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Obama’s Iraq: NO ‘CHANGE’
Sarah Meyer
Asked in Turkey how he was different from President Bush, Mr. Obama said: "Here in the US is like piloting a big tanker. They're not like people ... You can't just whip them around and go in a new direction. Instead, you've gotta slowly move it and then eventually you end up in a very different place. "
Very difficult for President Obama, when – for political survival - he has chosen to listen to those with the mindset from the military - industrial complex/PNAC/AIPAC. The key word that now gives a clue to the reality of Obama’s formerly hopeful policies is “BUT,” following his “change” rhetoric.
Q.: Can one surmise that the military / CIA/corporate interests will ensure and maintain the ‘al Qaeda’ violence level in Iraq in order to keep troops there indefinitely? Listening to General Odierno, it sounds as if this is already happening. President Obama already has his very own Quagmires: Iraq, NATO, Afghanistan plus now Pakistan, and Israel. Very big ships to move.
When the Obama team hears criticisms, it will use the Common Purpose Project , a weekly meeting PR group who want to “enforce a kind of message discipline.” But no Obama “Change in tone” will change the impression that the President is Bush's second hand car dealer. Even the NY Times noted that “President Obama’s foreign policy has much in common with that of his predecessor.”
America needs to wake up from its delusion of hope.
1. Obama On Iraq Before the Election
2. Obama’s Agenda in Iraq (Feb., March, April 2009)
3. Reality in Iraq Now
4. References
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http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-iraq-no-change.html and / or (if link broken http://tinyurl.com/c2ny6h Sarah Meyer UK researcher http://indexresearch.blogspot.com "Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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