[Peace-discuss] AOTA this week (7/26)

[C. G. Estabrook]

Sorry not to make tonight's meeting (responsibilities attendant on getting my 
wife's aged aunt to the hospital), but AWARE ON THE AIR will record at the usual 
time this week - 1pm Tuesday in the Urbana City Council chambers. (Maybe we'll 
ask for a handout.)

By then Obama-Fraud #2 (pretending he was defending Social Security, Medicare, & 
Medicaid) will have joined Obama-Fraud #1 (pretending he was anti-war) in the 
consciousness of all who care to look, and we'll try to point out its 
implications for Obama's Ongoing Murders in the Mideast...

Members and friends of AWARE (MOAs & FOAs) are invited to join the open-ended 
discussion (and showing of videos) about the war.

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The new introduction to the program, read at the beginning, is as follows:

/"Good evening, & welcome to AWARE ON THE AIR for the 30th week of 2011.

"Our program is presented by members & friends of AWARE, the Anti-War 
Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana, a local peace group - and brought to you 
by Urbana Public Television.

"Each week at this time we bring you news and comment about the wars that the 
United States government is conducting around the world, and about the 
opposition to them, here and across the country, by people like us who see that 
these wars betray our democratic principles.

"Today the US government is threatening, invading, and occupying countries from 
North Africa to the Indian subcontinent, and from Central Asia to the Horn of 
Africa - a vast circle with a 2,000-mile radius, sometimes called the Greater 
Middle East: the US military calls it 'Central Command.'

"This region has the world's greatest concentration of oil and natural gas, and 
our government is spending billions of dollars month after month to control it. 
Control and not just access to these energy resources is what the US government 
wants: we in fact import very little oil from the Mideast, contrary to what 
you've heard, but control gives the US government an unparalleled advantage over 
oil-hungry rival states in Europe and Asia.

"We're killing people in the Mideast and North Africa because China needs oil, 
and our government wants to control where they get it. Our government says that 
we're conducting these vastly expensive wars to stop terrorism and protect 
civilians; but we can see that, instead, we're killing civilians and creating 
terrorists. These wars are against the interests of the vast majority of Americans.

"But the war policy remains essentially the same whether the Republicans or 
Democrats are in office. The Obama administration is at least as eager as 
earlier ones to kill people to maintain control of the region. More than a 
thousand members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan ALONE since Obama 
became president - more than under Bush. Of course, many more Afghans than that 
have died, and many more Americans than that have received serious injuries..."
/
--CGE

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