Obama Biden and Iraq

// added September 02, 2008 // 8 comments //
Vierotchka

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The Obama-Biden worldview with Eric Margolis, Phyllis Bennis and Paul Heinbecker. Part 4

Phyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. She is the author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power. Her newest book Understanding the US-Iran Crisis: A Primer will be available in September 2008.

Eric Margolis is a journalist born in New York City and holding degrees from Georgetown the University of Geneva, and New York University. During the Vietnam War he served as a US Army infantryman. Margolis is the author of War at the Top of the World –- The Struggle for Afghanistan and Asia is a syndicated columnist and broadcaster whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, Mainichi Shimbun and US Naval Institute Proceedings.

Paul Heinbecker joined the [[Department of External Affairs (Canada)|Department of External Affairs]] immediately after graduation, and received postings abroad in [[Ankara]], [[Stockholm]], and [[Paris]]. From 1989 to 1992, Heinbecker served as Chief Foreign Policy Advisor and speechwriter for [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Brian Mulroney]], and as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy. In 1992, he was appointed ambassador to [[Germany]]. In the late 1990s, he organized the task force on the Kosovo conflict, and served as head of the Canadian delegation to the Climate Change Convention in [[Kyoto]]. In 2000, Heinbecker was appointed as Ambassador to the United Nations. There he was a strong proponent of the [[International Criminal Court]] and argued for compromise in the lead-in to the [[2003 Invasion of Iraq|2003 attack on Iraq]].

See Part 1 at: http://current.com/items/89245887_the_obama_biden_worldview

See Part 2 at: http://current.com/items/89255141_will_obama_biden_question_military_dominance

See Part 3 at: http://current.com/items/89259573_obama_biden_and_iran
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8 comments // Obama Biden and Iraq

  • 1withabrain
  • kennymotown
  • oldgerman
  • EdKnowsAll
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    • Bring all troops home. Not just the ones in Iraq. A full worldwide recall of all foreign stationed troops. Out of 180 countries world-wide, the U.S. has troops in 130 of them. This is the United States of America. This is NOT the American Empire.
      Write-in Ron Paul Nov. 4th

    • 1 year ago
  • Brockie
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  • Inofuilwell
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      Inofuilwell  

    • Vierotchka, what brilliant posting and research!

      It is so refreshing to see comments posted that are thoughtful without being reactionary and "Republican-like"

      The GOParty has certainly gone severely downhill since Dwight D. Eisenhower uttered these words:

      *** " Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. " ***

      Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953

      Eisenhower was the 34th president of the US from 1953-1961 (b.1890 - d.1969)

      Now the Republican Party is a pathetic collection of knee-jerk reactionaries who either profit from or live vicariously through their penchant for bullying others militarily or economically.

      We should be using our resources, labor and ingenuity to avert the planet's quickly-approaching tipping point toward eventual environmental destruction, not in waging war for wealth and power.

      We should use military might only when there is no other solution.

    • 1 year ago
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