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Now Tubularsock woke up this morning with a bright and delightful outlook.
So much for that.
Started with the regular regurgitated shit we call “NEWS” and without a second thought THE PLAN came right in the open.
Donnie’s in big trouble.
Tubularsock knows you are going to ask ……… “How’s that?”
Simple — because THE PLAN has gotten out of the bag and Tubularsock doesn’t really know if even Trump and his team even know it yet.
So if Tubularsock’s treatise is anything then, it’s a warning. You know, like a “heads up”. It’s the very least Tubularsock can do for his country.
Don’t thank Tubularsock now. But sometimes it is just the honorable thing to do regardless of one’s personal desires.
“Compassion is one of the highest of all the energy power patterns. As we shall see, our capacity to understand, forgive, and accept is directly linked to our personal health.”
——- David Hawkins …. POWER VS. FORCE
Hmmm. Maybe Tubularsock isn’t all that altruistic. Just maybe Tubularsock is just looking after HIS OWN personal health.
So much for ideals.

You may have noticed that Trump’s view on IRAN has the regular hostility that is required if you fail to understand world peace. Bravado has always been the hallmark of foreign policy and so it goes.
But recently The Dump has curtailed his negative talk about Iran on a regular basis until his latest political blast by telling Iran that IF HE IS HARMED he has left orders for Iran to be obliterated!
Hmmm. That doesn’t sound peace-loving.
“During Dump’s 2024 presidential campaign, “Law Enforcement Officials” had warned, that word was out that Tehran allegedly had placed operatives in the U.S. with access to surface-to-air missiles.
The fear was that “Trump Force One” (what Trump calls Air Force One) may be in danger of being shot down.”
———- According to Alex Isenstadt’s new book, Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power, due to be released March 8th.
Further Isenstadit related a story where Trump was secretly put on another plane and Air Force One left without him just in case something may happen to Air Force One.
The concerning thing about this incident was many of the White House staff were NOT informed of the fact that the flight MAY BE IN DANGER! Only at take off when they realized that Trump wasn’t on the plane were they informed that they could be shot down by Iranian surface-to-air missiles.

Let that sink in for a minute.
REALLY?
What does that tell you about Trump’s compassion for others?
Or even the FBI’s!
HARSH!
But Tubularsock has figured out THE GREATER DANGER FOR TRUMP!
And who better equals in lack of human compassion than Benjamin Netanyahu!
Netanyahu! has the ability to fuck his own mother for a bagel!
THAT is how fucked up HE is!

And the Tubularsock Theory of Zionism gone mad is this …………..
Fact one: Netanyahu wants the U.S. to start a war with Iran.
Fact two: Trump doesn’t want a war with Iran sucking the U.S. down a one way street.
Fact three: Netanyahu sends HIS boys to take out Trump and blame Iran.
Fact four: The war with Iran Netanyahu wants is achieved.
Fact five: AND DUMP IS DEAD!
An aside: Dear Donnie, NEVER turn you back on a bagel!
Yes this is in code ….. figure it out fast!

Here’s a thought to ponder in your spare mental time.

What if after WWII the Allied Powers said:

We agree that the Third Reich should be put in charge of investigating The Holocaust
to determine if they find ANY “wrong doing” or “misuse“ of power” in regard to the treatment of
prisoners being held in Nazi concentration camps throughout the region.

And after this investigation, report their findings to a world body.

Now, what do you think the findings would have been?

Fast forward to right now:

The U.S. State Department is “. . . reviewing plans to sanction the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) unit the Netzah Yehuda battalion for committing human rights violations in the West Bank.

It seems that violations in the West Bank that were not dealt with by the IDF would increase the likelihood that the International Criminal Court would issue arrest warrants for Israeli soldiers and officers.

The U.S. was going to investigate the Netzah Yehuda for war crimes and if it was found that they had committed them discontinue funding to them specifically until they stop and correct their behavior.

You may ask, how would that be possible when we don’t know exactly where the money we send them goes anyway. And we have NO IDEA where the money we send Ukraine ends up.

Although Zelensky and his business partners have several offshore companies and properties, according to financial documents leaked in 2021 …………. well a guy has to make a living.

As for Netzah Yehuda they are a brutal West Bank battalion comprised of ultra-orthodox Israeli soldiers, which have been under review by the U.S. State Department since 2022. (Just a reality check …. it is now 2024!) That is some thorough review of brutality, child rape, torture, and beating old people to death.

And this was in the West Bank!

Now two other civilian units that were responsible for incidents of gross human rights violations against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank were also under review as well.

These units went through effective remediation and continue to be eligible for U.S. security assistance.

Would you believe effective remediation included bringing back to LIFE the old people beaten to death? Well …………….. me either!

But the Netzah Yehuda is still being investigated.

The United States is required to consult with Israel on actions that fall under the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act, but if the Israeli Government does not take the appropriate accountability actions the U.S. can shut down funding to specific groups. Sure sounds good, talk, talk, talk.

Well, Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, told reporters a week or so ago that  “. . . I think it’s fair to say that you’ll see results very soon. I’ve made determinations; you can expect to see them in the days ahead.”

Of course Israel PM Netanyahu slammed Biden’s plans to sanction IDF’s Netzah Yehuda Unit.

“At a time when our soldiers are fighting terrorist monsters, the intention to sanction a unit in the IDF is the height of absurdity and a moral low,” Netanyahu wrote on X.

But rather effective SHIT. Only because Genocide-Joe is a dead man walking without any brains at all!

AND NOW >>>>>>>>>

Washington will not go ahead with punitive actions it has been considering against Israeli military and police units alleged to have committed human rights violations against Palestinians, including the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, according to an ABC News report on Friday (4/26/24).

While the Biden administration has determined “gross human rights violations” were committed by Israel Defense Forces against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to the report, the relevant battalions will remain eligible for United States military aid.
———- The times of Israel

Tubularsock is sure that recognizing “gross human rights violations” have been committed and continuing to provide arms to the violator is A WAR CRIME IN ITSELF!

Well …… only if Russia or Iran does it.

Maybe Israel themselves could investigate themselves.

It does give Tubularsock comfort that American Hypocrisy is alive and well on the world stage.

You may know or you may not that January 27th has been declared (back in the 1990’s) International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

AND THIS IS VERY SPECIAL! Why? You ask?

Simple. Israel is on its way to attempting to wipe out the Palestinian People at the present moment. AND NOW Israel is presently conducting genocide of the Palestinian People but this is all just a “copycat” activity for attention. Tubularsock supposes.

If all this is kept up by next year Israel will have to share Holocaust Remembrance Day with the Palestinian People and this will end all this whiny “I lost my relatives in the Holocaust” shit because ……. join the fucking crowd!

The amazing thing is the only group in the world that are attempting to stop the Israeli-orchestrated GENOCIDE directly are the Houthi. A rag-tag group of poor people that are throwing a monkey-wrench into world commerce in the Red Sea. AND THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE A NAVY!

And sure the U.S. and the British have bombed Yemen. That is how “democracy” acts. As usual.

Let us just admit the obvious. The great experiment of Jews and Arabs living next to each other got off to a very bad start. The first sign back in 1948 when Jews were shipped into the Arab land and stole the property from those WHO WERE ALREADY LIVING THERE was not a very good approach at “neighborhoodism”.

Doesn’t seem like a “good neighbor policy” to Tubularsock!

So Tubularsock has about the only plan to remedy this entire mess and it is pretty easy with a little cooperation from ALL the people involved.

ONE: The International Community provide Busses (not box cars) and have all the Israelis who wish to cooperate with the world community get on the Busses and be transported to Egypt.

TWO: Then they will disembark from the buses into a very complete “tent-city” with a HUGE fence around it for the protection of EVERYONE!

THREE: In the meantime the Palestinians would reclaim their land and live where they were driven from and thus have the full right of return.

FOUR: The International Community will oversee the FORMER Israelis by providing them with an Internationally Run Government. The Israelis will be able to vote but the IRG (Internationally Run Government) will make ALL decisions. Similar to the way Gaza has been run except by different people. AND IT WILL BE JUST AS FAIR!

FIVE: AND THERE WILL BE NO RIGHT OF RETURN BY FORMER ISRAELIS. Everyone is used to that concept!

SIX: No food, water, medicine will be allowed in the “tent-city” without the approval of the IRG. in order to provide safety.

Well that is the basic plan that Tubularsock has come up with but the idea is open ended so you may wish to add to the concept down in the comments.

There is just one item of business that still needs to be addressed.

This anti-semitic horseshit that is thrown around so freely like it might just hurt your feelings some how anytime you may criticize a Jewish anything. “You’re anti-semitic”!

“Semitism” can be applied to all Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians.

A “Semite” is simply a person who speaks a Semitic language!

BUT INTERESTINGLY the Jews adopt the term ANTI-Semitism for THEMSELVES whenever they feel picked on.

But in truth, if you had bad things to say about Arabs you would be an antisemite as well.

For Tubularsock it really doesn’t apply because remember Tubularsock is an EGALITARIAN and thereby hates EVERYONE EQUALLY!

But just because of this Middle Eastern mess, Tubularsock will from this day forward eat only Chinese Bagels! THAT WILL SHOW THEM!

And as for true peace on this planet ………….. hand Tubularsock the RED button!

OPTICAL DELUSION

 

Well. Are you paying attention yet?

Buydone’s First Attack as our protector and chief was to bomb Syria.

And you thought Russia and China were sitting at our borders ready to pounce.

NOPE. It’s Syria.

It was self defense. You are safe now. Feel better?

You see, Iran-backed militias are believed responsible for a Feb. 15 rocket attack in Iraq that killed a U.S. military contractor and wounded a U.S. service member.

Now you could say, “Wow, we’re still in Iraq? Haven’t we devastated Iraq completely yet?”

Well no we haven’t!

You see after Saudi Arabia attacked us on 9/11 we immediately invaded Afghanistan only to discover according to Donald Rumsfeld that, “. . . there aren’t any good targets in Afghanistan. And there are lots of good targets in Iraq”.
So we started a war in Iraq in order that we could lose two wars together. Afghanistan and Iraq. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?

Now we keep trying to start a war with IRAN but to date Iran just keeps out smarting us.
That and they have nuclear arms.

AND WE’VE DONE IT NOW!

In this last election all Tubularsock heard from so many is that we had to get rid of the Orange Dump and elect Slow Buydone so we all could GET BACK TO NORMAL!

And we’ve done it. No health care, no jobs, no fair minimum wage, AND NEVER ENDING WARS.

Congratulations America, WE’RE BACK!

So we have taken two F-15 fighter jets which cost $43.1 million each to build and they shot off seven precision guided missiles at a cost of $115,000.00 each and each F-15 cost $41,921.00 per hour in fuel not to even mention the cost of all the support necessary to conduct the mission which easily falls into the millions.

And we killed 17 people.

$86,200,000 plane cost
$805,000 missile cost
$125,763 fuel cost 1.5 hr flight time x 2

$87,130,763.00 divided by 17 = $5,125,339.00

And you know the funniest part?
NOT ONE MEMBER OF CONGRESS SAID, “Where will the money come from?”
A dead Syrian is worth more than an American citizen ……. very strange priorities, wouldn’t you say?

 

DRONE ON TRUMP

 

Now Tubularsock has become aware that an impeachment is really an old concept of the so called “civilized” world.

You know the story: “No one is above the law”. EVERYONE in the political sphere are willing to say that over and over with a straight face.

And yet, rather than look into the offense and totally investigate the charges, the game is to obstruct any just-process for investigating and dodge, using procedural maneuvering to bypass any information and hide it from the American people.

Seems par for the course to Tubularsock.

That is why Tubularsock sees that a more modern procedural process may be in order.

Just what if “A LONE WOLF” with access to drone driving takes out Air Force One on its way back from Mar-a- Lago blowing up Donald AND maybe even Ivanka (you know …. a twofer).

We could be shocked and run around pointing the finger at Iran, Venezuela, or Cuba for starters. OR EVEN the Deep State! (But whatever you do, don’t point a finger at Israel or Saudi Arabia.)

We could all run about saying “WHY?” or “WHAT HAVE WE DONE?” or “ONLY SOMEONE “EVIL’” would do such a thing!

You know, the same old brain dead response from Americans.

And then it would be off to war we go because what better way to abhor violence than to attack and kill …… well, those responsible.

EVEN if we don’t know or can’t prove who that may be it doesn’t really matter.

You remember Iraq, right? Or Afghanistan?

Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia which logically led to war with Iraq and Afghanistan.

So really, extortion, bribery, selling out to a foreign country for personal gain, using a political office to acquire financial gain, lie, cheat, obstruct justice and being Orange with small hands are really only minor qualifications of illegal activities for the Presidency as opposed to WAR CRIMES!

Just maybe Americans just might want to, besides draw and quarter the Orange Wonder, arrest and try Baby Bush and Obomber as well as the Orange Turd for Crimes Against Humanity!

And sure you can toss in fucking Killery and OLD Joe as well!

But that ain’t going to happen so Tubularsock will just have to wait for that Lone Wolf to do what others won’t do.

And please remember hypothetical scenarios ARE NOT threats but are simply wishful thinking of possibilities that could happen.

Tubularsock is not advocating violence toward anyone. But Tubularsock’s sympathy toward a dead rat is not high on Tubularsock’s compassionate scale. Just sayen’.

So how about a rousing chorus of kum ba yah to close.

 

OH, IRAN CAN YOU SEE? YEP!

 

There is always something and Tubularsock has discovered this little tidbit through his many stealth movements wondering about in the deep dark secrets catalogue of State Secrets and Miscellaneous Mishaps of “The Spy’s Are Us” Department.

 

On July 3rd the United States crossed over into Iranian air space intentional and tried to provoke Iran into shooting down another one of our planes. This time it was a manned RC-135V Rivet Joint SPY plane.

And here is the give-away, it flew directly over Sirri Island and Abu Musa and then turned around and flew right back over them again!

The U.S. Spy plane also changed its unique transponder number so as to appear as an Iranian plane. A tell-tail-sign of ill intent.

BUT IRAN didn’t take the bate even though on the island of Sirri the Iranian military has a decent air defense system to take down a RC-135V.

HOWEVER if the Iranians had responded as they had the right to do, can you imagine the outcry and the “overwhelming force” OrangeTurd promised from “Any attack by Iran on anything American . . .”!

And the timing looks like Mike Pompeo’s meetings with CENTCOM and Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida on Tuesday June 18th to “discuss regional security concerns and ongoing operations. . .” may have been a little bit more than it first appeared.

Especially when you throw into the mix that Henry Kissinger visited the Pentagon about the same time.

 

 

If Iran had fallen for the ploy there would have been the ramped up military attack on Iran coordinated and orchestrated by the three stooges Pompeo, Bolton, and Dump.

All in time for the WAR PATRIOTIC DISPLAY with the July 4th fireworks having been much larger with bombs bursting in air.

Oh say can you see …….. is the flag still there?

IT IS ALL IN THE TIMING.

DAMN, FOILED AGAIN!

IRAN SEEMS TO KNOW THE ASSHOLES’ IT’S DEALING WITH!

 

 

 

 

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar — Thank You.

 

Now let Tubularsock get this straight.

OrangeTweet, the brainless wonder, is attempting to promote the idea that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is somehow tied into 9/11 because she is a Muslim?

And the scum-level of the likes of Half-Aborted-Baby Donnie Jr. and the silly FoxLies & Friends host Brian Kilmeade are making a deal out of Omar’s statement about 9/11 when she said, “Some people did something”?

Well some people did do something! Orange Dump on 9/11 even before the dust cleared said in his charming sensitive way in a WWOR radio interview that because of the twin towers falling HE now had the tallest building in “downtown Manhattan”!

And as to be expected Dump was WRONG even with that! His building wasn’t! No surprise there.

Brian even went as far as questioning whether Omar, a Somali refugee, was “An American first” in her loyalty.

Ilhan Omar was born in 1981.

When Congresswoman Omar was two years old, “some people did something”, Ronald Reagan and his CIA were just starting to arm and train the Mujahadin fighters who morphed later into the Taliban and into Al-Qaeda by 1988.

And on 9/11, “some people did something” by doing NOTHING, and allowed 9/11 to happen!

And “some people did something” with the money backing from the Saudi Royal Family providing funding for the attack and with 15 of the 19 hijackers being Saudi is a major something!

And “some people did something” as in the Saudi Embassy sending two Saudi agents, posing as students, to test airline security prior to 9/11. (FBI reports)

And “some people did something” when Shrub directed his FBI to help put all well connected Saudis on jets and send them out of the U.S. WITHOUT even questioning ANY of them.

WOW! Sure looks to Tubularsock like “some people did something”!

 

 

And now, “some people are doing something” as OrangeTweet and Jared arranged to SELL Saudi Arabia the ability, in the future, to build an atomic bomb!

Ahhhhhhh …….. and Brian Kilmeade is asking if Congresswoman Omar is “An America Firster!” Shitttttt ………..!
Brian was kidding, right?

Oh Tubularsock forgot. Brian and the rest of Foxlies & Friends have their heads up there asses so far that the light of day is still a mystery to them.

And Mike Pompeo is running around worrying about Iran having an atomic bomb which to date they don’t.

But hell, NOW THEY WILL!

And we can thank OrangeDump as “the person that did something”!

And as expected, IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!

It appears that with Dump and Pompeo they will bring about another Pompeii but this time instead of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius it will only be an atomic chain reaction!

“America First” Are they fucking NUTS?

THAT is a rhetorical question!

 

 

 

 

TRUMP NOWHERE WALL— END OF THE LINE

 

Here’s a question for you America First Lovers. As OrangeTweet continues to promote a useless and limited wall to nowhere, Russia, India and Iran are working toward a 7,200-km long lane mixing sea and rail routes essentially linking the Indian Ocean with the Persian Gulf through Iran and Russia and further on down the road, to Europe.

The Japanese are looking toward a revamped Trans-Siberian Railway to improve trade connections with Russia and China. This too will help tie North and South Korea and Vietnam into closer economic ties as well.

There is no invasion here. No military attacks on sovereign countries or military bases being forced on any of them from the outside.

Just maybe that American Imperialism isn’t looking so good and the fact that we are losing on every front may mean that the U.S. is doing something drastically WRONG!

You know, if you really have something beneficial to offer, people will gravitate toward it. Not fight it. They’ll steal it!

Interesting that China and Russia are putting huge sums of money into infrastructure while we keep dumping huge sums of money into military exploits.

And on top of that the “best” plan is an ego-wall for the emperor!

The times have reversed …….. the end of the Han Dynasty in America?

IRAN–RATHER WALK!

 

Wow! Here’s some shit you need to know.

Rudy Giuliani addressed a rally in Paris Saturday June 30, 2018.

Get this …….. he spoke to a group called the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). These guys are mostly controlled by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK).

Remember the MeK? Come on, you remember.

The MeK was once listed by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. But you know how that wind changes right? Now those same TERRORISTS are our friends.

Tubularsock has a “feeling” that we have been here before. Try Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, even Vietnam for starters. And WE LOST or are still loosing.

But winning is not the point …….. destabilization is the point.

Can you imagine loosing a child because they joined the military to destabilize the world? What a waste. Sure shows how your dead child was just cannon fodder for the machine.

And the regular people of those countries lost big time. Hundreds of thousands of them, DEAD! And the United States of America killed them or had them killed!

FOR WHAT? Rest assured Mr. and Mrs. America is wasn’t for your safety.

Now Rudy Giuliani is their friend!

(An aside about Rudy. Every time I listen to or see Rudy Giuliani, Tubularsock has to wash his hands. The slim that runs off that son-of-a-bitch is intense!)

And MeK is a Marxist-Islamist cult built around the personality of its leader, Maryam Rajavi.

Rudy under direction from Trump are backing a Marxist-Islamist cult? Damn!

“We are now realistically being able to see an end to the regime in Iran. . .” Rudy tells the 4000 member crowd.

And much of the crowd was bought and payed for by the organizers. A large portion of the crowd were refugees and young eastern Europeans who had been bused in to attend the rally in return for a weekend trip to Paris.(The Guardian 6/30/18)

Damn the price some people will endure to get to Paris. Tubularsock would have done that! “Yeah MeK!, NOW, can I go and see The Louvre?”

Giuliani continued with, “The mullahs must go, the ayatollah must go, and they must be replaced by a democratic government which Madam Rajavi represents!

“Freedom is right around the corner … Next year I want to have this convention in Tehran!”

And then Rudy let the cat out of the bag, the current wave of protests in Iran are being orchestrated from outside the country! Wonder if anyone bothered to ask the Iranians?

“Those protests are not happening spontaneously,” Giuliani said. “They are happening because of many of our people in Albania [which hosts an MeK compound] and many of our people here and throughout the world.”

So is Rudy saying “our people” because Rudy is a Marxist-Islamist cult member?

And that is how the U.S. worked the overthrow in the Ukraine by joining with the fascists
to bring the country down. The majority of the people wanted to side with Russia NOT the U.S.

In fact, the U.S. put up 5 BILLION dollars to overthrow Ukraine.

Now what do you think the U.S. (that is YOU, taxpayer) is putting up to attempt the overthrow Iran?

AND FOR WHAT?

JUST HOW WILL IT BENEFIT YOU?

Well, figure in the cost of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and then go out and look at your pot holed streets and broken bridges and the 21 TRILLION DOLLARS that the Pentagon has lost track of ……. hey, it’s got to be someplace!

No, don’t bother to check your own bank account to find it. For sure it’s not there!

Trust Tubularsock on that!

Now before anyone gets all upset about just how “dangerous” Iran is to the U.S. Tubularsock is willing to concede this idea.

Lets put Giuliani, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Newt Gingrich in a jeep with each with a M-16 and let them charge the boarder.

 

 

Seriously, Tubularsock will back them from his top floor corner office overlooking Washington, D.C. from Oakland, CA!

VICTORY IS OURS!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MONEY TO BLOW!

1million 400 thousand dollars for ONE cruse missile and we sent 105 cruse missiles into Syria to destroy three supposedly chemical sites.

$1,400,000.00 times 105 = 147million dollars divided by 3 = $49,000,000. per target area.

And because 42 people in Syria were gassed by chemical weapons, so they say?

42 divided into 147,000,000.00 = $3,500,000.00 per gassed person.

Wow, and did it bring them back to life?

 

So WHO exactly profited?

 

Now when you look at the poor in this country both parties are not even close to outstanding in assisting the poor much at all.

But it is the Republican’ts who yell loudest against the poor. Yet few in either party ever question paying $1,400,000.00 for a Tomahawk Missile and then to blow off 105 of them and all prance around like something of importance has taken place is pathetic.

And then Trump-Puppet-Of-The-Neo-cons (TPOTN) acts like he has accomplished some major victory (“Mission Accomplished”) is pathetic as well. Talkin’ ‘bout LOSERS, Dumps our man!

 

And all of this bombing with no proof that chemical weapons were even used.

 

And recall that the last time this chemical thing came down Dump rushed off and bombed a Syrian airbase and killed 80 people. Again WITHOUT ANY PROOF that chemical weapon were really used.

Months after that bombing Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated that the U.S. has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people.

Yet the U.S. bomb and killed 80 people.

 

But this isn’t a new policy ……. The U.S. has been doing this for years upon years.

According to international law a country that attacks another country that does not pose a threat to that country is committing a war crime. So the U.S. has committed many war crimes. But hell we don’t count them when we do it.

And we call Iran and North Korea aggressive. When was the last time has either country attacked the U.S.?

How many times have Iraq or Libya attacked the U.S.?

Which makes the attack on the U.S. on 9/11 against the U.S. permissible behavior from an American standard. So why did WE get so pushed out of shape? It’s the same thing we do whenever we like, to other countries around the world.

Right?
HEY, IT’S THE AMERICAN WAY!

But none of these countries have attacked us, WE HAVE ATTACKED THEM but we call THEM the aggressors. Now that is some gold plated American BULL SHIT if you ask Tubularsock.