[Peace-discuss] Bush 44

[C. G. Estabrook]

	February 20, 2009
	EUROPE REFUSES TO JOIN OBAMA'S AFGHAN WAR ESCALATION

Telegraph, UK - Washington had hoped to persuade European allies to contribute 
more in the wake of the President Barack Obama's election and the announcement 
this week of the deployment of 17,00 extra American soldiers.

American defense secretary Robert Gates condemned their failure to do so far as 
"disappointing" with European states promising to deploy no more than just a few 
hundred extra troops.

Speaking before a meeting of NATO defense ministers in the Polish city of 
Krakow, Mr Gates said member states must send reinforcements in preparation for 
the Afghan presidential elections in August. . .

With public opposition to the Afghan war hardening across Europe, and disquiet 
in many European capitals over a command structure in Afghanistan that keeps the 
vast bulk of the 55,000-strong American force separate from NATO, few expect any 
member to commit significant additional forces.

Comment:

     It is not just the war on Afghanistan, as bad as that is. But also the 
continuing invocation of the States Secret Privilege to prevent civil litigation 
on rendition and torture issues that are already public. The refusal to 
investigate or prosecute criminality in the Bush43 administration. The 
continuation of rendition and torture. Wiretapping. Lobbyists had copies of the 
bailout before the Congress, presumably because lobbyists wrote the bailout. And 
more.

     Obama has earned the appellation Bush44, and it's only a month into his 
occupancy of the White House...

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