Obamas’ August 31st Oval Office speech (Update)

Diarist misterconcept of DKos recorded my feelings regarding the Presidents’ speech on Tuesday evening:

*As President Barack Obama addressed the nation on August 31, 2010, he gave the appearance of a frightened executive reading a text written for him by a terrorist faction holding his family at gunpoint in a locked cellar. It is obvious that the reality of American government has finally found its way into Obama’s psyche. Below is the speech he should have given:

This is my impression of what ‘the appearance of a frightened executive’ was saying:

The combat war in Iraq is officially over. Now the war has been turned over to the neocon controlled State Department sending 50,000 private security guards to augment a Kurdish takeover of the entire country of Iraq. Remember it was the Kurdish community aggressively encouraging America to wage a war against Sadam Hussein and his subsequence hanging for charges of killing Kurds.

I did not know State Department was going to make such a move but former Pres. Eisenhower has told you about the powers of the Military Industrial Complex being out of controls of the President. The State Department will continue using military equipment and paying huge sums in salaries and now going forward, things will happen in Iraq you will never hear about.

In all honesty, I believe you can anticipate sporadic media spins on power-struggle conflicts in Iraq akin to those of Israeli/Palestinian proportions. This will happen as Fox News continues providing cover with smoke screens and forest trees with polarizing stories of gays, Blacks and Muslins resentment.

I leave you now to prepare for a Mid-East Peace Summit to begin tomorrow. (Whisper to camera: Israel wants me to start a war to de-stabilize Iran so State Department can do what they are about to do in Iraq) Good night and God bless America.

As always,
BB
*We Had a Dream
by misterconcept
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/1/898277/-We-Had-a-Dream

(Update) Iraq/Afghanistan: A Promise Kept, a Promise Deferred
By Robert Naiman
Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy

Excerpt:
A major objective of the Bush Administration's war -- which, as a Senator, Joe Biden supported -- was to remove Saddam Hussein's government and replace it with a pro-U.S. government. The Obama Administration, according to the statement of Biden's aide, is still pursuing the second half of this objective. But the pursuit of this objective continues the war, not only because it was a key objective of the war, but also because it is a politically divisive objective among Iraqis; many Iraqis don't want to have a "pro-U.S." government, and some of them are prepared to use violence to prevent that from happening.

And
The belief that we can and must control other people's governments, that we can and must decide who will participate in power in other people's countries, is a key component of the mindset that leads to war. If an effective consensus had not developed in Washington that the United States could and should decide who would govern Iraq, the war would never have taken place.
Read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/iraqafghanistan-a-promise_b_702172.html