Different face, same war

Ex-pres. Bush weighs in on Afghanistan

A familiar voice...

“There will be more difficult days ahead. The insurgency in Afghanistan didn’t just happen overnight, and we won’t defeat it overnight. This will not be quick nor easy. But we must never forget, this is not a war of choice, this is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al-Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people."
- former U.S. President George W. Bush

The only thing misleading about the above quote is that those words were not spoken by George W. Bush, rather by our current president Barack Obama.

...In a pretty new package.

Shocking? Hardly.

Change we can believe in? Hardly?

Speaking at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Phoenix on Monday, Obama used the very same tired old rhetoric and flat out lies that "the left" criticized Bush endlessly for during his two terms. But here we are, six months into the Golden Age of Obama and no one says a damn thing - not so much as a tweet against the war. Not only is ending the wars off the table of American debate, it isn't even in the damn room.

War? What war?

Now that the shock of Michael Jackson's death has started to sink in, Americans have moved on to being wigged out about Obama's "socialist-Islamo-African" take over of "our rights" (the Right to be a loud-mouth jerk, the Right to carry around dangerous loaded weapons in public, the Right to be ignorant). No one, it seems, is paying attention to the Obama administration's scantily clad repackaging of the same old Bush foreign policies which are, I suppose, the same old Clinton foreign policies which are, I suppose...

So when the same old dummies from 2007 (Sen. McCain, Sen. Graham, Sen. Lieberman) don flak jackets and call a "news conference" at Kabul airport to call for an increase in troops, suggesting it could lead to "significantly more success," we just have to recall the jubilant cries from the 2008 Obama campaign:

YES, WE CAN!
(occupy foreign countries, execute endless wars,
and still have a nice day at the mall)

Well, no one should be surprised since really Obama is just fulfilling his campaign promises he and Joe Biden made in Denver during the Democratic National Convention last August.

As 84,000 flag-waving liberals panted and hooted, then-candidate Obama said:

"As Commander-in-Chief, I will never hesitate to defend this nation, but I will only send our troops into harm's way with a clear mission and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home.

I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts."

So here we are-- promise kept: The Iraq war is still being "ended responsibly" (2,400 more U.S. troops headed to Iraq last week and waves of explosions sweep Baghdad as I write this) and Obama is "finishing the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban" as the highest U.S. troop numbers to date file into that country and violence swells.

You want more troops John McCain? You got it! And all that from our "ultra-left wing radical liberal" President Obama!

Change you can believe in? Sounds like MOTSOW (More of the same old wars) to me.

That's Empire you can depend on!

And even though the ugly, hateful images floating around with Obama portrayed as "the Joker" or Adolf Hitler are indicative of the latent racism and fear-mongering that is erupting like an infected zit on the forehead of American society, there is another image out there, while ugly, is hard to argue against. That picture shows a ghoulish skull-headed creature with a suit jacket and an oversized stars and strips lapel pin worn by the monster who, in the upper image, is removing a George W. Bush mask. Below, the same frightening monster is pulling on a Barack Obama mask over its skull and, on both monsters, the word "IMPERIALISM"

An image as ugly as the policies it represents...

Watching the "new" foreign policy take shape (or unravel as the case may be), it is hard to argue the ghoulish image is nothing, if not spot on.

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For a keen look at how the left wing and the right wing of the American war bird flap in tandem while the American public goes stumbling along blindly, have a look at War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death based on Norman Solomon book.

You can watch the film here for free.