[Peace-discuss] Obama's way forward, via Iraq

[Chas. 'Mark' Bee]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
To: "Chas. 'Mark' Bee" <c-bee1 at itg.uiuc.edu>
Cc: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama's way forward, via Iraq


> Yes.  The media reports of Obama's speech said that he called for the US 
> to leave Iraq.  But he didn't.  The Democrats' job is to *appear* to 
> change the policy -- because of the large antiwar vote on Nov. 7 -- 
> while in fact maintaining the ME policy common to Republican and 
> Democrat administrations, viz., US control of ME energy resources. 

  Cite?


> Obama's tergiversations contrast with the more honest demand of the 
> war-criminal McCain, who openly calls for more troops for Iraq. --CGE
> 
> 
> Chas. 'Mark' Bee wrote:
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
>> To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 10:10 AM
>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Obama's way forward, via Iraq
>> 
>>> [Obama's speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on 11/20 ("A 
>>> Way Forward in Iraq") is now up on his website <obama.senate.gov>.  
>>> Most of it is boiler-plate, but you can judge how accurate the 
>>> newspaper reports were from passages such as the following ones.
>> 
>>  Did someone challenge the newspaper reports?  I missed that.
>>