[Peace-discuss] More war with Obama-Biden

[C. G. Estabrook]

I guess Bush and Cheney are too busy working on the pardons to have time for 
anything else like an attack on Iran. . But don’t fret. Joe Biden hints that he 
and Obama are working on it, though they may declare war on Russia first. Or 
Venezuela. So much to do in those first 100 days. An empire in October will 
still be an Empire next January. We’ll have continuity.

"Mark my words," Biden said solemnly at a Seattle fundraiser last Sunday. "It 
will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John 
Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old 
senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing 
here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an 
international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," 
Biden went on. He mentioned the Middle East and Russia. "And he's gonna need 
help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not 
financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your 
influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be 
apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right.”

What exactly is Biden hinting at in that last sentence? From the context of that 
whole paragraph it’s clear enough to me he’s suggesting that despite hopes 
nourished by the sort of people at that Seattle fundraiser that post-Bush/Cheney 
America might backpeddle from hasty military confrontations, President Obama 
will stand tall and lose no time in going eyeball to eyeball with those who 
would test his resolve.

When JFK was worried that his mettle was being tested and he might look like a 
wimp, we got the Berlin crisis of July, 1961. We got right to the brink of World 
War Three.

So don’t write off that attack on Iran quite yet. On Iran Obama is more hawkish 
than McCain; on Afghanistan and Pakistan too.

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