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

[Karen Medina]

And notice how quiet the audience is during Obama's claim to understand the 
history.

Thanks David.

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>Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:23:29 -0700 (PDT)
>From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Obama's prevarication on the war  
>To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
>
>   This is where the two sides met. And on the
>   twenty-fourth of June, 1948, the Communists chose to
>   blockade the western part of the city. They cut off
>   food and supplies to more than two million Germans
>   in an effort to extinguish the last flame of freedom
>   in Berlin.
>    
>   The size of our forces was no match for the much
>   larger Soviet Army. And yet retreat would have
>   allowed Communism to march across Europe. Where the
>   last war had ended, another World War could have
>   easily begun. All that stood in the way was Berlin.
>    
>   And that's when the airlift began - when the largest
>   and most unlikely rescue in history brought food and
>   hope to the people of this city.
>    
>   The odds were stacked against success. In the
>   winter, a heavy fog filled the sky above, and many
>   planes were forced to turn back without dropping off
>   the needed supplies. The streets where we stand were
>   filled with hungry families who had no comfort from
>   the cold.
>   But in the darkest hours, the people of Berlin kept
>   the flame of hope burning. The people of Berlin
>   refused to give up. And on one fall day, hundreds of
>   thousands of Berliners came here, to the Tiergarten,
>   and heard the city's mayor implore the world not to
>   give up on freedom. "There is only one possibility,"
>   he said. "For us to stand together united until this
>   battle is won...The people of Berlin have spoken. We
>   have done our duty, and we will keep on doing our
>   duty. People of the world: now do your duty...People
>   of the world, look at Berlin!"
>    
>   People of the world - look at Berlin!
>    
>   _________________________________
>    
>   Unbelievably craven. So after paying his respects at
>   Yad Vashem, Obama lionizes the population of
>   Hitler's capital, circa 3 years after the Soviets
>   (not us) defeated the Nazis. Plus the reference to
>   Communists marching across Europe. Where had Hitler
>   marched? How could the Soviets not have occupied
>   Eastern Europe?