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The Washington Kabuki Theater Presents "Who Can You Trust?" Starring Barack Obama and John Kerry

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Remember how 25 U.S. embassies had to be quickly closed down just recently because of terrorist threats? Well, here we go again as the staffs of those in Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq have been told to vacate them. The long predicted threats to embassies and consulates are now becoming a reality. This is one of the clearest signs yet that the world empire that America continues to attempt to maintain is beginning to fall apart.

 

What's the next step in this explosive situation? Well, we have been told that President Obama is going to take his case directly to the American people this coming Tuesday, September 10. And we're going to hear the same old, same old attempt to convince the American people of something that they want no part of. His message is largely going to fall on deaf ears of the many millions of Americans who have made up their minds on this issue and are not about to be suckered into passive acceptance and compliance yet again.

 

Why is this president going to waste his breath when there is no way that he will convince the majority of those listening that what he says is the absolute truth. I'm sure most people are with me when I say that this president should, for once, stop trying to force them to accept his position when he refuses to back it up with real evidence. They look at him and they see G.W. Bush; they look at Kerry and they see Colin Powell. They look at what both are planning and they see Iraq and Libya.

 

By the way have this president's advisers warned him that Russia, who already has a naval base in Syria, reportedly has moved up to 12 more warships into that area; and that one from China is not that far away? Much of what is going on in Syria has a lot to do with potential natural gas pipelines that would be constructed to transport gas to European nations from either Qatar, which is aligned with the West, or Iran which has ties to Russia and Syria. That's why Russia's Putin warned the U.S. that an attack on Syria would trigger a very strong response in return.  

 

Let me join the professionals of the this group of veterans and former government officials in asking President Obama to look far more deeply into this dangerous situation before he considers any unilateral action. What is infuriating to millions of Americans is simply this: they have had their fill of American presidents trying to use them as some kind of robots who will rubber stamp their actions no matter if they can be justified or not.

 

My message to Mr. Obama is simply this: if you have concrete, irrefutable evidence to back up your position and to completely justify the attack then show that evidence to the people to whom you will be speaking. Show them the specific proof that backs up this strong contention by John Kerry, and I'm paraphrasing: "We know exactly the areas in which these chemical weapons were used on civilians, the locations from which projectiles were fired, and who is responsible for delivering them."

 

Mr. President let's, for once, see an example of that transparency that you keep talking about but never produce. Put every bit of the evidence right before the eyes of the people who you want to approve your actions. Don't just talk; prove your case beyond any reasonable doubt.

 

If you are not willing to provide clear, substantiated evidence and you continue to try to steamroll the American people into simply taking your word as the gospel truth then prepare yourself for their very probable response. They will completely reject you and your fabricated message. And one more thing; if you do attack and then it is later determined that the stated reasons were a complete fabrication, ala the massive military debacle in Iraq, then both you and John Kerry will find that both your careers will go down in flames.

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