[Peace-discuss] Obama's prevarication on the war

[C. G. Estabrook]

Here's a sample of the War Candidate's speech in Berlin today.  He calls for 
killing people in Afghanistan. Didn't Bush say the same thing, but about Iraq?

"This is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the terrorists who 
threaten our security in Afghanistan, and the traffickers who sell drugs on your 
streets ... my country and yours have a stake in seeing that NATO's first 
mission beyond Europe's borders is a success ... the work must be done. America 
cannot do this alone. The Afghan people need our troops and your troops ... We 
have too much at stake to turn back now..." --B. Obama 7/24/08

(The drug line is a new, mendacious, and surprisingly weak excuse: under the 
Taliban, heroin production was suppressed, but a UN report of August 2003 stated 
that Afghanistan had re-emerged after the American invasion as the world's 
leading source for opium and heroin. The report estimated that 500,000 people 
were involved in Afghanistan's trafficking chain and estimated an annual income 
at $25 billion.)


C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Read the text at
> <http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/full_text_of_obama.php>. 
> 
> 
> Karen Medina wrote:
>> Did anyone else hear Obama's speech to Berlin today? GRRRRRRRR.
>>
>> Who was the audience? They looked American, no translators, and many 
>> were waving US flags.
>>
>> -karen medina
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