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Obama hearts Bush over Iraq and group hugs all around
If it wasn’t clear enough how similar Barack Obama is to George W. Bush in terms of prosecuting the “war on terror”, Obama’s speech today about the “end” of the Iraq war takes the cake:
Israel is always run by the Bush administration
A handy reminder of the Zionist mindset, from the New York Times on 12 September 2001: Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, ”It’s very good.” Then he edited himself: ”Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.” He…
The Tony and George love affair (aka why can’t we start more wars?)
Pass the bucket: Tony Blair’s forthcoming memoirs will read like a ‘love letter’ to George W Bush, insiders claim. The autobiography will praise the former U.S. president, with whom Mr Blair launched the controversial invasion of Iraq in 2003, as ‘highly intelligent’ and ‘visionary’. The former prime minister is wheeling out his wife Cherie and…
Colbert: Iraq will now always be remembered as the war that ended early
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Muslims aren’t all the same (pass onto the clueless)
William Dalrymple in the New York Times talks some sense about Islam and the “war on terror”, a message singularly ignored by many politicians and media hacks: President Obama’s eloquent endorsement on Friday of a planned Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center, followed by his apparent retreat the next day, was just one…
Pentagon slashing needs to go to its heart
The debate over cuts in the Pentagon is almost comical. America’s empire footprint remains massive and there are no serious plans to reduce Washington’s meddling in the Middle East or beyond. That’s what matters in the end and how the world views the super-power. More than a few generals need to be axed. It’s a…
Bush and Obama both like illegal acts, discuss
The ACLU releases a new report, “Establishing a New Normal”, that explains how the Obama administration has followed most of the Bush years’ worst and illegal practices, such as indefinite detention of “terror” suspects, military commissions, Guantanamo Bay, targeted assassinations (murder in other words) and the list goes on. Change we can believe in. UPDATE:…
Handy reminder of US war goals
A beacon to the world, supposedly: Four of the nation’s most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been disclosed, then whisked back into overseas prisons before the Supreme Court could give them access to lawyers, The Associated Press has learned. The transfer allowed the…
Washington fails in the Middle East and people notice
The Arab world realises that Barack Obama is George W. Bush with a better speech-writer: A new poll of Arab public opinion finds a significant drop in Arab world views of President Obama from a year ago. The 2010 Arab Public Opinion poll will be released Thursday at the Brookings Institution by Shibley Telhami, of…