. PRESIDENT
by Eric Lafayette published by www.fordemocracy.com August 14th 2009

All the planets are aligning; the perfect storm is building.

We are in August 2008 barely more than 6 months after President Obama took office and the elements to have President Obama killed are being put in place by the leaders of the Republican Party.
The Moral Leaders of the Republican Party are Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch of the Fox News network aided by his henchmen Bill O' Reilly and Glen Beck. They are the moral leaders because the elected Republican leaders defer to them on moral issues
The elected Republican leaders including Vice President Cheney, Chairman Steel, Eric Cantor, Sarah Palin and others have praised Limbaugh and supported Rupert Murdoch‘s Fox News.

Here are the elements:

FIRST: The Birther theory is truly another way to express racism. The supporters of the Birther theory are simply put racists.
The Birther Theory which claims that President Obama was not born in the United States is false as his birth certificate on file in Honolulu proves it.
One of The most prominent birthers is Lou Dobbs of CNN . It is very easy to debunk his racist stance because on the other important debate on racism he was the first one who rejected during the Bush administration a set of immigration laws legalizing illegal immigrants. In reality he was rejecting people of colors: the Latinos. He was rejecting the Latino with such force that by himself he launched the racist anti immigration movement that defeated the path to legalization for illegal immigrant.
Birther theory is another name for racism. It is important that Americans realize that this “Birther Theory” is an attempt to bring down the President by triggering the vilest feeling in some American namely Racism which is also the most successful tools to arouse a crowd in the world and in the USA where we still live with the history of slavery.
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The Birther theory affirms that President Obama‘s birthright is illegitimate, and consequently that he is guilty of the criminal act of falsifying a birth certificate in order to become President of the USA.

The leaders of the Republican Party have succeeded in CONVINCING 58% of the members of their party that President Obama is not a legitimate US Citizen thus not a legitimate President and that his actions are criminal. In other words tens of millions of Republicans believe in the falsehood supported by their leaders that President Obama is a criminal.

Almost nobody in the USA will be upset at the death of a criminal. The removal of a criminal is always a good thing for society most people think and the Republican leaders made this feeling of right and wrong one of the elements in their quest for the criminalization of President Obama.
This Birther Theory is a stroke of nauseating genius because it sets the mindset of millions of American to wish for and welcome the murder of the President of the USA.

SECOND, the organized violence in town hall meetings now being held by leaders of the Democratic Party
The violence organized by Republican Leaders disrupts peaceful town hall meetings. The violence began to be organized around the theme of “Birther” with Republicans participating in the meeting screaming, “I am American, I have a birth certificate to prove it. Obama is not American!”
The birther theory, a hidden identity for racism would not be efficient enough without organized verbal violence by the Republican leaders .
This seal of approval by the Republican leaders on organized violence around the country when Democrats hold town hall meetings shows that this necessary step towards physical violence is supported by them.
Everybody knows that before two people come to blows which is physical violence they start with yelling and screaming at each other. This is a necessary step which can in some cases will lead one of them to get a gun and kill the other.
Now that the Republican leaders ( thanks to the Birther-racist propaganda in town hall meeting) have established verbal violence as a standard, now in order to keep their members engaged with them they are using this behavior of hate towards any important project of President Obama such as Health care reform.
Organized verbal violence is a necessary and efficient step towards physical violence.

THIRD: Rush Limbaugh accusing Barack Obama of being a Nazi because " President Obama uses Nazi like policies" that is a direct quote from Rush Limbaugh; a few days after he was praised by Eric Cantor the second most powerful Republican Representative in the House in the Congress. Of course other Moral Republican leaders inside the Rupert Murdoch Fox news empire have supported the same vile smear.
Vilifying President Obama by Comparing him to a Nazi shows that crossing the line of sane thinking is amply authorized and reinforces the thought that not a more decent action than to kill a Nazi Also Known As President President Obama could be taken.

Bottom line: As a first step at least 20 million Americans have been lead to believe that President Obama is an illegitimate criminal, a black usurper.
The second step toward murder is also in place, and it is to whip up violent behaviors, and the third step, the final crucial touch is to make him a Nazi so that he will be such an abhorrent figure that it will be a good deed to assassinate him.

From this deadly combination not one but more that one assassin will rise to murder Barack Obama the President of the USA.

Never forget that Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh with the approval of some of the leadership of the Republican Party repeatedly accused Doctor Tiller of being a repugnant Killer and that he was murdered by one of their sympathizers, it was not an insolated incident; Doctor Tiller the abortion doctor was attacked more that once.

WHEN WILL PRESIDENT OBAMA BE KILLED?

If the Republicans leaders do not change their stance; attempts to kill him will be numerous and it is not a matter of if but when.

Eric Lafayette
www.fordemocracy.com

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REPUBLICAN MOTTO: MORE HATE
Los Angeles June 17th 2009 by Eric Lafayette published by www.fordemocracy.com

Republican leaders have been very prominent on the airwaves recently.
Their declarations help us re-discover what type of Americans they are and in what category of human beings they belong.

Three types of Republicans

CATEGORY ONE: The Republican elite, the most dangerous for the USA and the most dishonest.
The Republican elite support domestic terrorism, incitation to murder, rejection of the US Constitution which is the highest law of the land,
They are the main support group for domestic terrorism:
Constantly inciting their listeners to hate President Obama, doctors who perform legal abortions, all Muslims as well as all Democrats.
They are unequivocally engaged in inciting murders of law abiding citizens and their President. "More hate" is their motto

In addition they are constantly lying overtly by editing the words of President Obama.
There dishonestly is mind boggling, among their many lies they portrayed President Obama paying respect to the fallen American heroes of World War II on Day in Normandy as taking a sightseeing tour in France. There are no limits to their practices not even the respect owed to our fallen heroes.
They have absolutely no ethics because another of their main motto is: "The end justifies the means"
The welfare and good of the USA never was and never is their real goal, instead, hatred directed at other Americans as well as the selfish promotion of their own privileged elite is their burning deranged quest.
They are closely allied to the Religious right wing that falsely portrayed President Obama as a Muslim in effect designating him as a target to be killed by religious Christian extremists
Their names are Bill O Reilly, Sean Hannity, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Mitch McCallum, John Voight, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and the most responsible of all FOX Network e Rupert Murdoch

CATEGORY TWO: The Republicans American people were used to respect another type of Republicans: the loyal Republicans
These remarkable people always had the interest of the United States of America as their guiding principle and they always supported the US Constitution and international treaties signed by the USA as well as the rule of law in the land of the Free and the Brave.
In my opinion, these Republicans should not be called "moderates" but true Americans.
When you uphold the rule of law which is the duty of any American and when you reject the spreading of hate by right wing criminals you are a lot more than a moderate you are an honest American, you are loyal to the principle the United States of America was built upon.
They are not part of the new Republicans decision makers, let alone the new elite.
They are a disappearing breed, some of them have retired, some of them have changed allegiance but none of them are fans of the FOX, Limbaugh, and Cheney team of fascists.
They include those still registered as Republicans Senators Olympia Snow, Susan Collins, John Mc Cain, also Colin Powell, iformer Senator John Warner, President George Bush the Elder and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Those who had to leave the Republican party under attack for being " moderate" are Arlen Specter and Michael Bloomberg.
One of the common threads that unites these so called moderates who I call honest Republicans is the hatred the right wing Republican elite spills on them.
All of the above Republicans or former Republicans have been insulted, trashed, threatened repeatedly by the Republican elite such as Rush Limbaugh and Vice President Dick Cheney;
Former Vice President Dick Cheney when asked to choose between Rush Limbaugh, a drug addict crossed with a dangerous clown and General Colin Powell an American hero who won the first Iraq war chose Rush Limbaugh. No further comments needed.
A ray of hope could come if these very honest Republicans could create a new Party: The Loyalist party.

CATEGORY THREE The Republican constituents:

The absolute constant that defines the view of the education system by the Republican leaders without any doubts is: Cut the funding for public education, dismantle public education, and suppress the power of the Secretary of Education.
The Republican leaders without flinching and among them Ronald Reagan one of the fiercest opponents of public educations have always waged a war against public education in a country where the goal of the founding fathers was to create and maintain equal access to public education. In today’s world where other leading nations have strong programs of public education wrecking the public education system is tantamount to intellectual mass suicide and this philosophy in the short term validates the taught credo of the Republican masses who believe in droves that education is not important because their leaders are constantly waging a war against funding education.
I feel free to criticize people without education because I have only a High School diploma, but I always cherished education. I am self taught and I am blessed not to have been fed the Republican propaganda against education.

The Republican leaders have deliberately created a crowd of uneducated voters.
It is extremely important for them to create such a crowd to be able to make this uneducated crowd gobble up all the lies the FOX network, Limbaugh, Cheney and their like are feeding this perfect audience of illiterate people.
The elite right wing Republicans are creating a crowd of uneducated people ready to be brain washed and controlled by them
Why?
The Republican elite choose under the guidance of Cheney, Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch and his Fox network the path of violence and hatred towards their fellow Americans.
What is even scarier because they were and are absolutely wrong on all issues such as global warming, the economy, the respect of the US Constitution it is that they have no choice in order to win but to impose their deranged opinion by terrorism and violence in the constant tradition of fascist leaders.
Imposing your point of view by violence is Fascism.
I am not talking only about inciting their followers into murdering doctors I am talking about Bill O' Reilly launching, to harass her, a TV crew all the way to the home of a journalist who criticized him.
I am talking about Sarah Palin feeding hate against President Obama, I am talking about Dick cheney sponsoring torture in violation of the Geneva convention. I am talking about Rupert Murdoch labeling President Obama as having dangerous policies thus designing him a target to be killed as well as sponsoring multiple streams of hatred directed at decent Americans
Because anybody with a decent education would very easily debunk the layers upon layers of lies that the Republican right wing constantly feeds to its herd of uneducated sheeps.
In addition it is a lot easier to whip up ill informed and uneducated Republican sympathizers who have spent their lives being fed hatred by the Fox Network into a murderous rage.




The 2008-2009 Republicans leaders with their chief engineer FOX News Imperator Rupert Murdoch have built a pipe line of hatred and violence targeting their fellow Americans and their President.
The 2008-2009 Republican leaders have become a right wing fascist party, it is time the American people recognize it.

Eric Lafayette
www.fordemocracy.com

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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S CHRONICLES

The first three weeks: January 21st 2009- February 6th 2009
Stimulus package presentation and Republican rebuke
By Eric Lafayette published by www.fordemocracy.com February 9th 2009

1) President Obama's actions

Ten days into his term President Obama has shown that he is the great president this battered and diminished country direly needs.
His first acts were in accordance with the spirit of his campaign.

On his second day in office, January 22nd 2009 President Obama signed executive orders that will:
Close Guantanamo within a year and a half
Forbid the use of torture
Freeze pending military kangaroo court trials

In addition, in early February through memoranda President Obama:
Reversed President Bush’s denial of climate change.
Authorized states to adopt more stringent parameters on auto pollution.
Made respecting labor laws a priority for all contractors working with the government
With a couple of strokes of his pen he reignited our hopes.

His job approval is extremely high; 76% in the polls

MORE IMPORTANTLY HE SHOWED THAT HE HAS GREAT AMBITIONS FOR THE USA

Remember the USA is a very successful nation when spurred on by demanding and ambitious goals, and the following milestones can remind us of this reality:

The New Deal was a gigantic enterprise that responded to the Great Depression giving hopes and food to millions.
Winning world war one and world war two.
Building the largest transportation network of highways and freeways in the world in the 1950s.
Succeeding in sending manned space flight to the surface of moon.

Even more important is President Obama’s new rescue package designed to lift the USA from the abysmal state it was left in by the Bush Cheney Dictatorship.

PRESIDENT OBAMA IS USING THIS CRISIS TO CREATE THE NEW GREEN ECONOMY.

It is a gigantic project that could put the USA at the forefront of the economies of the future.

It will develop and build research centers and factories to build solar and wind power equipment, electric cars and planes and other technologies for sustainable life on planet earth and beyond.

This project will not create jobs overnight and Republican critics are pointing that out, but this project will insure that the USA will still be an important player in tomorrow's world.

In addition he is faithful to his campaign promises by allocating significant money to education which is the best assurance that the USA will continue to be a world leader.

2) Destroying President Obama and in the process any hope for you and me to have a better America

The initial amount of the President’s stimulus package was $825 billion. It was crafted and modified by the Democrats in the House of Representatives. The stimulus passed because the Democrats have the majority in the house.
When voted on, it was rejected by every Republican Representative.

This unanimous rejection speaks volumes because of the very fact that President Obama met with members of the leadership of the Republican Party in a bipartisan spirit in order to bring them on board.

Of course the Republicans justified their rejection by saying that there were too many provisions that did not stimulate the economy immediately. They had a point but a very minor one because the amount of money irrelevant to stimulating the economy is less than 10%.
Republicans as always have shown their great dishonesty by rejecting a plan that was providing 90% of the necessary stimulus.

The plan even when trimmed was rejected by all Republican Senators, after more trimming which took out some of President Obama's promises only 3 Republican Senators were inclined to vote in favor of the package.

Democrats Senators by trimming too much Obama’s plan to please the Republicans are reneging on their promises to bring education to those currently left behind as well as improving the overall level of education of the American people which is in a dismal state.

Democrats Senators also trimmed money for food stamps and money for unemployment benefits and so on.
What a shame!

Then Dick Cheney on a TV show on February 4th 2009 aggressed President Obama and the Democrats while lying again and again

His most dangerous lie is that attacking Iraq was a good decision and an important step in the fight against terrorism. In his last interview he declared to the American people that there will be another attack by terrorists on American people.
Dick Cheney is again rewriting history because every single organization that studies terrorism affirms without any doubt that the war against Iraq and the fact that it was based on lies and falsehoods has multiplied thanks to Dick Cheney and George W. Bush the number of terrorists bent on killing Americans by TEN FOLD as well as increasing by millions the number of inhabitants of the planet who hate Americans.

The negative attitude of the Republican leaders and Republican radio and television personalities is a mixture of profound hate, abysmal irresponsibility and the desire to destroy Obama even if it means destroying the USA.

Based on historical precedent all analysts without exception said that President Obama will be experiencing a honeymoon with the Republicans that would last 100 days. The Republicans did not even give the president of their own country 3 weeks before they began to try to destroy him.

On his Radio show Rush Limbaugh when Barack Obama was elected said and I quote, "I want him to fail!" He repeated it on any occasion when invited to appear on numerous TV shows.
However the chilling part for the future of the USA is that no Republican Senators or Representatives criticized him for wishing that the President of the USA fails thus making the USA fail. They are bent on creating more failure for their country after 8 years of horrendous failures by the Republican President George W. Bush.
Correction, one Republican and only one U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey, a Georgia House Republican, expressed his disagreement with conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh on January 29th.
However on an interesting reversal Gingrey actually went on Limbaugh's radio show and apologized. "I regret those stupid comments,'' he said on the radio.
I repeat only one out of hundreds of Republican leaders criticized Rush Limbaugh for wishing that the President of the USA fails instead of succeeding in rescuing our country from the abyss President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh and their peers pushed it into and this lonely voice recanted.

In case it was not enough, Sean Hannity from Tabloid Fox News cable Network invited Rush Limbaugh to appear on his show and pushed him to chant his " I want him to fail " and never interrupted him when Rush Limbaugh went on explaining that President Obama would turn the USA into another Cuba, China or Communist Soviet Union.

These lies and ridiculous accusations are what makes reactionary members of the Republican Party enormously happy.

Their two Republican Heroes are:
Rush Limbaugh, a drug addict, a liar and a coward.
Sarah Palin a semi illiterate who uses a helicopter to butcher elks and during the recent campaign promoted abstinence to everybody even though her daughter became pregnant when she was unmarried and a teenager

You could ask me why I am so intense on raising the red flag to show how much hatred there is in the Republican Party directed at President Obama.

It is very simple:
President Obama will work hard to protect us from our foreign enemies and will try to improve the economy and there is nothing I can personally do to help him.
The Secret Service will try to prevent Obama from being killed , and there is nothing I can do to help them.

However I can try to help lessen and weaken the formidable witch hunt launched by the Republicans to ensure that the USA I believe in and President Obama hopes to preserve will fail.

I believe it is my duty, and I hope you will consider making it your duty too.

Together we must write, speak everywhere and publish on you tube to help protect President Obama from this merciless witch hunt so that he can keep our Democratic dreams alive.

Best regards
Eric Lafayette

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