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Obama Follows the Neocon Mass Murder Script
by Kurt Nimmo It is a race to see who can kill more people.
“As President, Barack Obama would order attacks on terrorist camps in Pakistan even if its president, Gen. Pervais Musharraf, refused to give permission and would link American aid on Pakistan’s progress in rooting out its terrorist havens,” writes Marc Ambinder for Atlantic Online.
“That stance, one part of the multi-facted counter-errorism strategy Obama unveils this morning, is tougher than the more considered approach of the Bush Administration, which has generally avoided antagonizing its ally in public.”
In other words, Obama’s selection strategy consists of outdoing
the neocons and he really harbors no reservations when it comes to mass
murder and adding to the horrific total exacted in human life (nearly a
million Iraqis) since the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq.
“I
understand that President Musharraf has his own challenges. But let me
make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who
murdered 3,000 Americans,” declared Obama. “They are plotting to strike
again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to
take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable
intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf
won’t act, we will.”
Indeed, there are “terrorists holed up in
those mountains,” never mind the United States set-up this enclave.
“Ironically, rather than arresting Al Qaeda ‘foreign fighters’ who were
combating alongside the Taliban [in Afghanistan], the US military
actually facilitated their evacuation in military planes to
Northwestern Pakistan,” notes Michel Chossudovsky, who cites Seymour
Hersh:
The Bush Administration ordered US Central Command to set
up a special air corridor to help insure the safety of the Pakistani
rescue flights from Kunduz to the northwest corner of Pakistan …
[Pakistan
President] Musharraf won American support for the airlift by warning
that the humiliation of losing hundreds—and perhaps thousands—of
Pakistani Army men and intelligence operatives would jeopardize his
political survival. “Clearly, there is a great willingness to help
Musharraf,” an American intelligence official told me [Seymour Hersh].
A CIA analyst said that it was his understanding that the decision to
permit the airlift was made by the White House and was indeed driven by
a desire to protect the Pakistani leader. The airlift ‘made sense at
the time,’ the CIA. analyst said. ‘Many of the people they spirited
away were the Taliban leadership’—who Pakistan hoped could play a role
in a postwar Afghan government. According to this person, “Musharraf
wanted to have these people to put another card on the table” in future
political negotiations. “We were supposed to have access to them,’ he
said, but ‘it didn’t happen,'’ and the rescued Taliban remain
unavailable to American intelligence.
According to a former
high-level American defense official, the airlift was approved because
of representations by the Pakistanis that “there were guys—intelligence
agents and underground guys—who needed to get out.
Now Obama
wants to bomb them. Of course, this is simply political grandstanding,
as the president is not really the decider guy but rather a factotum
who takes orders from on-high. If our rulers want to kill
“al-Qaeda”—that is to say, dirt farmers and peasants in Pakistan’s
Federal Administered Tribal Areas—that is precisely what will happen,
no matter if the commander guy is a Republican neocon or a Democrat
neolib.
“As President, I would make the hundreds of millions
of dollars in U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional, and I would
make our conditions clear: Pakistan must make substantial progress in
closing down the training camps, evicting foreign fighters, and
preventing the Taliban from using Pakistan as a staging area for
attacks in Afghanistan,” said Obama, who is slated to be Hillary’s
running mate, never mind all the hoopla and jive indicating otherwise.
“The day the Clinton-Obama ticket is announced would really be one for
the history books,” averred Anna Quindlen for Newsweek a few days ago.
Finally,
as if to make sure the Pashtuns—in neocon-speak, Taliban militants—of
Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province are correctly singled out and
targeted, we learn that an “Islamic alliance” in the province
“bordering Afghanistan has proposed changing the region’s name to
‘Afghania’, a provincial minister said on Wednesday…. Pashtun
nationalists have long demanded the old colonial name [created during
the days of the British Raj in pre-partition India] be changed as it
only indicates a geographical location rather than the ethnicity of its
inhabitants, as in the other three Pakistan provinces—Punjab for
Punjabis, Sindh for Sindhis and Baluchistan for Baluchis,” according to
Reuters.
Americans love this stuff written by a guest,
August 02, 2007
Apparently they don't realize that it's their sons and daughters, not Obama himself, who are going to be the ones fighting and dying in yet another middle-eastern country. It seems as if EVERY SINGLE presidential "candidate" is detached from reality.
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