n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-11-11 06:17 PM
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Obama and the pursuit of endless war Updated at 11:21 AM
Steve Chapman
7:29 p.m. CDT, June 10, 2011
When historians sit down decades from now to address the events of the early 21st century, they will have no trouble explaining why Americans elected Barack Obama president. They elected him out of a firm conviction that the United States was not involved in enough wars.
Problem solved. Today, American forces are fighting in four countries.
No. 4 is Yemen, where we learn the administration is carrying out an intense covert campaign against anti-government militants, using fighter aircraft and drone missiles. It is being handled by the Pentagon in conjunction with the CIA, and according to The New York Times, "teams of American military and intelligence operatives have a command post in Sana, the Yemeni capital."
Feel safer? Probably not. Most of what presidents do with the U.S. military is not aimed at enhancing the security or welfare of the American people. It serves mainly to advance our domination of the world, even — or maybe especially — in places irrelevant to any tangible interests. Like Yemen.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-0...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1278947Yet still no calls for frogmarching, trial at the Hague, hanging at dawn, etc.
If this was President McCain doing all these things the left would be screaming WAR CRIMES!!!!!111 at the top of their pot smoke filled lungs.
Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-11-11 06:23 PM
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1. Bankrupting the nation is protecting us...or, something.
Your vice president said that we need to spend our way out of our bankruptcy.
Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-11-11 06:25 PM
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2. Fact: We elected a leader who ran on a campaign to end this shit.
Now that he's actually in office, things with these bullshit wars aren't getting better. They're getting worse. Someone else is clearly in charge and he's the one pulling Obama's strings.
Cheney is pulling 0bamas strings just like he did with *.
obxhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-11-11 08:04 PM
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5. When should we stop calling it the Neocon agenda?
Dems are just as complicit in the endless war as Pubs. It's a dual party effort.
Yet only the repukes need to be frogmarched and so forth.
madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-11-11 07:07 PM
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4. This is what I've been screaming about for 10 years.
It's the wars sucking us dry.
Yes, there are other factors but the wars are THE major factors, imo.
After we get out of Iraq and Afgan. Then we kill all the banksters. There, problem solved.
somone (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jun-12-11 12:22 PM
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8. No better proof that who we elected is just another corporate tool
in the service of corporate masters
That thread is full of racism. How dare they criticize our new young African-American President. They may as well be wearing hoods and robes.
tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Jun-12-11 12:24 PM
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9. knr. Sad, the decisions Obama has made.
Not sad enough to scream for impeachment though.
Everything they bitched about from Bush for 8 freaking years and they wanted him frogmarched and so forth for, is being done by 0bama and not one single call for impeachment, not one. No war crime chants, no demands for a trial at the Hague. The most they do is a couple of posts to complain then they take another toke, scratch themselves and cry for more freebies.
