Friday, October 30, 2009 - 8:56 PM

File this away under "who will guard the guardians", subfile "who will fact-check the fact-checkers." Media Matters, the leftist advocacy group that "fact checks" the media for alleged pro-conservative, pro-Republican bias, complained about a recent Politico story. They took special exception to a point I made.
The Politico story
was about all the ways that President Obama seems to be getting away
with activity that would have sent critics (critics like Media Matters,
for instance) around the bend if President Bush had tried it. In the
Politico story, the reporter quoted me saying that critics would have
howled if Karl Rove and other political/communicator types had been as
prominently featured in the strategy review that led to the Iraq surge
as David Axelrod and the other Obama communicators are featured in
Obama's current (second) Afghanistan strategy review. I told the
reporter I was worried that this would give the appearance that Obama was viewing
Afghanistan narrowly through a partisan political lens and it would
complicate an already delicate civil-military situation.
Up
gotchas Media Matters to claim that Karl Rove really did participate in
national security strategy reviews, citing a Washington Post story about the the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), which included Rove, Karen
Hughes, and other communicators, as well as policy people such as
Condoleeza Rice and Steve Hadley.
The problem with the Media
Matters claim is that the WHIG was not involved in deciding national
security strategy -- what to do in Iraq (or Afghanistan) to protect our
national security interests. Rather it was involved in deciding
national security communications strategy -- i.e., how best to explain to
Congress, to the American public, and to the world what and why the
President had decided regarding the national security strategy. In
other words, the policy team advised the president on what should be
done and the communications/political team advised the President on how
to persuade the American people that he had decided correctly.
Both
functions are appropriate and necessary, but under President Bush the
policy came first and drove the communications/politics, rather than
vice-versa. In short, Karl Rove did not sit in on the national
security strategy meetings. If Media Matters has additional evidence,
I would be interested in seeing it, but if all they can point to is the
WHIG, then they need better internal fact checkers (and perhaps not
trust everything they read or hear in the media).
Now a more
interesting critique would claim President Bush had the
political-military balance wrong. Perhaps President Obama is
recognizing that his decision on Afghanistan is inescapably a political
one, and that the choice of the right national security strategy hinges
crucially on an assessment of what America's domestic political system
will support. In that case, it might make sense that Obama's political
team has a seat at the table.
I think there is something to this
line of reasoning, but at least in the Iraq case I don't think it would
have altered the course of history much. I don't think having the
political team at the table during the Iraq surge debate would have
changed the outcome -- except, perhaps, to have hastened the surge
decision slightly. According to Bob Woodward's account of the surge,
some of those who opposed it did so out of concerns for its political
doability (would Congress support the surge and would the American
people stand for it?). Perhaps having the political team to weigh in
on that question would have settled the matter more quickly. Such
hypotheticals are hard to pin down with certainty.
But some
things seem pretty certain to me. If the Bush political team had been
as prominently involved, the critics would have howled at the time.
And because President Obama has involved his political team, he will
have to answer the question: to what extent was this decision -
whatever it turns out to be-- driven by political considerations,
especially election and re-election considerations?
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
In one sense, this is fair comment. The influence of Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on foreign policy during Bush's first term was so overpowering that Karl Rove would have had some difficulty getting a word in edgewise (Bush himself apparently had the same difficulty from time to time). Rove was in any event fully occupied with bringing the domestic side of the federal government to a grinding halt, a task at which he succeeded, and at communicating the administration's national security policy to the public in the manner best calculated to ensure the election of Republican candidates.
On the other hand, we're back in this post to the odd definition of the phrase "shadow government" on this site. Most of this definition involves complaining about how mean people are (and were, and presumably will be in the future) to former President Bush and the people who worked in his administration. It isn't really about whether the last administration served the country well, a hard case to make in perfect fairness. It isn't about President Obama either. It's instead about how a new President is getting better press than a President who found peace and prosperity when he entered the White House, and left it with the country mired in two wars and the worst recession in eighty years.
Boo hoo. As a Republican, I have about as much interest in defending the procedures of the last administration as I do in debating whether Richard Nixon really deserved to be impeached. I've been around politics long enough to know that if the Republican alternative to Obama involves restoring anything from an administration that let the country down as badly as the last one did, Obama could appoint David Axelrod Secretary of the Treasury and get away with it.
A few comments, Dr. Feaver:
1. You commit the same offense against Media Matters, albeit writ small, as you say (with some justification) they committed against you. To wit, you make a category error when you suggest that Media Matters would have been among the parties driven around the bend by Bush actions comparable to current Obama actions. But Media Matters is, by all available evidence, driven around the bend, if at all, only by media coverage, not by alleged government malfeasance per se.
2. You suggest that you were worried that the circumstances you describe would complicate civil-military relations. I find this a bit disingenuous. Perhaps this is true in a narrow sense, but really, your delight at finding a stick with which to bash Obama was greater than any such worry, was it not? You can't be sincerely worried that a small fire may grow into a big one while you are simultaneously fanning the flames, as you did in the Politico piece.
3. More broadly, your suggestion that Obama's process on Afghanistan is more political than Bush's is not seriously substantiated. By nearly all authoritative accounts the Bush White House was relentlessly political. Surely this includes the surge, which, coming as it did just before Bush's hand was forced, clearly was driven in significant part by the desire to delay reckoning and prevent the humiliation for the president and the other architects of the Iraq mess that would have accompanied another course of action.
4. Presence at a high-level policy meeting by top political or communication aides does not necessarily mean that the resulting strategy was unduly skewed by political considerations. Nonetheless, no doubt all presidential decisions have a political element, and Obama should not be spared such questions. Sadly, Bush was - to the best of my knowledge - spared the question of the extent that 2004 election considerations played a role in his enthusiasm for, and ultimate decision to carry out, an invasion of Iraq. My own strong suspiscion is that this played a significant role.
I CAN CREATE 15 MILLION JOBS ALMOST OVER NIGHT in America..
I CAN CREATE 15 MILLION JOBS ALMOST OVER NIGHT in America.. If America Pulls out of NAFTA and WTO..
I will bet anyone one million dollars to a donut that I can create 15 Million JOBS if I was President. America would instantly kick into overdrive and you would see more Jobs created than Americans could fill almost over night.
The American people have been screwed for the last 80 years and they do not even have a clue of what is happening.
All the Democrat or the Republican Congress/people and Presidents for the last 80 years in Washington D.C. of both parties do not care about America or the American People.
Most of the American Politicians have been either been bought off by the wealthy Council on Foreign Relations (CFR PARTY) or they just sit on their hands and go along to get along.
The CFR Party was founded by JP MORGAN (Jew), Paul Warburg (Jew), John D. Rockefeller (Jew), three super wealthy Jews back in 1921 with the specific Goal to control the American people by buying control of all means of communication to control and generate public support to advance the CFR Party agenda. With control of the people they could now buy off and elect these American Politicians of both parties to carry out their CFR PARTY agenda.
That is exactly why the American Government is shipping all the American Manufacturing Plants off shore to China as fast as they can in the last 16 years. You are watching the largest transfer of wealth is the history of the world (from America to China). The American Federal Government is serving up the USA to China on a silver Platter.
Then the America workers will all get their wish and they can start competing against the Chinese workers for that $2/day job. Since they all love that International trade so well.
At some point American workers will be required to compete with the Chinese workers for Slave Labor $2/day jobs. Every American regardless how much money you have will be affected in one way or another because a lowering tide will automatically lower all boats.
I think we are in the about the 8th inning right now.
If you think I am wrong I have only two questions for you to think about.
Why would AMERICA the most Wealthiest, the most Advanced, the most Strongest Country in the entire World, want to enter into NAFTA and the WTO and want to try to compete with third world Countries where the Workers are forced to work for Slave labor wages at $2/day?
There can only be one out come. All of the American International Manufacturers will be forced to move all of our great Factories and Technology off shore to Communist CHINA.
The American People has no choice in the matter either the USA pulls out of NAFTA and the WTO or at some point our country will just sink into the Abyss. You absolutely cannot have a complete Economic Recovery without Creating Good High Paying Jobs. Flipping Hamburgers at McDonald’s and working as a store clerk at Wal-mart will not do the trick.
I heard today on the news that the President Obama is going to share America’s top nuclear secretes with China?
A country that has no Manufacturing base is called a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. That is exactly where America is headed.
Once all the high paying manufacturing jobs are sent off shore to China. Please tell me where the America government will collect tax revenues to support our way of Life?
The CFR PARTY Global International Trade policy will end up driving America into total Bankruptcy, that is exactly what is happening right now. When the America people finally figure this out what is really happening it will be too late to stop it.
You want me to tell you why I already know this is the long term Plan.
If I was The President I would create at least 15 million Jobs in America almost over night.
Why don’t President Obama create those 15 million JOBS right now as the USA desperately needs additional Jobs?
My answer is because President Obama is a card-carrying member of the CFR Party and they have a concerted plan to redistribute all the American People’s wealth to all of the Third World Countries.
It is called enslaving the American workers and the total destruction of America as we know it. If you beat the American Worker down far enough he will be ready to accept anything you offer to feed his family.
All of you people who have money in the Bank and well fix and you love this International Trade, just wait till you lose everything then tell me about how smart you was.
Back to my Question:
How I would create 15 million jobs almost over night?
There is one thing the America Government has total Control over and that is WHERE and WHO will produce all of the products the American people buy and use on a daily basis.
I would PULL OUT OF NAFTA and the WTO and close the doors to the American Consumer Market (the biggest consumer market in the world) and I would tell the entire world if they want sell their Products in America they must build their products in America. This is exactly what China does.
I know all of you American people have been told for 80 years that protectionist will hurt the USA even more because all other countries around the world will stop buying American made products and the USA will lose a lot more American JOBS than they will ever gain.
That my friend is just not true.
How can anyone make that statement without at least evaluating the Export and Import numbers?
Normally that answer is true. But, the American International trade deficit has grown so super huge in the last 16 years (and still growing); that if America just stops exporting anything and just produces the items we use on a daily bases that we are now importing, we can create 15 million additional new jobs almost instantly.
In fact I do not really care if the rest of the world buys even one penny of American made Products from America. If America just manufactures all of the products we use on a daily bases right here in America, we will create an additional 15 Million Jobs automatically.
Also, the USA yearly National Budget Deficit will automatically be lowered by $760 Billion because that Trade Deficit Money will not be transfer off shore to China like now. The Federal Government will get a huge boost in Tax Revenues from the 15 million American high paying Jobs.
The American Government must understand they can not continue to allow sending all the high paying American JOBS off shore to Mexico, India, China and Japan and still have enough JOBS to support the American way of life.
YOU CAN NOT GIVE SOMETHING AWAY AND STILL HAVE IT. . . .
Right now all of them 15 Million Jobs I am talking about have all been moved off shore to China, Mexico and Japan, Germany, India. They are producing all of those goods and are shipping it back to America to supple our daily needs.
Then when this very same goods is imported back into the America, the American Government who is broke, must borrow money from China and Japan to buy the very products that should have been produce right here in America in the first place.
This is Equivalent to our Stupid American Government forcing the American workers to sit on his Hands and then tell China to produce all of the goods America consumes and then when the goods is imported back into America the Federal Government is broke and are forced to borrow money from China and Japan to purchase all of this goods we are using on a daily bases.
This has got to the most stupid damn bunch in Washington or are they just conspiring to bankrupt and destroy America?
If you think I am wrong. You can goggle it and check it out for yourself. Then go to “youtube.com” and do some key word searches and listen to some of the videos and do your own research on the web.
I CAN CREATE 15 MILLION JOBS ALMOST OVER NIGHT right here in America ! ! !
Here is my Job creation Computations:
America Imported in 2006 mainly from China, Mexico, Japan and India well over $760 Billion Dollars more than we exported in 2006.
The $760 billion dollar import number that I am quoting includes Oil Imports which is something that America cannot change over night therefore must be subtracted out of total import number. The total U.S. crude oil imported during 2006 amounted to: $309.4 billion dollars of crude oil in 2006.
So, $760 billion minus $309.4 billion = $450.6 billion dollars worth of Manufactured Goods that could have and should have been produced right here in America.
Based on conventional wisdom in job creation, if you take $450.6 billion dollars worth of imported goods / $30 billion to create one million jobs = 15.02 million jobs would be automatically created almost over night.
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Now because some of you people still do not get it I am going to recalculate the cost of the Trade Deficit in just Jobs.
So please do not tell me the stock CFR PARTY answer: “YEA, but look at all of the EXPORTS JOBS the USA will LOSE.”
The American people have been BRAIN WASHED by the CFR PARTY into believes in that GLOBALIZATION is in the best interest of USA. I think they are trying to destroy the USA because that will be the final outcome.
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Total USA Imports in 2006:
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$ 2,211.7 billion ------ (This includes Crude Oil)
$ 309.4 billion less --- (Spent on Imported Crude Oil)
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$ 1,902.3 billion / 30 billion=63.41 million jobs from Import. ==================================================
Total USA Exports in 2006:
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$ 1,451.7 Billion / 30 billion=48.39 million jobs from Export.
If USA Pulls out of NAFTA and WTO right now:
USA could possibly lose 48.39 million Jobs from EXPORTS.
However, I am sure many countries will still export many items from the USA because they will be forced too. That would create even more jobs gained than I have estimated.
USA would absolutely gain 63.41 million Jobs from IMPORTS.
So, 63.41 minus 48.39 = 15.02 million NET JOBS GAIN.
My calculation means an ABSOLUTE 15.02 million Jobs gained if the rest of the world did not buy one penny of USA EXPORTS.
But, instead the Washington Politicians with all their Infinite Wisdom elected to move all of that manufactured goods off shore to China. Even as America has up-ward of 16% unemployment rate and climbing.
Then to make things even worse the Federal Government must borrow money from China and Japan to purchase back these very products as they are being brought back into America.
I think we are witnessing the Federal Government in the process of transferring all the America Assets off shore to Communist China on a silver platter.
The CFR PARTY goal is to turn America into a Communistic “North America Union” state consisting of Mexico, USA and Canada. The CFR are in total control of the American Government and have been for well over 80 years.
Why would the American Government sit on their hands and watch as all the Manufacturing Base and all our high Technology are being shipped off shore to a Communistic Country like China?
Make no mistake about it China is still a Communistic Country.
We are handing all of the American Military Defenses and our entire manufacturing base over to China on a silver platter.
Please tell me; “What the HELL are we going to do if we get into a War with Russia and China”?
I guess we’ll just concede the War without firing a shot like Poland did to Hitler during World War II. It looks like we would have been better off too have lost World War II to Hitler, at least we would not be forced to work for $2/day slave labor.
They must be stopped or one day America will wakeup under total Control of China Government.
This is so sad because we had it all and our Federal Government just transfers everything we own off shore to China, Mexico and India.
Have you ever asked yourself?
Why is it “when we elect a President from a different party and he always looks and acts almost identical as the last President”?
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It really makes no difference who you vote for President as you will still end up getting the same party and it is called the “CFR PARTY”.
If you think I am crazy go Goggle it on “youtube.com”.
The American people have absolutely nothing to say about it.
You will never take back your country with the Ballot Box. I personally think it will require an all out Civil War. At some point the American People will say ENOUGH is ENOUGH and that is when all hell is going to break lose.
The Presidential Elections have been predetermined by the CFR PARTY since 1921.
Why is it every Presidential Candidates of both the Democrat and Republican Parties are always all members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which is controlled by the most wealthiest Jews in the world.
The “CFR Party” has tons of money so they figured out in 1921, if you want the President of the USA to be a card-carrying member of the “CFR Party”; they simply BUY OFF all the Presidential Candidates of both the Democrat and Republican Parties before the election even starts. The CFR Party System has worked very well for 80 years.
Where is Joseph McCarthy when you really need him?
All of these politicians should be tried for treason and every penny of their ill-gotten wealth from all of these lobbyists confiscated and returned back to the U.S. Treasury.
This has to be a Concerted Conspiracy because most of these politicians hold Major Educational Degrees from some of the best colleges in America.
I worked as Industrial Engineer working as an Expert in Industrial Relocation, Manufacturing Efficiency & Engineering, Industrial Economy Analysis, etc. for Rockwell International. Most of my adult life was spent studying the very things of which I am posting about. So, please trust me I know exactly what I am talking about because that was my job for 30 years.
Here is the Main Problem in America.
The American People keep thinking their Representatives in Washington are looking after your interest and will always solve problems and do whatever is best for America and the American People.
Wrong!!!
If you do not listen to me then you are part of the problem too. If you think I am wrong go Goggle it and check it out. Then go to youtube.com and do key word searches and listen to the videos. Start doing your own research.
This is about Presidents and congress of both Democrat and Republican Representatives in Washington who have turned the operation of running the Federal Government entirely over to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR PARTY).
This is also why Israel always gets exactly whatever they want from America. America has been helping Israel in every way possible even to the point of using borrowed money to support them.
Then the CFR Party members must lay awake at night trying to think of ways to totally destroy the American Government and the American way of life and render the American people homeless.
Add an amendment to eliminate all forms of “affirmative action” in every school, college and all other organizations in America.
Add an amendment to eliminate the American Electoral College System.
Add an amendment that Federal Elected Offices must have a majority of the total vote to win Office.
Add an amendment for Term Limits on all Federal Congressional Offices.
Add an amendment to abolish the Federal Reserve System because the America Treasury should be printing all money under the direction of the American Congress.
Add an amendment to put America back on the Gold Standard.
Repeal the State Home Land Security Act.
Build a Concrete Wall 15 feet high and 3 feet wide on our Southern Border and topped off with razor wire.
Rescind the Anchor Baby Law back to its original inception.
Any Illegal Aliens caught on American Soil would be given a mandatory 20 year prison sentence. Then watch them all run south back home.
Bring home all America Soldiers all over the world and shut down all of the Foreign Military Bases. We are not going to be the policeman to the rest of the world.
Add an amendment to make Lobbyist Illegal with a Mandatory 20-year prison sentence.
Appoint Ron Paul as Secretary of Treasury and very close adviser.
Appoint Lou Dobbs as Secretary of State.
Then have new 2008 elections all over again for every office in the Federal Government.
Is there no end to the ruthlessness of the most Super Wealthiest People in the World?
SO MOTE IT BE. . . . .
Do you truly want to help straighten out the United States Government now? Then, copy and post this article everyplace on the Internet you can post.
The American People have a right to know exactly who runs our Federal Government.
BY: Harry Dingey
Have a good day my friends.
Shadow Government is a blog about U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration, written by experienced policy makers from the loyal opposition and curated by Peter D. Feaver and William Inboden.
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