"Frank Kalder" <editor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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. Anti-War Stance
> I found this unusual article that comes from the American conservatives
>
> http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=961
>
> Excerpt
>
> It is a myth, pure bunkum, that Obama is a brave anti-warrior. He made a
> brief speech in 2002 — peppered with reminders of his generally pro-war
> leanings — and then, like Clinton, used his muscle in the Senate to fund
> the
> war and extend its bloody duration. It is only during the past year, as
he
> has thrown himself into the presidential race, that Obama has decided to
> pose as a long-standing, level-headed critic. As Taylor argues, “An
adept
> politician, Obama began emphasizing his ‘anti-war’ stance as the war
> became
> increasingly unpopular among Democrats across the country and he began
> gearing up for the 2008 presidential campaign.”
>
> But there is more going on here than Iraq-related op****tunism. If
elected
> president, Obama would make it a priority to smash the argument for
> non-interventionism and to rehabilitate America’s imperial mission to
> right
> the wrongs of the world
>
Well, apparently a propaganda-oriented view from his political
opponents.
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it's interesting, and timely that I posted this. And I want to follow
this
article further. Because this just happened
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN16392660
I've excerpted it, there's more
Obama says U.S. should negotiate with Iran
* Rival Clinton defends Obama
* White House puzzled by Democrats' anger
By Jeff Mason
WATERTOWN, S.D., May 16 (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack
Obama launched a blistering attack on President George W. Bush on Friday
for
suggesting Democrats would like to appease terrorists and said such
"fear-mongering" would not work.
Obama accused Bush of "exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided
the country and that alienates us from the world," and included Republican
presidential candidate John McCain in his criticism.
The Illinois senator stuck to his position that the United States should
hold diplomatic negotiations with Iran, but did not repeat his pledge to
meet President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"They're trying to fool you, and trying to scare you, and they're not
telling the truth. And the reason is because they can't win a foreign
policy
debate on the merits. But it's not going to work," said Obama, the
Democratic front-runner vying to face McCain in the November presidential
election.
The Illinois senator said Bush and McCain were pursuing "the kind of
fear-peddling, fear-mongering that has prevented us from actually making
us
safer."
Bush triggered an avalanche of Democratic outrage on Thursday by saying in
a
speech to the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem that some politicians -- he
clearly meant Democrats -- would pursue the "false comfort of appeasement"
by negotiating with militant groups like the Palestinian Hamas and
Hezbollah
organizations and Iran.
The White House was baffled at the Democratic response, saying Bush had
been
making similar statements for years.
"I would encourage you to ask them what sentences that they disagree with,
what specific sentence," White House counselor Ed Gillespie said on the
Air
Force One flight to Saudi Arabia.
The McCain campaign derided Obama for what it called "the same tired
partisan rants."
"It was remarkable to see Barack Obama's hysterical diatribe in response
to
a speech in which his name wasn't even mentioned," said McCain spokesman
Tucker Bounds.
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