 papananook says: Hamid referred to the fact that Obama appeared at the speech with a lapel pin comprised of both the U.S. and Israeli flags. In his speech, Obama’s call for a unified Jerusalem omitted Palestinians’ demands for their share of Jerusalem, which is a sacred city for them too. Like most U.S. citizens, most Iraqis are not familiar with U.S. foreign policy. While Obama, the Democratic presidential hopeful, calls for a shift in the U.S. policy in Iraq, neither he nor his Republican rival, John McCain, talk about changing the National Security Strategy of the U.S., or the military document Joint Vision 2020, which calls for “full spectrum dominance” of the world by the U.S. military by the year 2020. ‘Full spectrum dominance’ means not just total control of land, air, and sea, but also of information and of space. “The U.S. strategy is firm and unchanging,” a political analyst at Diyala University told IPS on condition of anonymity, given widespread fear of U.S. forces. “It makes no di difference whether one wins or the other. The general strategy is well established, and is never affected by the changing of the president.” “I do agree with this point of view,” local merchant Abdul-Rahman told IPS. “During the nineties we wished that Bill Clinton would win in order to stop the economic sanctions that caused us so much suffering. When Clinton became president, sanctions remained as they were, and even worsened.” At that time, the majority of Iraqis had wished for Clinton to be president, but year after year of sanctions left them embittered. Barak Obama has made public statements that he will withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq. But his advisors speak of plans to keep at lea... Sad but true. There is never a winner in war, we will always have orphans, displacement, injured; both physical and mental, rape, pillaging, and greed. This particular police action is all about greed. War is declared on countries, not a state of mind {terror]. |
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