<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>Thanks Kris ...<br><br> resonates exactly with how I see and feel it ...<br> 2 Million people for the inaug ...omg ...what a joke ...<br><br> how bout this one ?<br> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnT21hmlT4o<br><br>b<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 1/15/09, Ron and Kris Graham <i><graham2639@mindspring.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Ron and Kris Graham <graham2639@mindspring.com><br>Subject: Obama: Al-Qaeda Remains #1 Threat to U.S.<br>To: "Ron and Kris Graham"
<graham2639@mindspring.com>, discuss@paa-tx.org<br>Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 8:33 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1343260214">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: black; font-weight: bold;">The #1 threat to the United States
and its citizenry is the </span></font></b>
<b><font size="2" color="red" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: red; font-weight: bold;">United States</span></font></b><b><font size="2" color="red" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: red; font-weight: bold;"> government</span></font></b><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: black; font-weight: bold;">, NOT Al-Qaeda or
Osama bin Laden (assuming he isn’t pushing up daisies). Al-Qaeda is a CIA
construct. Barack Obama is full of shit and looking for an excuse to keep the bogus
“war on terror” going interminably. Obama makes me want to puke!
Say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss…………………..only
more intelligent and with a different skin color. Now tell me which is worse,
having the country run by a moron who takes his orders from a sociopath and a
bunch of Zionist neoconservative psychopaths OR an intelligent, whored out
politician who takes his orders from Zionist neoconservative and neoliberal
corporate suit psychopaths??!! I say six one way, half a dozen another. IT’S
ALL THE SAME SHIT IN A DIFFERENT PACKAGE! </span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: black; font-weight: bold;">Don’t any of you ever wonder why the
United States supposedly doesn’t
have the money for any kind of infrastructure improvements, jobs or anything
else here at home. OH NO, don’t wonder about that. The answer to why the
money is not around is crystal clear. The U.S. government would rather spend
OUR money killing people, blowing shit up, taking control of other countries’
natural resources, playing the imperialistic global chess game and using real
people as the chess pieces. How fun is that??!! Don’t you ever wonder why
the U.S.
was hit on 9-11. The answer is crystal clear. The U.S.
government needed its “new Pearl Harbor ”
in order to fully implement its never ending “war on a noun (terror)”.
It got its new Pearl Harbor in the form of September 11 which has been used
over and over and over as the justification for bombing the living shit out of
Iraq and Afghanistan with Syria and Iran to follow and hell, who knows, maybe the
U.S. military will decide it wants to bomb the shit out of Russia or China or
North Korea. Who else is on the list, I wonder? </span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: black; font-weight: bold;">It’s so sad when a failing “superpower” must resort to using
the full force of its military might in order to retain some sort of “power”
in the world. It’s obvious the days of the United States actually building
and making anything anybody wants in the rest of the world other than WMD, of course,
are over……………done with………………..finis.
The ONLY thing this fucking country exports is WMD, death and destruction. Our manufacturing
jobs have been shipped overseas to countries that pay their people slave wages and
then slap them upside the head or worse (think re-education/forced labor camps)
if they dare to complain about those slave wages. The
United States is
bleeding jobs right and left. Unemployment is staggering. People can’t afford
to eat or go to the doctor, but His Holiness Barack Obama has urged the Idiot Bush
to push the Contemptible, Corrupt and Spineless Congress to implement another $350B
for the BANKSTERS!!!! Makes total sense to me, doesn’t it you? Let’s
give the wealthiest people in the country ALL THE FUCKING MONEY!! Don’t even
expect them to tell you how they plan on spending that money. Just give it to ‘em
no questions asked. Oh, Mr. Obama will say he’s going to have oversight, and
he’ll say there are going to be limits on executive pay and bonuses, and he’ll
say he’s going to give tax cuts to businesses and of course, all that lucre
will TRICKLE DOWN kinda like diarrhea trickles down your leg and hit the rest of
us poor bastards squarely in the face. But hey, we’re accustomed to being
shit on after all these years, aren’t we?? So, what’s a little more
shit between friends, eh?</span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: black; font-weight: bold;">I will NOT be one of the delusional millions who sits transfixed in front
of the idiot box watching the latest corporate puppet being sworn in. Perhaps
Obama should take his “oath of office” on the Torah since he seems
to support every single hideous thing the Israeli government does without
question. Besides, those words he will utter are only words after all. It’s
obviously strictly OPTIONAL that he abide by his oath of office. After all, the
Cheney/Bush duo didn’t abide by their oaths. Why should Obama? Most of
the members of Congress haven’t abided by their oaths of office. They
have utterly failed the American people and are traitors to this country and
the U.S.
Constitution.</span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: black; font-weight: bold;">Y’all enjoy the dog and pony show that is the inauguration should
you choose to watch it. I have better things to do.</span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: black; font-weight: bold;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Obama_Al_Qaeda_remains_number_one_t_01142009.html">http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Obama_Al_Qaeda_remains_number_one_t_01142009.html</a></span></font></b></p>
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'number one threat' to US</span></font></b><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <b><font color="#990000"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://rawstory.com"></a></span></font></b></span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span id="intelliTXT">President-elect Barack <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Obama_Al_Qaeda_remains_number_one_t_01142009.html"> Obama<span style="text-decoration: none;"><img id="_x0000_i1033" src="cid:2.3081316354@web83006.mail.mud.yahoo.com" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0pt; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; float: none; height: 10px; width: 10px;" width="10" border="0" height="10"></span></a> said Wednesday that Al-Qaeda and
Osama bin Laden remain the "number one threat" to
US security,
after a new voice recording emerged from the terror group's leader.</span></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Bin
Laden and Al-Qaeda are our number one threat when it comes to American
security," Obama told reporters, after the recording warned the
president-elect of new fronts in bin Laden's self-styled holy war against
Western interests.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"We're
going to do everything in our power to make sure that they cannot create safe
havens that can attack Americans. That's the bottom line," Obama added.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
22-minute audio recording, which the US-based Site Intelligence Group said it
believes is authentic, was the first commentary from the Al-Qaeda leader in
eight months.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It came
as President George W. Bush, whose presidency was dominated by the September
11, 2001 attacks launched by bin Laden's militants, prepares to hand power to
Obama next Tuesday.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Indicators
suggest... that 75 percent of the American people are pleased with the
departure of the president who bogged them down in wars that they have nothing
to do with," bin Laden said in the tape.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"He
drowned them in economic turmoil that reached their ears. He passed a heavy
legacy to his successor."</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Obama,
who was speaking after talks with his vice president-elect Joseph Biden and
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, reiterated his belief that there is only
"one president at a time" when asked about the tape.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Biden and
Graham were briefing the president-elect after their return from a trip that
included stops in Pakistan ,
Afghanistan and
Iraq .</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Biden
stressed that the mission was to gather facts on the ground rather than shape
policy for the incoming administration. But he promised "a significant
shift" in Afghanistan .</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After six
years of war, he said, "it has not gotten better."</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the
delegation's contacts with the nations' leaders, Biden said he occasionally
expressed concerns about "some of their actions or lack of action."</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Things
are going to get tougher in Afghanistan
before they get better," he said, adding: " Pakistan 's
position on Afghanistan
is going to affect our ability to succeed."</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Obama has
vowed to boost development in Afghanistan
and shift the focus of the "war on terror" from Baghdad
to Kabul as he winds down the war in
Iraq .</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A
Washington Post report Tuesday said the new president will agree to Pentagon
plans to send up to 30,000 more US
troops to Afghanistan
in order to gain time to review the conflict against a resurgent Taliban and
Al-Qaeda.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And on
the campaign trail, Obama vowed to launch military strikes on extremist targets
inside Pakistan if the
government in Islamabad
is unwilling or unable to act.</span></font></p>
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