A Manchurian Candidate in the White House?

By DAVE LINDORFF

With a viral campaign underway via email, right-wing radio, and on the street suggesting that Barack Obama is a black "Manchurian Candidate," secretly trained as a Muslim fanatic who will insinuate himself into the White House, thence to undermine all that we hold dear, perhaps it is time to look at the Manchurian Candidate we already have in the White House, who, together with his handler over in Blair House, has pretty much done all the damage already.

George Bush came to office in 2001 promising a new era of integrity, civility and "compassionate conservatism," an era of humble American foreign policy, and a bi-partisan approach to government.

What did we actually get?

Once in office, this chameleon president almost immediately set out to embroil the country in a major war in the Middle East against the nation of Iraq. The game plan was laid out at the president's first National Security Council meeting, attended by Vice President Dick Cheney (the man holding Bush's controller), Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neal (who later spilled the beans about the session).

Bush also famously ignored all warnings about the imminent attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. How much he and the rest of the administration knew about that attack in advance, or whether elements within the administration may have even helped it along, remains the subject of considerable interest and investigation and may never be answered, but it is clear that there were ample warnings about it, and he did nothing-even rudely blowing off a briefer who tried to alert him to the danger. Moreover, it is known that Israeli Mossad agents (who we know have close ties to both the US intelligence apparatus and to the Neocons who infest the Bush White House) did indeed have advance knowledge, and were set up across New York Harbor with a video camera to tape the attack on the Twin Towers (they were subsequently arrested by New Jersey police, only to be later released and sent back to Israel, through intercession by the US government). As well, we know that unidentified people made a killing by placing negative bets, called "puts," on the stocks, several days before 9-11, of the two airlines that were hijacked, American and United, and of two investment banks that would be seriously hurt by the building collapses, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. (The puts were placed through an investment bank, Alex Brown, which until a year earlier had been headed by a man who moved over to become the number three person in the CIA.) It's hard to escape the conclusion that the Bush/Cheney administration, at a minimum, wanted an attack on American soil, and a national disaster that would put the country on a war footing.

Certainly instead of rallying the public and defending the nation's democratic traditions and its Constitution, Bush and his handlers after 9-11 immediately set in motion a concerted scare campaign to undermine both. While urging the public to buy sheets of plastic and duct tape to construct "safe rooms" in their homes, they rammed through Congress a deceitfully named measure, the so-called Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act), which effectively undermined most of the articles of the Bill of Rights (and which appeared, suspiciously, fully drawn up in bill form, only days after the attacks).

At the same time, the president, only one week after the attacks, obtained an Authorization for Use of Military Force for a military attack on the Taliban government in Afghanistan and on Al Qaeda forces in that country, which he subsequently interpreted broadly as an authorization for a global "war" on terror which he then claimed made him effectively a dictator with absolute power both at home and abroad (the so-called "unitary executive" theory). Under this claim of absolute power as commander in chief in time of war, Bush went on to order the use of torture against captives, foreign and domestic, including US citizens, to strip even US citizens of the right of habeas corpus-that is, the right to have their arrest and detention brought before a federal court-and to establish secret torture centers around the globe and on military installations in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay on the island of Cuba.

As well, even before the 9-11 attacks, the president began a sweeping program of electronic spying, run through the super-secret National Security Agency, on Americans' telephone and internet activities. It was and remains a program that deliberately avoids seeking warrants and court approval even by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court-a body that has only rejected some five requests for warrants out of hundreds of thousands sought since its establishment in 1978.

Finally, in a perhaps fatal undermining of the Constitution, the president after 9-11 began a practice of simply refusing to enact or obey laws passed by the Congress, effectively rendering the legislative branch an impotent debating club.

Not content to simply explode or dismantle the legal foundations of the American government and rule of law, Bush and his handlers also went about systematically destroying the country's basic institutions and even its economy.

The education system was fatally ensnared in a test-driven system called "No Child Left Behind," which has in short order dumbed down public education to an extent shocking even to this already anti-intellectual society, with many schools simply giving up the teaching of art, literature or history, in order to focus desperately on math and reading in order that their students would do well enough on standardized tests to keep the schools from losing their funding.

The dollar has been cast adrift to become the new Lira as the government has gone on an unprecedented borrowing spree to fund endless war and ever-larger military budgets, while erasing the taxes on the wealthy, the super-rich, and corporations. Banks were given free rein to enter into all manner of risky ventures, leading to the current collapse in credit. Corporations were encouraged to ship their production and jobs overseas. Homeowners were encouraged to spend, spend, spend and to mortgage their homes to the hilt and then some. Towns, cities and pension funds were encouraged to invest in fantastic "structured" products that were actually towering card houses. Domestic car manufacturers were encouraged to build every larger, ever more voraciously gas-guzzling vehicles, pumping out ever larger quantities of carbon into the already overstressed atmosphere.

The nation's infrastructure-its roads, dams, bridges, levies, airports, veterans hospitals etc.--were left to decay, with predictable results, the most dramatic of which was the loss of an entire city, New Orleans, to a routine Category 3 hurricane (after which, the president did nothing to rescue the survivors or fund a recovery).

Surveying at the appalling wreckage left after eight years of the Bush administration, it is hard to recognize the country that he started out with in 2001. A once proud nation-one that only a few years ago was admired around the world and that now is viewed as a pariah and a rogue state-today trembles before a handful of turbaned fanatics holed up in caves in the Hindu Kush, its trillion-dollar high-tech military colossus fought to a standstill in Iraq and Afghanistan by a few thousand brave men and women armed with RPGs, antique AK-47s and home-made roadside bombs. A nation that once was the envy of the world for its free society now has scientists afraid to report their findings, university professors afraid to support outspoken colleagues, members of Congress afraid to defend their Constitution, citizens afraid of their neighbors, journalists afraid of government criticism, lawyers afraid to defend clients

Hey, this place starts to look and feel an awful lot like the China I lived in back in 1991!

Forget all the nonsense about Barack Obama being a closet Muslim. We already have our Manchurian Candidate in the White House, and he has largely accomplished what he was programmed to do: destroy the country.

The truth is this: If at the end of their second term, Bush and Cheney were to hop on a plane and fly off to a hideout in the mountains on the Afghan-Pakistan border, leaving a "Nya-nya!" note on the White House dining room table, few people would really be very surprised.

More waste of ink and time, authored by a liar.
Sure love the way these facist hacks change history to suit their fantasies. But then...it doesn't advance their agenda, adding truth to the 'facts'. (would be a boring blog, eh?)
You can't simply change the facts of history to further your causes, without first making it sound plausible. It diminishes the writers credibility, and it diminishes the credibility of those that desire to spread the garbage.

Same old song and dance. They know that the lazy, the undereducated and the reality-challenged will drool at a chance to cut-n-paste their facist fiction.
I can't wait to watch folks squirm, when they realize they've been duped so completely by these hacks. They understand that most folks have no memory retention, are constitutionally incapable of checking the facts, and utterly and completely incapable of using common sence.

fishman, your posts on American politics always seem to come from reporters who are either mentally challenged or are simply just too ignorant to understand reality.

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What did we actually get?

Once in office, this chameleon president almost immediately set out to embroil the country in a major war in the Middle East against the nation of Iraq.

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Oh I'm sorry I think any president would have gone to war after the events of 9/11, but I forgot people like you also believe George Bush had something to do with those horrible events as well as hurricane Katrina and global warming, shit why not blame him for the crisis in Darfur or AIDS or hunger in Africa????? Are you delusional????

This so called reporters stories should not be viewed as entirely non-fiction garbage....:stoned: but then again your Canadian:S4::S4:

Its amusing how other countries intelligence agencies were warning the bushies before 9/11 witch is fact btw but just ignored it.But i guess americans are just brain washed into believing what fox news tells them lol.But hey i keep telling people its not your fault you can blame your education system on that.But the fact is you guys invaded iraq a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.But you guys keep forgetting that and oh where is osama bin laden?he is sitting in some cave laughing his ass of at you guys...:S4:

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Originally Posted by fishman3811

Its amusing how other countries intelligence agencies were warning the bushies before 9/11 witch is fact btw but just ignored it.But i guess americans are just brain washed into believing what fox news tells them

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I will say it again as I have said it before...If you want to "point a finger" at a president for not preventing 9/11(which is absurd anyways) try pointing your finger at Bill Clinton, because it was during his presidency that 9/11 was plotted/ignored.... but then again you do have a clouded sense of judgment according to the majority of the rubbish you post on this site...and for the record FOX news has nothing to do with what I believe. My beliefs are based on pure fact, you should try it someday!!!! :toilet_claw:it is a hell of a lot easier than playing Canadian make-believe all of the time....:stoned:

Idg420 if your beliefs are based on fact then in your opinion why did u invade Iraq?

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Originally Posted by fishman3811

Idg420 if your beliefs are based on fact then in your opinion why did u invade Iraq?

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MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Russian intelligence services warned Washington several times that Saddam Hussein's regime planned terrorist attacks against the United States, President Vladimir Putin has said.

The warnings were provided after September 11, 2001 and before the start of the Iraqi war, Putin said Friday.
CNN.com - Russia 'warned U.S. about Saddam' - Jun 18, 2004

I'd say that's reason enough.

Have a good one!:s4:

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Originally Posted by ldg420

I will say it again as I have said it before...If you want to "point a finger" at a president for not preventing 9/11(which is absurd anyways) try pointing your finger at Bill Clinton, because it was during his presidency that 9/11 was plotted/ignored.

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I'm not a Bush supporter but I agree with this. It is fact that Bill Clinton was aware of Al Queda and Bin Ladens plans. In 1993 the World trade Center was bombed, in 1998 2 US Embassies in Africa were bombed as well.

Bill Clinton was tracking Bin Laden heavily but never did anything about it. As a matter of fact I believe at one point Sudan had Bin Laden in their custody and basically asked Bill Clinton if they wanted him for the bombings he had done.

Why was He never taken into US custody?

I'm not here to to argue politics, just point out some more facts.

Let's not forget that we also had known Bin Ladens exact whereabouts in 1998 via our unmanned spy planes called "predators".

This was all released publicly in the 9/11 investigation.

Putin is the last person you want to believe he is a bigger liar than bush who also plans terrorist attacks on his own people and blames chechen rebels.

All presidents and candidates are Manchurian candidates.

Bush was a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by Skull and Bones. His hypnotic trigger word is "boobie."

Obama is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by Al Qaida. His hypnotic trigger word is "falafel."

McCain is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by Russian agents during his time in the Hanoi Hilton. His hypnotic trigger word is "Geritol."

Clinton is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by the secret society of the Isle of Lesbos. Her hypnotic trigger word is "strap-on."

Ron Paul is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by Bond villain Goldfinger. His hypnotic trigger word is "FREEDOM!" (Must be shouted in Mel Gibson/Braveheart style to be effective.)

Kucinich was a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by aliens during a close enounter of the third kind. His hypnotic trigger word is "anal probe."

Nader is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by the IUN (International Union of Nannies). His hypnotic trigger word is "car seat."

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Originally Posted by dragonrider

All presidents and candidates are Manchurian candidates.

Bush was a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by Skull and Bones. His hypnotic trigger word is "boobie."

Obama is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by Al Qaida. His hypnotic trigger word is "falafel."

McCain is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by Russian agents during his time in the Hanoi Hilton. His hypnotic trigger word is "Geritol."

Clinton is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by the secret society of the Isle of Lesbos. Her hypnotic trigger word is "strap-on."

Ron Paul is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by Bond villain Goldfinger. His hypnotic trigger word is "FREEDOM!" (Must be shouted in Mel Gibson/Braveheart style to be effective.)

Kucinich was a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by aliens during a close enounter of the third kind. His hypnotic trigger word is "anal probe."

Nader is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized by the IUN (International Union of Nannies). His hypnotic trigger word is "car seat."

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My God! How did Jesus let me forget Huckabee?

Huckabee is a Manchurian candidate hypnoitized as a child in Sunday School. His hypnotic trigger word is "dinosaur."

Under the falafel with the strap-on anal probe car seat was the Geritol, boobie.

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let the chaos begin. . .

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Under the falafel with the strap-on anal probe car seat was the Geritol, boobie.

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let the chaos begin. . .

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oh yeah, . . . last but not least . . . FREEDOM!!!!! :smokin:

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Originally Posted by boaz

Under the falafel with the strap-on anal probe car seat was the Geritol, boobie.

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let the chaos begin. . .

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oh yeah, . . . last but not least . . . FREEDOM!!!!! :smokin:

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My God, man! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

^^^ BuaHaHaHaHa . . :weedpoke: :abduct:

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The nation's infrastructure-its roads, dams, bridges, levies, airports, veterans hospitals etc.--were left to decay, with predictable results, the most dramatic of which was the loss of an entire city, New Orleans, to a routine Category 3 hurricane (after which, the president did nothing to rescue the survivors or fund a recovery).

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oh this made me laugh. the fact is the govenor REFUSED yes that is correct REFUSED help from the federal gov't. telling them it was something we can handle ourselves. and why did she refuse because the feds would not put all the money in her control allowing her and other corrupt officials to skim off the top. i may not like bush but it does make me fume when i see out right false hoods made on assumption.

[quote=fishman3811]By DAVE LINDORFF

George Bush Once in office



Forget all the *nonsense* about *Barack "H" Obama* being a *closet Muslim*. We already have our *Manchurian Candidate* in the White House, and he has largely accomplished what he was programmed to do: destroy the country.

The truth is this:...

If a guy like bush is a muslim then heck why say ignore obama hey hey why o why