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 Why George Bush Loves John McCainPosted on Mar 11, 2008
John McCain now owns the Republican presidential nomination, and he also has Iraq all to himself. He has identified strongly with the “surge,” trumpeting it as a success, confident we are on the side of history. Success, for him, means winning the war and thwarting further terrorist attacks on the United States. But now, as our potential commander in chief, this is not enough: McCain is calling for arms, treasure and energy to do more. The traits, the taste for Empire remain. McCain is the candidate who presumes to speak with the greatest authority on Iraq. It is his signature—and, seemingly, his sole—issue. Apparently his experience as a naval officer gives his views great authority. The Democratic presidential candidates (and Congress) meanwhile are his accomplices. They have conceded the ground to him, and they do so with no counterattacks on his positions and strategic vision, ones at odds with public opinion, and which have proved futile and empty during the past seven years. Hillary Clinton wishes the issue away, vaguely promising to reduce our presence after she hears back from the joint chiefs. Barack Obama similarly uses vague assertions, while deftly counterpunching against Clinton’s charges that he will not know how to answer the phone at 3 a.m. In his maiden speech as the nominee, McCain reiterated his support for destroying Saddam Hussein’s regime but artfully insisted that he had criticized the “failed tactics” that bogged us down for so long. Truth be told, McCain has retreated from his earlier claim, at the Reagan Library debate on Jan. 30, that he urged President Bush to dismiss Donald Rumsfeld. That turned out to be untrue, and he has since finessed his position, simply asserting the familiar military litany: We had to do more. McCain believes “that the next president doesn’t get to remake that decision” to go to war. We were right to be there, and he adds that we will remain there as long as our “adversaries in the region . . . extend their influence and undermine our security there.” “Our security there”—sounds like a battle cry for establishing our own garrison state, fulfilling George W. Bush’s wish for an American presence similar to what we have enjoyed for over 60 years in Korea. For Bush, the “Korea model,” as he called it, means a U.S. presence for stabilizing the Middle East. He clearly intends his successors to defend and continue his war, expanding his grandiose visions for the area—with, incidentally, no disruptions for our friends who supply us with oil. McCain is just what the president ordered. The debate today about American forces in Iraq is really quite simple: We discuss how we will stay, not how we will leave. Perhaps there will be some drawdowns to a friendly perimeter. But the indications are that we intend to stay. The fortress that is our embassy is nearing completion; the permanent bases in the country are set in concrete. McCain makes no secret of his plans for our future in Iraq, while his possible opponents play semantic games, each anxious to burnish his or her anti-war bona fides, but both increasingly aware of their current inability to affect the facts on the ground and of the futility they will face if elected. Borrowing familiar lines from the Richard Nixon Vietnam Playbook, a war that still reverberates in his mind, McCain stated that we can leave only with “our country’s interests secure and our honor intact.” Bush clearly intends to establish the facts before he leaves office, and his successor (and successors) probably will be able to do little. American Ambassador Ryan Crocker and numerous officials from the White House, Pentagon and the State Department are set to begin talks between the U.S. and Iraq to establish plans for what the Pentagon has called “a long-term relationship” between the two nations. This will include, of course, the inevitable status-of-forces agreement, establishing the legal basis for the presence of American troops. Basically, such agreements give the U.S. extraterritorial control over its bases and personnel. Congress has no role in this. The American ambassador has said that the president alone will determine the agreements with Iraq. His successor will have little effect on them, short of outright repeal. Defense Secretary Robert Gates parted the curtain when he said, “I would anticipate that there would be some modest level of U.S. troops in Iraq at the invitation of a sovereign Iraqi government for some considerable period of time.” The Iraqi defense minister tosses out the date—2018. For good measure, in his victory speech McCain obliquely reminded us about the Kyl-Lieberman amendment, which he and Sen. Clinton supported and which allowed, if not encouraged, the president to “combat” and “contain” Iran and its hostile acts in Iraq. McCain noted that we must not encourage terrorists “to attack us elsewhere with weapons we dare not allow them to possess.” Obviously, McCain shares Bush’s obsession with Iran. In the meantime, a linchpin of the axis of evil, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, visited Baghdad—without a vast deployment of American armed guards—and was welcomed with bright smiles, red carpets and warm embraces. Imagine the cloistered welcome for Bush or McCain if either goes there to sign a security treaty, guaranteeing the presence of American troops in Iraq for years to come. Bush has determined and is further implementing his vision of the future; McCain endorses it; he is on board. Bush has vetoed Congress’ limited strictures against torture, including a ban on waterboarding and other extreme interrogation tactics. McCain’s one-time opposition to torture is now a thing of the past. Furthermore, he has refused to join a bipartisan group of his Senate Armed Services colleagues in asking for an audit of how Iraq is spending its oil revenues. The more things change, the more they remain the same. The only thing we learn from the past is to forget it. But not so long ago, Vietnam taught us invaluable lessons. No, they were not about dominoes that never fell; it was that the United States had to understand and recognize the limits of power. An arrogant giant, knowing no boundaries, no restraint, could be defeated by Lilliputians. George W. Bush hardly gave the Vietnam War a thought 40 years ago, and surely he does not now. And sadly, neither does John McCain, who, with all that experience, should know better. Stanley Kutler is the author of “Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes.” Previous item: So Much for the Surge Next item: Spitzer's Shame Is Wall Street's Gain Elsewhere: . CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment |
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By Superfly J, May 28 at 12:29 pm #
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I must say...you are right. But, if it’s not America’s death machine it would be another country’s. Which do you prefer? Hail John McCain! Look for oil near $200.00 by mid-2009! I dollar is getting killed and when the Chinese quit loaning us money, we won’t be able to buy a pot to piss in. That is the real issue.
Report thisBy GaryA, March 15 at 11:34 pm #
The appeal that stands the best chance of drawing votes is one only McCain could utter:
“My fellow Americans: We are at war, in perhaps the most perilous position in our entire history. We face an implacable, ruthless foe who hates us for the ideals we most hold dear - freedom, democracy, human rights and loyalty to Christ’s revealed truth.
“Our Democratic opponents insist on giving up on hope for the Middle East; on giving up on democracy for the Middle East; on giving up human rights and religious freedom for the Middle East. The Democrats insist on surrendering the Middle East to despotic tyrants who will stop at nothing in attempting to snuff out our freedoms, our democracy, our love of human rights and our Christianity.
“Neither of the possible Democratic candidates have been tested in war. But I have. I know the determination and bloodthirstiness of the enemy. And I, more than anyone else, know what to do to save our homeland from imminent peril.
“A vote for a Democrat is a vote to surrender to radical Islamofascism. A vote for me is to stand against evil, to stand against tyranny, and to stand against Godlessness.
“There is but one choice: John McCain!”
Now if anyone thinks McCain’s inevitable victory won’t be won by rhetoric that runs along these lines, they’ve completely missed how it was Bush was re-elected for a second term.
Gary
Report thisBy Blackspeare, March 15 at 1:31 pm #
Mr. Bell....
Your dripping sarcasm is over the top. You are making jest of the only nominee for president who can preserve and save the American way! As the US economy is headed into an abyss, the only way to distract the rank and file from this monetary dilemma is to forge ahead with never-ending war. McCain, an old military dog, knows that victory means total annihilation of the enemy’s ability to conduct a war of any kind whether it’s conventional or asymetrical. McCain will show Iran and the rest of the world that the US and the Republican party is no paper elephant! While gasoline may be at $4/gallon and perhaps approaching $5 and people’s homes are being foreclosed, a decisive military victory will assuage any ill feelings towards the government. Remember keeping the Homeland safe is the most important function of the government. Even if people do not survive the economy or succumb due to a lack of medical insurance better to die that way than at the hands of an enemy----whomever that may be!!! “Long live the enlightened elite” And with the funds accumulated to date between the war machine engine and the commodities market, they and their progeny will certainly live long! I, for one, am grateful that Dick Cheney and his ilk and their descendants will live a very comfortable life well into the future----it’s nice to have an endowment in perpetuity!
Report thisBy Louise, March 15 at 5:58 am #
Brilliant!
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Report this[and funny -
Thanks!
By Eric Allen Bell, March 13 at 5:52 am #
By Eric Allen Bell
San Antonio, Texas. (March 12) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Wednesday he has begun the process of finding a vice presidential running mate and wants someone who shares his rage and can take his place.
Speaking to reporters on a campaign plane, loaned to him by lobbyists for oil companies and war machines, the expected Republican nominee said he had seen news reports that famed serial killer Charles Manson, had expressed interest in the job, but he offered no comment one way or the other on whether Manson would be a candidate.
Manson told Fixed News Channel’s “Hannity and Colmes” on Tuesday that “any Serial Killer in this country would be honored to be asked to serve as the vice presidential nominee for John McCain, myself included.” He went on to say that, “The over 1 million innocent people killed since the Iraqi invasion makes George Bush the ultimate serial killer, especially given that half of those murdered were innocent children. I feel that McCain has what it takes to carry on that legacy and even outdo Bush with the upcoming invasion of Iran. This is history in the making.” Said Manson, “And I’d like to be a part of it.”
McCain will face either Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York or Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in November. Clinton, herself an aspiring serial killer who supported the Iraq invasion, has the blood of a half million innocent dead Iraqi children on her hands and seems to feel no remorse. Said Manson, “She is gifted with the ability to harm others and feel no pain but rather seek the spotlight to increase her base of power. I feel that, given the opportunity, she will kill again”.
When asked about Democratic Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, Manson went on to say, “He is not ready to mass murder on day one. He lacks the experience of taking human lives for pleasure or for personal gain. I don’t know how anyone can take him seriously.”
At a town-hall meeting in San Antonio, Texas, McCain had this to say, “My friends, I fought in Viet Nam. I was a trained killer” Said the Arizona Senator, “I don’t remember what we were fighting for, but I loved to kill and, given the opportunity to serve this country as Commander and Chief, I can promise you a blood bath in the Middle East. America will never be looked at the same way ever again once I leave office.” he said.
Talking to reporters on his campaign bus, the Double Talk Express, the 71-year-old McCain made clear he has not put together a list of candidates yet but has some ideas in mind. He said he could not say whether Charles Manson was “on or off the list.” There have been some unconfirmed rumors on the Beltway that McCain was also in talks with military commanders at Guantanamo Bay for the number two slot.
NO DECISION EXPECTED SOON
Offering some details on what type of person he was considering, McCain said he he did not think the vice presidential candidate needed to be from a certain region, “So long as he is male, not a homosexual, a devout Christian and white.”
McCain said he and advisers have begun discussing “what was the process that was used in other campaigns, what process should we go through.” He added, “I just can’t wait to get my finger on the button of this nation’s Nuclear arsenal. That’s just some straight talk, my friends. Power makes me feel high and I want to destroy things, entire villages, men women and children. I don’t care about oil. I keep saying this war is not about oil. This is about showing my father that I am number one and showing the world that America is number one.”
McCain added that “Given the principals of the Neoconservative movement, I believe that Charles Manson would be on anyone’s short list.”
When asked if the Senator would consider Ann Coulter for the Vice Presidential nominee he remarked, “Now that would be going too far.”
http://www.WeCanStopMcCain.org
Report thisBy Expat, March 12 at 10:59 pm #
^ will be the coup de grâce for Americas’ standing in the world. Bernard Kouchner (foreign minister of France) has said “The Magic is Over” for America. Here’s a link to the International Herald Tribune article if you would like to read it.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/03/12/europe/france.php
Report thisBy Expat, March 12 at 10:48 pm #
^ Fear is a thief; do not let it steal from you.
Report thisBy cyrena, March 12 at 9:47 pm #
I have to disagree on this, just for the sake of keeping it real.
As bad as McCain has become, he can never be MORE STUPID or as depraved as GWB.
Seriously, nobody in any government, (including the very worst of the worst dictators) has had the COMBINATION of ignorance and depravity that George Bush represents.
Hitler was as depraved, but not so stupid. Same with the worst of the worst that you can imagine. Dick Cheney is probably even MORE depraved than GWB, (if that can be imagined) but he’s far from stupid, and therein lies the difference.
I don’t believe that McCain is stupid, because he hasn’t ALWAYS been. People don’t just ‘become’ stupid over a short period of time, unless they are afflicted by some disease.
I honestly believe that McCain is suffering from some personality changing disorder. It could be Alzheimer’s, since the science and the studies point to it in ever increasing numbers of the population.
That is NOT the excuse for GW, since he has ALWAYS been both stupid and depraved..psychopathic if you will.
So in all fairness, and in acknowledgment of the fact that John McCain at this point, would do nothing more than to complete the ongoing destruction, (here as well as the rest of the planet) he still isn’t as inherently stupid as GWB.
Report thisBy don knutsen, March 12 at 7:57 pm #
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GW Bush bases his amount of personal gratitude about as far as that person can benifit GW Bush and no further. When confronted with a person who has taken a beating just a few years ago by the muckraking machinery that has become the head of the republican party, and still that person, so doggedly determined to claim the throne is willing to suck up whatever honor they had and placate to a president who after nearing the end of two terms still hasn’t evolved beyond a sniveling spoiled brat full of himself....we’ll ofcourse GW Bush admires John McCain.
Report thisBy Mike Meyer, March 12 at 7:07 pm #
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Call Nancy Pelosi @1-202-225-0100 and DEMAND IMPEACHMENT. DC business hours only, call often, and spread it around.
Report thisIMPEACHMENT would hand the PRESIDENCY to the Dems on a silver platter, and would CRUSH Republican Presidential hopes completely.
By Louise, March 12 at 6:29 pm #
Oh so many good and true comments. I cant really think of anything to add.
OK you know me too well.
Bush Loves McCain because McCain loves Bush. His gratitude knows no bounds, because nobody else does. Well except maybe for his wife and his Scotty dog. And I’m not even sure about that.
Maybe the Scotty dog.
[Just between you and me and the world at large, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Laura take up “separate” residence once they move out of the White House.]
Maybe McCain’s view of the war reflects too many years sitting in a cell thinking about how different it might have been if the war had been handled his way. And I don’t mean to make light of his years in prison, it must have been Hell. But it must have also been a time and place where bitterness could have lingered. And fantasies about his way could have been there. And as has been noted, for a man with first hand experience with torture and illegal imprisonment, he seems to have shifted his focus to the other side of reality.
But unfortunately, since the war profiteers are still profiting, and the feeble minded have not had the war come home to them yet, he welcomes the opportunity to be their man. Even if he does seem to have tipped over slightly. Even if he does seem to have forgotten the right side of wrong. [Or is it the other way around?] Even if he really truly can not handle the job.
But then we have had a president for almost eight years who really truly can not handle the job. So why should a little thing like that worry him? I think what worries me more is McCain [or someone] hinting he may ask Romney to be his Vice. And Romney [or someone] saying he would love to be. Now that is a scary thought. Because other than having good hair, good teeth and being younger, Romney really truly is not qualified for the job.
Maybe they’ll keep Cheney on as Chief of State, or Chief of something ...
Report thisChief of the presidency?
By bozhidar bob balkas, March 12 at 3:10 pm #
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rulers or terrorists. it’s best to issue a ransom on heads of the perpetrators of a criminal offense and especially an offense of a perceived right to bear arms like the superpowers bear. recall, that when truman sent enola gay to bomb civs, nobody attacked america and nobody should h. attacked it. instead, a ransom on his head should h. been put. that crime against civilians was one the worst ever perpetrated. even by US definition of innocence, citizens of hiroshima and nagasaki were innocent. to my knowledge, not single american h. condemned that act. the event was ominous. failure to speak out is costing americans a lot right now and may cost a lot in the future. thank u.
Report thisBy DennisD, March 12 at 1:10 pm #
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“Why George Bush Loves John McCain”
This just shows that there really is someone out there for everybody no matter how f**ked up they are.
Report thisBy Democracy in America NOW, March 12 at 12:51 pm #
Your story has it all wrong. You don’t realize the TRUE relationship between Bush and McCain. I figured it out when I saw Bush kissing the King of Saudi Arabia and McCain kissing the same guy about a month later.
They are all taking orders from the SAUDI’S, so in that sense they are business partners. Bush makes about 35 Cents Per Gallon of gas that has been sold, ABOVE $2.00 Per Gallon. That’s the deal he cut with OPEC. His family is putting away BILLIONS for the last 7 years. AND, if McCain is elected, he will get an OVER-RIDE of another 10 Cents Per Gallon, with McCain getting the 35 Cent commission that now goes to BUSH. So, his interests in getting McCain reelected are very substantial financially. This is why they have buried the hatchet. One of them remember is conservative and the other one a liberal, so they have hated each other up until McCain became the Front Runner. Now, they have to be chummy for the Saudi’s to continue paying their commission.
For more on this and HOW to get YOUR COUNTRY BACK.
GOTO: http://www.realdemocracyinamerica.com
Report thisBy whyzowl1, March 12 at 10:42 am #
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence, clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken (1920)
Mencken’s observation explains how politics, how power, works, indeed, how it has always worked. “Progressives” tend to be heady, analytical types who vote for the candidate they think has the best policies—in other words, they vote their hopes. But when the general election rolls around, the stupid, frightened majority of Americans—imaginary hobgoblins in mind—will not vote their hopes; they will vote their fears.
Democrats can win only by revealing the imaginary nature of the dire threats we supposedly face, and thus deflate the baseless fears of the American electorate. This, they will not do, because to do so would undermine not just their own legiimacy, but the legitimacy of the entire Amerikan Imperial Death Machine. There’s no hope for hope, so long as fear rules the roost.
Hail (or is it, “Heil?") President McCain!
Report thisBy amunaor, March 12 at 7:53 am #
** cyrena< This is what I’ve been saying for ages now. Hillary and John McCain would be the repug/war party dream ticket.>
Amen to that cryena!
**< Then I giggled more at the ‘munitions dealer’ title for Gates.>
Who can weep anymore? My tear ducts have run completely dry!
It should be obvious to anyone by now, that Hillary is simply the Elephant in a Corporate Donkey Suit, who loves McCain more than she does her own; the War-Boys can do, Top-Gun, girl. Hillary’s scorched earth policy approach to her campaign, will, no doubt, if prolonged, in her spiteful pursuit, will destroy the village in order to save it; along with her child the village was intended to raise.
Clinton should be running on McCain’s ticket as his Vice-bomber. She can fly as McCains co-pilot ‘bombardier’ as they sail off into the wild-west blue yonder seeking to bomb other miscreants into submission to U.S. corporate interests abroad.
Peace, Best Wishes and Hope
Report thisBy amunaor, March 12 at 7:34 am #
.....more stupid and equally psychopatic!
Report thisBy Rhonda Jeanne, March 12 at 6:55 am #
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There must something seriously wrong with McCain´s brain that he can forget being a torture victim and become a joiner with BUSH--anything for the presidency, I guess. How much does being a military officer qualify him as some kind of foreign policy expert? We´re losing the smart military men like Fallon to these know-nothings. Obama, please address the folly of these stupid wars to preserve what´s left of our country! The economic waste alone will bankrupt us. Hillary´s not the one. She has the perfect temperment and ambition to be Commander in Chief, and she will relish the power. And maybe keep us in Iraq for 100 years.
OBAMA, IT IS TIME TO SPEAK UP ABOUT THIS......
Report thisBy jatihoon, March 12 at 4:40 am #
Bush love McCaine, because he finally found somebody who is more “STUPID”, then he is.
Report thisBy Purple Girl, March 12 at 3:48 am #
W. has been told by his Corp Sponsors to embrace (literally & figuratively) Mac and no doubt Hillary. either way they plan to seize the WH again this Election -by Hook or Crook methods as Ususal (business as Usual)
Report thisIa actually admired Mac at one time (even being a life long Dem)Had to give him at least a Nod during his 00 run- a worthy opponent- certianly more so than W.
But He , along with many in the Dem party have gone in for ‘tune ups’ and come out Corporationists. Willing to sell our country and our Citizens on the international Auction Block - futures included. Indentured Slavery for the next Century.
Regardless which Corp Operative (Mac or Hillary)wins the end will be the same, The End of The Great Experiement! Heckova Job, surely our Founding Fathers, and all those who have given their lives throughout the centuries, will be Proud of those who now stand in their shoes
Please explain the difference between what W & Dick have done for the people of this Country an dBin Laden ahs done for His People? Nothing but sell them off and get them killed in the name of Arrogance and Money (oil revenues motivate both).
I know where Binny is - waiting for Dick to arrive for Celebratory drinks in Dubia, or is he in th eman sized safes in Dicks off, smoking Cuban Cigars? A multi national conglomerates game of “Good Cop/ Bad Cop” the same people (Rove) even write their statements. yep Binny should hang, but with Dick right next to him for Crimes against Humanity.
By cyrena, March 11 at 10:53 pm #
zeeitgeist..
Love the title…
This is what I’ve been saying for ages now. Hillary and John McCain would be the repug/war party dream ticket.
Then I giggled more at the ‘munitions dealer’ title for Gates. Indeed he is. I didn’t know he was on the mission to India and Poland though.
McCain and Lieberman are on the way to Israel, London, and Paris.
Yes, peace is their greatest enemy, and they will kill the enemy (peace) at any and all costs.
Report thisBy amunaor, March 11 at 10:11 pm #
What this savage republican ‘party of war’ fears the most is: Peace. It is their greatest enemy!
An army of soldiers can do anything with their bayonets, but sit on them; they must use them or lose them.
I see where munitions dealer, secretary Gates, went on a mission to India and Poland, peddling their deadly toys, presented in the candy-wrapper of security.
The shrill ringing in McCain’s ears is not the result of tinnitus, from old age, but the strain of ‘Bombs Bursting in Air’.
Peace, Best Wishes and Hope
Report thisBy cyrena, March 11 at 9:55 pm #
“….Congress has no role in this. The American ambassador has said that the president alone will determine the agreements with Iraq. His successor will have little effect on them, short of outright repeal.”…
This is probably true, and so this is why Obama has been able to do little to effect the conditions as they are on the ground now.
“….Obviously, McCain shares Bush’s obsession with Iran.”..
As does Hillary, which is why they both supported and allowed the Kyl-Leiberman amendment, which directly targets Iran. However, contrary to what many in Congress (including Nancy Pelosi) seem to believe, the ORIGINAL authorization that Hillary and McCain supported, ALSO allows Dick Bush to attack Iran and pretty much anybody else he says is a terrorist threat to “American interests’ anywhere on the globe. This is implicitly embedded in the language of the original authorization, and there’s no doubt that Dick Cheney’s lawyers wrote it that way for that reason.
• “The more things change, the more they remain the same. The only thing we learn from the past is to forget it.”
Ah…here it is. The ‘learning to forget’ is actually the organized effort to impose amnesia on the general populace, which is required in order to make impunity forever viable for the perpetrators, (heads of state) of so many crimes against humanity over the decades.
This ‘lifetime immunity’ for criminals could not be accomplished without imposing this amnesia on the populace. Doesn’t matter if the people of course remember there tortures, and EVERYBODY knows who the tortures are, and who has created the disasters. Doesn’t even matter that the tortures themselves know that EVERYBODY knows who they are, and what they’ve done. As long as they can avoid any official acknowledgement of those crimes, and who is to blame, then the perpetrators remain immune forever.
Nixon was pardoned, and Regan lived out the rest of his life in luxury and the cushion of his plagued-up Alzheimered brain. Johnson may have suffered some personal anguish, but overall, these atrocities have never been acknowledged, and the perpetrators have never been held accountable for the misery they’ve created at home and throughout the world. Miseries that continue to this day; Crimes Against the Peace, and Crimes Against Humanity. Until we formally acknowledge this, and hold those responsible accountable for their crimes, this nation cannot heal.
So, this should be a warning to Obama, if only in terms of a nudge back to his own established track. The author notes that he’s spending time responding to Clinton tactics, and it would appear that as a result, too many people have NOT been privy to Obama’s own position on torture, (it is never, ever, permissible under ANY circumstances for ANY reason.. he has said this) and his positions on the war that he spoke out against so vehemently before it began.
He needs to re-affirm his position on withdrawal from Iraq, which is to begin withdrawal immediately upon taking office, and to have all troops out before the end of 2009. I’ve actually heard him say this as well, and on the record, on national media. Apparently others have heard the same, which would explain why he is winning the Democratic nominating primaries. He has said the same about permanent military bases in Iraq, there will NOT be any permanent military bases in Iraq.
Still, it appears from this excellent article that Obama needs to make sure that EVERYBODY knows these are his plans, and he should remind us that while the author may be correct that they little else a new president can do “short of outright repeal” he CAN do that. REPEAL them, and he should make it clear that he will.
Hillary says the first thing SHE would do, is to send her husband and Bush I on a joint ‘peace mission’ throughout the world. So much for maintaining the amnesia; or at least trying to.
As if we could forget.
Report thisBy 911truthdotorg, March 11 at 7:39 pm #
Stupid is as stupid does....very evil stupidity, unfortunately.
Please watch this video on Google video: http://www.themoneymasters.com/
It’s very long, but try to watch the last 15-30min
It’s EXACTLY how they’re destroying our economy and country.
9/11 was an inside job...the catalyst for everything.
Report thishttp://www.911truth.org
http://www.ae911truth.org
By msgmi, March 11 at 5:41 pm #
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During the 2000 GOP campaign Bush et al threw slime, dirt, and fesces at John McCaine the war hero ...now they are ‘amigos’ and world order seekers. McCaine has turned out to be a disappointment, blinded by political ambition.
Report thisBy QuyTran, March 11 at 5:21 pm #
The master and his new poodle !
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