[Peace-discuss] Bill Blum's report

[C. G. Estabrook]

...Is there anyone left who still thinks that Barack Obama is some kind of 
improvement over George W. Bush?
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> Probably two types still think so. 1) Those to whom color matters a lot; 2) 
> Those who are very impressed by the ability to put together grammatically 
> correct sentences.
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> It certainly can't have much otherwise to do with intellect or intelligence. 
> Obama has said numerous things, which if uttered by Bush would have inspired 
> lots of rolled eyeballs, snickers, and chuckling reports in the columns and 
> broadcasts of mainstream media. Like the one the president has repeated on a 
> number of occasions when pressed to investigate Bush and Cheney for war 
> crimes, along the lines of "I prefer to look forward rather than backwards". 
> Picture a defendant before a judge asking to be found innocent on such 
> grounds. It simply makes laws, law enforcement, crime, justice, and facts 
> irrelevant.
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> There's also the excuse given by Obama to not prosecute those engaged in 
> torture: because they were following orders. Has this "educated" man never 
> heard of the Nuremberg Trials, where this defense was summarily rejected? 
> Forever, it was assumed...
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I'm not sure that "the Triumvirate has no idea ... what kind of government the 
rebels [in Libya] would create." It's beginning to look like the USG (which 
seems to learn nothing & forget nothing, regardless of which business party is 
in office) is doing for Libya what the Carter administration did for 
Afghanistan, before the Soviet invasion: Brzezinski as Carter's NSA authorized 
the most expensive CIA operation to date, to find jihadists to send into 
Afghanistan "to give the Russians a Vietnam of their own." Blum may be right 
when he suggests that we may "find out before long that the 'rebels' were 
instigated and armed by Holy Triumvirate intelligence services."