Some talk about Holbrooke or Milsovic and the Balkans. Of course Slobodan Milosevic and Holbrooke didn't like each other.On learning of the death in prison of Slobodan Milosevic in 2006, Holbrooke did not hesitate to describe him as a "monster" comparable to Hitler and Stalin. Holbrooke had a lot of foreign policy career success. He organized the Dayton Accords. These Accords ended the civil civil wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina – almost entirely to Milosevic. This was made quite clear in his memoir To End a War (Random House, 1998). Holbrooke had great intellect and savvy to make the media accept circumstances favorable to himself. The Dayton Accords was shown by the mainstream media a victory for peace that was extracted by the brilliant Holbrooke from a reluctant Milosevic. Milosevic was portrayed as being bombed to the negotiating table by the United States. In reality, the U.S. government was fully aware that Milosevic was eager for peace in Bosnia to free Serbia from crippling economic sanctions. It was the Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic who wanted to keep the war going, with U.S. military help. The USA bombed the Serbs in order to get Izetbegovic to the negotiating table. The agreement was reached in the autumn of 1995. This wasn't much different from the agreement was existed in March 1992 by 3 ethnic groups under European Community auspices (that could of have prevented the whole civil war. That was sabotaged by Izetbegovic). Izetbegovic withdrew his agreement with the encouragement of the then U.S. ambassador Warren Zimmermen.t So, the United States first encouraged the Muslim side to fight for its goal of a centralized Bosnia, then sponsored a weakened federated Bosnia (after almost 4 years of bloodshed which left the populations bereft and embittered). Holbrooke's book "To End a War," wrote that this tactic was achieved, because Europeans couldn't manage their own vital affairs. In his mind, the United States remained an indispensable nation. His book showed that the Muslims wanted total victory, but Milosevic making concession saved the Dayton talks from failure. This allowed Holbrooke to be proclaimed a hero. Europeans were seen as failing in diplomatic efforts. Holbrooke came and used the bombing spectacle as a means to show that the threat or showing of the U.S. military was necessary to end conflicts. Milosevic wanted the concession to have peace and reconciliation with America. Yet, NATO bombed Serbia in 1999 in Belgrade, etc. Civilian infrastructure was destroyed too. This was done to wrest from Serbia the province of Kosovo and prepare Milosevic's own fall from office. Holbrooke supported these efforts and was pictured (in the summer of 1998) seated among armed Albanian secessionists which up to then had been characterized by the State Department as "terrorists." Shortly thereafter, Holbrooke announced to Milosevic that Serbia would be bombed unless he withdrew security forces from the province (in effect giving it to the ex-terrorists transformed by the Holbrooke blessing into freedom fighters). Holbrooke have had a long political history. He worked during the Vietnam war era and in the Afghanistan war. In 1977, Indonesia killed people in East Timor. Holbrooke was dispatched by America to promote human right, but later the West armed the Suharto ditactorship to harm the East Timorese people. The government armed rebels, sometimes these rebels act against the government. Holbrooke accused Milosevic of ruining the Balkans and being a war criminal. Milosevic wasn't an angel, but there is no evidence that he was responsible for all of the deaths in the former Yugoslavian region at all. Holbrooke was never put on trial for all the deaths in Vietnam, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and, yes, former Yugoslavia, which resulted at least in part from the U.S. policies he carried out. Holbrooke was, among many other things, a vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston, managing director of Lehman Brothers, vice chairman of the private equity firm Perseus LLC, and a member of the board of directors of AIG, the American International Group, at a time when, according to Wikipedia, "the firm engaged in wildly speculative credit default insurance schemes that may cost the taxpayer hundreds of billions to prevent AIG from bringing down the entire financial system." So, Holbrooke's death shouldn't gloated, but the Holbrooke's real history should be known by all peoples.
Mormonism is an interesting religious organization. Mormons have more clout now than in previous years. Glenn Beck and Mitt Romney are Mormon people that have huge followings. They present the image of them being conservative and embracing family values. Yet, they ally with a religion with known heresies. The LDS is pulling off a public relations campaign in order to get more converts and try to control more of the U.S. government. Now, any Mormon should be treated and dignity with respect. People of another creed shouldn't be unfairly demonized. Yet, the truth must be shown. The truth is that Mormonism is not authentic Christianity. Mormonism was created by Joseph Smith not the Lord Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon is an addition to the NT and has many places that contradicts the teachings of the New Testament. There are secret temple rites that only a few faithful Mormon will experience according to Bill Schnoebelen. It's been found historically that many rituals of the Temple and Temple architecture of Mormon Temples are rooted in Freemasonry, witchcraft, and occultism. For example, there are resemblances of the Endowment ceremony and the rituals in Freemasonry. Like in the occult rituals of witchcraft, there is in Mormonism the practice of stitching markets on garments. This teaching is the LDS doctrine called, "The Law Of Eternal Progression", the Mormon teaching that, "As man is, God once was and as God is, man may become..." (Joseph Smith, HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, v.6, p.305; JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, v.6, p.305; JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, v.6, p.3, 120). This is the view of human godhood found in Gnosticism, Freemasonry, and the occult. Some LDS Church members have an extreme view of trying to promote the Constitution, but rule America in some religious dictatorship.
The FBI filed talk about Ezra Taft Benson, Ike, and the John Birch Society. Hoover had a letter from Ezra Taft Benson marked as "personal-confidential." Benson served in a Presidential cabinet and was a part of the Mormon Church. Benson wanted to make Hoover to support the idea that the John Birch Society was a clear thinking anti-communist group. Benson believed in a worldwide communist conspiracy in a paranoid fashion. The JBS slandered former Dwight D. Eisenhower as being a tool of Communist. Benson ironically served under IKE from the beginning of his 8 year Presidency as secretary of Agriculture. Benson believed that Eisenhower wasn't going hard enough politically to combat Communism. Benson was Hoover's friend. Benson viewed Eisenhower's actions as being soft in fighting against communism. Benson had a thick FBI file that was obtained by the Freedom of Information Act. Like the Tea Partiers today, Benson was worried about threats to freedom and the Constitution. He spoke out against the U.S. President as aiding enemies. The New Yorker magazine, in its Oct. 18 issue, included Benson as one of the tea party’s ideological founding fathers — which it called its “confounding fathers” —noting how Benson’s public writing and speeches are quoted and admired by commentator Glenn Beck, an icon of the movement. Glen Beck is a Mormon like the late Utah author/activist Cleon Skousen (who denounced communist corruption in America while defending the John Birch Society). The FBI files on Benson shown that he persuaded the FBI to not condemn the JBS. The JBS was created by Robert Welch in 1958 and it was named after a missionary turned murdered soldier (he was killed by Chinese Communists after WWII). The FBI twice spied on Benson for Eisenhower possibly (on whether he might resign from the cabinet during times of widespread criticism). Files also show that Hoover lied in later years to avoid Benson, seeking to distance himself from Benson’s support of the Birch Society. Benson fougth Communism as a part of his LDS church mission. Benson called government farm subsidies as socialistic that upset many farmers and their members of Congress. The FBI spied on him some more. For example, a Nov. 20, 1953, FBI memo says that an undersecretary of state (whose name was censored from released files) informed the FBI that “the president is a little ‘teed off’ with Secretary of Agriculture Benson” because he “has not been successful in quieting the farmers, cattlemen, dairymen and Capitol Hill.” The FBI memo said “the matter has now been passed to the White House and … the president is unhappy about the whole thing.” It added that the State Department source said, “It looks like Benson will be the ‘fall guy.’ ” Hoover and Benson exchanged books and speeches. “I realize that only in the next life will we fully appreciate all you have done to preserve freedom in this country,” Benson wrote Hoover in 1965. “I am most grateful for your exposure of the communist conspiracy and for the wonderful organization you have established in the FBI.” Benson viewed the JBS as promoting less govenrment, more individual responsibility, and a better world. Benson lived to be 94 at 1994. Hoover died in the early 1970's. Benson saw the fall of communism in Eastern church. He was the President of the LDS.
Coburn is a disgrace for opposing the 9/11 First responders health care bill. The bill is paid for, so there is no deficit issues. Coburn needs to realize that a entitlement program that helps people is no sin. A few billions of dollars is a drop in the bucket compared to what Wall Street received in compensations and bailouts. It's hypocritical for Coburn to talk about a few billions of dollars in 9/11 health care compensation, but ignore the tax cuts for the wealthy that can cost us over 700 billion dollars. The deal is that people like Coburn worship Austrian/laissez faire economics more than they worship God. The vast majority of Americans also oppose tax cuts for the rich too. The CBS poll shows that only 26 percent of those polled want the Bush tax cuts extended for everyone across the board, as the Republicans are proposing. And a clear majority of 53 percent, want the tax cuts extended only to those making less than $250,000. This 9/11 compensation bill isn't even a political issue, yet some from the GOP want it to be so. Many Americans that suffered from the 9/11 attacks had human dust and asbestos problems. The government lied about the air quality. Trillions of dollars have been borrowed for wars and tax cuts for the rich. The Constitution says that Congress can make new laws (as found in the elastic clause) and it can give money to promote the general welfare of the people. So, the health care compensation health care bill is Constitutional despite what Ron Paul says. Ron Paul isn't God and he's the same man that supports the war on terror in Afghanistan. Also, people from across America federally suffered, so the federal government has the right to help Americans from across state lines. The pro-GOP Chamber of Commerce has been lobbying against it because it is paid for by closing the tax loophole that allows foreign corporatio
By Timothy
