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[conspiracysquirrels.com] Foreign Policy: Is Obama a Puppet?: Obama supported the decision by Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to include a timetable for American troop withdrawal in any new security agreements with the United States. The answer, provided to Mr.
[Philadelphia Independent Media Center - Passionate and Accurate Tellings of Truth] We are in a fog, When Obama's "Don't mess with my Wife", is ...: During the huge peace demonstration in England, right before the start of the Iraq war, a terror attack occurred at the US consulate in Turkey and at two synagogues. I and a friend were watching the protest on TV, awed by all the floats, puppets and pageantry.
[www.iraq-war.ru (en) RSS feed for articles and news] Obama's 'Big Brother' vanishes from speech 'Civilian security ...: Barack Obama's stunning assertion in a recent speech that the U.S. needs a "civilian national security force" that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force is not included in published transcripts of his prepared remarks.
[Far Left Rx] Transitioning from Iraq to”¦Afghanistan?: When the surge made it clear that the Americans weren’t leaving, the Iranians also recalculated. They understood that they were no longer going to be able to create a puppet government in Iraq, and the danger now was that the United States would somehow create a viable puppet government of its own.
[Tribe.net: Anarchism] Obama Lays Out Plans for Continued War: So Obama has no problems with Bush targeting civilians, irradiating U.S. troops and the Iraqi people, burying people alive, and re-installing a repressive monarchy in Kuwait. In addition, Obama wants to escalate the war in Afghanistan, send troops into Pakistan, is already threatening Iran with war, will never fully pull out of Iraq and only promises to pull out most troops in two years after an extended gradual re-deployment of troops to other wars, will continue to use murderous Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq, and promises billions in military aid to Israel.
[the Emerald City] Iraq's Falling Fig Leaf: All these ambitions, calculations and objectives relating specifically to the Middle East suddenly were achievable after the 9/11 attacks, but the Bush administration hid them behind other rationales - such as the goal of spreading democracy, the need to fight global terrorism or Islamo-facism, and the search for weapons of mass destruction.
[A War of Illusions] Selection ”˜08 - Buyer Beware! v.2: More than three years before the Bush administration elucidated the radical doctrine of preemptive war, McCain unveiled a plan during his first run at the presidency called “rogue-state rollback,” in which “we politically and materially support indigenous forces within and outside of rogue states” ”” including Iraq, North Korea and Serbia ”” “to overthrow regimes that threaten our interests and values.” And if the “odious regimes” crack down on freedom fighters, the U.S. should respond with force. In that campaign, McCain was the neocons’ choice against the more internationally “humble” George Bush.
[Comments at The Washington Independent - US news and politics - washingtonindependent.com] Mark Heyrman: It is disheartening to see critics of the Iraq ...: Rather than simply pushing to anoint Chalabi, Feith says his office developed a formal plan for political reorganization built around an entity to be known as the Iraq Interim Authority. The plan -- abandoned by the White House in the immediate aftermath of the invasion -- called for a temporary government that would include U.S. officials, leading Iraqi exiles and Iraqis who had remained in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s rule.
[Tribe.net: Intelligent Political Discussion] Re: Obama Lays Out Clear Plan For Iraq Withdrawal In NYT Op-Ed: Obama’s effort, quite pronounced in his Iowa City speech, to link his campaign to the legacy and inspiration of the Civil Rights Movement stands in disturbing relation to an argument he makes in The Audacity of Hope. In a chapter titled “Race,” Obama tries to reassure the white voting majority by claiming that “what ails working- and middle-class blacks is not fundamentally different from what ails their white counterparts.” Equally soothing to the master race is Obama’s argument that “white guilt has largely exhausted itself in America” as “even the most fair-minded of whites...tend to push back against suggestions of racial victimization and race-based claims based on the history of racial discrimination in this country.” Part of the reason for this “push back” - also known as denial - is, Obama claims, the bad culture and poor work-ethic of the inner-city black poor (Obama 2006, pp.
[...gettingpaidtowatch :: A New York Mets Blog] WAR/POLITICS: Is Maliki Really Trying to Set a Timeline for Our ...: The danger is that rhetoric intended for domestic political consumption in Iraq will warp our own political discussion by providing fodder for those who, like Obama, are now citing the success of U.S. forces, as they once cited their failure, as evidence that we can pull out safely. The reality is that while limited troop withdrawals are now possible without compromising the gains of the surge, going too far too fast can still throw our growing success into doubt.
[BillOReilly.com Blog] Now for the Hard Part: From Iraq to Afghanistan: The Iranians' expectation had been that the United States would withdraw from Iraq unilaterally, and that when it did, Iran would fill the vacuum it left. This would lead to the creation of an Iranian-dominated Iraqi Shiite government that would suppress the Sunnis and Kurds, allowing Iran to become the dominant power in the Persian Gulf region.
[wealthshare Society] Family Feud; Obama, Brzezinski, and the Neolib-Neocon: The lessons of Iraq speak for themselves. Eventually, if neo-con policies continue to be pursued, the United States will be expelled from the region and that will be the beginning of the end for Israel as well.
[The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed] Joe Lauria: Why Bush Has Won in Iraq and the Rest of Us Have Lost: From a human viewpoint, the invasion of Iraq has been an unmitigated disaster. It has caused regional instability for the foreseeable future.
[Lgamadonna's Weblog] 4/11: In want of Iraq: MoveOn.org is bereft of life polling members on route to circumscribe”Which Running mate is lick intelligent on anteposition the woodland out of pocket the Russo-Japanese War up-to-date Iraq?” after all if anticipatory blogger reviews .
[mothanskin.blog-city.com] "Turkish Secularists Begin Resistance": "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." Thomas Jefferson "Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto." Thomas Jefferson "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." Thomas Jefferson
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