[Peace-discuss] Deconstructing Obama's BP Speech

[C. G. Estabrook]

See now 
<http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/64582,news-comment,news-politics,bp-oil-spill-barack-obamas-disastrous-speech-from-the-oval-office>.

On 6/16/10 7:52 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Obama's conscious lies about America's economic and environmental crises
> are dissected here. Instead of dealing with vital necessities for
> Americans, Obama's administration is madly killing people in the Mideast
> (under the "Special Operations" assassins chosen by Obama, Petraeus &
> McChrystal) in an immensely costly war designed to control world energy
> resources. This policy is in the interest of the American economic elite
> and their competition with the Europeans, Chinese, etc. - but surely not
> in the interest of the vast majority of Americans. Obama and his
> administration should be thoroughly rejected in the fall elections - but
> unless Americans come to understand what he's doing (and more
> importantly, whom he's working for) it will be hard to insist on the
> necessary reversal of his policies.
>
> Deconstructing Obama's BP Speech
> By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO
>
> "...The 'War on Terror' and attempts to combat economic troubles at home
> run directly contrary to each other. U.S. education and health care are
> in such dire straits precisely because U.S. leaders prefer to spend
> nearly a trillion dollars a year on militarism, while states cry poor
> and demand massive budget cuts that throw thousands out of work at a
> time when they’re at their most vulnerable. U.S. officials know that, if
> given the choice, the public favors cuts in military spending and a
> renewed focus on job creation, economic rehabilitation, and other social
> spending. This is why Democrats and Republicans spend so much time on
> fear mongering, drumming up support for indefinite war among a reluctant
> public..."
>
> Full article at <http://www.counterpunch.org/dimaggio06162010.html>.
>

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