Where are the protesters as this new war in the Middle East continues...
Obama’s Illegal War
Eric Renderking Fisk | April 29th, 2011 
A couple of weeks ago I was going to hammer out three pages about how
President Obama received an award for “Transparency in Government” in a
private ceremony and how it totally contradicts many of his campaign
promises. I was also going to lament on the oxymoron that’s this event
was. The jokes write themselves while at the same time there’s no way
anyone can excuse this away. You can’t justify this.
At the same time nobody can say any more about that; it’s ironic,
hypocritical and the lack of media outrage about this story that should
be the lead in every news broadcast on the three major networks each
night and top of the hour on all the Twenty-Four Hour news networks.
Networks like MSNBC who have been ousted as blinded Obama supporters and
sock-puppets of the Democratic Committee need to jump on this news story
hard to dispel the “illusion” of bias, just as people would demand that
FOXNews should do the same for the same reasons.
What many republicans had to learn during the Nixon fiasco, when one
of your own does wrong you have to be the loudest and demand changes,
it’s better to sacrifice your own rather than take the whole
organization down with you. Perhaps now it’s time for the democrats to
do the same in the light of a few current issues that are plaguing the
country in general and the DNC’s credibility specifically.
We can all see via our own first-hand experience that the economy is
in trouble and the Middle East is on the verge of a broader collapse
than we’ve seen in a long time. There’s no agreement from anyone that
there’s plenty of work that’s needed to get done to bring the cost of
gas down, the rate of employment up, while at the same time we need to
demonstrate leadership over-seas. At a passing glance it seems that that
these are insurmountable problems in and of themselves, but on close
examination they’re all interrelated. Since The United States doesn’t
have its own house in order and there are anywhere between 9% (the
official number) and 20-something percent (rumored) unemployment
numbers, domestic oil production is hampered by a moratorium against
drilling for oil in the gulf, and the debate on deficit spending could
be bringing us to a second civil war while the S&P downgraded the
countries credit rating; how can we take a leadership role in the world
stage with a “do as I say, not as we do” stance?
That brings me to this so-called war against Libia that The United
States and the rest of our NATO allies are now engaged in, specifically
Barack Obama’s campaign promises to end the misadventures in Iraq and
Afghanistan… only to keep those going while Guantanamo Base remains
open. Obama seems to be keeping the “Big Brother” mentality alive with
double-speak. Dubya Bush might have been the worst president because of
the wars over-seas and the unconstitutional policies during his years in
office, but Barack Obama is still a great leader because of the wars
over-seas and the unconstitutional policies during the two years he’s
been in office so far. It makes perfect sense only if you’re in a Lewis
Carroll novel.
This trip through the looking –glass is made even stranger when we
look at how the media reported the number of people who died in
Afghanistan and Iraq during every news cast while Dubya was in office
but there’s nothing about the casualty list since Barack took office.
How is it that when the republican was in office, those numbers
mattered; the media demanded to show the flag-draped coffins? Now that
the democrat is in the oval office, someone they clearly campaigned for,
the deaths of these solders don’t matter or might as well not even
exist.
This Orwellian nightmare is brought to vivid life when we see the
empty public parks and squares where protestors used to gather regularly
with their weathered signs about ending our involvement in the conflicts
in Middle East and how George W. Bush should be charged for war crimes.
Where did the anti-war protestors go?
There were protestors who were gathering by the hundreds if not
thousands leading up to the conflict in Iraq making their voices heard
that they would not tolerate “blood for oil.” Yet here we are now with
air-strikes and talk of arming the rebels in Libya which is a supplier
of oil to our NATO allies but there are no protests. Our blood for
someone else’s oil is more tolerable?
The obvious conclusion to all of this, from the “Transparency In
Government” award ceremony held in secret then no media outrage,
Guantanamo is still detaining terror suspects, the continuation or
expansion of the same Bush/Cheney policies that were vilified before
January of 2009, the expanded conflicts and higher death tolls in the
Middle East, the pacifist posturing by many on “the left” until Obama
took the oath of office; it was never about ending the war.
