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Obama: Prioriteti povlačenje iz Iraka i zatvaranje Guantanama
      
      
Novoizabrani američki predsjednik Barack Obama u svojemu prvom televizijskom intervjuu nakon što je izabran za novog šefa Amerike, potvrdio je da će prioriteti njegove politike biti povlačenje američke vojske iz Iraka do 2010. godine., zatvaranje spornog zatvora u američkoj bazi Guantanamo Bay na Kubi i rješavanje ekonomske krize.

- Više puta sam rekao da Amerika ne vrši torturu. I pobrinut ću se da ne vršimo torturu - istaknuo je Obama, čime je naglasio kako namjerava prekinuti mučenje kao jednu od metoda ispitivanja u američkoj vojsci.

- Rekao sam tijekom kampanje, a i dalje tako mislim, da ću, po preuzimanju funkcije, pozvati ljude zadužene za nacionalnu sigurnost i pokrenuti plan za povlačenje naših snaga - izjavio je Obama.




'Učinit ću sve što treba'
Američkoj televiziji CBS u emisiji ’60 minutes’ Obama je govoreći o financijskoj krizi, između ostalog, rekao i kako će "učiniti sve što treba" kako bi se stabiliziralo američko gospodarstvo i pokrenula ekonomija. Založio se za plan spašavanja poduzeća uključujući i automobilsku industriju, ali ne po svaku cijenu.

Obama je u subotu pozvao Kongres da donese novi paket poticajnih mjera za gospodarstvo, ističući da su Sjedinjene Države suočene s "najvećim gospodarskim izazovima našeg vremena".

Prioritet i uhićenje Osame bin Ladena
Obama je kao prioritet naveo i uhićenje Osame bin Ladena. - Mislim da je uhićenje ili likvidacija Bin Ladena od važnog značaja za uništavanje Al-Qaede. On nije samo simbol, već i glavni šef organizacije koja ugrožava američke interese - rekao je Obama, kojemu je na intervjuu društvo pravila i supruga Michelle koja je opisala svoje osjećaje prema novom statusu rekavši kako još nije potpuno svjesna realnosti preseljenja u Bijelu kuću.

Večernji list

A pre samo par meseci su trubili kako Sara Pejlin nema iskustva u spoljnoj politici. Hilari se razume u spoljnu politiku, kao Marica u onu stvar.

Imućne porodice Vašingtona pomno čekaju na odluku predsedničkog para
Bira se škola za Maliju i Sašu Obamu
Autor: Blic online | Foto:Wikipedia.org, Mrsgrapevine.com | 18.11.2008. - 07:31


Dok novi predsednik SAD Barak Obama oformljavanja kabinet, imućne porodice Vašingtona već se pitaju koju će školu upisati njegove ćerke Saša i Malija, piše "Njujork Tajms".

Mišel Obama obišla je najmanje dve najprestižnije vašingtonske privatne škole, Sidvel Frends i Džordžtaun Dej, što je i potaklo brojne priče među elitom Vašingtona. Veruje se da je i ekskluzivna akademija Maret takođe na listi izbora potencijalnih škola za Maliju (10) i Sašu (7).
Sa godišnjom školarinom koja prelazi 28.000 dolara, ove liberalne škole pohađali su brojni senatori, bankari, diplomate, advokati, novinari, ali i nekoliko predsednika SAD.
Imućne porodice, uključujući i nekoliko Obaminih savetnika, poslale su svoju decu u pomenute elitne škole. Tako deca vodećeg pretendenta na mesto glavnog tužioca Erika Holdera mlađeg idu u Džordžtaun Dej, dete Suzan Rajs, savetnika za spoljnu politiku, je u Maretu, a praunuci senatora Džozefa Bidena mlađeg, novoizabranog potpredsednika, pohađaju Sidvel.
Na odluku predsedničke porodice čeka se veoma pomno, jer ona može da otkrije senzibilitet i takt Mišel i Baraka Obame kao roditelja.
Da li će predsednički par izabrati školu Kvejker-ran Sidvel, osnovanu 1883, za koju se govori da je mali Harvard – Sidvel je obrazovao dva bivša predsednika SAD, Teodora Ruzvelta i Bila Klintona.
Ili će izabrati Džordžtaun Dej, koja je 1945. postala prva integrisana škola u Vašingtonu i koja je poznata po neformalnosti i naglasku na različitostima i socijalnoj pravdi?
Možda će se Mišel i Barak Obama ipak opredeliti za Maret, malu akademiju osnovanu 1911. godine, koja bi Maliju i Sašu smestila u zatvorene studentske kampuse, javio je “Njujork Tajms”.
Za sada ni predsednički par ni njihovi saradnici nisu komentarisali ništa po tom pitanju i ne zna se kakva će biti njihova odluka. Mišel Obama je kontaktirala nekoliko uglednih ljudi koji su se obrazovali u pomenutim školama, kako bi joj preneli iskustva "iz prve ruke".
Zvaničnici Vašingtona izvestili su da Obame nisu posetile nijednu državnu školu i ne očekuje se da će devojčice, koje pohađaju privatnu školu u Čikagu, početi da idu u državnu. Privatna škola Maret

Majkl Kazin, istoričar američke politike sa Džordžtaun Univerziteta, kaže da su neki roditelji i upravnici škola skoncentrisani na prestiž koji bi Obama doneo bilo kojoj školi koju izabere, kao i učenicima koji je pohađaju i njihovim roditeljima.
"Bez obzira na ideologiju aktuelnog predsednika i čak njegovu stranku, privilegovani ljudi Vašingtona uvek nastoje da dobiju još malo privilegija", ocenio je Kazin, čija ćerka pohađa Maret. "Jasno je da mnogi roditelji čija su deca u tim školama žele da Obamine ćerke pohađaju baš tu određenu ustanovu".
Istoričar Karl Sferaca Entoni, autor brojnih dela o predsedničkim porodicama, rekao je da je zanimanje javnosti za izbor škola za decu prvog čoveka SAD "procvetalo sedamdesetih godina, kada je tadašnji predsednik Džimi Karter poslao određenu poruku poslavši svoju ćerku Ejmi u državnu školu u Vašingtonu".
Klintonovi su poslali svoju ćerku Čelzi u Sidvel. Ona je pohađala državnu školu pre nego što je Bil Klinton postao predsednik, piše "Njujork Tajms".
"Na izbor škole predsedničke dece sada se gleda kao na poruku koju taj izbor simboliše", objasnio je Entoni. "Ali je suštinsko pitanje to što mnogi predsednički parovi dolaze iz elite, pa su njihova deca uglavnom orijentisana na privatne škole".
Malija i Saša trenutno idu u Laboratori školu Univerziteta u Čikagu, privatnu ustanovu koju pohađa oko 1.700 učenika i koja je veća od bilo koje škole u Vašingtonu za koje se pretpostavlja da ih porodica Obama razmatra. Školarina koju Obame plaćaju u Čikagu za njihovo obrazovanje je 21.480 dolara.

Izvor: Blic

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Doskorašnji rivali sreli se u Čikagu prvi put posle izbora
Obama i Mekejn menjaju "loše navike Vašingtona"
Autor: Blic online | Foto:AP | 17.11.2008. - 21:58


Novoizabrani američki predsednik Barak Obama i njegov protivkandidat Džon Mekejn susreli su se danas po prvi put nakon izbora 4. novembra, i obavezali se na zajednički rad u rešavanju finansijske krize i drugih nacionalnih izazova, prenosi Rojters.

Obama je pred susret izjavio da će razgovarati o tome kako će "zajedno raditi u cilju poboljšanja situacije u zemlji" i dodao da želi da se zahvali Mekejnu za "odlično služenje zemlji".
 

Na pitanje da li želi da pomogne novoizabranom predsedniku, Mekejn je rekao: "Očigledno".
"U vreme ove velike istorijske prekretnice, verujemo da svi Amerikanci, bez obzira na to kojoj stranci pripadaju, žele od svojih lidera da sarađuju i promene loše navike Vašingtona u cilju rešavanja zajedničkih i hitnih izazova", rekli su Obama i Mekejn u zajedničkom saopštenju.
"Imali smo produktivan razgovor o tome kako je potrebno započeti novo doba reforme kako bi narodu vratili poverenje u vladu i doneli prosperitet svakoj vrednoj američkoj porodici", dodali su oni.
Obama je većinu vremena posle pobede na izborima proveo pripremajući se za ulazak u Belu kuću i birajući članove svog kabineta. On je obećao da će uključiti i republikance kao buduće saradnike u svojoj administraciji. Kako prenose svetski mediji, Obama je prošle nedelje ponudio senatorki Njujorka Hilari Klinton mesto državnog sekretara.
Dvojica bivših protivnika susreli su se u Obaminoj kancelariji u Čikagu, a sastanku je prisustvovao i budući šef Obamine administracije Ram Emanuel, kao i Mekejnova bliska prijateljica i koleginica, senatorka Južne Karoline Linsi Grem.

Izvor: Blic

Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State: Business as Usual

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
November 18, 2008

“Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration,” reports the Guardian. “Clinton would be well placed to become the country’s dominant voice in foreign affairs, replacing Condoleezza Rice. Since being elected senator for New York, she has specialized in foreign affairs and defense.”
   
As the Newsmax website notes, of the 47 appointees named so far to transition posts or offices, 31 have ties to the Clinton administration. In fact, Obama’s transition chief, John Podesta, was Bill Clinton’s chief of staff from 1998 to 2001. Other Clinton-era appointees include former Deputy Secretary of Defense John White, former State Department official Wendy Sherman, and former deputies to National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Defense Secretary William Perry, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Other Clintonites on the Obama team include Michael Froman, who served as Rubin’s chief of staff, and Christopher Edley, who served Clinton and is married to a former Clinton deputy chief of staff. Soon after Obama was elected, he announced Rep. Rahm Emanuel, a senior adviser to Clinton, to serve as his chief of staff.

Democrats like to pretend that Obama represents “change” and the new administration will be a departure from the previous Bush administration. However, as the Clinton legacy demonstrates, it will be more of the same, especially in regard to foreign policy. Let’s take a look at Clinton’s track record.

Bill Clinton’s “crimes range from ad hoc bombings to boycotts and sanctions designed to starve into submission, to support of ethnic cleansing in brutal counterinsurgency warfare, and to aggression and devastation by bombing designed to return rogues to the stone age and keep them there,” writes Edward S. Herman.

In 1993, Clinton exploited the absurd pretext that Saddam Hussein had attempted to assassinate his predecessor, Bush Senior, and in response bombed Baghdad, killing eight civilians, including the internationally renowned artist, Layla al-Attar. Clinton’s action was a clear violation of international law and mindful of this violation the Clinton team cited the right to self defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter and pointed to Reagan’s illegal bombing of Libya in 1986 (as former Israeli Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky points out, Reagan’s bombing of Libya was a direct result of an Israeli false flag operation called Operation Trojan).

Bill Clinton enthusiastically supported and enforced Bush Senior’s sanctions against Iraq after the Gulf War. In response to this engineered genocide, resulting in the murder of over 500,000 Iraqi children, Clinton’s Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, told Leslie Stahl of CBS on May 11, 1996, that this crime against humanity was “worth it.”

In regard to the criminal sanctions imposed on Iraq, Herman writes:

    The most monumental of Clinton’s war crimes… has been his policy of sanctions on Iraq, supplemented by the maintenance of intense satellite surveillance and regular bombing attacks that have often resulted in civilian casualties. UNICEF reports that in 1999 more than 1 million Iraqi children under 5 were suffering from chronic malnutrition, and some 4,000-5,000 children are dying per month beyond normal death rates from the combination of malnutrition and disease. Death from disease was greatly increased by the shortage of potable water and medicines, that has led to a 20-fold increase in malaria (among other ailments). This vicious sanctions system, causing a creeping extermination of a people, has already caused more than a million excess deaths, and it is claimed by John and Karl Mueller that Clinton’s “sanctions of mass destruction” have caused “the deaths of more people in Iraq than have been slain by all so-called weapons of mass destruction [nuclear and chemical] throughout all history”…

Clinton also violated the national sovereignty of the Sudan and Afghanistan. He murdered unknown numbers in Afghanistan in a PR stunt after documented CIA asset Osama bin Laden supposedly attacked U.S. embassies in Africa. Clinton bombed a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan, a major source of medical drugs in that poor country.

Clinton’s foreign policy was simply more of the same, an unswerving continuation of the murderous foreign policy actions of his predecessors. He supported Turkey in its ongoing mass murder of indigenous Kurds, he escalated U.S. support of Colombian death squads, and tightened sanctions against Cuba, most notably banning the sale of U.S. food, water treatment chemicals, and medicines. He was well aware of the brutal Indonesian plan to invade East Timor and slaughter its residents.

Clinton and his Iron Maiden, Madeleine Albright, facilitated and laid the groundwork for the bombing of Serbia. Clinton and his Secretary of State “didn’t bother themselves with international law. They flouted it. International law clearly states that one country can attack another one only when it is itself under attack, about to be attacked, or when the U.N. Security Council grants permission. Belgrade was not attacking the United States or any of the NATO countries involved in the bombings. And the United States intentionally avoided the Security Council because Russia and China were likely to veto any military action,” The Progressive wrote in May of 1999.

NATO and the U.S. flew 25,000 sorties and used 14,000 missiles and bombs in the former Yugoslavia, including antipersonnel cluster bombs and depleted uranium. Clinton’s “humanitarian” attack against Serbia, generally supported by Democrats and so-called liberals, was nothing if not a brazen war crime. William Rockler, former prosecutor of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, comments:

    The [1999] bombing war violates and shreds the basic provisions of the United Nations Charter and other conventions and treaties; the attack on Yugoslavia constitutes the most brazen international aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland to prevent “Polish atrocities” against Germans. The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok.

Clinton and NATO targeted schools, hospitals, farms, bridges, roads communication centers, and waterways in Serbia. The bombing of chemical plants and oil refineries polluted the Danube river, a source of drinking water for ten million people in the region.

It is not an exaggeration to claim that an Obama administration, staffed with former Clintonites, will return to these sort of war crimes and flagrant violations of international law. In fact, it does not matter if a Democrat or Republican occupies the White House, for these massive crimes are the policy of the ruling elite, not a particular faction of the One Party system that takes its marching orders from the New World Order, regardless of the front man behind the desk in the Oval Office.

obama obećao podršku mirovnom procesu

Novoizabrani američki predsednik Barak Obama obećao je u telefonskom razgovoru s palestinskim predsednikom Mahmudom Abasom da će podržavati mirovni proces s Izraelom, preneo je palestinski pregovarač Saeb Erekat.

U saopštenju Erekat je naveo da je Obama izrazio podršku za osnivanje palestinske države uz Izrael.

"Obama je obećao da će nastaviti napore da pogura napred mirovni proces, kako bi se stiglo do dvodržavnog rešenja. Rekao je da će raditi i sa Palestincima i sa Izraelcima da se postigne mir, koji je u interesu obe strane", istakao je Erekat.

Erekat je ocenio da Obamine reči odražavaju odlučnost da pomogne u postizanju trajnog mira između Izraela i Palestinaca.

Abas je jedan od petorice svetskih lidera koje je Obama u utorak pozvao, zahvaljujući na čestitkama širom sveta, koje su stigle nakon njegove pobede na izborima za predsednika SAD.

Obama je 7. novembra razgovarao s odlazećim izraelskim premijerom Ehudom Olmertom, između ostalog, o mirovnim pregovorima s Palestincima.

Dvojica lidera su istakla važnost pregovora koji su već u toku i da će konačni sporazum voditi računa o izraelskim bezbednosnim potrebama.

Izvor: Krstarica

Evo ciji je on covek 

ma to je samo za ''dnevnik'' oni ciji je on kao i svi oni covjek sede u udubnim foteljama i broje lovu koju ce preko Hilary ostvariti

Zamenik Bin Ladena osudio Obamine spoljnopolitičke stavove
Al Kaida poručuje Obami: Čeka vas nasleđe neuspeha i zločina
Autor: Blic online | Foto:AP/Reuters | 19.11.2008. - 18:10

Poruka od drugog čoveka Al Kaide objavljena danas na islamističkim veb stranicama namenjena je novoizabranom američkom predsedniku Baraku Obami i kaže da ga čeka "ogromno nasleđe neuspeha i zločina", prenosi CNN.


 

U video poruci Ajman Al Zavahiri osuđuje Obamine spoljnopolitičke stavove, posebno prema Avganistanu i Izraelu, i generalno ismejava njegov pogled na svet. Al Zavahiri u svojoj poruci kaže da Obama ne može ni da se poredi sa Malkolmom Iksom, američkim aktivistom afričkog porekla koji je primio islamsku veru.
Kako prenosi CNN, smatra se da se Al Zavahiri i Osama bin Laden kriju u plemenskim područjima Pakistana.
U video snimku koji traje oko 11 minuta, vide se snimci govora Malkolma Iks. Malkolm Iks je zatim prikazan na tepihu na kojem se moli u džamiji, a onda slede snimci Obame, koji na glavi ima jevrejsku kapu i nalazi se kod Zapadnog zida u Jerusalimu, a zatim snimak Al Zavahirija. Video se zove "Odlazak Buša i dolazak Obame".
"Došli ste do položaja predsednika, a čeka vas ogromno nasleđe neuspeha i zločina. Neuspeh u Iraku ste i sami priznali, a neuspeh u Avganistanu su priznali komandanti vaše vojske", kaže Zavahiri u poruci i navodi da je Obamin stav o povlačenju trupa iz Iraka i slanje istih u Avganistan "politika koja je predodređena za neuspeh pre nego što se i začela."
"Ako i dalje želite da osporavate vaš neuspeh u Avganistanu, onda zapamtite sudbinu Buša i Perveza Mušarafa, kao i sudbinu Sovjeta i Britanaca pre njih. I budite svesni činjenice da psi u Avganistanu misle da su tela vaših vojnika ukusna, tako da šaljite još hiljade i hiljade njih".
U poruci se takođe može čuti da je Obama direktna suprotnost cenjenim crnim Amerikancima kao što je Malkolm Iks.
Zalvahiri kritikuje Obamu jer je navodno izdao svoje poreklo i muslimanski svet.
"Potičeš od oca muslimana, ali si izabrao da stojiš u redovima neprijatelja muslimana, i da učestvuješ u molitvama za Jevreje, iako tvrdiš da si hrišćanin. To si sve radio samo da bi postao lider Amerike", saopštava se dalje u poruci.
"I stoga si obećao da podržavaš Izrael, i pretio da ćeš pogoditi plemenske oblasti u Pakistanu, kako bi i dalje opravdao zločine načinjene u američkom krstaškom ratu", zaključuje Al Zavahiri.

Obami stiglo više pretnji nego ijednom predsedniku SAD
Pretnje protiv novog predsednika SAD usledile su odmah posle izbora 4. novembra, a policijski zvaničnici od Mejna do Ajdaha tvrde da je Baraku Obami stiglo više pretnji nego ijednom predsedniku Amerike ikada, javio je "Forbs".



"Tajna služba nije komentarisala broj slučajeva koje istražuje, ali su zvaničnici policije potvrdili da je od 4. novembra Obama primio veliki broj pretećih pisama, običnih i elektronskih, kao i drugih vidova pretnje, više od bilo kog drugog izabranog predsednika SAD", potvrdio je anonimni zvaničnik.
Poznato je da je Tajna služba istraživala slučaj kada je na drvetu u Veju u saveznoj državi Ajdaho postavljen plakat sa predsednikovim imenom i ponudom za gledanje "besplatnog javnog vešanja".
Predstavnici grupa za građanska prava u Severnoj Karolini žalili su se na preteće rasističke grafite uperene protiv Obame, koji su otkriveni u tunelu blizu kampusa državnog univerziteta.
Reporteri "Asošijejtid Presa" videli su u prodavnici u Mejnu oglas kojim se ljudi pozivaju da se klade da li će Obama "pasti kao žrtva atentata". Da bi se kladili, potrebno je uplatiti jedan dolar, a novac će osvojiti osoba koja izabere datum najbliži danu potencijalnog napada na Obamu.
"Nadajmo se pobedniku", pisalo je na oglasu.
"U krugovima bezbednosti, sve što je novo može inicirati neprijateljske stavove", rekao je Džozef Fank, bivši agent Tajne službe, sada savetnik za bezbednost.
On je imao uvid u detalje privatne zaštite Obame pre nego što je služba počela da čuva tadašnjeg kandidata za predsednika SAD, početkom 2007. godine.
"Obama je prvi crni predsednik zemlje i novi elementi, ne samo rasistički, su odgovorni za kampanju koja se vodi protiv njega. Svaku promenu prate govorkanja", rekao je Fank.
Tajna služba je upozorila javnost da nisu sve pretnje protiv Obame zasnovane na rasizmu i navela da se istražuje širi spektar. U to bi spadale "izjave pretnje" i podjednako opasni ili manji incidenti koji pokazuju "neobično interesovanje", opsesiju ili zaluđenost ljudi, naveo je "Forbs".
Služba je saopštila da "ne može sebi da dopusti luksuz" da isključi realnost bilo koje pretnje, dok njeni agenti ne istraže potencijalnu opasnost.

Izvor: Blic

  The Imperialism You Can Believe In

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, November 20, 2008

While naive, giddy and myopic establishment leftists have been celebrating the great “change” heralded by the election of Barack Obama, the President elect has been busy appointing people to key positions who advocate the same Neo-Con imperialist foreign policy crafted during eight years of the Bush administration.

The New York Times, widely recognized as the voice of the establishment Democratic left, set the tone of what we can expect from an Obama foreign policy in a lead editorial last Sunday entitled, “A military for a dangerous new world.”

The editorial calls for U.S. military imperialism not to be scaled back under Obama, but to be vastly expanded both in terms of budget and scope.

Iran, China, Somalia, Russia and Pakistan are all listed as potential targets of U.S. military aggression and the paper echoes what Obama himself has said he will implement - an addition of nearly 100,000 more soldiers and marines to American ground forces, bringing the total to 759,000 active duty forces, at a cost of $100 billion dollars over the next six years.

Does this sound like a “change” from the Project For a New American century framework of endless “multi-theatre warfare,” the inspiration for eight years of Bush administration militarism, or an expansion of that very doctrine?

Obama’s announced appointees and those that are expected to follow differ only from their Bush administration contemporaries in proficiency and competence, their zeal for military adventurism is coequal, while others that shaped eight awful years of spying, torture, eviscerations on freedom and unprovoked military attacks on sovereign nations will merely stay on in their roles.

Welcome to the “change that you can believe in”.

Obama’s likely selection of Hillary Clinton for the position of Secretary of State highlights the brazen hypocrisy with which the “change” agenda has begun to be implemented since Obama won the election two and a half weeks ago.

Clinton voted for the invasion of Iraq, a point on which she was attacked by Obama during the phony punch and judy show of the debates. Obama also denounced Clinton for voting in favor of a Senate resolution branding the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Clinton promised to “obliterate” Iran if it attacked Israel, a mantra echoed by Obama when he assured AIPAC, the notorious Israeli lobby, that military strikes against Iran were very much on the table.

Does this sound like the language of diplomacy or a change from eight years of the Bush doctrine?

Likewise, one of the favorites to become Obama’s Defense Secretary is Michèle A. Flournoy, deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton administration and president of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) think tank.

    As Alex Lantier writes, “Members of CNAS, a rather small Washington think tank with a staff of 30 employees founded in 2003 by (John) Podesta and Flournoy, play an outsized role in the Obama transition team.”

    “So many CNAS members are likely to join the Obama administration that CNAS officials told the (Wall Street) Journal they were concerned the think tank might fold after Obama’s inauguration.”

CNAS has opposed a set timeline for withdrawal from Iraq, has advocated the deployment of more troops in Afghanistan and has called for U.S. troops to be stationed in Pakistan. CNAS has also urged military spending to be beefed up in order to compete with China’s growing Navy.

    “CNAS publications, many of which are publicly available on its web site, make it clear that the Obama administration’s foreign policy will have a thoroughly imperialist character,” notes Lantier.

How does this represent a “change” from eight years of Bush administration foreign policy? How does this represent a shift from a strategy of diplomacy based on intimidation, invasion and occupation?

Obama’s advisors have also been floating the likelihood of Robert Gates remaining as Obama’s Secretary of Defense, so it looks like we’re either going to have a warmonger or a warmonger in the position - what a choice!

The Financial Times reported this week, “President-Elect Barack Obama and Robert Gates are negotiating terms under which the defense secretary would remain as Pentagon chief in the new administration.”

Gates of course has a history of entanglement with the military-industrial complex having pushed for the U.S. bombing of Nicaragua when he was deputy director of the CIA and later being indicted for his involvement in covering up the Iran Contra scandal.

Gates was the primary advocate for the Iraq “surge” which increased the U.S. military presence in the country.

Obama’s decision to appoint Eric Holder as Attorney General caused a flutter of controversy considering Holder’s involvement in ensuring billionaire fugitive investor Marc Rich received a presidential pardon at the end of Bill Clinton’s term, but the real dirt on Holder is far more shocking.

After leaving the Clinton administration, Holder, who played a key role in the 2005 re-authorization of the Patriot Act, which Obama voted for, set up the legal and lobbying firm of Covington & Burling. The firm’s most high-profile case was its defense of Chiquita Brands International, Inc, whose executives were facing charges of aiding terrorists for bankrolling and arming right-wing death squads in Colombia.

    As Bill Van Auken writes, “Using his longstanding ties at the Justice Department, Holder managed to get Chiquita off the hook with a fine that amounted to 0.55 percent of its annual revenue. This was despite the overwhelming evidence—and the company’s own admission—that it had paid out millions of dollars to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (known by its Spanish acronym AUC), as its gunmen carried out the massacre, assassination, kidnapping and torture of tens of thousands of Colombian workers, peasants, trade union officials and left-wing political activists.”

    “Holder’s record is not that of a champion of civil and democratic rights or a defender of the oppressed, but rather a legal servant of the corporations and the state, complicit in their criminality and repression.”

Holder’s law enforcement deputy in the Obama administration is likely to be Robert Mueller, who will remain as FBI Director despite his involvement in the use of National Security Letters to illegally spy on American citizens via the collection of email, telecommunications and financial records.

Obama’s head of the CIA transition team is none other than John Brennan, an aide to former CIA director George Tenet and a key participant in the formulation of policies that led to the torture scandal, extraordinary renditions and secret prisons.

    Van Auken notes, “Brennan, like Tenet, deserves to confront a war crimes tribunal, yet he is shaping intelligence policy for Obama.”

    “Given these appointments, a report published Monday by the Associated Press that the incoming Obama administration “is unlikely to bring criminal charges against government officials who authorized or engaged in” torture hardly comes as a surprise.”

Then we have Rahm Emanuel, “the enforcer”, and Obama’s new chief of staff.

Emanuel is the son of a member of the Zionist terrorist group Irgun, which was responsible for bombing hotels, marketplaces as well as the infamous Deir Yassin massacre, in which hundreds of Palestinian villagers were slaughtered.

Upon news of his appointment, Emanuel’s father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, told the Jerusalem Post, “Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn’t he be? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going to clean the floors of the White House.”

But forget sins of the father, Rahm Emanuel himself is a former Israeli IDF soldier who has a penchant for making death threats against his political enemies while crazily slamming a knife into a dinner table. Sounds like a diplomatic kind of guy.

When Emanuel’s appointment was confirmed, top Israeli newspaper the Maariv Daily hailed the news with the headline, “Our man in the White House.”

Another Israeli news outlet, Y Net, reported, “Emanuel is pro-Israeli, and would not be willing to consider accepting the job unless he was convinced that President-elect Obama is pro-Israel.”

Recall that President elect Barack Obama’s first act of “change” upon winning the Democratic presidential nomination back in June was to don a joint US-Israeli label pin, head on over to AIPAC and prostrate himself in front of the Israeli lobby, vowing to keep military action in mind for Iran and promising to hand over another $30 billion of American taxpayers’ money in military assistance to the Zionist state.

It seems that Obama has already answered the question of whether he can be a more hardcore Israel hard-liner than George W. Bush - ‘yes he can’!

When are left-wing establishment liberals going to overcome their inane idolatry for Obama and realize that the people he is putting into positions of power are the same and in some cases worse than the Neo-Cons who ran eight years of Bush foreign policy?

When are leftists going to get over their petty power trips and understand that the mantra of “change” is a mere illusion to provide left cover for a massive expansion in U.S. imperialism the likes of which the Bush administration could never have accomplished?

When are liberals going to stop behaving like gloating children and understand that Obama’s exalted messiah status and political capital, allied with his publicly stated agenda and the nature and track record of those he has appointed to key positions, is a recipe for a new wave of militarism and an expansion of the pre-emptive Bush foreign policy doctrine that Obama himself campaigned against with his rhetorical and empty promises of “change”?

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Over the last few days, unlike scores of other left-wing websites who are still in a zombiefied trance over their new “ObaMassiah”, WSWS.org have put out a series of excellent articles concerning the “change” illusion and we encourage you to read them via the links below.

Obama’s “seamless transition” to endless war by Bill Van Auken

Obama’s transition: A who’s who of imperialist policy by Alex Lantier

Obama’s attorney general pick and the illusion of change by Bill Van Auken

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