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Is Obama a War Criminal?<br>
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At first glance one is reminded of something about<br>
ursine religious preference trends and <br>
the sylvian behaviour of clerics.<br>
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But the term "War Criminal" sounds like that some how<br>
it is a perversion of the generally good thing that war is,<br>
something like a sex criminal.<br>
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As if War making was a good thing between or among consenting adults<br>
but Obot is a loser who doesn't do it right.<br>
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On 05/16/13 6:44, David Johnson wrote:
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<h1 class="title">Cornel West: Obama “Is a War Criminal”</h1>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><strong>by Jacob Chamberlain</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4"><strong>“<font
face="Arial, sans-serif">I would rather have a white president
fundamentally dedicated to eradicating poverty and enhancing the plight
of working people than a black president tied to Wall Street and
drones," activist-academic Dr. Cornel West told British journalists.
Barack Obama, like his predecessor, should be tried for war crimes.</font></strong></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
color="#280099"><font size="4"><strong><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Cornel
West: Obama “Is a War Criminal”</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font></strong></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><strong>by Jacob Chamberlain</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4"><strong><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>This article previously appeared in </i></font><font
color="#0000ff"><u><a moz-do-not-send="true" href=""><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Common Dreams</i></font></a></u></font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>.</i></font></strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font
color="#2323dc"><font size="4"><strong>“<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>You
can't meet every Tuesday with a killer list and continually have drones
drop bombs.”</i></font></strong></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4"><strong><font
face="Arial, sans-serif">In an interview with the </font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Guardian</i></font></strong></font><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><u><strong> published on Sunday</strong></u></font></font></a><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><strong>, renowned professor and
prolific critic of the "military-industrial-complex" and rampant
"plutocracy" in the U.S. and around the world, Dr. Cornel West
explained his views on the state of America today and his fall from
grace, by design, with President Barack Obama: "He's just too tied to
Wall Street. And at this point he is a war criminal."</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><strong>"They say I'm un-American,"
West told interviewer Hugh Muir, referring to Obama's team.</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><strong>But from someone who
actively campaigned for the man, only to be quickly and vastly
disappointed, West sees in Obama the epitome of Washington corruption:</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><strong>"He talked about Martin
Luther King over and over again as he ran," West said of their campaign
stops together, adding later, "You can't just invoke Martin Luther King
like that and not follow through on his priorities in some way."</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><strong>"King died fighting not just
against poverty but against carpet-bombing in Vietnam; the war crimes
under Nixon and Kissinger."</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font
color="#2323dc"><font size="4"><strong>“<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>He
hasn't said a mumbling word about the institutions that have destroyed
two generations of young black and brown youth, the new Jim Crow, the
prison industrial complex.”</i></font></strong></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><strong>West goes on:</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4"><strong>“<font
face="Arial, sans-serif">You can't meet every Tuesday with a killer
list and continually have drones drop bombs. You can do that once or
twice and say: 'I shouldn't have done that, I've got to stop.' But when
you do it month in, month out, year in, year out – that's a pattern of
behavior." [...]</font></strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4"><strong>“<font
face="Arial, sans-serif">I think there is a chance of a snowball in
hell that he will ever be tried, but I think he should be tried and I
said the same about George Bush. These are war crimes. We suffer in
this age from an indifference toward criminality and a callousness to
catastrophe when it comes to poor and working people." [...]</font></strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><strong>"I knew he would have
rightwing opposition, but he hasn't tried," West said of Obama's
unwillingness to curb Wall Street's hold on Washington. "When he came
in, he brought in Wall Street-friendly people – Tim Geithner, Larry
Summers – and made it clear he had no intention of bailing out
homeowners, supporting trade unions."</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><strong>And later:</strong></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4"><strong>“<font
face="Arial, sans-serif">And he hasn't said a mumbling word about the
institutions that have destroyed two generations of young black and
brown youth, the new Jim Crow, the prison industrial complex.</font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"> </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif">It's
not about race. It is about commitment to justice. He should be able to
say that in the last few years, with the shift from 300,000 inmates to
2.5 million today, there have been unjust polices and I intend to do
all I can. Maybe he couldn't do that much. But at least tell the truth.
I would rather have a white president fundamentally dedicated to
eradicating poverty and enhancing the plight of working people than a
black president tied to Wall Street and drones."</font></strong></font></p>
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