In reply to “Egypt the Prize,” by Justin Raimondo, 01/02/12:

Mr. Raimondo reminds us that the US has laws to protect us from the funding of US election campaigns because we have laws to prevent such abuses.

But he fails to take into account the recent Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court. Since massive amounts of money can be given “anomymously” it is now impossible to tell where funding really comes from. Stephen Colbert, and his lawyer Trevor Potter, recently showed how easy it is to form a PAC and how much easier it is to make contributions anonymous.

The difference between Egypt and the US is that at least Egypt has some idea where foreign money is infiltrating their system. We now have no idea!!!

T. Brucker

In reply to “Meanwhile, in the Persian Gulf …” by Justin Raimondo, 01/04/12:

You obviously don’t know that the first week of December, the USA dispatched two additional carriers to the middle east. The Stennis is not scheduled to depart until February, so that means that in January and February there will be three carriers on station. The Lincoln, which my son just left, is scheduled for refueling of the reactors in 2013. However, before it departed it was certified to operate for another year before refueling if necessary.

In addition, the Enterprise just completed its pre-deployment training, which means it will depart on a cruise within 60 days. It is scheduled for decommissioning at the end of 2013, which will cost billions. There are numerous advantages to sinking it in a false flag instead of decommissioning, something which has never been done, as there are three reactors on board, not just two. Decommissioning these reactors is the main expense.

One of these carriers is probably to cover for the closed air bases in Iraq. Each carrier has about 75 aircraft aboard, and the policy is to have two fighters in the air over each battle zone 24/7.

I was on a Tiger Cruise for families, and a tanker came alongside and pumped 1.3 million gallons of jet fuel into the Lincoln, which was not a full fuel load. My son said that when in the Gulf, that refueling was done two or three times a week! Fighters cannot land loaded with fuel, so during each six month tour, the fighters of each carrier would dump at least a million gallons of fuel into the waters of the Gulf of Arabia.

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