Yes, the U.S. DID Carry Out Foreign Assassinations . . . And STILL DOES

U.S. Government officials have claimed that foreign assassinations were never carried out.

However, in 2002, the New York Times wrote the following about the government's assassination program:

Initially, the agency used that authority to hunt for Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan. That authority was the basis for the C.I.A.'s attempts to find and kill or capture Mr. Bin laden and other Qaeda leaders during the war in Afghanistan...

In November, the C.I.A. killed a Qaeda leader in a remote region of Yemen. A pilotless Predator aircraft operated by the agency fired a Hellfire antitank missile at a car in which Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, also known as Abu Ali, was riding. Mr. Harethi and five other people, including one suspected Qaeda operative with United States citizenship, were killed in the attack.

Mr. Harethi, a key Al Qaeda leader in Yemen who is suspected of helping to plan the bombing of the American destroyer Cole in 2000, is believed to have been on the list of Qaeda leaders that the C.I.A. had been authorized to kill. After the Predator operation in Yemen, American officials said Mr. Bush was not required to approve the mission before the attack, nor was he specifically consulted...

The list is updated periodically as the intelligence agency, in consultation with other counterterrorism agencies, adds new names or deletes those who are captured or killed, or when intelligence indicates the emergence of a new leader...

The development of the armed Predator drone has made it much easier for the C.I.A. to pursue and kill terrorists in ways that would almost certainly not have been tried in the past for fear of the potential for American casualties...

The more aggressive approach to counterterrorism is showing results.

George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, said in a speech last week that more than one-third of the top leadership of Al Qaeda identified before the war in Afghanistan had been killed or captured.

And Seymour Hersh has repeatedly said that assassinations did, in fact, take place.

Indeed, veteran investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill points out that foreign assassinations are still continuing under Obama.

May I Ask You?

If this doesn't start people thinking, then I guess we have all lost out ability to think:

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to ´Cinco de Cuatro¡' in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoes ´proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on ´Earth Day', would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plans holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 5 months -- so you'll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.

Evidence of Revision (1 of 5) : The Assassinations of Kennedy and Oswald

Check this link ..... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=666048701355447870

"It's a Trick, We Always Use It." (calling people "anti-Semitic")

Check this link ........ http://tinyurl.com/kmcya8

Dollar slips against euro

The dollar dipped against the euro on Wednesday as the foreign exchange market looked ahead to more US banking results after surprisingly strong earnings from titan Goldman Sachs, dealers said.

In late morning trading here, the European single currency rose to 1.4050 dollars from 1.3966 dollars in New York late on Tuesday.

The dollar firmed to 93.66 yen from 93.50 yen late Tuesday.

Calyon analyst Stuart Bennett said traders' focus was "shifting to worries about whether other US banks reporting their second-quarter earnings this week will be as robust" as those published by Goldman on Tuesday.

O Tuesday, markets had also absorbed news that US retail sales rose for the second month running in June, climbing 0.6 percent, according to better-than-expected data.

"The dollar was hampered by a 0.6-percent increase in June retail sales and by news that Goldman Sachs had made a shed load of money in the second quarter," said currency specialists Moneycorp in a note to clients.

"Anything that is good for the US economy is good for the global economy and therefore bad for the safe-haven dollar."

Goldman posted a bigger-than-expected net profit of 3.44 billion dollars for the second quarter, as it benefited from a market depleted of rivals such as Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns as well as a weakened Citigroup.

But the initial market euphoria may cool as traders brace themselves for more US earnings reports and economic data this week including manufacturing and inflation figures due out later in the day.

Meanwhile, official EU figures released on Wednesday showed that consumer prices in the 16 euro countries fell in June for the first time on record.

The European Union's Eurostat data agency said that 12-month inflation in the eurozone fell 0.1 percent, the lowest rate on records going back to 1996 and down from 0.0 percent in May, confirming an estimate from June 30.

After hitting a record high point of 4.0 percent in June and July 2008, eurozone inflation has fallen sharply as oil and other commodity prices have collapsed in the face of a dire economic downturn.

Most economists had expected that eurozone inflation would dip briefly into negative territory but have ruled out a longer Japanese-like bout of deflation, a pernicious downward spiral in prices.

While the prospect of falling prices may delight consumers, deflation, or a run of falling prices, can wreak havoc on the broader economy as households put off purchases in hope of getting a better bargain in the future. This can cause a downwards spiral of prices, production, unemployment and further deflation.

Annual inflation in the full 27-nation EU fell 0.6 percent in June, down from 0.8 percent in May.

In trading heree on Wednesday, the euro was changing hands at 1.4050 dollars against 1.3966 dollars late on Tuesday, 131.59 yen (130.59), 0.8595 pounds (0.8562) and 1.5195 Swiss francs (1.5206).

The dollar stood at 93.66 yen (93.52) and 1.0824 Swiss francs (1.0885).

The pound was at 1.6335 dollars (1.6307).

On the London Bullion Market, the price of gold increased to 929.10 dollars an ounce from 924.75 dollars an ounce late on Tuesday.

Obama Snubbed In Saudi Arabia?

Check this link........... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t439ruGCqRw&NR=1

ObamaHandshakeSnubbed

Check this link ...... http://tinyurl.com/na86l5