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Obama—Israel’s Puppet
It didn’t take the Israel Lobby very long to bring President Obama to heel regarding his prohibition against further illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
A mere American president is powerless when confronted by the Israel Lobby and that the United States simply is not allowed a Middle East policy separate from
Israel’s. Obama also cannot change anything else
either. The military/security lobby has war and a domestic police state on its
agenda. Essentially, Obama is irrelevant, and the American people have no say about what
'their' government does. The Israel Lobby,
the 'protectors' of 'free speech', had no objection to the passage of the
'hate crime' bill, which has criminalized criticism of Israel’s genocidal treatment of the Palestinians and continuing theft of their
lands.
No American national interest is served by the war in Afghanistan.
The purpose of the war is to protect the oil
industry's interest in the Trans-Afghanistan
pipeline. President Obama can promise that he is going to bring the troops
home, and the military lobby says, 'No, you are going to send them to Afghanistan', and in the meantime start a war in Pakistan and maneuver Iran into a position that will provide an excuse for a war
there, too. Wars are too profitable for us to let you stop
them. The additional 40,000 troops to be sent to
Afghanistan are enough to stalemate the war, that is, to keep it going
forever, the ideal situation for the armaments lobby.
The US invasion of Iraq either had nothing whatsoever to do with American national
interests. It had to do with armaments profits and with eliminating an obstacle to Israeli territorial
expansion. The cost of the war, aside from the $3
trillion, was over 4,000 dead Americans, over 30,000 wounded
Americans, one million dead Iraqis, four million displaced
Iraqis, and a destroyed country. All of this was done for the profits of the
military/security complex and to make paranoid Israel, armed with 200 nuclear
weapons, feel 'secure.'
In less than one year, President Obama has betrayed all of his supporters and broken all of his
promises. He is the total captive of the oligarchy of the ruling interest
groups.
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