I thought that John Welles blew. He's got a deep sexy voice, like a Caucasian Barry White, but that's the only positive. Welles is so right-wing, he's like Noory on steroids, crack, angel dust, and meth simultaneously. I'll give him credit, however, his far, far right wing paranoia complemented Baker's far left-wing paranoia. I'm pretty damned lefty. So lefty that I think that Obama's a moderate conservative. But Baker has gotten me beat so much that he offends even this Kucinich Democrat. Both Welles and Baker kind of tip-toed around 9/11 "truthism." On this 10th anniversary, I found it rather tasteless.
Mind you, I thought that the Truthers might be onto something before the failure of the Iraq War. I fucking hate the Bush Administration, etc., and I thought that Cheney was evil enough to orchestrate something like 9/11. Then the Bushies successively let Afghanistan go outta control, instigated and botched the Iraq War, and then allowed fellow Americans to rot and die after Katrina. I suddenly realized that the Bush Administration could barely organize a luncheon for five, let alone a plot as complex, ingenious and mendacious as 9/11. (Not that I think well of the Obama organization, but that's a different story). I therefore find it sickening and, yes, unpatriotic to even intimate that the Bushies orchestrated 9/11. They were just too incompetent to prevent it.
I also take issue with Baker's comments about Libya. Now I think that Obama acted unconstitutionally when he didn't consult Congress about US involvement in Libya. I *do* think that NATO was correct in helping the Libyan rebels, however. I've kept in contact with Libyan rebels on Twitter, and the night before NATO attacked, people in Benghazi were being shot by Gaddafi's soldiers. It was obvious that a massacre was going to occur. A Twitter friend of mine in Libya who was running a rebel internet radio station was deliberately killed by Gaddafi forces the night before NATO struck. For Baker to suggest that the US instigated the Libyan uprising is insulting and racist. Baker seems to infer that the Libyan Arabs are too fucking stupid to protest their own kleptocratic, psychotic government, and can easily fall under the sway of white Christian US imperialists.
Even if you are against US involvement in Libya (and I can understand why you might be), to suggest that the Libyan rebels started their uprising on a dime pursuant to US command is racist and ignorant.
