[Peace-discuss] Cynthia McKinney on Obama

[Ricky Baldwin]

Impressive list, even without those outrageously racist remarks in the last two paragraphs by
Morris and Bennett. 

Brzezinski is also the guy who explained that the US actually lured the Soviets into Afghanistan
in the first place, the infamous "Afghan trap" (a bizarre twist on which we still see in use) --
but we ought to clarify that is wasn't Aristide's return specifically that was so detrimental to
the Haitian people.  The problem was the conditions forced on his administration by the Clinton
Administration (is the implication that Lake was involved in that, too?) -- of course, in addition
the the US-backed coup that removed him in the first place (and then in the second place), etc.  I
think it's fair enuf to criticize Aristide's administration -- and I'd still cite the Batay
union's allegations -- but, well, just a little clarification.  

Also, I'd also be interested in seeing similar rundowns of the other top runners' advisers (on the
theory that one of them might be the next prez).  It might be somewhat redundant in Clinton's case
(well, there's Bill), but I'd still be interested ... ?  And what about Edwards' advisors? 
Anybody know?

Ricky


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

>    
> Angela Davis made an interesting comment on the current presidential
> campaign. She said all the candidates are talking about "differences"
> that will not make a difference and "changes" that will not bring
> about any change. How true.
> 
> Take Obama and foreign policy: Independent journalist Allan Nairn
> spoke to Amy Goodman on her January 3 Democracy Now program about
> Obama's top policy advisers. I will quote from the transcription of
> this program, appropriately titled, "Vote for Change? Atrocity-Linked
> U.S. Officials Advising Democratic, GOP Presidential Frontrunners."
> 
> Nairn stated:
> 
> "Obama's top adviser is Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski gave an
> interview to the French press a number of years ago where he boasted
> about the fact that it was he who created the whole Afghan jihadi
> movement, the movement that produced Osama bin Laden. And he was asked
> by the interviewer, 'Well, don't you think this might have had some
> bad consequences?' And Brzezinski replied, 'Absolutely not. It was
> definitely worth it, because we were going after the Soviets.' ...
> 
> "Another key Obama adviser, Anthony Lake, was the main force behind
> the U.S. invasion of Haiti in the mid-Clinton years during which they
> brought back Aristide essentially in political chains, pledged to
> support a World Bank/IMF overhaul of the economy, which resulted in an
> increase in malnutrition deaths among Haitians and set the stage for
> the current ongoing political disaster in Haiti.
> 
> "Another Obama adviser, General Merrill McPeak, an Air Force man, was
> the man overseeing the delivery to Indonesia of U.S. fighter planes
> not long after the Dili massacre in East Timor in '91.
> 
> "Another key Obama adviser, Dennis Ross, advised Clinton and both
> Bushes. He oversaw U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine. He pushed the
> principle that the legal rights of the Palestinians, the rights
> recognized under international law, must be subordinated to the needs
> of the Israeli government -- in other words, their desire to expand to
> do whatever they want in the Occupied Territories.
> 
> "And Ross was one of the people who, interestingly, led the political
> assault on former Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Carter is no
> peacenik -- Carter is the one who bears ultimate responsibility for
> that Timor terror that Holbrooke was involved in. But Ross led an
> assault on him, because, regarding Palestine, Carter was so bold as to
> agree with Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa that what Israel was
> doing in the Occupied Territories was tantamount to apartheid. And so,
> Ross was one of those who fiercely attacked him.
> 
> "Another Obama adviser is Sarah Sewall, who heads a human rights
> center at Harvard and is a former Defense official. She wrote the
> introduction to General Petraeus's Marine Corps/Army counterinsurgency
> handbook, the handbook that is now being used worldwide by U.S. troops
> in various killing operations."
> 
> That's the Obama team. But Nairn demonstrates that the Clinton and
> Edwards teams are equally loaded with Washington insiders who in one
> way or other have contributed to our current national predicament.
> 
> There is another message coming out of Iowa that is aimed directly at
> Black people. Former Clinton presidential adviser and columnist Dick
> Morris wrote that with Obama's victory in Iowa, "race is no longer a
> factor in American politics." Tell that to the Black folks living in
> New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina
> and Rita, or who are facing "Hurricane America" in cities and
> communities all across the country.
> 
> Bill Bennett on CNN said that Barack Obama is the kind of Black person
> Blacks should be -- not like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. This is the
> way to go if you want to get somewhere in this country, Bennett said.
> 
> >From http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/node/226
> 
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