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<p><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/07/6912/">http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/07/6912/</a></span></font></b>
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<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>There are NO peace negotiations going on between the Israeli
government and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City>.
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region> refuses to recognize
Hamas as the legitimately elected government of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City>. Look into the eyes of the injured
child whose photo is posted within the article. The Israeli government is evil
beyond belief. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton support the Israeli government
without question. Neither of them deserves to be president of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Look at the letter that Barack Obama sent to Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S.
Representative to the United Nations:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://jewishstandard.net/content_images/ObamaLetterbig.jpg">http://jewishstandard.net//content_images/ObamaLetterbig.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Look also at this post from Left I on the News:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<h2><b><i><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-style:italic'>The Nation</span></font></i> on Obama<o:p></o:p></b></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Christopher Hayes, the DC editor of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The
Nation</span></i>, has an <a
href="http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20080218&s=hayes"
target="_blank">article</a> in the recent issue described on the web as
"Here's why Obama is the left's best chance to take back the country"
and in its subhead in the print magazine, "Why Obama is more likely than <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Clinton</st1:City></st1:place> to bring about a
new progressive majority." In it, he writes this:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>But while domestic policy will ultimately be determined through a
complicated and fraught interplay with legislators, foreign policy is where the
President's agenda is implemented more or less unfettered. It's here where
distinctions in worldview matter most--and where Obama compares most favorably
to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Clinton</st1:place></st1:City>. The
war is the most obvious and powerful distinction between the two: Hillary
Clinton voted for and supported the most disastrous American foreign policy
decision since Vietnam, and Barack Obama (at a time when it was deeply courageous
to do so) spoke out against it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>And here's the letter I just sent off to them, which summarizes a lot
of things that have appeared here in previous posts. Since it undoubtedly won't
be published (for starters, it's way too long), I might as well post it here:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Whether or not it was "deeply courageous" for an <st1:State
w:st="on">Illinois</st1:State> state Senator to speak out against the invasion
of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place>
is debatable, but what isn't debatable is that Obama's opposition to that
invasion has been unprincipled from the start. Here's how he himself described
it at a campaign rally last year: "I am proud of the fact that I opposed
this war from the start. In 2002, I said this was a bad idea. It's going to
cost us millions [sic] of dollars and thousands of lives. We don't have a strategy
for getting out." The fact that this would be an unprovoked invasion of
another country in violation of U.S. law and international law didn't enter
into his calculation, nor did the potential cost in Iraqi lives; if it could
have been done on the cheap and without losing too many American lives, he
would have been all for it. Watch for more invasions of countries like <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Panama</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Grenada</st1:country-region>,
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region>
under "antiwar" President Obama.<br>
<br>
Obama's nominating speech for John Kerry at the 2004 Democratic Convention is also
instructive: "When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we
have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why
they are going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the
soldiers upon their return and to never, ever go to war without enough troops
to win the war, secure the peace and earn the respect of the world." Once
again, entirely tactical reasons for opposing the invasion. Not to mention that
the truth was not "shaded," it was a complete fabrication, as we all
know, and as any serious opponent of the war knew before the invasion, and
everyone in the world knew by July, 2004.<br>
<br>
Recently, in an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal, Obama had what many
thought were overly charitable words to say about Ronald Reagan. But most
missed this from the same interview, a rather instructive view about how Obama
views the movement against the Vietnam war: "My frame of reference is
'what works.' Even when I first opposed the war in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, my first line was, 'I don't
oppose all wars,' specifically to make clear that this was not just an
anti-military, 70s love-in kind of approach, rather, that I thought
strategically it was a mistake for us to go in."<br>
<br>
In the most recent Democratic debate in <st1:City w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:City>,
Obama shed even more light on why he opposed the invasion of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>: "If
we were concerned about Iranian influence, we should not have had this
government installed in the first place. (Applause.) We shouldn't have invaded
in the first place. It was part of the reason that I think it was such a
profound strategic error for us to go into this war in the first place."
Once again, the idea that a U.S. President actually has to obey <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> law
(including ratified treaties like the Geneva Conventions) doesn't seem to enter
into his calculation.<br>
<br>
Then there's the potential war against <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>. In a Democratic debate last
year, he asserted that "<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>
possessing nuclear weapons will be a major threat to us and to the
region." When interrupted by Dennis Kucinich protesting that <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> has no nuclear weapons, Obama pressed on
with the standard Bush line, the one that served so well in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>: "I
understand that, but they're in the process of developing it. And I don't think
that's disputed by any expert."<br>
<br>
Finally, and also recently, there was Obama's letter to the U.S. Ambassador to
the U.N., Zalmay Khalilzad, in which Obama asserted that Israel had been
"forced" to impose the current blockade on Gaza, and astonishingly
claimed that it was "seeking to minimize any impact on civilians," as
if the collective punishment being imposed on the people of Gaza was not
precisely aimed at impacting civilians.<br>
<br>
And this is the man whom Christopher Hayes wants us to believe is going to
bring about "a new progressive majority."<br>
<br>
Eli <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Stephen</st1:PersonName>s<br>
Left I on the News<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>// posted @ <a
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<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>People need to wake up and realize that Barack Obama is a
corporate tool who doesn’t give a shit about the people of <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region>
or <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City>.
Don’t vote for him!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Kris<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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