[Peace-discuss] Cornel West: Obama "Is a War Criminal"

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

Is Obama a War Criminal?

At first glance one is reminded of something about
ursine religious preference trends and
the sylvian behaviour of clerics.

But the term "War Criminal" sounds like that some how
it is a perversion of the generally good thing that war is,
something like a sex criminal.

As if War making was a good thing between or among consenting adults
but Obot is a loser who doesn't do it right.



On 05/16/13 6:44, David Johnson wrote:
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>   Cornel West: Obama “Is a War Criminal”
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> *Tue, 05/14/2013 - 14:28 — Jacob Chamberlain
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> http://blackagendareport.com/content/cornel-west-obama-%E2%80%9C-war-criminal%E2%80%9D
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> *by Jacob Chamberlain*
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> *“I would rather have a white president fundamentally dedicated to 
> eradicating poverty and enhancing the plight of working people than a 
> black president tied to Wall Street and drones," activist-academic Dr. 
> Cornel West told British journalists. Barack Obama, like his 
> predecessor, should be tried for war crimes.*
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> **
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> *Cornel West: Obama “Is a War Criminal” *
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> *by Jacob Chamberlain*
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> */This article previously appeared in /_/Common Dreams/_/./*
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> *“/You can't meet every Tuesday with a killer list and continually 
> have drones drop bombs.”/*
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> *In an interview with the /Guardian/*_* published on Sunday*_*, 
> renowned professor and prolific critic of the 
> "military-industrial-complex" and rampant "plutocracy" in the U.S. and 
> around the world, Dr. Cornel West explained his views on the state of 
> America today and his fall from grace, by design, with President 
> Barack Obama: "He's just too tied to Wall Street. And at this point he 
> is a war criminal."*
>
> *"They say I'm un-American," West told interviewer Hugh Muir, 
> referring to Obama's team.*
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> *But from someone who actively campaigned for the man, only to be 
> quickly and vastly disappointed, West sees in Obama the epitome of 
> Washington corruption:*
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> *"He talked about Martin Luther King over and over again as he ran," 
> West said of their campaign stops together, adding later, "You can't 
> just invoke Martin Luther King like that and not follow through on his 
> priorities in some way."*
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> *"King died fighting not just against poverty but against 
> carpet-bombing in Vietnam; the war crimes under Nixon and Kissinger."*
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> *“/He hasn't said a mumbling word about the institutions that have 
> destroyed two generations of young black and brown youth, the new Jim 
> Crow, the prison industrial complex.”/*
>
> *West goes on:*
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> *“You can't meet every Tuesday with a killer list and continually have 
> drones drop bombs. You can do that once or twice and say: 'I shouldn't 
> have done that, I've got to stop.' But when you do it month in, month 
> out, year in, year out – that's a pattern of behavior." [...]*
>
> *“I think there is a chance of a snowball in hell that he will ever be 
> tried, but I think he should be tried and I said the same about George 
> Bush. These are war crimes. We suffer in this age from an indifference 
> toward criminality and a callousness to catastrophe when it comes to 
> poor and working people." [...]*
>
> *"I knew he would have rightwing opposition, but he hasn't tried," 
> West said of Obama's unwillingness to curb Wall Street's hold on 
> Washington. "When he came in, he brought in Wall Street-friendly 
> people – Tim Geithner, Larry Summers – and made it clear he had no 
> intention of bailing out homeowners, supporting trade unions."*
>
> *And later:*
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> *“And he hasn't said a mumbling word about the institutions that have 
> destroyed two generations of young black and brown youth, the new Jim 
> Crow, the prison industrial complex. It's not about race. It is about 
> commitment to justice. He should be able to say that in the last few 
> years, with the shift from 300,000 inmates to 2.5 million today, there 
> have been unjust polices and I intend to do all I can. Maybe he 
> couldn't do that much. But at least tell the truth. I would rather 
> have a white president fundamentally dedicated to eradicating poverty 
> and enhancing the plight of working people than a black president tied 
> to Wall Street and drones."*
>
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