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<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><font
face="Georgia">["A Promise Kept, A Promise Deferred"? Not at
all. And this is hardly the time that the soi-disant left
should be making excuses for the US government's war
policy.]<br>
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On Tuesday night, Barack Obama<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/world/01military.html"
title="" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(13, 80, 122);">gave a speech from the Oval
Office<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>on
Iraq that was almost as full of hideous, murderous lies as
the speech on Iraq his predecessor gave in the same location
more than seven years ago.<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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After mendaciously declaring an "end to the combat mission
in Iraq" -- where almost 50,000 regular troops and a similar
number of mercenaries still remain, carrying out the same
missions they have been doing for years -- Obama delivered
what was perhaps the most egregious, bitterly painful lie of
the night:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Georgia">"Through this remarkable
chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we
have met our responsibility."<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br>
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"<em>We have met our responsibility!</em>" No, Mister
President, we have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>not</em>.
Not until many Americans of high degree stand in the dock
for war crimes. Not until the United States pays hundreds of
billions of dollars in unrestricted reparations to the
people of Iraq for the rape of their country and the mass
murder of their people. Not until the United States opens
its borders to accept all those who have been and will be
driven from Iraq by the savage ruin we have inflicted upon
them, or in flight from the vicious thugs and sectarians we
have loosed -- and empowered -- in the land. Not until you,
Mister President, go down on your knees, in sackcloth and
ashes, and proclaim a National of Day of Shame to be marked
each year by lamentations, reparations and confessions of
blood guilt for our crime against humanity in Iraq.<br>
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Then and only then, Mister President, can you say that
America has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>begun<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>-- in even
the most limited, pathetic way -- to "meet its
responsibility" for what it has done to Iraq. And unless you
do this, Mister President --<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>and you never
will</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--
you are just a lying, bloodsoaked apologist, accomplice and
perpetrator of monstrous evil, like your predecessor and his
minions -- many of whom, of course, are now<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>your<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>minions.<br>
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I really don't have anything else to say about this
sickening spectacle -- which is being compounded in Britain,
where I live, by the sight today of Tony Blair's
murder-tainted mug plastered on the front of the main
newspapers, as he makes the rounds pushing his new book,
doling out "exclusive interviews" full of crocodile tears
for the soldiers he had murdered in the war crime he
committed and the "great suffering" of the Iraqi people
which, goodness gracious, he never foresaw and feels, gosh,
really bad about. All this laced with venomous comments
about his former colleagues -- those who, like Gordon Brown,
sold their souls to advance Blair's vision of aggressive war
abroad and corporate rapine at home -- along with, of
course, earnest protestations of his God-directed good
intentions, and his unwavering belief that killing a million
innocent human beings in Iraq was "the right thing to do."
Pol Pot could not have been more blindly self-righteous than
this wretched moral cretin.<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><font
face="Georgia">I will say again what I have said here many,
many times before:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>What
quadrant of hell is hot enough for such men?<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><font
face="Georgia"><em>[Full article at
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/2016-speech-defect-emissions-of-evil-from-the-oval-office.html"><http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/2016-speech-defect-emissions-of-evil-from-the-oval-office.html></a>.]<br>
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