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Obama Did Not "Inherit" Afghan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Somali and Other Wars
Bill Quigley
27 Jan 2010
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At the Black Is Back conference in Florida last week, Glen Ford explains that President Obama didn't 'inherit' the imperial wars around the world.  Obama embraces and promotes American global hegemony.  He campaigned long and hard to be head of the empire, and the job was purchased for him with more than $600 million in direct campaign contributions, mostly from the same large donors that financed George Bush four and eight years ago.

 

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