On Scott Ritter, James Guckert, and Social Security
Today, I'll give commentary on three recent stories, to make up for being lazy. Links will be included in commentary.
A U.N. weapons inspector and former Marine, Scott Ritter, claims that the U.S. will commence bombing of Iran beginning in June of 2005. Ritter delivered this claim while speaking at the Olympia Theatre in Washington state. Ritter, an ardent opponent of the war in Iraq, stated that President George Walker Bush has received and approved plans to commence an aerial assault on Iran. The attack is supposed to be aimed at strategic nuclear development targets, but there is speculation that neoconservatives in the administration are also pushing an agenda of regime change in a country with high petroleum exportation.
Ritter also claims that the Bush administration rigged the supposedly 'free' elections in Iraq, altering vote counts to keep the United Iraqi Alliance, a Shiite organization, from winning agains Ayad Allawi's organization. The original article can be found at United for Peace of Pierce County, WA.
Conservative journalist (?) Jeff Gannon, also known as James Guckert, may be investigated by the administration following a call by Senate democrats. Guckert, a reporter for Talon News, was allegedly a plant for easy questions at press conferences given by members of the administration. He has also allegedly posed nude for homosexual porn sites and does work as a gay male prostitute at a rate of $200.00 per hour. So far as I know, Guckert has no actual press credentials outside his work for Talon News. The story on the call for investigation can be found here.
Your social security is now being ably defended by an army of senior citizens. The AARP is coming under fire from a conservative organization, USA Next, which has begun hiring consultants from the controversial Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The republican lobby plans to commence an agressive television ad campaign denigrating AARP, through which they hope to convert AARP members to their own lobby. This surprises me, as the AARP is generally made up of seniors who know the system well and see the shortcomings in the Bush plan. They have fought social security privatization as well as changes to Medicare drafted by neoconservative republicans. This seems to me to be an agressive, unwarranted attack on the senior citizens of America, who are working to protect the interests of future retirees as well as their own. An excerpt of the original New York Times article can be found here.
Well, that about wraps it up for tonight. I have a foreign affairs exam tomorrow that I need to finish studying for. Good night, America.
A U.N. weapons inspector and former Marine, Scott Ritter, claims that the U.S. will commence bombing of Iran beginning in June of 2005. Ritter delivered this claim while speaking at the Olympia Theatre in Washington state. Ritter, an ardent opponent of the war in Iraq, stated that President George Walker Bush has received and approved plans to commence an aerial assault on Iran. The attack is supposed to be aimed at strategic nuclear development targets, but there is speculation that neoconservatives in the administration are also pushing an agenda of regime change in a country with high petroleum exportation.
Ritter also claims that the Bush administration rigged the supposedly 'free' elections in Iraq, altering vote counts to keep the United Iraqi Alliance, a Shiite organization, from winning agains Ayad Allawi's organization. The original article can be found at United for Peace of Pierce County, WA.
Conservative journalist (?) Jeff Gannon, also known as James Guckert, may be investigated by the administration following a call by Senate democrats. Guckert, a reporter for Talon News, was allegedly a plant for easy questions at press conferences given by members of the administration. He has also allegedly posed nude for homosexual porn sites and does work as a gay male prostitute at a rate of $200.00 per hour. So far as I know, Guckert has no actual press credentials outside his work for Talon News. The story on the call for investigation can be found here.
Your social security is now being ably defended by an army of senior citizens. The AARP is coming under fire from a conservative organization, USA Next, which has begun hiring consultants from the controversial Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The republican lobby plans to commence an agressive television ad campaign denigrating AARP, through which they hope to convert AARP members to their own lobby. This surprises me, as the AARP is generally made up of seniors who know the system well and see the shortcomings in the Bush plan. They have fought social security privatization as well as changes to Medicare drafted by neoconservative republicans. This seems to me to be an agressive, unwarranted attack on the senior citizens of America, who are working to protect the interests of future retirees as well as their own. An excerpt of the original New York Times article can be found here.
Well, that about wraps it up for tonight. I have a foreign affairs exam tomorrow that I need to finish studying for. Good night, America.
posted by Mad Mod at
2/25/2005 10:45:00 PM
1 Comments:
scott ritter's 15 minutes of fame are up. he has no credibility anymore and is a child molester. a former marine, too...guess there can always be a bad apple in every bunch
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