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Mitt Romney could well become the most dangerous man in the world if he is elected to be the US President. The Wall Street Journal... “Mitt Romney is relying on both moderate and hawkish neoconservative advisers …” many of these advisers were Bush operatives.
Some of the names from Romney’s list are as follows…
- Henry Kissinger (Nixon’s Secretary of State)
- James Baker (George H.W. Bush’s Secretary of State)
- Cofer Black (former CIA official, former vice president of Blackwater International)
- Eliot Cohen (George W. Bush’s State Department official)
- Paula Dobriansky (George W. Bush’s State Department official)
- Norm Coleman
- John Bolton (George W. Bush’s former UN ambassador)
- John Lehman (Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy)
- George Shultz (Reagan’s Secretary of State)
- Richard Williamson (George W. Bush’s Assistant Secretary of State)
- Michael Chertoff (Bush’s Homeland Security Secretary)
- Michael Hayden (created warrantless wiretapping programs for Bush)
Dick Cheney is also rumored to become an adviser to Mitt, since he now has a new heart and promises to be around for a long time. It is said that he will be Mitt’s ‘Handler’ as he was for Bush, in short being the President behind the scenes.
This falls well in line with the mindless decisions George Bush made in cow-towing to the Neo-cons’ war mongering schemes, when he started the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. These are the same war-mongering neo-cons who Mitt Romney is now surrounding himself with.
I am reminded of Dwight Eisenhower’s speech in which he warns about the Military Industrial Complex and the trouble they would cause if allowed to fester and grow. Halliburton, KBR and Blackwater is proof that his warnings have come to fruition, these companies are the ones that supply the armed military contractors in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. They also provide the necessary infrastructure and day to day supplies needed for those wars.
Romney's new economic team, announced on Tuesday, includes Columbia Business School Dean Glenn Hubbard, CEA chairman from 2001-2001; Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, CEA chairman from 2003-2005; former Minnesota congressman-turned-lobbyist Vin Weber and former Republican senator from Missouri Jim Talent. Their combined records include lobbying for stimulus funds and in favor of cap and trade, advocating for the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing policy and refusing to divulge conflicts of interest with big businesses seeking influence in the government.
Weber, who is both the managing partner at the lobbying firm Clark & Weinstock and a regular unpaid operative for GOP campaigns, was a hired lobbyist for troubled government-sponsored housing giant Freddie Mac during the run up to the 2008 economic collapse. He also helped companies win money from the Obama administration's 2009 stimulus bill.
Talent, a former senator from Missouri, is now the co-chairman for Mercury Public Affairs, a lobbying firm based in that state. Unlike Weber, he has not registered as a lobbyist, allowing him to avoid divulging the clients that he serves. But Talent's bio on the Mercury site lists "lobbying" as one of his "actions" available to clients.
Politics are nothing more than an ever revolving door. Even if these men do not ultimately end up in Romneys possible administration it is a testament to the mindset in general. He's was telling you from the very beginning what was going to happen in the event of a presidential nomination. I don't really care for Obama, but Romney is a scary motherf@#$%r. He has scandal and corporate interests written all over him. They don't even hide it anymore, they're blatantly telling everyone it's the same people at the controls as it has always been. And people can't seem to comprehend why things are not changing.A complete purge of the system is needed.ETA: I understand this is an older article. It was my intent to articulate that these ideals and mindsets are nothing new. It has been the intention all along.
Hubbard, Bush's first CEA chairman, has taken flack recently for his appearance in Charles Ferguson's Oscar-winning documentary "Inside Job," which documented the 2008 financial collapse and the conflicts of interests of those involved. Hubbard, who is the dean of Columbia University's Business School, was confronted in the film about performing consulting work for financial firms while occupying a prestigious university chair; he refused to divulge his clients and board memberships.
Originally posted by bjax9er
blah blah blah.
should we name the marxists consulting obama?
haliburtons revenue up 39% under obama.
should we name the marxists consulting obama? haliburtons revenue up 39% under obama.
So Romney has people on his team that worked for previous republican administrations. I'd call that smart.
Originally posted by pointr97
Originally posted by bjax9er
blah blah blah.
should we name the marxists consulting obama?
haliburtons revenue up 39% under obama.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how Obama is part of this thread.
Originally posted by Blackmarketeer
Henry (how is he still alive?) Kissinger
Originally posted by bjax9er
blah blah blah.
should we name the marxists consulting obama?
haliburtons revenue up 39% under obama.
Originally posted by bjax9er
reply to post by ChaoticOrder
so your voting for obama?
a write in for Ru Paul, is a vote for obama.
Originally posted by coyotepoet
Amazing and frightening, very frightening. Former Vice President of Blackwater/Xe/now known as Acedemi? Really? A guy from a company that has to change its name every few years to distance itself from its dirty deeds?
Several people from the CIA? and Henry Kissinger? Oh yeah, Bush #3.
Bjax says
should we name the marxists consulting obama? haliburtons revenue up 39% under obama.
And are you really so blind as to think we actually operate under a 2-party system? Of course Halliburtons revenue is up under Obama, he's controlled by the same puppetmasters as the right.
Beezer says:
So Romney has people on his team that worked for previous republican administrations. I'd call that smart.
Smart is creating the fiscal policies that crashed the economy before Obama even was in office? (2008-he didn't start until Jan 2009.)
Smart is lying to get us into 2 wars within a year?
Smart is thinking that the democrats and republicans don't follow the same marching orders?
Yep, real smart
edit on 1-8-2012 by coyotepoet because: (no reason given)
it has been recently revealed that saddams wmd's were moved to syria
but it's all the republicans fault right?
Henry (how is he still alive?) Kissinger, Dick Cheney (how many hearts is he on now?), Hayden (Mr. Patriot Act and all-around CIA scumbag), John Bolton, George Schultz, James Baker... Jeebus, it's not only Bush 2's squad but some of these characters were among the original Neocon cast of Ronald Reagan and Bush 1.