Hightower Lowdown

Enough's Enough

We should get the heck out of Iraq, Afghanistan and that whole area as fast as reasonably possible. We were able to win WWII against the Japanese and Germans, but there was some degree of similarity between their countries and ours. The people with whom we are now in conflict have an entirely different standard of belief, understanding, morals, - they're different in every way and we will never understand their thinking process. We are caught in a religious trap that has been in existence in that part of the world for centuries and we will never be able to solve it. The only answer is - GET OUT.

Worthless Wasteful War

What BAFFLES me is the many, many unanswered questions about how the 9-11 catastrophe was EVEN ABLE to happen! Everyone jumped on the bandwagon when Little Bush stood atop the amazing rubble of those collapsed massive towers and happily bull-horned his plan of revenge to the terr'ists of the world. Of course, we know NOW that LB was already planning to invade Iraq months before this
self-destruction(?)even played out.

So, even though the amazing find of that ID card, that floated down from the cockpit (after colliding and exploding into a massive fireball!!) and was "spotted" on the street! amidst the mess and chaos of the day(Oh! Come on!! How STUPID are we??),identifying one of the boxcutter-wielding Saudi Arabian highjackers with a fly-only-no-landing pilot's license/training, we launched a war to search out Bin-Laden and his training fortress somewhere in the pre-historic, unevolved landscape of Afghanistan....an excellent excuse and launching pad for the ultimate deployment of our troops to Iraq, where the rest of the terr'ists were assembling massive quantites of WMD with all that African imported "yellow cake", divulged to us all in LB's State of the Union address, and, the security of our country was now highly at risk by this new development. Attack!! Attack!!

Back to the WTC. After the whitewashed 911 report, no one has DEMANDED:

"Wait a minute, what about the explosives that were somehow planted in both towers, which was what REALLY enabled them to collapse at free-fall speed, pulverizing all the massive steel and concrete into smoking piles of rubble??? And how did that Building #7 collapsing the same way, at 5:30pm that afternoon, even though the BBC announced it at 5pm!!!? And, why is there a RECORDING! of Larry Silverstein, property owner and developer, giving the order to "pull it", which means ignite the explosives in controlled demolition lingo??
How on earth did those explosives get placed in ALL three
buildings??? Who was in charge of the security of the property to allow that to happen?? How did Silverstein even get the option to tell the terr'ist to DESTROY his own building, and WHO did he give the order to????????
We have analyzed the videos. We have had experts in physics, architecture, and engineering study the event in detail, watching the towers collapse as the explosives detonate. Why can't we get someone with some AUTHORITY to get to the TRUTH behind all this??? As The Hightower Lowdown demands: "DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!""

D. Fittro

Teachers, nurses and

Teachers, nurses and carpenters raise your hand and please don't raise your hand all at the same time to volunteer to serve in Afghanistan. Theirs a good chance you'll be tortured and won't return. Education, economic development and yes even health care are laudable goals in a civil society. What do you do without a strong military to back up your efforts. Good luck on the impossible dream to achieve these pie, feel good in the sky,let the other guy due it ideals. 'A liberal is some one with both feet firmly planted in the air' (author unkown) military escalation may be a pipe dream, but creating a civil society without the military is an an impossibility.

Flee As a Bird to Your Mountain

Shouldn't everyone stop and remind themselves of just what it cost the Soviet Union for their disasterous misadventure in Afghanistan?

They tried in vain to win their war there, but after 10 years, were forced to abandon the cause while the world watched them return in abject defeat to home and barracks, now broken and humiliated, a 'yu-ster-wazzer' super-power with a black eye, bloody nose, depleted war chest and broken economy to boot!

same same - no one WINS a war - everyone loses.

Take a note from history: The Afghani people are 'mountain men' and have never been, or ever will be conquered or subdued by so-called super powers in their mountain fortress.

Flee as a bird to your mountain.

Death, War & Taxes

Our current wars are like few in history. Getting bin Laden or any drug lord for that matter is of no consequence except revenge. Osama’s death or capture will promote two to replace him and their death or capture will promote four. Until we are willing to sincerely address the reasons behind 9/11 we will remain under imminent attack by those our policies of greed, self-righteousness and self-importance have harmed. Our only hope is to forgive the past and address their grievances.

As long as America’s Economic Royalty remains virtually untaxed and the tools of their insatiable greed unregulated, they will have more than enough money to buy influence and therefore regulate policy and manipulate markets from Wall Street to Main Street for their personal gain. Our economy will remain unstable and we will go deeper into debt funding bailouts and unending wars chosen for their profit potential. All economic advantage will remain with those with the most money. They, their banks, their insurance industry, their real estate industry, their pharmaceutical industry and their profiteering Industrial Military Complex govern America and no matter who we vote for… the government will get in.

Mel

Obama's Afghan War

Apparently President Obama isn't aware of all the problems England and the (now defunct) USSR had in Afghanistan. Well, as some wit once remarked "Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat the 11th grade." Too bad President Obama's ignorance won't result in something that trivial, but in the deaths of hundreds or maybe thousands of Americans and more billions of dollars down the tubes in return for nothing.
As for Bob Bowen's remarks, whatever universe he's living in must be a lot more fascinating than the mundane universe the rest of us are inhabiting.

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Afghanistan

I agree that there is cause for concern if all we do is look at some of the people in President Obama's circle of advisers that we know of. However, given the newness of his presidency, and some indications that this new president is a pragmatist, I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, and believe him when he says he wants to re-invigorate our diplomatic and technical support areas (ala Kennedy's Peace Corps). There has been much talk of his interest in Lincoln and FDR, but there may be more TR to him than meets the eye. For just as TR transcended the politics of his time, so may Obama transcend the labels we grew up with. Besides, I believe him when he says he's more interested in "getting it right" than holding the office. Remember, in addition to a deep recession and two wars, he's the first president from a minority background, so he has additional incentive to improve things, less the least enlightened among us blame his background for his failure. Most people want to hope, and I see nothing so far to dash that hope in him.

Obama's Afghan War

The first time I read your newsletter I thought there was a chance to hear some common sense coming out of the State of Texas, but your excitement about Barack Obama's election and the hope it supposedly gave us, really disappointed me.

He was no more "elected" than any of our President's of the last few decades. They are all "appointed" by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) for the benefit of the one-world government banksters. Look at Obama's cabinet, it is loaded with CFR members.

Their goal is to dismantle this Republic and install or absorb us into their one-world socialist government ! They really turned up the heat in 1913 and they are now closing in on the finish line and "we the people" had better wake up or we will succumb to this tyranny. We are now in lock-step with the National Socialist Party and their tyranny against the German people in the 1930's.

In Liberty,
--Bob Bowen
"There's no reason to sacrifice liberty in thinking that you're going to be safer." (Ron Paul, June 6, 2007)