[Peace-discuss] Black Agenda Report on Obama

[Linda Evans]

I knew there was a reason I kept the Kucinich for
President bumpersticker on my car.  :-)

Linda
--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> 
> 	Obama, the Phony Anti-War Candidate: Kucinich is
> the Real Deal
>    	Wednesday, 25 April 2007
> 
> Through his own statements, Barack Obama
> relentlessly destroys his 
> former anti-war credentials. In an effort to
> establish himself as a 
> "statesman" in the eyes of the power structure,
> Obama now advocates a 
> much larger Army and Marine Corps to allow the U.S.
> to "lead the world 
> in battling immediate evils and promoting the
> ultimate good." Do not 
> expect a "peace dividend" under a President Barack
> Obama. The only 
> genuine peace candidate is Rep. Dennis Kucinich, of
> Ohio - which is why 
> the corporate media pretend Kucinich doesn't exist.
> 
> Obama, Phony Anti-War Candidate: Kucinich, the Real
> Deal
> 
> A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR Executive
> Editor Glen Ford
> 
> "Obama strongly supports the expansion of American
> ground forces by 
> adding 65,000 new soldiers to the Army and 27,000
> Marines."
> 
> Barack Obama has delivered the third of his long
> national security 
> speeches, and has once again revealed that he is an
> imperialist at 
> heart. Speaking at the Chicago Council on Global
> Affairs, Obama 
> envisioned a century in which the U.S. would "lead
> the world in battling 
> immediate evils and promoting the ultimate good."
> Battling 
> "evil"..."promoting the ultimate good" - sounds very
> much like George 
> Bush's rationale for doing whatever the United
> States pleases in the 
> world, under the assumption that the Americans know
> what the "ultimate 
> good" is.
> 
> Of course, Obama also called for more respect for
> the United Nations and 
> other international institutions, and for increased
> efforts to forge 
> alliances whenever the U.S. finds it necessary to go
> to war. But that's 
> all empty talk, a cover for his real intention to
> increase U.S. capacity 
> to meddle in other people's affairs. The U.S., he
> says, "must maintain 
> the strongest, best-equipped military in the world
> in order to defeat 
> and deter conventional threats." The United States
> already spends more 
> on war-fighting capacity than all the other nations
> on the planet, 
> combined! The U.S. maintains 730 military
> installations in 50 countries 
> around the globe!. But that's not enough for Barack
> Obama, who calls for 
> an enhanced "ability to put boots on the ground." He
> told the Chicago 
> foreign policy crowd he strongly supports the
> expansion of American 
> ground forces by adding 65,000 new soldiers to the
> Army and 27,000 
> Marines. In other words, while Obama gives lip
> service to disentangling 
> most - although by no means all - U.S. troops from
> Iraq, as president he 
> would send them elsewhere and add nearly one hundred
> thousand more to 
> the mix.
> 
> "All Obama really promises is to be a better,
> smarter imperialist."
> 
> This is not a man of peace: this is an imperialist
> bent on further U.S. 
> expansionism. Obama pratters on about the need to
> avoid "bullying" other 
> countries - but bullying is precisely what armies,
> navies and air forces 
> are all about. Obama talks sweetly but wants to
> carry an even bigger 
> stick than George Bush. All he promises is that he
> will be more 
> judicious and thoughtful in using that bigger stick.
> History shows such 
> promises are never sincerely made, and are never,
> ever kept.
> 
> There is only one peace candidate in the Democratic
> primary race: Ohio 
> Congressman Dennis Kucinich. He's the only one that
> actually voted 
> against giving Bush War Powers in 2002, the only one
> to vote against 
> providing another nearly $100 billion for the war,
> this year, and the 
> only one who categorically rejects going to war with
> Iran. Only Kucinich 
> would withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq and
> withdraw the more than 
> 100,000 U.S. "contractors" - a euphemism for
> American mercenaries paid 
> for with U.S. tax dollars. Obama and the other
> candidates say nothing 
> about these soldiers of fortune, although they are
> an integral part of 
> the U.S. war machine.
> 
> Barack Obama is busy trying to prove that he is a
> statesman. There is no 
> reason to doubt that he wants to run the American
> state, and for the 
> Americans to run the world. All Obama really
> promises is to be a better, 
> smarter imperialist - one with a much bigger
> military, if anybody 
> decides to disagree. That's the definition of an
> imperial statesman.
> 
> For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Glen Ford.
> 
> BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford can be contacted at
> Glen.Ford (at) 
> BlackAgendaReport.com.
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Linda 
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