[Peace-discuss] Fw: A New Beginning -- Watch the President's Speech

[C. G. Estabrook]

[The subject line can only be ironic.  Here's the DN summary. --CGE]

Obama defended his decision to escalate the occupation of Afghanistan and
refused to apologize for the invasion of Iraq that has led to the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of people. On the Israel-Palestine conflict, Obama refused
to call for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories but likened
the Palestinian struggle to the US civil rights movement and said Israeli
settlement building should stop. And he acknowledged the US role in the 1953
overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected government.

http://www.democracynow.org/