Jesus was a socialist who took money from the rich and gave it to the poor, pacifist liberal swine, to bad this guy wasn't around back then to put him in his place, POWER TO THE RICH, GOD BLESS WAR AND TYRANNY, DEATH TO ALL THOSE WHO TRY TO STOP OUR GREAT LARGE CORPORATIONS FROM GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE MORE MONEY!!!!!
Geezum, this guy is almost as angry as Michael (Savage) Wiener... is all American radio just angry people going off on whatever the topic of the day is?
@pjmgame Typical liberal response. You can't give me a straight answer when I ask you a question. He said that the Supreme Court is corrupt, not that he hates it. There is a difference.
@blackdragoness21 The supreme court? That's congress. They get money from the corporations to keep protecting them. Congress is bought not elected. Tell me. How is the Supreme Court corrupt?
@pjmgame How many examples do you want? One example is the 2nd Amendment was heavily questioned not long ago and a 5-4 ruling almost took away that right. Also there is another case that a 14-year-old girl gets raped and then she committed suicide due to harrassment and the guy that raped her gets to walk away. Oh, and I can't forget the O.J Simpsion case. Shall I to go on?
@blackdragoness21 OJ Simpson? That was never a Supreme Court case. Girl getting raped? Never heard the Supreme Court talk about that. As for the amendments. Remember the Court has the power to interpt the Constitution.
@pjmgame And the Constitution specifically says that the people have the right to bear arms. In this case, a few judges tried to twist it so that they can outlaw weapons. In fact they believed that it's the Government's job to protect the people, which they don't do anyways, and people don't have a right to defend themselves. That tells me all I need to know about the Supreme Court. It doesn't mean I want it to go, just the people that try to twist the meaning of the Constitiution.
@blackdragoness21 The Supreme Court cannot go against the Constitution they can only defend it. This is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!! There is no picking favorites. They HAVE to defend the Constitution.
@pjmgame As of late, the Supreme Court only defends the Constitution when it benefits them. They have tried to twist it to push agendas. The challenge of the 2nd Amendment is a clear case of it.
@pjmgame There's probably only a few that are honest but the bottom line is that both parties are guilty of corruption. I just want honest judges to be on the Supreme Court but it's too much to ask for apparently.
@pjmgame What we can do is constantly remind those in power that they work for American citizens and they do not work for themselves or anyone else. We can try to encourage honest people to run for office but I guess that's never going to happen.
If he would have been saying this for the previous 8 years about both parties I would be agreeing with him. Wake up sheep...turn off your radio and tv and stop becoming "programmed" like the media wants you too.
@pjmgame went right over your head, enough said... you're lacking self awareness... just like Obama according to unnamed Democrat sources in a Politco story today lol
@gdbalck Dude, I can easily outsmart Mark Levin. That's how stupid this man is. For example his book "How the Supreme Court is destroying America". WTF. How is the supreme court destroying America? What does he want to do abolish the Supreme Court? THIS MAN IS FUCKING INSANE!!!!!!!
@pjmgame If you read the book you'll know what it is about wouldn't you? Not only that, you would also know that there's a solution to the problem and that is strict adherence to the Constitution of the United States, not international precedents or the personal preferences of the judges. But I'm wasting my time, may you grow up and see the light one day.
@pjmgame if you read the book you'll learn something you don't know. As to brainwashing, you are already there. I won't endeavor to teach you as you are not a receptive or genuine student as far as I can see from your comments.
@gdbalck Dude, that book is INSANE!! What does Levin want to do abolish the Supreme Court? Or maybe he wants a new form of Government? This shit ain't normal. Go ahead and continue supporting this nutjob while I live in reality.
I just love the libs commenting on this awesome and passionate speach by Mark. Dear moron Libs: You're not fooling anyone by out commenting conservatives in any of these audio/video posts. Why don't you just remind us how wonderful socialism has been for the world? Oh, thats right.... because it sucks!! Suckers!! See you at the polls!!!!
This is just getting started. The middle class is absolutely crushed. The Republican Party can go out the door as well. They have behaved as badly as the Democrats. An Historical Disaster. What you will see now is History "speeding up" in terms of the constitutional/political crisis that will take place within five years. Fundamental changes to the Republic ahead. The USA will endure this and be stronger after the needed changes not only in our government but our own Values. We elected them.
The best lawyers are able to bust someone in the mouth in order to make things happen, rather than simply engage in a philosophical, intellectual discussion. Mark is able to do both quite well, effectively. I feel sorry for the poor jerk who is assigned to listen to Mark to see what he's up to (CAIR, moveon.org, etc.)! Way to go Mark!
Anyone who acts like this is a mental defect incapable of controlling their emotions. If he was truly speaking the truth, he wouldn't need to scream like a child and call people names like a child to make a valid point.
@noreast77 Right, he should just nonchalantly make a monotone overview about his passion for what's right just like a liberal whore nonchalantly talks about abortion as an option when she can't keep her legs out of the air but keeps killing the life growing within her. I'm so sorry you were offended but you know what?....... FREAKIN WAHHHHHH! Typical liberal pussy. You are so offended by his tone but you can't even begin to come up with an argument to his truth. Your argument is childish.
folks should hear this in the mainstream media everyday. they should play this everyday on CNN, and CBS, and NBC, the obamma media, will never do it, but it would be nice.........hang tough everyone, the medias tough, but we are the majority.
Whew! Let 'em have it Mark. He is 100% correct, even if a bit hysterical about what is happening in this country. He's also right, that we have elected these snakes and have to stand up and take this nation back.
i hate listening to NPR, it reminds me of a artsy coffee shop where everyone sits on their apple laptops writing their screenplays and bragging to each other about their hybrids.
@LogicalFlawDetector You've done an excellent job of showing your stupidity and cowardice by wishing death upon someone instead of trying to pick apart thier argument. Typical lib...
..he yells and rants about townhall mtgs.. but he openly supports Govt unions...he says so on the radio...The same Govt Unions that openly attack the Tea Party movement and counter protested against limited Govt at those townhall mtgs.. there is something seriously wrong with this guy...NeoCon? yes
And guess what, once one individual has sole power, FORGET HEALTHCARE, FORGET FOOD STAMPS, FORGET THE ENTITLEMENTS, you will be told what to do, where to work, you will have no choice, this great nation will not even be known by our own children, because God forbid (sorry if I offend anyone by using "God") if anyone knows about freedom.
Thats a great clip! He has an amazing talent of bringing his listeners in-line with the founders.
He had a rant on March 18, 2010 (the week before the Health Care Passage) that was the best I've ever heard. Its still on his website for a couple more days, so go check it out. Fast forward to 55 minutes and enjoy the ride!
is this this guys real voice...how come when bush was in office this guy was pro government ...pro executive branch ....patriot act ...iraq invasion etc...this guy used to attack any one who had a problem with bush expanding the white house powers...why did that change all of a sudden when a democrat took the white house
I love when he is in this kind of mood but I get afraid that he may have another heart attack and damn what in the hell would we do then if we lost the great one..
Mark Levin is a person that typifies the word "PHONYCON". I consider myself a true conservative and have come to dislike both the Republirats and Demorats. It is easy to ferret out a Phonycon. Just ask them a couple of questions: #1. Mark, do you think it was more important to invade Iraq and secure that country OR secure the USA's borders and fix its immigration policies (Of course the phonycon would go with Iraq first and foremost). #2. Ask Levin about Ron Paul, you get a disgusted reply. Ciao
Tell me cattleprods911, are you employed? For realsies. And by employed I mean collecting a paycheck from a business, not by your own insanity. Idiot.
cattleprods911 might as well be a liberal. YEAH I SAID IT. You moron, call me a neocon and you have no idea. I understand the constitution, YOU DON'T, NEVER CALL ME A NEOCON AGAIN. You might as well be a liberal, your circular logic won't work on me. Ron Paul is a fraud, HE'S A NEOCON WAKE UP.
You and your ilk are treasonous scoundrels and everyone else can play nicey nice but I would crush you when provided the first opportunity. The truth is that there is no truth to a leftist being a peaceful pacifist. Free love my ass, if you could figure a way to tax that too, I'm sure you would. You're a crowd of thugs, just look to your beloved unions bullying their members and amongst other tax paying citizens on the streets. You're a fraud and contemptable peice of shit cattleprods911.
cattleprods911, I'd suggest that you use a cattle prod on yourself but clearly you've been lobotomized, thus removing the necessity for use of said prod. The only reason he got into office is because the lib media was successful in making American's believe things were much worse than they were and that Obama was not a socialist.Which is funny because he made clearly socialist statements but aside from Fox, Levin, Rush, the major broadcasters would not allow that information to hit the airwaves.
Yeah, you sure did, wow! In case it is isn't abundantly clear that I am being sarcastic, I am indeed. At what point was it that you owned Levin? You sounded like a muttering douche and proved no point what so ever. Enjoy the power libs have now, in 2010 you're doomed. You're a laughable moron who could probably only get the attention of an impressionable teenager who doesn't know any better, which I assume is what happened to you. You drank the kool aid and licked the glass afterward.
@cattleprods911 I went to that link you posted where you said you owned Mark Levin and, as I expected, it was pathetic. You're a Ron Paul supporter aren't you? The only reason America is attacked is because we bring it on ourselves, isn't that correct? Also, what was that pathetic attempt at trying to imitate Levin?
Spending a trillion dollars in Afgan Iraq will only compromise our power. If you didn't know, military power follows economic strength. No economic strength will ruin our military strength.
What I was pointing out is that it's foolish to believe that the only reason we have been attacked by terrorists is because of our involvement in the Middle East. This is what that moron Ron Paul believes, and in that link you posted obviously you believe the same. I also pointed out that pathetic attempt, at the end of the clip, to imitate Levin. I don't know why you came up with the gibberish reply you made but what should I have expected? You sir, are an imbecile.
What I am pointing out, and what Ron Paul is pointing out is that spending a trillion dollars in Afgan Iraq will only compromise our power. If you didn't know, military power follows economic strength. No economic strength will ruin our military strength.
You sir, may or may not be an imbecile (who knows?), but you are overly naive and very ignorant.
1920-28: U.S. pressures Britain, then the dominant Middle East power, into signing a "Red Line Agreement" providing that Middle Eastern oil will not be developed by any single power without the participation of the others. Standard Oil and Mobil obtain shares of the Iraq Petroleum Company.
1932-34: Oil is discovered in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and U.S. oil companies obtain concessions.
1944: U.S. State Department memo refers to Middle Eastern oil as "a stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history." During U.S.-British negotiations over the control of Middle Eastern oil, President Roosevelt: "Persian oil is yours. We share the oil of Iraq and Kuwait. As for Saudi Arabian oil, it's ours." On August 8, 1944, the Anglo-American Petroleum Agreement is signed, splitting Middle Eastern oil between the U.S. and Britain.
Between 1948 and 1960, Western capital earns $12.8 billion in profits from the production, refining and sale of Middle Eastern oil, on fixed investments totaling $1.3 billion.
1945-1955:
REPLACING RIVALS AND WAGING WAR
ON NATIONAL LIBERATION
1946: President Harry Truman threatens to drop a "super-bomb" on the Soviet Union if it does not withdraw from Kurdestan and Azerbaijan in northern Iran.
November 1947: The U.S. helps push through a UN resolution partitioning Palestine into a Zionist state and an Arab state, giving the Zionist authorities control of 54% of the land. At that time Jewish settlers were about 1/3 of the population.
May 14, 1948: War breaks out between newly proclaimed state of Israel, and Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria, who had moved troops into Palestine to oppose the partition of Palestine. Israeli attacks force some 800,000 Palestinians--two-thirds of the population--to flee into exile in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank. Israel seizes 77 percent of historic Palestine. The U.S. quickly recognizes Israel.
1953: The CIA organizes a coup overthrowing the Mossadeq government of Iran after Mossadeq nationalizes British holdings in Iran's huge oilfields. The Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, is put on the throne, ruling as an absolute monarch for the next 25 years--torturing, killing and imprisoning his political opponents.
1955: U.S. installs powerful radar system in Turkey to spy on the Soviet Union.
July 1956: After Egypt's nationalist leader, Gamal Abdul Nasser, receives arms from the Soviet Union, the U.S. withdraws promised funding for Aswan Dam, Egypt's main development project. A week later Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal to fund the project. In October Britain, France and Israel invade Egypt to retake the Suez Canal. President Eisenhower threatens to use nuclear weapons if the Soviet Union intervenes on Egypt's side...
...and at the same time, the U.S. asserts its regional dominance by forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw from Egypt.
October 1956: A planned CIA coup to overthrow a left-leaning government in Syria is aborted because it was scheduled for the same day Israel, Britain and France invade Egypt.
March 9, 1957: Congress approves Eisenhower Doctrine, stating "the United States regards as vital to the national interest and world peace the preservation of the independence and integrity of the nations of the Middle East."
April 1957: After anti-government rioting breaks out in Jordan, U.S. rushes 6th fleet to the eastern Mediterranean and lands a battalion of Marines in Lebanon to "prepare for possible future intervention in Jordan." Later that year, the CIA begins making secret payments of millions a year to Jordan's King Hussein.
September 1957: In response to the Syrian government's more nationalist and pro-Soviet policies, the U.S. sends Sixth Fleet to eastern Mediterranean and rushes arms to allies Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Saudi Arabia; meanwhile the U.S. encourages Turkey to mass 50,000 troops on Syria's northern border.
1958: The merger of Syria and Egypt into the "United Arab Republic," the overthrow of the pro-U.S. King Feisal II in Iraq by nationalist military officers, and the outbreak of anti-government/anti-U.S. rioting in Lebanon, where the CIA had helped install President Camille Caiman and keep him in power, leads the U.S. to dispatch 70 naval vessels, hundreds of aircraft and 14,000 Marines to Lebanon to preserve "stability." The U.S. threatens to use nuclear weapons if the Lebanese...
Lebanese army resists, and to prevent an Iraqi move into the oilfields of Kuwait, and draws up secret plans for a joint invasion of Iraq with Turkey. The plan is shelved after the Soviet Union threatens to intervene.
1957-58: Kermit Roosevelt, the CIA agent in charge of the 1953 coup in Iran, plots, without success, to overthrow Egypt's Nasser. "Between July 1957 and October 1958, the Egyptian and Syrian government...
...Syrian governments and media announced the uncovering of what appear to be at least eight separate conspiracies to overthrow one or the other government, to assassinate Nasser, and/or prevent the expected merger of the two countries." (Blum, p. 93)
1960: U.S. works to covertly undermine the new government of Iraq by supporting anti-government Kurdish rebels and by attempting, unsuccessfully, to assassinate Iraq's leader, Abdul Karim Qassim.
1963: U.S. supports a coup by the Ba'ath party (soon to be headed by Saddam Hussein) to overthrow the Qassim regime, including by giving the Ba'ath names of communists to murder. "Armed with the names and whereabouts of individual communists, the national guards carried out summary executions. Communists held in detention...were dragged out of prison and shot without a hearing.
1966: U.S. sells its first jet bombers to Israel, breaking with 1956 decision not to sell arms to the Zionist state.
June 1967: With U.S. weapons and support, Israeli military launches the so-called "Six Day War," seizing the remaining 23 percent of historic Palestine--the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem--along with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Syria's Golan Heights.
September 17, 1970: With U.S. and Israeli backing, Jordanian troops attack Palestinian guerrilla camps, while Jordan's U.S.-supplied air force drops napalm from above. U.S. deploys the aircraft carrier Independence and six destroyers off the coast of Lebanon and readies troops in Turkey to support the assault. The U.S. threatens to use nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union if it intervenes. 5000 Palestinians are killed and 20,000 wounded.
1973: The U.S. rushes $2.2 billion in emergency military aid to Israel after Egypt and Syria attack to regain Golan Heights and Sinai. U.S. puts forces on alert, and moves them into the region. When the Soviet Union threatens to intervene to prevent the destruction of Egypt's 3rd Army by Israel, U.S. nuclear forces go to DEFCON III to force the Soviets to back down.
1973-1975: U.S. supports Kurdish rebels in Iraq in order to strengthen Iran and weaken the then pro-Soviet Iraqi regime. When Iran and Iraq cut a deal, the U.S. withdraws support, denies the Kurds refuge in Iran, and stands by while the Iraqi government kills many Kurdish people.
Summer 1979: The U.S. publicly supports the Khomeini regime's efforts to suppress the Kurdish liberation struggle and maintain Iranian domination of Kurdestan.
1979: U.S. President Jimmy Carter designates the Persian Gulf a vital U.S. interest and declares the U.S. will go to war to ensure the flow of oil.
Summer 1979: U.S. begins arming and organizing Islamic fundamentalist "Mujahideen" in Afghanistan. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski writes, "This aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention," drawing the Soviets into an Afghan quagmire. Over the next decade the U.S. alone passed more than $3 billion in arms and aid to the Mujahideen, with another $3 billion provided by the U.S. ally Saudi Arabia.
November 4, 1979: Islamic militants, backed by the Khomeini regime, seize the U.S. embassy in Teheran and demand the U.S. return the Shah to Iran for trial. The Embassy and 52 U.S. personnel are held for 444 days; this international embarrassment prompts new U.S. actions against Iran--including an abortive rescue attempt.
1980: U.S. begins organizing a "Rapid Deployment Force," increasing its naval presence and pre-positioning military equipment and supplies. It also steps up aid to reactionary client states such as Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. On September 12, Turkey's military seizes power and unleashes a brutal clampdown on revolutionaries and Kurds struggling for liberation in order to "stabilize" the country as a key U.S. ally.
Summer 1980: As the Carter administration tries to bully Iran into surrendering the U.S. hostages, supporters of presidential candidate Ronald Reagan cut a secret deal with the Islamic Republic: promising that the Reagan administration will allow Israel to ship arms to Iran if Iran continues to hold the hostages during the coming presidential campaign to cripple Carter's campaign for re-election.
September 22, 1980: Iraq invades Iran with tacit U.S. support, starting a bloody eight-year war. The U.S. supports both sides in the war providing arms to Iran and money, intelligence and political support to Iraq in order to prolong the war and weaken both sides, while trying to draw both countries into the U.S. orbit.
1981: U.S. holds military maneuvers off the coast of Libya to bully the Qaddafi government. When a Libyan plane fires a missile at U.S. planes penetrating Libyan airspace, two Libyan planes are shot down.
1981: The Reagan administration secretly encourages Israel and other allies, such as South Korea and Turkey, to ship hundreds of millions of U.S.-made arms to Iran despite a ban on the shipment of U.S.-made weapons.
1982: After receiving a "green light" from the U.S., Israel invades Lebanon to crush Palestinian and other anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli forces. Over 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinians are killed, and Israel seizes southern Lebanon, holding it until 2000.
1983: U.S. sends troops to Lebanon, supposedly as part of a multinational "peace-keeping" operation but in reality to protect U.S. interests, including Israel's occupation forces. U.S. troops are withdrawn after a suicide bomber destroys a U.S. Marine barracks.
1983: CIA helps murder Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, a prominent Moroccan Army commander who seeks to overthrow the pro-U.S. Moroccan monarchy.
1984: U.S. shoots down two Iranian jets over Persian Gulf.
1985-1986: The U.S. secretly ships weapons to Iran, including 1,000 TOW anti-tank missiles, Hawk missile parts, and Hawk radars. The weapons are exchanged for U.S. hostages in Lebanon, and in hopes of increased U.S. leverage in Iran. The secret plot collapses when it is publicly revealed on November 3, 1986, by the Lebanese magazine, Al-Shiraa. (The Chronology)
1985: U.S. attempts to assassinate Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a Lebanese Shiite leader. 80 people are killed in the unsuccessful attempt. (Blum)
1986: When a bomb goes off in a Berlin nightclub and kills two Americans, the U.S. blames Libya's Qaddafi. U.S. bombers strike Libyan military facilities, residential areas of Tripoli and Benghazi, and Qaddafi's house, killing 101 people, including Qaddafi's adopted daughter.
1987: The U.S. Navy is dispatched to the Persian Gulf to prevent Iran from cutting off Iraq's oil shipments. During these patrols, a U.S. ship shoots down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing all 290 onboard.
1988: The Iraqi regime launches mass poison-gas attacks on Kurds, killing thousands and bulldozing many villages. The U.S. responds by increasing its support for the Iraqi regime.
July 1988: A cease-fire ends the Iran-Iraq war with neither side victorious. Over 1 million Iranians and Iraqis are killed during the 8-year war.
1989: The last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan. The war, fueled by U.S.-Soviet rivalry, has torn Afghanistan apart, killing more than one million Afghans and forcing one-third of the population to flee into refugee camps. More than 15,000 Soviet soldiers die in the war.
July 1990: April Glaspie, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, meets with Saddam Hussein, who threatens military action against Kuwait for overproducing its oil quota, slant drilling for oil in Iraqi territory, and encroaching on Iraqi territory--seriously harming war weakened Iraq. Glaspie replies, "We have no opinion on the Arab- Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait."
August 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait. The U.S. seizes the moment to assert its hegemony in the post-Soviet world and strengthen its grip on the Persian Gulf: the U.S. condemns Iraq, rejects a diplomatic settlement, imposes sanctions, and prepares for an all-out military assault on Iraq.
January 16, 1991: After a 6-month military buildup, the U.S.-led coalition launches "Operation Desert Storm." For the next 42 days, U.S. and allied planes pound Iraq, dropping 88,000 tons of bombs, systematically targeting and largely destroying its electrical and water systems. On February 22, 1991, the U.S. coalition begins its 100-hour ground war. Heavily armed U.S. units drive deep into southern Iraq. Overall, 100,000 to 200,000 Iraqis are killed during the war.
Spring 1991: Shi'ites in the south and Kurds in the north rise up against Hussein's regime in Iraq. The U.S., after encouraging these uprisings during the war, now fears turmoil and instability in the region and refuses to support the rebels. The U.S. denies the rebels access to captured Iraqi weapons and allows Iraqi helicopters to attack them.
1991: Iraq withdraws from Kuwait and agrees to a UN-brokered cease-fire, but the U.S. and Britain insist that devastating sanctions be maintained. The U.S. declares large parts of north and south Iraq "no-fly" zones for Iraqi aircraft.
1991-present: U.S. military deployments continue after the war, with 17,000 to 24,000 U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf region at any given time. (CSM)
1992: U.S. Marines land near Mogadishu, Somalia, supposedly to ensure humanitarian relief and "restore order." But the U.S. also plans to remove the dominant warlord, Mohammed Aidid, and install a more pro-U.S. regime. In June 1983, after numerous gun battles with Aidid forces, U.S. helicopters strafe Aidid supporters, killing scores. In October, when U.S. forces attempt to kidnap two Aidid lieutenants, a fierce gunbattle breaks out. Five U.S. helicopters are shot down, 18 U.S...
...18 U.S. soldiers killed and 73 wounded, while 500 to 1000 Somalians are killed and many more injured.
March 1992: U.S. Defense Department drafts new, post-Soviet "Defense Planning Guidance" paper stating, "In the Middle East and Southwest Asia, our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil."
1993: U.S. brokers a "peace" agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization at Oslo, Norway. The agreement strengthens Israel and U.S. domination, while leaving Palestinians a small part of their historic homeland, broken up into isolated pieces surrounded by Israel. No provisions are made for the return of the four million Palestinian refugees living outside of Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.
August 1998: Claiming retaliation for attacks on U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, President Clinton sends 75 cruise missiles pounding into rural Afghanistan --supposedly targeting Osama Bin Laden. The U.S. also destroys a factory producing half of Sudan's pharmaceutical supply, claiming the factory is involved in chemical warfare. The U.S. later acknowledges there is no evidence for the chemical warfare charge.
December 16-19, 1998: The U.S. and Britain launch "Operation Desert Fox," a bombing campaign supposedly aimed at destroying Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs. For most of the next year, U.S. and British planes strike Iraq every day with missiles. (BBC)
October 1999: The U.S. Department of Defense shifts command of its forces in Central Asia from the Pacific Command to the Central Command, underlining the heightened importance of the region, which includes vast oil reserves in and around the Caspian Sea.
January 2001: Tenth anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq: sanctions are still in place and the UN estimates that 4,500 children are dying per month from disease and malnutrition as a result. The U.S. planes, which have flown over 280,000 sorties in Iraq over the past decade, continue to attack from the air. In the past two years, over 300 Iraqis have been killed in these bombings.
what a little bitch.
milorosen 6 days ago
I love this! The Great One kicks liberal ass!
chargersfan141 3 months ago
and every time he said "left wing", subsititute "right wing", and vice versa, and you'll have the absolute truth!
grossly fraudlent projecting little sociopathic piece of shit...
paragshah2112 3 months ago
Jesus was a socialist who took money from the rich and gave it to the poor, pacifist liberal swine, to bad this guy wasn't around back then to put him in his place, POWER TO THE RICH, GOD BLESS WAR AND TYRANNY, DEATH TO ALL THOSE WHO TRY TO STOP OUR GREAT LARGE CORPORATIONS FROM GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE MORE MONEY!!!!!
severevoid 4 months ago
This guy is a FUCKING JOKE!!!!! I think his book sucks and he is a racist he should really do his homework. he does nothing but talk shit
peetyg101 6 months ago
@peetyg101 moron
Kevinnefsey 5 months ago
@Kevinnefsey Please do not be mad at the Truth. Calling me a moron isnt going to make his lies any better
peetyg101 5 months ago
@peetyg101 How is Mark Levin racist?
jonnyg28 3 months ago
this guy talks about people in big money, WHAT ABOUT HIM MR LEVIN... I BET YOU ARE BIG MONEY TOO, YOUR JUST LIKE RUSH
MegaJoshua26 6 months ago
@MegaJoshua26 What a wonderful compliment :)
McLovin2169 6 months ago
@MegaJoshua26 moron
Kevinnefsey 5 months ago
da man
jamesrsmithIII 6 months ago
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MrSuperneocon 8 months ago
Mark......U are the best!! Simply The Best! None better!!
Zircon46 10 months ago
Geezum, this guy is almost as angry as Michael (Savage) Wiener... is all American radio just angry people going off on whatever the topic of the day is?
Relbl 11 months ago
@Relbl Yes. Its all an act, when their party is in power they attack those that protest government, and vice versa.
I never respect those that rant.
ronpaulbot 7 months ago
@ronpaulbot moron
Kevinnefsey 5 months ago
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pjmgame 5 months ago
@DavidJ751990 FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!!!!!!!! LIBERALS FOR LIFE!!!!!!!
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame Well well, looks like someone is living the fantasy world and it's not DavidJ751990 and gdbalck.
blackdragoness21 1 year ago
@blackdragoness21 You support a man who wants to abolish the Supreme Court. Who's the crazy one here? This shit ain't normal.
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame And where does he say that? I'm curious.
blackdragoness21 1 year ago
@blackdragoness21 I bet you that's what he thinks of the Supreme Court. He HATES it!!!!!!!!!
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame Typical liberal response. You can't give me a straight answer when I ask you a question. He said that the Supreme Court is corrupt, not that he hates it. There is a difference.
blackdragoness21 1 year ago
@blackdragoness21 The supreme court? That's congress. They get money from the corporations to keep protecting them. Congress is bought not elected. Tell me. How is the Supreme Court corrupt?
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame They play favorites.
blackdragoness21 1 year ago
@blackdragoness21 What? Can you please explain?
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame How many examples do you want? One example is the 2nd Amendment was heavily questioned not long ago and a 5-4 ruling almost took away that right. Also there is another case that a 14-year-old girl gets raped and then she committed suicide due to harrassment and the guy that raped her gets to walk away. Oh, and I can't forget the O.J Simpsion case. Shall I to go on?
blackdragoness21 1 year ago
@blackdragoness21 OJ Simpson? That was never a Supreme Court case. Girl getting raped? Never heard the Supreme Court talk about that. As for the amendments. Remember the Court has the power to interpt the Constitution.
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame And the Constitution specifically says that the people have the right to bear arms. In this case, a few judges tried to twist it so that they can outlaw weapons. In fact they believed that it's the Government's job to protect the people, which they don't do anyways, and people don't have a right to defend themselves. That tells me all I need to know about the Supreme Court. It doesn't mean I want it to go, just the people that try to twist the meaning of the Constitiution.
blackdragoness21 1 year ago
@blackdragoness21 The Supreme Court cannot go against the Constitution they can only defend it. This is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!! There is no picking favorites. They HAVE to defend the Constitution.
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame As of late, the Supreme Court only defends the Constitution when it benefits them. They have tried to twist it to push agendas. The challenge of the 2nd Amendment is a clear case of it.
blackdragoness21 1 year ago
@blackdragoness21 This goes with all judges right? Wether a judge is a conservative or liberal he'll still pick favorites?
pjmgame 1 year ago
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@pjmgame Both parties are guilty of it. Is it really too much to ask for honest judges to serve the Supreme Court?
blackdragoness21 1 year ago
@pjmgame There's probably only a few that are honest but the bottom line is that both parties are guilty of corruption. I just want honest judges to be on the Supreme Court but it's too much to ask for apparently.
blackdragoness21 1 year ago
@blackdragoness21 What can we do about it? Were just Americans.
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame What we can do is constantly remind those in power that they work for American citizens and they do not work for themselves or anyone else. We can try to encourage honest people to run for office but I guess that's never going to happen.
blackdragoness21 1 year ago
@blackdragoness21 Good
pjmgame 1 year ago
@DavidJ751990 Fuck Mark Levin. Fuck Conservatives AND FUCK YOU!!!!!!
pjmgame 1 year ago
@DavidJ751990 FUCK MARK LEVIN!!!!!!!!
pjmgame 1 year ago
GOP WINS HAHAHAHAH BYE BYE YOU FKN LIBS .
77CanonRummel77 1 year ago 9
@77CanonRummel77 DEMS STILL HAVE THE SENATE!!!
pjmgame 1 year ago
If he would have been saying this for the previous 8 years about both parties I would be agreeing with him. Wake up sheep...turn off your radio and tv and stop becoming "programmed" like the media wants you too.
rmccay88 1 year ago
FUCK MARK LEVIN
pjmgame 1 year ago 2
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@pjmgame lol best you can come up with? weak.
gdbalck 1 year ago 2
@pjmgame AMEN!!!!!!!!!! FUCK MARK LEVIN AND ANYONE WHO LOOKS LIKE HIM!!!!!
peetyg101 5 months ago
MARK LEVIN : AMERICAN IDIOT
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame Projection?
gdbalck 1 year ago
@gdbalck WTF?
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame went right over your head, enough said... you're lacking self awareness... just like Obama according to unnamed Democrat sources in a Politco story today lol
gdbalck 1 year ago
@gdbalck Dude, I can easily outsmart Mark Levin. That's how stupid this man is. For example his book "How the Supreme Court is destroying America". WTF. How is the supreme court destroying America? What does he want to do abolish the Supreme Court? THIS MAN IS FUCKING INSANE!!!!!!!
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame If you read the book you'll know what it is about wouldn't you? Not only that, you would also know that there's a solution to the problem and that is strict adherence to the Constitution of the United States, not international precedents or the personal preferences of the judges. But I'm wasting my time, may you grow up and see the light one day.
gdbalck 1 year ago
@gdbalck If I read that book I'll be brainwashed like you. Tell me then what's "danger" of the Supreme Court? Please educate me if i'm an idiot.
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame if you read the book you'll learn something you don't know. As to brainwashing, you are already there. I won't endeavor to teach you as you are not a receptive or genuine student as far as I can see from your comments.
gdbalck 1 year ago
@gdbalck Dude, that book is INSANE!! What does Levin want to do abolish the Supreme Court? Or maybe he wants a new form of Government? This shit ain't normal. Go ahead and continue supporting this nutjob while I live in reality.
pjmgame 1 year ago
@pjmgame read it and quit pretending...
gdbalck 1 year ago
@gdbalck I would like to be sane. Thank You.
pjmgame 1 year ago
I just love the libs commenting on this awesome and passionate speach by Mark. Dear moron Libs: You're not fooling anyone by out commenting conservatives in any of these audio/video posts. Why don't you just remind us how wonderful socialism has been for the world? Oh, thats right.... because it sucks!! Suckers!! See you at the polls!!!!
biggiea1 1 year ago 4
Such Passion!!
irishmermaid4 1 year ago 5
Oh my! I wish he was like this when Bush and his gangster fascist regime was in power. BLAH, BLAH BLAH. What a joke.
waterhead001 1 year ago
This is just getting started. The middle class is absolutely crushed. The Republican Party can go out the door as well. They have behaved as badly as the Democrats. An Historical Disaster. What you will see now is History "speeding up" in terms of the constitutional/political crisis that will take place within five years. Fundamental changes to the Republic ahead. The USA will endure this and be stronger after the needed changes not only in our government but our own Values. We elected them.
lakotausa 1 year ago
this sounds sped up...
WiltTheStiltThirteen 1 year ago
The best lawyers are able to bust someone in the mouth in order to make things happen, rather than simply engage in a philosophical, intellectual discussion. Mark is able to do both quite well, effectively. I feel sorry for the poor jerk who is assigned to listen to Mark to see what he's up to (CAIR, moveon.org, etc.)! Way to go Mark!
thep51liberated 1 year ago
This guys shits me... he's too much... and i dont even live there......
how did i even get here...
sx2000 1 year ago
Every time Mark Levin tells a lie he loses another hair.
AtlasShruggery 1 year ago
Anyone who acts like this is a mental defect incapable of controlling their emotions. If he was truly speaking the truth, he wouldn't need to scream like a child and call people names like a child to make a valid point.
noreast77 1 year ago
@noreast77 Right, he should just nonchalantly make a monotone overview about his passion for what's right just like a liberal whore nonchalantly talks about abortion as an option when she can't keep her legs out of the air but keeps killing the life growing within her. I'm so sorry you were offended but you know what?....... FREAKIN WAHHHHHH! Typical liberal pussy. You are so offended by his tone but you can't even begin to come up with an argument to his truth. Your argument is childish.
fishguru73 1 year ago 4
Gotta love Mark...
logicallib 1 year ago
folks should hear this in the mainstream media everyday. they should play this everyday on CNN, and CBS, and NBC, the obamma media, will never do it, but it would be nice.........hang tough everyone, the medias tough, but we are the majority.
Kevinnefsey 1 year ago 2
luv you mark levin thank you . xo
77CanonRummel77 1 year ago
Amen mark its time to take back the country and make these politicans answer
ibm198708 1 year ago
thats right, i said it
Kevinnefsey 1 year ago
god bless mr levin. and goddamn political correctness, and the libs that pretend to be for the common folk
Kevinnefsey 1 year ago 2
You are the closest we can get in the 21st century to James Madison. Thank You Patriot Levin.
vpertoso 1 year ago 2
i will be polite, you morons
Kevinnefsey 1 year ago
Damn that is great stuff
69birdflu 1 year ago
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Kevinnefsey 1 year ago
Dr. Levin is awesome
kaziqbal 1 year ago
Whew! Let 'em have it Mark. He is 100% correct, even if a bit hysterical about what is happening in this country. He's also right, that we have elected these snakes and have to stand up and take this nation back.
chris1969kw 1 year ago
i hate listening to NPR, it reminds me of a artsy coffee shop where everyone sits on their apple laptops writing their screenplays and bragging to each other about their hybrids.
anryth 1 year ago
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LogicalFlawDetector 1 year ago
@LogicalFlawDetector So because you disagree with someone you want them to die in a gas chamber? Your one sick person. Get a life and grow up.
TheVino1 1 year ago
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LogicalFlawDetector 1 year ago
@LogicalFlawDetector Wow. You really are racist and hateful.
thotvedt 1 year ago
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LogicalFlawDetector 1 year ago
@LogicalFlawDetector Perhaps you should move to Iran. They don't believe the holocaust happened either.
thotvedt 1 year ago
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LogicalFlawDetector 1 year ago
@LogicalFlawDetector Jefferson said, "It does me no injury if my neighbor believes in 20 gods or none." I don't think you fit that quote very well.
Apparently you assumed I was a Christian. Wrong again.
thotvedt 1 year ago
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LogicalFlawDetector 1 year ago
@LogicalFlawDetector Apparently you don't like anyone.
thotvedt 1 year ago
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@LogicalFlawDetector
If she could find it.
Stryder46 1 year ago
@LogicalFlawDetector You need to really grow up
lonedove1981 1 year ago
@LogicalFlawDetector You've done an excellent job of showing your stupidity and cowardice by wishing death upon someone instead of trying to pick apart thier argument. Typical lib...
tombor6 1 year ago
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LogicalFlawDetector 1 year ago
..he yells and rants about townhall mtgs.. but he openly supports Govt unions...he says so on the radio...The same Govt Unions that openly attack the Tea Party movement and counter protested against limited Govt at those townhall mtgs.. there is something seriously wrong with this guy...NeoCon? yes
dons123111 1 year ago
I really dont like Levin. But for once I agree.
waterhead001 1 year ago
And guess what, once one individual has sole power, FORGET HEALTHCARE, FORGET FOOD STAMPS, FORGET THE ENTITLEMENTS, you will be told what to do, where to work, you will have no choice, this great nation will not even be known by our own children, because God forbid (sorry if I offend anyone by using "God") if anyone knows about freedom.
tua09880 1 year ago
Hallelujah brother Levin! Amen! Great rant, how could not love this guy.
stevieRay3211 1 year ago
Thats a great clip! He has an amazing talent of bringing his listeners in-line with the founders.
He had a rant on March 18, 2010 (the week before the Health Care Passage) that was the best I've ever heard. Its still on his website for a couple more days, so go check it out. Fast forward to 55 minutes and enjoy the ride!
csgforme 1 year ago
is this this guys real voice...how come when bush was in office this guy was pro government ...pro executive branch ....patriot act ...iraq invasion etc...this guy used to attack any one who had a problem with bush expanding the white house powers...why did that change all of a sudden when a democrat took the white house
matthunterrlf 1 year ago
I love when he is in this kind of mood but I get afraid that he may have another heart attack and damn what in the hell would we do then if we lost the great one..
mark levin 2012 !!!!
nockuout1 1 year ago
Thank you Mark Levin !!
You are the best.
SILENT NO MORE !!!
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The6000Sabre 1 year ago
Mark levin is fucking great.
newcombj11111 1 year ago 32
YES!! I want Mark to be Pres - to hell with this dark skinned one... have had enuf!
bmorant1902 1 year ago 4
Mark Levin is truly...'The Great One'!
levinnite 1 year ago 43
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Mark Levin is a person that typifies the word "PHONYCON". I consider myself a true conservative and have come to dislike both the Republirats and Demorats. It is easy to ferret out a Phonycon. Just ask them a couple of questions: #1. Mark, do you think it was more important to invade Iraq and secure that country OR secure the USA's borders and fix its immigration policies (Of course the phonycon would go with Iraq first and foremost). #2. Ask Levin about Ron Paul, you get a disgusted reply. Ciao
tickyul 2 years ago
Let the revolution begin!!!!
IWashMyOwnBrain 2 years ago 7
Cattleprods you piece of shit, NEVER call me a neocon again. You in disguise asshole, keep your conspiricay crap to yourself.
ahoov123 2 years ago
Tell me cattleprods911, are you employed? For realsies. And by employed I mean collecting a paycheck from a business, not by your own insanity. Idiot.
TheGadsdengirl 2 years ago 4
cattleprods911 might as well be a liberal. YEAH I SAID IT. You moron, call me a neocon and you have no idea. I understand the constitution, YOU DON'T, NEVER CALL ME A NEOCON AGAIN. You might as well be a liberal, your circular logic won't work on me. Ron Paul is a fraud, HE'S A NEOCON WAKE UP.
ahoov123 2 years ago 2
You and your ilk are treasonous scoundrels and everyone else can play nicey nice but I would crush you when provided the first opportunity. The truth is that there is no truth to a leftist being a peaceful pacifist. Free love my ass, if you could figure a way to tax that too, I'm sure you would. You're a crowd of thugs, just look to your beloved unions bullying their members and amongst other tax paying citizens on the streets. You're a fraud and contemptable peice of shit cattleprods911.
TheGadsdengirl 2 years ago
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You want more government than me. Mark Levin wants more government than me.
Never, ever, confuse liberal with libertarian.
Thanks.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
cattleprods911, I'd suggest that you use a cattle prod on yourself but clearly you've been lobotomized, thus removing the necessity for use of said prod. The only reason he got into office is because the lib media was successful in making American's believe things were much worse than they were and that Obama was not a socialist.Which is funny because he made clearly socialist statements but aside from Fox, Levin, Rush, the major broadcasters would not allow that information to hit the airwaves.
TheGadsdengirl 2 years ago
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You want more government than me. Mark Levin, Fox, and Rush all want more government than me.
Never, ever, confuse liberal with libertarian.
Thanks.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
I owned Mark Levin:
watch?v=2GCytsKBSoU
cattleprods911 2 years ago
Yeah, you sure did, wow! In case it is isn't abundantly clear that I am being sarcastic, I am indeed. At what point was it that you owned Levin? You sounded like a muttering douche and proved no point what so ever. Enjoy the power libs have now, in 2010 you're doomed. You're a laughable moron who could probably only get the attention of an impressionable teenager who doesn't know any better, which I assume is what happened to you. You drank the kool aid and licked the glass afterward.
TheGadsdengirl 2 years ago
You want more government than me. Mark Levin wants more government than me.
Never, ever, confuse liberal with libertarian.
Thanks.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@cattleprods911 I went to that link you posted where you said you owned Mark Levin and, as I expected, it was pathetic. You're a Ron Paul supporter aren't you? The only reason America is attacked is because we bring it on ourselves, isn't that correct? Also, what was that pathetic attempt at trying to imitate Levin?
ahoov123 2 years ago
@ahoov123
Spending a trillion dollars in Afgan Iraq will only compromise our power. If you didn't know, military power follows economic strength. No economic strength will ruin our military strength.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
What I was pointing out is that it's foolish to believe that the only reason we have been attacked by terrorists is because of our involvement in the Middle East. This is what that moron Ron Paul believes, and in that link you posted obviously you believe the same. I also pointed out that pathetic attempt, at the end of the clip, to imitate Levin. I don't know why you came up with the gibberish reply you made but what should I have expected? You sir, are an imbecile.
ahoov123 2 years ago
@ahoov123
What I am pointing out, and what Ron Paul is pointing out is that spending a trillion dollars in Afgan Iraq will only compromise our power. If you didn't know, military power follows economic strength. No economic strength will ruin our military strength.
You sir, may or may not be an imbecile (who knows?), but you are overly naive and very ignorant.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
Why did terrorists attack us? Why do they attack us? What was and is Ron Paul's answer?
ahoov123 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1920-28: U.S. pressures Britain, then the dominant Middle East power, into signing a "Red Line Agreement" providing that Middle Eastern oil will not be developed by any single power without the participation of the others. Standard Oil and Mobil obtain shares of the Iraq Petroleum Company.
1932-34: Oil is discovered in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and U.S. oil companies obtain concessions.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1944: U.S. State Department memo refers to Middle Eastern oil as "a stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history." During U.S.-British negotiations over the control of Middle Eastern oil, President Roosevelt: "Persian oil is yours. We share the oil of Iraq and Kuwait. As for Saudi Arabian oil, it's ours." On August 8, 1944, the Anglo-American Petroleum Agreement is signed, splitting Middle Eastern oil between the U.S. and Britain.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
Between 1948 and 1960, Western capital earns $12.8 billion in profits from the production, refining and sale of Middle Eastern oil, on fixed investments totaling $1.3 billion.
1945-1955:
REPLACING RIVALS AND WAGING WAR
ON NATIONAL LIBERATION
1946: President Harry Truman threatens to drop a "super-bomb" on the Soviet Union if it does not withdraw from Kurdestan and Azerbaijan in northern Iran.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
November 1947: The U.S. helps push through a UN resolution partitioning Palestine into a Zionist state and an Arab state, giving the Zionist authorities control of 54% of the land. At that time Jewish settlers were about 1/3 of the population.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
May 14, 1948: War breaks out between newly proclaimed state of Israel, and Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria, who had moved troops into Palestine to oppose the partition of Palestine. Israeli attacks force some 800,000 Palestinians--two-thirds of the population--to flee into exile in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank. Israel seizes 77 percent of historic Palestine. The U.S. quickly recognizes Israel.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
March 29, 1949: CIA backs a military coup overthrowing the elected government of Syria and establishes a military dictatorship under Colonel Za'im.
1952: U.S.-led military alliance expands into the Middle East with Turkey's admission to NATO.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1953: The CIA organizes a coup overthrowing the Mossadeq government of Iran after Mossadeq nationalizes British holdings in Iran's huge oilfields. The Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, is put on the throne, ruling as an absolute monarch for the next 25 years--torturing, killing and imprisoning his political opponents.
1955: U.S. installs powerful radar system in Turkey to spy on the Soviet Union.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
July 1956: After Egypt's nationalist leader, Gamal Abdul Nasser, receives arms from the Soviet Union, the U.S. withdraws promised funding for Aswan Dam, Egypt's main development project. A week later Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal to fund the project. In October Britain, France and Israel invade Egypt to retake the Suez Canal. President Eisenhower threatens to use nuclear weapons if the Soviet Union intervenes on Egypt's side...
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
...and at the same time, the U.S. asserts its regional dominance by forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw from Egypt.
October 1956: A planned CIA coup to overthrow a left-leaning government in Syria is aborted because it was scheduled for the same day Israel, Britain and France invade Egypt.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
March 9, 1957: Congress approves Eisenhower Doctrine, stating "the United States regards as vital to the national interest and world peace the preservation of the independence and integrity of the nations of the Middle East."
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
April 1957: After anti-government rioting breaks out in Jordan, U.S. rushes 6th fleet to the eastern Mediterranean and lands a battalion of Marines in Lebanon to "prepare for possible future intervention in Jordan." Later that year, the CIA begins making secret payments of millions a year to Jordan's King Hussein.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
September 1957: In response to the Syrian government's more nationalist and pro-Soviet policies, the U.S. sends Sixth Fleet to eastern Mediterranean and rushes arms to allies Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Saudi Arabia; meanwhile the U.S. encourages Turkey to mass 50,000 troops on Syria's northern border.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1958: The merger of Syria and Egypt into the "United Arab Republic," the overthrow of the pro-U.S. King Feisal II in Iraq by nationalist military officers, and the outbreak of anti-government/anti-U.S. rioting in Lebanon, where the CIA had helped install President Camille Caiman and keep him in power, leads the U.S. to dispatch 70 naval vessels, hundreds of aircraft and 14,000 Marines to Lebanon to preserve "stability." The U.S. threatens to use nuclear weapons if the Lebanese...
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
Lebanese army resists, and to prevent an Iraqi move into the oilfields of Kuwait, and draws up secret plans for a joint invasion of Iraq with Turkey. The plan is shelved after the Soviet Union threatens to intervene.
1957-58: Kermit Roosevelt, the CIA agent in charge of the 1953 coup in Iran, plots, without success, to overthrow Egypt's Nasser. "Between July 1957 and October 1958, the Egyptian and Syrian government...
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
...Syrian governments and media announced the uncovering of what appear to be at least eight separate conspiracies to overthrow one or the other government, to assassinate Nasser, and/or prevent the expected merger of the two countries." (Blum, p. 93)
1960: U.S. works to covertly undermine the new government of Iraq by supporting anti-government Kurdish rebels and by attempting, unsuccessfully, to assassinate Iraq's leader, Abdul Karim Qassim.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1963: U.S. supports a coup by the Ba'ath party (soon to be headed by Saddam Hussein) to overthrow the Qassim regime, including by giving the Ba'ath names of communists to murder. "Armed with the names and whereabouts of individual communists, the national guards carried out summary executions. Communists held in detention...were dragged out of prison and shot without a hearing.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1966: U.S. sells its first jet bombers to Israel, breaking with 1956 decision not to sell arms to the Zionist state.
June 1967: With U.S. weapons and support, Israeli military launches the so-called "Six Day War," seizing the remaining 23 percent of historic Palestine--the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem--along with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Syria's Golan Heights.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
September 17, 1970: With U.S. and Israeli backing, Jordanian troops attack Palestinian guerrilla camps, while Jordan's U.S.-supplied air force drops napalm from above. U.S. deploys the aircraft carrier Independence and six destroyers off the coast of Lebanon and readies troops in Turkey to support the assault. The U.S. threatens to use nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union if it intervenes. 5000 Palestinians are killed and 20,000 wounded.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1973: The U.S. rushes $2.2 billion in emergency military aid to Israel after Egypt and Syria attack to regain Golan Heights and Sinai. U.S. puts forces on alert, and moves them into the region. When the Soviet Union threatens to intervene to prevent the destruction of Egypt's 3rd Army by Israel, U.S. nuclear forces go to DEFCON III to force the Soviets to back down.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1973-1975: U.S. supports Kurdish rebels in Iraq in order to strengthen Iran and weaken the then pro-Soviet Iraqi regime. When Iran and Iraq cut a deal, the U.S. withdraws support, denies the Kurds refuge in Iran, and stands by while the Iraqi government kills many Kurdish people.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
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1979-84: U.S. supports paramilitary forces to undermine the government of South Yemen, which was allied with the Soviet Union.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
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Summer 1979: The U.S. publicly supports the Khomeini regime's efforts to suppress the Kurdish liberation struggle and maintain Iranian domination of Kurdestan.
1979: U.S. President Jimmy Carter designates the Persian Gulf a vital U.S. interest and declares the U.S. will go to war to ensure the flow of oil.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
Summer 1979: U.S. begins arming and organizing Islamic fundamentalist "Mujahideen" in Afghanistan. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski writes, "This aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention," drawing the Soviets into an Afghan quagmire. Over the next decade the U.S. alone passed more than $3 billion in arms and aid to the Mujahideen, with another $3 billion provided by the U.S. ally Saudi Arabia.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
November 4, 1979: Islamic militants, backed by the Khomeini regime, seize the U.S. embassy in Teheran and demand the U.S. return the Shah to Iran for trial. The Embassy and 52 U.S. personnel are held for 444 days; this international embarrassment prompts new U.S. actions against Iran--including an abortive rescue attempt.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1980: U.S. begins organizing a "Rapid Deployment Force," increasing its naval presence and pre-positioning military equipment and supplies. It also steps up aid to reactionary client states such as Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. On September 12, Turkey's military seizes power and unleashes a brutal clampdown on revolutionaries and Kurds struggling for liberation in order to "stabilize" the country as a key U.S. ally.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
Summer 1980: As the Carter administration tries to bully Iran into surrendering the U.S. hostages, supporters of presidential candidate Ronald Reagan cut a secret deal with the Islamic Republic: promising that the Reagan administration will allow Israel to ship arms to Iran if Iran continues to hold the hostages during the coming presidential campaign to cripple Carter's campaign for re-election.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
September 22, 1980: Iraq invades Iran with tacit U.S. support, starting a bloody eight-year war. The U.S. supports both sides in the war providing arms to Iran and money, intelligence and political support to Iraq in order to prolong the war and weaken both sides, while trying to draw both countries into the U.S. orbit.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1981: U.S. holds military maneuvers off the coast of Libya to bully the Qaddafi government. When a Libyan plane fires a missile at U.S. planes penetrating Libyan airspace, two Libyan planes are shot down.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1981: The Reagan administration secretly encourages Israel and other allies, such as South Korea and Turkey, to ship hundreds of millions of U.S.-made arms to Iran despite a ban on the shipment of U.S.-made weapons.
1982: After receiving a "green light" from the U.S., Israel invades Lebanon to crush Palestinian and other anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli forces. Over 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinians are killed, and Israel seizes southern Lebanon, holding it until 2000.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1983: U.S. sends troops to Lebanon, supposedly as part of a multinational "peace-keeping" operation but in reality to protect U.S. interests, including Israel's occupation forces. U.S. troops are withdrawn after a suicide bomber destroys a U.S. Marine barracks.
1983: CIA helps murder Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, a prominent Moroccan Army commander who seeks to overthrow the pro-U.S. Moroccan monarchy.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
1984: U.S. shoots down two Iranian jets over Persian Gulf.
1985-1986: The U.S. secretly ships weapons to Iran, including 1,000 TOW anti-tank missiles, Hawk missile parts, and Hawk radars. The weapons are exchanged for U.S. hostages in Lebanon, and in hopes of increased U.S. leverage in Iran. The secret plot collapses when it is publicly revealed on November 3, 1986, by the Lebanese magazine, Al-Shiraa. (The Chronology)
cattleprods911 2 years ago
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1985: U.S. attempts to assassinate Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a Lebanese Shiite leader. 80 people are killed in the unsuccessful attempt. (Blum)
1986: When a bomb goes off in a Berlin nightclub and kills two Americans, the U.S. blames Libya's Qaddafi. U.S. bombers strike Libyan military facilities, residential areas of Tripoli and Benghazi, and Qaddafi's house, killing 101 people, including Qaddafi's adopted daughter.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
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1987: The U.S. Navy is dispatched to the Persian Gulf to prevent Iran from cutting off Iraq's oil shipments. During these patrols, a U.S. ship shoots down an Iranian civilian airliner, killing all 290 onboard.
1988: The Iraqi regime launches mass poison-gas attacks on Kurds, killing thousands and bulldozing many villages. The U.S. responds by increasing its support for the Iraqi regime.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
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July 1988: A cease-fire ends the Iran-Iraq war with neither side victorious. Over 1 million Iranians and Iraqis are killed during the 8-year war.
1989: The last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan. The war, fueled by U.S.-Soviet rivalry, has torn Afghanistan apart, killing more than one million Afghans and forcing one-third of the population to flee into refugee camps. More than 15,000 Soviet soldiers die in the war.
cattleprods911 2 years ago
@ahoov123
July 1990: April Glaspie, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, meets with Saddam Hussein, who threatens military action against Kuwait for overproducing its oil quota, slant drilling for oil in Iraqi territory, and encroaching on Iraqi territory--seriously harming war weakened Iraq. Glaspie replies, "We have no opinion on the Arab- Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait."
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August 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait. The U.S. seizes the moment to assert its hegemony in the post-Soviet world and strengthen its grip on the Persian Gulf: the U.S. condemns Iraq, rejects a diplomatic settlement, imposes sanctions, and prepares for an all-out military assault on Iraq.
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January 16, 1991: After a 6-month military buildup, the U.S.-led coalition launches "Operation Desert Storm." For the next 42 days, U.S. and allied planes pound Iraq, dropping 88,000 tons of bombs, systematically targeting and largely destroying its electrical and water systems. On February 22, 1991, the U.S. coalition begins its 100-hour ground war. Heavily armed U.S. units drive deep into southern Iraq. Overall, 100,000 to 200,000 Iraqis are killed during the war.
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Spring 1991: Shi'ites in the south and Kurds in the north rise up against Hussein's regime in Iraq. The U.S., after encouraging these uprisings during the war, now fears turmoil and instability in the region and refuses to support the rebels. The U.S. denies the rebels access to captured Iraqi weapons and allows Iraqi helicopters to attack them.
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1991: Iraq withdraws from Kuwait and agrees to a UN-brokered cease-fire, but the U.S. and Britain insist that devastating sanctions be maintained. The U.S. declares large parts of north and south Iraq "no-fly" zones for Iraqi aircraft.
1991-present: U.S. military deployments continue after the war, with 17,000 to 24,000 U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf region at any given time. (CSM)
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1992: U.S. Marines land near Mogadishu, Somalia, supposedly to ensure humanitarian relief and "restore order." But the U.S. also plans to remove the dominant warlord, Mohammed Aidid, and install a more pro-U.S. regime. In June 1983, after numerous gun battles with Aidid forces, U.S. helicopters strafe Aidid supporters, killing scores. In October, when U.S. forces attempt to kidnap two Aidid lieutenants, a fierce gunbattle breaks out. Five U.S. helicopters are shot down, 18 U.S...
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...18 U.S. soldiers killed and 73 wounded, while 500 to 1000 Somalians are killed and many more injured.
March 1992: U.S. Defense Department drafts new, post-Soviet "Defense Planning Guidance" paper stating, "In the Middle East and Southwest Asia, our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil."
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1993: U.S. brokers a "peace" agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization at Oslo, Norway. The agreement strengthens Israel and U.S. domination, while leaving Palestinians a small part of their historic homeland, broken up into isolated pieces surrounded by Israel. No provisions are made for the return of the four million Palestinian refugees living outside of Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.
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1995: With U.S. backing, Turkey launches a major military offensive, involving some 35,000 Turkish troops, against the Kurds in northern Iraq.
1998: Congress passes the "Iraq Liberation Act," giving nearly $100 million to groups attempting to overthrow the Hussein regime.
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August 1998: Claiming retaliation for attacks on U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, President Clinton sends 75 cruise missiles pounding into rural Afghanistan --supposedly targeting Osama Bin Laden. The U.S. also destroys a factory producing half of Sudan's pharmaceutical supply, claiming the factory is involved in chemical warfare. The U.S. later acknowledges there is no evidence for the chemical warfare charge.
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December 16-19, 1998: The U.S. and Britain launch "Operation Desert Fox," a bombing campaign supposedly aimed at destroying Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs. For most of the next year, U.S. and British planes strike Iraq every day with missiles. (BBC)
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October 1999: The U.S. Department of Defense shifts command of its forces in Central Asia from the Pacific Command to the Central Command, underlining the heightened importance of the region, which includes vast oil reserves in and around the Caspian Sea.
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January 2001: Tenth anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq: sanctions are still in place and the UN estimates that 4,500 children are dying per month from disease and malnutrition as a result. The U.S. planes, which have flown over 280,000 sorties in Iraq over the past decade, continue to attack from the air. In the past two years, over 300 Iraqis have been killed in these bombings.
cattleprods911 2 years ago