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Obama Advisors Are Dangerous
In the last issue of
MWV, we published an article by Lois Danks which condemned
Hillary Clinton for her pro-corporate, pro-war,
anti-welfare, pro-Israeli colonization of Palestine,
anti-immigrant positions as well as her cozying up with
anti-abortion fanatics and Generals at weekly prayer
breakfasts. Here we reprint part of an interview on
Democracy Now. Journalist Allan Nairn describes the advisors
who will direct Obama if elected. Pretty scarey. Independent journalist Allan
Nairn spoke to Amy Goodman on her January 3 Democracy Now
program. He discussed Obama's top policy advisers. It was titled,
"Vote for Change? Atrocity-Linked U.S. Officials Advising
Democratic, GOP Presidential Frontrunners." Following is the partial
transcript: Nairn stated: "Obama's top adviser is
Zbigniew Brzezinski.
"Another
Obama adviser is General Merrill McPeak, an Air Force man. He was
the man overseeing the delivery to Indonesia of U.S. fighter planes
not long after the Dili massacre in East Timor in '91. "Another
key Obama adviser, Dennis Ross, advised Clinton and both Bushes. He
oversaw U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine. He pushed the principle
that the legal rights of the Palestinians, the rights recognized
under international law, must be subordinated to the needs of the
Israeli government. In other words, their desire to expand to do
whatever they want in the Occupied Territories. "And Ross
was one of the people who, interestingly, led the political assault
on former Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Carter is no peacenik.
Carter bears ultimate responsibility for that Timor terror that
Holbrooke was involved in. But Ross led an assault on him.
Regarding Palestine, Carter was so bold as to agree with Bishop
Desmond Tutu of South Africa. They agreed that what Israel was doing
in the Occupied Territories was tantamount to apartheid. And so,
Ross was one of those who fiercely attacked him. "Another
Obama adviser is Sarah Sewall. She heads a human rights center at
Harvard and is a former Defense official. She wrote the introduction
to General Petraeus's Marine Corps/Army counterinsurgency handbook.
This handbook that is now being used worldwide by U.S. troops in
various killing operations." “That's
the Obama team. But the Clinton team is equally loaded with
Washington insiders. In one way or another they have contributed to
our current national predicament.”
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Winter
2008
Brzezinski
gave an interview to the French press a number of years ago. He
boasted that it was he who created the whole Afghan jihadi movement.
That was the movement that produced Osama bin Laden. And he was
asked by the interviewer, 'Well, don't you think this might have had
some bad consequences?' And Brzezinski replied, 'Absolutely not. It
was definitely worth it, because we were going after the Soviets.'
...
"Another
key Obama adviser, Anthony Lake, was the main force behind the U.S.
invasion ofHaiti in the mid-Clinton years. That was when they
brought back Aristide essentially in political chains. He pledged to
support a World Bank/IMF overhaul of the economy,. That resulted in
an increase in malnutrition deaths among Haitians. And it set the
stage for the current ongoing political disaster in Haiti.