As
I listened to clips of Obama's speech to the VFW on August 17th, 2009,
I was wondering if his speechwriters were on vacation and they just
recycled an old Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice speech.
While
the so-called left is focused on the health care debacle and is
allowing the so-called right to define the debate when it should be:
Medicare for all, and all for Medicare; Obama and his neocon foreign
policy team are preparing for a decades long, bloody foray in Af-Pak.
As Yael T. Abouhalkah, an editorial writer for the Kansas City Star, put it:
President Barack Obama did his best imitation of former President George Bush Monday at the VFW national convention in Phoenix.
Obama
sounded downright hawkish -- and, yes, presidential -- when he
addressed the issue of terrorism in front of the veteran-laden
crowd"Dick Cheney could not have said it better.
This
is one of the reasons I am leading protests next week on Martha's
Vineyard where President Obama will be vacationing. The anti-war
movement cannot allow itself to be co-opted by the Democratic Party any
longer.
We cannot allow the War Party and other elites to define the terms of the War Debate.
Obama actually had this to say in his speech in front of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW):
We
must never forget. This is not a war of choice. This is a war of
necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so
again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even
larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more
Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is
fundamental to the defense of our people.
One thing that we must NEVER forget is that the Taliban, and especially the people of Afghanistan (26 members of a WEDDING party, not WAR party, but WEDDING party were bombed and killed yesterday) DID NOT attack us on 9/11. Even if Osama did plan the attacks from someplace in Afghanistan (not likely) this war of choice is not about defending America. Remember: profit is not a consequence of war, it is the reason for war. And how can we as a nation allow the War Party to sacrifice innocent babies for the illusion of safety? Afghanistan is just as much a war of choice as Iraq is, and Obama is choosing to continue it by exploiting the lies.
What is fundamental to the defense of our people is a sane foreign
policy, not more war crimes brought to the world by the War Criminals
in DC. What is fundamental to our health and prosperity is to bring the
troops home from Iraq-Af-Pak and reduce the Pentagon budget so we can
afford such basic human rights as health care, housing and education.
Besides
Afghans and Pakistanis being killed and displaced at a Bushian clip,
these days, our troops are increasingly being killed and wounded so the
War Profiteers can squeeze more bucks out of violence. More of our
families will be harmed while most of the anti-war movement stands down
for Obama.
This is unconscionable.
I
don't care if you love Obama, or hate him, or something in between (he
has the lowest approval ratings of any President after 7 months in
office), we must loathe his wars and his crazy hate speech directed at
our brothers and sisters in war torn regions.
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