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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Afghan Policy Is Empowering the Taliban</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September 2011 Former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, a key Northern Alliance leader and the only Tajik to be President of Afghanistan, was murdered after Taliban emissaries promised to deliver him an important message of peace. When welcomed, they blew him up.

In August 2011, after a conspiracy that lured in members of our Seal Team Six [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In September 2011 Former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, a key Northern Alliance leader and the only Tajik to be President of Afghanistan, was murdered after Taliban emissaries promised to deliver him an important message of peace. When welcomed, they blew him up.</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2012/01/large_TalibanAfghanistan_Violence_Meye.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-408764" title="Afghanistan Violence" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2012/01/large_TalibanAfghanistan_Violence_Meye.jpg" alt="" width="453" height="294" /></a></p>
<p>In August 2011, after a conspiracy that lured in members of our Seal Team Six with other heroic Americans, the Taliban set up an ambush and murdered them.</p>
<p>Following those brutal attacks, President Obama’s strategy has been to hasten negotiations with the Taliban. Additionally, the Obama administration has now not only offered to release known Taliban terrorists from detention, but has already released some and additionally offered to legitimize our sworn enemy by furnishing them a princely office in Qatar.</p>
<p>In return, Obama’s agents defend that they are being tough on the Taliban by demanding that they not use the office to raise funds to support their terrorism. That is a bit reminiscent of the Clinton-Albright demand of North Korea that if we give them nuclear technology, they must promise to use it for electric generation and not weapons.</p>
<p>According to many Afghans, all of these and other Obama Administration actions give substantial credence to the Taliban claim, supported privately by some Pakistani leaders, that the U.S. has lost in Afghanistan and is now begging them for negotiations. One Taliban leader who was released from detention by the Obama administration for medical and end of life purposes, is now back in command and recently demanded on Afghan TV that since the Americans have now lost and are begging for negotiations, Afghans disloyal to the Taliban must come ask forgiveness and for safety from the Taliban.</p>
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<p>A Northern Alliance leader says that of the more than 800 Taliban detainees that have been released, he is now seeing many of them fighting, killing and terrorizing again.  Yet, the Northern Alliance leaders are being effectively shut out of the plans for the way forward, while being demonized by the American government they helped.</p>
<p>The State Department even went to extraordinary links to attempt preventing the writers from meeting with the Northern Alliance leaders. We were able to meet, with some help from foreign friends, but clearly the Obama administration and its comrades mean for our allies to stay under the bus when they throw them there.</p>
<p>In late 2001-2002, the Taliban were defeated with less than 500 Americans embedded with the Northern Alliance, but now the Taliban is stronger while we have more than 100,000 American troops in Afghanistan.  Though Vice-President Biden says the Taliban are not our enemies, American soldiers in Afghanistan say the Taliban are still creating IED’s, firing bullets, firing rockets and doing all they can to kill Americans, so it seemed to them that the Taliban certainly think they are our enemy. This points straight to the fact our military is not the problem; its their commander in chief who is the current weak link in our chain of command.</p>
<p>To date, the U.S. nation-building experiment in Afghanistan has produced instability, violence, skyrocketing drug production, widespread corruption, fraudulently rigged elections and the general disapproval of this new government by its own people.  Under the U.S.-approved, Afghan Constitution, President Karzai appoints all governors for the provinces, all mayors, police chiefs, the slate for one third of the Senate candidates, and even a segment of the Class 1 teachers in the country. He even has power of the purse that the U.S. President does not have. Clearly this is a formula for heightened corruption, while isolating and ignoring many ethnic groups that make up the very essence of Afghan society.</p>
<p>Many with first-hand experience fighting the Taliban say they are dependent on Pakistan for their marching orders, strategy, and weaponry.  In the meantime, President Karzai&#8217;s regime has dropped every pretense of appreciation for American sacrifice in blood and treasure as demonstrated by his recent threats to align with Pakistan, Iran and China even as we continue to prop up his government. From Karzai’s perspective, he may well see the Taliban and Pakistan as holding his fate in their hands once the U.S. pulls out.</p>
<p>At the same time, the U.S. is pouring billions of dollars into Afghanistan that comprises the largest portion of the Afghan government’s own budget.  U.S.A.I.D. alone is pouring $3.6 billion a year into the country for aid and projects while the money often fails to get past corrupt government officials with 80 percent going to Taliban areas and a tiny fraction going to areas where our allies reside.</p>
<p>The Afghan leaders have become increasingly enriched as their contempt for us has continued to grow. At President Karzai&#8217;s encouragement, we have politically and militarily undermined the natural and historic barrier to the Taliban, which is the non-Pashtun peoples of the North, Central and Western parts of Afghanistan. As these non-Pashtun communities were weakened, their leaders were undermined by U.S. support for Karzai and his concentration of power.</p>
<p>The critical next step should be to insist on a new Constitutional Loya Jirga, or convention, that will draft a new constitution enshrining federalism as the new form of government. This would break the Taliban&#8217;s ability to dominate Afghanistan by strengthening those communities opposed to the return of the Taliban and their Al-Qaeda allies. It would give Afghans the kind of hope that our founders provided Americans 225 years ago with our Constitution.</p>
<p>We should insist on local elections of Afghan governors and mayors who may then select the police chiefs. Electing regional leaders would serve to eliminate the conduit of corruption built into the present system, while at the same time giving the governing authority back to the people who are now being disenfranchised.</p>
<p>This course would establish the basis for a political system that allows each of Afghanistan’s ethnic communities to retain their identity and protect them from the Taliban’s violent ethnic repression, brutality and regressive domination. The resulting political framework would also enable trust and goodwill to be built between Afghanistan&#8217;s diverse communities as each community would have a direct and important say in its own future.</p>
<p>Perhaps we should even consider support for a Balochistan carved out of Pakistan to diminish radical power there also. Surely, leaving Afghanistan to the same terrorist thugs who enabled the September 11th attacks is the very definition of insanity.The way forward should not include the current Obama plan of putting our future in Taliban hands that are covered with American blood.</p>
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		<title>Talk About Heavily Edited! Where Is The Full Recording Of Obama&#8217;s Open Mic Moment?</title>
		<link>http://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2011/04/18/talk-about-heavily-edited-where-is-the-full-recording-of-obamas-open-mic-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew  Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone out there know where we can find a copy of the full recording of His Presidency&#8217;s comments to donors in Chicago, made accidentally over an open mic?
We have only been able to find select &#8220;heavily edited&#8221; moments from the recording.
CBS broke the story by releasing the following short clip containing just Obama&#8217;s comments [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does anyone out there know where we can find a copy of the full recording of His Presidency&#8217;s comments to donors in Chicago, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20054185-503544.html" target="_blank">made accidentally over an open mic?</a></p>
<p>We have only been able to find select &#8220;heavily edited&#8221; moments from the recording.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20054185-503544.html" target="_blank">CBS broke the story</a> by releasing the following short clip containing just Obama&#8217;s comments about the Republicans thinking he is stupid, and His Presidency&#8217;s comments on Paul Ryan:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="obamaopenmicstill by Pixel &amp; Verse, on Flickr" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/CBSNewsOnline#p/search/5/dMypM5J8Bq0" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5064/5631026799_e56bf5ff75.jpg" alt="obamaopenmicstill" width="500" height="307" />Click image to see video</a></p>
<p>But where is the audio of the section where <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20054304-503544.html" target="_blank">the President of the United States of America referred to some Americans as &#8220;slugs?&#8221;</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">He did opine that <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">some employees &#8220;are slugs</span></strong> and not trying to do their job. But that&#8217;s true of any large institution.&#8221;</p>
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<p>If His Presidency of the United States referred to a group of Americans as &#8220;slugs&#8221; and it was recorded, that is news and we deserve to hear it. At least so that we might judge for ourselves just how much insight his comments provide on <em>his</em> assessment of the American people. For all we know, it sounds better than it reads, but it reads pretty bad.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TQvuTU5HVc&amp;feature=related" target="_blank">Here</a> is the audio of the section where <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/175301.html" target="_blank">the President of the Untied States laments that there is not enough revolutionary spirit in Qatar because they are too economically successful</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s no big move towards democracy in Qatar,” Obama said. “But you know part of the reason is that the per capita income of Qatar is 145,000 dollars a year. That will dampen a lot of conflict,&#8221; he added.</p></blockquote>
<p>You would be forgiven for concluding that His Presidency would like to people of Qatar to suffer economic hardship, cynically, so that there would be more fertile ground for revolution. Can you imagine the headlines if President Bush had said the same thing about any one of the Socialist death camps like Cuba or Venezuela?</p>
<p>But returning to the subject at hand, why is CBS only releasing a &#8220;heavily edited&#8221; version of this tape? And why aren&#8217;t all the media experts and critics demanding the full release of the complete recording?</p>
<p>We certainty concede that we might simply be looking in the wrong place, or that we are ignorant as to when the recording ended and the first hand reports began, but we would sure like to know where the FULL UNEDITED RECORDING of His Presidency&#8217;s comments can be found.</p>
<p>It seems like every time certain bloggers and video activists release damning candid material, the media elites demand the full recordings as a form of journalistic purity test.</p>
<p>Live up to your own code ABC, CBS, NBC, Etc&#8230; Release the full recording and transcript of His Presidency&#8217;s potentially damning comments.</p>
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		<title>Casino Mogul Wynn Confirms Report of Attaining Monaco Citizenship; Says Retaining U.S. Passport</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Wynn has confirmed the public report in the December 24, 2010 Journal De Monaco that Prince Albert II of Monaco has conferred Monegasque citizenship upon him. Mr. Wynn recently agreed to serve as an outside director for a joint venture between the governments of Monaco and Qatar. His Monegasque citizen was pursued as a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steve Wynn has confirmed the public report in the December 24, 2010 <em>Journal De Monaco</em> that Prince Albert II of Monaco has conferred Monegasque citizenship upon him. Mr. Wynn recently agreed to serve as an outside director for a joint venture between the governments of Monaco and Qatar. His Monegasque citizen was pursued as a result of this appointment. Mr. Wynn has not renounced his American citizenship and remains both a U.S. citizen and taxpayer.</p>
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		<title>U.S. Loses World Cup to&#8230;Qatar</title>
		<link>http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/12/02/u-s-loses-world-cup-to-qatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama dispatched former President Bill Clinton and, mysteriously available, Attorney General Eric Holder to Zurich to bolster the U.S.&#8217;s bid for the 2022 World Cup.
They failed. The heretofore totally unknown Gulf State of Qatar beat us. (In Qatar, the temperature often rises above 100 degrees in summer. PERFECT for a soccer match.)
First the Olympics, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Obama dispatched former President Bill Clinton and, mysteriously available, Attorney General Eric Holder to Zurich to bolster the U.S.&#8217;s bid for the 2022 World Cup.</p>
<p>They failed. The heretofore totally unknown Gulf State of Qatar beat us. (In Qatar, the temperature often rises above 100 degrees in summer. PERFECT for a soccer match.)</p>
<p>First the Olympics, now this. I guess we&#8217;re still waiting for that tidal wave of global goodwill that was supposed to wash up on our shores once The One was elected.</p>
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		<title>President L-Dopa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a busy week for the global jihad. Thursday the mullahs’ mouthpiece, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announced that the Islamic Republic of Iran had enriched uranium and was now a “nuclear state.”

I cannot believe the impotent West allowed this to happen. Someone padlock the UN &#8211; what’s the point? Just to fleece us? There [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was a busy week for the global jihad. Thursday the mullahs’ mouthpiece, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announced that the Islamic Republic of Iran had enriched uranium and was now a “nuclear state.”</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-74658" title="MahmoudAhmadinejad" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2010/02/MahmoudAhmadinejad.jpg" alt="MahmoudAhmadinejad" width="480" height="303" /></p>
<p>I cannot believe the impotent West allowed this to happen. Someone padlock the UN &#8211; what’s the point? Just to fleece us? There was supposed to be some benefit to our putting up with all the thieving and embezzling, not to mention the raping and human trafficking of the UN “peacekeepers.”</p>
<p>Imagine Islam with nuclear weapon in a post-American world. What a time for America to have such a weakling in the White House.</p>
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<p>But his weakness is waking people up. Did you ever read the book (by Oliver Sacks) or see the movie, <strong><em>Awakenings</em></strong><strong>?</strong> Sacks, played by Robin Williams and semi-fictionalized as Malcolm Sayer in the movie, discovers the amazing effects of the drug L-Dopa. It awakened people who had been catatonic for decades.</p>
<p>Watching the tea party convention, reviewing the latest polls, and being fortunate enough to have witnessed the Scott Brown win and the gubernatorial Democrat losses a couple of months back, it dawned on me that Obama is to American people what L-Dopa was to Oliver Sacks’ patients.</p>
<p>Obama, with all his jihad-enabling, is waking up the American people. President L-Dopa.</p>
<p>And so in response to the Iranian announcement, President L-Dopa announced that he was preparing “significant sanctions” against Iran. So now he admits that the sanctions that are already in place have been insignificant.</p>
<p>And on the same day that Amhadinejad made his announcement, the White House announced that Barack Obama would travel to Qatar with Secretary of State Clinton to address the seventh annual US-Islamic World Forum in Doha.</p>
<p>Obama is going to Qatar to “boost ties” with the Muslim world <em>again</em>. Why don’t the Muslims make any effort to boost ties with us? “Boost ties” as in apologize for centuries of jihadi wars, enslavements, exterminations, and Jew-hatred.</p>
<p>Why doesn’t the Muslim world take stock, and stop their relentless imperialism campaigns and their violence and murder of non-Muslims, and live side-by-side with non-Muslims? Because they can’t. It is forbidden in their religion. The world community needs to call upon Islamic leaders to expunge those vile texts from the Koran.</p>
<p>But instead, Obama is going on the charm offensive to Muslim states at a forum in Qatar. The AFP report on his visit complained: “A year into his administration, Obama has yet to achieve any significant momentum on stalled peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis, and Muslim audiences are now less receptive to his promise of a ‘new beginning’ with the Muslim world.” Ah, we knew that was coming. Islamic Jew-hatred must be slaked. In Qatar Obama will be pressed to squeeze the Israelis harder than he already has. And he is so desperate to make friends with Muslim countries, he will probably agree.</p>
<p>And there was more good news for the jihadis this week as well. The Washington Times reported that “two new documents laying out the Obama administration’s defense and homeland security strategy over the next four years describe the nation’s terrorist enemies in a number of ways, but fail to mention the words Islam, Islamic or Islamist.” Instead, the report focuses on the really big security threat: climate change!</p>
<p>Meanwhile there has been a sharp increase in jihad activity in the U.S. since Obama took office. This comes at a time when a soft sharia restriction has been imposed upon media and government agencies: talking about jihad and its root causes in Islam is forbidden. At the same time, there is a global effort at the UN and elsewhere to silence opponents of the jihad, and to criminalize discussion of the Islamic doctrines of jihad violence.</p>
<p>When reason, logic and objective reality become a relic of the past, then anything goes. No snow? It’s global warming! Too much snow? it’s global warming! Don’t want to talk about the jihad? Pretend that climate change is the real terror threat!</p>
<p>How many countries have to slide into the Islamic abyss? How many women have to be burned, sold, trafficked, shrouded? How many Christians, Jews, and non-believers have to be persecuted, murdered, humiliated? How many freedoms surrendered? How many 9/11s, 7/7s, 3/11s must there be before freedom-loving peoples push back, say no and back it up with action? It’s not Obama’s fault he’s president, it’s ours. This is how far we have fallen off the path of individual rights, capitalism, and constitutional rule.</p>
<p>But people are waking up now. Thanks to President L-Dopa.</p>
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		<title>Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Thanks Iran For Its Support</title>
		<link>http://biggovernment.com/fgaffney/2009/10/22/cair-thanks-iran-for-what-exactly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Gaffney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, the Council on American Islamic Relations will hold its 15th Annual fundraiser in Arlington, Virginia.  Last year, our investigative teams went undercover to the November 23, 2008 CAIR 14th Annual Banquet fundraiser, and secretly videotaped the proceedings.  They were there to videotape the moment when Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR, was served [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This Saturday, the Council on American Islamic Relations will hold its 15th Annual fundraiser in Arlington, Virginia.  Last year, our investigative teams went undercover to the November 23, 2008 CAIR 14th Annual Banquet fundraiser, and secretly videotaped the proceedings.  They were there to videotape the moment when Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR, was served court papers for a civil suit for fraud, now on appeal.  But to their surprise, our team discovered that  six of the tables at the fundraiser were identified with signs for foreign embassies officially attending the event: the embassies of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.  Those same embassies were listed in the CAIR 14th Annual Banquet’s printed program (see below) in a section titled  “Thanks To: ” on page 20, which appears to give credit to supporters for the fundraiser.</p>
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<p>Even more concerning, was the presence of the “Interests Section of Iran” – a country that does not have an embassy in the U.S., since the countries have long cut off diplomatic relations.   The “Interests Section of Iran” is the de facto diplomatic representation of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States.    And therefore any gifts from the “Interests Section” to CAIR – say, a donation to a fundraiser – would constitute a gift from the government of Iran.</p>
<p>And sure enough, the “Interests Section of Iran” is listed in the printed program for CAIR’s 2008  14<sup>th</sup> Annual Banquet, on the “Thanks To:” section on page 20.  That’s the page read aloud in our undercover video when Ahmed Bedier, the past director of CAIR-Tampa (Florida) and Master of Ceremonies for CAIR’s 14<sup>th</sup> Annual Banquet, personally thanks everyone listed on the page &#8211; including the “Interests Section of Iran.”  You can watch it here, along with some background on CAIR and the controversies surrounding CAIR.</p>
<p>But the big question is what’s happening this weekend.   CAIR’s next fundraiser is this Saturday, October 24,  at the Arlington, Virginia Marriott Crystal Gateway, featuring keynoters Jesse Jackson and Imam Siraj Wahhaj. It’s the big one: their 15<sup>th</sup> annual event with the Obama-esque motto “CAIR- Leading The Change.”  Shouldn’t the FBI – and the IRS – and maybe Congress be asking whether all those foreign embassies will attend again this year, including the “Interests Section of Iran” – and whether they are donating to CAIR as part of their attendance?</p>
<p>An easy question to ask, and easy to answer.  CAIR just needs to open their books to show what they have received from the “Interests Section of Iran” in 2008 – and earlier years &#8211;  that was worth that  thank-you mention in the printed program….  To be continued….</p>
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