Iraq War Foes Get Short Shrift
By Robert Parry November 24, 2008
Arguably, Barack Obama’s most promising promise of the presidential campaign was his vow to not just end the war in Iraq but “to end the mindset that got us into war.”
Like much campaign rhetoric, this pledge was open to interpretation. Did he just mean that he would avoid the belligerent arrogance of George W. Bush, or was he suggesting a more fundamental challenge to Washington’s stale foreign policy elite?
Would Obama pick up on the prescient warning of Dwight Eisenhower about the deforming power of the “military-industrial complex” or on John F. Kennedy’s vision of peace that was “not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war”?
In the three weeks since his Nov. 4 election victory, the answer seems to be that Barack Obama is viewing his pledge in the most minimal sense. The emerging shape of his incoming administration suggests that Americans who opposed the Iraq War early will continue to be treated as misfits and outsiders, even though Obama was one of them.
In the mainstream press, too, there survives the same old pro-war frame of debate. On Sunday, the New York Times published seven opinion articles about the open-ended conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, all by writers with histories of favoring Bush’s arguments for the wars, albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
There were no articles from prominent opponents of the Iraq invasion, like Sen. Russ Feingold or Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni or arms inspector Scott Ritter. It seems that having the foresight and the courage to oppose Bush’s reckless invasion still disqualifies you from the respectable debate of the New York-Washington power centers.(...)"
"I would like to see January 20, 2009 be the day when the largest number of American flags are flown in the history of the planet."
Now this will probably happen anyway, without any boost by the official or unofficial Obama community. But maybe we should do something. The flag is such an important symbol to me that part of "taking back our country" is also "taking back our flag." After 9/11 and the Iraq War, the flag has been corrupted into a synonym for arrogant U.S. military aggression, and I'm so looking forward to having it back for us to illustrate good old love of country and all of us working together for a common purpose.
As I support Obama for the change, the way I don’t support Hillary for Barack Obama administration. He must not walk in SHADOW. Clearly, strongly we protest this thinking (hope it’s not a decision). Mr. Obama don’t think Hillary behind this success, people of hope believes in change are the pillar or your success, success of change. So stay tune in change. CHANGE in Iraq, CHANGE in Afghanistan.
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Because of record profits based on greed, oil companies have held this nation hostage. Like a prisoner, we are now showing signs of the ties that have been biding us. Like prisoners, we are arguing how did this happen and how can we escape. It is not the shape, size or price of the vehicles that brought us here. The whip that has thrashed our backs with $4+ gas, now has let off the whip a bit because their hands were starting to hurt. Are we gonna sacrifice our future childrens lives for the power of the oil companies?? Rebellion should be at hand!! But we say...HOW?? The new F word is called bailout. Lets hear the oil companies say that F word, when they are the ones that are bailing out the auto industry. After all, they have to keep these prisoners barely alive so they can keep having fun time.
Shepherd Bush said “Nuclear threat, nuclear threat from Iraq” but in real no threat from Iraq. Many dream, many lives lost in this so called battlefield. It’s one man WAR against the world, against America. Children’s, old peoples, disabilities, women’s, students, the men who don’t believe War died in this unnecessary WAR. The modern Hitler Bush, the shepherd Bush is a WAR criminal. Don’t you think his past years must be justified?
1. In a fit of rage, 6th President of the United States John Quincy Adams once killed a grizzly bear with his bare hands. He then devoured the heart and made a necklace out of the fangs and claws that he wore while developing the Monroe Doctrine.
2. 9th U.S. President William Henry Harrison did not die one month into his Presidential term as the history books report. He went undercover on special assignment in England and became the deadliest gentleman spy in U.S. history. He was the inspiration for James Bond.
3. John Tyler, 10th U.S. President, had brilliant and detailed visions in his dreams about the future, including the use of laser weapons. He died penniless and insane attempting to build lasers with steam engines to take over the world.
4. 11th President of the U.S. James Polk once scored four touchdowns in a single football game.
5. 15th U.S. President James Buchanan was fully able to breathe underwater, inadvertently causing the Civil War.
6. Often depicted wearing a tall black stovepipe hat, 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln had all of his hats custom-made to measure the exact length as his fully-engorged member.
7. 17th U.S. President Andrew Johnson had intense peladophobia, or the fear of bald people. Apparently, whenever he saw a bald person, he would freeze up, lose control of his bodily functions and scream gibberish.
8. Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, is alive and well and living in Miami. His secret—10 strawberry milkshakes a day.
9. 20th President of the United States James Garfield slept in a box, was notoriously lazy, voraciously ate lasagna, and abhorred his wife’s dog.
10. Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States, only served one term as president. The second, nonconsecutive term was served by his evil twin brother, Sir Beauregard Augustus Cleveland.
11. 26th U.S. President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt strictly adhered to a daily diet of blood from U.S. Army generals. Once, after a double-dose of general blood, Roosevelt administered a spine-snapping pile driver to a Bengal Tiger.
12. William Taft, 27th President of the United States, unsuccessfully attempted to appoint an all-chimpanzee cabinet. His dream was to dress them in suits and stage hilarious cabinet meetings that he would name “poo-fling powwows.”
13. Warren Harding, 29th U.S. President, played a round of Russian Roulette every day he held office.
14. Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States, invented the robot. To clarify, President Coolidge invented both metallic semi-sentient beings and the popular dance.
15. 31st U.S. President Herbert Hoover, save for his public addresses and documents, chose to speak and write entirely in Pig Latin.
16. 32nd President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt was quite the practical joker, often sending the entire White House into a heightened state of paranoia with fake documents swearing allegiance to the Fuhrer and false immediate attack alerts.
17. 33rd President, Harry S. Truman, kept a detailed journal throughout his entire life of every instance he used the phrase “that sounds good to me,” including circumstances, dates, times, weather conditions and Earth’s position in relation to the sun.
18. Military leader and 34th President of the U.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower was known for his dignity and eloquence. But what very few people know is that he set aside one day during each year of his presidency to dance naked throughout the White House and defecate into various potted plants.
19. 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan was addicted to hardcore tranny porno.
20. George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, is a werewolf.
21. Barack Hussein Obama, and we are looking forward
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Friday, 14th November 2008
Chicago, Illinois
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama met late Thursday in Chicago with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to discuss what role she might play in his administration, advisers to both Democrats said on Friday.
Neither side disclosed details of the conversation, and it was unclear how seriously Mr. Obama was considering bringing Mrs. Clinton, his onetime rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, into his cabinet.
Speculation in recent days has focused on the possibility that Mr. Obama would ask Mrs. Clinton, a second term senator from New York, to be his secretary of state. Others mentioned for that post include Senator John Kerry, Democrat from Massachusetts and the party’s presidential nominee in 2004, and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
Appearing at a public transit conference in Albany on Friday, Mrs. Clinton said she would not address reports about whether she would be offered a position in the Obama administration.
“I have to start by saying I’m very happy there is so much press attention and interest in transit,” she joked during her appearance at a conference hosted by the New York Public Transit Association, before a crowd of roughly 200 people and a couple dozen reporters and photographers.
“I’m not going to speculate or address anything about the president elect’s incoming administration,” she said. “I’m going to respect his process,” she said, adding that any questions “should be directed to his transition team.”
She left without taking questions from reporters.
Two of Mrs. Clinton’s friends said they believe she would take the secretary of state job if offered. “I think she’d do it,” said one of them.
But the Clinton friends and other Democrats close to both the Clinton and Obama camps cautioned that Mr. Obama might simply be sounding out Mrs. Clinton about what, if anything, she would be interested in. The options, Democrats say, could include Mrs. Clinton’s staying in the Senate and taking a lead there in helping Mr. Obama enact a program for universal health care, the issue that both senators emphasized — with some differences — in their respective campaigns.
The Obama transition team has clamped down on information and leaks about Mr. Obama’s personnel efforts, with some success. The Clinton rumors flared late on Thursday, first after reports that she had been spotted boarding a flight for Chicago, and then when a small motorcade of black SUVs emerged from the garage of the downtown Chicago building where Mr. Obama has his transition office minutes before Mr. Obama’s own motorcade left it at 6:45 p.m. Central time. Mrs. Clinton, as a former first lady, still has Secret Service protection and travels in a government SUV.
Despite rampant speculation when Mr. Obama clinched the nomination to end their long battle more than five months ago, he never seriously considered Mrs. Clinton as his vice-presidential running mate. That enraged some of her most ardent female supporters, opening a breach that Mr. Obama’s Republican rival, Senator John McCain, sought to exploit in part by choosing Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate.
But Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, campaigned for Mr. Obama in the fall, and election exit polls indicated that Mr. Obama drew support from most of her former voters.
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Chalabi's Inquiry and the Mysterious $150 Million
Who is Paying for the Iraqi National Intelligence Service?
By PATRICK COCKBURN
"If it ever comes to court it should be one of the more interesting libel cases of the decade. The Iraqi National Intelligence Service is threatening to sue Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi politician, for asking who pays for it.
"It is somewhat curious," says Mr Chalabi, "that the intelligence service of a country which is sovereign – that no one really knows who is funding it."
In fact there are very few Iraqis who do not believe they have a very clear idea of who funds Iraq's secret police. Its director is General Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, who once led a failed coup against Saddam Hussein, and was handpicked by the CIA to run the new security organisation soon after the invasion of 2003. He is believed to have been answering to them ever since.
The history of the Iraqi intelligence service is important because it shows the real distribution of power in Iraq rather than the spurious picture presented by President Bush. It explains why so many Iraqis are suspicious of the security accord, or Status of Forces Agreement, that the White House has been pushing the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Malki to sign. It reveals the real political landscape where President-elect Barack Obama will soon have to find his bearings.
For all Mr Bush's pious declarations about respecting Iraqi sovereignty, General Shahwani is reported to work primarily for American intelligence. The intelligence service is "not working for the Iraqi government – it's working for the CIA," Hadi al-Ameri, a powerful Shia lawmaker, was quoted as saying three years ago. "I prefer to call it the American Intelligence of Iraq, not the Iraqi Intelligence Service."
It seems that not much has changed since then. The intelligence service does now appear in the Iraqi budget as being in receipt of $150 million, though this seems somewhat measly given the extent of its operations, which includes running paramilitary units. One of its main missions is to spy on Iranians on behalf of the US, employing much the same cadre of intelligence officers who carried out this task for Saddam Hussein.(...)"
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Two men were sitting down under a tree. One believes in GOD his name is “X” and another one is “Y” he does not believes in GOD, he thinks heaven and hell does not exist. Mr. “X” spends some time for GOD, for good work, for humanity, he is happy with his limited. Mr. “Y” has no time for GOD, but often he spends time for humanity. He is not happy what he has, he want more and more. Mr. “Y” was laughing.
Mr. “X” asked; why you laughing?
Mr. “Y” answered; I am laughing at you.
Mr. “X” asked; why?
Mr. “Y” answered; I am laughing because you are spending your valuable time for GOD, for heaven, which will give you nothing.
Mr. “Y” thought something very deeply and asked to Mr. “X”
Mr. “Y” asked; tell me one thing Mr. “X” after death if you see there is no GOD, no heaven then what you will do hahahaha?????
Mr. “X” answered; after your death if you see there is GOD and hell!!!!!!
I got 75 emails (Nov 11th 2008)from all over the World about “World Peace Pray with Obama”. Thank you all for kind mails. 73 people agree with this event want to attend, some of them wrote nice word to me. I am great full to them. 1 mailer not sure about GOD and Pray, another one sure here is no GOD everything happens by work. Obama the President of United States America, new Leader of this world elected by vote, pray helped nothing it’s another mailers writing. I wrote this story for them. What do you say friends!!! This World Peace Pray will not cost a BIG. Its just a pray for peace to let know the World we do think about peace, we want to live in peace. World Peace Pray with Obama
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I watched Obama's 2004 speech, again, and I don't know why but I should have known that even then this man was destined for greatness. I did see the speech in 2004 but I really didn't listen to him. I am really enthused about the years to come because I know that Obama is going to make us all proud. I just hope that Obama will run again and he will take another victory.
Dear YBNI readers, I'm in a quandry about what to do going forward with this blog and listserv.
Until now I have taken care to only post submissions that are relevant to the group's raison d'etre, i.e., the Iraq War issue (this has relieved you from reading the bulk of submissions, respected author's IP rights and helped sharpen the editorial focus). I think I've been pretty good about upholding the focus of the group, overall (apologies to all you posters whose posts weren't seen because I, for better or worse, deemed them off topic).
As you know, the overall issue now has become less prominent as the campaign has reached its conclusion (the economy coming to take center stage).
Going forward, since Obama has been elected, I am less motivated to edit the blog and listserv. Hence, the question: Should YBNI loosen its editorial control and to what extent? Should I completely deactivate the "Editor's function" on both and let everything flow straight on to you? Both blog and listserv, just listserv, just blog? Or just make YBNI fade away?
To help me tabulate your collective opinion, respond using the subject line, "FREE UP BOTH" if you agree that's the way to go. Use "FREE UP LISTSERV ONLY" if you think I should deregulate just the listserv (emails). (Or, "FREE UP BLOG ONLY.) Just say, "FADE AWAY YBNI," or words to that effect in the subject line if you just want YBNI, its listserv and its blog to go away now.
Thanks for your input over the past 21 months!
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We drove out to Manassas for the final Obama rally late the night before the election. It was very emotional to be there with 90,000 supporters standing in a field near the first battlefield of Bull Run in the Civil War. The sea of people said it all.
The only real low point for us was to see our fellow Alaskans decide to put Sen. Ted Stevens and Congressman Don Young back in office in Washington to represent them. Sadly for all our friends in Alaska the wave of change in our country failed to hit the shores of Alaska (just like 2006).
Today all of us in the Health Care Reform Movement are scrambling to get movin!
I hope President Obama and his team will keep this campaign site, team and organization together working for further change in our country. There will certainly be moments soon when the voice of the voters will be needed to weigh in with Congress to push change on energy, health care, education and the economy thru when special interests bog things down in Congress.
Lets all stay connected!
Change is inevitable. It is part of the evolutionary process that every company must endure. Yet change can be disruptive, difficult and dearly-won.
Change agents are those natural individuals who thrive on making change happen. Selected from within various levels of the organization, based on their individual skills and capabilities, the onus of guiding the organization forward rests on the shoulders of these individuals.
Considering the critical nature of this role, the careful selection and mentoring of change agents is vital to the success or failure of the change process. This article will focus on some practical tips for mentoring change — contributed by managers that have seen all sides of the change process.
Should the change agent be someone with considerable managerial experience i.e. from the top management or should individuals from the lower rungs be trained and equipped to induce change?
Staci H. Zake, program director in Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Communication (MSC) program (www.msc.northwestern.edu), an interdisciplinary one-year professional master’s program designed to address organizational and technological factors shaping managerial decision-making, understands the importance of bottom-up innovation where there is often greater ownership related to the success of the initiative.
“Only managers living with the organization change can truly understand how well innovation is working and where further adjustments need to be made. Forcing change from the top can have negative consequences when senior management doesn’t fully understand the nuances of change or the human impact,” Zake says.
Coley Perry, sales and marketing manager with Naperville, IL-based Solution Partners, a technology staff augmentation firm, and a student in the MSC program, points out leadership characteristics to watch for when evaluating the potential for good change leaders.
“If you are looking for a change agent or how to mentor them you need to look for the following: climbers within the organization, politically savvy individuals within your organization, charismatic individuals, and people who understand and embrace evolutionary (not revolutionary) change,” says Perry.
Change agents from within the organization are likely to posses a deeper understanding of internal issues, politics and challenges. This knowledge places them in a better position to garner support from across the ranks.
JR Samples, president of Accountability Partners, an executive coaching firm located in Aurora, IL urges organizations to identify “undercover” change agents. “Find the grass root change agents. These are people on your staff working in a full-time role who are savvy enough to find a market opportunity or a method of improving a process to increase productivity and customer satisfaction,” Samples says.
It is up to the organization to identify potential change agents, understand their capabilities and mentor them to achieve their full potential. Change agents have to influence organizational behavior. They have to challenge existing practices including the accepted culture and introduce changes in the process followed by the organization.
To ensure this, the manager/mentor needs to first provide them with a broad understanding of the need for change. The change agent has to understand the goal of the change process, and its short term and long term impact. The mentor should focus on aligning the change agent with the overall organizational goal before authorizing them to effect change in others.
Dana Sacks, Vice President of Human Resources for PepsiAmericas, emphasizes the importance of defining the desired change rationally. According to Sacks, this helps put reasonable goals in place and ensures the change agent has the right tools to make the change happen.
“One of the most important things that change agents need to do up front is make sure that the nature and scope of the project is very clear so that expectations can be set,” said Sacks. “Some of the areas to focus on are whether the project involves strategy and design or just assistance with implementation. Also, determining whether behavioral changes will be important - as changing behavior is very complicated.”
Lyn Bulman, EVP Global Human Resources at Fellowes, agrees with Sacks. She feels it is necessary to understand the critical success factors in order to effectively cultivate a change agent.
“Enthusiasm and support are easy to provide. The challenge is to ensure that the change is effective, by ensuring that the change-agent knows how their work fits with the overall direction of the company. It’s important to start with a vision of what success will look like and how it can be measured. That way, everyone can identify the benefits,” adds Bulman.
To gain the necessary skills the change agent or the mentee should have a learning attitude. Change is a learning process and no one ever knows it all right from the start. In change, nothing ever goes exactly according to plan so change agents must be able to identify issues as they arise, learn new ways to cope and effectively implement new plans.
The most successful change agents will not only be open to new ideas but they will actively pursue them – within and outside of the organization.
David Chun, CEO of Equilar, (www.equilar.com), an executive compensation benchmarking organization, believes the mentor should tap the mentees’ inherent desire to learn and succeed. Chun points out that analyzing success factors is not always complicated. It can be as simple as noting whether or not someone is built to be a change agent. According to Chun, in general, people will fall into one of two camps — ones that thrive on change and ones that don’t. He feels there is no sense investing time and resources in the latter group. “Before you even begin to mentor someone, make sure change is wired in their DNA,” said Chun
Patience and empathy are essential for implementing a change strategy, and especially important to setting expectations and project scope.
Managers, continues Manthey should embrace being a change agent. A manager needs to understand what makes his or her people “tick”. It’s the manager’s responsibility to understand what drives his people so he can speak to them in a way that influences behavior. By understanding where the target is coming from and what the target is bringing to the table a change agent is able to speak them in a way that can influence behavior. Influence over the behavior of others is ultimately what being a change agent is all about.
It is a given that resistance to change will happen. The mentor needs to gauge whether this resistance is the initial psychological reaction to question the need for change or whether there are other underlying issues. Human nature is selfish and it’s no different in change management. People will resist change when the benefits are not immediately visible. The mentor should overcome the initial resistance by outlining the likely benefits and the expected positive outcome.
Resistance is not an indication of the mentees failure to cooperate. Neither is it a reflection of a poor change strategy. On the contrary, resistance is an indication of the fact that the mentor is making progress.
John Aiello, CEO of The SAVO Group, says resistance should be embraced and viewed as a learning opportunity. “When trying to be a catalyst for change, remember that it is human nature for people to hear about change and first ask ‘what is in it for me? Rather than take that as a push-back or obstacle, embrace that feeling and let it help you refine not only the ideas but how you communicate them and motivate toward them,” says Aiello.
PepsiAmerica’s Sacks emphasizes strong communication for keeping things and people on task. A well thought out communication plan is critical to the success of the change initiative. Any change initiative is fraught with myriad risks. A communication plan defines the roles and responsibilities of the mentor and the mentee, and provides a plan of action in the event of an emergency.
Regular communication is necessary to ensure the mentor and the mentee continue to remain on the same page. The message of change has to be constantly reiterated till it’s embedded in the DNA of the organization. “There’s nothing worse than pushing a boulder uphill,” says Sacks. “As with everything else, a great communication plan that addresses the different audiences with the right media and message is critical. It makes things go as smoothly as possible.”
The mentor should provide the mentee with a risk free environment to make mistakes. Psychological safety is an important factor in successful change management. It encourages the mentee to explore ideas and be creative and innovative. This approach encourages the mentee to look for opportunities for improvement and reward their results.
Accountability Partner’s J.R. Samples says “A simple way to implement suggestions is to make it a point to let your staff know operational recommendations are expected. Your role is to highlight the people bringing ideas to the front. Make it a point to ask every week, ask different people and to publish the ideas prominently: Survey your people for broken processes - you will likely get a lot of suggestions. Compile it into a list and ask the staff to force rank them. Take the top 3 and tell your staff over the next 10 days to note anything that supports this reason for this being a broken process. This will actually ferret out the emotional “I just don’t like abc” processes from real ones that need attention. In the second 10 days, ask for recommendations on improving the process. At the end of this process ask your staff to force rank the suggestions. Take the top idea and over the next 10 days implement on a pilot basis.”
The organization should set up a strong support structure in order to transform the mentees into an effective body of change agents. Even though you’ve carefully designed your communications and training, it’s implausible to expect everyone to understand your message right away. Having the expectation that everyone will get it the first time around is setting up, not only for failure, but for resistance. Playing the blame game compounds an already murky situation.
Instead, Gerry Mann, Web Development Manager at Unitrin Business Insurance, encourages building a support structure within the change agent team.
Mann feels it requires a tremendous amount of emotional energy to effect change in an organization. “To sustain your elite cadre of change agents, there needs to be a structure for change agent peers to support each other, inside and outside of the organization. In my view, it is important to keep in touch with others doing the same work to share successes, issues and jointly look for answers to difficult problems,” Mann says.
According Sandee Kastrul, founder of I.C.Stars, (www.icstars.org) a Chicago-based non-profit organization that uses full immersion teaching to help future leaders develop skills in business and technology, trust and follow-through go hand in hand when mentoring change leaders.
“The beauty of mentoring a change agent is that you are walking through change together,” said Kastrul. “If you are mentoring someone to be a change agent and you yourself are not a change agent, they won’t trust your ability to drive change. Trust and follow-through are based in reciprocity – the mentor and the mentee are teaching and learning together. The mentor can only be trusted when he or she shares failure as well as success. The process of sharing and following-through is how trust is established.”
next post in my main blog about "Change for better world" - here i collected some movies from this day and shortly before.
(And i saved it to hard disc too. If some original will not be longer responsible in YouTube i will bring it new.)
Please, ckick this link to see the movies:
The change - Obama Acceptance Speech - Change is come to America
[But of course - it's just beginning with the change, there is a lot to do. Please stay in touch, however we do that, through these groups or some other way. ]
