Obama To Leave 50,000 Troops In Iraq Indefinitely

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Obama has promised to refuse creation of constant bases in Iraq, to disengage therefrom armies by 2010 and to concentrate efforts to struggle against "al Kaide" in Afghanistan.
Newspaper New York Times marks growing concern of administration of the president in violence growth in Afghanistan last months when losses in this country have exceeded losses in Iraq.
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Do you really think a Kenyan-Caucasian President has any real power? Do you think he has the green light power on who will serve in 'strategic' cabinent positions? Wake up all of you who engage in bashing President Obama. Bring forth analysis and recommendations that address our inner city - our people are dying and being murdered and all you idiot intellectuals at Black Agenda Report do is report on it and criticsize, What programs are you promoting to address and solve problems. What a waste of an important website. You sound like a bunch of paternalistic left wing intellectuals who think they have a monopoloy on brain power. 
The average brother on the corner understands President Obama has limited power and that if there is going to be any benefit to Negro Black American it will take Negro Black American real activists to step up and address problems with real programs and demand 5 billion from the rescue funds for Black American inner city Black owned nursing homes and half way houses that serve the Negro Black American Muslim and Christian social service organizations. 
The Jewish lobby made sure they received one billion dollars for their Jewish Nursing homes and social service organizations that serve their community. What in the hell has Black Agenda Report and all the swollen head intellectual done to make sure Negro Black America recieved their ear mark. You folks are a big zero and your dose of truth amount to nothing except brain f&%cking! And that's the truth ruth!
   

Obama is not actually a hypocrite on Iraq. Although he  may have criticized the Bush administration's war on Iraq, he never bropught out the fact that it was a criminal war and violated crimes against humanity. Obama has an administration full of Neocon-connected advocates as well as prowar cabinet members. Obama's so-called opposition to the war on Iraq was not reflected in his Senate voting record, in which he voted for additional war supplementals to continue the finance of that illegal invasion. As Jeremy Scahill wrote in his article titled, "Obama's Mercenary Position," from the Nation magazine, on February 27, 2008:
"A senior foreign policy adviser to leading Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has told The Nation that if elected Obama will not "rule out" using private security companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq. The adviser also said that Obama does not plan to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these forces in US war zones by January 2009, when a new President will be sworn in. Obama's campaign says that instead he will focus on bringing accountability to these forces while increasing funding for the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the agency that employs Blackwater and other private security contractors. (Hillary Clinton's staff did not respond to repeated requests for an interview or a statement on this issue.)....Obama's broader Iraq withdrawal plan provides for some US troops to remain in Iraq--how many his advisers won't say. But it's clear that Obama's "follow-on force" will include a robust security force to protect US personnel in Iraq, US trainers (who would also require security) for Iraqi forces and military units to "strike at Al Qaeda"--all very broad swaths of the occupation...."If Barack Obama comes into office next January and our diplomatic security service is in the state it's in and the situation on the ground in Iraq is in the state it's in, I think we will be forced to rely on a host of security measures," said the senior adviser. "I can't rule out, I won't rule out, private security contractors." He added, "I will rule out private security contractors that are not accountable to US law."...But therein lies a problem. The US Embassy in Iraq is slated to become the largest embassy in world history. If Obama maintains that embassy and its army of diplomats and US personnel going in and out of the Green Zone, which his advisers say he will, a significant armed force will be required for protection. The force that now plays that role is composed almost exclusively of contractors from Blackwater, DynCorp and Triple Canopy."
 
Read the full story @: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080317/scahill
 
Scahill also writing in Counterpunch on December 2, 2008, the article titled, "Obama's Kettle of Hawks: Not One Anti-War Voice," which exposed just how Obamaite foreign policy would really look like as opposed to the phony/false rhetoric heard by Mr. Obama in his campaign. Scahill wrote the following in his Counterpunch piece:

 
Read the entire article @:
http://www.counterpunch.org/scahill12022008.html
 
I guess it does not matter any longer. Where have the real men gone to any more?
 
Obama certainly is not John McCain nor George W. Bush. Yet, Obama is certainly the newest empty suit working on behalf of Captain Jack and the American Empire Project.

"When announcing his foreign policy team on Monday, Obama said: "I didn't go around checking their voter registration." That is a bit hard to believe, given the 63-question application to work in his White House. But Obama clearly did check their credentials, and the disturbing truth is that he liked what he saw....The assembly of Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, Susan Rice and Joe Biden is a kettle of hawks with a proven track record of support for the Iraq war, militaristic interventionism, neoliberal economic policies and a worldview consistent with the foreign policy arch that stretches from George HW Bush's time in office to the present....Obama has dismissed suggestions that the public records of his appointees bear much relevance to future policy. "Understand where the vision for change comes from, first and foremost," Obama said. "It comes from me. That's my job, to provide a vision in terms of where we are going and to make sure, then, that my team is implementing." It is a line the president-elect's defenders echo often. The reality, though, is that their records do matter...."
 
The kicker in Scahill's article was this passage, however:
"We were told repeatedly during the campaign that Obama was right on the premiere foreign policy issue of our day – the Iraq war. "Six years ago, I stood up and opposed this war at a time when it was politically risky to do so," Obama said in his September debate against John McCain. "Senator McCain and President Bush had a very different judgment." What does it say that, with 130 members of the House and 23 in the Senate who voted against the war, Obama chooses to hire Democrats who made the same judgement as Bush and McCain?"
 
And how about this passage by Scahill:
 
"On Iraq, the issue that the Obama campaign described as "the most critical foreign policy judgment of our generation", Biden and Clinton not only supported the invasion, but pushed the Bush administration's propaganda and lies about Iraqi WMDs and fictitious connections to al-Qaida. Clinton and Obama's hawkish, pro-Israel chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, still refuse to renounce their votes in favour of the war. Rice, who claims she opposed the Iraq war, didn't hold elected office and was not confronted with voting for or against it. But she did publicly promote the myth of Iraq's possession of WMDs, saying in the lead up to the war that the "major threat" must "be dealt with forcefully". Rice has also been hawkish on Darfur, calling for "strik[ing] Sudanese airfields, aircraft and other military assets.""

The Office of the President has not had power over the war machine since Ike. Let us hope the Democrats during this reign of power have courage to try and stand up to the Military Industrial Technological Complex (MITC). The President can not do it alone. Get real and take him to task on issues he just may have some power over - domestic issues! The following is from our colleague Dr. Young.   
My Oscar winning Screen Play for 2010 – well, that’s what I call it :)
Title: The Questions heard ‘round the net! ©

Act I: The People’s Cyber Enquire - Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Questions are raised on the internet and spread like a viral epidemic –

Query: Who has the real power? The US Government or the American People, the banks or Wall Street - Investment Bankers and their minions?

The people begin demanding a bailout of themselves; and their cities, towns and villages; mayors are demanding the governors stop being ‘the gate keepers’ of Federal Funds and pass funding directly through to the city.

A White House whistle blower has revealed the Federal debt has our government on the verge of bankruptcy and China and Japan want to cash in their US holdings and the private owners of the Federal Reserve Bank want their pound of flesh! This news is causing panic on Wall Street – Blood in the streets! A run on the banks!

Scene I

(Homeland Security and the NSA secretly, without consulting the President, shut down all internet banking but tell the public the Chinese hacked the system. This government idiocy fuels panic and the unwanted run on the banks)

Oval Office: Presidential press conference discussed to calm the populace; after heated debate and against the advice of his advisers the President decides to go on TV- and Youtube

Scene II

ON AIR – Live… Ladies and Gentlemen the President of the United States:
President Obama begins talking straight and starts to present the double talking jargon-filled world of finance and economic life in plain old English.

He does this by informing the American People and clearly stating that the yearly deficit is the difference between what the government collects and what it spends. It is not some abstract accounting problem and financing the deficit costs. The government is required to pay interest on the debt.

The President reveals that the interest for 2008 alone was a monstrous $250 billion dollars. He forecasts the interests payments for 2009 and the next 3 years are colossal and the government will be in default. He asks the American People to email and tell him what they think he should do.

Scene III

Reality check: The overwhelming response from the American People is - do not pay any interest to the private owners of the FED debt and inform our foreign creditors that in the long run they will be paid.
Reality check: The President decides in a secret meeting with a group of true American Patriots and trusted friends that he will suspend the interest payments the government has to pay to the private owners of the Federal Reserve System debt and tell China and all other foreign creditors to chill!

Act II Inflation

Cash is King or is it?

Food prices escalate; wholesale suppliers and retailers refuse credit cards. Cash is king! Public transport grinds to a stand still; World markets collapse; World commodities brokers and exporters will only accept gold bullion!

Scene I

Millions march on Washington – they come from every level of society; people come from rural areas on mules and horse drawn wagons; tents are pitched on the Mall. The Pentagon and Homeland Security roll out the ‘best of the best’ from elite private security companies to surround and intimated the throngs of people. Main stream media has stayed away.
Riots start to break out and cell phones are streaming video to the net. The 'best of the best' open fire on a group of students – Murder – redrum is heard echoing through the masses.

Helicopters circle over head announcing the President is coming to address the people from the Lincoln Memorial. All of the elite private security police are ordered to pull back to their corporate headquarters immediately or the President will call out the US Marines to protect the demonstrators and arrest all elite security forces that disobey or resist this order. The U.S. Marines will have orders to shoot to kill!

Scene II Drama on the Mall

The President arrives on the Mall. Amazingly he is walking and is accompanied by his wife and children. Shouts from the people – clear the way let the President and his family through. The President leaves his family with the crowd and makes his way to the Lincoln Memorial.

The President delivers a powerful speech:
The American People are told the truth about the FED: The private Federal Reserve System notes make up 99.9% of US originated currency. When it’s issued, the government is indebted to the FED’s private owners for both the capital (which the FED created out of nothing) and ongoing interest which is paid from taxes on money which the FED created out of nothing!

The American People scream “This is highway robbery and nothing but a giant ponzi scam!!!
The President goes on and says: “To add insult to injury, the fat cat private owners of the Federal debt had demanded a taxpayers’ guarantee of the Federal Reserve Bank’s notes and the United States Treasurer had signed on the dotted line putting the taxpayer on the hook!!!

Scene III

The American People wake up to the Federal Reserve Note scam:

They learn that when the government gives a “promise to pay” to the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank’s private owners meet and authorize the issuance to the government of a basket of “Federal Reserve Notes” which are merely the FED’s “promise to pay” note. You cannot redeem the FED’s notes at the FED by law and in any case, the FED and its private owners have nothing to give you, i.e. they created these Federal Reserve Notes known as the Federal Reserve dollars without any commodity backing them up (no gold or silver or copper or nickel). The bearer of the Federal Reserve Note has to find someone willing to take the FED notes in exchange for something the bearer wants. The FED notes are legal tender by the power of fraudulent legislation. Fear spreads – people ask what if China refuses to continue holding and buying our paper?

The crowd shouts: “What does legal tender really mean”? The President explains: If you owe someone $20 and you give him a $20 bill he is considered to have been paid, and if he refuses payment in this form you are absolved of the debt. By contrast, he does not have to accept your check drawn on a private bank, or even a certified check of a private bank. Money issued by a central bank (private or government) is sometimes called "Right of Purchase" money to distinguish it from "Promise to Pay" money created by private non-central banks.

Act III The Ghosts of The Past

Historians in the crowd shout and remind the American People of the words of CHARLES LINDBERGH (R. MN (1907-1917):

On December 22, 1913, the day before President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, in a speech before the House of Representatives, Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., (R-MN) said:

"This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this bill, the invisible government by the Monetary Power will be legalized. The people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed. The trusts will soon realize that they have gone too far even for their own good. The people must make a declaration of independence to relieve themselves from the Monetary Power. This they will be able to do by taking control of Congress. Wall Streeters could not cheat us if you Senators and Representatives did not make a humbug of Congress... The greatest crime of Congress is its currency system. The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill. The caucus and the party bosses have again operated and prevented the people from getting the benefit of their own government."

On another occasion they recall he said: "Ever since the Civil War, Congress has allowed the Bankers to control financial legislation. The membership of the Finance Committee in the Senate (now the Banking and Currency Committee) and the Committee on Banking and Currency in the House have been made up chiefly of Bankers, their agents, and their attorneys. ...In this way the committees have been able to control legislation in the interests of the few." “The financial system… has been turned over to… the Federal Reserve Board. That board administers the finance system by authority of… a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of greatest possible profits [by any method they can get a way with] from the use of other people’s money.”

Scene I

Old Tomes from the Congress are popping up on cell phones: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, MAY 11, 1972: "Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States government institutions, they are not government institutions, they are private credit monopolies."

The outraged American People begin to flood the internet and post videos to youtube. They tell all to:

Query: Who exactly is getting this $250 billion in interest cost our government paid out in 2008? Inquiring minds want to know. Let us have names – we want transparency!

Query: Why is the government paying a group of private bankers so much money simply because pieces of paper have been given to the government who then puts the paper in circulation? It would seem the government could print its own paper call it ‘American Currency’ put it into circulation and not have to pay any interest to any private bank or anyone else!

Act IV
There is a National Epiphany – (Someone put something in the ‘kool aid’ everyone had been drinking. May be it was orange sunshine :) People by the thousands start throwing away their psychiatric medicines and turning off CNN, FOX news and all the other networks that spew and spin the Power Elite bylines and eNews sensationalism!

Epiphany: A moment of clarity - China and Japan and the rest of the world take our dollars simply because they understand that the US is currently the strongest man standing and does have the military power to take what it needs from whomever has it! (Not that we would do that! Right?)
The American people and all foreign debt holders realize the American dollar is backed by the full faith and credit of the Government and the US military power!

The private bankers who are demanding interest payments from the American government are not backing anything!

Epiphany: A moment of clarity - There is a reason why all these years not a single buyer could purchase oil from Saudi Arabia unless they had US Dollars! The day Saudi Arabia decides to accept only Chinese or Russian or Japanese currency – then what? WWW IV or V! or a Simple Gulf invasion?

ACT V

Gary Wood, conservative libertarian publishes the following to the media Thursday, February 5, 2009…

"Did you hear about HR 833's introduction before the House of Representatives on February 3rd? Many did not and yet it is important for everyone committed to liberty and personal responsibility to take notice and action to help push this legislation forward.

Dr. Ron Paul (R TX) introduced the legislation and it has been forwarded to the House Financial Services Committee. It carries the full title as follows: "To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes." A lofty goal many will write off as an unimaginable or radical piece of legislation. It garners little press during a time when the issues raised by the resolution are critical to understanding and correcting failed monetary policies driving our economic challenges for nearly a century.

Study the resolution and the words used to present it. If you can embrace the principles and goals of this important legislation it is your duty, as a guardian of our Constitution, to contact your representatives and urge them to co-sponsor this bill. Also, you should contact the members of the House Financial Services Committee and urge them to move it forward as most bills never leave committee and this one must.

Listen to the words; strive to hear their meaning as Dr. Paul introduced the bill on Tuesday . His presentation flows with historical understanding.

"Madame Speaker, I rise to introduce legislation to restore financial stability to America's economy by abolishing the Federal Reserve. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, middle and working-class Americans have been victimized by a boom-and-bust monetary policy. In addition, most Americans have suffered a steadily eroding purchasing power because of the Federal Reserve's inflationary policies. This represents a real, if hidden, tax imposed on the American people.

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial "boom" followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.

With a stable currency, American exporters will no longer be held hostage to an erratic monetary policy. Stabilizing the currency will also give Americans new incentives to save as they will no longer have to fear inflation eroding their savings. Those members concerned about increasing America's exports or the low rate of savings should be enthusiastic supporters of this legislation.

Though the Federal Reserve policy harms the average American, it benefits those in a position to take advantage of the cycles in monetary policy. The main beneficiaries are those who receive access to artificially inflated money and/or credit before the inflationary effects of the policy impact the entire economy. Federal Reserve policies also benefit big spending politicians who use the inflated currency created by the Fed to hide the true costs of the welfare-warfare state. It is time for Congress to put the interests of the American people ahead of special interests and their own appetite for big government.

Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. The United States Constitution grants to Congress the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency. The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank. Furthermore, the Constitution certainly does not empower the federal government to erode the American standard of living via an inflationary monetary policy.

In fact, Congress' constitutional mandate regarding monetary policy should only permit currency backed by stable commodities such as silver and gold to be used as legal tender. Therefore, abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to a constitutional system will enable America to return to the type of monetary system envisioned by our nation's founders: one where the value of money is consistent because it is tied to a commodity such as gold. Such a monetary system is the basis of a true free-market economy.

In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to stand up for working Americans by putting an end to the manipulation of the money supply which erodes Americans' standard of living, enlarges big government, and enriches well-connected elites, by cosponsoring my legislation to abolish the Federal Reserve."

The End or The Beginning?

Various scenarios have been played out in Hollywood movies and TV series - Art Imitates Life – life imitates Art! – Art is not just a guy’s name. Now pass the Oscar! Peace