McCain tied to U.S. Council for World Freedom: Nazi collaborators and death squads in Central America.
By John Amato Tuesday Oct 07, 2008 8:00amAs Sean Hannity, Rick Davis and John McCain step up their personal attacks on Barack Obama, a funny thing happened on the way to the smear fest. It seems John McCain has some prior associations he would rather not have revealed. I mean real ones. Check out this group.
GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair.
The U.S. Council for World Freedom was part of an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe.
The council's founder, retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, said McCain became associated with the organization in the early 1980s as McCain was launching his political career in Arizona. Singlaub said McCain was a supporter but not an active member in the group.
Oh, my. Playing the Guilt by Association Game doesn't seem to be a good idea for McCain with friends like those.
Paul Begala tried to warn him on Meet the Press:
MR. BEGALA: Well, no. Obama was—he was asked about this in a debate in a primaries with Hillary Clinton sitting there; George Stephanopoulos of ABC asked him about it. He answered it. He pointed out that the despicable acts this guy committed were committed when, apparently, Barack Obama was eight years old. And, and I think Governor Palin here is making a strategic mistake. This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back—I’ve written a book about McCain. I had a dozen researchers go through him. I didn’t even put this in the book. But John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing organization. It was the U.S. Council for World Freedom. It was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. It was an ultraconservative right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981, when McCain was on the board, said this about this organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League, the parent organization, which ADL said, “has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and Anti-Semites.” Now, that’s not John McCain. I don’t think he is that. But, but, you know, the problem is that a lot of people know John McCain’s record better than Governor Palin, and he does not want to play guilt by association or this thing could blow up in his face.
This excuse doesn't seem to fly either.
The McCain campaign, in a statement to Politico, defended the efforts of the council. Brian Rogers, a spokesman, said that the Senator "disassociated himself" from the group "when questions were raised about its activities, but that in no way diminishes his leadership role in ensuring that the forces of democracy and freedom prevailed in Central America."
But Singlaub "does not recall any McCain resignation in 1984 or May 1986," the Associated Press reported early Tuesday, "nor does Joyce Downey, who oversaw the group's day-to-day activities."
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McInYourFace, Dammit!!!!!!!!
mcgramp's connection to Nazis, and boosh to the sub-prime mortage crisis shaking financial centers worldwide.
There ain't a place in the world they can go to and not be arrested on site
Except Texas.
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and paraguay.
Something about people who live in glass houses comes in handy here.
Doesn't mean they're not racist fux...
The McC(umst)ain campaign exists for to accomplish one thing and one thing only: to provide every white voter in the USofA with at least one ("plausibly deniable") "reason" NOT to vote for the Kneegrow.
It is their entire campaign strategy.
I'll not bet against it working...
Sight.
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a sphincter.
Y is that?
I think it's supposed to be a goddess symbol, a circle (full moon) over two crescent moons (waning and waxing).
GOOD! I think there's plenty of ugly, smelly, profane shiiite that the Obama campaign can use against McCain that will make it far worse for him than what his campaign has on Obama. And Palin....my god woman...you're in political crap over your head....being exorcised by a witch doctor, rumors of having an affair, banning books, using your political position to run people out of their job. You best watch your step lady as your glass house may be moved out of the Republican neighborhood completely after this impending election loss.
The Keating Five Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVUNFBFFZhQ
The U.S. Council for World Freedom is also funded by The Washington Times and its nutcase owner Sun Myung Moon. So is mcshame a secret Moonie? Is that why he refuses to discuss his religion?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/why-...
The only thing McStain worships is Cindy's money....
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This only matters if it's a Dem or Liberal doing it.
If it's a Right Winger involved in this stuff (no ya don't say) it's more power to him! Kill them lefty bastards down there so I can kick back in my overstuffed lounger and watch golf!
Ooops, so much for formatting
Other connections
Tue, 10/07/2008 - 09:18 — Yellow Elephant Safari (not verified)
The U.S. Council for World Freedom is also funded by The Washington Times and its nutcase owner Sun Myung Moon. So is mcshame a secret Moonie?
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http://lifeisajoke.com/simpsons/magnets/feast...
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No like Bush Sr. he's only in it for the money. Moon has paid Bush Sr huge appearance sums to play pitch man for him.
Keep the illusion propped up.
Time for a commercial about Slick Sarah and First Dude's close ties, not imagined trumped up ties mind you but actual close ties, to the America hating Alaska seperatist group and they're rabid witch doctor preacher.
Sending that snake in the grass with lipstick back to Alaska will be right up there as a close second with putting a Dem in the White House as being the best thing about this election cycle.
Palin Mania
these strange people are obsessed and utterly ruthless in trying to shove their demented beliefs on everyone else
Obama would be wise to keep the moral high ground and dredge up shit about mccain or PALIN's past associations ONLY in direct response to a statement made to him.
Like in a debate if mccain brings up Ayers, then Obama can say, dismissively something along the lines of:
"Well Senator, we've both known a lot of people in our lives, you perhaps more than I, do you really want to play the guilt-by-association game? For instance, I wasn't going to mention it, but since you want to play, weren't you part of the Keating Five? Didn't you sit on the council of an organization with neo-nazi ties? Didn't Gov. Palin speak at and offer her support to an organization that hates America and wants Alaska to secede? In fact I believe her husband is a member. But really there is no need to bring those issues up because what the people care about, what the people want to know is WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THE ECONOMY?! People are worried about their savings, their retirement, their job security, putting food on the table and gas in their car!"
Time for a commercial about Slick Sarah and First Dude's close ties, not imagined trumped up ties mind you but actual close ties, to the America hating Alaska separatist group and their rabid witch doctor preacher.
Sending that snake in the grass with lipstick back to Alaska will be right up there as a close second with putting a Dem in the White House as being the best thing about this election cycle.
You could say this about anyone remotely connected to the bush crime family actually.
Why is this being called "under the wire" by Brokaw this has been known and blasted apart for months. I think i am saddened by Brokaw's behavior and performance - I expected better from him
Me too. I'm really disappointed with Brokaw.
That makes three of us.
Considering the past thread here on C&L "Why are Republicans asking Tom Brokaw for answers" (John Amato Monday Oct 06, 2008 5:54pm)this doesn't surprise me at all.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/john-amato/why-...
The way Brokaw framed this allegation was suspect because of his apparent close associations with the GOP...
I like what she said about golf,
http://www.grudge-match.com/Images/kbundy.jpg
"Golf spelled backwards is flog."
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Right Wing Ideology is crashing in earnest. Like the wheels coming off a covered wagon, then the brake handle snap in a Western movie then crashing over a cliff into a heap.
Americans are waking up, thanks to the financial crisis and will vote vehemently against the right (reich) wing ideology of the Bush-McCain administration.
McCain's got nothing left - nothing positive to take credit for - nothing left to spin his way.
He's show firsthand how erratic a leader he would be in times of crisis; his selection of Palin as Veep proves without a doubt that his judgment ability if flawed (crashing 6 planes??) but that's nothing we didn't already know.
And, what's more significant, John McCain has "done this to himself". It's as though since Vietnam this man has had a "self-destruction complex".
"McCain tied to Nazi collaborators" has a better ring to it to and will get an undecided's attention.
Why not get double bang for the buck? McCain is now intimately tied to Nazi collaborators by his support for this hate group as well as Fascist Pigs in permitting Wall Street to "rape the world" with it'sleazy, unmonitored practices.
Wonder how much money McCain (through Cindy again??) squirreled away to Bermuda?? Plenty, I'm certain.
Karma gets the job done every time. One would think that Camp McInsane might have a clue, though....that...
1)When it comes to pastors, they've got two certified whackos to defend: Voodoo Reverend Muthee and Rev. Hagee
2) When it comes to terrorist connections, we've got McPappy with a certified connection to death squads and nazi sympathizers (was Pappy Bush in that one like his father, Prescott, was??? Just wondering??) and Secessionist Sarah who is, quite literally, sleeping with the enemy - her husband Todd. Oh, and she felt it necessary as Governor to send in her "video support" of this "anti-american secessionist group" not once but twice!! 2006 and 2008.
THESE AFFILIATIONS TRUMP ANYTHING THEY CAN CLAIM AGAINST OBAMA. THESE AFFILIATIONS ARE BACKFIRING IN THEIR FACES RIGHT NOW AS THEIR NUMBERS PLUMMET.
I hope that McKeating shows his butt tonight - It will take what's left of his shrinking support and move it right into Obama's side of the ledger.
By the time Troopergate does it's damage this Friday and the debate bump for Obama kicks in, the new numbers will be something like 60/35.
so let's see if that used repiglican **** called brokaw brings this up with mcevil ........
I really can't remember when I've seen a more bumbling campaign than McCains. It's getting to a point where it's funny and I'm becoming less concerned of who's gonna win this thing.
They wanted to bring up Ayers, a man who did his dirty work when Obama was eight. McCain was in politics when he was running around...excuse me...PALLING around with Keating and this murderous group. Nail him to the wall Obama!!!!!
bye back to work.
The house isn't going to renovate itself. And I'm not paying some giant pickup driving idiot to wreck it and steal my money.
About time John. Great Post. Let's dig up the crap and take this country back. We need some hard core cleaning and not just some rug brushing underneath. Thank You.
The Bush Crime Family has connections to Nazi's.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has connections to Nazi's.
Look up Operation Paperclip for a tip on where the Nazi's went after leaving Germany after WWII.
Damn we need the truth to come out soon.
I hope all these booze and coke pickled brained Wall Street bastards jump out windows from the 50th floor en mass.
Everyone will be much better off in the long run.
Bye
Lady McCheney queen of secrecy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/pali...
What I find fascinating is that the filer of the lawsuit against her illegal use of email and non-provision of 1100 "public" emails via other accounts (remind you of the RNC illegal Bush/Cheney email accounts?) is a Republican.
Just like those who brought the investigation forward against her abuse of power in Troopergate....majority Republicans.
Troopergate is moving foward despite many attempts to quash it. I believe Camp McCrazy realizes that by Friday morning, the world will know that Sarah Palin is a carbon copy of Dick Cheney and George Bush - abusers of executive power.
But, by then, it may not matter one iota...the damage has already been done during these past 3 weeks....
Here is another description of this group, from a former member:
The U.S. Council for World Freedom, which McCain was a board member of, is the US chapter of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL). (See wikipedia entry for Singlaub) The WACL was described by former member Geoffrey Stewart-Smith as "largely a collection of Nazis, Fascists, anti-Semites, sellers of forgeries, vicious racialists, and corrupt self-seekers."
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20C...
Thanks for the link. This is perhaps THE most damaging evidence against John McCain to date.
Why is C&L acting like this is a bad thing? It seems to me that any effort to kill pinkos, regardless of associations, will energize the base.
You're on the wrong site. Wasn't it "reichwing locksteppers Unite" that you were trying to locate?
They don't mind their man being a racist, misogynist, xenophobic jackass, they just don't want him to appear that way to others. This may endear him to his less evolved 'base' but it won't help him on the national stage.
No, they very much like it, just as they very much like their candidate appearing anti-intellectual.
The myriad of double standards(many race based) exposed in this election are a National embarrassment. Nasty Grandpa and Gov. Low Expectations are clearly playing off the fact that their base of bigots are so blind with rage that they don't give a fuck about truth. This old racist fucker and his hench bitch don't see the colored boy as their equal so of course the standards shouldn't be the same.
Wouldn't tonight's debate format be a perfect opportunity for Obama to look McCain right in the eye and challenge him on his negative campaigning? I mean, what could McCain's response be? That Obama is a terrorist?
If McCain persists with the attacks face to face with Obama, Obama could simply walk across the stage and kick the old mans ass right on National TV?
Either way, it would put an end to this crap once and for all.
Brokaw co-owns a house in Taos NM with Rummie.
He's a paid-up member of the Village, mentioned to 'replace' Potato-head Russert.
Of course no one could EVER replace Timmuh velvet tongue around the assholes of the powerful when he seriously got busy tonguing their prostates. Luckily both Timmuh and Brokaw actually LIKE the taste of Puke shit...
For every attempt to smear Obama the mcinsane camp gets hit in the face with a return volley from psychogeezer's past.
I just hope the responses are getting the same amount of play the smears are getting.
And I don't like that when bobbleheads DO mention the negative dive the campaign has taken, they try to suggest the slime is coming from both sides equally.
WTF?
esp. when McInsane tries to pose above it all and says Obama has no vision and nothing else to say. Ugh! Nancy Phoneythauer comes in on cue to say, well, my stars, does the Obama have nothing else to do but bring up these old charges? He's falling into all this horrible negative campaigning! I'm shocked!
The BIG difference is that McCain's baggage happened to be TRUE and quite germane to his fitness as a leader and to his ability to act effectively to render positive change for the good of the country.
Every McCain does is for the good of McCain.
John, please please please do a mash up of Sean going off on the economist guy "the economy is great!" with all the stuff that has come out since then. I mean, just jam it down that fool's throat. For America. Like you always do.
Apologies for the O/T but I had a visceral reaction to Sean Hannity's name. And I'm a POW. (not really, but it seems to be the Free Pass of the Century, so I'm gonna use it.)
why is tom brokaw so freakin eager to put forth the repubic talking points. he knows damn well that this issue was discussed and proven to be a nonstarter in the dem primaries. and he is going to moderate tonights debate?!? sounds like it will be leaning towards two on one, McLame and Brokaw against Obama. softball time for the old man.
he's a paid shill for the republicans... only reason that could explain his situation.
I heard an interesting comment by a caller on this morning's C-Span. The caller mentioned that he was a veteran of the Vietnam war; spent 16 months on the ground as a scout, and had 3 bronze stars. He wanted to know exactly what qualified McCain as a 'hero'?
I'd say, from his perspective, that's a good question.
Isn't that what the whole st. ronnie conservatism is about? Isn't it time to make st. ronnie a dirty word?
And since we're on the subject of the US supporting coups and assassinations in Latin America, you might want to pay extra attention to Obama's closing statement in the last debate where he whines about Chinese growing influence in Latin America, to me it sounded like he would be willing to continue the policies of the Monroe Doctrine, f him.
Toad isn't appropriate. Turd is more like it.
Right, because the Monroe Doctrine has worked out so well, let's see how popular the US is in Latin America not counting Colombia with whom the US works with to supply the terrorist threat so they can stay in power.
Partisan hack.
As if the McSame supporters will even care.
That's the funny thing about the rabid Reich Wing in this country.
They get all indignant about "welfare" (meaning the blacks, of course) but have no problem spending money to kill innocent people in other countries.
Oh, wait. They are brown people. Never mind..
Gee, you forgot the "gooks" apparently Mcsane was so fondly remembering...
http://www.crooksandliars.com/nonny-mouse/mcc...
why is tom brokaw so freakin
Tue, 10/07/2008 - 09:56 — willie (not verified)
why is tom brokaw so freakin eager to put forth the repubic talking points. he knows damn well that this issue was discussed and proven to be a nonstarter in the dem primaries. and he is going to moderate tonights debate?!? sounds like it will be leaning towards two on one, McLame and Brokaw against Obama. softball time for the old man.
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C**t wil say that's all the time.
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no doubt about it. he is nbc's liaison to the mccain campaign. mccain officials ask him for advise, and he knowingly misquoted an archaic pollin result to favor mccain/schmidt at mtp. mtp has never apologized for that. brokaw has been down on obama. i think he is a closet racist.
"Why is it a bad thing?"
What did GWB's previous record of failures prove? This kind of thinking scares me more than OBL landing at my local airport. This nation is in the most severe trouble it has seen in centuries. Why?
Because of IGNORING many, many "signs written all over the walls".
Why is the process of choosing some of the most powerfull people on the planet, such a severly compromised proposition? People are screened, and their resumes more throughly investigated to apply for a security job at Wal-mart. This nation cannot tolerate any more STUPIDITY than it already has. Many ceo's and politicians have PROVEN that they are undeserving of their position, bonuses, and pay, despite WHATEVER THEIR NET WORTH WAS or WHOEVER THEIR DADDY WAS.
We SEVERELY need LEADERS, more than ever, RIGHT NOW, RIGHT HERE! Not "jet-setters" or Forbes wanna-be's who throw around their NAMES, or CONNECTIONS with "money". Mostly "dirty" money, every single time.
This nation is on the brink of failure due to republican criminals in charge, and you say shit like, "Why is it a bad thing?" You and your kind are a huge part of why the system is grossly defective. Go do something productive and find out how many homes you own.
Tonight's debate
Tue, 10/07/2008 - 09:52 — JHR1956
If McCain persists with the attacks face to face with Obama, Obama could simply walk across the stage and kick the old mans ass right on National TV?
Either way, it would put an end to this crap once and for all.
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Well, that's what happens when one's ass is kicked
That and fibre/prostate problems.
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chuck todd seems to have lost his star, too. he tries to play the game murrow avoided--not telling the truth to appear impartial. in the end, he just chips away his credibility one analysis at a time. he was asked yesterday by matthews why the nbc/wsj poll says that obama biden beat mccain palin in the debates. todd says because people were grading the repubs on a curve. he fails to give credit to people who were looking for substance in this election and found it in the dem ticket. in these torubled times, people dont grade in a curve. they are looking for answers, and just saying you're a maverick does not do it for them. todd was a star in the primaries, now he is just the "map" guy.
This has been just below the radar for some time now. It's not entirely clear how close their association is.
I'm so sick of this man! I once thought he had some integrity. Get him off the news!
I truly believe that yesterday was the first time she had heard about the connection between Ayers and Obama, and I truly believe she thought she was breaking some really hard hitting stuff.
F it. Im voting for McCain/Palin (Palin/McCain?). Bring on the end of days!
From the Paraguay dinner theatre:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo
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"MR. BEGALA: ...And, and I think Governor Palin here is making a strategic mistake. This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign... John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing organization. It was the U.S. Council for World Freedom... It was an ultraconservative right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981, when McCain was on the board, said this about this organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League, the parent organization, which ADL said, “has increasingly become a gathering place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and Anti-Semites.” Now, that’s not John McCain. I don’t think he is that. But, but, you know, the problem is that a lot of people know John McCain’s record better than Governor Palin, and he does not want to play guilt by association or this thing could blow up in his face."
Begala seems to be giving McCain some sort of benefit-of-the-doubt that Palin was wandering off script here, but let's be real. She wouldn't have been out there blathering about Obama the terrorist sympathizer without prompting from McCain.
What are these people trying to do? Make a live-action version of The Holcroft Covenant?
And here I thought Daisy Mae Palin was a Christian and all into forgiveness, you betcha. Ayers, whatever he was and did in the sixties, is now a contributing member of society, apparently law abiding, and a hell of a lot more intelligent than the Wasilla Bimbo. Why on Earth is it wrong to associate and even cooperate with someone who is currently trying to contribute peacefully and legally to society? In fact, isolating individuals is the best possible way to alienate them.
Oh, that's right. The Scum Bags have an election to win.
Speaking of guilt by association, The Jed Report seems to have come up with something even a little more damning.
This report has it all:
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5330
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5330
But it's called The U.S. Council for World Freedom. FREEDOM. I mean, it's right there in the title. And who could be against THAT??
*coughs*
Belonging to this neo-Nazi death squad gang will spike McSlime's ratings with the rabid base. It's what they believe in too. But that's only the 24% that still love Bush.
If Ayers was a terrorist, so were the Nicaraguan death squads. So was Oliver North and all the unindicted felons in the Reagan administration who who funded, supported and trained killers of innocent civilians in Nicaragua.
Stands to reason . . .
Why do they keep replaying this fucking quote from that lying hypocrite?
And why is the Obama campaign being so quiet? They need to be out on all the stupid news shows spreading the truth and talking about the issues!
I think Obama has tried to take the high road all along. I respect him for that. Palin and McSlime are doing a good job of hanging themselves already. These vile attacks play to the great unwashed, who are already the GOP base. They make a lot of noise, but it just makes them look deranged.
I know I accuse Americans of being stooopid quite a bit, but, honestly, I believe most Americans see right through this and are tired of it. They're worried about their future, not smears and rumours, and "gotcha".
If McSlime goes there in the debate, he'll turn off a lot of viewers. Do people really believe a sitting US Senator is really a terrorist? NO, they don't.
This isn't the first time that the Repocons have seemed to have close assiciations with Nazis.
karl Rove has been, and continues, following Goebbles' techniques.
And of course the nationalization of the American banking and monetary institutions is a form of Naziism.
The IRI helped organize the ovethrow of Jean Betrand Aristide of Haiti.
and remember this?...the I.R.I. created a stir when it issued a press release praising the attempted overthrow of Hugo Chávez, the elected president of Venezuela.
"Senator John McCain presents himself as a what-you-see is what-you-get presidential candidate: clean, pragmatic, following his convictions even when not politically expedient. He considers himself to be someone who would make an excellent foreign policy president.
But this image sits in contrast with the International Republican Institute (IRI), for which McCain has served as board chairman since 1993 (http://www.iri.org/board.asp). Under the cover of spreading democracy and a free market economic system, the IRI installs U.S.-friendly governments and undermines those that are not by supporting coups and ousters."
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5330
A Hidden Agenda: john mccain and the IRI
"Presidential hopeful John McCain is hiding a skeleton in his closet."
Last year, the IRI presented Antonio Saca, president of El Salvador, with its “Freedom Award” for what McCain called a transformation of El Salvador’s politics and economy. ... McCain has praised Saca, claiming, “Advocates of freedom have no better ally in the region than President Saca.” This is a worrisome statement considering Saca has publicly praised people like Colonel Monterrosa, leader of the massacre at El Mazote, stating, “Colonel Monterrosa knew how to defend the nation, with nobility…”
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/a-hidde...
Re: Haiti coup of 2004
"But did the rebellion really spring from nowhere? Maybe not. Several leaders of the demonstrations -- some of whom also had links to the armed rebels -- had been getting organizational help and training from a U.S. government-financed organization."
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2004...
This article outlines in detail how the IRI financed the "political trainings" of Aristide's political opposition. Several leaders of the soon to occur "armed rebellion" happened to be at the same location at the same time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/internation...
John McCain severed ties with this group over 20 years ago. Barack Obama continues to align himself with terrorists, criminals, and radicals and be INFLUENCED by them. There's a difference, folks.
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