UNCIVIL SPEECH: AMERICAN BLOOD FOR LIBYAN OIL & OTHER WAR CRIMES

Illustration by Nick Nafta

Well, well, well...now the shoe is on the other foot.  Hey Barry, how do you like being called a war criminal by the likes of Ralph Nader?   How do you like being chastised by Louis Farrakhan and Michael Moore?  How does it feel to have put young men and women in harm's way without first getting authorization from the US Congress?



Obama's "mom jeans" must have had some extra starch in them when he allegedly took the advice to go stealth "hawk" in Libya from UN Ambassador, Susan Rice; Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton; and Special Assistant to the President, Samantha Power.  None of these women should ever be confused with Margaret Thatcher or Golda Meir.  And like most things Obama does, it was done without authorization. At least, the "evil" George W. Bush asked for permission first before he went to Afghanistan and Iraq. But in 2003, it was, (and stayed that way for 8 years of the Bush Administration), the US policy to effect regime change in Iraq after Bill Clinton signed into law the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998. 

Clinton's words and justification for the policy at the time were not unlike George Bush's "weapons of mass destruction" justification in 2003.  Clinton said:

If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow...Some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal.

The idea that Democrats are anti-war by nature is a misconception, because Democrats are notorious war hawks if the war is sanctioned by nut case lefties and especially when it looks like easy low risk pickings like Libya or Kosovo.

It's also funny how big time anti-war Libs like John Kerry bought into regime change when Bubba was spouting off, but turned into a dove as the rest of the Democrats did when Bush took the reins of power.  Yeah, yeah, we know Bush lied and people died.  Yup, Abu Ghraib made Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld certifiable war criminals.  And Castro, Mao, Mugabe, Chavez, et al are really humanitarians as are all Marxists.

But we now have an apparent war crime committed by US troops in Afghanistan under Obama's watch.  The publication by the German magazine Der Spiegel of "trophy" photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of Afghan civilians that they killed makes Abu Ghraib seem tame by comparison. 

The Afghan war is owned by Obama inasmuch as he campaigned during the 2008 election on the issue that Afghanistan was the only war that the US should have been fighting all along.  He spent over six months seeking advice from commanders on the ground. He ignored their advice and didn't provide the additional troop levels that the military commanders recommended were needed to succeed in Afghanistan.  Obama's incompetence has led to the current mess in Afghanistan.

As he did with Afghanistan, the Presidunce also vacillated about Libya because, well he simply doesn't have a clue of how to lead, or to follow.  But he does know how to get out of the way.  Obama does that by hiding out on the golf course, the basketball court, in ESPN's studios, or in Rio de Janeiro. 

The kicker in all this is that the military intervention in Libya is really for the benefit of Britain and France with their desperate need for Libyan oil.  Of course BP (British Petroleum of the Gulf Oil Spill) is involved.  Could this use of American force be tied in with the Gulf victims' fund paid by BP?  Has the BP victim's fund money, like the Stimulus Fund money, disappeared into some political rat hole?  Is American military power is being used to advance the interests of British Petroleum?  They're good questions to think about. 

Meanwhile, let's make our new anti-war slogan, "No American blood for Libyan oil for France and Britain."  Wow, those Libs know how come up with a good template for those bumper sticker slams.