Back to Iraq?
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by Justin Raimondo
07/20/09
If President Obama is serious about getting out of Iraq, and if he truly respects Iraqi sovereignty – if his ascension to the presidency is really all about changing our imperial foreign policy — then Gen. Bolger should be called on the carpet and summarily canned. It hasn’t happened, and it won’t happen, for the simple reason that Iraqi sovereignty is a myth as long as the U.S. occupation force remains. The fact that a single U.S. commander can unilaterally decide to break the SOFA and essentially tell the Iraqis to go screw themselves indicates that the American Raj is not ready to withdraw just yet. Was withdrawal from Iraq just another campaign promise, made to be broken – like Obama’s pledges on government secrecy and other civil liberties issues? The president’s record, so far, does not bode well for an answer in the negative...
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/07/19/back-to-iraq/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
by Justin Raimondo
07/20/09
If President Obama is serious about getting out of Iraq, and if he truly respects Iraqi sovereignty – if his ascension to the presidency is really all about changing our imperial foreign policy — then Gen. Bolger should be called on the carpet and summarily canned. It hasn’t happened, and it won’t happen, for the simple reason that Iraqi sovereignty is a myth as long as the U.S. occupation force remains. The fact that a single U.S. commander can unilaterally decide to break the SOFA and essentially tell the Iraqis to go screw themselves indicates that the American Raj is not ready to withdraw just yet. Was withdrawal from Iraq just another campaign promise, made to be broken – like Obama’s pledges on government secrecy and other civil liberties issues? The president’s record, so far, does not bode well for an answer in the negative...
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/07/19/back-to-iraq/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
rudkla - 20. Jul, 08:54
